There seems to be a new attempt to turn ActivityPub into some centralized monolithic thing with hard coded limited vocabularies. This is an attempt to have a new central power in social networking via the control of the vocabularies of the exchange protocols.
The argument is the same for the same attempt in the area of credentials and wallets: The format is sooo complex, we can't implement. Let's do a simple protocol instead. And BTW, protocol/format combinations are great, pl…
«Librecast - Decentralisation and Privacy with Multicast»
Do any of you know this and use it? What is this good for and is it almost like the Gemini protocol?
🌐 https://librecast.net
:mastodon: @…
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/
…
sh is not a shell
SSH is not a protocol
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
I know that following a hashtag is part of the Mastodon protocol itself, but since I'm in @… the majority of the time - it feels like it would be cool to:
- Offer a "follow for a week" / month option
- "We'll ask you when time's up"
mechanism (maybe the ask part is configurable? maybe the client could also just handle it when next it runs?)
I hit this time and time again for moment in time events where during the thick of it, I'm invested and interested - conferences, world news, etc - but after which there's no more signal in the hashtag and it's just detritus putting load on a server somewhere.
Ideally this is something that should be in the protocol itself, but it feels like similar to quote replies that @… could bring a better user experience in advance of adoption of something like that
Google today announced an early preview of #WebMCP,
a new protocol that defines how AI agents interact with websites.
“WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools, ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed, reliability, and precision,” wroteAndré Cipriani Bandarra from Google.
WebMCP lets developers tell large language models exactly …
Operational tracking loss in nonautonomous second-order oscillator networks
Veronica Sanz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19420 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19420 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.19420
arXiv:2603.19420v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study when a network of coupled oscillators with inertia ceases to follow a time-dependent driving protocol coherently, using a simplified graph-based model motivated by inverter-dominated energy systems. We show that this loss of tracking is diagnosed most clearly in the frequency dynamics, rather than in phase-based observables. Concretely, a tracking ratio built from the frequency-disagreement observable $E_\omega(t)$ and normalized by the instantaneous second-order modal decay rate yields a robust protocol-dependent freeze-out time whose relative dispersion decreases with system size. Graph topology matters substantially: the resulting freeze-out time is only partly captured by the algebraic connectivity $\lambda_2$, while additional structural descriptors, particularly Fiedler-mode localization and low-spectrum structure, improve the explanation of graph-to-graph variation. By contrast, phase-sector observables develop strong non-monotonic and underdamped structure, so simple diagonal low-mode relaxation closures are not quantitatively reliable in the same regime. These results identify the frequency sector as the natural operational sector for nonautonomous tracking loss in second-order oscillator networks and clarify both the usefulness and the limits of reduced spectral descriptions in this setting.
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Joint statement: Apple, Amazon, and others push back on stricter emissions reporting rules proposed by climate body Greenhouse Gas Protocol to cut greenwashing (Olivia Raimonde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Has your company recently asked you to implement #SAML 2.0? Worried about the prospect of implementing the 20-year-old protocol?
Come check out how to implement SAML 2.0 into Duende IdentityServer. #dotnet #saml
Dear website owner, the URL protocol "tel:" does not stand for Telegram. 🤦
#NonMention
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…
Huh, heuristic for writing rust: if you get fields marked as unused code, that might need to be a separate crate, like a protocol implementation with a published struct as a core object.
Interview with the author on the 20th anniversary of the publication of The Oil Depletion Protocol: a Plan to Avert Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006), the book by Richard Heinberg.
(Interviewed by @…)
20 Years after «The Oil Depletion Protocol». An interview with Richard Heinberg - 15/15\15
Found a real-world difference between Claude Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5 today. As an experiment, I posed a question to it that I had gotten wrong a couple years ago. The question requires knowledge of TLS protocol details and thinking through their implications. Sonnet 4.5 caught the trap immediately (faster than I did back when I had the idea), Haiku 4.5 missed it, even when explicitly asked to think about the details of the TLS protocol.
So, yeah, it's not just differences in abstr…
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.
Playing with esp32-rs on a misused @… epaper-less doorbell.
(Heck that LED protocol is a pain)
Heinberg:
"The current sharp spike in diesel fuel prices is likely to be a significant drag on the construction and installation of renewables—as well as to increase the cost of food and most other things. People tend to forget that, despite all the solar panels and wind turbines, the heavy work of the global economy is still mostly being done by diesel fuel."
20 Years after «The Oil Depletion Protocol».
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
»Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT:
One-to-one and group messaging, encrypted VoIP calls, video conferencing – the open protocol handles them all«
As I see, @… is used peatically and therefore more popular. When will this become more popular in companies and in general? Any criticism of any state should not prevent this.
💬
I was fed up with Matrix and tried coming up with my own federated chat protocol. It got really complex really quickly.
In order to resist enshittification it needs to be decentralised. It can't be P2P because that would drain phone batteries. It must be federated. But that means that your admin could read your messages. So it must be federated and encrypted. And that's where it starts to get real tricky.
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- R. Heinlein
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
Me: “I want Sushi.”
