Edmund Edgar

Links and notes for my talk at #AtmosphereConf about did:plc, how it could break, how we might be able to recover if it did and so forth edochan.com/talks/did/ 5pm today (Sunday), room 2301 Will also mention did:cow if I have time cow.watch

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Is anyone already doing a thing that makes did:keys from a seed phrase using a BIP39 derivation? If so what's the derivation path you use? Speak now or me or the ATProto did:key derivation path will forever be m/231'/0'/0'/0/0, me and @iame.li just decided

TIL if you do a local ubuntu server install with SSH password authentication allowed so you can log in once with password over LAN, ubuntu writes it to a file called 50-cloud-init.conf which overrides sshd_config so subsequently setting "PasswordAuthentication no" in sshd_config doesn't do anything

If your account is suspended by bsky and you're on a non-bsky.social PDS that doesn't ban you, can you still read/send/receive DMs? Also if they hold all your rotation keys and they ban you, will they let you sign a message to exit?

This is transitional imho. It's possible to make software correctly, it's just that it's not something humans can do for programs longer than 100 lines or so

thank you emudhra. "My only micro-B cable is bent" -> using leaked certificates to spoof the sony app store to get root on my camera

That said in constitutional monarchies I think emergency cybersecurity comms should be vested in the Royal Family, give the kings and emperors something useful to do with themselves

Another very based tweet by the Japanese PM. Cuts through the bureaucracy sysadmins have to deal with by telling them, "Client not answering the phone? Middle-management still dithering? Fuck 'em, just shut the website down, if they complain you can tell them I told you to do it"

Also impressed that she replaced her own personal website with the default Apache "It works!", giving people cover to take their sites down even if they don't have time to make some fancy-pants static html maintenance page

Really helpful that she did this (albeit a few hours earlier would have been nice), teams out there are definitely getting yelled at for unplanned downtime rn and a tweet from the PM basically absolves them of responsibility or makes them look good for being ahead of the game

Incredible that humanity maintained release checksum files for over 50 years before we finally invented an advanced technology that could be arsed to actually check them

Bad news: I have to get out of bed and update all the computers Good news: Any iot device that locks to a particular vendor API can now be connected to a vibe-coded replacement and will work long after the vendor discontinues support

🚨 Six WebPKI Intermediate CAs are compromised. This is bigger than Heartbleed, but a client-side issue. Anything that verifies certificates against public roots, like most TLS clients, is/was affected. Details, live test, patched versions and workarounds at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com Act now.

This is actually a good idea tbh. Have bots that scan the web and invalidate keys if they're found. Services should mandate you agree whitehats are allowed to do this in ToS so it's not a violation of the CFAA. Would probably reduce their fraud dispute rate considerably.

No new posts on my firefly social farcaster feed in the last 3 hours. Has balajis farcaster stopped publishing to whatever firefly social is pulling from or is it just that nobody I would want to read is posting to farcaster any more

This is what happens when you fake the decentralization. Looking at you, did:plc

Somewhat optimistic about the Farcaster fork by Cassie Heart. The only scenario where a whole community ever moves over at once (not just crumbling off to different things) is "project bought by arrogant comedy villain" which fits Balajis even better than Musk Her emergency telegram t.co/dmpGdZJUT5

according to new Farcaster rules ie Balaji's law, I am required to notify everyone in my digital neighbourhood of my crimes

Excellent question.

The Call for Presentations (CFP) is now open for @atmosphereconf.org We're looking forward to seeing your great submissions!

When we finish the EV transition all the gas stations will look like this

I think that one of the most successful plays that the tech lobby has made has been to make the tech space extremely unattractive to anyone interested in actual change.

I don't think Bender is completely wrong here; you *can* criticize AI without using it. But the equivalent of “I'd never use heroin - it supports drug cartels, has horrific health effects, and all it does is make you a little sleepy anyway” is not a strong or useful critique.

My blog post that explains the latest #WSocial controversy is up: 🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/public-by-de... Disclaimer for W folks: this work is entirely self-funded, with childcare help courtesy of my family so I could write the first full draft on Sunday 💁‍♀️ #WIdentity #WSocialFacts #privacy

holy fuck the cyber capabilities,

Who invented rice crackers, incredible, huge advance on rice

all software is practically open-source now, i can just mod literally any program running on my computer however i want including those with heavy obfuscation and DRM

Support this but also they should ask the claudes to be nicer to their sub-claudes

Datacenter getting some plaster surfaces to make it nice for when the data moves in

No, it is proving that a bunch of things we assumed were optimal because they “looked nice” in a certain sense were wrong because a far uglier solution was better. Example: the tightest way to pack 9 squares into a big one is with a 3x3 grid of side length 3. The best way to pack 11 is this:

we found the reverse Gish Gallop where Trump-like people just try to lie faster than you can correct them, an LLM can correct lies faster than you can lie

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I feel like a policy that would solve a lot of abuse problems on bsky would be to ban anyone who is rude to Aaron. The hammer emoji types think they're in charge of the website. We don't need a better way to hide their stuff, we needs a practical statement that they are not in charge of the website

XSS in my new dapp front-end but it doesn't look like the attacker got away with anything. Unfortunately for them the UX has been so bad for so long anybody doing anything serious with it uses their own tooling

Toxic combination of 1. Bsky community is defined in opposition to Elon Musk 2. Elon Musk positions himself at the front of any oncoming trend ...dooms bsky to be reactionary

“Tech is inherently political” is not just about ideology, but about power, too. Yielding technological improvements to the adversary will have predictable outcomes. I’m really worried it will lock in power centralization in a way that will be impossibly hard to reverse. It’s already happening.

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

Total positivity, universal fanboi, gush about all the candidates, turn up having researched everything about their careers and personal lives at superfan levels of detail

talking about Microsoft wanting something, about Amazon having plans? sorry bruh that's LLC psychosis you're literally anthropomorphizing a stack of paperwork and legal instruments do you need a wellness check

Did you know the "undermining the federal government" is equivalent to the destruction or disempowerment of humanity? (This will get used to mandate pro-authoritarian political 'alignment')

My website takes money from liars and scammers and gives it to people who pay attention to my website. I am very pleased with this website

oh and losing a charter can result in your assets being seized and all of your work destroyed but it’s fine because the office of the president has never been used for vindictive purposes

Passed out at the clinic while getting vaccinations for India. Something about medical facilities makes me fall over, previously passed out at a hospital while they were treating my wife, and a vet while they were treating my cat