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sourceWelcome to volume eleven of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week we do whatever we want, the Fediverse is doomed (but less doomed than elsewhere), and we visit Hacking-town.
Has your computer touching so far today made you happy? Maybe no? Well, hopefully this edition of Scrolls can turn that around for ya!
IndieWeb
This part of the web, the personal web, the “IndieWeb”, should be a place—no—IS a place, you can just be you. Take a break from the like-seeking, engagement-farming, inauthentic, expectation-laden fakery that plagues the rest of the web (looking at you social media). Give yourself the space to be imperfect, to be creative, to be flawed, to be human, to be you. This part of the web is supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to be a happy space. It should feel like home (as it does for me). So don’t worry about being perfect here, sometimes it’s enough to just say hello.
Since your site is your space. You can do whatever you want—and there is so much to do! Want to make your RSS feeds shimmer? We got somethin’ for that. Want to dress down your site for the day? Go do it. Make your site fully downloadable, build a shrine to the games you play, take on the blog questions challenge, share your manifesto, join a webring, put a ton of buttons on your site, then add more (and MOAR!)—just go do stuff. No one can stop you. Go create a ton of subdomains, just for the fun of it. You can literally put 10000 posts out on the Internet. You think you can write 10000 posts that are all bangers? Nope. But who cares? Just do what you want. (But please put publish dates on your posts!)
Because how bad would the web be without the “you can’t stop me” attitude? What would the web be like? Without the writers. Without the dreamers. Without the sharers. Without the fearless. Without the women. It would be crap! That’s what.
But luckily, we have a chance at something more like this…
Featured Blogs
Here’s a bunch of places on the web that are awesome!
- Lean Rada
- David Pape
- oddworlds soliloquy by Lin
- GioCities by Gio
- Chris Hannah’s Weeknote
- Nathan Upchurch
- Naz Hamid
- Benji.dog
- notnite by Jules
- Alan Smith
- Microsoft’s original source code by the Bill Gates of all people
- Manuel Moreale’s “People & Blogs” series entry interviewing Matt Webb
- More to come from Manuel with respect to blogroll.org too!
Fediverse
All social media platforms are a bit cursed if you ask me. Even Fedi is doomed to many of the same ills—as much as I love it. But, for all its faults, the Fediverse survives, it continues to improve, and can be kinda magical sometimes. I personally believe that the Fediverse, of all the social networks, is best for us as humans. If you think so too, consider getting involved and supporting organizations like The Nivenly Foundation who’s Security Fund looks to help Fedi stay a safe and secure place for all.
Cybersecurity
Welcome back to the li’l “hacking” corner! This week I’m learning more about the terminal and how to bypass PowerShell execution policy. I also found an awesome resource for cybersecurity research and yet another vuln/exploit database (can never have enough of those now can we?)
In a world plagued by inauthenticity (*cough* →this← *cough* 🤢), be more like Ricardo and Elma—who have awesome infosec blogs.
Thanks for reading!