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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

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

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--A database with 149 million usernames and passwords was exposed on the internet,
--Venezuelan nationals who stole cash from ATMs using malware will be deported from US,
--FBI asked Microsoft to unlock encrypted laptops,
--Under Armour is investigating massive data breach,
--Tech investors want the US government to prob…

A database with 149 million usernames and passwords was exposed on the internet
Venezuelan nationals who stole cash from ATMs using malware will be deported from US, FBI asked Microsoft to unlock encrypted laptops, Under Armour is investigating massive data breach, Tech investors want the US government to probe S. Korea's treatment of Coupang following data breach, much more

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)

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…

Despite Chinese hacks, Trump's FCC votes to scrap cybersecurity rules for phone and internet companies | TechCrunch
Two Trump-appointed FCC officials voted to undo the telecom industry's cybersecurity rules. One Democratic commissioner dissented, saying the decision leaves the United States "less safe" at a time when threats are increasing.

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…

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same.
The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology bubbles or booms in modern times. To us there is no debate. There is too much spending, too much leverage, too many crazy deals, and too much competition from China for us not to see big bumps ahead.

For decades now, the traditional telcos keep trying to find ways to get newer companies to pay them... whether it is dressed up as " #FairShare " or #NetworkFees or "dispute resolution" or whatever... in the end they are flawed ideas that are solutions trying to find proble…

“Fair Share” and the Digital Networks Act (DNA): Three Concerns  - Internet Society
A critical look at the first draft of the Digital Networks Act, examining what it says, the assumptions it reflects, and what it may enable.

"So long as the pain of using the service is lower than the pain of leaving it, the companies can turn the screws on users to make their lives worse in order to extract more profit from them. This is why Musk killed the block button and why Zuck fired all his moderators."
https://plural…

from my link log —
A Golang malformed HTTP POST mystery.
http://deliveroo.engineering/2019/02/22/go-down-the-rabbit-hole.html
saved 2019-03-07

Go down the rabbit hole
Debugging a proxy that functions perfectly over the public internet, but fails when inside our Amazon VPC. Or how a friendly man in the middle sent me down a rabbit hole.

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

Disappointing to see that even Electric Sheep has a slop angle now https://electricsheep.org/

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/

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

RE: #CECOT piece is everywhere on the web - even the Internet Archive: #60Minutes ... a #StreisandEffect writ large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)

The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys
Back in the 1990s, in the first flowering of the World Wide Web, the Silicon Valley guys were way into their manifestos. “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”! The “Cluetrain Manifesto!…

It's sad that every time you buy a new TV or fridge these days, you have to make sure beforehand that it doesn't include AI and that it doesn't have to be connected to the Internet to function.
And the saddest part: if you ask the salesperson, they have no idea because you're the first person to ask these questions!
#internetofshit

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…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

»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.
🔐

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 anonymously.

If you’re wondering what the Internet has become, Cloudflare Radar offers a good overview. In the top 10, there’s nothing outside the large conglomerates. I hope we can change this trend over the next 10 years.
#internet #openinternet

from my link log —
Engineering and operations at the Internet Archive.
https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
saved 2026-01-20

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon
A deep dive into the Internet Archive's custom tech stack.

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

Smart fridge, smart stove, smart dishwasher, smart washer/dryer or other household appliances... HELL NO! I don't want or need internet connected appliances. If those servers goes offline, if an 'upgrade' glitches or I say no to an update what happens to the basic functionality? What data are they capturing and selling?
h…

videochat intake session with Oregon unemployment counselor, she mentioned half the people she's been seeing lately are software engineers.
also, her supervisor told her to work from home because the office is crazy with people seeking help. her office is Hermiston, far from the metro area. she mentioned she doesn't have great internet there.
good times

The freezers in the co-op on ecclesall road in sheffield sound really nice
#sheffield

Interessante Analyse zum suboptimalen DTAG-Routing zu Cloudflare. Nicht nur Telekom schuld, sondern auch Cloudflare lenkt Traffic nach London! Details: https://www.reddit.com/r/de_EDV/comments/1qkm5vt/zum_dtagrouting_zu_cloudflare/

IMPORTANT: TODAY IS THE 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF "BEAUTIFUL CINNAMON ROLL TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD, TOO PURE"
#memes #internet #internetHistory

In a dream last night I was trying to write a post. I kept being interrupted and when I returned I'd find what I wrote had changed. The keyboard kept changing as I was typing to be "helpful." I put down my phone and picked it up again to find the app had "helpfully" filled my screen with Nazi shit. Then I realized the app was an AI post assistant, so I uninstalled it and used the website.
The post I was trying to write was, "I want to be able to have the confidentiality of cheap hot dog meat in the 90's: no one should know who or what I actually am."
It feels like a relevant manifestation of the anxiety of existing on the internet today.

