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from my link log —
The birth of the internet troll.
https://gizmodo.com/the-first-internet-troll-1652485292
saved 2025-12-08 https://

The Birth of the Internet Troll
Trolls are shitting all over our internet. You can hardly search for something as innocuous as "dog" on Google without coming across inflammatory attacks

Iran’s internet shutdown,
now in place for 36 hours
as the authorities seek to quell escalating anti-government protests,
represents a “new high-water mark” in terms of its sophistication and severity, say experts
– and could last a long time.
As the blackout kicked in, 90% of internet traffic to Iran evaporated.
International calls to the country appeared blocked and domestic mobile phones had no service,
said Amir Rashidi, an Iranian digital right…

Internes Dokument — EU-Staaten fordern ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Internet-Dienste wie #Messenger
Die EU-Staaten fordern ein neues Gesetz zur #Vorratsdatenspeicherung, das weit über die alten Gesetze hinausgeht. Das geht aus einem

Internes Dokument: EU-Staaten fordern ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Internet-Dienste wie Messenger
Die EU-Staaten fordern ein neues Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung, das weit über die alten Gesetze hinausgeht. Das geht aus einem EU-Dokument hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Praktisch alle Internet-Dienste sollen Daten ihrer Nutzer anlasslos speichern, auch Messenger wie WhatsApp und Signal.

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

Survey of 1,458 US teens: 64% use AI chatbots, and 28% use them daily; 59% say they use ChatGPT, 23% Gemini, 20% Meta AI, 14% Copilot, and 9% Character.ai (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-…

Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
Roughly one-in-five U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about three-in-ten who do so daily.

Russian missile barrage disrupts internet, customs databases in Ukraine https://therecord.media/russian-missile-barrage-disrupts-internet-ukraine

Ummm.... someone broke time.
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/Zd7VaR-vqV4?pli=1

Russland blockiert SIM-Karten – "zum Schutz vor Drohnen"
In Russland geht das mobile Internet der SIM-Karte Einreisender nicht mehr. Die Regierung erklärt nun, warum die Funktion beim Mobilfunk blockiert wird.

heise | 16 Fritzbox-Tipps: So setzen Sie den Router richtig an Mac, iPhone & Co. ein
Die Fritzbox ist der populärste Router in Deutschland. Sie kann viel mehr, als Internet in die Wohnung zu holen. Was können Apple-Nutzer mit dem Gerät anfangen?

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine,
--The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares,
--How age verification laws change user behavior,
--What happens when the internet shuts down,
--AI is not ye…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/4/25
North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine, The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares, How age verification laws change user behavior, What happens when the internet shuts down, AI is not yet our overlord, Some chatbots may have independent thought

Totaler Internet-Blackout: Sorge vor staatlicher Gewalt gegen Proteste im Iran | heise online
https://heise.de/-11136262

Totaler Internet-Blackout: Sorge vor staatlicher Gewalt gegen Proteste im Iran
Die iranische Führung in Teheran schneidet die Bevölkerung von der Außenwelt ab und stellt einen harten Kurs gegen die landesweiten Proteste in Aussicht.

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

Iran protests latest: Tehran says it has arrested 100 ‘armed rioters’ after threatening death penalty | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-protests-live-ayatollah-trump-internet-blackout-news-b2897956.html

On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015) - How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms - https://www.

On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015)
How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Source:
“JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.
Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.”
https://

Mike Stabile (@mikestabile.bsky.social)
JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child. Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior. https://churchleaders.com/news/2206049-covenant-eyes-adult-stepson-child-sex-abuse.html

Russia expands internet blackouts under pretense of drone threats, but real goal appears to be information control: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/07/russia-expands-internet-blackouts-under.html

Demonstrators have continued to take to the streets of #Iran,
defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing #protest movement.
An #internet

RSL 1.0: Standard soll Verwendung von Inhalten regeln
Ein neuer Standard, um Inhalte im Internet zu schützen. RSL wird von Akteuren wie Verlagen und der Werbebranche unterstützt.
https://www.

