2026-05-19 01:12:28
Grande surprise Š la CNIL: Si rien n'est poursuivi, rien n'est imposé, la protection des données est ignoré pour faire des profits faramineux.
https://www.franceinfo.fr/interne…
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…
Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/iran-demands-big-tech-pay-fees-for-undersea-internet-cables-in-strait-of-hormuz/
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-flock-councilmember-crashes-out-proposes-internet-and-phone-ban/
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…
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…
When surveillance fanatics run out of arguments, it‘s always „If you don’t have anything to hide, then it shouldn’t be a problem.“
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-fl
@… thanks. Without the redirect and the utm stuff:
https://www.lpi.org/blog/2026/06/19/code-that-built-the-internet-the-impact-…
Jaw-Dropping iPhone Video of Earth Setting Behind the Moon Is Rightfully Breaking the Internet
https://gizmodo.com/jaw-dropping-iphone-video-of-earth-setting-behind-the-moon-is-rightfully-breaking-the-internet-2000748443
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/
"Eine Zensur findet nicht statt." ...außer die #ZDF-Regierung macht es selbst
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_5.html
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…
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…
The small, real, original web https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/the-small-real-original-web
Got my post on the small web done- it links to sites by @…
From a Chinese state-sponsored news outlet. Can you say pot-kettle-black?
"Investigations found that the foreign intelligence agency had taken control of multiple routers within China and used them as platforms to send phishing emails disguised as invitations to participate in review work or traffic violation payment notices, targeting staff at key institutions."
@… Are any hosting providers in your hall of fame located in North America? Or do I have to click each one to try to figure it out? https://internet.nl/halloffame/hosters/
The transcript of this video is quite a long read but I think it is worth your time to reflect on how current geopolitics may give room for a new era of internet. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
The main takeaway is something I'm trying to carry with me: " don't despair"
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
An manchen Tagen geht es mir so auf den Keks, dass sich das ganze Internet lahmer als vor 10-15 Jahren anfühlt - oder wohl auch ist mit den ganzem "Gedöns". Und das trotz fetterer Prozessoren und immer mehr Arbeitsspeicher. #RandomRant
The Halo soundtrack is such a vibe. Memories of me calling in sick, playing the campaign & running System link w/ coworkers for 72hrs.
Remember using the GameSpy Bridge to play friends over the Internet? 😁
▶️ Halo: Campaign Evolved | Six Hours of Main Menu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VLmoBg…
WAs mich echt ankotzt in diesem Internet, das jeder dir was erzählen will und du hörtst eigentlich nur ....
Blablablablablablablablablablablablanblablanlablablablabkablablabla und das denn ganzen Tag.
Aber es gibt ne Lösung ... einen Knopf zum ausstellen .. geht ganz einfach .. einfach drücken, klicken oder drehen und schwuipps ist Ruhe im Karton und du hörst nicht dieses .. na ihr wisst schon ..
Wielange haltet es aus ohne dieses Balabklablablabla ?
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…
Don't give agents access to the internet. Of course the first thing Caine did is scrape information about everyone smh
And since Kinger is still working working in IT. Is it the same company? And how likely they're paying people to make their brainscans
Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-physical-politics-of-the-internet-with-britt-paris/
Ich bin fast durch, mit dem Aufräumen im Büro. Was weg muss, ist gebündelt oder liegt bereit für den Schredder.
Aber ein paar Dinge aus der Serie #BlastFromThePast werde ich hier noch teilen. 😜
Als man noch eine CD brauchte, um ins Internet zu kommen! 🤓
#PhantastikPrompts 19.4.: Für was stehen Leute in euren Danksagungen? In welcher Beziehung steht ihr zu ihnen?
Ich versuche, an alle zu denken, die irgendwie beigetragen haben. Meine zwei Testlesenden, meist Sibling (wegen Grafikberatung beim Cover), meine Text-Spielpartnerin und Partnerperson fürs Supporten hinter den Kulissen.
Plus weitere Internet-Leute, die beim jeweili…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Odd Beholder:
🎵 Internet Famous
#NowPlaying #OddBeholder
https://open.spotify.com/track/0MRFI3vRRIJkk44RFR0bkc
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).
