@jake4480@c.im2026-07-19 17:52:39
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 @…
@jake4480@c.im2026-07-19 17:52:39
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-19 21:26:19
Peter G Neumann, understood and strongly believed in the systems nature of problems.
That is, there’s not one cause to a problem;
everything, including the humans involved, interact.
Take, for example, buffer overflows,
long a security scourge on the Internet.
Is it the fault of the programmers?
I knew someone who, 40 years ago (and several years before the Internet worm made the problem obvious),
wrote a string-handling library before embarking on…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-21 06:25:49
Analysis: 382 news sites, including 342 local outlets, are blocking Internet Archive's crawlers amid AI concerns, an increase from 241 sites in January 2026 (Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-tha
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-05-20 21:30:52
"Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, before she channeled her talent for math into computer #programming While working at the RAND Corporation, she built a groundbreaking simulation, originally conceived to strengthen military communications during the cold war. The simulation—and her work—would ultimately lay the foundation for the moder…
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-05-20 15:38:23
One year ago today, the Coalition on Digital Impact (#CODI ) was launched with a mission of ensuring everyone can navigate the Internet in their own language, using their own scripts. My employer, @… , was among the founding members. 🎉
I've since joined CODI's Board of Directors as I do see this as critical work to deliver on the I…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-06-19 20:23:11
@… thanks. Without the redirect and the utm stuff:
https://www.lpi.org/blog/2026/06/19/code-that-built-the-internet-the-impact-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-05-20 18:00:04
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 34 nodes and 52 edges.
@mia@hcommons.social2026-07-20 13:45:07
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 15:50:30
On an island in the Bering Sea 1,200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska, sits an abandoned house on an abandoned Navy base.
There is no furniture, and the wind blows through broken windows.
The last people to live here moved away long ago.
Yet a bright orange pipe with a black fiber-optic cable inside runs from the outer wall down into the surrounding soil.
The cable was installed to connect the home to the internet after the base closed.
It costs more than $340…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-06-20 04:40:19
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…
@lornajane@indieweb.social2026-05-20 12:32:16
The transcript of this video is quite a long read but I think it is worth your time to reflect on how current geopolitics may give room for a new era of internet. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
The main takeaway is something I'm trying to carry with me: " don't despair"
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-05-21 09:51:00
A malicious npm package?
You really think someone would go on the internet and do that?
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-04-21 11:05:40
The Internet's Favorite Lawyer Says We're Living Through 'Multiple Watergates per Week' (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-legal-eagle-devin-stone/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p10#a260421p10
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-06-18 22:24:07
Government just prematurely ended debate on Bill C-22
The federal government decided to use a so-called “guillotine” time-limit all further clause by clause on Bill C-22 to just 30 minutes.1 This will block ANY committee debate that scrutinizes the dangerous surveillance powers in Part 2 of the bill.2
The government wants to jam Bill C-22 today, and vote it through the House tomorrow (June 19). We’re calling on MPs of all parties to refuse to advance Part 2 without full committee…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-05-18 18:09:45
My daughter just had a routine medical appointment canceled due to an Internet outage at the provider's office.
Silly me, i assumed that even in the days of electronic cloud medical records that those were cloud *synced* and the office maintained local copies of their patients' data that they could access offline then push to cloud when the connection came back.
But no, they're down so hard they couldn't even cancel her appointment without the office manager calli…
@johl@mastodon.xyz2026-05-20 21:17:39
Happy 40th birthday, ZMODEM! On May 20, 1986 the ZMODEM protocol specification was posted on Usenet by Chuck Forsberg of Omen Technology.
https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.unix/1986-May/004372.html
If you used a BBS before the Internet you might get…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-18 17:14:14
"In the entire federal regulatory landscape governing the privacy of personal health information, there are two main frameworks. Crisis pregnancy centers are exempt from both."
Not good.
https://kimmienicole.substack.com/p/what-they-take-when-you-walk-in…
@panna_pudi@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-06-20 06:03:03
Content warning: tadc ep 9
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
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de2026-05-20 18:58:39
Lost in the woods? You don't need an internet connection to determine your location. GPS¹ reception is possible at basically any point on the Earth's surface.²
All you need is a GPS¹ receiver (such as your phone) and a map (an offline map on your phone or a paper map).