Sure would be cool if one of the big tech companies would give the Internet Archive money to make a full-text searchable index of the Wayback Machine.

Iranian government shuts down internet as violent crackdown continues (Babak Dehghanpisheh/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iranian-government-shuts-internet-violent-crackdown-continues-rcna253147
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p4#a260109p4

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Schon gelesen? Karolin Schwarz zeigt, wie X/Twitter unter Musk zur Missbrauchs-Maschine wurde: Grok generiert systematisch sexualisierte Deepfakes, vor allem von Frauen und Minderjährigen – und die Plattform schaut zu, statt Verantwortung zu übernehmen. Ein fehlender Blacklist-Mechanismus ist kein Bug, sondern ein Feature.
👉 https://

Im Lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road) - Wim Wenders - Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/im-lauf-der-zeit-kings-of-the-road-1976-wim-wenders (1976, 176min, zw-w)
'Rondreizend reparateur van bioscoopprojectoren Bruno (geweldige rol van Vogler) en de depressieve Robert treffen elkaar onder eigenaardige omstandigheden: laatstgenoemde probeert zichzelf in een rivier te verdrinken maar zijn auto zinkt niet, waarna Bruno hem een lift geeft. ...'
https://www.vprogids.nl/cinema/films/film~386547~im-lauf-der-zeit~.html
Aanrader!
Verder alleen bij Mubi te zien.

Alright, the internet is all too much right now. I'm gonna take a break for a bit and work on some projects. I have some organizing to do and some bugs to find.
The horrible things in the world don't change what we have to do. Our work is and has always been the same. They may make it easier to get other folks on board, they may make it more obvious that we were right all along, but they don't change our job.
We will do our work of building community, supporting each other, and creating the world we want to see. It will take as long as it takes to do. None of the news changes any of that. So I'm gonna take my break and hopefully come back after I've gotten some of that shit done.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Remember that when you start to feel guilty about taking a breath.

Wer sich online auf den Text konzentrieren möchte, denen ist das hier zu empfehlen. Ich hoffe das es allgemein populärer genutzt wird.
»Das Gemini Protokoll:
Gemini bietet eine Alternative zum Anzeigen von Inhalten im Internet. Mit einem eigenen Protokoll, Servern und Webbrowsern eröffnet der Geminispace eine sichere, reduzierte und fokussierte Möglichkeit, das Internet neu zu gestalten«
— von @…

Das Gemini Protokoll
Gemini bietet eine Alternative zum Anzeigen von Inhalten im Internet. Mit einem eigenen Protokoll, Servern und Webbrowsern eröffnet der Geminispace eine sichere, reduzierte und fokussierte Möglichkeit, das Internet neu zu gestalten.

NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100 cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply (Cody Combs/The National)
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/01/08/iran-internet-blocked-ip…

Iran in 'digital blackout' as Tehran throttles mobile internet access
Cloudflare Radar says country’s IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities

I'd guess related to the Internet interference reportedly happening within Cameroon, CAMNET (#AS15964) leaking #BGP routes for 4.0.0.0/8 and 8.0.0.0/8, e.g.,

This is why we need the internet. 20 minute video on exploding Tunnocks Teacakes..
https://youtu.be/Wski5l5Wla8?si=PzHNlnjf4bHZfM69

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

Great to see @… running with #ProtocolsForPublishers
Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are m…

»Beim Erscheinen des zweiten Theiles der Geschichte von Pommern hat der Verfasser zunächst die Pflicht des Dankes gegen das Gedächtniß des in Gott ruhenden Königs zu bekennen, dessen huldreiche Unterstützung dem Forscher Muße und Freudigkeit zu seinem schweren Werke gewährte.«
SO beginnt man Vorworte 🙂
Quelle: F. W. Barthold, Geschichte von Rügen und Pommern (1840)

Geschichte von Rügen und Pommern : Barthold, Friedrich Wilhelm : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1. Th. Von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf den Untergang des heidenthums -- 2. Th. Von der Bekehrung Pommerns zum Christenthume bis zum Tode Barnims I i. J. 1278....

