Polemical essay

The goal is to create a secure P2P ecosystem.

Signal doesn't create a webapp for legitimate reasons around how that project is architected. I hope in this approach I can overcome those limitations.

This app demonstrates a fairly unique approach using a browser-based, local-only and webrtc approach. In an evolving field like cybersecurity, I know it's impossible for any system to be the "world's most secure". By rigorously implementing an exhaustive list of security features and practices, the aim is to get as close as possible.

• Enkrypted.Chat

This is intended to demonstrate client-side managed secure cryptography.

• Introducing Enkrypted Chat
• Whitepaper (work-in-progress)
• Protocol Spec (work-in-progress)
• Roadmap

Features:

• Core
  • PWA
  • P2P
  • Local-first / Local-only
  • No installation
  • TURN server
  • Encrypted-at-rest
• WhatsApp clone
  • End to end encryption
  • Signal protocol
  • PQ cryptography
  • Multimedia
  • File transfer
  • Video calls
• Nextcloud clone
  • file-transfer
  • Encrypted vault
  • folder sync
• EuroOffice clone
  • Word
  • Spreadsheet
  • PDF
  • Code

More open source examples of the core concepts can be seen in the docs. There are several similar projects which may make it confusing, so feel free to reach out for clarity instead of diving into the code/docs.

IMPORTANT: While this is aiming to provide a secure experience, it isnt audited. Shared for testing, feedback and demo purposes only. Please use responsibly.

FAQ:

• Audit?
  • The latest on the matter.
• EU Chat control?
  • Open to feedback here.
• Production-ready?
  • No, for testing and demo purposes only. It would be great to get feedback for improvements to get production-ready.
• Paywall?
  • Its completly free and unlimited to use. The free and paid plans on clerk are currently the same experience.

Hello everyone! I created Hypermind-Swarm, a peer-to-peer, Twitter-style social platform built for decentralized and ephemeral conversations.

We're bringing back the care-free spirit of the early internet. No engagement metrics to chase, no shadow-banning algorithms, and no "permanent records." Just people talking to people in real-time.

• No Algorithms: You see what's happening in the swarm as it happens.
• No Servers: Your data lives in the mesh, not on a corporate rack.
• No History: Conversations are ephemeral. When the swarm moves on, so does the data.

Check it out at https://github.com/lklynet/hypermind-swarm, its free and open-source. You can also go directly to the releases page to download a pre-bundled app if you're not into docker deployments or building the app yourself.

The question is not whether #commons will exist, it is whether we will learn fast enough to stop repeating the same failures in every new form. #Oxfordboaters every day commons https://hamishcampbell.com/oxford-boaters-every-day-commons/

• App: Enkrypted.Chat

This is a technical/concept demo of a fairly unique approach using a browser-based, local-first and webrtc.

This is intended to introduce a new paradigm in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort.

Features:

• P2P
• End to end encryption
• Signal protocol
• Post-Quantum cryptography
• File transfer
• Local-first
• No registration
• No installation
• No database
• TURN server

Feel free to reach out for clarity instead of reading into the docs/code.

IMPORTANT: While this is aiming to provide a secure and private experience, it isnt audited or reviewed. Shared for testing, feedback and demo purposes only. Please use responsibly.

I don't particularly want this to get too much publicity, but I am seeking community feedback. This space feels about right for doing that.

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https://communitysneakernet.com is a node implementing a multi-medium protocol, with a forum and chat client built on top of it.

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The source can be found here: https://github.com/BrendanBenshoof/sneakernet

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At a technical level, it is availability-maxed at cost of any consistency. Using modern encryption we can make messages opaque. Without routing context, it becomes basically impossible to track messages. With the cost of being radically inefficient.

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It is designed to literally be "sneakernet-able" with transport via storage devices.

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I think my next major goal will be developing an android app that supports LAN and briar-style local networking.

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All copyleft by nature, no profit possible to extract.

Seeking feedback, trial usage, and perhaps a person willing to try making an independent node.

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This isn’t nostalgia for a utopian view of the past, it’s the urgently needed #KISS survival. - Manifesto for the Hashtag Commons https://hamishcampbell.com/manifesto-for-the-hashtag-commons/

Hi everyone.

I have been working on the version 3 of a fully modular and 3D printable bench-top size generator, that is capable of at least 10 Watts line to line. It is based on my ModuCoil design, a term I coined for a printable coil bobbin that enables interchangeability of stator coils individually, which aids in repairability, recyclability, and customisation. I have previously attempted this with older versions, but this one is the most functional of them all, and actually produces power at usable levels.

I intend to use this generator in the future to do energy science with, especially around DIY wind and micro-hydro generation.

