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• Favorite 1 April 2023
  bobjonkman favorited something by hubert: Messaging Layer Security (MLS) has been accepted by the IETF for publication as a standard. MLS is and #EndToEndEncryption method designed for group messaging. I've been working on integrating a variant of it with @Matrix.org (keep an eye out for demos coming soon). I've sat in on some of the […]
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by hubert 1 April 2023
  RT @hubert Messaging Layer Security (MLS) has been accepted by the IETF for publication as a standard. MLS is and #EndToEndEncryption method designed for group messaging. I've been working on integrating a variant of it with @Matrix.org (keep an eye out for demos coming soon). I've sat in on some of the IETF meetings, and […]
• New note by bobjonkman 19 March 2023
  A very thoughtful analysis. I've been on the side of "peace from both sides", but I can see the progression that you lay out.
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by lnxw48a1 19 March 2023
  RT @lnxw48a1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64986744 [www bbc co uk] #Turkiye leader Erdogan signals approval of #Finland joining #NATO ... still hesitant on #Sweden's application After the fall of the USSR, I was in favor of abolishing NATO. Frankly, I was too idealistic. I imagined Europe becoming a sort of demilitarized zone but without conflicting armies on each […]
• Favorite 19 March 2023
  bobjonkman favorited something by lnxw48a1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64986744 [www bbc co uk] #Turkiye leader Erdogan signals approval of #Finland joining #NATO ... still hesitant on #Sweden's application After the fall of the USSR, I was in favor of abolishing NATO. Frankly, I was too idealistic. I imagined Europe becoming a sort of demilitarized zone but without conflicting […]
• New note by bobjonkman 19 March 2023
  There's a natural spring just a short distance from here. Sometime about 30 years ago some kind of piping was added to it, so now the water comes out of a pipe a distance above the ground. People would fill their water cooler bottles there. About 10 years ago a sign was put up "This […]
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by lnxw48a1 19 March 2023
  RT @lnxw48a1 Behind this laundromat there is a pipe that continuaously spews water. People drive up and fill bottles, then leave. Trusting. I naturally assume that there is some contaminant and I therefore avoid drinking water from mystery pipes.
• New note by bobjonkman 19 March 2023
  Why we need elastomeric clothing.
• New note by bobjonkman 19 March 2023
  The only reason I have a Github account is to provide bug reports and feature requests to projects I want to support. I don't code much, but anything I want to be publicly available is on my own website. Although not in a code repository, which is probably a good idea.
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by steve 18 March 2023
  RT @steve From https://t.co/Ljk2FwSC2I on Mastodon: In the spirit of deepening the open federated social web, this blog is now powered by ActivityPub, the open federated social standard. This is thanks to the WordPress plugin “activitypub”. You c... https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/users/steve/statuses/110044125471741899/activity