Tootfinder

Peter G Neumann, understood and strongly believed in the systems nature of problems.
That is, there’s not one cause to a problem;
everything, including the humans involved, interact.
Take, for example, buffer overflows,
long a security scourge on the Internet.
Is it the fault of the programmers?
I knew someone who, 40 years ago (and several years before the Internet worm made the problem obvious),
wrote a string-handling library before embarking on…

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward computer security and individual digital privacy. He also developed solutions.

"In the entire federal regulatory landscape governing the privacy of personal health information, there are two main frameworks. Crisis pregnancy centers are exempt from both."
Not good.
https://kimmienicole.substack.com/p/what-they-take-when-you-walk-in…

What They Take When You Walk In
The HIPAA blind spot, the database at the center of it, and the women whose names ended up on the open internet.

Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-physical-politics-of-the-internet-with-britt-paris/

The Economist is testing parallel versions of marketing and B2B sales content, one optimized for humans and another clearly structured, Q&A-style for AI agents (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-economist…

The Economist prepares for a two‑track internet: one for humans and one for AI agents
The Economist is experimenting with content designed to be readable by agents first, and is building a vibe-coding culture.

Spending my day at the #IETF126 Hackathon, talking to people about the Open Fibre Data Standard, #OFDS, https//ofds.info/ a specification for describing the *physical* infrastructure of the #Internet. It&…

Government just prematurely ended debate on Bill C-22
The federal government decided to use a so-called “guillotine” time-limit all further clause by clause on Bill C-22 to just 30 minutes.1 This will block ANY committee debate that scrutinizes the dangerous surveillance powers in Part 2 of the bill.2
The government wants to jam Bill C-22 today, and vote it through the House tomorrow (June 19). We’re calling on MPs of all parties to refuse to advance Part 2 without full committee…

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.org/StopC22 #BillC22

@… thanks. Without the redirect and the utm stuff:
https://www.lpi.org/blog/2026/06/19/code-that-built-the-internet-the-impact-…

My daughter just had a routine medical appointment canceled due to an Internet outage at the provider's office.
Silly me, i assumed that even in the days of electronic cloud medical records that those were cloud *synced* and the office maintained local copies of their patients' data that they could access offline then push to cloud when the connection came back.
But no, they're down so hard they couldn't even cancel her appointment without the office manager calli…

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

Figure Eights
The internet has decided that modern humans are developing zoochosis, the madness of caged animals. The claim is older than TikTok, and the truth underneath it is more uncomfortable than either the believers or the scoffers want it to be. ...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/19/figu

Briefly delighted to learn that one of the cable-laying vessels mentioned in this piece, was previously named "Clark Cable".
https://www.keystone-collective.org/greece-is-building-its-own-internet-turkey-would-like-a-word/

Greece Is Building Its Own Internet. Turkey Would Like a Word.
A NATO ally's warships have now challenged civilian cable ships working in Greek waters three times in eighteen months. Each incident, taken alone, could be a misunderstanding. Together, they look like a policy. There is a concept in international relations called the fait accompli, the established fact, the thing that

When I first moved here six years ago, I complained and complained that I was in the middle of NYC and the only thing available here was fucking Spectrum (cable) with like 5-10mbit upload speeds. After an awful year of that, T-Mobile's 5g home internet stuff became available. It was finicky and the modem crashed/overheated all the time, but I could often get 100mbit upload speeds.
A year ago Verizon ran fiber down my street. On Monday, I'll finally get 300mbit up!

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Kaja #Kallas hätte es durchaus öffentlich sagen können: #Israel ist ein #Apartheid|systen. Schon 2017 hat sich die UN in diesem Sinne wörtlich geäußert.

Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid FULL Report : United Nations : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is the full report in which ECOWA called Israel an apartheid state, expanding on the executive summary which was previously posted here. It was basically...

"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
I just found it in the Internet archive and I can tell: that is NOT how Doom did sound with my Soundblaster16. 🤔
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Doom-soundtrack-becomes-a-cultur…

"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
"Culturally, historically or aesthetically important": "Doom" music enters US National Library. Two other game soundtracks are already there.

I’m about to board a train again. This time it goes through the left side of the country, so there will be no usable internet.

"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.'
The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning...
https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/

Saving The Streak
Internet is out, and they don't know when it'll be back, so I'm throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/saving-the-streak/

Saving The Streak – Bob Mueller
Internet is out, and they don’t know when it’ll be back, so I’m throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.

