Welcome to volume thirty-two of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we take a look at what it means to be part of the IndieWeb community, we advocate for the Fediverse, and we take a look at things more and less secure across the Internet.
Now step in and scroll this hall of links…
IndieWeb
The Internet is dead—destroyed. Not really, but sadly it isn’t the same web some of us remember. It’s a lot more tiring these days isn’t it? There’s a much larger percentage of content on the web that’s absolutely not worth your time. But it’s not too late to help turn things around. You can still contribute that small amount of humanity to the larger, rapidly degenerating web. It really doesn’t cost much or take much effort either!
Tucked away in the vastness of the cold, inhuman web, is a cozy corner we call the IndieWeb—filled with fun, loveable li’l websites made by a community of actual humans. Finding your neighbors on the IndieWeb isn’t always easy though. To help with this endeavour, there’s web directories, web rings, community-curated feeds, blogrolls and slash pages (e.g. /self-hosted). So get out there, join the community, and find cool stuff!
Small Web Finds and Features
Here’s a few cool things I’ve seen around the web of late…
- Gotta agree with this one—you should really start holding on to your hardware.
- So yeah, keep your hardware, cancel those services, and try to self-host some stuff.
- Here’s a giganto-list of manifestos.
- You like spaceships? I like spaceships. 🚀
Fediverse
The Fediverse is great! If you’ve not already joined in some way—you should. Why? There’s a lot of reasons—shared ownership, anti-attention media, and human curation over algorithms to name a few.. But advocating for the Fediverse is not always as simple it seems. It’s not just about denigrating the so-called competition. Instead, try to understand what prospective joiners are interested in getting out of a social network or what problems they’ve had with other platforms and explain how Fedi specifically solves (or doesn’t solve) for those needs.
PSA: Higher prices aside, you may want to be wary of Hetzner.
Cybersecurity
5️⃣ Five cool cyber-things for this week’s issue…
- 🌩️ E2EE in cloud storage is broken.
- In his role as an (application) security engineer, Neil talks about how vuln hunting is the last thing he does.
- setHTML() is here to rid us of the insecurities of innerHTML.
- A handy guide for the basics of memory allocation.
- Another threat modeling writeup from Trail of Bits.
Thanks for reading Scrolls! Hope you enjoyed your stay in this cozy corner of the web.
