2025-12-27 14:42:00
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 61 nodes and 89 edges.
How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/#post-american-internet
Must read article…
Open vs. Closed: The Fight for a New Internet
The Story Behind — A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.
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Amazon Leo,
formerly Project Kuiper,
is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network,
aiming to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities beyond the reach of existing networks.
Our initial satellite constellation will include more than 3,000 spacecraft,
which we began deploying in April 2025 when we sent our first 27 satellites into space.
That mission was the first of more than 80 to deploy our constellation
Verfassungsrechtler und Politiker fordern Klarnamenpflicht im Internet
Im Interview mit dem Tagesspiegel forderte der Verfassungsrechtler Andreas Voßkuhle eine Klarnamenpflicht im Internet. Erste Politiker pflichten ihm nun bei.
Beyond Detection -- Orchestrating Human-Robot-Robot Assistance via an Internet of Robotic Things Paradigm
Joseph Hunt, Koyo Fujii, Aly Magassouba, Praminda Caleb-Solly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22296 …
On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015) - How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms - https://www.
The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine is s valuable resource but only 1/1000 users donate to its running costs.
You can join them.
Donate to the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/donate/
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 17 edges.
Hi everyone,
Due to a combination of Internet issues and personal issues we were only able to hold a verification call with one person from Gaza today.
Please give Lubna (@…), who is a mother of three and an engineer, a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse (and please follow her, donate to her fundraiser if you can, and share this so others mi…
The AI buildout, surpassing railroads and the internet, moves Big Tech from its successful asset-light model, and prior booms have resulted in overinvestment (Kai Wu/Sparkline Capital)
https://www.sparklinecapital.com/post/surviving-the-ai-capex-boom
Any social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.
Look: Amazon just got egg all over its face for bringing down half the internet. That happened because they’d already had a huge brain drain.
A company in their position doesn’t lay off 8.5% of corporate because AI is working so well for them. Come on.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
You can learn more about my email provider @… here:
https://www.autistici.org/about
We support individuals, collectives, communities and groups whose political a…
CoChen (#AS49608), recently went offline. Their website suggests they provide circuits to businesses and consumers in select markets in HK, JP, KR and US.
Seems unlikely. They were single homed behind Kaopu Cloud. They were announcing a handful of leased IP4 blocks. Previous BGP upstreams were Latitude.sh (BR hosting provider), Pyschz (US hosting provider), and others.
Jetzt fordern sie mal wieder „Klarnamen“¹-Pflicht im Internet. Als privilegierter alter weißer Mann, der seit jeher unter vollem Namen unterwegs ist, weiß ich doch, wie wichtig die Möglichkeit zu anonymer wie pseudonymer Nutzung von Netz und Social Media ist.²
Übrigens hat sich James Bond immer mit vollem Namen vorgestellt, daß hat ihn nicht gehindert, unzählige Menschen plattzumachen.
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¹als wären wir alle beim Geheimdienst
²selbst im Usenet war nur gefordert: im Name…
Aksyonov: Mobile internet restrictions in Crimea to remain in place until war ends: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/23/aksyonov-mobile-internet-restrictions-in.html
I needed a little break from a ternary encoded display, so I went back to one of my old favourites. French Decimal Time 🇫🇷.
As a side note, since it is no longer DST in Europe and I'm the same timezone as the Swatch headquarters 🇨🇭, it's also actually the current valid time in .Beats (a.k.a. Swatch® Internet Time)! 🥳
#DecimalTime
ORWO Rezepte. Nein, das ist nichts zu kochen/essen, darin geht es um die »Behandlung fotografischer Materialien«. Think Chemiebaukasten: https://archive.org/details/orwo-rezepte-1972/mode/2up
I guess the Internet Archive is now a for-Proffitt...
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/115611174274779543
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-25/ai-slop-recipes-are-taking-over-the-internet-and-thanksgiving-dinner?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDA4MzUxMCwiZXhwIjoxNzY0Njg4MzEwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNkFGNzVLR1pBSlowMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFNzAxNENGQzIzNTI0MzU0QTVENUY2QkREMDAxOEU3NiJ9.zVeH6d7ceqUngdCBCfynlfmG4wiYTU-Dv8BjiwikQsU
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p65#a251125p65
Fragen an die #bahn -expert:innen: Wie groß ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass es im IC 240 nach Amsterdam (auch in NL) funktionierendes Internet gibt?
On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-…
1) I connect the IoT device to the VLAN1 network.
2) I apply rules in pfsense to the VLAN1 network to restrict Internet access.
3) The IoT device stops working.
- Hmmm...
#InternetOfShit
This what the internet was built for.
#kindness
https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente/115443213824238068
❓ Hat jemand von Euch eine #Bratpfanne mit zwei Fächern?
