When we currently use a smart phone or a laptop on a cell network or the Internet, the other end of these interactions typically run on othe...
Decentralizing My Smartphone With Single Purpose Devices
Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...
Inverting the physics of trust
Common Fabric is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps.
Tailscale | Secure Connectivity for AI, IoT & Multi-Cloud
The connectivity platform for devs, IT, and security teams. Zero Trust identity-based access that deploys in minutes and scales to every resource. Start free.
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing ⋅ elementary OS
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing
A BlueSky thread by GrapheneOS on Skyview
We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps. uattest.net
Speaker Session | Ankesh Bharti | OSDHack'25
White Noise - Secure Private Messenger
A truly secure and private messenger that's lightning fast, massively scalable, and identity-free.
Arguing on Interfaces: From Obligation to Omnipotence - Finest Day
Two days ago, during “The Android Show,” Google unveiled what it calls a new category of laptop: the Googlebook. The basic idea is to explore what a laptop and its...
ATproto: The Enshittification Killswitch That Enables Resonant Computing
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, which was inspired by my “Protocols, Not Platforms” paper. But this post isn’t about Bluesky the app. It’s about the underlyin…
Calm Technology
Bits flowing through the wires of a computer network are ordinarily invisible. But a radically new tool shows those bits through motion, sound, and even touch. It communicates both light and heavy network traffic. Its output is so beautifully integrated with human information processing that one does not even need to be looking at it or near it to take advantage of its peripheral clues. It takes no space on your existing computer screen, and in fact does not use or contain a computer at all. It uses no software, only a few dollars in hardware, and can be shared by many people at the same time. It is called the "Dangling String".
Thread by @matthew_d_green on Thread Reader App
@matthew_d_green: So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to wo...…
Tinfoil - Private AI
AI that keeps your data private at all times. Fast, powerful, and verifiable, thanks to secure hardware enclaves.
The Plan B OS for ubiquitous computing. Voice control, security, and terminals as case studies
The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches
Privacy advocates and venture capitalists want to circumvent the tech giants with apps using encrypted data stored on networks of computers.
Shared Server · Omnigent
Deploy the Omnigent server so your agents are reachable from your phone, shareable with teammates, and running while your laptop sleeps.