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sourceWelcome to volume twenty-three of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we make the web better, learn “how to Fedi”, and feed our infosec-hungry minds.
Speaking of food, who’s excited about pumpkin pie? 🙋♂️
IndieWeb
Given everything being done (by AI and corporations in general) to make the web worse, what can we do to make the web better? One idea—make the web webbier. That’s right! If you find something good, something that makes you smile, something interesting, something human, share a link to it. But don’t stop there! If you find a site that you enjoy, try subscribing to it, so it doesn’t get lost and you can continue to enjoy new content as it is published.
The web is for reading. The web is for writing. The web is for sharing. It’s a lot less difficult to make a website than you think. Once you’ve got one, you might think that writing for it is hard. Maybe you think no one will read it or care what you have to say. Or you think that you have nothing interesting or novel to share. Forget all that. You’ll be surprised what you can produce, and who will find you if you stop worrying and just write. You can also publish pseudo-anonymously if you’re feeling a little shy about attaching your true identity to what you publish.
Small Web Finds and Features
Speaking of sharing links, here’s some cool stuff I’ve found over the past week…
- David Meissner reached out to me via email and shared his li’l piece of the web. It’s got a little bit of everything. A fun click-safari!
- endless.horse is exactly what it sounds like.
- ReadBeanIceCream has some cool IndieWeb tools to share.
- Susam has brought back their guestbook.
Fediverse
Stop me if you’ve heard this before (and you definitely have if you’ve been reading this publication for any amount of time)—The Fediverse is the best. But just because it’s the best, doesn’t mean it’s the most intuitive or easiest to use. Things are… different around here, a strength to be sure. For example, we don’t really have an out-of-the-box algorithmic feed. Instead, you really need to follow a lot of people, and scale back individual accounts you don’t want from there. But this highly curated approach empowers you to build a feed that will make you smile, rather than endlessly doom-scroll. There’s no one right way to be here either. The Fediverse comes in so many interesting flavors. So join up, follow folks, do your li’l posting, and get ready to go fungal!
Where the Fediverse may fall short in terms of raw numbers, it can make up for in its communities. The Fediverse has staying power, and with that comes the innate quality of communities built to last. A network of builders, thinkers and plain-ol’ normal folks invested in the Fediverse continue to strengthen this very aspect as well. Organizations on the Fediverse are actively catalogued, verification utilities are being developed, first-party “starter packs” are a-comin’, and community-based moderation continues to prove itself more robust than anything that “competing” networks have ever been able to provide.
Cybersecurity
Who’s hungry for some cyber this week? Let’s slap a little mayo diffie-hellmann’s on this secwich and get mind-munchin’!
On the reading list for this week we’ve got Mozilla’s wiki on Supply chain attacks, a fascinating writeup on SATCOM Security related to eavesdropping on satellite communications, a lengthy guide on LLM Poisoning from SYNACKTIV, and an intro to The Clean Source Principle from SpecterOps (one of my favorite infosec blogs).
Lastly, a few things to bookmark and add to your infosec tool belt…
- GAYINT’s Threat Actor Taxonomy (and much needed PewPew Map)
- Flawtinet (hilarious)
- A repository of seized sites
- A wiki for ClickFix
Thanks for reading Scrolls!