Librarians: “We have Sushi at home.”
https://www.niso.org/publications/z3993-2014-sushi
Ending the Tuesday of IETF 125 with the SPACE Research Group… looking at all things related to the #Internet in #space !
#IETF
Does international law still matter? The strike on the girls’ school in Iran shows why we need it.
Article 52 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions stipulates that “Attacks shall be limited strictly to military objectives.”
The United States of America signed this protocol (in 1977) but has not ratified it. Israel is not a party to it.
Ahh too bad! https://www.nolto.social shut down.
But this shows the potential!
> Within a few weeks, almost a thousand people signed up. Companies created pages. Articles were posted. Events were shared. I never marketed it. It spread through blogs and word of mouth.
There IS a market!
Huh, cool. A #Fediverse professional network: https://nolto.social/ 🤞🏻 that it makes progress. The current sway of a shit platform like LinkedIn sorta makes me puke in my mouth regularly.
🤖 MCP Server support — AI agents connect via standard MCP protocol
🛠️ Tools auto-generated from your Repository field definitions
🔗 Integrates with #ClaudeDesktop and other MCP-compatible AI clients
📦 Optional laravel-restify-boost dev companion for AI-assisted development
📦 More features:
🧩
Likely violating the UN Charter (article 2(4), article 51) and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (article 88, article 90), and possibly the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol I as well, the United States killed 87 Iranian sailors over 1,000 miles from Iran.
Unclear if the United States even attempted to rescue any of the 32 survivors rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy and Air Force.
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 …
My Culture Story With Kado Muir
Kado Muir is a cultural protocol custodian under Ngalia Aboriginal cultural ways...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/my-culture-story/
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-quantum-leap-for-the-turing-award/
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…
Some years ago I wanted to do a thing and for reasons client didnt want it - we guessed like 6 months or whatever to get it built right.
I still have the spec I wrote for the protocol and some thoughts on how it might look.
Twice a year or so I try to get a LLM to build it.
So yesterday was the first time in a while, blew my Claude Max token allowance in one sitting and just...finished it in one go? Just works, easy to use, does what I wanted.
Fuck.
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 …
I've been sending some minor contributions to Mactrix, which is highlighted in TWIM: https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/27/this-week-in-matrix-2026-02-27/#mactrix (Drafts was me; @…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
Drift Protocol secures $147.5M in funding, including $127.5M from Tether, to replace Circle stablecoin with USDT after a $270M exploit linked to North Korea (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.co…
/*
* [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum
* possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
* to talk to the University of Mars.
* PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented
* ftp to mars will work nicely.
*/
(from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [retransmission timeout])
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
There are a couple of good quotes in this blog post. Like
"The protocol fight is interesting the way medieval siege warfare is interesting — I'm glad someone's into it, but it has no bearing on my life."
https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fedi…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
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
Made a little STDIN -> STDOUT api for my config management tool for purpose of integration with other tools, DSL experimentatin etc.
echo '{
"protocol": "io.choria.ccm.v1.resource.ensure.request",
"type": "package",
"properties": {
"name": "htop",
"ensure": "present"
}
}' | ccm ensure api
Mohammad Javad Zarif’s new Foreign Affairs essay is being read as a peace overture.
It is better understood as an attempt to convert Iran’s battlefield losses into a narrow U.S.-Iran bargain:
nuclear limits and maritime access in exchange for sanctions relief and regional reintegration.
Beneath the triumphalist framing lies an offer to cap enrichment below 3.67 percent, ratify the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Additional Protocol, transfer all enriched material to…
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…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
Top White House aide Stephen Miller acknowledges possible breach of protocol before Alex Pretti's shooting (Kristen Holmes/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p147#a260127p147
Sympa ce concept #atproto, le protocol derrière #bluesky continue de croître, com…
Solana-based DeFi platform Drift warns users about an "active attack" on its protocol; Arkham data said over $250M had moved from Drift to an interim wallet (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/04/01/s
Ok fedi, you're full of game devs and weird microarchitecture experts and generally the right kind of people to ask...
I'm thinking about a generic data representation for multi-bit vectors in ngscopeclient.
Right now we support single-bit digital signals (one byte aka C bool per sample), analog signals (one float32 per sample), and arbitrary struct/class types (for protocol decoder output).
Notably missing is multi-bit digital vectors. There is some legacy code i…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
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
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…
This is NOT a commitment or statement of intent to build such a tool.
But if it existed, how likely would you be to use a libscopehal-backed T&M application for iPad? This would not be a port of ngscopeclient, it would be a from-the-ground-up touch first GUI backed by the same suite of protocol decoders and hardware drivers, and probably reusing a few of the waveform rendering shaders.
Maximum memory depth would be limited to probably 10M points or so by available RAM, and it…
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…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
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…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
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…
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…
contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
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…
fediverse: Fediverse network (2018)
An early snapshot of the federation network among web publishers using the ActivityPub protocol. Nodes are instances, and a directed edge exists if an instance follows another instance.
This network has 4860 nodes and 484164 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Information
https://ne…
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