Was und wie kocht ihr damit?
Edit: Hab sowas im Internet gefunden. Wird als Hotpot tituliert. Wird beworben für das gleichzeitige Kochen von zwei Speisen, wenn einer eine Allergie hat und man es getrennt kochen muss. Also ob man dafür so eine Spezialanfertigung bräuchte. Häää?
These 30% pretty much explain Microsoft across the board nowadays. I few weeks ago I was so fed up with the Xbox app, I sent them a feedback asking why would I buy anything from an outlet that acts like a common internet spammer? Investors might be happy. Consumers - not so much. But who cares when there'd always be something else to plunder? ->
Xbox Is Over, Now We Know Who Is Responsible
"Bloomberg reveals Microsoft demands Xbox maintain a 30% profit margin."…
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
by accident i stumbled on this review by the #NSA on Bruce Schneiers "Applied Crypto" book from long ago.
"Let's move fast and break Tim Cook's things"
--- @…
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshitt…
Did another sanity check on the 2nd PC and installed The Alters which is an Unreal 5 game. My internet bill gonna be higher this month cause I apparently passed the cap limit (thanks for failing to send me the warning email Comcast) but whatever. Booted it, checked the settings (Epic, Native AA so the 1080p the display runs at) and loaded in.. to a buttery smooth 60fps.
So it's definitely something going on with The Last Caretaker. I have no idea what, tho. For some reason in game …
Blind Russians lose access to accessibility app Be My Eyes as Internet restrictions tighten https://meduza-io.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2025/12/23/blind-ru…
»Browser, Einstellungen, Werkzeug — So surft man im Internet möglichst spurlos:
Völlig anonym im Internet unterwegs zu sein, ist praktisch unmöglich. Aber wer Browser, Suchmaschine und Zusatzprogramme richtig wählt und nutzt, kann seine digitale Spur stark genug verwischen, um den üblichen Datenschnüfflern das Geschäft zu vermiesen.«
Genau das und doch nehmen mMn wohl rel sehr wenige Menschen dies wirklich ernst.
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I don't actually think there's an obligation (in the UK) for ISPs or AI companies to block content from sanctioned entities.
ISPs have an obligation to block "an internet service provided by a designated person" and a "person who provides a social media service" must take "reasonable steps to prevent content...". But AI services aren't ordinarily social media services.
Just don’t use the internet and DHS won’t stalk you.
“What opportunities are available for individuals to consent to uses, decline…or opt out?
Any individual may decline or opt out of having their information gathered…by not posting material online or limiting access to who can view their
posts.”
PDF: <…
Lattice-Based Dynamic $k$-times Anonymous Authentication
Junjie Song, Jinguang Han, Man Ho Au, Rupeng Yang, Chao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21786 https://
Die Faxköppe und "das Internet ist kein rechtsfreier Raum" ist so hart verbunden, das kriegt man auch nach Jahrzehnten nicht auseinander. (Vorsicht: level of indirection hier)
Gleichzeitig versagt der Staat bei der einfachsten Durchsetzung von Gesetzen. Daran ändert dann auch die Vorratsdatenspeicherung nichts. Die haben schon so viele ungenutzte Privilegien, es ist sichtbar, dass die Forderung nach der VDS nur eine Ablenkung vom mangelnden Gesetzesvollzug ist.
TL;DR
Document your network!!!! And if not, keep your actions in the right order to not waste a lot of time.
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Last week I wanted to check something on my network switch and tried to open the web interface at the IP address I remembered. Unable to connect.
I was short of time as always so I put this back on my 'to-do' list.
Yesterday I had 25mins to spare... So I took a look at the internet router which maintains a list of all active network devices. Na…
After the Online Safety Act’s onerous internet age restrictions took effect this summer,
it didn’t take long for Brits to get around them.
Some methods went viral, like using video game Death Stranding’s photo mode to bypass face scans.
But in the end, the simplest solution won out: --- VPNs.
Virtual private networks have proven remarkably effective at circumventing the UK’s age checks,
letting users spoof IP addresses from other countries so that the checks neve…
from my link log —
The Internet golden age that wasn't.
http://cybersalon.org/the-internet-that-wasnt-net-wars-by-wendy-grossman/
saved 2019-07-25
MISP core format has been updated with a new field to track first-time publication, and a new IETF Internet-Draft has been published.
This minor, fully backward-compatible addition reinforces the long-term stability and extensibility of the MISP standard format.
#cti #opensource
Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/
Meine Firefox-Addons Ende 2025 – #internet
I partially made this for myself: At home, our internet isn't the fastest, so downloading the identical map files from the internet multiple times, to different devices, is slow and pointless. With this I can download them once and my computer and distribute them from there.
Works for other uses too: if you're on a metered internet connection. Or for folks living in rural communities with no connectivity at all. Being able to distribute the APK _and_ the map files locally can be really great!
