Experts warn that ISPs would use black-box AI to comply Like our piece on Canada’s Cyber-Security Bill earlier this year, this item was flagged in my work for the Internet Society, Canada Chapter, but this post does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the ISCC. It concerns a legal opinion drafted by the UK’s Open […]
Announcing easyNostr-NIP05 for WordPress
We’re big fans of decentralized social media platforms (we’ve been operating a public Mastodon instance for years), so when Nostr came along (Notes And Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) it we immediately saw the potential and started getting involved. We wrote an introduction to Nostr here, and stood up a public Nostr relay at wss://nostr.easydns.ca […]
Unpkg.com outage and why half the web ground to a halt today.
If you’re like me, you were probably wondering why many the websites you were visiting today were grinding to a near halt. More than once I happened to notice that my browser status bar kept saying “waiting for unpkg.com…”, so I figured that had to be the problem. Twitter seems to concur… Unpkg .com is […]
easyNostr: Setup your NIP-05 ID under your own domain (or use one of ours)
Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) continues to gain traction and spread like wildfire. For those hearing about it for the first time, Nostr is a fully decentralized microblogging protocol (and not a platform, the way Mastodon is). It divides right down to the user account level, governed by an asymmetric key pair, which makes it even client agnostic […]
Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab
Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process Another doozy from the Canadian government. Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom… Bill C-11 regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized content moderation, the requirement for licenses to publish online, and regulation of user generated content […]
Move over Mastodon, here comes Nostr
The latest Twitter challenger takes decentralization a step further Notes and Other Stuff, a.k.a Nostr is the latest decentralized microblogging protocol to take aim at centralized social media platforms. It’s like a decentralized Twitter. Contrast with Mastodon, where the decentralization is achieved via a federation of nodes (but each node is effectively centrally controlled), Nostr […]