Never forget that the liberals that cherry-pick his words now would have hated him back then:
#MartinLutherKing

:youtube: WHAT'S GOOD INTERNET!!
There's been lots of discourse lately about how it is between Mexico and Spain so Im zippin' this whiteboy homie of mine ~he got a mexican last name he got that blood in him~ ACROSS the atlantic seafloor in Elon Musk's BRAND FREAKIN' NEW HYPERTUBE, a undersea -pneumatic- tube transport! THANK YOU FOR THE BETA ELON!! anyway,, we gonna see how he does with spain!
*camera pans to Nick Fuentes, mouth duct-taped shut, arms str…

You'd think that Gracenote must be one of the oldest APIs still working but there's basic Internet protocols that are way older, like NTP or DNS

Two extreme views of the same event (the recent Cloudflare outage):
"I didn't notice a thing and if it wasn't for chatter on IRC I would never have learned about it"
https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.na…

Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov

RE: https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000/115596528479293098
Seeing the AI crowd shift towards household robots makes me think: Where are they going to get the training data?
I'm calling it now: We're going to see some sort of internet c…

Shutdown the Internet http://turnofftheinternet.com/

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

dear #lazyweb: when presenting a #html slide-deck, would I put https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-wai-aria-20<…

The Plan Is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever.
https://novaramedia.com/2025/12/07/the-plan-is-to-make-the-internet-worse-and-big-tech-rich/
An interesting interview with Cory Doctorow.

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…

Apparently #Cloudflare went down. Tragic, I would’ve noticed if I lived on the internet or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rou7wE6Fnjw

Thank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.

“You can’t sell us $200 ‘Rebel’ jackets at Galaxy’s Edge and then delete the words that define what being a Rebel actually means."
Testify.
✅ The Mouse Recants: Why #Disney Deleted a Viral Thread of Anti-Fascist Movie Quotes

The Mouse Recants: Why Disney Deleted a Viral Thread of Anti-Fascist Movie Quotes
Disney asked the internet how it was doing and ended up not liking what people had to say about the state of the country.

The consequences of the 996 working hour system:
"On the Chinese internet, the country’s current predicament – slowing economic growth, a falling birthrate, a meagre social safety net, increasing isolation on the world stage – is often expressed through buzzwords. There is tangping, or “lying flat”, a term used to describe the young generation of Chinese who are choosing to chill out rather than hustle in China’s high-pressure economy. There is runxue, or “run philosophy”, which re…

Yesterday was one of those good days doing hard stuff, playing with Chebyshev polynomials, binary coefficients, factorials of half integers, and other fun. All in the interest of a pointless decision to (re)implement the general 𝚪 function using the Lanczos approximation, but totally worth it for the experience alone.
The internet, the good old internet, is a treasure trove for this kind of work, especially but not exclusively wikipedia@wikis.world.

media conglomerates are leading the way against open internet law by fining cloudflare:
Italy's "shadowy cabal of European media elites" ... "scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. "

Trump's attorney general Pam Bondi dared liberals to define 'fascist' and the internet pulled out the snarkiest dictionaries they could find - The Poke
https://www.thepoke.com/2025/11/17/pam-bondi-dared-liberals-to-define-facist-and-the-internet-pulled-out-the-snarkiest-dictionaries-they-could-find/

@… Yes, I'm off grid, love my solar. Opposed to the AI trained on internet slop by amoral companies, not the concept.

Currently retrieving my old blog.rmendes.net data from the internet archive 2020-2023 with the intent to migrate it to this place !

Every post you write is first read by a machine. Should the nature of writing change to accommodate that? I look at the pros and cons of adopting an AI-friendly grammar https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_writing-journali…

Spot the unusual event.
#internet #AMSIX

It's 2025 and "serious business" people still think you can prevent file-sharing on the Internet
Cute

you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink
isn't technology beautiful
https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t…

Assuming we have power and internet, grahams' completely normal radio programme will be live this Monday, January 26th at 8pm! Tune in over UncertainFM

Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/bezos-blue-origin-satellite-internet-sp…

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launches satellite internet service to rival SpaceX, Amazon
Blue Origin is looking to send the first of TeraWave's 5,408 satellites into space in the fourth quarter of 2027.

from my link log —
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
saved 2019-08-31

What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work | HackerNoon
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web. They respond to the rise…

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

I have just become resigned to the fact that Oklahoma will probably be without PBS sooner or later, especially since Arkansas dropped it. I assume I can just sponsor an out of state entity once that happens and watch it over the internet However. . .
#pbs #oklahoma

Despite what you will read on the internet, exiting #Vim is really easy.
Just press the ESC key and then enter this simple line to exit the editor:
:let script=['#define _POSIX_SOURCE', '#include

The Internet, Reviewed.
Critical Reviews of Online Content, with occasional Adventures in Fact Checking Kirsten Drysdale is reviewing the internet...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-internet-reviewed/

I heard the tech Billionaire who invented Mastodon sold out and is now a tech Trillionaire and... just kidding! I'm happy that I've been a user (and supporter!) of Mastodon for three years now. The coolest fucking people on the Internet are on the Fediverse.