Totaler Internet-Blackout: Sorge vor staatlicher Gewalt gegen Proteste im Iran
Die iranische Führung in Teheran schneidet die Bevölkerung von der Außenwelt ab und stellt einen harten Kurs gegen die landesweiten Proteste in Aussicht.

@… Ralph Breaks The Internet.

Det här är nog ett av de bästa samtal jag sett på länge. Drömmen om ett postamerikanskt internet!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wE8G-d7SnY

Oldie but Goldie
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@… But yeah, that are good a turning off half the internet every week thse days

🙏
> Im Laufe des neuen Jahres muss Deutsch­land die EU-Richtlinie zur Entgelt­transparenz in nationales Recht umset­zen. So müssen Arbeitgeber künftig zum Beispiel schon in den Stellenanzeigen, spätestens aber vor einem Bewerbungs­gespräch, eine Gehaltsspanne und die Kriterien für die Vergütung angeben.
>
> Auch sollen Beschäftigte ein erweiter­tes Auskunftsrecht darüber erhalten, wie das durchschnittliche Entgelt ihrer Tätigkeit ausfällt. Ziel ist es, die Lohnunte…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@r23chase/115690673547627600
"will ruin the internet"
... even more.

Bluesky and Mastodon mentioned! He's right. Make those billionaires open their platforms and watch them run their websites as they should have in the first place.
Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From #Enshittification | The Daily Show

El problema de muchos portales de internet no es que puedan acceder a ellos menores de edad a ver cosas que "no son aptas para ellos". Es que estšn llenos de basura que no es apta para nadie. Mšs que tratar de poner puertas al campo con verificadores de edad lo que tendría que estar haciendo la Comisión Europea es perseguir a Youtube, Twitter, Facebook y similares para que borren de forma eficaz todo contenido que vaya contra los principios bšsicos de respeto hacia las demšs y los …

Ich verstehe ja nicht so richtig, warum bei Steam der Transfer der Spieldaten zwischen Geräten im lokalen Netzwerk deutlich langsamer ist als der von Steam zu meinen Geräten. Die Geräte sind alle per 1G-Ethernet verbunden, Internet-Downstream ist 600 Mbps.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
RUSSIA OFFLINE: THE BIGGEST INTERNET SHUTDOWN $11.9 BILLION LOST Vlog 1283: War in #Ukraine
#Russia took first place by a…

On the internet, nobody trusts you you’re not an LLM

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Internet:
🎵 Roll (Burbank Funk)
#TheInternet
https://requestedrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kill-the-internet
https://open.spotify.com/track/01bfHCsUTwydXCHP1VoLlI

Here’s a dare: next time you feel like you have to really tell someone on the Internet that they’re wrong, post something fun instead.

Eine Firma, die Fotobücher (!) anbietet wirbt mit Studio Ghibli-KI-Schund.
Ich will raus aus diesem Internet.

I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.

How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/is-craigslist-the-last-real-place-on-the-internet/…

Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”

What do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/

from my link log —
Internet anagram server.
https://wordsmith.org/anagram/
saved 2026-01-06 https://dotat.at/:/19FXD.html<…

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

Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
@…

Geheimbericht aus Amt - Scheinehe-Panne: Was sich nach Enthüllung ändert #News #Nachrichten

The text file that runs the internet
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders

Today will be my first full day of g.fast internet (installed yesterday). So far so good. I gave up waiting for FTTP as it's still going to be a few years yet. I went with iinet because they have a 6 months free deal and no lock-in contract. Installer Tristan was terrific.
#Internet #Gfast

AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842307/att-connected-life-smart-hom…

AT&T’s new home security system is powered by Google Home and Abode
AT&T is launching Connected Life, a new smart home security offering built around Google Home that keeps working during power or internet outages.

