Dan Connolly

Software Engineer @agoric - more cooperation, less vulnerability
#OpenWeb #dogs #volleyball #guitar
ex @w3c, @mit, @KUMedCenter, Convex

aka @[email protected]

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

Join us for @agoric dev office hours
Wednesdays at 9am Pacific time (aka SFO time).

https://t.co/gIOydMCC0W

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@touseefliaqat @karpathy @ryancarson @agoric and in general, using capability security to support the Principle of Least Authority

https://t.co/yOqYsZ2V3w

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@touseefliaqat @karpathy @ryancarson @agoric and the way Genode does software installation https://t.co/6wYW7UPbn8

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@whatwindfall @UAPresearcher @pgrous @diigo You expressed it just fine.

And I have some idea... my data goes back to 2011, and it would cause me no end of grief to lose it.

"In general, I don't trust any cloud services. I keep backups of linkedin contacts, tweets, etc." https://t.co/NglMSXo1EN

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@whatwindfall @UAPresearcher @pgrous @diigo try this: https://t.co/uXZQMN0jUA . open source. no warrantee.

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@UAPresearcher @pgrous @diigo The server wasn't down when I tried it. Just DNS / certificate. It's still possible to get the data.

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@UAPresearcher @pgrous @diigo I managed to back up my bookmarks using an API key I got a while ago plus: curl -fsS --resolve https://t.co/1ZSmDm2v39:54.148.192.94 \
--user "$DIIGO_USERNAME:$PASSWORD" \
"https://t.co/LuvO72tHat${start}&count=${count}&key=$DIIGO_API_KEY"

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@Siddhant_K_code Couldn't agree more: "we need systems that constrain what agents can do in the first place. Least-privilege access, scoped tokens, audit trails"

colleagues @marksammiller @kriskowal are starting a project to do just that:

https://t.co/pWM0KNGML1

[DCF @DCF_io]

🔥🧵

This is what decentralized cooperation looks like in action.

An Afghan startup is using blockchain to deliver aid to 86,000+ families, proving that technology built on principles of decentralization can create real-world impact where it matters most.

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@americanair do better, that is

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

I forgot to bring a #mask, but I've gotten them from Made in #KC here at the airport before. No joy. Maybe another shop, suggests the clerk... Or failing that, the airline. No joy and no joy.

@amricanairlines , do better.

It's not over.

#publichealth #travel #mci

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@CNNPolitics "This is a president ... who seems to regard the Constitution as a list of rules to be flouted."

Let's stop using the title then, shall we? It goes hand in hand with the oath.

https://t.co/rHTstTU645

[Undue Medical Debt @unduemeddebt]

Breaking: @CFPB's new rule will remove ALL medical debt from credit reports! This is a huge win for the 1 in 5 Americans with medical debt on their credit reports. No one should have their financial future damaged because they got sick. 🎉

[Charlie Harris @charlieharris01]

3/ AI breakthroughs like AlphaFold wouldn’t be possible without decades of work on datasets.

e.g., AlphaFold was trained on protein structures from the Protein Data Bank (PDB), which took 50+ years and ~$20 *billion* to create.

This is the kind of foundational effort AI needs.

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

There's a better way: #capabilities-based security and formally verified subsystems.
https://t.co/CRidkRhDQy

See 15min explanation by @marksammiller
https://t.co/06KTQ3Psn6

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

What do these headlines have in common?

- 81,000 firewall boxes compromised by a zero-day
- a $250 embedded AI board with network connectivity

The Linux security architecture; that is: ACLs and unverified, unsafe code.

Not just insecure but insecurable.

[Alex Zaidelson @azaidelson]

@Jovonni from Agoric presenting @agoric <> @SecretNetwork integration for confidential trading strategies using Agoric orchestration and Secret confidential contracts, at #DeCC day in Bangkok. Imagine the power of confidential on-chain trading strategies, from a simple DCA to complex algorithms - free from frontrunning or copycats.

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@gadikian @Msdms99 @osmosis I'd be happy to get you started in office hours sometime.

https://t.co/h2hPxoY1p5 has the coordinates, as well as getting-started stuff.

Any particular widgets you have though of making with our smart contract platform?

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@d4m1n @pavelsvitek_ everybody. JSON is ubiquitous. everybody is a stakeholder.

We JSON5 and superjson etc. etc. etc. in various communities.

But getting everybody to agree to something better is, evidently, a losing game.

[Dan Connolly @dckc]

@d4m1n It's clear why we need trees of some sort, yes?

lisp/scheme didn't win out for web scripting, so S-expressions didn't win.

perl/python/ruby/etc. all had lists and dicts. So here we are.

It could have been much worse.