Excited to have a ✨ guest post ✨ from @djwyen.bsky.social in our @inkandswitch.com Keyhive lab notes! The local-first setting is new to a lot of cryptographers; here Derek shares some of his insights working on the BeeKEM paper, cross-fork security (CFS), and fundamental protocol design tradeoffs 🐝

06 · E2EE in the Local-First Setting

Examining design considerations for developing cryptography for the local-first setting.

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Ich durfte mit Golem über @eurosky.social sprechen und erklären, warum aus meiner Sicht kein Weg an interoperablen Lösungen für ein „Social Media aus Europa“ vorbei führt.

EU-Social-Media-Projekt Eurosky: "Alle Nutzer haben die Hoheit über ihre Daten" - Golem.de

Warum es kein europäisches Facebook braucht, sondern ein offenes Netzwerk für ein europäisches Social Media, erklärt uns Eurosky-Mitgründer Sebastian Vogelsang.

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The three directors of Northsky Social are all women, @jay.bsky.team was CEO of Bluesky until she decided to move back to the work she loves. Your PR bits are stepping on toes.

Been playing around with @iroh.computer a little bit with the rust docs (still a rust noob). Very impressed and like it a lot! I’ve abandoned so many project ideas over the years because accessing a machine on a home network inbound via IP was just not feasible. Wish I could remember them all.

This is a really excellent benchmark, pointing to some serious missing capabilities in coding agents: arxiv.org/abs/2603.247.... They don't write code with an eye towards maintenance!

SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks

Software development is iterative, yet agentic coding benchmarks overwhelmingly evaluate single-shot solutions against complete specifications. Code can pass the test suite but become progressively ha...

arxiv.org

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed: “Investing in machine-checkable correctness is now among the highest-leverage infrastructure work an org can fund” karimjedda.com/engineering-...

The browser is the wrong medium for local-first 🫠 Act accordingly. (I don't think we can fix browsers unfortunately)

drk@drk.wtf · 2w ago

Local first people! There are not enough LoFi events in NYC. Let’s fix that with a chill hang this coming Tuesday: luma.com/08byrv8l

LoFi Meetup NY (Hosted by Iroh) · Luma

Join us at Radegast Hall & Biergarten for a drink and a casual chat about local-first software. "Local first" is a term for software that prioritizes data…

luma.com

Routers are lame. We don't need routers. Just connect your devices with ethernet and use IPv6 link local addresses. Or Wifi Direct. Or Wifi Aware. All IPv6 link local addressing. (Every now and then I dream about IPv6 link local addr support in iroh)

📃🐝✨ Excited to share a preprint about BeeKEM, a decentralized / local-first variant of MLS's TreeKEM (group E2EE) that we designed at @inkandswitch.com. Huge thanks to our coauthors for the writeup and empirical analysis — even we were pleasantly surprised by the performance results 📊

A 118B model scoring 40% on DeepSWE (compared to the 700+B GLM 5.2 that scores 44%) is super impressive. Will want to download and check out.

Benjamin Muskalla@bmuskalla.dev · 2w ago

Today we're releasing Laguna S 2.1, our most capable model to date. It's a 118B total parameter MoE model with 8B activated per token, a context window of up to 1M tokens, and thinking and no-thinking modes. Small enough to run on a single @NVIDIAAI DGX Spark poolside.ai/blog/introdu...

This is cool :)

maxine s. fritz@mfzx.net · 2w ago

open discussion on the intersection of @atproto.com and @iroh.computer

Had a fantastic time at @localfirstconf.com. Started off relatively stark with discussions acknowledging the general political instability of our times and how much data sovereignty matters. Ended with an absolutely wild demo of @inkandswitch.com's patchwork project. Lots of good bits in between.

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*goes home from local-first inspired and optimistic* *goes on bluesky and reads discourse* *energy drained in real time* Social media was a terrible mistake.

Two tools I recently learned about for sandboxing agents without needing a full VM nono.sh agent-safehouse.dev

Agent Safehouse

Sandbox your LLM coding agents on macOS. Kernel-level enforcement via sandbox-exec — deny-first, composable, zero dependencies.

agent-safehouse.dev

Yeah.. after having worked on a bunch of bug reports with LLM assistance, this is the next obvious step beyond the chat+harness interface.

dax@thdxr.com · 3w ago

we have an issues channel where every good github issue goes and we can ask opencode to reproduce it and fix even started throwing posts from here in there

My dream open and local setup for playing with computers: @pi.dev as the harness, @tonk.xyz as the database, @atproto.com for identity, and @iroh.computer for sync 👾👾👾👾

My digital calligraphy looks worse than @steveruizok.bsky.social's... And I'm using a Wacom, not my trackpad lol

@adamwiggins.com (about local-first) "we're not a political conference" @martin.kleppmann.com: "hold my beer" (*affectionate*!)

Will be @localfirstconf.com :) looking forward to talking about #rustlang and @iroh.computer with y'all

If you are interested in the history of the various decisions that went into @iroh.computer 1.0, I have written a blog post about the road to iroh 1.0. There were a lot of twists and turns... www.iroh.computer/blog/the-roa...

The road to iroh 1.0

iroh.computer

Where's Germany in these charts? Nowhere, for two reasons. The nuclear phase-out, obviously, but the country also failed to build renewables at scale, as we keep highlighting. Germany's status in people's (incl. many Germans') minds as renewables champion is a decade out of date.

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#DB unser auf den Schienen! Geheiligt seien deine Züge Deine Bahn komme Deine Gleisankündigung geschehe Wie im Himmel, so auf Schienen Unsren täglich Zug gibt uns heute Und vergib uns unsere Ungeduld, wie auch wir vergeben deine Verspätungen, sondern erlöse uns von den Autos.

New elm minor release the fuck elm-lang.org/news/faster-...

I keep shilling nono.sh to everyone. The agents that I run that are connected to the Internet have access mostly just to open source code repos and some nonsensitive config files here and there. I made myself a shortcut for opencode in nono: github.com/matheus23/ni...

hailey@hailey.at · last mo.

claude was attempting to get a file somewhere and was struggling, so it just uploaded the file to fucking catbox dot moe...not cool claude, not cool

I hate this. like, the attitude is that anthropic's security is paramount. yours, however, they're willing to be flexible about. this is extremely gross.

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.

thereallo.dev

A small ask from the local-first community. I’m speaking at @localfirstconf.com in Berlin about @tiles.run, but this year the conference isn't able to cover speaker travel. I'm trying to raise $700 through Github Sponsors to cover my flight. Any amount helps. github.com/sponsors/til...

Sponsor @tilesprivacy on GitHub Sponsors

We believe that privacy adoption at scale must work backwards from preserving utility. We aim to deliver “just works” experiences through best-in-class privacy-focused engineering while offering un...

github.com

New contributions often take more effort to review than to just build myself. As a maintainer, I know the project's goals, context, process and the other maintainers much better than a new contributor. In the past it seemed worth to get these contributions in *under the name of the contributor*.