If I had a nickel every time I posted an image of a cursed clock and someone made it into a real thing, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice...
https://glammr.us/@fskornia/116415597297660514
@…

This will be shadowbanned.
Bauhaus's 'In the Flat Field' is about being trapped in a barren landscape that simulates life but offers nothing. But what about our own world of the dead Internet, shadowbanning, streaming, dead publics, and only AIs to chat to ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2hGhamVwA

Every Saturday, Metacurity rounds up the best infosec-related long reads that deserve more attention than the daily news cycle allows.
This week's collection explores what happens when trust becomes the attack surface, including
• Inside the TfL hack
• The cyber war game nobody wants to play
• AI's toughest test case
• When anti-piracy breaks the internet
• The protocol that changed the internet
• Why prompt injection won't go away

Trust under attack: Best infosec long reads 7/11/26
Inside the TfL hack, The cyber war game nobody wants to play, AI's toughest test case, When anti-piracy breaks the internet, The protocol that changed the internet, Why prompt injection won't go away

I saw a Reddit post earlier complaining about Americans saying they invented the internet, and another just now from Oxford grads wondering if they could keep their e-mail addresses.
I then tried to find my old e-mail address, which lead me to remember that my online experience pre-dates the internet, and covers the moment where things pivoted from HALPIN@UK.AC.OXFORD.VAX to halpin@vax.oxford.ac.uk

(Big-endian to little-endian, in Dublin terms)

Every so often ideas come along that are sufficiently deserving of ridicule and derision, this is one of those times:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-build-ipv8-the-next-generation-of-the-internet

Donate to Help Build IPv8 — The Next Generation of the Internet, organized by Jamie Thain
IPv8 is an open-source initiative focused on reimagining the future … Jamie Thain needs your support for Help Build IPv8 — The Next Generation of the Internet

from my link log —
Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
saved 2021-02-10

Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours
On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of the worst scenarios, we might want to re-issue all of our certificates in a 24 hour period in order to avoid widespread disruptions. That means being prepared to issue 200 mill…

RE: https://nerdculture.de/@fzer0/116595216686462832
«“We will impose fees on internet cables,” Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari declared on X last week. […] Tehran’s plan to extract revenue from the strait would require companies like Google,…

Great essay "The Boring Internet" by @…
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

"what about double meanings like in 🍆🥦 and 🍑?" - Ah yes, these ambiguities are very famous. In order to get a new emoji approved nowadays, it's even helpful to be able to point out additional meanings and usages that are metaphorical in this way. The Unicode consortium is wary of introducing too many new emojis, and so those that can "carry more weight" and fill many needs at once are preferred.
In internet corpora the vegetable-related uses of these emojis are probably quite rare (but I must admit I haven't checked yet) - and the metaphorical meanings probably dominate. Though there are also many insider uses of emojis that aren't super widely known outside of their circle. This is comparable to other kinds of linguistic codes or innovations (e.g. in youth language) and not limited to only emojis. #WorldEmojiDay #emojis #linguistics

Do the Cowboys have the best offensive guard duo in football? https://insidethestar.com/do-the-cowboys-have-the-best-offensive-guard-duo-in-football

Thread worth reading!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:73dpznbu4wqwtcyurwbiulov/post/3mltfotpw232p

Internet Archive (@archive.org)
🧵 Wayback Machine director Mark Graham is thanking the hundreds of journalists speaking out in support of the #WaybackMachine and the importance of preserving the online historical record. 🌐📰 Read Mark's letter ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/11/a-thank-you-to-journalists-supporting-the-wayback-machine/ @mark.bsky.social #WaybackMachine

FPF Submits Comments to Inform California Children’s Social Media Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-california-childrens-social-media-protections-rulemaking-process/…

100% true.

Ever since generative AI began making up large sums of impressions on the internet, advertisers simply don't know anymore what statistics can be believed, hence they are lobbying for age verification laws.

The Boring Internet (text) | Terry Godier
#Internet because you've…

I recall thinking Mixtape looked a little like Life Is Strange when I first saw it at TGA and like Neo from the fucking Matrix I was like "Ohhh this is gonna be one of *those* games" for how some people were gonna talk about this when it came out, it's almost sad how predictable the internet can be now.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116432146593057423
Today I learned that Qmail (at least a heavily patched version) is still used in the Internet. I last used it over 20 years ago.

