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  1. NextGraph, la solution ultime pour reprendre le contrôle sur vos données - Webinaire du 21 mai 2026

    videos-libr.es/w/wFpSW26d4y8Mv

  2. @GossiTheDog "Honestly', this update sounds like Mastodon is finally ready for mass adoption. Just needs a native token for gas fees. 🤑🤑🤑

    #web30 (a solution still looking for a problem)

  3. Around 2008 (+/- 3y) was the time, when that Internet (TM) #web20 has died. We believed in the freedom of speech and stuff.

    After that, the (a) social #web30 brought us to algorithmic controlled mindset of people based on the most populist content.

    It's legit. Populist stuff creates the most emotions thus clicks thus money.

    So, do not blame single players. Blame walled gardens with capitalist interest.

  4. We have some good news coming from France! 🗞️ 🇫🇷

    🏆 Two of our have been selected as top companies in France working with technologies: Startin'blox, founded by Alex Bourlier, and @werenode, whose CEO is Benoît Maïsseu. The list has been made by the F6S Community

    🌊 Discover in this article which are their projects selected by our evaluators to shape an :
    ngisargasso.eu/2025/01/14/the-

    Congratulations!

  5. @clay

     
     
    My difficulty with IPFS specifically has to do with some of its unique characteristics as a storage mechanism, the primary characteristic being the inability to modify or delete content. This is not a side effect of the cryptographic methods used, nor of some limitation in software engineering. This is a specific design goal of IPFS and IPFS is unique in this regard even among major storage technologies like hard drives used in personal computers and servers, cloud storage technologies (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, etc.) and commercial storage offerings like Dropbox, iDrive and others.
     
    What harms follow from this type of implementation? Here are two:
     
    Clearly illegal and harmful content can be permanently stored on IPFS. I am thinking of CSAM, malware, defamatory content, and other harmful content. This type of content cannot be deleted or moderated by the core IPFS technology. This is not a theoretical issue as there are known cases of harmful content on IPFS. Harmful content can be deleted from a relational database, not so with IPFS.
     
    The second issue is that I think IPFS goes a long way towards depriving citizens of their data rights under the EU GDPR and California CCPA and CPRA. These regulations brought forward by democratic governments express the rights of citizens related to the ownership of their private information. Under these regulations (and others) an individual has the right to be forgotten (right of deletion), right to know and control who their personal data is shared with, the right to correct erroneous information, and so forth. To me it appears that IPFS intentionally prevents the exercise of these rights.
     
    I don’t deny that there are positive aspects of IPFS. Where else would we store our precious NFTs? Just kidding. I can definitely see some benefits of a decentralized and distributed storage mechanism. I don’t see that IPFS or other decentralized technology prevents censorship in any meaningful way – censorship appears to me to be more of a political force than anything else. I don’t think any technology can be effective in that regard. As it stands now I feel that the harms of IPFS outweigh the benefits, and the harms are not even necessary.
     
    I’ve discussed these issues with the IPFS community. The response has been a general washing-of-hands related to the moral dimension of IPFS technology. I personally find this indefensible and hope that there will be a reevaluation going forward. Years ago I was inspired by Phillip Rogaway, a well-known cryptographer, when he published an article on the moral character of cryptographic work. I wrote about his work back in 2016. My blog piece is here and it has links to his work:
     
    info.townsendsecurity.com/phil
     
    I would recommend his commentary to any software developer or engineer. And Phillip Rogaway is not the only technologist who has written about CS and ethics. He was just the first to impact my thinking on the subject, and I am grateful for his work.
     
    In regards to SQL databases: I don’t have these issues with relational and no-SQL databases for what should be obvious reasons. I am a happy SQL developer. Any crankiness I have with SQL has nothing to do with the issues above.
     
    I am happy to be corrected if I am wrong about IPFS or any of the points above.
     
    #Web3 #Web30 #IPFS #Cryptography #Ethics

  6. I’m sorry, I designed this poison and there is no antidote. But take it anyway…
    - IPFS
     
    I started my security journey by getting pushed into it kicking and screaming. Really. We built a managed FTP solution that was popular. Midsize and Enterprise customers liked it. Then this internet thing took off. Those customers suddenly realized that they were pushing a lot of sensitive data over the internet in the clear. So, they pounded on our door and we agreed, with Phil Zimmerman’s encouragement, to add PGP file encryption to our managed FTP solution. Then we did some database encryption. Then we got pushed onto multiple operating systems. Then, oh crap, we realized we needed to get serious about encryption and key management. So, we did. And we developed some other solutions with encryption for data privacy.
     
    Along the way a friend got interested in blockchain. That looked interesting, it has cryptography! And Merkle trees! Wow, that was awesome. But stuff you posted to the blockchain ledger was in the clear. So, we developed an application for encryption and key management for Ethereum. That did not become a product. That’s a story for another day.
     