¹ well, GNSS in general, not just GPS in particular
² well, except in Moscow and in war zones
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org2026-05-19 01:12:28
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-05-18 13:26:32
Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-physical-politics-of-the-internet-with-britt-paris/
@david@boles.xyz2026-07-19 13:14:51
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
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-21 12:15:44
They either don’t care about other people at all, or they enjoy destroying the Internet. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@unixsteve@social.linux.pizza2026-06-21 00:35:27
I have written up my Masters degree research project in a less-academic, more technical style, and in half the word count. I did enjoy the project and I do think that it has some interesting findings (such as 3,500 fraudulent login attempts per day) and provides useful results on password policies and approaches for securing SSH servers on today's internet.
"When you put a Linux server on the internet with a running SSH service, anecdotally people will confirm that you will s…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2026-06-20 17:40:32
Hrmm, Zig is an interesting language...figured I'd kick the tires and figure out what's going on. So far it's been pretty nice.
#zig #programming
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-19 08:10:39
The Economist is testing parallel versions of marketing and B2B sales content, one optimized for humans and another clearly structured, Q&A-style for AI agents (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-economist…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-20 10:59:19
From a Chinese state-sponsored news outlet. Can you say pot-kettle-black?
"Investigations found that the foreign intelligence agency had taken control of multiple routers within China and used them as platforms to send phishing emails disguised as invitations to participate in review work or traffic violation payment notices, targeting staff at key institutions."
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks2026-07-20 10:55:56
@Xavier@infosec.exchange2026-06-20 21:26:09
"Alright, what kind of GUI do you want for your new SCADA system?"
"I want it look like Hollywood designed it for a disaster movie."
"What?"
"Also, don't add any security and put it directly on the internet."
"Wha...
#infosec
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-05-16 07:28:38
"DB will let you down. It will also, more often than the internet would have you believe, deliver you eight hours of clean uninterrupted thinking time at 250 km/h across a country, drop you within walking distance of your next meeting, and occasionally reroute you down the left bank of the Rhine at golden hour as an apology. The trick is to plan for the first and enjoy the second.'
The most useful hints I've ever seen for our summer holiday planning...
https://blog.hofstede.it/a-field-manual-for-three-years-on-deutsche-bahn/
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2026-05-21 14:48:23
BlueSky isn't letting me post; I wonder if that's the State House internet connection, or just BlueSky...
@pre@boing.world2026-06-18 21:09:43
Content warning: UKPol Makerfield Result
Well, the Makerfield by-election is over. Voting just closed.
I don't live there, but if I did I think you gotta vote Labour in order to destroy this Labour government.
Which is in itself pretty mad. Demonstrating the utterly broken nature of the whole political system.
This is surely the only circumstance in which I switch away from the Greens.
As I said last month, they absolutely should have stood and spoke in front of every camera pointed at the constituency. Dunno that they managed the second part. I didn't see much of her myself, certainly.
Anyway, the point is that there's only one candidate at this election which has any chance at all of changing the direction of this government.
None of the others might be Prime Minister by autumn. Nobody else who wins can do that. There's only one candidate who can probably unseat the failing prime minister.
Would be voting more in hope than expectation of course.
He won't be very different. Certainly he's the same on Israel's genocide, on taxing wealth, on fiscal rules preventing government investment, on private industry being better than government owned industry, on capitalism, on the bond market, on the monarchy, on the pointless drug war, on conflating protest with terrorism, on the house of lords, on AI, on Free Software, on copyright, on age-gating and surveilling the internet.
But maybe that one difference, "public 'control' without ownership of industry" is at least a bit better than just Starmer thinking the state is powerless against American AI? He might try a bit harder to build more houses?
So not voting in expectation of anything really changing here, but voting for the only candidate who will even be in a position to try.
If you dislike Starmer and prefer any of the other candidates, if you prefer Greens, or Conservatives, or Restore, or Reform, or Lib Dem, or anarchy or antifa or woke then you should vote for the Labour Party candidate to cause Starmer's downfall.
You should only be voting against Starmer's Labour Party if you are happy with Starmer's Labour government and want Starmer to stay.
And only like 75,000 people even get to mark a ballot.
"Restore" are the splitters from Reform (who are in turn the Nativist right wing party splitters from the Conservatives).
They left Reform because Reform weren't racist enough for them, mostly. Their vote count is key here. Will their vote be higher than the Labour/Reform margin?
I think probably it will.
So the Restore Party is the spoiler that forces the PM out of office by splitting the nazi vote and allowing in a challenger to the PM.
Insane election. 😵💫
Apparently nobody conducted an exit poll, so we'll find out in the morning.
