Keep the Internet Open
The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated he has no plan to stop soon. The internet is a public good, and I believe access should be a...
Wi-Fi Aware | Apple Developer Documentation
Securely pair and connect to external devices over peer-to-peer Wi-Fi.
Library Privacy Guidelines for Public Access Computers and Networks
Library Privacy Guidelines for Public Access Computers and Networks
Should we design for iffy internet?
Around 97% of US households have internet access, but bandwidth and latency are likely worse than you expect.
Infrastructure
A meticulously careful selection of services to use for everything from securing connections on public WiFi, over storing data to retrieving e-mails. I’ve put together a collection of services that I use for personal and business purposes while on the go.
Introducing OpenCellular: An open source wireless access platform
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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...
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The Distance
If you’re seeing this, you’re here early. Thank you for trying things out. I’m building this in public and appreciate any and all feedback. With that, there are two main things I ask you to keep in mind.
An exploration of Wi-Fi Aware for Bitchat (and other ad-hoc networks) - HackMD
Bitchat is an open source peer-to-peer mesh communication network started in the summer of 2025 by Jack Dorsey. It's available on iOS, Android, and MacOS. Others have explored beyond this, with a terminal client and a self-powered ESP32-based mesh relay node. In theory, Bitchat enables cross-platform peer-to-peer messaging even when there's no cellular or Wi-Fi network available. In practice, it's not proven to be reliable in an offline environment. However, I believe it could be, and it's clear that the team agrees and is actively working toward that end.
Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Scoop: #WSocial has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform. Because my new article contains a possible solution to their problem, by the time you read this the issue may have been fixed. Or not. It has been going on for 7+ days, with complete radio silence by its developers and founders. My exclusive: 🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-a-broken-ghost-town/ #SocialMedia #ATproto #RateLimiting
Max Inden (@mxinden@mastodon.social)
We have an open position for a student worker on the Firefox Networking team in Germany. We work on the full stack, from high level HTTP all the way down to TCP / UDP. Some C++, some Rust. Help us fight for an open internet for everyone. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/8068406/
Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be/bn)
We need to put together an Atproto hostel/couch-surfing network so more people can journey to meetups like this
Eli Mallon
These days where I wake up in Portland and catch the 6:45am train back to Seattle make me feel superhuman. I’ve done like a whole journey, taken time to have lunch with my wife, and it’s NOON?
Our public spaces are now awash with wireless internet. Make sure you’re getting the most out of every connection.
7/ Check out the details, including a deeper discussion of challenges, a prototype of Bitchat over Wi-Fi Aware, and general notes on cross-platform Wi-Fi Aware implementation 👉 grjte.sh/bitchat-wifi-aware
