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It looks like the cognitive protocol of virtually all living beings is probably running on the same beat.
#nature

Nature might have a universal rhythm
Animal communication can look wildly different—flashing lights, chirping calls, croaking songs and elaborate dances. But new research from Northwestern University suggests many of these signals share a surprising feature: They repeat at nearly the same tempo.

Me: “I want Sushi.”
Librarians: “We have Sushi at home.”
https://www.niso.org/publications/z3993-2014-sushi

Leaflet is a tool for shared writing and social publishing:
you create Leaflets
— directly shareable documents with rich media and multiple pages
— and Publications, similar to blogs or newsletters, that people can follow. 
What makes it different:
you can create a document without an account and share it immediately.  
Getting a publication live takes about thirty seconds.
No onboarding, no credit card, no dashboard full of settings to configure …

Publishing Without the Platform: What Leaflet.pub Does Differently Than Substack - Digital marketing
Leaflet.pub builds on the AT Protocol to give you something Substack never will: content you actually own. Here's what that means for European marketers.

Amazon Ads announces the open beta of its Model Context Protocol, which lets advertisers connect AI agents to Amazon Ads through a single integration (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-agentic-ads-model-context-protocol/

Amazon Opens Its Ad Stack to AI Agents With MCP Rollout
At IAB ALM, the retail giant pitched MCP as infrastructure for AI agents to run advertising workflows more efficiently.

Found another ngscopeclient optimization opportunity: on this benchmark we spent about ten seconds out of a minute waiting for sscanf() as a result of some legacy APIs (dating back to when all drawing was done in Cairo) that store color of protocol data as HTML \#rrggbb color codes at some steps of the pipeline then convert to packed RGBA32 later. There's caching but apparently even that isn't enough.
Probably time to throw away those legacy APIs and do better. Or at least begi…

from my link log —
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
saved 2020-09-18

Stripe and Paradigm-backed startup Tempo launches the Machine Payments Protocol and its blockchain to facilitate autonomous AI agent transactions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/stripe-tempo-paradigm-mpp-ai-payments-protocol/
…

Stripe-backed crypto startup Tempo releases AI payments protocol, launches blockchain
Tempo, incubated by Stripe and the venture firm Paradigm, raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation in 2025.

Encrypted DM on ATproto ?
🔁 https://www.germnetwork.com/blog/germdm-atproto-now-beta

Germ DM x ATProto is Now in Beta — Germ Network
Germ DM is now a Bluesky messenger. We’ve integrated AT Protocol into our iOS app, so E2EE DMs have come to the Atmosphere! Germ DM is the end-to-end encrypted messenger that lets you talk freely—without a your phone number. It’s powered by Messaging Layer Security (MLS) and now connects to your A

References to specific paragraphs and clauses of IEEE 802.3 is a perfectly normal thing to find in a GLSL shader, right?
Just normal shader developers doing normal shader things.
https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scope

just released liboprf-0.9.4
it brings compatibility with python3.14
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shar…

Flash from the recent past : Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by Emelia Smith https://rmendes.net/bookmarks/2026/02/18/flash-from-the-recent-past

Flash from the recent past : Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by Emelia Smith
Flash from the recent past : Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by Emelia Smith 18 February 2026 Social Web ATproto ActivityPub Fedi 🔖 https://writings.thisismissem.social/state...

Thinking about moving more of the 100baseT1 decode pipeline to the GPU. This is definitely going to end up being one of the more heavily end to end accelerated protocol decodes in the library, at least for now

Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/blue

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch
Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.

from my link log —
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
saved 2020-09-18

Ending the Tuesday of IETF 125 with the SPACE Research Group… looking at all things related to the #Internet in #space !
#IETF

Finally had time to sit down and do a GPU version of the constellation diagram filter.
I'm now running this filter graph (4 channels -> 2 differential legs, S-parameter de-embed of dual directional coupler, 3 dB FIR equalizer, 4x sin(x)/x upsample, PAM-3 edge detection, CDR PLL, PAM-3 eye pattern, demux to 2D-PAM3 channels, 2D-PAM3 constellation, 100baseT1 single pair ethernet protocol decode) at about 6.3 WFM/s on 4 channels * 20M points.
This is 504 Msps or a touch over …

Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/blue

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands | TechCrunch
Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.

from my link log —
snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh.
https://eieio.games/blog//blog/secure-massively-multiplayer-snake/
saved 2026-02-26

snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh · eieio.games
snakes.run is a massively multiplayer snake game that uses the Secure Snake Home (SSH) protocol. It can render 100M pixels a second.

Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/a-st

A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky's app | TechCrunch
Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

Hidden Higher-Order Vulnerabilities in Simplicial Complexes Revealed by Branch-Consistent Functional Robustness
Kaiming Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24286 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24286
arXiv:2603.24286v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Robustness of higher-order networks is often quantified by the instantaneous smallest positive eigenvalue of the Hodge $1$-Laplacian under simplex deletion. We show that this observable is generically ill-defined: along a deletion trajectory, eigenvalue branches can switch, so the quantity being monitored may correspond to different nonharmonic modes at different steps. The primary issue is therefore definitional rather than algorithmic. We resolve it by fixing the first nonharmonic branch of the intact complex and following that same branch throughout the damage process, which defines a branch-consistent functional robustness. Triangle sensitivities then follow directly from first-order perturbation theory, making the resulting mode-sensitive deletion protocol a consequence of the observable itself rather than an independent heuristic. Across synthetic and empirical clique complexes, removing only a small fraction of triangles is sufficient to drive the tracked mode to collapse, while graph-level observables remain unchanged because the $1$-skeleton is exactly preserved. The same framework also reveals bridge-like localization of functionally critical simplices and provides a compact predictor of dynamical timescales.
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from my link log —
A new Protocol Buffers generator for Golang.
https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-for-go/
saved 2021-06-03

Vitess | A new Protocol Buffers generator for Go

OK, I think I'm at the point that I need to spend a few minutes narrating a demo video of this. Screenshots don't do it justice.
100baseT1 decode, eye measurements, and constellation - including S-parameter de-embedding of the directional coupler on the test fixture - running in real time on a ThunderScope.