Welcome to volume thirty-one of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we discuss curation on the web, how community bridges protocols and we grab some popcorn for the latest encryption drama!
Get cozy and get scrollin’!
IndieWeb
Welcome to my void. (You can have one too.)
Forget the past, a new golden age of blogging is upon us! The future is now, and we’re calling it the IndieWeb. What is the IndieWeb? Well, it can be just about anything you want it to be—as long as it’s you. Turns out you don’t need Facebook. Or Twitter. Or anything like that to share your thoughts and ideas on the web. You can just start a blog, a li’l digital garden, and write whatever you want. That’s power.
As they say—Ditch the algorithmic hellscapes, ditch the algorithms. But in doing so, we’ll need to resurrect the primordial mechanisms of discovery—human curation! To be honest, I trust Bryan way more than I do Zuck, to link me to interesting things on the web. There’s a whole world of Bryan’s out there to discover too. Think of the possibilities! My suggestion? Use an RSS reader. Wait, RSS is still around? Yep! You can even host it yourself. Go find cool stuff, add those sites to your RSS reader, and just let it flow.
The other side of the discovery coin is of course, creation. We can only hope to find, what others have made afterall. Here’s some ideas for what to do with your site… Create a guestbook, sound off with a /caw page, or restyle your site. The possibilities are endless.
Small Web Finds and Features
A couple sweet web finds for this week’s issue…
- Nic Lake’s website has a crisp, vibrant vibe that you can’t help but love.
- Henry continues to wow with his site. Run, don’t walk, and check it out.
Fediverse
The Fediverse this, ATproto that. There’s a lot of discussion and debate regarding the technical merits and present realities of these two systems/protocols. But where do we find common ground? For all who build, and are invested in these platforms, it comes down to community. Social striation can appear to be along the lines of protocols, but community doesn’t arrange itself so uniformly. Rather, we exist across these boundaries. So at the end of the day, when the dialogue fades, remember to be neighborly 👋.
Cybersecurity
Sigh, here’s more AI-related Security stuff… Wiz sends agents into the gladiator pits, Dan has a framework for security AI agents, and Indigo is out to poison invasive LLMs. ☠️
Oh but it’s not just AI. No, no, no…
- Here’s a comprehensive guide from Azhlm on how to Reverse Engineer Go Binaries.
- Hexacorn is sharing a lot of li’l niche factoids, including this secret about icacls.
- Fabian’s got you bro—understanding Azure Attack Paths.
- Unit 42 has a nice writeup on QR code attack vectors.
- CERT-EU has dropped their Cyber Threat Intelligence Framework.
And last but certainly not least, we’ve got encryption drama. Lots of encryption drama!
Thanks for reading Scrolls!
