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.
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…
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…
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.
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
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
Universal Commerce Protocol: Neuer Standard für Online-Shopping
Google, Shopify und weitere haben einen neuen Standard entwickelt, der es KI-Agenten erleichtern soll, auf Einkaufstour zu gehen.
https://www.<…
📚 Hayo just finished reading Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
They seem to be getting better. The story is very immersive. I keep complaining about how short these novellas are, however the author packs an unbelievable amount of detail into such a small package.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🔗 https://hayobethlehem.nl/lib…
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…
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; @…
Cryptanalysis of a Lightweight RFID Authentication Protocol Based on a Variable Matrix Encryption Algorithm
Hongjun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28313 https://
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…
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…
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/
…
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
sh is not a shell
SSH is not a protocol
»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.
💬
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
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 …
Telnet is a remote login protocol that became obsolete in 1995 when SSH became available because SSH offers transport encryption while telnet does not.
Those who kept a telnetd running for whatever reason (and did not hide it behind a firewall) have had a root backdoor for the last ten years.
The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USE…
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…
ICE : Patriot Protocol | Video Game Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv25r-RLyFE
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…
Playing with esp32-rs on a misused @… epaper-less doorbell.
(Heck that LED protocol is a pain)
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
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!
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…
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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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- R. Heinlein
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.
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. "This is another Tuskegee." (Jeremy Faust/Inside Medicine)
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-leaked-protocol-of-the
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p44#a260115p44
Me: “I want Sushi.”
Librarians: “We have Sushi at home.”
https://www.niso.org/publications/z3993-2014-sushi
Some fun with interfaces and protocols: I have a ThinkCentre m910q which has a single NVMe M.2 interface. I want to connect a PCIe M.2 device. I know that SATA M.2 only supports the SATA protocol. Will a PCIe device work on an NVMe M.2 interface? Or is the answer to that question "it depends"?
Bonus question: I have an OCuLink M.2 adapter with NVMe interface. I want to connect an OCuLink to NVMe adapter at the other end of the OCuLink cable. So far I wouldn't expect any …
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@netresec/115905237000922504
Here’s a good example on why you should have network egress filtering on your network. Nobody uses the finger protocol any more. But the binary still exists in Windows! And if you don’t block outb…
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…
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.
It's kinda a wild fact that there are these Internet Protocols that are used extremely widely, but knowledge how they work is scarce.
For reasons, I just wondered a few things about OCSP. That's part of TLS, and, idk, most people would probably attribute "knowledge of TLS" to me.
Yet... I kinda know what OCSP does, but... I don't really know how the protocol works.
And if I google for something like "easy explanation of OCSP", I don't find a…
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.
Q: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?
I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.
If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.
Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634…
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
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
Ending the Tuesday of IETF 125 with the SPACE Research Group… looking at all things related to the #Internet in #space !
#IETF
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…
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
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 …
/*
* [...] 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])
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…
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
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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Ring revamps its home sensors, including door, window, and break glass sensors built on the Amazon Sidewalk protocol, and expands the protocol internationally (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/home/smart-home/ring-relaun…
Last evening of Christmas vacation before getting back to work for the new year.
Aiming to make it a good one. Working on GPU acceleration of the TIE filter and maybe the histogram block so I can do jitter analysis faster.
The peak at T=0 in the jitter histogram is related to use of the GPU CDR block and doesn't show up in the CPU implementation. It's likely caused by transients of some sort at thread block boundaries and I need to spend more time chasing it, I wouldn'…
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…
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/
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…
Time to start $dayjob work so this is it for today.
But here's 100baseTX decoding, eye pattern, eye measurements, bathtub curve, jitter histogram, and more.
Running in real time on the full 1 GB/s (1 Gsps, 2x 500 Msps differential legs) ADC firehose off a ThunderScope, on a 2080 Ti.
As far as I know this is an industry first.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…