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Which new Protocol or Standard are you most excited about? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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pretty much the title.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Basically everything from https://www.protocol.ai/work, bar the blockchain stuff which i can only assume they're doing to milk investors to fund the actually good projects.

libp2p abstracts away networking so you can simply point to a peer ID and the computer figures out how to connect to it (though you can of course specify how to connect if you wish), and it preserves connections across different networks among other stuff.

IPFS is basically just torrent but better in every way, foremost in that you can just slap some data onto an IPFS node and if anyone else happens to be serving the same data then you'll both automatically be valid providers, despite never having talked to each other in any way. No more needing to search out a magnet link, just seed whatever data you want and anyone requesting the data from the network will automatically find you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

JPEG-XL (someone already mentioned it as .jxl below) image files.

  • competitive with AVIF compression levels
  • not recycling video compression, so you get benefits like progressive loading
  • JPEG transcoding - can take existing JPEG files (so much of the existing images online) and shrink their size by ~20% with literally no change to the presented image, and this is easily reverable. The amount of data this would shrink without risk of altering the data is HUGE.

There are a ton of other benefits but those are the three I'm most excited about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Pipewire, Wayland, Matrix.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Wayland

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

ActivityPub, I'm sick of corporate social media

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I want ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) to finally take off. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/faq-encrypted-client-hello

Implementation is still lacking unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

for me, currently the problem is over reliance on Cloudflare, which is yet another big tech company

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In what sense? ECH does not rely on Cloudflare anymore than QUIC relies on Google.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

i may be wrong here, but if i remember correctly, in ech, essentially our first communication is done with some central server (which as of now is mostly cloudflare) and then they make some connection with target server, and then a channel is established between us and target. my google-fu brought me this , which is basically this only

https://cf-assets.www.cloudflare.com/zkvhlag99gkb/3C9ceBTx5AQXu8tS0lgzdF/55ea89f5a56843db15296b2b47f7b1c2/image3-17.png (https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-client-hello/)

I am unfamiliar with QUIC, and quick search basically tells it is kinda like multilane highway for udp.

If I have to compare, (not a network engineer or a person who has studied networking, to me anything beyond the simple protocols seems magic), QUIC seems like a techt which is only used after you have made connection with target, so its implementation is google independent (they seem to be lead developers for this). Whereas in ECH, cloudflare are the primary devs, but also the holder for the public keys (someone else can also be the holder, but i dont know of any other provider currently, maybe my lack of knowledge here)

Essentially just an extension of your point that implementation is lacking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

essentially our first communication is done with some central server

No, the first communication is made with your DNS server to fetch the key for encryption from an HTTPS record. If a record with key is found it is used to encrypt the Client Hello, otherwise it falls back to the unencrypted variant.

Cloudflare is not involved, unless you are hosting your domain through Cloudflare of course.

I am unfamiliar with QUIC, and quick search basically tells it is kinda like multilane highway for udp.

QUIC is primarily used for HTTP/3. The protocol was engineered and proposed by Google, same as with ECH and Cloudflare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I doubt it. Today there is a huge trend towards censorship in the world. And ECH is exactly what a censor would not want. It is already blocked in Russia after Cloudflare enabled it by default and I would expect it to be blocked in the west "for anti-piracy reasons" very soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

ECH is intended for privacy, not for circumventing censorship.

If the next TLS version enforces ECH, plaintext SNI will die out at some point on its own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Intensions do not metter in this case. It can be used for that and that's enough. If you block any connections that use ECH (by blocking cloudflare-ech for example) users will have no choice but to fallback to unencrypted CH.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The Solid protocol specification or anything similar (it doesn't have to be that specific protocol).

For example, registering to a website or service actually creates a local secure database/bucket/pod where that website/service organizes/sort/manipulates our data and stores all generated modified data/metadata within our local personnal server, every time we interact with that same external website/service it gets access to the database/bucket previously created. (Ideally) no personnal data should be stored on external servers/machines outside our control and without our explicit consent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

My money is on IPFS, because it's so simple (like, in principle, obviously it's complex under the hood). It's not fancy, it's basically a better version of torrent and only handles static data, but it does that really fucking well.
It takes any data you add to your node, splits it into small blocks, does a fancy hash of those blocks, and then builds a tree of pointers that point to pointers that point to the constituent blocks. This means that any identical blocks have the same address, and thus only need to be sent once! And the same goes for anything that ends up being identical in structure, it has the same address and only needs sending once, and if for example two people rip a copy of the same obscure DVD and host it on a node, they will both provide the data to downloaders despite never having interacted with each other at all!

This is of course massively boner-inducing for anyone who cares about archiving stuff.

