willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 06/09/2026I think I may be the target audience for the advertising in shibuya 060
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 12/08/2026Made it back to defcon after quite a few years. The "sterile" conference center is less inviting than CCC. It’s interesting that art&culture hasn’t found a toe-hold in the US, though follows from the work rather than hobbyist focus. 130
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 09/08/2026It should not be too hard to make a renderer in node that uses a more limited set of fonts with known rendering sizes 110
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 28/05/2026engineering.fb.com/2019/03/01/s... is a useful primitive for a range of notification cases. looking forward to seeing this integrated into more privacy protocols. 000
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 23/05/2026There's something in play I don't fully understand for why AI crawlers aren't contributing back to common crawl. There would be a clear win if we could have a commons - mitigating some of the 'AI bot over-run' concerns. Instead we see fear that coordination is slower than re-building a new silo. 050
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 22/05/2026When do we get a Privacy-Preserving CDN? The surveillance-capitalism business model that defines the Internet today is only going to get more imposing. The vast majority of our online requests today are serviced and logged by... wills.co.tt/2118/when-do-we-get-a-p…wills.co.ttWhen do we get a Privacy-Preserving CDN?The surveillance-capitalism business model that defines the Internet today is only going to get more imposing. The vast majority of our online requests today are serviced and logged by centralized infrastructure - even more centralized than what we probably expect. While our collective hivemind takes rightful pride in the successful pushes that have improved this... 1100
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 20/05/2026Congrats! A critical place to be investing in this transition period, and can't imagine it in better hands. 010
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 29/04/2026The cancellation of Rightscon is a huge setback for the organization of human rights given the state of the world today. I hope we can make up for it in the coming months at dwebcamp.org, petsymposium.org, and hopefully others! 141
Reposted by willscott⎷Gina Romero / Special Rapporteur FoAA @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social · 29/04/2026#Zambia Deeply concerned by gvt’s "postponement" of @rightscon.org Requiring "disclosure of topics" for an "alignment with national values" is a clear violation of the rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression, and a deliberated attack on civic space. 1/ 1199
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 12/03/2026at:// = public at!// = important at?// = unverified at$// = private 070
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 08/03/2026Chinese carriers still doing fine (e.g HU490 BER<>PEK continues to use Russian airspace) 120
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 05/03/2026I would be cautious about this. the claims it makes are somewhat unbelievable / it is unclear that there are acoustic properties that would allow another human to understand speech (let alone in a non-invasive way) but not a microphone. 120
Reposted by willscott⎷Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 28/02/2026Yes plz discussing decentralization on discord is like plotting direct action on a Google doc 1283
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 15/02/2026Apropos of nothing, I watched 'Listers' last night, and enjoyed it a lot more than I had expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w... 150
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 15/01/2026The question is how long this lag will continue, or if it's also an area that can accelerate with code generation capabilities. There are a set of projects attempting to do work here, but there's certainly space for more ideas here. 000
Reposted by willscott⎷Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 15/01/2026We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun. luma.com/jj7nths0luma.com@proto @fosdem · LumaThe AT Protocol is an open, decentralized network for building social applications. https://atproto.com/ Start your FOSDEM with a convivial evening of casual… 26625
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 06/01/2026I’ve had many conversations in the last months about the future - political and social - that we hope to see in the future. The current global events are a disappointing degradation to non-cooperative greedy optimization, but have led to a more engaged discourse - particularly in young people. 050
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 01/01/20262026 promises to be if nothing else fascinating. Wishing for curiosity and positive outcomes! 050
Reposted by willscott⎷DWeb @getdweb.net · 19/12/2025Announcing the location and date of the next global DWeb Camp >>> ✨ July 8 - 12, 2026, near Berlin! ✨ We can’t disclose the exact location yet, but it'll be a more DIY camp like in 2019 at the Mushroom Farm. Please answer these questions to help co-design Camp 2026: airtable.com/appO6XXgm4TU... 13012
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 13/12/2025Is the thought that there are common properties we might have a better chance of auditing? Otherwise, it seems like the translation has the same caveat of 'how do we know it got it right?' that we're trying to mitigate with the verification process. 110
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 09/12/2025Are there projects working on ways to turn intuitive thoughts of 'what we want' into the properties we would need to formally verify? there are a lot of systems where formally specifying the outcomes we want to get to feels pretty daunting 120
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 24/11/2025HyParView doesn't have resilience to a malicious node in the system - if you exchange views with a malicious node that only gives you sybils, you're at risk of eclipse. Working in at least a 'rational actor' if not 'byzantine' model is probably an important property to aim for. 000
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 24/11/2025Gossip work has mostly shown statistical behaviors - the issue there is the lack of theoretical guarantees means there’s some caveats for potential attack that have been hard to feel confident have been fully mitigated. I think we need better framing to more effectively capture the behavior we want 110
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 23/11/2025I’m surprised how little progress has been made in the last year on p2p network structures. We have economic games, much advanced network simulation tools, and additional cryptographic building blocks, but at a p2p level we seem stuck on DHTs 170
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 18/10/2025I'll be fine. it's more a reflection of the state of demand and connection that remains between the US and Europe 000
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 18/10/2025With Norse discontinuing Berlin flights, and Delta's limited to the summer, we're back to only a single daily united flight connecting Berlin with the United States (and Newark at that) 130
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 15/10/2025Has anyone connected up remotestorage.io with a PDS?remotestorage.ioremoteStorageAn open protocol for per-user storage on the Web 021
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 13/10/2025friction.observer/digital-huma... is a great synthesis of what digital human rights can mean concretely.friction.observerDigital Human RightsLet's make open, secure, personal, independent, trustworthy, selective, resilient, portable & safe systems the default. 041
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 12/10/2025bay bolete is a lot like a porcini. They taste quite good and are distinctive / safe. 010
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 04/10/2025Last week we assembled a bunch of people to talk about what technical interventions can move the needle on privacy. I’ve written up my take on the projects the group conglomerated around. www.protocol.ai/blog/threads...protocol.aiThreads From the 2025 Cypherpunk Retreat DraftKey takeaways from the Cypherpunk Retreat, where 100 leading builders advanced privacy-tech coordination. 0165
willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 28/09/2025Consider submitting to www.ccc.de/en/updates/2... The need for pro-social tech is only growing, and CCC is one of the best venues to organize around that work.ccc.deCCC | Lectures, music, art, punk: Join us at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress!Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung. 050
