Mike P

Leaf 0.3 - The Server Behind Roomy For the last couple months we've been iterating on Roomy with its brand-new architecture, and we're finally ready to talk in more detail about the not-so-secret sauce that will power Roomy moving forw...

I just finished a new blog post that talks about how @roomy.space's new server is going to work.

I explain where the data is stored, how we do authorization, how we preserve data ownership without the PDS, and more.

It's a big one!

PLC Threat-modeling & Auditability

Wrote my first leaflet! This is about the threat-model of PLC & the current work we're doing to address that including making the directory more auditable

I take it I won't get the credit if I don't proceed?

"Locations of unlicensed beavers in England"?

I'm not sure I want to know.

Is this why dogs shed so much hair?

"My human can't take the cold; it needs fur!"

"But yet so far" because the remaining gap might be quite small, but I think it'll still take some engineering effort to cross.

Well, not really; I've been thinking this way for a while, but it was @zicklag.dev's article which prompted me to actually write this up and post it.

Really well written and description of the problem that @roomy.space is working on: how to leverage decentralized identity that doesn’t follow the PDS-origin path. Exposes a lot of edges in the atmosphere that need polish. Really love auth separated from PDS here.

So near, but yet so far A few things I wish ATProto had done a bit differently

Something I've been meaning to write for a while, about a few places where I wish that Bluesky/ATProto had gone just a bit further.

www.mythik.co.uk/social/so-ne...

Screenshot summarizing the flow for this grant from the linked internet draft document.

Ooooh! ID-JAG or OAuth Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grants looks interesting: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-identity-assertion-authz-grant-01.html

#oauth

Users can't use IdPs outside of the ones enumerated by RPs · Issue #2 · w3c-fedid/idp-registration TL;DR there is a significant amount of context at the start of this issue before we get to the proposal, here is a google doc version for an alternative form. Background The origins of many federat...

FedCM. github.com/w3c-fedid/id...

Warning: megathread...

Lies! You shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet, you know.

Now I'm wondering what nanoblogging would look like.

"Posts are limited to a maximum of 1 character and 2 emojis"?

"Validity is in the eye of the beholder! If you think my state is invalid - that's a you problem, not a me problem." ;)

Mostly it's for load balancing, but once in a while we have to take one out of service for a hairstyle upgrade.

"Is that a cat in your pyjamas, or are you just happy to see me?"

It took me a while to figure out that the DID document and the PLC operation format aren't actually the same ... they look very similar at first, and maybe the docs don't quite emphasise the distinction enough!

That's just the view that pdsls shows you.

plc.directory/did:plc:5w4e... shows the raw DID document.

And when Merkle squirrels bury Merkle acorns ... they'll be able to search for them ;)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... ;)

Are the rotationKeys even part of the DID document?

They're not in the example given here: web.plc.directory/spec/v0.1/di...

Without them I don't think you can reconstruct the operation format at all.

I found a link in a JSON-LD context once that resolved to a porn site. I kid you not.

The Vault (2021 film) - Wikipedia

It does sound like it's setting us up for this one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vau...

And the continents looked back up at the rocket, and one of them said...

"Race you!"

"Do you swear to flush the paper, the whole paper, and nothing but the paper?"

What will you do when you become super intelligent?

Apropos of nothing, a moderation list

bsky.app/profile/over...

"Reality slop": things that look like they should have been made by AI, but weren't.

"Every time you have a conversation, a ChatGPT dies!"

Lead poisoning is so last century. These days we all give ourselves argyria.