Fish shell adding support for Darcs is something I truly didn't have on my 2026 bingo card! It was the first DVCS that clicked with me after I bounced of Arch and before hg/git came on the stage. I could even host source trees on my homepage!
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/…

Add `fish_darcs_prompt` by toastal · Pull Request #12860 · fish-shell/fish-shell
Improves on the prompts floating around the internet (which I forked a long time ago)—specifically copied the ability to reorder statuses from the other VCSs, added ! for showing that there are mer...

#Иран, где аятолл у власти сменили военные из КСИР, пошёл по северокорейскому пути регулирования интернета. Раньше доступ в интернет предоставлялся всем желающим, теперь для этого нужно специальное разрешение ("Internet Pro"), а всем остальным доступна лишь Национальная информационная сеть, иранский аналог Кванмёна.

From the Open Internet to Internet Sovereignty: Death of the Global Internet - Filterwatch
The Islamic Republic of Iran is entering a new era of digital authoritarianism with the role of a long anticipated, discriminatory system of internet access. On April 14th, Sattar Hashemi, the ICT Minister, unveiled the government’s plan in an op-ed for Shargh daily using terms like, “internet sovereignty,” "strategic infrastructure," “digital governance,” “stable communications,” and

Wait, how old is Sauce Gardner? Colts CB clears up confusion about his age https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7367046/2026/06/18/sauce-gardner-colts-age-birthdate-mystery/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116927937054514788
"The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice Odgers believes. Men are the bigge…

Learning random facts from random people, I mean, that's one of the great things about the internet, right?
#blog

Three things I learned this week 🌱 - Finest Day
Or that I thought about again. Or that I think are wondrous. Anyway, I wanted to share them with you here. • The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis • The concept of affordance...

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-re…

The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring | TechCrunch
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Wer im Internet unterwegs ist, ist bestimmt mal über „The Most Mysterious Song on the internet" (TMMS) gestolpert – einem Song, der in den 80ern aus dem Radio in Deutschland aufgenommen wurde, aber über 40 Jahre lang nicht identifiziert werden konnte. Über die Zeit haben sich viele der Suche nach dem Interpreten gewidmet, was letztendlich zum Internet-Phänomen wurde.
Darüber gibt es in der ARD Mediathek eine schöne Doku (samt Auflösung!):

The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - hier anschauen
Ein mysteriöser New-Wave-Song, in den 1980ern vom Radio auf Kassette aufgenommen, sorgt Jahrzehnte später für das größte Musikrätsel des Internets. Millionen User weltweit suchen nach der Herkunft der Aufnahme und der unbekannten Band hinter dem 'Most Mysterious Song on the Internet'.

The Old Fears, Faster
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/12/the-old-fears-faster/

The Old Fears, Faster | David Boles, Blogs
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it. One concerned…

My home power cut out for a fraction of a second and it took 15 minutes to get the Internet back up again. My current theory is the DSL modem stalls out if it tries negotiating a connection while the telco cabinet is still getting itself running after its own unscheduled reboot. My long history with many Actiontec modems is that they need to be power-off reset because they can't manage themselves, while the one Motorolla I had was excellent in this regard.

Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
...
We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it.
#internet

We Need To Rewild The Internet 
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

“According to Zack Rosen, founder of California YIMBY and the Abundance Network, the problem with politics is Americans being too involved. Bemoaning the rise of small-dollar political donations in fundraising documents leaked to the Prospect, Rosen is blunt: 'Small dollar internet fundraising makes politics dumber.'”

New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.

Well, hey - the actual King of England basically told Trump he was a bellend and a fart, so he's fair game from now on...
'This Is Epic': Xi Found a Brutal Way to Humiliate Trump as His Cold Reception in China Gets Compared to Barack Obama’s Hero-Like Arrival
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/15/this-is-epic-donald-trumps-reception-in-china-pales-in-comparison-to-barack-obamas-visit-and-the-internet-claims-its-no-accident/

Blog post on the Gemini protocol is up: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/the-gemini-protocol -- with links to the capsules and phlogs (remove the space before the TLD before viewing them in a Gemini browser) of @…

The Gemini protocol
Most people familiar with the internet know the HTTP protocol, the one that retrieves and displays our www websites. HTTP was initiated in 1989 and went from there. Gopher is another web protocol, …

This glimpse of modern drone-enabled police surveillance,
including the highly sensitive video of the man’s physical takedown,
wasn’t voluntarily released by the SFPD
—which, like most US police departments, rarely releases drone videos even in response to public records requests.
Instead, it was accidentally livestreamed onto the open internet via Skydio’s website.
That’s where two security researchers, Sam Curry and Maik Robert, discovered that the SFPD was le…

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

I love stuff I read on the Internet, today it was “Internet Explorer was bad because it ran on only one platform”.
My guy, I have personally used Internet Explorer on at least 5 platforms (and there were more).

