Interpeer Project
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I rarely use this account to promote things that are not directly related to the Interpeer Project, but this #FluConf article by @librecast's @dentangle is so much aligned with our own Values, I should have written it.
https://www.librecast.net/fluconf-2025/
It's also why our projects are in close contact, and we're working on ways to collaborate as much as possible.
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#FluConf2025 #HumanRights #FLOSS #DigitalCommons #DigitalCitizenSovereignty
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We're informally at the KIRA table at the #IETF118 hackathon. Come say hi :)
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At #IETF118 in Prague I'll be talking about distributed authorization via cryptographic capabilities, which is the theoretical underpinnings of CAProck.
This is going to happen in the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) working group on Friday the 10th of November, some time between 15:30 and 17:00.
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Speaking at #EmpoderaLIVE today about Interpeer was a challenge. It's easy for me to deep dive into tech - but most people in the world don't want to hear about it.
So I used seatbelts as an analogy, which I came up with on the flight here.
I'm just old enough that my mum's car didn't have seat belts for the back seats. At some point we realized that was maybe not the best thing to do, so what did we do about it?
Well, what we *didn't* do is threaten car owners with fines if their car...
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I've realized I'm not good at liveblogging impressions from #EmpoderaLIVE - it's too much, too fast. All I can say after the first day is that we're a room full of people wanting mostly the same thing, and we had to have an event like this to connect us.
It really goes to show that #HumanRights and #DigitalCitizenSovereignty are a great concern. As Philippe Page pointed out earlier, we're at an inflection point where we can collectively decide whether we want to continue with business as...
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It's about to start, I guess.
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The video from #CLT2023 is now public. It's about how to make authorization work in networked systems in a distributed manner. The talk is in German, the Slides are English.
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Das Video vom #CLT2023 ist jetzt oeffentlich. Es geht darum, wie man Autorisierung in vernetzten Systemen verteilt hinbekommen kann. Vortrag auf Deutsch, Slides auf Englisch.
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Am morgigen Sonntag werde ich auf den #LinuxTagen in #Chemnitz um 17:00 einen kleinen Vortrag darueber halten, wie man Authorisierung auch verteilt hinbekommt.
https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2023/en/programm/beitrag/139
Dazu gibt's einen Internet-Draft, zu dem man gerne etwas beitragen kann. Einen Anwendungsfall beispielsweise, oder etwas, was den Text klarer gestaltet, usw.
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Considering human rights in (technical) standards is difficult, but essential. The OHCHR consultation brought to light some of the issues involved. Here is a summary of the major points.
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It gives me great pleasure to announce that we're going to receive further funding from the #EuropeanCommission 's #NGI. This next work is going to focus on APIs for developers: we're going to provide SDKs for incorporating the wyrd #CRDT into apps.
This work is going to happen under #NGIAssure (https://www.assure.ngi.eu/)
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Weakening end-to-end encryption would put
your data and your privacy at risk. By saving it,
you won’t have to guess who’s listening to
your private messages.https://youtube.com/shorts/kh2OTYpD7w0?feature=share
#GlobalEncryptionDay
#GED2022
#SaveEncryption
#SaveE2EE
#EncryptionDay
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At the same time, #CivilSociety has consistently advised the #EuropeanCommission on the ineffectiveness of such measures to fight #CSAM / #CSEM. At the same time, known effective measures are desperately underfunded. Not only is #YlvaJohansson an enemy of #Democracy, she sets out to make children more vulnerable, the exact opposite of her claims.
This proposal is disturbing throughout.
Today is #ComingOutDay, an event that the #EU uses to celebrate the fact that more...
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Let's have an #introduction for the #interpeer project.
The project's mission is to develop next generation, human centric internet technologies. Today, the internet is usually equated with the web. Most likely the most useful view is to see both together as a stack that enables distribution of knowledge, data and media, as well as apps. We're looking at the entirety of this.
The web is centralised. By design, it's decentralised, but its design contains elements that promote centralisation.
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FYI, I moved the #Interpeer account from fosstodon over to here. There is no particular issue I'm addressing here, it just seems like a slightly better fit overall.
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Since it came up a couple of times, here's a system architecture diagram that may help put all the different #interpeer projects into context.
It lives in its own repo at https://codeberg.org/interpeer/system-architecture
Some components have empty repos. Those will need future work.
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One of the grants that #interpeer operates under comes from the @isoc_foundation . The grant focuses on R&D into a web-like architecture that is not as prone to centralization and invasion of privacy as the web itself is.
Yesterday afternoon, we had a brief reflection call with other grantees. One of the issues we're facing was raised by someone else: what do we do when the grant ends? How do we fund future work?
Our answer is the NGO - it permits us to run donation fundraisers, and opens...
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@info_activism In a nutshell, this is why #interpeer is about distributed tech, not decentralization.
Decentralization sounds great: move power away from the center into multiple locations. But it really is nothing more than centralization on a smaller scale. A choice is better than no choice, but a choice of service is still servitude.
The only way to get back to that old idea about putting power into the hand of people is to cut out the middle person - or at least leave that possibility.
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The #interpeer project aims to help create a human centric, next generation Internet by encapsulating human rights into every layer of the stack: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8280/
In simple terms, it means private by default, local first applications that give full control to the user over what to sync and share with whom - and by implication, no services or web apps that take that decision away.
We're making building blocks for this, not an app. We have ideas, but can't know what will suit people best.