Mike P

This now supports Wafrn's cross-protocol identities properly!

Visualise your online identity as a graph! See how your accounts are related via rel="me" and other links: glider.mythik.co.uk Now Bluesky has profile page links, I got around to adding Atmosphere identifiers too. Yes, this is my elaborate way of asking for rel="me" support ;)

Visualise your online identity as a graph! See how your accounts are related via rel="me" and other links: glider.mythik.co.uk Now Bluesky has profile page links, I got around to adding Atmosphere identifiers too. Yes, this is my elaborate way of asking for rel="me" support ;)

maybe an opportunity to unlock a broadly interoperable login/identity flow is what is needed to make AP C2S happen after all this time.

I'm resistant to doing security comms until there are clear actionable steps, and we don't have package updates for all this yet. but just to acknowledge it, this WebPKI CA incident is particularly serious for the open social web and atproto ecosystem, because there are so many hosts+clients.

After the firefighting is done (and a nap) we'll need to have a long, serious conversation about the state of non-browser non-platform X.509 verifiers. The Linux status quo is "a pile of PEM files behind a dumpster" and that's not an acceptable excuse for a root store in 2026.

the way things are handled server-side is especially shit. sysadmins should not have to be in a rush to patch all their systems if you run any AT Protocol, ActivityPub, XMPP, etc services, you are vulnerable to some gnarly nasty stuff. why they don't check CRL/OCSP, i dont know, they really should

With open software, however, there's an expectation that if a project is made that benefits of others then people are entitled to have a say in it or that being denied a feature is "not listening to their public". But... You aren't public! You're someone who's benefiting from someone's generosity.

Played with a steam engine toy circa 1950 today. Seems to run about 30Hz, based on the video feed capturing it as nearly still. The company that built this, Mamod, closed in 2024, after existing for almost 90 years.

alr ive sent this in a few smaller/private places now and gotten relatively good first impressions so im throwing it into the wild cause i cant wait any longer! ive been thinking about DID methods for far too long and im starting to like my idea here. tell me what you think atproto nerds :3

Anti-racism demo in #Cambridge next weekend! #AntiRacism #AntiFascism #Antifa #RefugeesWelcome #Cambridgeshire

When did this new term "#security #posture" start to become popular? I can't hear it without picturing something like this. #business #jargon

I'm assuming anything I hear from a company that big and good at manipulating media is 99-100% bullshit and have no idea why anyone treats them otherwise. Maybe cuz they have "intelligence" in the name of their company or something?

Here's the first update on the FedCM grant that I've been working on, which admittedly is quite behind schedule due to my chronic illness. Hoping to get more out quicker in the future.

This comes off as a joke, but I seriously think a *lot* of this comes from people who were raised on movies and cartoons that depicted sci-fi robots as sentient beings and believe genAI is the same thing instead of just a very convincing chatbot.

this seems like a real issue w/ the design of atproto in its present form tbh. i really don't want all my accounts to be entangled with my social media such that if the mods don't appreciate my tone i effectively no longer exist on all the other apps in the ecosystem

An unexpected bonus of the AI revolution: Sometimes it is useful to give your idiot coworkers enough rope to hang themselves. Today, #GenAI is capable of producing huge quantities of rope, at a very high speed.

Websites are cool. Make one. Carve out your own space on the internet.

Self-hosting Mastodon be like...

"Inside you there are two wolves." *full moon comes out* "Inside each of you there is half a human."

Today's job: Trying to explain to hardware engineers that the customer can boot up the machine first and only plug in the cable afterwards. Shockingly, they can even unplug the cable and then plug in a different one! Who'd have thought such #witchcraft could occur? #Ethernet #FPGA #BangHeadHere

@thisismissem.social @divy.zone and I recently went through an exploration of how the browser can help you login to websites with atproto accounts. We recently presented to the FedID CG and here is a sneak peek in case you couldn't join! This is early but we'd love your input before we go too far!

all I know about the data center debate is that being dogmatically “pro” or “anti” are equally untenable and intellectually lazy positions to hold. the real work of organizing labor power and local community agency is happening in the big messy middle. only the trolls engage at the polar opposites.

The Dark Lord Sauron's most powerful creation, the One Ring, has awoken. It wants to be found! He is searching for it too but he must not find it. When this post reaches 200 likes, it will reveal itself to one of you. ⚔️ One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them...

Today's job: Try to understand some documentation that assumes I already know all the things it's trying to tell me. At least I'm getting paid to do this. #BangHeadHere

The fact that there is a dependency between the PDS and (an) appview is INSANE if you know much about designing resilient distributed systems. The whole thing is one big-ass dependency loop! I feel very foolish for just learning this now. Put it on the architecture diagram, cowards

Celebrating 15 years of Honest Achmed's Used Cars & Certificates being posted to HN, someone pointing out that the joke is kind of racist, and the replies IMMEDIATELY going full racist.

Interesting to find that the National Disposable Barbecue Alert goes quiet if you take a screenshot of it. I think this idea could usefully be applied to social media, too.

We are ready to test our android app! 📱 Wanna be a beta-tester? DM us on this account and share your Play Store email to receive the invite.

Inspired by @pds.dad 's AMA about #atproto over on #Mastodon ... AMA about #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse! No question is too basic! (If questions get beyond my knowledge I'll at least try to point you in the right direction 😃)

Somehow I've managed to get a bit of stock cube in my coffee. I have no idea how, but I can tell from the taste. I think I actually quite like it.

tbh i think the thing that makes me feel the most out of place in a decent few programming circles is this idea a lot of people have that you would only ever make something if your goal is to "make it big" and become a big successful company. that business brained mindset makes me uncomfortable

Facebook in 2016:

🚨 stage 4 is live! 🚨

So what you're suggesting is that the requirements for a data storage layer might depend on the design of the client application? Heresy! ;)

Having already earned my first million dollars from the tech industry, I've deemed my money & time best spent on helping another 1000 people make their first $1million. One million dollars is not "f-u" money, it's "hey, let's dream together" money. Enough to be life-changing but not corrupting.

If Laplace hadn’t wanted us to read his name like “Lapland,” he might’ve had the decency to capitalize the P.

The internet is only dead if you're on platforms owned by the people trying to kill it

Someone from my household came up with this new @mu.social flavor. Should we start working on it? Hearts would be stars in this one of course.

The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE Separate from my proposal for key transparency for the Fediverse (which I've certainly blogged about a lot), the W3C has been…...

More players urgently needed! It's so tempting to join with my test accounts ... but I think that might be cheating.

Dear ATmosphere developers and users, I usually don't make these kinds of posts. But just this once, I'd like you all to sign a petition to make sure our privacy stays important in the modern web. You can read more in the attached thread below. (1/3) 🧵 www.change.org/chat-control...

Following the general release and tentative pro-plan for @roomy.space here's a transparency report & vision for our proto-company's financials. 1. Seed Money 2. The Deal - for Roomy contributors 3. Outstanding Debts - to Roomy contributors -> a replicable model for purpose-driven companies.

I read the new EU Court ruling on algorithms and social platforms so you don't have to. Turns out to be the most consequential thing a European court has said about recommendation algorithms, and also it just breaks when you apply it to the atmosphere connectedplaces.online/the-algorith...

It's been almost a week since we announced Roomy's general availability and we've definitely got some stuff to fix! We'll be trying to make some development notes as we go, and here's the first one.

hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.

It is possible to have federation that keeps end users in control and doesn't allow 3rd party copying of your data without your consent. That's exactly what @peergos.org protocol does. There are of course tradeoffs but it is the right choice for user agency and democracy.