I’m personally very excited about this because Rauthy provides a robust foundation of OIDC-based identity for the fedi-connected platform we’re building with Weird netizens....
Social bookmarking is a novel use case for ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything....
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages....
I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism....
Cyber is an embeddable language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting, ideal for rapid iteration in games and app development. Made with Zig....
With the now accepted RSA signatures for DPoP tokens, the ephemeral, dynamic clients and the basic serving of webid documents for each user, Rauthy should now fully support. Solid OIDC. This feature just needs some more real world testing with already existing applications though....
One of the best features of Lemmy is that it supports a combination of image and text. I wish including the source link of a comic would be a standard practice on the fediverse, just like alt-text already is....
There’s a major convergence of OAuth/OIDC support across fediverse applications, Matrix is going all-in on it as its root default, and other social web protocols are tagging along as well....
Oxide is a personal project that takes inspiration from the principles discussed in “Notes on a Smaller Rust” and its follow-up, “Revisiting a ‘smaller Rust’”. It aims to explore a new language design that simplifies and optimizes the development process while inheriting Rust’s best qualities.
Over the last few weeks I had been preparing a talk on “Inclusive Mentoring: Mentoring Across Differences” with one of my good friends at Amazon. Unfortunately, that talk got canceled because I came down with COVID when we were supposed to be presenting....
Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...
The Matrix Authentication Service has been created to support the migration of Matrix to an OpenID Connect (OIDC) based architecture as per MSC3861....
Rauthy OIDC provider v0.22.0 · Now with Upstream Auth Providers (login with GitHub et.al.) (github.com)
I’m personally very excited about this because Rauthy provides a robust foundation of OIDC-based identity for the fedi-connected platform we’re building with Weird netizens....
Evergreen content gardens (blog.erlend.sh)
Social bookmarking is a novel use case for ActivityPub and I’m super excited about it. I heckin’ love links and lists! I wanna use them for everything....
Weird netizens (blog.erlend.sh)
To free ourselves of our current predicament, we must simultaneously de-centralize and re-centralize identity....
Federated Webrings (blog.commune.sh)
In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages....
What Meta-corp can give the fediverse: Money (blog.erlend.sh)
I suspect the fedi-collective has more negotiating power in this moment than it realizes. We may as well make some asks, see how Meta responds, and they in turn will see how the public, the media and the regulators respond to them in this bold new era of pervasive Big Tech skepticism....
Beyond Discord (blog.commune.sh)
Like any other major network incumbent, Discord cannot simply be side-stepped altogether; appropriate off-ramps are required....
The making of a 3D platformer in Fish Folk's Universe (fyrox.rs)
This article shows the overview of the development process of the Fish Folly game using Fyrox Game Engine.
Rauthy (OIDC provider) v0.20.0 – encrypted backups automation · bot and spam protection with spow · separate users cache (github.com)
Rauthy is an OpenID Connect (OIDC) Provider and Single Sign-On solution written in Rust.
Cyber v0.3 - New JIT compiler, Embed API and lots more (cyberscript.dev)
Cyber is an embeddable language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting, ideal for rapid iteration in games and app development. Made with Zig....
Big AI Commons (blog.erlend.sh)
Some excerpts:...
Rauthy OIDC v0.19 — Better support for Solid and Matrix (github.com)
With the now accepted RSA signatures for DPoP tokens, the ephemeral, dynamic clients and the basic serving of webid documents for each user, Rauthy should now fully support. Solid OIDC. This feature just needs some more real world testing with already existing applications though....
Normalize including links with comics
One of the best features of Lemmy is that it supports a combination of image and text. I wish including the source link of a comic would be a standard practice on the fediverse, just like alt-text already is....
Autonomous identity for the pluriverse based on OAuth/OIDC (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
There’s a major convergence of OAuth/OIDC support across fediverse applications, Matrix is going all-in on it as its root default, and other social web protocols are tagging along as well....
Oxide: A Proposal for a new Rust-inspired Llanguage - Inspired by 'Notes on a Smaller Rust' (github.com)
Oxide is a personal project that takes inspiration from the principles discussed in “Notes on a Smaller Rust” and its follow-up, “Revisiting a ‘smaller Rust’”. It aims to explore a new language design that simplifies and optimizes the development process while inheriting Rust’s best qualities.
Rauthy v0.17 — OpenID Connect (OIDC) Provider and Single Sign-On server (github.com)
Secure by default...
Kitsune 0.0.1-pre.4 — Lightweight ActivityPub server (github.com)
Really fast post parser, notifications, OpenTelemetry, dedicated job runner, and more!...
Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new? (davekarpf.substack.com)
On Marc Andreessen’s “techno-optimist manifesto”...
Ambient platform — build and deploy high-performance games powered by WASM, WebGPU and WebTransport (ambient.run)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6278482...
Leptos v0.5 — Islands architecture, static site generation and lots more (github.com)
Docs: leptos-rs.github.io/leptos/...
Empathy in open source: be gentle with each other (smallcultfollowing.com)
Over the last few weeks I had been preparing a talk on “Inclusive Mentoring: Mentoring Across Differences” with one of my good friends at Amazon. Unfortunately, that talk got canceled because I came down with COVID when we were supposed to be presenting....
fast-polynomial 0.1: Faster polynomial evaluation by exploiting instruction-level parallelism (crates.io)
a small crate that implements a hybrid Estrin’s/Horner’s method suitable for evaluating polynomials fast by exploiting instruction-level parallelism.
Announcing Comfy - a new fun 2d game engine in Rust/wgpu (github.com)
A few relevant links:...
Matrix 2.0: Radically faster client, OAuth logins and native video calls (matrix.org)
Back at FOSDEM we announced the idea of Matrix 2.0 - a series of huge step changes in terms of Matrix’s usability and performance, made up of Sliding Sync (instant login/launch/sync), Native OIDC(industry-standard authentication), Native Group VoIP (end-to-end encrypted large-scale voice & video conferencing) and Faster Joins...
Better authentication, session management and permissions in Matrix (matrix.org)
The Matrix Authentication Service has been created to support the migration of Matrix to an OpenID Connect (OIDC) based architecture as per MSC3861....