Creating an OpenPGP Web-of-Trust Implementation – A Series
I am excited to announce that PGPainless will receive funding by NGI Assure to develop an implementation of the Web-of-Trust specification proposal!
The Web-of-Trust (WoT) serves as an example of a decentralized authentication mechanism for OpenPGP.
https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2022/05/06/creating-an-openpgp-web-of-trust-implementation-a-series/
#freesoftware #ngi #ngiassure #nlnet #openpgp #opensource #pgpainless
I'm excited to share with you that #PGPainless is getting funded by @NGIZero (NGI Assure) for creating an implementation of the Web-of-Trust!
See https://nlnet.nl/project/PGPainless/ for more details and make sure to follow NGIs awesome endeavors to improve the internet!
When we created ODF 20+ years ago, Microsoft first laughed at the committee at OASIS, then made OOXML to render it moot, then rigged ISO to make OOXML a standard, then implemented ODF and now participates in the ODF committee and helps fund its work through COSM.
#Bluesky is Twitter's OOXML to #ActivityPub and it's at the "rigging ISO" stage.
📢 Exit relay operators, we need you to upgrade to Tor 0.4.7.7 as soon as possible! This is the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control, which will result in significant performance improvements for users. Upgrade to 0.4.7.7 now.
Semi-related, there is a batch of new "anti-capitalist" software licenses that is getting traction. I have similar problems with them as I have with NC and ND. I guess I should write them up, too.
But tl;dr would be: fragmenting the FLOSS codebase by using incompatible and legally unclear software licenses like that is shooting ourselves in the foot; AGPL achieves the same (big corporate capitalist entities stay the fsck away), without causing that much legal incompatibility/fragmentation.
On "winning" social media
I'm just going to place this post from @eloquence here who said it much better than I did back in 2020:
https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail
@vwbusguy and if you happen to be a sub-compact car teaching Henry VIII how to use Mastodon, you'd be a:
"Two-door Tudor Tooter Tutor"
I have Opinions™ about release notes.
Both the European and American sessions of https://neverworkintheory.org/ are in the bag, and they could not have gone better. Many thanks to everyone who participated.
Currently working on Sequoia-PGP and more.
I work via my own consulting company, Lars Wirzenius Consulting Ltd. I do software development and training. I have almost thirty years of experience, almost 20 of it working full time. I have code running on billions of devices, on all continents, on all oceans, in orbit, and on Mars.