Tim Bouma

The most interesting part of this article is the RFC 8141 non-compliant URN. E.g., my handle is @trbouma.bsky.social versus what would be rfc compliant trbouma@bsky.social The definition of 'decentralized' is pretty loose. The platform as I can see if centralized, but you

Once again, Cory Doctoriw has the right idea about rights. Related to this, I saw a particularly frightening article that the Crown (as we like to call government here in Canada) might not be able to back your privacy rights, because they weren't nice when negotiating treaties, and

The digital wallet industry has this idea that you want to store everything in their wallet (I say ‘their’ because it’s really a government-approved app). Nothing can be further from the truth. A wallet evolved to carry coins (payment) that could easily hidden or defended on the person.

Zaps are the future.…

Aliens and Bigfoot were so much more interesting when nobody had cameras.…