I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.
What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygo…
A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% Facebook, 50% Instagram, 37% TikTok, 32% WhatsApp, 26% Reddit, 25% Snapchat, 21% X, and 8% Threads (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-202…
When I started programming I had one big disadvantage: no Internet. No looking up stuff online, no asking questions, no easy download of tools, only printed books and magazines (and even those hard to get)…
When I started programming I had one big advantage: no Internet. Whatever I created could not expose any security hole, any personal data, everything just run locally, and the biggest fear was that the police would come for my pirated copy of Sokoban – or even worse that the disk it…
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves. https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
I’m just appalled that anyone exposes MongoDB to the Internet.
We’ve always known it was a bad idea, haven’t we? @… https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog
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 24 nodes and 37 edges.
This Tiny Library Can Replace Google When You're Offline
https://www.bgr.com/1998047/raspberry-pi-internet-in-a-box/
Of all the lies of the internet, the worst is probably "the internet is forever".
Anyone who's been here for a while can name hundreds of internet stuff that is completely gone.
(yes, I know about the Internet Archive. I'm also aware of the many blind spots and broken links the Archive has. And of the fact that it isn't really searchable)
Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026 (Loren Grush/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/a…
This is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)
The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.
😡 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03859-y
from my link log —
Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990.
https://gade.us/thesis/
saved 2025-11-25 https://dotat.at/:/RHHY8.html
New (very minimal) Internet-Draft submitted: ASN Prefix-based Addressing for IPv6
"This document describes a method and policy for ASN prefix-based addressing for IPv6."
If this goes anywhere I expect it will change, and grow, markedly.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/dra…
Haha, terug naar good old coax netwerk
Slow Wi-Fi? How to get wired internet at home without running an Ethernet cable | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/slow-wi-fi-how-to-get-wired-i…
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 20906 nodes and 85988 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p105#a251222p105
Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2025 report: for the 15th straight year, global internet freedom is in decline; of the 72 countries surveyed, Kenya fell most (Tech Policy Press)
https://www.techpolicy.press/global-internet-freedom-declines-for-…
Tell your lawmakers:
we need common-sense, privacy forward solutions,
NOT ID checks for the internet!
https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/
On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-…
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
»How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more.«
This article is not wrong but in my opinion very superficial. This is certainly a good introduction for people who are starting to move more safely on the Internet.
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SpaceX launched 56 Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets on October 19, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802509/starlink-launches-10000th-internet-sate…
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
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday
to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements.
The FCC’s two Trump-appointed commissioners, chairman Brendan Carr and his Republican colleague Olivia Trusty,
voted to withdraw the rules that require telecommunications carriers to “secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”
The Biden administ…
End of the Internet
Congratulations! — You have finally reached the end of the internet! There's nothing more to see, no more links to visit. You've done it all. This is the very last page on the very last server at the very far end of the internet […]
🌐 https://hmpg.net
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kinderfotos im Internet – eine Gefahr für den Nachwuchs
https://www.…
They Seek to Curb Online Hate.
The Trump Regime Accuses Them of Censorship.
Five Europeans who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet
were barred from entering the United States
after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them
“radical activists”
who undercut free speech.
A survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/…
Telekom verdient nicht genug Geld mit Glasfaser-Internet
Glasfaser-Internet ist inzwischen an zig Millionen Haushalten verfügbar. Das war teuer für die Firmen. Doch die Sache hat einen Haken.
https://www.
route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 5505 nodes and 11719 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
While the AI bubble feels like the internet bubble of 1999, it may actually be larger and scarier with an unstable US economy and greater exposure for Big Tech (Fred Vogelstein/Crazy Stupid Tech)
https://crazystupidtech.com/2025/11/21/boom-bubble-bust…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kinderfotos im Internet – eine Gefahr für den Nachwuchs
https://www.…
Ukraine-Krieg: Internetbeschränkungen in Russland mit immer heftigeren Folgen
Um Drohnen aus der Ukraine zu blockieren, schränkt Russland immer öfter das mobile Internet ein. Die Folgen sind immens – und teils wohl unvorhergesehen.
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
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Warum Kinderfotos nicht ins Internet gehören
https://www.
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
Russland schränkt Whatsapp und Telegram erneut ein
Moskau baut die Internet-Zensur seit dem Angriffskrieg auf Ukraine zunehmend aus. Nun trifft es erneut Whatsapp und Telegram – wegen angeblicher Krimineller.
https://ww…
Warum Kinderfotos nicht ins Internet gehören
Unzensierte Babybilder, KI-Bearbeitung und Erwachsene, die Nähe zu Kindern suchen: Warum Experten fordern, Aufnahmen von Kindern im Netz strenger zu schützen.
https://www.