#ukpol #makerfield
@annsev@troet.cafe2026-06-19 11:36:42
Kaja #Kallas hätte es durchaus öffentlich sagen können: #Israel ist ein #Apartheid|systen. Schon 2017 hat sich die UN in diesem Sinne wörtlich geäußert.
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-07-20 21:00:37
Cursor trails from real people browsing the internet.
#WeirdWideWeb
@bici@mastodon.social2026-05-21 06:01:58
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-05-18 13:37:25
Briefly delighted to learn that one of the cable-laying vessels mentioned in this piece, was previously named "Clark Cable".
https://www.keystone-collective.org/greece-is-building-its-own-internet-turkey-would-like-a-word/
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-05-17 13:43:31
"Doom" soundtrack becomes a cultural asset in the USA
I just found it in the Internet archive and I can tell: that is NOT how Doom did sound with my Soundblaster16. 🤔
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Doom-soundtrack-becomes-a-cultur…
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-05-12 13:22:30
Every so often ideas come along that are sufficiently deserving of ridicule and derision, this is one of those times:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-build-ipv8-the-next-generation-of-the-internet
@guerda@ruhr.social2026-07-20 12:06:25
Inspired by @… to show kindness on the internet
1. I constantly but slowly develop my #BeetsStatistics further. It shows stats based on your @…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-18 04:23:11
When I first moved here six years ago, I complained and complained that I was in the middle of NYC and the only thing available here was fucking Spectrum (cable) with like 5-10mbit upload speeds. After an awful year of that, T-Mobile's 5g home internet stuff became available. It was finicky and the modem crashed/overheated all the time, but I could often get 100mbit upload speeds.
A year ago Verizon ran fiber down my street. On Monday, I'll finally get 300mbit up!
@gray17@mastodon.social2026-05-20 14:24:49
@… I found a paper that quotes the "no portal litter" description, and attributes it to a book "Internet 101" by Wendy G Lehnert, but cites a 1999 printing of the book, which I can't find online. (it was originally printed 1997 and had several editions with different isbn numbers, but no edition indicator in the title)
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-20 21:47:42
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Internet:
🎵 Roll (Burbank Funk)
#TheInternet
https://open.spotify.com/track/01bfHCsUTwydXCHP1VoLlI
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-05-17 00:10:18
Saving The Streak
Internet is out, and they don't know when it'll be back, so I'm throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.
http://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/saving-the-streak/
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-07-18 12:28:11
@n8foo@macaw.social2026-05-13 05:28:48
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-05-07 07:19:06
The Boring Internet (text) | Terry Godier
#Internet because you've…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-07-14 12:35:30
Do the Cowboys have the best offensive guard duo in football? https://insidethestar.com/do-the-cowboys-have-the-best-offensive-guard-duo-in-football
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-01 05:30:50
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…
@cybertailor@craba.cab2026-05-10 07:27:05
#Иран, где аятолл у власти сменили военные из КСИР, пошёл по северокорейскому пути регулирования интернета. Раньше доступ в интернет предоставлялся всем желающим, теперь для этого нужно специальное разрешение ("Internet Pro"), а всем остальным доступна лишь Национальная информационная сеть, иранский аналог Кванмёна.
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2026-07-15 16:48:08
FPF Submits Comments to Inform California Children’s Social Media Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-california-childrens-social-media-protections-rulemaking-process/…
@mot@chaos.social2026-05-10 16:02:02
Wer im Internet unterwegs ist, ist bestimmt mal über „The Most Mysterious Song on the internet" (TMMS) gestolpert – einem Song, der in den 80ern aus dem Radio in Deutschland aufgenommen wurde, aber über 40 Jahre lang nicht identifiziert werden konnte. Über die Zeit haben sich viele der Suche nach dem Interpreten gewidmet, was letztendlich zum Internet-Phänomen wurde.
Darüber gibt es in der ARD Mediathek eine schöne Doku (samt Auflösung!):
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2026-07-16 22:05:09
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)
@hynek@mastodon.social2026-07-14 06:22:31
Fish shell adding support for Darcs is something I truly didn't have on my 2026 bingo card! It was the first DVCS that clicked with me after I bounced of Arch and before hg/git came on the stage. I could even host source trees on my homepage!
