I'm excited to show off #Atlas - a social mapping server for the #Fediverse. In about two weeks, we've gone from crazy on I70 to a fledgling app that lets me annotate any location on the globe and share it over #ActivityPub

There's still a lot to do. But there's enough here for me to ask for your help. I would love to hear what you think of this short video, and to start talking to everyone out there who's interested in making maps on the Fediverse.

https://clip.place/w/4JHMF5FQoZw58UPwL6BLyv

«Allow ‹ChatGPT Atlas› to find devices on local networks?»

Ähmm, nein … 🙅🏻

#ChatGPT #Atlas #AI #KI #Browser

«Allow ‹ChatGPT Atlas› to find devices on local networks?»

Ähmm, nein … 🙅🏻

#ChatGPT #Atlas #AI #KI #Browser

Vous utilisez un navigateur IA ? (par ex. #Atlas de #OpenAI ou #Comet de #Perplexity ou Microsoft #Copilot mode dans Edge)

MAUVAISE IDÉE !

Dans une sorte de ruée vers le marché frénétique, les acteurs de L'IA nous balancent des vraies « bombes à retardement en matière de cyber sécurité » avec des navigateurs non seulement passoires mais aussi acteurs dans l'apparition des risques, en créant « des vulnérabilités de type zero-day exponentiellement croissantes ».

À fuir

https://securite.developpez.com/actu/377276/Les-navigateurs-IA-creent-d-enormes-vulnerabilites-en-matiere-de-cybersecurite-ChatGPT-Atlas-Comet-de-Perplexity-et-Microsoft-Copilot-Mode-exposent-les-utilisateurs-a-des-risques-de-piratage/

I'm so happy with the progress on #Atlas.. ESPECIALLY considering that it's been just over 3 weeks since the initial concept.

Here's a live, working demo of where we are:

https://atlasdemo.emissary.social/

This is just a silly city guide of some spots around Boulder, Colorado. Please don't take the content seriously. But do look at what a federated map could do out in the world. It's time to start working up use cases.

And, if you're inspired to join the party, I'd love to have your help :)

Vous utilisez un navigateur IA ? (par ex. #Atlas de #OpenAI ou #Comet de #Perplexity ou Microsoft #Copilot mode dans Edge)

MAUVAISE IDÉE !

Dans une sorte de ruée vers le marché frénétique, les acteurs de L'IA nous balancent des vraies « bombes à retardement en matière de cyber sécurité » avec des navigateurs non seulement passoires mais aussi acteurs dans l'apparition des risques, en créant « des vulnérabilités de type zero-day exponentiellement croissantes ».

À fuir

https://securite.developpez.com/actu/377276/Les-navigateurs-IA-creent-d-enormes-vulnerabilites-en-matiere-de-cybersecurite-ChatGPT-Atlas-Comet-de-Perplexity-et-Microsoft-Copilot-Mode-exposent-les-utilisateurs-a-des-risques-de-piratage/

I'm so happy with the progress on #Atlas.. ESPECIALLY considering that it's been just over 3 weeks since the initial concept.

Here's a live, working demo of where we are:

https://atlasdemo.emissary.social/

This is just a silly city guide of some spots around Boulder, Colorado. Please don't take the content seriously. But do look at what a federated map could do out in the world. It's time to start working up use cases.

And, if you're inspired to join the party, I'd love to have your help :)

A great new piece by Anil Dash ( @anildash) on the *shitshow* (my words) that is OpenAI's Atlas, and the dangers of anti-web technology in general:

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

I disagree with him, however, and fundamentally, about CLIs, but that is the *only* part of his piece I feel he gets wrong. I think he either doesn't like them (ie. a subjective taste thing) or simply doesn't understand their capabilities and culture enough. That is not uncommon, and its perfectly ok. He's a brilliant thinker and writer and we're lucky to have him crafting and sharing his essays with us so often!

On a related note, I've been privately sketching out some pieces about the power and pleasure and idealism of CLIs for several years, mostly as private WIPs. Seeing Mr. Dash get CLIs so wrong (cue the obligatory XKCD about seeing someone being wrong on the Internet -- the worst sin to a hyper-geek) has pushed me over the edge into deciding I should polish something up and share it too. About Terminals, CLIs, shells, REPLs, APIs and TUIs in general. I've been using them daily -- and building things out of them, and shipping -- for several decades. Ditto on GUIs. So... I have *thoughts* on it. 😄 Backed by loads of observation and hands-on experiences.

#AI
#OpenAI
#Atlas
#AntiWeb
#AnilDash
#CLI

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

#HackerNews #ChatGPT #Atlas #AntiWeb #Browser #Innovation #TechNews

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash

"OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web. Let's talk about what that means, and what dangers there are from an anti-web browser made by an AI company — one that probably needs a warning label when you install it."

https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

#ai #atlas #chatgpt #genai #openai #web

OK here's a theory: #ChatGPT's #Atlas browser is not a really browser but fact a way for OpenAI to circumvent scrape blockers. It's more a distributed human-based scraper rather than anything else.

Given how widely loathed AI and how damaging AI scrapers have become #OpenAI's IP ranges ended up in quite a lot of block lists, many servers outright terminate any connection to them. Then there are things like #Anubis or #Iocaine that further frustrate #LLM scraping.

But what if you DIDN'T neeed to bother about all that? What if you could use civilian IP addresses with "organic" traffic patterns, and have humans solve Captchas, provide proof of work for Anubis, or get around Iocaine? All this for free -- you don't even need to pay people for it?

I would be REALLY interested to see what telemetry Atlas sends back. 100% certain it will send back things like URL and rendered HTML output, possibly user interaction patterns ("a normal human on this website moves their mouse first to the 'I am not a bot' captcha then clicks it). They do not have to respect robots.txt because, well, it comes from organic visitors...

Am I crazy?