    Some years later I discovered the InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS, developed by Protocol Labs. It also has cryptography and Merkle trees (Merkle DAG, actually)! It’s distributed and decentralized. Cool! Said the idiot who never learns a lesson the first time. This led to a managed file system application design based on IPFS, then the addition of encryption and key management, then secure and reliable messaging, then a patent filing, then learning enough go language programming to be seriously dangerous, and some other scratching and pecking. What could go wrong?
     
    This:  Once you store a file on IPFS you can never delete it.
     
    That’s a feature, not a bug. The IPFS designers made it this way on purpose. There is literally no way to delete a file from IPFS and its thousands of nodes. This is not because of some limitation in the programming language, or in some limitation of cryptography or of the Merkle tree architecture, or in some inherent aspect of distributed systems architecture. No, this is by design.
     
    Imagine a system that publicly stores files without a delete function and what it implies:
     
    -       No way to delete CSAM material.
    -       No way to delete or inhibit any type of defamatory or abusive content.
    -       No way to combat doxing and abuse.
    -       No way to comply with GDPR and CPRA right to know/change/delete/opt-out.
    -       No way to moderate users or content.
     
    This is just a partial list of problems. No one is accountable, everyone is complicit. It doesn’t get any better from there.
     
    I’ve heard the arguments about this technology helping to prevent censorship. I understand the application and network architecture, and this is just BS, in my opinion. This is toxic technology in the extreme.
     
    I believe that if you create technology that clearly produces irreversible harm, you should bear some responsibility and accountability for that. As technologists we can’t avoid that there is a moral dimension to our work. We should own that aspect of what we do, and operate as compassionate human beings. Personally, I think the harms of IPFS in its current form far outweigh any potential benefits. Until the technology changes it should be avoided. I certainly won’t have anything to do with it.
     
    Mastodon is far from perfect, but it empowers instance administrators and individual users to curate and moderate their own experience. A user can be blocked, and posts can be deleted. Toxic instances can be blocked and defederated. Could it be better? Yes, I think so. But we can already see and personally experience emotionally healthy and life-affirming communities, like this one at infosec.exchange.
     
    This is the way.
     
    #Web3 #Web30 #IPFS #FIL #Mastodon

  7. I’m sorry, I designed this poison and there is no antidote. But take it anyway…
    - IPFS
     
    I started my security journey by getting pushed into it kicking and screaming. Really. We built a managed FTP solution that was popular. Midsize and Enterprise customers liked it. Then this internet thing took off. Those customers suddenly realized that they were pushing a lot of sensitive data over the internet in the clear. So, they pounded on our door and we agreed, with Phil Zimmerman’s encouragement, to add PGP file encryption to our managed FTP solution. Then we did some database encryption. Then we got pushed onto multiple operating systems. Then, oh crap, we realized we needed to get serious about encryption and key management. So, we did. And we developed some other solutions with encryption for data privacy.
     
    Along the way a friend got interested in blockchain. That looked interesting, it has cryptography! And Merkle trees! Wow, that was awesome. But stuff you posted to the blockchain ledger was in the clear. So, we developed an application for encryption and key management for Ethereum. That did not become a product. That’s a story for another day.
     
    Some years later I discovered the InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS, developed by Protocol Labs. It also has cryptography and Merkle trees (Merkle DAG, actually)! It’s distributed and decentralized. Cool! Said the idiot who never learns a lesson the first time. This led to a managed file system application design based on IPFS, then the addition of encryption and key management, then secure and reliable messaging, then a patent filing, then learning enough go language programming to be seriously dangerous, and some other scratching and pecking. What could go wrong?
     
    This:  Once you store a file on IPFS you can never delete it.
     
    That’s a feature, not a bug. The IPFS designers made it this way on purpose. There is literally no way to delete a file from IPFS and its thousands of nodes. This is not because of some limitation in the programming language, or in some limitation of cryptography or of the Merkle tree architecture, or in some inherent aspect of distributed systems architecture. No, this is by design.
     
    Imagine a system that publicly stores files without a delete function and what it implies:
     
    -       No way to delete CSAM material.
    -       No way to delete or inhibit any type of defamatory or abusive content.
    -       No way to combat doxing and abuse.
    -       No way to comply with GDPR and CPRA right to know/change/delete/opt-out.
    -       No way to moderate users or content.
     
    This is just a partial list of problems. No one is accountable, everyone is complicit. It doesn’t get any better from there.
     
    I’ve heard the arguments about this technology helping to prevent censorship. I understand the application and network architecture, and this is just BS, in my opinion. This is toxic technology in the extreme.
     
