Conversation
-
Scroll duodēvīgintī
sourceWelcome to volume eighteen of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. In this issue, we ask “what is the web?”, we gaze across the Fediverse, and we declare “mission accomplished” on cybersecurity 🤡!
IndieWeb
What is “the web”? It’s damn sure not the corporate web I’ll tell ya that. The web is us. That’s right. People make the web—via the blogs we craft and those we discover. It may look less like it did in 1999, but this web persists, and it continues to regenerate and flourish each day. This, the good part of the Internet, is alive and well.
The IndieWeb’s vibrancy comes not from pace of content, but rather from individuality and creativity. Here’s some cool stuff I’ve seen recently (great too if you’re looking for inspiration for your own site!) Immich shared some cursed knowledge, Ava is looking to trade blog post titles, Axxuy celebrates their bloggiversary, Nick Simson is hosting this months IndieWeb Carnival, Brad goes brain dumping, Kris is doin’ a little link cleanup and Will is making the blogiverse a bit healthier. With so many ideas, so many aesthetics, so many voices, the personal web can seem quite chaotic. But that’s just what makes it fun! So get out there and build. Write. Share. Haul off and redesign your entire blog y’know? If it’s already been redesigned… redesign it again! Keep tweaking and having fun with it.
The other side of the IndieWeb-fun coin, beyond tinkering with and writing for your own site, is exploring everyone else’s sites. So go forth! Discover awesome sites and cool posts. Comment on them, comment on others comments, share them with your friends—with the world! If there’s no commenting mechanism, try contacting them through other means. Drop them a nice note about what you saw or what you read on their site. Trust me, it will make their day.
Small Web Finds and Features
Go check out these cool sites. Like, you could just leave this page right now and do it (but come back after 😉).
- 🧑🍳 😘 Gail 👏 - IndieWeb perfection.
- Speaking of perfection—Henry’s site is, in my opinion, the best looking site I’ve ever seen.
- The awesome, and brand new, good internet magazine. 👉
Fediverse
How do you view the Fediverse? Sure, it may be quiet at times, but I think that can represent a greater opportunity for signal over noise. In my experience, there’s a substance here that is lacking on other microblogging platforms. But Fedi (as you may well know), is not just microblogging. It’s an ecosystem of decentralized platforms, which all communicate over a shared protocol. That’s how you can have a Facebook-like system which can interoperate with a microblogging platform, or a forum-based platform, etc… It’s not perfect here, but the ever-growing list of benefits are well-worth the time spent investing in building a community and a personal presence here on the Fediverse rather than elsewhere. Interested in owning your own little Fedi-parcel? Check out FediHost!
Cybersecurity
Ok everyone, pack it up. The war is over. Cyber is solved. All thanks to AI!
But y’know if you can’t afford fancy-schmancy “world-saving” AI-based security capabilities. You might want to continue to learn up on the breadth of security issues that continue to face the industry. Y’know, like understanding logs, or linux process injection, or windows coercion techniques, things like threat intelligence, binary planting and the ongoing risks posed to DNS—to name a few.
To help you on this quest, check out some of these tools I recently discovered. NERDCERT.EU is a cooperative-based letsencrypt, Wazuh has a free threat intelligence platform “Vulnerability Explorer”, The Vulnerable MCP Project is cataloguing MCP-related vulnerabilities/research/exploits, and the CIRT team at AWS has just launched their Threat Technique Catalog. Cool beans!
IndieSec BlogsFinally, here’s some cool Indie folks of the cyber world for you to follow and read…
Thanks for reading Scrolls. Hope you had a blast!
