[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: TPM attacks; arithmetic overflow protection; Ubuntu GRUB changes; kernel IPC proposals; fre:ac; Scuttlebutt.
Briefs: Nix vulnerability; OpenSSH 10.3; Sashiko reviews; FreeBSD testing; Gentoo GNU/Hurd; SFC on router ban; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
[$] Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt
Not many people live on sailboats. Things may be better these days, but
back in 2014 sailboat dwellers had
to contend with lag-prone,
intermittent, low-bandwidth internet connections. Dominic Tarr
decided
to fix the problem of keeping up with his friends by developing a delay-tolerant,
fully distributed social-media protocol called
Scuttlebutt. Nearly twelve
years later, the protocol has gained a number of u … ⌘ Read more
Scuttlebutt is an interesting space. I’m using the Patchwork client and so far it works great!
Yeah. I’m still here. Just been busy doing something on Beakerbrowser and Scuttlebutt.
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Scuttlebutt https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/01/25/scuttlebutt.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #diaspora
35C3 - Scuttlebutt - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWWkzsHhjk
Bad idea of the day: 9p/scuttlebutt bridge
My unique identifier on scuttlebutt is @Q6jeOaoJOdFq8/3oFaOYC6bKhaVCD3IIdpjG+7Fab2M=.ed25519
Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
Is there a mastodon/scuttlebutt bridge?
In The Mesh - Scuttlebutt, A Decentralized Alternative To Facebook https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/
@kas@enotty.dk, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net (re: Matrix/TOX/P2P): Uh, never heard of #rumble or #scuttlebutt. Will have to look into it at some time.
Just discovered Scuttlebut. https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
Meet the Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces With "Secure Scuttlebutt" - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/
There are so many alternatives like ipfs or scuttlebutt, but i fear that we loose the simplicity of the old protocols. That in my mind is the main attraction of twtxt.