2026-09-17 18:18:18
Something I wanted to write very much. Thanks, @… for the opportunity.
https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/what-it-means-to-lose-au…
Something I wanted to write very much. Thanks, @… for the opportunity.
https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/what-it-means-to-lose-au…
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
Liebe Freunde aus #Deutschland: selbst im tiefsten Hinterland einer kleinen schottischen Insel hatte ich durchgehend gutes bis sehr gutes #Internet via #Handynetz, gleich wie in
from my link log —
The maturing of QUIC.
https://www.fastly.com/blog/maturing-of-quic
saved 2019-11-14 https://dotat.at/:/CW74X.htm…
On the AQE Air Quality Egg: Review (2013) - Is a low-cost "DIY" Internet-connected air-quality monitor actually any use? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Air-Quality-Egg-REVIEW.html
Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2
"Eine Zensur findet nicht statt." ...außer die #ZDF-Regierung macht es selbst
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_5.html
Parents are increasingly turning to the internet for help choosing names.
U.S. searches for “how to choose a baby name” have jumped 300 percent this month, according to McLuck.
https://www.the-independent.com/life-style
Am I the only one on the internet that is skeptical that Blizzard can pull of satisfying horizontal progression in WoW Forever?
horizontal progression is very very hard to pull off. And it's very easy to do it in a way that sucks.
#wow #wowForever
Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2
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 @…
Interne Dokumente aus dem Rechtsstreit der #NewYorkTimes gegen #OpenAI und #Microsoft geben Einblicke in Debatten über
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
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…
Bitte beachten:
Posts auf diesem Account werden meistens in der Schweiz 🇨🇭 verfasst, sind aber Europaweit lesbar.
Da die Schweiz nicht Teil der EU 🇪🇺 ist, werden bei :BoostOK: , :ReplyOK: und ⭐ möglicherweise Abgaben fällig, die Ihnen durch Ihren Internet-Zugangsanbieter belastet werden.
#Schweiz
#subToot Gente demais achando que rede social é sinônimo de internet. 😞
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
European Citizens' Initiative
"Stop killing the internet: no digital ID & no #AgeVerification"
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/#/screen/home
…
Tim Reinboth, @… #Internet #Technologie Die seltsamen Warnungen der #KI-Boss…
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…
„Fun“ fact: Für Foto- und Filmaufnahmen dürfen Einhandmesser laut § 42a Absatz 2 Satz 1 WaffG griffbereit geführt werden (was sonst verboten ist).
https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/waffg_2002/__42a.html
@dawid@social.craftknight.com99,6 Prozent aller .de-Domains hatten null Traffic. Zehn Angebote fressen 61 Prozent unserer Onlinezeit. Martin Andree hat das Netz vermessen — das Ergebnis ist eine Geisterstadt. Und die Plattformen haften bis heute für nichts. Wir - @… und ich - sprechen darüber bei #9vor9
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)
our washing mashine has no wifi, no bluetooh, no app, no internet - I find that pretty smart to be honest
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…
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
A name I just came up with
The org-chart version of Dead Internet Theory.
Most middle managers… don't really know what's going on "on the ground". They were once a jr mgr who didn't quite get it, so they're pretty sure that the other sr mgrs don't know what's going on either.
& they're pretty sure that *their* managers, the VPs & C-levels, are also doing their own kayfabe
& nobody is willing to name it, bc this nak…
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
"All das mag wie eine beängstigende Geschichte aus einem fernen autoritären Regime klingen. Und das ist es grösstenteils auch. Doch etwas gilt in der Schweiz genauso wie in Russland: Tech-Unternehmen reagieren auf finanzielle und rechtliche Anreize, nicht auf Prinzipien. Sie helfen der einen Regierung hier, der anderen dort – je nachdem, in welche Richtung diese Anreize zeigen."
La comisión europea quiere que todas las personas que entren en redes sociales se identifiquen de forma inequívoca para saber si puede o no puede entrar. Bueno, lo venden que es para proteger a los menores, pero realmente es para que las grandes empresas tengan aún mšs información de la gente que navega por internet y para que los estados puedan poner límites a lo que se puede ver o no. Es decir, se quieren cargar la neutralidad de internet
Wie cool, DAS Internet Archive (https://archive.org/) kommt nach St.Gallen!
Habe mich bereits angemeldet. Wer kommt auch?
https://www.ch…
"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
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
@…
On the AQE Air Quality Egg: Review (2013) - Is a low-cost "DIY" Internet-connected air-quality monitor actually any use? - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Air-Quality-Egg-REVIEW.html
"Die gezeigten privaten Aufnahmen der Staatsanwälte und Richter stammen aus ihren digitalen Spuren im Netz. Die Botschaft: Wer heute Teil des Systems ist, bleibt auch morgen identifizierbar. Das Internet vergisst nichts."
Obwohl absolut lebensgefährlich, gibt es offenbar immer noch Widerstand gegen Putin in Russland und/oder von Russen.
Unglaublich.
Und ermutigend.
