Labs > We need METR to validate we are using AI safely METR> We were hacked for 3 weeks and didn't notice :) oopsy poopsy

We just got a speaker confirmed to also introduce Jujutsu (aka jj) at our meetup on the 5.10 on board of @cbase This evening is shaping up nicely and we can have a look into a decent future for code collaboration after Git(Hub) Please RSVP here: platform.openmeet.net/events…

Next episode: China is “acting dangerously” by outcompeting us at the frontier. Deploy the troops.

Huge props to the @ZecHub team 👏 @Zcash's open-source education hub is on @radicle: sovereign, P2P, no central servers, no single point of failure. Cypherpunks united. 🌱

Γιατί η χρεοκοπία μιας δημοκρατίας είναι πρωτίστως αισθητική.

Mark your calendars: 5.10.2026 Decent Code Collaboration Concepts after GitHub With a talk by @lftherios from @radicle rngit and tangled will also be topics Let's explore a feature of code collaboration after GitHub on board of @cbase together! platform.openmeet.net/events…

For more than a day I have seen people quoting this post and saying how bad Germany is for entrepreneurs due to that. If your company fails because you had to sit through a notary session then you would have failed anyway. The actual problems with Germany are a lot worse and much deeper. Notaries are annoying sure. But the entire country and its system is built to kill enterpreneurship and discourage it at every point. Some other examples apart from the notaries: - Dealing with the cross-EU VAT situation the moment your company has more than 10k yearly revenue. (yes you heard it right making 10k in a year ... as a company). - Having to identify all users online (asking them for address/country), charge them different VAT depending on their country and follow the VAT changes in real time as they happen. - Absolutely zero help from the state. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Nichts. - Instead of help you are greeted with utter hostility and suspicion. - Dealing with the German tax system and getting audited multiple times in a 8 year period. Yes a tiny company of 3-4 people being audited multiple times because hey ... why not? Competing world-wide is not a hard enough task, let's make it impossible to function. - Social security and insurances. All your employees costs you roughly 20-25% more than their stated salaries. - If you are a company with more than 10 employees then good luck letting people go when you need to. - Completely random expenses every year such as the IHK expenses (chamber of commerce membership), some employee accident insurance that you must always have even if you have no offices etc. These are just some things that popped up in my head as I write this. There is a lot more and it's just sad. As a country, Germany is made to stop you from being successful. They are stuck in the past for everything and this is why the economy here is failing. And it won't get better anytime soon. Things will get a lot worse before they get better. As I see nothing happening to fix any of these. Instead somehow it's all the immigrant's fault and the far right is rising. /s Sorry for the late night rant

Aaron Swartz was fourteen when he coauthored the RSS 1.0 specification. He worked on Creative Commons the following year. He built the tooling behind what became Reddit. He wrote a good deal of the early code for Open Library. He was one of the organizers of the campaign that stopped SOPA in 2012, which almost nobody had believed could be stopped. The consistent thread was access. He held that publicly funded knowledge should be publicly reachable and spent most of his short working life building the plumbing for that idea. He also wrote about a distinction that gets collapsed constantly: transparency for institutions, privacy for individuals. Power should be legible to the people it acts on. People should not be legible to power. These are not competing values, they are the same value pointing in the direction of whoever holds less. The collapse happens when transparency gets applied downward. A public ledger recording every ordinary person's transactions is not transparency. Institutions with resources maintain their opacity through structure and counsel. Individuals do not have that option, so a universal disclosure rule falls entirely on one side.

@radicle is massive, 2000 nodes! Not a lot of decentralized blockchains can actually claim that. That's what real decentralization looks like.

I agree with this fully, but I wish more people in Silicon Valley understood that the same principle applies to freedom. The pursuit of freedom doesn’t need justification. Freedom doesn’t need to justify itself through efficiency or convenience. Neither does sovereignty. Owning your hardware, controlling your identity, and choosing how you build and collaborate with the world without asking for permission are intrinsically valuable.

Centralised source forges are not suited to the current agentic landscape. We need a radical solution radicle.dev/

Everyone crying about Github should check Radicle Zero downtime by design radicle.dev/

This is called @radicle

Want to mirror your @github repositories to @radicle ?👇 A community member built a GitHub App that does it automatically: install it on a repo, and every push is fetched from GitHub and mirrored to a local Radicle node. It also retries missed syncs and reports the Radicle RID back to GitHub as a check. radicle.network/nodes/rosa.r…

I love how the responses to the GitHub outage today are to move from only centralized SaaS to another. Completely missed the point.

this actually exists already! check out @radicle, they're pretty awesome

excited to see that radicle is getting the attention it deserves natively supported in freedom browser - of course

The answer is @radicle truly open and decentralized as it’s supposed to be.

GitHub went down, so I went looking for a decentralized alternative and found @radicle, a peer-to-peer code forge, and contributed a quick fix to test the flow. Contributing via a native patch instead of a PR is wild🌱 Thanks for making it happen @cloudhead @lftherios