Corporate algorithms and chatbots are taking over the internet, and it’s very bad.
Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a nonprofit made by and for human users who believe in sharing free, organized, accessible, quality information for the good of humanity.
Let’s not take that for granted.
-- Doug Lindner
https://

Doug Lindner (@douglindner.bsky.social)
Corporate algorithms and chatbots are taking over the internet, and it’s very bad. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a nonprofit made by and for human users who believe in sharing free, organized, accessible, quality information for the good of humanity. Let’s not take that for granted. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

What if our networks could do more than just carry data?
In December, the Fibre Sensing Task of the GÉANT (GN5-2) Project, together with SURF @… turned 57 km of live optical fibre into a sensor.
The result? Detecting everything from trams to a plane landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
🎥 Watch Chris Atherton walk us through the experiment.

UNESCO World Heritage Meme Gallery NOW! The Internet is culture too!!

Researchers say Russia-aligned Pravda network is engaging in "LLM grooming", flooding the internet with disinformation to influence chatbots like ChatGPT (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov

Old enough to remember 2013-02-07 when any web page that included a Facebook-supplied javascript resource (to enable the, once ubiquitous, Facebook Connect) redirected users to Facebook.
(It's the event that most informed my suspicion in using third-party javascript - without SRI.)
It's 2025: Facebook is retiring external like buttons, but Cloudflare is breaking captchas.

Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…

Elon Musk's Starlink is adding 20,000 new users a day as it hits 9 million customers
Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X.

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 4409 nodes and 8938 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

IETF@40
Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Black Coffee from lnbits likes internet of things, but doesn't like the way it tends to work with centralised servers and spying companies running them.
But what if your coffee pot and lights and smart plugs were nostr instead?
Nobody can cut your machine off, it has it's own keys and encryption, you could even ruin your own relay to talk to it instead of using public relays.
Remote control without having to expose the home network.
You could even make it require zaps and so make a vending machine.
Demonstration by sending lightning requests to the coffee pot on stage works better than the mikes that have been feeding back this afternoon 😆
#nostr #nostrshire #internetOfThings

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

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

The Internet that wasn’t – Net.Wars by Wendy Grossman - Cybersalon
This week on Twitter, writer and Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost asked this: "There's a belief tha

"The Richmond is Home to 1 Trillion Web Pages
A Friday afternoon tour of the Internet Archive, which recently celebrated its 29th anniversary".
Nice article about the free tours at the
@…
every friday at 1pm.

https://wikidiff.com feels like a piece of the old Internet, even though it's newish

#NSFW #BUM

'Incredible': Internet stunned by Erika Kirk's 'slip of the tongue' on Charlie's 'grift' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/erika-kirk-2674817855/

Alphabet's stock closed at a record high of $299.66 on November 21, continuing a strong recent run after Google's Gemini 3 impressed analysts and consumers (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/google-closes-at-a-record-high/

Google closes at a record high
The internet giant has a lot going for it right now.

bring back the prices of the specialty coffee on the demo site of Microsoft Internet Information Server 2.0 from 1996

Looking for a good dungeon crawler-y board game where the rules are simple enough to play it with smaller kids. (I have been playing a bit of Mice and Mystics with my 5 year old and he's super into the whole thing.
Any recommendations (only games you played, consider I know how to use internet searching)

Cloudflare says "a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved", after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/cloudf…

Cloudflare down: Websites such as Twitter not working amid technical problems with the internet
Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

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

»TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga:
TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios«
When will the children & young people (all people) finally realize that dss Internet is decentralized and not about a few power-hungry corporations?
(A rhetorical question in my dream of freedom)
🤷

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

Can't sleep so I'm naturally browsing the Internet about old tech. This Sony Walkman from 1995 could very well be the ur-gadget for translucent plastics, predating the original iMac by 3 years.
But! The Sony Whoopee predates it by a year, although I think this one was aimed at kids.

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

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-…

Global Internet Freedom Declines for 15th Consecutive Year | TechPolicy.Press
Despite funding cuts, Freedom House delivered its annual report on how countries are performing on measures of digital rights and internet freedom.

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/…

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025
YouTube remains the most popular, but adults are increasingly using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit. Use of some platforms varies by age, gender, and race and ethnicity.

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…

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

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

Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's "maintaining" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/whats-next-for-threads

What's next for Threads
Connor Hayes wants Meta's X rival to be "the place on the internet to talk about what's going on in the world." Also: Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour this week on ACCESS.

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

Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht says "we failed our customers and the broader Internet" when a Cloudflare issue "impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us" (Dane Knecht/@dok2001)
https://x.com/dok2001/status/1990791419653484646

Dane Knecht 🦭 (@dok2001) on X
I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts of traffic that rely on us. The sites, businesses, and organizations that rely on Cloudflare depend on us being available and I

IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances and aim to provide a proof-of-concept by 2030, potentially paving the way for quantum internet (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

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 24078 nodes and 98112 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

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.”

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