Mike Rhoades
@mikehacks.io
IT pro by day. Atari computing fanatic, 3D printing enthusiast, and self-hosting tinkerer. Building toward technology that serves people, not platforms. I care about agency, open standards, and digital ownership. atplan.io
A storm is coming, but Germ is ready. With today’s release, Germ DM now defaults to post-quantum cryptography. Read our full announcement here: www.germnetwork.com/blog/germ-is...
Germ is Now Quantum Secure — Germ Network
Germ DM now defaults to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), protecting your messages from being harvested now and decrypted later by a quantum computer. We will deprecate non-PQC connections this year, m...
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Great write-up for beginners and the perfect size to share!
What is the Atmosphere?
An explainer for everyone in 4 minutes or less.
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Hey friends! If you're new around here, Mr. Bree has been a special ed teacher for 22 years & works in a Title I school where his self-contained classroom has endless adventures in learning life skills & cooking & this year gardening! This is our yearly wishlist drop if anyone wants to help!
Classroom list 2026 | Amazon Gift List
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it’s the annual problem for our generation, finding a good way to spend summer vacation !! maybe try writing on pckt.blog ☀️
Here's an early POC for a "personal website" run entirely on Sifa (and more atproto) data: sifa.id/p/gui.do/site (just append /site to your own profile to see it in action) You can also self-host it: github.com/singi-labs/s...
2. If you haven't picked up my Humble Bundle of books yet, today's a fine day. We have to date raised $18.7k for @wck.org, and it would be lovely to get to $20k this weekend. Available everywhere except (apparently) current and former Commonwealth countries: www.humblebundle.com/books/john-s...
Humble Book Bundle: The John Scalzi Collection: Old Man's War & More by TOR Books
Discover your new favorite author with this bundle of books from sci-fi humorist John Scalzi! Pay what you want and support World Central Kitchen!
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If you select a company/organization but the name is wrong (most likely scenario is that the caPItalizATion is off): you can now request a review and suggest the revised name. 1) open the edit dialogue that contains the wrong name 2) click "Suggest a name correction" 3) fill out your suggestion
Just updated atplan to v.1.1.0 — a reimagining of the Unix .plan file for atproto now using oauth! Back in the VAX days, finger user@host told you what someone was working on. atplan brings that back — user-owned records on your own PDS. 🌐 atplan.io 📦 io.atplan.plan 🔧 github.com/mikro6/atplan
atplan(1) - finger for the ATProto ecosystem
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Just discovered I can directly edit PDS records from @aetheros.computer Great interface; been running it directly as a PWA.
WATCH 'WHY CAN'T I BE YOU?' & 'BOYS DON'T CRY' LIVE FROM @roskildefestival.bsky.social IN FULL AT youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Curious who's on Germ? The answer is in the app. It's always the right time to end-to-end encrypt your DMs. 💬🔐
my new favorite pastime is discovering new atproto apps! So much creativity out there, it's at-mazing. lol.
@pckt.blog custom domain setup was quick and easy! My ramblings now accessible via my subdomain: blog.mikehacks.io
I think above all my favorite part of Bluesky’s integration of @standard.site is that the thing itself was made by no one *at* Bluesky - some people got together and made something bigger than themselves, on the network, without anyone’s permission! Now Bluesky is responding to it!
Gaming on Linux is finally real! @bazzite.gg
I Put Bazzite on My Gaming PC and I'm Not Sure I'm Going Back to Windows - Mike Hacks
I've been saying I should give Linux gaming another shot for a few years now. Today I actually did it, and six hours later I'm sitting here genuinely impressed...
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Your private network is waiting for you in Germ. Privately DM your mutuals, in beta now.
Very cool sounding experiment that’s running on the Atmosphere: “co/core is a place where people share the compute they already own to run AI for each other, instead of renting from a handful of giant providers. The models are open ones that run on the hardware people already have.”
Graze Social@graze.social · 2mo agoAnnouncing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team
Just in time before WWDC: My Apple Frames CLI can now frame videos! Give it screen recordings taken on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, and let it do its magic. Supports colors, merging, playback offset, and more. Perfect for filing fancy radars this summer: www.macstories.net/stories/appl...
Apple Frames CLI, Now with Support for Framing Screen Recordings
I’m on my way to California for WWDC, and with the conference kicking off tomorrow, I thought I’d take advantage of my 12 hours on this airplane by sharing the latest addition to the Apple Frames CLI:...
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Migrated my PDS server from the DigitalOcean marketplace install to a clean ansible baselined Debian 13 vps and leveraged Docker to consolidate PDS, atplan.io, and mikehacks.io into a single vps along with automated backups locally, regionally, and nationally. whew.
Our obsession? The lowly DM. Community without 1:1 relationships is just people yelling at each other. Private DMs are where we actually talk. 🦠🌿🌳
Germ DM is built on Messaging Layer Security, the new end-to-end encryption standard used for private messages between Android and iOS, and for A/V calls on Discord. In fact, we're the first consumer messenger built on this alternative to the Signal protocol. www.germnetwork.com/blog/decentr...
Decentralized Pairwise MLS — Germ Network
Today, MLS is predominantly used in a centralized context, where a central entity hosts group state. Germ now leverages this powerful technology for decentralized 1:1 conversations, by letting users c...
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Really enjoying the @pckt.blog platform! Here's something I wrote about travel, packing, and anxiety. pckt.blog/b/mike-hacks...
Carrying Less, Accessing More - Mike Hacks
Over the last year or so, my relationship with travel technology has been quietly shifting. It started as a pretty straightforward pack lighter project, but it'...
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