@… https://archive.org/details/LinotypeCareMaintenanceMatrices_610_23_B_U_25X

The Care and Maintenance of Matrices : Mergenthaler Linotype Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Care and Maintenance of Matrices.  A booklet in the series Linotype Lifetime Extension by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company.  Printing code: 610.23 B...

These kind of interesting stories make browsing the internet worthwhile for me, aluminum amphipods in the deepsea 😀
"An aluminum shield enables the amphipod Hirondellea gigas to inhabit deep-sea environments"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?i…

An aluminum shield enables the amphipod Hirondellea gigas to inhabit deep-sea environments
The amphipod Hirondellea gigas inhabits the deepest regions of the oceans in extreme high-pressure conditions. However, the mechanisms by which this amphipod adapts to its high-pressure environment remain unknown. In this study, we investigated the elemental content of the exoskeleton of H. gigas specimens captured from the deepest points of the Mariana Trench. The H. gigas exoskeleton contained aluminum, as well as a major amount of calcium carbonate. Unlike other (accumulated) metals, aluminu…

this was actually pretty funny (fuck microsoft and lg, though... and never connect smart tvs to the internet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM

The "Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology" is simultaneously the most boringly titled book - though accurate, it's a super boring book - and one of the most useful for my current project. It's basically just a list of officeholders, regulations, laws, geographical divisions, etc., etc. But gloriously helpful. Thank you to my forebear, the historian Frederick H. Armstrong, for making the lives of the handful of us who work on early 19th-century Ontario so much easier.

Handbook of Upper Canadian chronology : Armstrong, Frederick Henry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1 online resource (278 pages) :

FiveThirtyEight's archived website now redirects readers to ABC News; many thousands of articles dating back to FiveThirtyEight's founding in 2008 have vanished (John S.W. MacDonald/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/business/media/f…

Thousands of FiveThirtyEight Articles Seemingly Vanish From the Internet
The influential polling analysis site was shut down last year, but an earlier archived version, fivethirtyeight.com, had lived on. Now the site is redirecting users to ABC News.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jasonkoebler/116754587267756415
The internet is cooked. If the big tech players succeed in setting themselves as the de facto access point for information, then credibility is out the window. This isn't fixable -- it…

"[The #Fediverse] became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade #Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type"

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

Aside from the conspiracy among oligarchs internationally to boost the wealth and power of their weapon of democracy destruction, Elon Musk (and the blatant rigging of financial markets to go with it, to leave pensions and index funds the losers in the largest pump-and-dump in world history) there is a very large amount of plain old market irrationality in making an inefficient internet provider wrapped up with several unprofitable companies the most paper-valued corporation on initial publi…

Boy was I wrong about the Fediverse
#bookmarks

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

A profile of Hany Farid, the world's leading deepfake expert, who recently left the Bay Area for Vermont.
"I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.

@tomscott.name: 'The old system produced too few entrances. The new one produces too few exits from itself. It helps us find our people, but it also folds that discovery back into the machinery of feeds, metrics, recommendations and monetisation.
...
The internet satisfies the need before it becomes a movement.'

NYT on #AI: The world's leading deepfake expert no longer trusts his own eyes https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

AVFTCN 041 – 3 Weekend Long Reads About The Future of the Internet
What does the future of the Internet look like? What do we need to do differently? What could we do to bring about the Internet we want? What should we be concerned about with, for instance, the massive investment in AI infrastructure? Those are all questions that I've been focused on for years (well, except the last one... that's new), and I always seek out many other viewpoints as I ponder my own.

AVFTCN 041 – 3 Weekend Long Reads About The Future of the Internet
What does the future of the Internet look like? What do we need to do differently? What could we do to bring about the Internet we want? What should we be concerned about with, for instance, the ma…

ISIS-chan is a moe anthropomorphism of ISIS originally conceived of in 2015 by 2channel users as a response to a series of incidents in which Japanese nationals were kidnapped and beheaded by ISIS.
Their intentions were to flood the web with ISIS-chan's images to make the character rank highly in Google's search engine results, the goal being that an internet search for ISIS would come up with the character instead of militant propaganda sites.

I went out for a very late lunchtime walk yesterday and ended up talking to the elderly woman across the alley for a little while. She asked me what my thoughts were on AI and then she gave her thoughts (mostly they were about how AI keeps trying to call her to buy her house cheap and data centers should have solar on the roof) and I started to wonder if this was how old people talked about the internet around 2002?
... and yeah, I suggested something like Incogni to her for the calls.

A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns
“Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. When people are disconnected from the internet and digital services, it impacts all aspects of their life…both in that country and externally”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks…

A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns 
Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. When people are disconnected from the internet and digital services, it impacts all aspects of their life—from accessing essential information, to seeking medical care, or communicating with loved ones, both in that country and externally. But on...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the_World_(TV_series)
Watching this series on VHS using an RCA to HDMI adapter. Just finishing up episode 5 of 5 and it's a bit quaint with the beginnings of the internet. Hard to believe the s…

A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20 years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai

1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source
On 21 April 1993, Marc Andreessen announces NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first version of its multimedia browser. Just over a week later, CERN gifts the World Wide Web to the world as open source software.

from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…

If Multicast is the Answer -- What was the Question?
Multicast is (almost) as old as the Internet, having become a tool for increasing network efficiency but also enabling destination discovery in a number of key use cases, although misaligned economic interests have limited its deployment to domain-local usages. But recent advances in multicast technologies as well as the identification of new use cases for which IP multicast may be ill fitted yet network-level support may be desirable motivate to re-think old perceptions of multicast and its us…

Behind the Blog: The Promise of the Internet https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-the-promise-of-the-internet/

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

TV news is going very hard in support of the UK adopting China-style restrictions on internet services. Reminds me of their balanced coverage of the Online Safety Bill where the only opposition voices they aired were people who said "the bill didn't go far enough".

18 ridiculous things that make a man 'gay', according to the internet
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/17/things-that-make-a-man-gay-reddit/

Every couple of months another word nerds were made fun of for making gets repurposed for IG reels to make fun of a different audience, every other couple of months I get reminded why I should just leave the internet and only ever rely on DVDs/Blu-rays made from 2013 and before for entertainment.

Oh cool, Slopipedia
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fa3rwygrp2ebgwdiq6sjn2te/post/3mlswrzkyjs2n

Jennifer Ouellette (@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social)
A Wikipedia Clone Built on AI Hallucinations Is Here to Hasten Along the Death of the Internet https://gizmodo.com/a-wikipedia-clone-built-on-ai-hallucinations-is-here-to-hasten-along-the-death-of-the-internet-2000758563

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.

Good brief piece by @…, who admits being wrong about the fediverse, and discusses some of its finer points.
"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of.. there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement met…

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

The KIDS Act Will Lead to Mandatory Age Checks 
Many of the bills in the KIDS Act share the same premise:
that children and teenagers should have different experiences online than adults.
In practice, that requires websites and apps to determine who is under 18
—and who isn’t.
That’s where the problems with the KIDS Act start. 
EFF certainly supports giving all users better privacy and safety tools online.
But those protections should not,
and …

The House Passed The KIDS Act—The Senate Should Reject It 
Last week, the House voted on the KIDS Act, a disjointed package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package combines a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), with several other internet bills, study bills, reporting requirements,...

Happy #PortfolioDay everyone. 🪴
I'm Sebastian. I like gazing at clouds, the crunching sound of dirt when I vacuum and writing stuff on the Internet. You can find some of it here.
https://finest.day/
…

Finest Day
Because in good we trust. 𝌃𝌂𝌃 Hi there, friendly people of the internet. 🌿 I’m Sebastian, and I like typing letters. Occasionally managing to string them together so they form beautiful words, even coherent sentences (at least I hope so). Welcome to my blog.