Weekend Reads
* Who carries Tor traffic?
https://www.petsymposium.org/foci/2026/foci-2026-0014.php
* Internet shutdown measurement gaps
Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity gateways, a free opt-in feature that allows its routers to detect movement at home (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/981381/comcast-xfinity-shield-wifi-motion-sensing
Informe PISA : La pantalla mató la comprensión lectora: cómo el cerebro se estš adaptando a un entorno digital | Educación | EL PAÍS
https://elpais.com/educacion/2026-09-14/la-pantalla-mato-la-compren…
AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers
in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a
“complex social system in which humans and Agents participate together.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-
Erste Lufthansa-Maschine mit Starlink-Internet an Bord startet in Kürze
Fluggäste von Lufthansa können in Kürze in einem ersten Airbus schnelles Internet von Starlink nutzen.
https://www.
"On Wednesday, August 26th, the US government’s executive branch sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, a small, Italian, volunteer-run activist Internet provider, for allegedly giving services to terrorist organizations
May First emphatically condemns this designation and opposes any effort by the US government to silence political speech by attacking Internet providers."
@dawid@social.craftknight.comNothing is a .org under capitalism; everything is a .com.
(Fuck capitalism.) @… https://mstdn.social/@HopelessDemigod/117093565704523588
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 21157 nodes and 85468 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
Stop Killing the Internet: A Global Movement for a Better Internet
Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions, and building a better internet.
🔓 https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com
"The internet; what can I say? It's the driving force behind nearly the whole world today - economies, countries, communities, and more run solely on the internet these days.
However, it wasn't always this way.
Once upon a time, the #internet didn't even exist. When it did, the internet was a place. It was a place you went. You selectively chose to visit the internet,…
Gibt's Autotune-Plugins eigentlich im Fünferpack geschenkt? Frisch erschienene Popmusik und HipHop ist kaum mehr anzuhören, von zehn Songs einer New-Music-Friday-Playliste skippe ich sieben deswegen. Nochmal zwei wegen *gähn* aber das ist eine andere Geschichte. Das Leben ist zu kurz für schlechte Musik. Leider ist das Internet groß genug für viel schlechte Musik. #autotune
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/
…
Reserved Top Level #DNS Names
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606
Google svarar, AI-agenter läser åt oss och bottarnas närvaro på internet har passerat människornas. Jag skriver jag om Google Zero och om vilket internet vi egentligen vill ha.
https://carlheath.se/svarsmaskinens-tid-nar-internet-blir-en-pl…
"Cats have been shared via email since the Internet's rise to prominence in the 1990s. The New York Times described cat images as "that essential building block of the Internet"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_and_the_Internet
I started dating a Linux nerd I found on the internet I hope you're all happy
also they made this site https://www.excavate.top/ if you have any yu-gi-oh nerds in your life
Back on July 24th, the @… published a farewell message from Ted Hardie, who served as the Chair of our Board of Trustees for the last 6 years. Our board members are all volunteers - and it's a large amount of work - especially if you are in a leadership role as Ted was. It was great having Ted as our Chair and I encourage you to read his wel…
DJ William Goldsmith on the human art of internet radio | Psyche Portraits
what role remains for human judgment in a world increasingly organised by algorithms?
https://psyche.co/portraits/dj-william-goldsmith-on-the-human-art-of-internet-radio
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
British youth groups have warned the Prime Minister the plans for social media age gates could lead young people to less regulated parts of the internet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/prime-minister-burnham-uk-government-scotlan…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Signale nach China: Britische Marine kappt Überwasserdrohnen das Internet
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/
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 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…
25 Years of Mass Surveillance [is 25 years too many]
"as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."
https://www.
¿Sabéis quién no va a cuidar a tu abuela y a pesar de eso recibe un montón de subvenciones del estado? Exacto, la patronal https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2026/07/16/6a58bc82fdddffb3138b4580.html
Digitale Souveränität ist wichtig. Doch es ist auch ein weiter Weg. Und nicht immer ist klar, wo überall entsprechende Fallen lauern. Und noch weniger, wie sie gegeneinander zu bewerten sind.
Denn wir beziehen ganz viele digitale Dienstleistungen und Geräte, von Serverkapazitäten und Cloud über Netzwerkzugang bis zu Computern und Netzwerk-Switches, aber auch Klimaanlagen für Rechnerräume.
Ich habe mal eine Übersicht zusammengestellt.
1/n
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 48 nodes and 65 edges.
Helgoland autark - Insel für zwei Tage ohne Festlandstrom
Helgoland ist wegen Seekabel-Arbeiten kurzzeitig ohne Festlandstrom und Internet. Notrufe bleiben erreichbar, Stromversorgung durch Diesel-Aggregat.
https:/…
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_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.
Die Zeit der ultrabilligen Mini-Bestellungen aus Fernost neigt sich langsam dem Ende zu. 📦
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11455698?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
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
SpaceX reports Starlink subscribers up 100% YoY to 12M, vs. 12.19M est., and monthly ARPU of $66, down from $85 a year earlier (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/elon-musk-says-starlink-could-deliver-most-of-t…
Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/sams
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 3354 nodes and 6369 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
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.
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_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 23 nodes and 24 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 20 nodes and 26 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
NRW-Gefängnisse testen Internetzugang für Häftlinge
Nordrhein-Westfalen startet ein Pilotprojekt: In drei Gefängnissen dürfen Häftlinge erstmals unter Aufsicht und mit Einschränkungen ins Internet.
https://www.