Tootfinder

Friendly reminder to put some money toward preservation of our digital heritage.
Non-US peeps: The USD is cheap right now :) You might consider that when choosing your amount.
https://archive.org/donate

At the moment I often have to think of Eley's book, that it was not the bourgeoisie that realized what is currently held up as abstract principles, but a left that had to organize itself against the impositions of capitalist society.
https://archive.org/details/forgingdem…

China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall and access the global internet, as it seeks to become a free-trade port (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy…

China will drop the Great Firewall for some users, but only in southern Hainan
Employees of companies operating in the island province can apply for the ‘Global Connect’ scheme, but some content will remain restricted.

First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
- Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
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today's distracting mindblow: samuel delany & karen dalton shared bills at cafe elysee, plus fred neil, tim hardin, & other notables. (can't find any other details/documentation of the west village venue of that name.) https://archive.org/details/motionofli…

The motion of light in water : sex and science fiction writing in the East Village : Delany, Samuel R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
572 p. ; 24 cm

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

It’s really something watching all the tech people who used to be so enthusiastic about the Internet and how it democratizes knowledge and gives people access to free publishing give it all up for a Skinner box and fascism

I try a new (for me) DNS system today: THE EU DNS https://www.dns0.eu/
Let’s see if this works

The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer.
A free, sovereign and GDPR-compliant recursive DNS resolver with a strong focus on security to protect the citizens and organizations of the European Union.

Falls jemand das gerade braucht - es gibt eine Website, die schnurrt.
Was will man mehr.
#catcontent #CatsOfMastodon
https://purrli.com/

The Internet has a Cat! Meet Purrli, the online cat purr generator.
Not just a cat purr, but a cat purring next to you. Purrli recreates the sound and the presence of a cat, online. It's soothing, it's free, and it's purrfect!

I've been pretty quiet here lately, but I've not been goofing off. I am leveraging what I've learned about security and privacy over the last two decades to create guides for the non-technical person. Easy to read (hopefully) guides on messaging, email, browsing and other topics that will make it easy for anyone to improve their Internet privacy. Stay tuned.
By the way, this is not a commercial effort. The guides will be free to download, use and share.
Why am I doin…

“Here be dragons and sea monsters, my fellow genital cartographers, and we have a lot to learn from poking them.”
— Mira Bellwether, “Fucking Trans Women”
https://archive.org/details/fucking-trans-women-mira-bellwether-october-2010.cleaned…

Great show https://mastodon.social/@adrianhon/114699440908964492

The Trip to ZigBee Backscatter across a Decade, a Systematic Review
Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13822 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The Trip to ZigBee Backscatter across a Decade, a Systematic Review
The field of backscatter communication has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a niche technology for radio-frequency identification (RFID) into a sophisticated paradigm poised to enable a truly battery-free Internet of Things (IoT). This evolution is built upon a deepening understanding of the fundamental principles governing these ultra-low-power links. Modern backscatter systems are no longer simple reflectors of continuous waves but are increasingly designed to interact with …

@… Did you know that Humble Indie Bundle 12 had a tier that would send out physical items, including a floppy disk? https://archive.org/details/hib12floppy It was news to me

Humble Indie Bundle 12 - 1.44 MB Floppy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
In 2014, with the release of Humble Indie Bundle 12, a physical package was available if you spent enough money, including a vinyl, stickers, and an HIB 12...

Reinforcement Learning-Based Policy Optimisation For Heterogeneous Radio Access
Anup Mishra, \v{C}edomir Stefanovi\'c, Xiuqiang Xu, Petar Popovski, Israel Leyva-Mayorga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15273

Reinforcement Learning-Based Policy Optimisation For Heterogeneous Radio Access
Flexible and efficient wireless resource sharing across heterogeneous services is a key objective for future wireless networks. In this context, we investigate the performance of a system where latency-constrained internet-of-things (IoT) devices coexist with a broadband user. The base station adopts a grant-free access framework to manage resource allocation, either through orthogonal radio access network (RAN) slicing or by allowing shared access between services. For the IoT users, we propos…