Communication, entertainment, everything in between - another great post by @… that will inspire you, offend you, educate you- all the things great writing should do. It'll make you think, challenge your assumptions- there are too many great quotable parts of this, I couldn't even pick one to use as a blurb here. Worth it to just read the full deal 🔥:
I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk for #FOSDEM . It's about .... from street-level hack to open cultural production.
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026
DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…
"Le programme actuel de déréglementation menace la protection des consommateurs, les garanties sociales et la protection de l'environnement. En plus de provoquer une instabilité économique, de mettre en péril les emplois et de réduire le bien-être des citoyens, une déréglementation aveugle augmentera directement ou indirectement le coût de la vie"
The FBI director, Kash Patel, announced on Monday he was launching a criminal investigation
into group chats used by Minneapolis protesters on the Signal messaging app,
based on a social media post by the far-right personality Cam Higby.
Patel used the podcast of another rightwing personality, Benny Johnson, to break the news.
Higby had posted on Sunday on X that he had “infiltrated” a group chat on Signal,
the widely used communication app that offers effective…
Trump says he’s protecting Nigerian Christians. His admin is blocking them from coming to the US | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nigeria-travel-ban-refugee-isis-attack-b2891074.html
as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 40254 nodes and 190279 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph…