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Dorking: how to find anything on the web.
https://www.alec.fyi/dorking-how-to-find-anything-on-the-internet.html
saved 2020-08-11

Via: L'avventura: Pet Detective @amcnal.bsky.social
“over on x the everything app some Chicago high school kid named Danny Spud tried to disrupt his school's anti-ICE protest by yelling about how much he loves ICE and then filmed himself getting walloped by a fellow student lmao
the quote tweet making fun of him has 3x the likes”
I’ll post the video next.
i’m not totally 💯 it’s not staged, but either way, remeber;
violence isn’t THE answer
But it su…

Ending the Tuesday of IETF 125 with the SPACE Research Group… looking at all things related to the #Internet in #space !
#IETF

We can save the internet by going back our roots*
*cat memes

Solar panels work better when they're cool, but active cooling has been impractical—until now.
Czech researchers built an IoT system that sprays water on panels to manage temperature. The result? A 7.38% boost in daily energy output with positive net energy balance.
The smart system uses sensors and cloud tech to decide when cooling is worth it, making this approach finally scalable for real-world use.

Internet-of-Things could bring solar module water cooling closer to commercial viability
A Czech team developed an IoT system using MQTT to autonomously cool PV panels, boosting daily energy yield by 7.38% with a positive net energy balance.

I see no sign of any recognition from those who would want such a ban that they see any of the collateral damage a successful ban would have on the majority of kids who are not falling for this bullshit. That they are banning any good at all along with the bad.
Under 18s only
I see that the lobbying for these laws are funded by the absolute worst companies on the internet, those who will be entrenched by the legal compliance costs, that will cement themselves as the arbitrators of who is allowed to access the internet.
It’s a gift to Palantir and other surveillance companies. The very people running these algo-feeds are the ones who benefit from IDing every user and stalking them across the internet on their government-approved internet-licence IDs.
I don’t think even a successful ban on social media for kids would actually address the issue of kids being exposed to sexism and misogony or reduce the kids alienation and depression.
A ban can’t help, will make many things worse, won’t address the problem, and will make competing with the worst surveillance capitalists on the planet more difficult.
Going to war with every internet site and advice forum and making internet access harder won’t fix anything, and will have massive collateral damage against everyone seeking support from strangers or trying to learn things their parents won’t teach them.
But I see we are going to do it anyway.
The direction is clear.
Those companies do get what they lobby for, and they are lobbying hard for ID checks on every website, wrapping their desire to enclose the internet commons for themselves in a faux concern for children’s welfare.
And governments wish to monitor and control the internet, so they will pass these laws.
I wonder how many parents have a family group-chat that they’re going to accidentally ban their kids from using, not realizing that ‘social media’ might include Whatsapp? 😆
It won’t fix anything, it will make the situation for kids worse, impose costs and rents and hacks and exploits on all of us, and increase government and corporate power.
Many will lose access to their networks of support and help.
So it goes.
We will build a better more censorship resistant internet. It’s already here really: Briar. Matrix. Nostr. Bitchat. Veilid. Spritely. And the rest.
The laws may push us there faster.
The race will go on.

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-and-international-partners-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-service

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service – Joint operation targeted malicious proxy service exploiting residential routers worldwide | Europol
On 11 March 2026, Europol in collaboration with law enforcement agencies from Austria, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, alongside Eurojust, executed Operation Lightning. This coordinated effort targeted the malicious proxy service ‘SocksEscort’, which allegedly compromised over 369 000 routers and Internet of Things devices in 163 countries, and offered ‘SocksEscort’ customers over 35 000 proxies in recent years.

Wait Sama started talking Trump now, or was it always the case?
> Water is totally fake. It used to be true, we used to do evaporative cooling in data centres, but now that we don’t do that, you see these things on the internet where, don’t use ChatGPT, it’s 17 gallons of water for each query or whatever, this is completely untrue. Totally insane. No connection to reality.

How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret
The AI companies insist: we barely use water, hardly a drop! But we won’t tell you how much water we use. And we’ll take you to court to stop you from finding out. Google wants to build a new data …

As for other things, like looking up medical advice, "traditional" search engines on the Internet worked much better than any LLM to get you to trustworthy sources of information.

Solar panels just got a serious upgrade. Czech researchers developed an IoT-based water cooling system that boosted daily energy output by 7.38% while maintaining a positive energy balance. The system operates autonomously across edge, fog, and cloud layers—making real-time decisions to optimize performance. Even better, it's scalable and ready for AI integration.

Internet-of-Things could bring solar module water cooling closer to commercial viability
A Czech team developed an IoT system using MQTT to autonomously cool PV panels, boosting daily energy yield by 7.38% with a positive net energy balance.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116186829550751203
A great read!
"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there…

Isn't it ironic - world leaders have problems agreeing on most things like war, pollution, poverty etc. But when someone say 'lets lock down the Internet behond wonky age verification in OS's, apps and on web sites' most of them agree #privacy #surveillance