Kaja #Kallas hätte es durchaus öffentlich sagen können: #Israel ist ein #Apartheid|systen. Schon 2017 hat sich die UN in diesem Sinne wörtlich geäußert.
@dawid@social.craftknight.compacket_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
The Boring Internet (text) | Terry Godier
#Internet because you've…
#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.
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!):
France's National Gambling Authority blocks access to Polymarket's website, citing concerns of exposing users to significant losses and manipulated trading (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-
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
our washing mashine has no wifi, no bluetooh, no app, no internet - I find that pretty smart to be honest
"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's been interesting about watching Cloudflare do what it is doing against AI scraping is that, in an attempt to protect sites from crawlers, we are centralizing internet traffic through a single vendor bottleneck.
It's a real struggle between ideal and pragmatic solutions, and I don't know how to feel about it.
Cloud providers might need to acknowledge this issue sooner rather than later, but they are incentivized to charge customers for *any* traffic, including f…
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.
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.
A look at Disney's 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight as Nate Silver says Disney is refusing to negotiate with him about restoring the site's archive (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight
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
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/
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,…
"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
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
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
@…
@… I found a paper that quotes the "no portal litter" description, and attributes it to a book "Internet 101" by Wendy G Lehnert, but cites a 1999 printing of the book, which I can't find online. (it was originally printed 1997 and had several editions with different isbn numbers, but no edition indicator in the title)
Is California AB-2190 Internet website accessibility dead again?
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2190#:~:text=06-10-2026
I know it will be back if so, but I a…
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
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/
Hier mal eine positive Nachricht über Online-Archive aus der Schweiz aber auch wider KI:
(Der Begriff KI ist eine breit gefächerte Formulation für Automatisierung)
«Internet Archive erhält Standort in der Schweiz:
Internet Archive Switzerland hat am 5. Mai 2026 seine operative Arbeit aufgenommen. Die Stiftung will Schweizer Inhalte sichern, KI-Modelle archivieren und gefährdeten Dokumenten einen digitalen Zufluchtsort bieten.»
🗃️
"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/
@dawid@social.craftknight.comcaida_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 21157 nodes and 85468 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
Я не знала, что мой роутер поддерживает гигабитный LAN, и была приятно удивлена, когда поменяла кабель.
[Download 615.95 Mbps; Upload 596.27 Mbps; Ping 26 ms]
https://yandex.ru/internet/share/837c175d/1784121124/615948788/596267…
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
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!
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.
Weekend Reads
* Who carries Tor traffic?
https://www.petsymposium.org/foci/2026/foci-2026-0014.php
* Internet shutdown measurement gaps
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…
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/
"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…
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…
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/
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
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
'Didn’t Want my Kind Living Here': 80-Year-Old Veteran Viciously Attacked in Florida Hate Crime, People Say Trump's Rhetoric Is to Blame
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/15/t80-year-old-veteran-attacked-in-hate-crime-internet-says-presidents-rhetoric-is-to-blame/
Bots übernehmen Internet früher als gedacht
Laut Cloudflare fragen Bots im Netz mehr HTML-Inhalte an als Menschen. Das sollte eigentlich erst nächstes Jahr passieren.
https://www.heise.de/news/Bo…
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…
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.
from my link log —
SCION EPIC: a path-aware clean-slate internet architecture.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/11/25/epic-exploring-challenges-and-opportunities-in-next-generation-internet-architectures/
NetBlocks: Iran's 70 day internet blackout is "the longest recorded national internet shutdown in a connected society", as businesses warn of layoffs, closures (Golnar Motevalli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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.
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
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/
Iraner sollen wieder das Internet nutzen dürfen
Menschen und Geräte im Iran sollen im Laufe des Dienstags wieder Zugang zum Internet erhalten. Doch es könnte beschränkt und teuer werden.
https://www.
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…
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
As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/world/europe/russia-internet-restrictions-…
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 110 nodes and 158 edges.
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Iraner sollen wieder das Internet nutzen dürfen
https://www.