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- @bengo@mastodon.socialw3c-ccg.github.ioAuthorization Capabilities v0.4.0
🎉 just released "Authorization Capabilities v0.4.0"
https://w3c-ccg.github.io/zcap-spec/v0.4.0/
Change Log: https://w3c-ccg.github.io/zcap-spec/v0.4.0/#changelog-v0.4.0
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en.wikipedia.orgCortinarius rubellus - Wikipedia
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Great week at https://globaldigitalcollaboration.org ! 🌎
globaldigitalcollaboration.orgGlobal Digital Collaboration ConferenceJoin the Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC26) on September 1-3, 2026 at Palexpo Geneva, Switzerland. Uniting the world for the future of digital public infrastructure.
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...Existentialism, says Adorno, outs itself as the “snooty crowing of come-down gentlemen.” To which we must add: Speaking the lingo of critical theory is by now mostly just evidence that you went to a good school.”
https://sites.williams.edu/cthorne/articles/a-commentary-on-adornos-jargon-of-authenticity/
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"Philosophy cannot realize itself unless it is taken up as a project, and by many readers at once. But if a philosophy is widely taught, the most likely effect, at least in the middle term, is that it will become the common property of the educated classes, an acquired idiom for a society’s more successful members to justify their very advantages...
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“Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, “The Concept of Nature” (1919) - @bengo@mastodon.social
Should @Mastodon DMs continue to be deniable (aka repudiable), or do you want all of them signed with no option to go off the record?
They've been deniable, but now apparently @Mastodon will be paid[1] to change to an exclusively non-repudiable protocol.
"most social communications
online should have... repudiability"
-- Brewer, Goldberg, Borisov[2]@soatok has a good intro to deniability[3]
[1]: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
[2]: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/otr-wpes.pdf
[3]: https://soatok.blog/2020/11/04/a-brief-introduction-to-deniability/Mastodon Blog · blog.joinmastodon.orgSovereign Tech Agency fundingAnnouncing a service agreement for new work to improve Mastodon and the broader ecosystem.
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I read books, hike around outside, make websites, internetwork. Enjoying life in San Francisco for 15 years and in Topeka before that.
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did:scid:vh:1:QmYAPKv4iCFsMx3s4EPRP3duFJtcnmWLn9VdTn3ziEAB38?src=bengo.pub/did.jsonlbengo’s decentralized identifier: this page, the handle and the account all belong to it. Its log is public and signed entry by entry, here at bengo.pub, so anyone can check it.
See its logdid:webvh
did:webvh:Qmd2uX9PADWVL4JRBCGqQg8Vgwdi3oeeFBC91ZVMEeZKQR:bengo.pubThe same keys under a did:webvh at bengo.pub, kept in step with the SCID above. It’s what communities that read did:webvh see, and any did:webvh resolver can check it.
See its logwebvh SCID
did:scid:vh:1:QmfZpT6bRSFDBkBcYoPdowHeTnPtG4Tcw8kT7ddjy1rerY?src=bengo.pub/QmfZpT6bRSFDBkBcYoPdowHeTnPtG4Tcw8kT7ddjy1rerY/did.jsonlThe same keys under a SCID whose log names a did:webvh at local.pub, kept in step with the SCID above. The Universal Resolver can check this one today, as it was first made.
See its logOther forms
did:vh
did:vh:Qmewz8Fft32zMBkP8A1P9i6Wi2Btys6b1fWTDG8HugeBZ9?src=https://bengo.pub/Qmewz8Fft32zMBkP8A1P9i6Wi2Btys6b1fWTDG8HugeBZ9The same keys under a did:vh, which stays in step with the DID above. Its log is here at bengo.pub too.
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LocalPub Alpha
bengo started a plan while Local.Pub was in Alpha, before it had a server of its own.
- Signed by local.pub, so anyone can check it.
- Given to bengo’s own ID, not just this page.
- bengo keeps it whatever their plan is now.
Local.Pub is still in Alpha. Start a plan before it has a server of its own, and you’re an Alpha too. Join the Alpha
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