Today the Vulkan Working Group has released two important updates to the API and ecosystem: an entirely new Descriptor system and the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone. Initial support for these features is expected in the next Vulkan SDK release planned for Q1 2026.
These new features and more will be discussed at the forthcoming Vulkanised 2026 conference, taking place in San Diego on February 9-11.
Encrypted direct messages supply the confidence that people need to connect with family, friends and colleagues privately over a social network. As part of the Summer of Protocols 2024, we explore the integration of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) into the ActivityPub protocol.
Encrypted direct messages supply the confidence that people need to connect with family, friends and colleagues privately over a social network. As part of the Summer of Protocols 2024, we explore the integration of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) into the ActivityPub protocol. We conduct a review of encryption protocols and integration architectures, and selected Messaging Layer Security (MLS). We also considered the user experience, ensuring that key management, message archiving, and the handling of mixed encrypted and unencrypted messages would be intuitive and user-friendly.
Deliverables
Proposed integration of Messaging Layer Security (MLS) into ActivityPub
User interface specification for a reference implementation
Software architecture for a reference implementation
@raucao It is also not a part of the official Mastodon Roadmap even though there are some open issues in the GitHub repository concerning E2EE.
I personally hope that it will get integrated into ActivityPub and/or Mastodon but for 2026 and 2027 I do not see any signs that there is anything remotely close to being published.
Been trying 2d svg/vector animation on Linux recently. Have tried Synfig and Friction. Weird pros and cons. Friction (crap name, try searching with a name like that...) is winning out in the ease of use from Inkscape dept. Synfig feels more complete, but... it's deeply weird. Like you can't do obvious stuff weird. Like vim is text weird for me.
Anyway. So far so amazing! Linux graphics is a lot of fun.