    I believe that if you create technology that clearly produces irreversible harm, you should bear some responsibility and accountability for that. As technologists we can’t avoid that there is a moral dimension to our work. We should own that aspect of what we do, and operate as compassionate human beings. Personally, I think the harms of IPFS in its current form far outweigh any potential benefits. Until the technology changes it should be avoided. I certainly won’t have anything to do with it.
     
    Mastodon is far from perfect, but it empowers instance administrators and individual users to curate and moderate their own experience. A user can be blocked, and posts can be deleted. Toxic instances can be blocked and defederated. Could it be better? Yes, I think so. But we can already see and personally experience emotionally healthy and life-affirming communities, like this one at infosec.exchange.
     
    This is the way.
     
    #Web3 #Web30 #IPFS #FIL #Mastodon

  8. Na próxima Oficina de História e Imagem, no dia 20 de Junho, vamos receber Luis D. Rivero Moreno (IHA - Instituto de História da Arte / Universidad de León) para uma conversa sobre os desafios que a #Web30 e #blockchain, entre outros, trazem à arte contemporânea e património visual.

    #histodons #ContemporaryArt #VisualHeritage #NewMediaArt #Internet #SocialNetworks #IntangibleHeritage #VisualSources

    ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/arte-co

  9. @Stewart @Chris Trottier Originally, in mainstream media, #Metaverse referred to Zuckerberg's #HorizonWorlds because nobody except Neal Stephenson, his readers, the #OpenSimulator community and a select few others had heard that word before. For some media outlets, it still does.

    #Web30 referred to what would follow on the heels of "Facebook's Metaverse" using blockchains, cryptocurrencies and NFTs as something allegedly essential and inevitable in the creation and operation of #VirtualWorlds. In other, fewer words: get-rich-quick schemes. Probably not few of them went under in the crypto crash, especially those that relied on existing currencies.

    Unfortunately, neither mainstream media nor tech media nor their audience could hear the #SecondLife and #OpenSim users laugh. Since people believe the former shut down before spring 2009, and almost nobody has ever heard of the latter, the cryptobros can continue implying that blockchain, crypto and NFTs are absolute necessities for virtual worlds.
  10. @Stewart @Chris Trottier Originally, in mainstream media, #Metaverse referred to Zuckerberg's #HorizonWorlds because nobody except Neal Stephenson, his readers, the #OpenSimulator community and a select few others had heard that word before. For some media outlets, it still does.

    #Web30 referred to what would follow on the heels of "Facebook's Metaverse" using blockchains, cryptocurrencies and NFTs as something allegedly essential and inevitable in the creation and operation of #VirtualWorlds. In other, fewer words: get-rich-quick schemes. Probably not few of them went under in the crypto crash, especially those that relied on existing currencies.

    Unfortunately, neither mainstream media nor tech media nor their audience could hear the #SecondLife and #OpenSim users laugh. Since people believe the former shut down before spring 2009, and almost nobody has ever heard of the latter, the cryptobros can continue implying that blockchain, crypto and NFTs are absolute necessities for virtual worlds.
  11. В онлайні все більше таких текстів:

    Decentralization: Web 3.0 will be a decentralized internet. What does that mean? Our computers and phones won’t be talking to large data centers run by big companies like Google, Facebook, or Twitter. Instead, we’ll use peer-to-peer technology to connect directly with one another – just like BitTorrent does today.

    scalater.com/international-int

    #fediverse #web30

  12. В онлайні все більше таких текстів:

    Decentralization: Web 3.0 will be a decentralized internet. What does that mean? Our computers and phones won’t be talking to large data centers run by big companies like Google, Facebook, or Twitter. Instead, we’ll use peer-to-peer technology to connect directly with one another – just like BitTorrent does today.

    scalater.com/international-int

    #fediverse #web30

  13. Woot!

    A brand new cut of #DBpedia that places #HTTP client apps and services right at the core of the massive #LODCloud #KnowledgeGraph.

    Also note, in this revitalized #SemanticWeb era, #ChatGPT understand DBpedia -- pretty well :)

    #GraphDatabase #DBMS #VirtuosoRDBMS #Web30 #SPARQL

    /cc @openlink @pkleef

  14. Woot!

    A brand new cut of #DBpedia that places #HTTP client apps and services right at the core of the massive #LODCloud #KnowledgeGraph.

    Also note, in this revitalized #SemanticWeb era, #ChatGPT understand DBpedia -- pretty well :)

    #GraphDatabase #DBMS #VirtuosoRDBMS #Web30 #SPARQL

    /cc @openlink @pkleef

  15. A single open source edition instance of our #VirtuosoRDBMS scales up to 100 billion+ entity relationship represented as #RDF triples (or quads).

