Which new Protocol or Standard are you most excited about?

RISC-V
I want open-source hardware
- Is there a good resource out there for wrapping my head around RISC-V? Last time I read a wiki my head hurt haha. Seems cool, though.
  
  In principle it's just "slimmer ARM!. RISC-V is also extremely dedicated to using memory mapped IO rather than older style IO x86_64 supports.
  Think lots of registers, a fun zero register that is always zero, and memory mapped IO.
- some good news on that front https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan
- Imma stick with ARM and x64 ngl, ik it's not open hardware but I don't really mind that but cool to hear.

37.5 hour work week
- We have 38h in Belgium, but if you work 40, you get 12 extra full days of holiday during the year (what I do).
  A 32 hour work week with no salary cut will never happen, but that would be a dream
  
  It may happen through union development, and free software development, i.e. whatever form of permanent democracy you prefer.
  25% of any population being able to democratically vote for a strike and fully enforce it will de facto become the main political force in the country.

First thing that comes to mind is RISCV. Although it's not new, it is gaining traction in consumer computing

Maybe HDR on linux? I'm fairly clueless about how it all works under the hood, but I'm currently on debian 12 and I'm hoping that by the time 13 comes around it will just work without me needing to do any manual system tweaks. As I understand it, it's currently semi-working or fully-working in KDE6, but I'm still on KDE5 until debian 13 comes out.
- I’ve recently switched to Fedora KDE running version 6 and HDR looks great. Well worth the wait.

Wayland

ActivityPub, I'm sick of corporate social media

The Solid protocol specification or anything similar (it doesn't have to be that specific protocol).
For example, registering to a website or service actually creates a local secure database/bucket/pod where that website/service organizes/sort/manipulates our data and stores all generated modified data/metadata within our local personnal server, every time we interact with that same external website/service it gets access to the database/bucket previously created. (Ideally) no personnal data should be stored on external servers/machines outside our control and without our explicit consent.
- My money is on IPFS, because it's so simple (like, in principle, obviously it's complex under the hood). It's not fancy, it's basically a better version of torrent and only handles static data, but it does that really fucking well.
  It takes any data you add to your node, splits it into small blocks, does a fancy hash of those blocks, and then builds a tree of pointers that point to pointers that point to the constituent blocks. This means that any identical blocks have the same address, and thus only need to be sent once! And the same goes for anything that ends up being identical in structure, it has the same address and only needs sending once, and if for example two people rip a copy of the same obscure DVD and host it on a node, they will both provide the data to downloaders despite never having interacted with each other at all!
  This is of course massively boner-inducing for anyone who cares about archiving stuff.
  In effect it does the same thing that HTTP or FTP or whatever does, but in a modern and fundamentally decentralized way. You don't care where the data comes from, you just request the ID from whatever nodes you can see, if they don't have it they forward the request to those they can see etc etc, if anyone has it they reply to you and start sending the data, and then you do some fancy math to verify that it's correct.
- I hope this works out so much. Tim Berners-Lee even endorsed it! Unfortunately, a lot of these super cool ideas come with the limitation of needing a personal server. I think if we really want this stuff to happen, someone needs to start selling modem/router combos with a home server built in. You could add Solid, local media share, etc. by default, and it would be a great place to install Home Assistant or run a Minecraft server from.

JPEG-XL (someone already mentioned it as .jxl below) image files.
competitive with AVIF compression levels
not recycling video compression, so you get benefits like progressive loading
JPEG transcoding - can take existing JPEG files (so much of the existing images online) and shrink their size by ~20% with literally no change to the presented image, and this is easily reverable. The amount of data this would shrink without risk of altering the data is HUGE.
There are a ton of other benefits but those are the three I'm most excited about.

I want ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) to finally take off. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/faq-encrypted-client-hello
Implementation is still lacking unfortunately.
- for me, currently the problem is over reliance on Cloudflare, which is yet another big tech company
  
  In what sense? ECH does not rely on Cloudflare anymore than QUIC relies on Google.
- I doubt it. Today there is a huge trend towards censorship in the world. And ECH is exactly what a censor would not want. It is already blocked in Russia after Cloudflare enabled it by default and I would expect it to be blocked in the west "for anti-piracy reasons" very soon.
  
  ECH is intended for privacy, not for circumventing censorship.
  If the next TLS version enforces ECH, plaintext SNI will die out at some point on its own.

VRR that works with multiple monitors connected. Unfortunately that’s an Nvidia driver issue rather than a missing Linux protocol, so could be waiting a while.
- NVidia 570 series drivers with Multi screen G-Sync (VRR) for Linux Gamers
  
  lol. I searched “nvidia 570 Linux” less than a week ago and nada. Just did it again based on you comment and it looks like it was released 2 days ago.
  You’re an absolute legend! Thanks for the heads up.

JXL.

CXL, being able to add like a ssd to a system and have it used for gpu and cpu memory sounds cool

DoQ and Jmap

Being able to pinch to zoom on my laptop touchpad
- You should be able to... Are you still on x or Wayland?
  
  I'm on Wayland and KDE/Plasma. It worked on GNOME, but sadly not on Plasma.
  
  I am on Mint Cinnamon 21.3 and I cannot use Wayland

IPv7

Pipewire, Wayland, Matrix.

Wayland, has a bit of compatability issued but xorg is pretty aging ngl.

Commonmark.

IndieWeb in general and the h-entry and WebMentions specifically.
Collectively they promise a highly personalised web experience that maintains ownership of your own content while encouraging socialisation across platforms, while avoiding the sustainability and scale limitations of activitypub.
I also want to see XMPP/OMEMO have a comeback.
- Hi, does it have any advantage over greping your RSS feeds for your blog's URL?
  
  What is "it"? Webmentions? Webmentions can be sent from anywhere, not just places you're actively monitoring. They can be used for example to create a comments section on your blog which amalgamates comments from various syndication points.
  That is, you post to your blog, you post a link to your blog post to twitter/Facebook/lemmy etc, and comments or replies from any of those can show up on your blog itself if you so choose.

Care to elaborate?

Basically everything from https://www.protocol.ai/work, bar the blockchain stuff which i can only assume they're doing to milk investors to fund the actually good projects.
libp2p abstracts away networking so you can simply point to a peer ID and the computer figures out how to connect to it (though you can of course specify how to connect if you wish), and it preserves connections across different networks among other stuff.
IPFS is basically just torrent but better in every way, foremost in that you can just slap some data onto an IPFS node and if anyone else happens to be serving the same data then you'll both automatically be valid providers, despite never having talked to each other in any way. No more needing to search out a magnet link, just seed whatever data you want and anyone requesting the data from the network will automatically find you.

Fedora moving forward with UKIs, bootc and composefs

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/