Git makes it stupidly hard to change or hide your identity
Link your GitHub, domain, and other accounts to your Bluesky identity. Cryptographically signed, user-owned, and portable.
IIW – Internet Identity Workshop
The Internet Identity Workshop — where the identity community meets to discuss and advance digital identity.
The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity
Today I head out to a month-long series of events associated with identity: I’m starting with the 22st (!) Internet Identity Workshop next week; then I’...
Keytrace — One identity, many proofs.
Link your GitHub, domain, and other accounts to your internet handle. Cryptographically signed, user-owned, and portable.
IAM Confused: Decoding 8 Real World Cloud Identity Breaches - Maya Levine, Sysdig
Exposed Persona Frontend Reveals Extensive Biometric Surveillance Stack Behind Age Verification - ID Tech
Security researchers investigating Discord’s age-verification implementation have discovered a publicly exposed frontend belonging to Persona Identities, Inc., revealing that the identity-verification vendor’s platform performs far more extensive checks than users […]
Human identity: the number one challenge in computer science
If the modern ‘problem of identity’ was how to construct an identity and keep it solid and stable, the postmodern ‘problem of identity’ is primarily how to avoid fixation and keep the options open. (Bauman 2011)
NIST SP 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines
NIST Special Publication 800-63 Digital Identity Guidelines
A DEVELOPER MADE A REAL COMMIT WITHOUT EVER TYPING GIT ADD OR GIT COMMIT -- JUST TO PROVE THE COMMANDS YOU LIVE BY ARE A THIN SHELL OVER A DATABASE YOU'VE NEVER ONCE OPENED 55 minutes from Tim Berglund, a longtime Git teacher and GitHub evangelist, taking the tool apart down to https://t.co/vJNRCmSBb9
A DEVELOPER MADE A REAL COMMIT WITHOUT EVER TYPING GIT ADD OR GIT COMMIT -- JUST TO PROVE THE COMMANDS YOU LIVE BY ARE A THIN SHELL OVER A DATABASE YOU'VE NEVER ONCE OPENED55 minutes from Tim Berglund, a longtime Git teacher and GitHub evangelist, taking the tool apart down to… https://t.co/z8Tf4udInA pic.twitter.com/vJNRCmSBb9— slash1s (@slash1sol) June 4, 2026
Reclaiming my digital identity — Open Indie
This post is the preamble of a 5-part series called The Great Untangling. The following four posts have already been published and are li...
Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo | Jorijn Schrijvershof
I left GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo on a hardened NUC. The reason is digital sovereignty, not reliability outages. Here's the thinking and the architecture.
isabel (@isabelroses.com)
alias fuggit="git add . && git commit --amend --no-edit && git push --force"
A big part of Github's stickiness is the social proof + resume of your activity history. Is there an easy omni-identity that combines your GitHub, Gitlab, @tangled.org, and @radicle.dev activity into a single view? Might lower the risk of starting new repos on emerging platforms.