    This open source release eradicates performance and scale as hurdles that impede adoption of modern data access, management, and integration -- where hyperlinks function as cross-platform super-keys for #DataAccess & #DataConnectivity

    #LinkedData #SPARQL #SQL #GraphDatabase #SemanticWeb #GraphQL #Web30 #DBMS

    /cc @openlink @Mastodon

  16. A single open source edition instance of our #VirtuosoRDBMS scales up to 100 billion+ entity relationship represented as #RDF triples (or quads).

    This open source release eradicates performance and scale as hurdles that impede adoption of modern data access, management, and integration -- where hyperlinks function as cross-platform super-keys for #DataAccess & #DataConnectivity

    #LinkedData #SPARQL #SQL #GraphDatabase #SemanticWeb #GraphQL #Web30 #DBMS

    /cc @openlink @Mastodon

  17. It's getting crazy on the #ChatGPT ecosystem front.
    I've just used an extension app for Google Slides to generate a 5-slide #LinkedData presentation.

    I only had to change font sizes and move layout blocks around for aesthetic enhancement.

    Google Slides Extension: lnkd.in/eEH-ryu4

    #SemanticWeb #Web30

  18. It's getting crazy on the #ChatGPT ecosystem front.
    I've just used an extension app for Google Slides to generate a 5-slide #LinkedData presentation.

    I only had to change font sizes and move layout blocks around for aesthetic enhancement.

    Google Slides Extension: lnkd.in/eEH-ryu4

    #SemanticWeb #Web30

  19. @lispi314 @atomicpoet Yes!

    Clients (User-Agents) and Servers have to be loosely-coupled, which is what open standards have always enabled. Typically, #BigTech conflates both via tightly-coupled proprietary implementations tucked behind compelling #UI/#UX -- a technique that's worked successfully all the way up to the #Web20 implosion.

    #Web30 #SemanticWeb #LinkedData

  20. @lispi314 @atomicpoet Yes!

    Clients (User-Agents) and Servers have to be loosely-coupled, which is what open standards have always enabled. Typically, #BigTech conflates both via tightly-coupled proprietary implementations tucked behind compelling #UI/#UX -- a technique that's worked successfully all the way up to the #Web20 implosion.

    #Web30 #SemanticWeb #LinkedData

  21. Wonderful!

    Meaning:
    You can also leverage benefits of the latest Virtuoso release combined with a preloaded and pre-configured DBpedia Knowledge Graph from the
    Amazon AWS cloud.

    /cc @openlink @Mastodon

    #GraphDatabase #DBMS #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #DataVirtualization #SQL #GraphQL #SPARQL #Web30 #DBpedia #KnowledgeGraph #AWSCloud

  22. Woot!

    Deploying entire #HTTPS sites from our #VirtuosoRDBMS just got easier (via native ACME protocol support)!

    Ditto #KnowledgeGraph generation directly from the #Fediverse i.e., each post is automatically transformed into a #SemanticWeb nugget deployed using #LinkedData principles.

    Native #GraphQL support also includes subscriptions via native #websockets support too!

    /cc @openlink @Mastodon

    #SPARQL #SQL #ActivityStreams #Web30 #DataConnectivity #Web30

  23. @steevc #Web3 is different from #Web30, literally and semantically.

    #Web30 is still about an evolution of the #Web where every #hyperlink functions as an entity name that resolves to an entity relationship graph comprising machine-computable entity relationship type semantics -- i.e., a #SemanticWeb.

    #Web3, for all intents a purposes names a ecosystem associated with crypto currencies and #NFTs.

    Names matter 😀

  24. @reiver How do you explain kingsley.idehen.net/DAV/home/k then?

    That's an #HTTP-based filesytem (built circa 2000, and still running) that also supports #WebDAV and the more recent #LDP protocol.

    I can perform operations recursively just as I would a #Unix, #Linux, #macOS, or #Windows filesystem. It also includes both Role-Based Access Controls (#RBAC) and the more powerful fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Controls (#ABAC) 😀

    #ODSBriefcase #DataSpaces #SemanticWeb #Web30

  25. As you all know, Microsoft is progressively releasing new editions of **#Bing**! and **#Edge** that include deep **#OpenAI** integration. Here's an example ( a verbatim copy & paste) of what's now possible courtesy of CHAT-GPT and Search Engine Index integration.

    Prompt:
    Does Kingsley Idehen like CHAT-GPT?

    Response: tinyurl.com/2sfvaykn

    Microsoft is blending #Web lookups and #Search Index cross-references as the basis for inflecting the Search. 🍿🍿

    #chatGPT #UseCase #SemanticWeb #Web30

  26. Musings from 2006, regarding Personal #DataSpaces on the #web

    slideshare.net/kidehen/linked-

    Time flies, but little changes re fundamental challenges uniquely solved by architecture unleashed by the Web -- once links are recognized a machine-computable entity relationship types😀

    /cc @atomicpoet @judell @openlink @Mastodon

    #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #Web30