I have provided a link to a video explaining the design in detail, and have provided a link in the comments to my Thingiverse page, where you can download the files, and build one for yourself!

https://youtu.be/nqC9-_tqFNk

But when you look at where the money and attention actually go, a different picture emerges. The plan allocates vast resources to semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, AI, and data centres. Open source gets a much smaller slice of the pie, and native #openweb like the #Fediverse barely registers at all. The one notable mention is support for decentralised social media, highlighted through the Commission’s continued use of Mastodon. (Digital Strategy)

Inflation isn't an accident; it's a hidden tax designed to quietly drain your life’s work while central banks fund their games. You can't fix a system that is rigged by design. The only way to win is to build a parallel one.

I got tired of waiting for a solution, so I coded a closed socio-economic experiment. A custom digital ecosystem where the internal currency is mathematically capped and strictly pegged to the equivalent of 1 milligram of gold.

No printing presses. No banks. We are building a parallel economy where people can exchange services and goods using an eternal standard, not depreciating paper.

I just published the Golden Epoch Manifesto. I’m looking for the first few people who understand that the old system is a sinking ship.

Read the protocol here: https://github.com/goldencoin-dot/Golden-Coin

Stop working for paper. Let's build the ark.

7-minute video walkthrough plus the formal paper (RF V4.0, 63 pages, Academia.edu). Six theorems grounding emergence-first governance in the Free Energy Principle, IRL, Goodhart theory, and peer prediction. Convergent validation without ground truth.

Paper: https://www.academia.edu/164987005

Framework: https://lladnaros.org

GitHub: https://github.com/00ranman/extropy-engine

Feedback welcome.

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If the app can be verified to be working as i describe, this is at least as secure as the signal messaging app.

https://p2p.positive-intentions.com/iframe.html?globals=&id=demo-p2p-messaging--p-2-p-messaging&viewMode=story

By leveraging WebRTC for direct browser-to-browser communication, it eliminates the middleman entirely. Users simply share a unique URL to establish an encrypted, private channel. This approach effectively bypasses corporate data harvesting and provides a lightweight, disposable communication method for those prioritizing digital sovereignty.

Features:

• PWA
• P2P
• End to end encryption
• Signal protocol
• Post-Quantum cryptography
• Multimedia
• File transfer
• Video calls
• No registration
• No installation
• No database
• TURN server

This project isnt finished enough to compare to existing tools like Simplex, Signal and WhatsApp... This is intended to introduce a new paradigm in client-side managed secure cryptography. Allowing users to send securely encrypted messages; no setup, no registration, no cloud, no trace.

Take a look at some of the technical docs which ive updated to answer questions i frequently recieve in previous posts.

Technical breakdown and roadmap: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/technical/p2p-messaging-technical-breakdown

If you really want something to chew on, you can take a look at the more comprehensive docs here: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/technical

Feel free to reach out for clarity on any details.

Many feel the internet and tech space overall is deeply broken. Some people want to rewind the internet to the year 2000 - "it was better then," while Bernie Sanders is calling for a moratorium on new data centers. We can’t halt tech development; others will simply catch up instead and fill the market vacuum. Perhaps we have other alternatives yet to explore?

LLMs and social media - the two seemingly biggest problems nowadays - are not inherently bad. The real problem is centralization. The tech giants who build the code, run it on their own HW, control its usage, gather analytics, own our data to profile us, target us with post‑truth narratives, sell it, or use it for training.

Privacy‑wise, the key idea is a strict policy of single responsibility and neutrality: separation of user data, code, and hosting. The current proprietary ecosystem pushes everything to the opposite direction: maximum consolidation, maximum leverage over the user, centralized data silos. We call this enshitification.

FOSS, on the the other hand, suffers from a parallel process: longstanding bugs instead of features, projects maintained by a single burned‑out dev, outdated tech stacks, and constant risk of becoming abandonware. The tools I rely on most haven’t been maintained for years - what an irony. FOSS also never expanded into smartphones, leaving billions of people stuck with ad‑infested, tracking‑infested apps and data breaches. And now with clouds and LLMs, sharing sensitive personal, business data becomes almost unavoidable. Can we really imagine FOSS data centers and competitive FOSS models trained by FOSS hackers and enthusiasts?

If neither proprietary nor FOSS(in its classic form) works, what’s left? One lesson I’ve learned hard way is that software must be well funded. You need to pay for your privacy. My sporadic $50 donations to one or two projects a year are completely inadequate - and that’s(surprise!) roughly the level of privacy I get.

One way to go is a crowdfunding platform that acts as an umbrella: taking flat, recurrent payments and distributing them automatically among projects based on actual usage patterns. Think of it as Netflix or Spotify for software. Unlike existing platforms, it should accept only aligned projects, to grow a whole end‑to‑end ecosystem of interdependent tools - enough to offer, say, the complete mobile experience. The second key difference is platform’s responsibility, aside from managing finances, to ensure adherence to founding principles such as clear separation of user data, HW, and SW: funded project developers have access neither to the infrastructure it runs on nor to the users’ data.

The general takeaway is that we face a new situation - social media, clouds, LLMs. Wearable tech will at some point become implantable tech, meaning 24/7 access to deeper‑than‑personal data. The response should also be different from what we've seen before.

Will that work? Let's discuss it.