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com2026-07-18 08:55:52
I’m about to board a train again. This time it goes through the left side of the country, so there will be no usable internet.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-13 20:42:02
from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-05-15 22:25:20
Thread worth reading!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:73dpznbu4wqwtcyurwbiulov/post/3mltfotpw232p
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-20 12:40:49
A look at Disney's 10-year mismanagement of FiveThirtyEight as Nate Silver says Disney is refusing to negotiate with him about restoring the site's archive (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight
@david@boles.xyz2026-06-12 13:06:38
The Old Fears, Faster
The fears about artificial intelligence are the fears about the internet, rerun at twice the speed. When the public internet arrived in the mid-1990s, four anxieties traveled with it....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/12/the-old-fears-faster/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-06-20 18:00:36
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…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-21 07:37:45
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Internet:
🎵 Roll (Burbank Funk)
#TheInternet
https://requestedrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kill-the-internet
https://open.spotify.com/track/01bfHCsUTwydXCHP1VoLlI
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-07-16 08:30:01
100% true.
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-05-12 16:55:05
Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within.
...
We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it.
#internet
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-07-11 12:27:36
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
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-06-05 11:21:21
These kind of interesting stories make browsing the internet worthwhile for me, aluminum amphipods in the deepsea 😀
"An aluminum shield enables the amphipod Hirondellea gigas to inhabit deep-sea environments"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?i…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 16:30:43
"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
@scott@carfree.city2026-06-12 23:26:07
“According to Zack Rosen, founder of California YIMBY and the Abundance Network, the problem with politics is Americans being too involved. Bemoaning the rise of small-dollar political donations in fundraising documents leaked to the Prospect, Rosen is blunt: 'Small dollar internet fundraising makes politics dumber.'”
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-07-14 00:55:56
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
@…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2026-07-16 06:19:08
RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116927937054514788
"The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice Odgers believes. Men are the bigge…
@mlncn@social.coop2026-06-12 18:36:06
Aside from the conspiracy among oligarchs internationally to boost the wealth and power of their weapon of democracy destruction, Elon Musk (and the blatant rigging of financial markets to go with it, to leave pensions and index funds the losers in the largest pump-and-dump in world history) there is a very large amount of plain old market irrationality in making an inefficient internet provider wrapped up with several unprofitable companies the most paper-valued corporation on initial publi…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-05-09 22:18:39
"[The #Fediverse] became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade #Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type"
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-06-17 06:28:15
Ever since generative AI began making up large sums of impressions on the internet, advertisers simply don't know anymore what statistics can be believed, hence they are lobbying for age verification laws.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-05-12 15:44:55
The "Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology" is simultaneously the most boringly titled book - though accurate, it's a super boring book - and one of the most useful for my current project. It's basically just a list of officeholders, regulations, laws, geographical divisions, etc., etc. But gloriously helpful. Thank you to my forebear, the historian Frederick H. Armstrong, for making the lives of the handful of us who work on early 19th-century Ontario so much easier.
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-15 07:46:18
Well, hey - the actual King of England basically told Trump he was a bellend and a fart, so he's fair game from now on...
'This Is Epic': Xi Found a Brutal Way to Humiliate Trump as His Cold Reception in China Gets Compared to Barack Obama’s Hero-Like Arrival
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/15/this-is-epic-donald-trumps-reception-in-china-pales-in-comparison-to-barack-obamas-visit-and-the-internet-claims-its-no-accident/
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-05-09 04:55:02
Boy was I wrong about the Fediverse
#bookmarks
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2026-06-16 13:56:08
My home power cut out for a fraction of a second and it took 15 minutes to get the Internet back up again. My current theory is the DSL modem stalls out if it tries negotiating a connection while the telco cabinet is still getting itself running after its own unscheduled reboot. My long history with many Actiontec modems is that they need to be power-off reset because they can't manage themselves, while the one Motorolla I had was excellent in this regard.
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-05-08 01:29:01
Put your name on your work and find like-minded people to share credit with. It is now on you to build not your brand, but the demonstration that you know what's going on.
It is going to be very hard to get a job by printing a list of skills at the top of your resume and hoping to get noticed. It already was and now it's worse than ever.
Be a person on the internet and by that I mean do not hide your person-hood. Your curiosity, your learning, your willingness to consider angles. Professional polish is something the clankers do better than us, because they are trained on all of us doing it.
If not putting your name on your learning, put a stable pseudonym out there. Be known by the work you do and even the mistakes you make and reconsider. Showing that your knowledge has _depth_ is now one of the most important things. We can all vibe up to a basic understanding. It's the people who can see where they went wrong, and course-correct that really are going to carry the day.