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove Musk's X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/senators-urged-apple-google-remove-x-grok-app-stores-rcna253048
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p50#a260109p50

Droht der digitale Blackout? - KI und Internet am Limit
Das Digitalzeitalter hat längst das öffentliche und private Leben erreicht, eine Welt ohne E-Mail, TikTok, Web und KI scheint unvorstellbar. Doch die Technik hängt am seidenen Faden: Was, wenn der Strom für Rechenzentren knapp wird, Unterseekabel sabotiert und Grafikchips sanktioniert werden? In Forschung, Industrie und Militär sucht man nach Lösungen gegen den digitalen Blackout.
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Baudrillard (the author of Simulation and Simulacra in 1981, the inspiration for The Matrix movies) predicted Internet bubbles and the influence of algorithms and AI 30 years ago.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-fr

How the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard predicted today’s AI 30 years before ChatGPT
Baudrillard’s genius lay in foreseeing what these rudimentary devices like fax machines suggested about likely future uses of technology.

"Google showing a wall of ads before any real results. Facebook promising to “never spy on you,” before evolving into a mass surveillance apparatus. Amazon’s highest-ranked products buoyed by fake reviews."
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/bo

Cory Doctorow coined the term ‘enshittification.’ And he knows how to stop it
The Canadian technology critic remains hopeful a good internet is possible

Criminals Using Altered Proof-of-Life Media to Extort Victims in Virtual Kidnapping for Ransom Scams
https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA251205

Nach tagelangen Protesten: Der Iran geht nach Internetblockade offline
Seit Tagen wird der Iran wieder von Protesten erschüttert, diesmal beteiligen sich die wichtigen Händler. Nun scheint das Internet gesperrt zu werden.

Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement,
setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.
Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days,
posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022.
Another round of demon…

Internet im Iran wegen landesweiter Proteste eingeschränkt
Die Unzufriedenheit vieler Iraner entlädt sich in einer neuen Welle regierungskritischer Demonstrationen. Und wieder schränkt Teheran das Internet ein.
…

Internet blackout in Iran as protests over economy intensify across the country | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-protests-tehran-video-reza-pahlavi-b2897122.html

Karsten Wildberger - als Wirtschaftsmanager - fokussiert sich vor allem auf den Erfolg der Digitalwirtschaft, so Jakob von Lindern und Meike Laaff im Digitalpodcast der #Zeit. Auf der #rp25 hatten wir noch die Hoffnung, dass er daneben auch

Digitalpodcast: So will Karsten Wildberger Deutschland digital wachrütteln
Seit gut einem halben Jahr hat Deutschland einen Digitalminister. Wie will Karsten Wildberger das Land im IT-Bereich nach vorn bringen? Der Digitalpodcast

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

The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization,
but it only recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to bankrupt the beloved library project.
In the end, the fight led to more than 500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars.
“But it wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to Ars that the archive currently…

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Checked in XP earlier, looks basically identical to Windows 95, just also mentions Internet resources.
https://mastodon.online/@grumpy_website/115673036992705122

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Internet im Iran wegen landesweiter Proteste eingeschränkt
htt…

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--77,000-plus IP addresses are vulnerable to maximum severity React2Shell flaw,
--NCSC warns prompt injection threats might be forever,
--Apple and Google issue new spyware warnings,
--Apache Tika critical flaw allows XXE injection attacks,
--Japanese high school student accused of using ChatGPT to attack internet cafe chain,
--US is…

77,000-plus IP addresses are vulnerable to maximum severity React2Shell flaw
NCSC warns prompt injection threats might be forever, Apple and Google issue new spyware warnings, Apache Tika critical flaw allows XXE injection attacks, Japanese high school student accused of using ChatGPT to attack internet cafe chain, US issues $10m reward for Iranian hackers, much more

A look at Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project made by Anthropic employees to an industry standard shared through the Linux Foundation (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
Anthropic is donating MCP to the Linux Foundation, to be governed under the Agentic AI Foundation, with other members including OpenAI, Google, and Block.

Stromausfall in Berlin: Wie Mobilfunk und Internet wieder ans Netz gehen
Nach dem Anschlag auf die Stromversorgung in Berlin sind auch Mobilfunkstationen und andere Netzinfrastruktur ohne Strom. Was die Anbieter jetzt unternehmen.

