The Register: Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors. “Cloudflare, along with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, have committed to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs), a way for websites to generate a digital token that asserts a given browsing session is being run by a human or bot with legitimate intent, as […]

Why IPv6 is so complicated

https://github.com/becarpenter/book6/blob/main/01.%20Introduction%20and%20Foreword/Why%20IPv6%20is%20so%20complicated.md

#HackerNews #IPv6 #Complexity #Networking #TechTalk #InternetProtocols #Cybersecurity

Evert Pot: Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser. “After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser. To be honest, this is actually more like a HTTP proxy for Gopher, but I might at some point turn this into a standalone client or even port it to some native platforms.” Those of y’all old enough […]

Spotted in my RSS feeds: human.json. “human.json is a lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their site content and vouch for the humanity of others. It uses URL ownership as identity, and trust propagates through a crawlable web of vouches between sites.”

“A protocol does not need to encode governance explicitly in order to shape it; it shapes governance by determining which mechanisms are easy to build, which are hard, and which are effectively impossible within the constraints the architecture imposes.”

A good read by @laurenshof on @fediversereport

https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProto #OpenWeb #decentralization #DigitalGovernance #InternetProtocols

Ars Technica: Many Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair vulnerable to “WhisperPair” hack. “A team of security researchers from Belgium’s KU Leuven University has revealed a vulnerability dubbed WhisperPair that allows an attacker to hijack Fast Pair-enabled devices to spy on the owner.”

Mashable: Google’s new tech will let you buy stuff directly from an AI chatbot Ugh

The Register: Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching. “Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3. The company hasn’t exactly gone out of its way to call attention to this – like actually telling anybody anything.”