In effect it does the same thing that HTTP or FTP or whatever does, but in a modern and fundamentally decentralized way. You don't care where the data comes from, you just request the ID from whatever nodes you can see, if they don't have it they forward the request to those they can see etc etc, if anyone has it they reply to you and start sending the data, and then you do some fancy math to verify that it's correct.

[–] Feathercrown 4 points 6 days ago

I hope this works out so much. Tim Berners-Lee even endorsed it! Unfortunately, a lot of these super cool ideas come with the limitation of needing a personal server. I think if we really want this stuff to happen, someone needs to start selling modem/router combos with a home server built in. You could add Solid, local media share, etc. by default, and it would be a great place to install Home Assistant or run a Minecraft server from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Fedora moving forward with UKIs, bootc and composefs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

JXL.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

CXL, being able to add like a ssd to a system and have it used for gpu and cpu memory sounds cool

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Being able to pinch to zoom on my laptop touchpad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You should be able to... Are you still on x or Wayland?

[–] chaospatterns 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm on Wayland and KDE/Plasma. It worked on GNOME, but sadly not on Plasma.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Ahh, I've only been using gnome for a while now. I would've thought it to work on KDE. Usually they get features first

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I am on Mint Cinnamon 21.3 and I cannot use Wayland

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IndieWeb in general and the h-entry and WebMentions specifically.

Collectively they promise a highly personalised web experience that maintains ownership of your own content while encouraging socialisation across platforms, while avoiding the sustainability and scale limitations of activitypub.

I also want to see XMPP/OMEMO have a comeback.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hi, does it have any advantage over greping your RSS feeds for your blog's URL?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What is "it"? Webmentions? Webmentions can be sent from anywhere, not just places you're actively monitoring. They can be used for example to create a comments section on your blog which amalgamates comments from various syndication points.

That is, you post to your blog, you post a link to your blog post to twitter/Facebook/lemmy etc, and comments or replies from any of those can show up on your blog itself if you so choose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Alright, that's pretty cool, sorry – I thought it was a list of links automatically inserted in lieu of comments.

I've been trying to get into the IndieWeb for years, but I've been struggling to implement it. Doesn't it rely on a central server too? Can we use it in a fully e.g. decentralized or federated way – would it even make sense, or could we easily switch to another flagship server, as we did with the Freenode takeover?

Please feel no pressure to reply, I can do my own research ^_^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Wayland, has a bit of compatability issued but xorg is pretty aging ngl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Commonmark.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/

[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 week ago (2 children)

RISC-V

I want open-source hardware

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Imma stick with ARM and x64 ngl, ik it's not open hardware but I don't really mind that but cool to hear.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a good resource out there for wrapping my head around RISC-V? Last time I read a wiki my head hurt haha. Seems cool, though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In principle it's just "slimmer ARM!. RISC-V is also extremely dedicated to using memory mapped IO rather than older style IO x86_64 supports.

Think lots of registers, a fun zero register that is always zero, and memory mapped IO.

[–] mvirts 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I for one think we need a register for each unsigned integer, why is zero so special? :P

Or if we can't get that, at least every power of 2 and power of 2 minus 1.

Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣

[–] PetteriPano 9 points 6 days ago

Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣

No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn't support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.

[–] porl 5 points 6 days ago

I think a register for each of the primes should be enough.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

ARM is also reduced-instruction set but I don't know how they differ. Is the instruction set somehow more reduced?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Aren't they more like a hybrid instruction set and architecture?

[–] hawgietonight 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

37.5 hour work week

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Here I am working 35h as full time in Canada. Same for my brother who works in the government. Some jobs/countries in Europe do 32h/full time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We have 38h in Belgium, but if you work 40, you get 12 extra full days of holiday during the year (what I do).

A 32 hour work week with no salary cut will never happen, but that would be a dream

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It may happen through union development, and free software development, i.e. whatever form of permanent democracy you prefer.

25% of any population being able to democratically vote for a strike and fully enforce it will de facto become the main political force in the country.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

First thing that comes to mind is RISCV. Although it's not new, it is gaining traction in consumer computing

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe HDR on linux? I'm fairly clueless about how it all works under the hood, but I'm currently on debian 12 and I'm hoping that by the time 13 comes around it will just work without me needing to do any manual system tweaks. As I understand it, it's currently semi-working or fully-working in KDE6, but I'm still on KDE5 until debian 13 comes out.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I’ve recently switched to Fedora KDE running version 6 and HDR looks great. Well worth the wait.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

VRR that works with multiple monitors connected. Unfortunately that’s an Nvidia driver issue rather than a missing Linux protocol, so could be waiting a while.

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