Forscher zeigen: KIs können Menschen – unbemerkt – von politischen Meinungen überzeugen. Ein Algorithmus, der dich „sanft“ in Richtung einer Wahlentscheidung schiebt. Kein Sci-Fi, sondern Gegenwart. Die Demokratie steht auf Debug. #zeitonline #KI

Wahlmanipulation durch KI: Kann KI beeinflussen, wen wir wählen?
Zwei neue Studien suggerieren: Chatbots wie ChatGPT können unsere politischen Meinungen ändern – selbst zu Kandidaten, denen wir eigentlich gar nicht zuneigen.

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

China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/c…

»Überwachung und Kontrolle — Der geplatzte Traum vom freien Internet:
Anfang der 90er galt das Internet als grenzenloser, freier Raum. Heute bestimmen Überwachung, Paywalls und Datensammlungen, wer Zugang bekommt und wie anonym Nutzerinnen und Nutzer bleiben. Ein Überblick über die Entwicklung vom Traum zur Realität«
Hach ja aber anscheinend nimmt dies fast niemensch wahr & verdrängt es - pro Fediverse!
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Überwachung und Kontrolle: Der geplatzte Traum vom freien Internet
Das Internet der 90er galt als grenzenlos, heute dominieren Überwachung und Datengeschäfte.

Starlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-free-internet-venezuela-us-raid-maduro.h…

Elon Musk's Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest
SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.

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

Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion
Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?
— by @…
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Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion—Unless You Self‑Host
Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?

Pornografie im Internet: Auch Italien verpflichtet nun zur Altersverifizierung
Den großen Pornografie-Websites in Italien bleiben weniger als zwei Wochen, um Systeme zur Altersverifizierung umzusetzen. Andernfalls drohen Geldstrafen.

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

Freitag: Innovationszentrum aus VW-Werk, US-Visaprüfungen auf Internet-Zensur
VW-Dresden wird Tech-Campus USA gegen Online-Moderatoren Toyotas E-Sportwagen Alzheimer-Medikament umstritten TikTok-RZ in Brasilien Ärger mit Inkasso

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

»AI Slop — Wenn kreative Arbeit zur Kopie der Kopie der Kopie verkommt:
Genauso wie Spam seinerzeit E-Mail-Postfächer verstopft hat, belastet AI Slop inzwischen das gesamte Internet. Da hilft nur: Kopf einschalten.«
Weshalb überrascht mich dies nicht und zeigt dies die wirkliche Intelligenz der KI auf?!?? Weshalb sind immer noch so viele marketing gläubig und glauben der KI & Co. blind?!
:spam:

AI Slop: Wenn kreative Arbeit zur Kopie der Kopie der Kopie verkommt - Golem.de
Genauso wie Spam seinerzeit E-Mail-Postfächer verstopft hat, belastet AI Slop inzwischen das gesamte Internet. Da hilft nur: Kopf einschalten.

Samsung bringt seinen Internet-Browser auf Windows-PCs
Samsung bringt seinen mobilen Internet-Browser zunächst als Beta auf Windows-PCs. Im Fokus stehen etwa KI und geräteübergreifende Funktionen.
https://www.…

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

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

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

Similarweb: generative AI platforms were averaging ~7B monthly web visits as of September 2025, up 76% YoY, rivaling the traffic of major social networks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/chatbots-are-now-riva…

Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
New data from Similarweb reveals massive spikes in traffic and app downloads, while the user base expands to include older generations.

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

Übernahme von Versatel: United Internet bündelt Netze bei 1&1
1&1 übernimmt die Konzernschwester Versatel von United Internet. Damit liegen Festnetz und Mobilfunk unter einem Dach – neue Spekulationen dürften folgen.

Urteil: Fluggastportal darf Ryanair nicht schlechtreden
Bei längeren Flugverspätungen lassen sich Entschädigungen auch mithilfe von Internet-Portalen durchsetzen. Betreiber müssen aber auf ihre Werbeaussagen achten.
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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

AI Slop: KI-Bilder als Problem für Youtube, Instagram und das Internet
Jedes dritte Youtube-Video ist billiger KI-Müll. Der Instagram-Chef zeichnet ein düsteres Bild. Menschen lehnen KI zunehmend ab.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…