You no longer get to be perfect and only show what's finished and polished. And you're gonna have to show your work.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-12 18:23:42
A Hackers Guide to Circumventing Internet Shutdowns
“Internet shutdowns are devastating for human rights. When people are disconnected from the internet and digital services, it impacts all aspects of their life…both in that country and externally”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-06-20 07:00:05
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
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 03:39:38
This glimpse of modern drone-enabled police surveillance,
including the highly sensitive video of the man’s physical takedown,
wasn’t voluntarily released by the SFPD
—which, like most US police departments, rarely releases drone videos even in response to public records requests.
Instead, it was accidentally livestreamed onto the open internet via Skydio’s website.
That’s where two security researchers, Sam Curry and Maik Robert, discovered that the SFPD was le…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-07-10 17:26:27
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-06-06 12:18:16
AVFTCN 041 – 3 Weekend Long Reads About The Future of the Internet
What does the future of the Internet look like? What do we need to do differently? What could we do to bring about the Internet we want? What should we be concerned about with, for instance, the massive investment in AI infrastructure? Those are all questions that I've been focused on for years (well, except the last one... that's new), and I always seek out many other viewpoints as I ponder my own.
@jake4480@c.im2026-06-08 00:02:00
Blog post on the Gemini protocol is up: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/the-gemini-protocol -- with links to the capsules and phlogs (remove the space before the TLD before viewing them in a Gemini browser) of @…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-06-17 11:42:02
from my link log —
Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
saved 2021-02-10
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-15 21:13:06
I love stuff I read on the Internet, today it was “Internet Explorer was bad because it ran on only one platform”.
My guy, I have personally used Internet Explorer on at least 5 platforms (and there were more).
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-15 05:55:56
A profile of UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, the world's leading digital forensics expert for 20 years, who says he is now struggling to identify AI fakes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-07-07 05:36:06
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-05-16 16:09:37
Learning random facts from random people, I mean, that's one of the great things about the internet, right?
#blog
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-06-15 17:51:37
A profile of Hany Farid, the world's leading deepfake expert, who recently left the Bay Area for Vermont.
"I can’t stand this place anymore... These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-13 16:23:36
Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-05-18 02:00:05
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
@david@boles.xyz2026-06-13 13:57:30
Always Open, Never Empty
The internet abolished closing hours. The new wave is abolishing the pause. Both moves are economic in origin and…...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/13/always-open-never-empty/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-10 02:23:43
The KIDS Act Will Lead to Mandatory Age Checks
Many of the bills in the KIDS Act share the same premise:
that children and teenagers should have different experiences online than adults.
In practice, that requires websites and apps to determine who is under 18
—and who isn’t.
That’s where the problems with the KIDS Act start.
EFF certainly supports giving all users better privacy and safety tools online.
But those protections should not,
and …
@jake4480@c.im2026-05-09 21:09:48
Good brief piece by @…, who admits being wrong about the fediverse, and discusses some of its finer points.
"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of.. there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement met…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-17 03:16:01
FiveThirtyEight's archived website now redirects readers to ABC News; many thousands of articles dating back to FiveThirtyEight's founding in 2008 have vanished (John S.W. MacDonald/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/business/media/f…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-12 04:10:48
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio
and depended on an iron lung to live.
She died June 26 in Oklahoma,
the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.
“They told her she wasn’t supposed to live past 20 years old,”
Lillard’s younger sister, Cindy McVey, told The Associated Press on Friday.
“She had the enthusiasm and the drive to continue living and make the best of her life.”
McVey attri…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-05-14 10:00:06
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
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 01:18:04
Corporate platforms – Google, Meta, Amazon – that now dominate digital life
are far closer to William Gibson's original vision than to the participatory web that briefly flourished between them.
Gibson imagined cyberspace as a space of corporate dominance from the start;
Silicon Valley built the open internet first,
-- then converged on his dystopia anyway.
The difference is that, in Neuromancer, that convergence was the disaster to be resisted.
T…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-12 03:00:11
Ian Fieggen, who also goes by “Professor Shoelace,”
is the guy who runs Ian’s Shoelace Site,
the internet’s prime destination for learning how to tie your shoes.
His website is simple, intentionally focusing on common vernacular over standardized knot terminology,
and has been operating as a discrete section of his personal site since 2003.
Ian’s Shoelace Site does not need to change;
it is perfectly functional the way it is,
and people have been d…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-05 23:56:04
Internet age verification proposals restrict the fundamental rights of young people to speak to each other and to access information.
They also force all internet users,
not just those under a certain age,
to upload private data
—like a face scan or passport
—in order to access a website or service.
In considering the vast scope of privacy issues pertaining to the collection, storage, and sharing of this personal information,
the problems of age veri…