Always Open, Never Empty
The internet abolished closing hours. The new wave is abolishing the pause. Both moves are economic in origin and…...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/13/always-open-never-empty/

Always Open, Never Empty | David Boles, Blogs
The internet abolished closing hours. The new wave is abolishing the pause. Both moves are economic in origin and psychological in effect. Both promise convenience and deliver a different kind of c…

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Corporate platforms – Google, Meta, Amazon – that now dominate digital life
are far closer to William Gibson's original vision than to the participatory web that briefly flourished between them.
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start;
Silicon Valley built the open internet first,
-- then converged on his dystopia anyway.
The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted.
T…

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)
https://www.

The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Great thread on cast iron skillets.
And lower down they mention cast iron woks.
I would put my votes in for cast iron griddles and dutch ovens as well.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pkakkdcfdr6inetyj737kzpd/post/3mlwkjixdpk2u

Der Fisher (@blackholefun.bsky.social)
Every time I see people posting on the internet about cast iron skillets, I am reminded that people genuinely seem to think they're mystical objects that either must be babied or need incantations to work properly. All of these conversations miss why your grandparents had a badass cast iron skillet.

from my link log —
The old Internet died and we watched and did nothing.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/how-we-killed-the-old-internet
saved 2019-12-31

The Old Internet Died And We Watched And Did Nothing
It’s 2020 — do you know where your content is?

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 23072 nodes and 78684 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio
and depended on an iron lung to live.
She died June 26 in Oklahoma,
the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.
“They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,”
Lillard’s younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday.
“She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life.”
McVey attri…

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78
Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma. Her sister, Cindy McVey, attributes her death to long-haul COVID-19. Diagnosed with polio at 5, Lillard lived a remarkable life despite her challenges. She attended school using a phone system and even drove for a time. The internet helped her stay informed and meet her husband, whom she married in February. Lillard was artistic, writing poems and songs. She was also an animal rescue volunteer. McVey say…

A hacker claims to have accessed Suno user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator…

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
Hacked source code reveals how Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet to train its AI tool.

Ian Fieggen, who also goes by “Professor Shoelace,”
is the guy who runs Ian’s Shoelace Site,
the internet’s prime destination for learning how to tie your shoes.
His website is simple, intentionally focusing on common vernacular over standardized knot terminology,
and has been operating as a discrete section of his personal site since 2003.
Ian’s Shoelace Site does not need to change;
it is perfectly functional the way it is,
and people have been d…

Ian's Is Still The Best Site For Tying Your Shoelaces
Ian's Shoelace Site has been teaching people to tie their shoes for more than two decades. His knots are wonderful. But it is vulnerable to the forces tearing the internet apart.

internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

Internet age verification proposals restrict the fundamental rights of young people to speak to each other and to access information.
They also force all internet users,
not just those under a certain age,
to upload private data
—like a face scan or passport
—in order to access a website or service.
In considering the vast scope of privacy issues pertaining to the collection, storage, and sharing of this personal information,
the problems of age veri…

Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat
The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world continue to introduce and implement legislation requiring all online users to verify their ages before accessing the digital space.

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 13 nodes and 15 edges.

internet_top_pop: Internet topology (PoP level) (1969-2012)
Assorted snapshots of internet graph at the Point of Presence (PoP) level (which lies between the IP and AS levels), collected from around the world and at various times. The earliest snapshots are for ARPANET (1969-1972), with a few more from pre-2000. Most are from 2006 onward. Metadata include link type or speed, longitudes, and latitudes of nodes, URL, and date of record.
This network has 26 nodes and 49 edges.

Users of the world’s largest search engine will see, in response to their queries, a summary generated by an AI bot developed by a corporate behemoth with close ties to the Trump White House.
This seismic move builds upon the launches of AI Overview in 2024 and AI Mode in 2025,
shifting toward nearly eliminating the user’s ability to search autonomously,
and toward an overwhelmingly AI-driven experience of the internet (and therefore, for many people, of life).
We mus…

Google’s new AI-fueled search bar threatens to further upend journalism industry
Independent journalism needs a lifeline to survive as Google urges readers toward AI summaries instead of article links.

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
They were all sitting unprotected at public URLs, with no password or access control of any sort.
If I sent you a link, you could have looked at someone’s passport.
“We have to do something about it as fast as possible, because people will find this and resell it.
It will do damage,”
Sammy Azdoufal told me in May.
Azdoufal is the security researcher who used Claude Code…

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were left unprotected on the public internet
Cannabis Club Systems, also known as Nefos Solutions, left passports and photo IDs potentially exposed on the public web.