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  Welcome to volume twenty-two of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we take a look at an IndieWeb journey that is yours for the taking, reflect on the power of (true) decentralization, and kit up on the cyber front.

  IndieWeb

  It’s fall! 🍂 Time to get hyper-weird with it.

  

  Ya gotta get started first—and for that, you gotta get your own domain name! Got it? Now write up an intro post (check this one out too!). You’ve now set off on your IndieWeb journey—there’s so much fun stuff to do from here! Write up your weekly thoughts, establish your favorite color, just write and be yourself! Sometimes, it’ll feel like you’re just scraping by—creatively or emotionally. But there’s lot of ways to get inspired and involved again. Five years from now you can look back at all you’ve done and know that you’ve become part of an awesome community.

  But why should we do this? Why blog? Why have a website? Well because they’re the best, that’s why! Humans are meant to communicate and connect, and the Internet makes this possible at an unimaginably grand scale. Don’t overthink it either. You don’t need to “build a following”. You don’t need to sell things. You don’t need to have a brand. You can literally just be you. Creating some “Slash Pages” (as Joe did) is a great place to start. You can construct your site however you want too. It doesn’t need to follow the same old boring template. Be creative! It also doesn’t mean you can’t use traditional social media, consider POSSE-ing.

  We (humans) should decide the future of the Internet. It can only slip away from us if we let it. It’s all already there too. It really always has been. Write, share, commune—we’re in this together. It’s not too late.

  Fediverse

  Decentralization is power, and in the face of malignant power, decentralization is resilience. So let’s descend further into the light of the abyss…

  Some tools to light the way.

  • Indiekit
  • Misskey
  • GoToSocial

  

  Cybersecurity

  Sometimes cybersecurity is awesome. Oh so often it’s just kinda sad and failz…

  Some good tips for staying out of that fail category—keep secrets out of your logs, understand REST API edge cases, lock down your supply chain and think twice before vibe coding!

  🔥 It’s dangerous to go alone! Take these. 🔥

  (Some useful tools and resources)

  • HTTP Status Codes Decision Diagram
  • CRSC.NIST.RIP
  • AuditKit
  • GAYINT IOC RSS Feed
  • Fuzz Testing of Application Reliability
  • The Beginner’s Textbook for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  • KNOWN ANOMALIES IN UNICODE CHARACTER NAMES
  • Some apps for secure and anonymous communication and file-sharing
  • Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism

  Thanks for reading Scrolls!

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