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.”

HTTP3 Explained

https://http3-explained.haxx.se

#HackerNews #HTTP3 #HTTP3Explained #WebTechnology #InternetProtocols #Networking

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

#tracking code #Meta and Russian #Yandex embed into millions of websites is #deanonymizing #android users by abusing legitimate #Internetprotocols, causing #Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send #uniqueidentifiers to #nativeapps installed on their devices…#Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.