Tootfinder

“The recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models enable the design of the Faster than LIght speed Protocol (FLIP) for Internet. FLIP provides a way to avoid congestion, enhance security, and deliver faster packets on the Internet by using AI to predict future packets at the receiving peer before they arrive.”
RFC 9564
Faster Than Light Speed Protocol (FLIP)

Good observations, and closing on a hopeful note. Short and pointed read.
The Heat Death of the Internet, by Gregory Bennett
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

Unexpected potential application of generative-AI technology; looks attractive in theory: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9564.html

“Heat Death of the Internet”
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

Eine Beschreibung des kürzlichen Todes des Internets (Pointe: Wikipedia ist die Rettung):
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/
@…

“After all, the one thing AI is unarguably *very* good at is producing bullshit at scale. As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels” 🤣 😥
https://x.com/doctorow/status/17748143…

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr (@doctorow) on X
After all, the one thing AI is unarguably *very* good at is producing bullshit at scale. As the web becomes an anaerobic lagoon for botshit, the quantum of human-generated "content" in any internet core sample is dwindling to homeopathic levels: https://t.co/aqF6yNWzWC 13/

Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long (and longish) reads of the week.
This week's selection covers
--Secret network of CIA-funded spy bases in Ukraine,
--The Pentagon uses ad networks to find targets,
--A Morris worm for the AI-era,
--The last Morse-code station in North America,
--How the Internet was indexed,
--AI warfare threatens humanity,
--AI warfare is already here
https://www.metacurity.com/p/best-infosecrelated-long-reads-week-22424

It is extremely in the spirit of Gilbert and Sullivan to introduce exactly the right ridiculous vocabulary word ("polydactyly") to make the rhyme scheme line up with the snark ("well-actually")
https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112372315828893297

As people yearn for the web's "good old days", bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/…

We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

🇬🇧 Do you know what is the worst thing about #AppleNumbers? The fact that when I have Polish set as the system language, Numbers translates the functions (interestingly not all of them...), but all the tutorials on the Internet contain English function names....
🇵🇱 Wiecie co w #AppleNumbers

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 16 nodes and 18 edges.

Oh dear, "Heat Death of the Internet" is a brilliant piece of writing. Could equally be called the "death by a thousand virtual paper cuts".
https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

(Copied from https://bsky.app/profile/nobodysholm.bsky.social/post/3krk4pbvuas25)
So Utah, having passed a transphobic bathroom bill, has launched an online form for people to snitch on folks they think are in the "wrong" bathroom or locker…

"Literally the plot of a 'Black Mirror' episode" 😂 😬 😂
https://futurism.com/internet-horrified-app-cloning-family-members

Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members
A bizarre new app called "Vera AI" claims it allows its users to create copies of "your friends or family members."

Nilay Patel, grundare av The Verge, intervjuas av youtubern Hank Green om media, internet, affärsmodeller, plattformar, att äga ens egen webbplats i en tid av plattformar, om standarder för den sociala webben och mycket mer. Ett synnerligen spännande samtal med många tankefrön om vad internet kan vara, om vi bara vill.
https:/…

The BBC loves to both-sides arguments you see. They are neutral.
Except when it's banning kids from the internet. Then they only represent one side of the argument, deny that any other side could possibly exist, and insist impossible things which can't work will protect kids while offering no evidence that internet access is even really more harmful than helpful.
#bbc #onlineSafetyBill #mediaBias

This is perfect. #internet #enshittification

“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments o…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

*sarc
Sounds great over there!
P.S. Twitter is NOT the “Internet” fgs….
#TwitterEnding #Twitter #Mastodon

$125K stolen in 10 minutes
From Kim Komando's newsletter —
"Feb. 16 was a typical Friday night. Barry and I decided to stay home, grill chicken and make a salad for dinner. At about 6:45 p.m., we heard some loud rumbling overhead.
We walked onto the back patio, and two police helicopters were shining lights all over our property. A recording echoed, “Police. You are under arrest. Stay right there and I won’t shoot you.”
As I looked across the fence, a swarm of armed Phoenix SWAT team members with a few dogs were circling our property. One of the guys said, “Yeah, there’s a jammer right here.” He picked it up. I leaned over the patio and asked, “What’s going on?”
The police told me to go inside
When I asked again, a SWAT member said, “Ma’am, it’s a South American gang targeting homes to steal from. The jammer says you might have been next. Do we have permission to enter your property?” I said, “Yes!” and then he asked something like, “If we find anyone, will you pursue charges so we can arrest them?” I replied, “Of course!”
I opened the driveway gates to our property and the guest house while Barry tossed the police keys to open the security gates. People asked me if I was scared. How could I be? There was a team of really professional police officers protecting me from who knows what.
Turns out, when the gang saw we were home, they likely diverted their attention to the house next door. A house four doors down from us wasn’t so lucky.
The homeowner left at 5 p.m. to have dinner and got a notification his security cameras were offline at 5:05 p.m. He thought the internet went down. Nope, the gang broke in and took $25,000 in cash and valuables worth $100,000. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
How are they getting away with this?
The gang places cellular and Wi‑Fi jammers around the homes they’re targeting. This way, security cameras and phones are useless. A Phoenix police officer told me the gang probably noticed nothing was down in our house.
We have our cameras and internet hardwired. Even when they tried to jam our signals, the red lights on the security cameras still showed they were recording everything.
But how frightening is that? Your phone doesn’t work. Your cameras aren’t recording anything. On the upside, the gang doesn’t carry guns. This way, if they get caught, they’ll spend about six months in jail before being extradited to Chile.
Nothing is random
The gang scopes out homes beforehand. They drive the neighborhood and look up houses on real estate sites to get an idea of where the primary bedroom is located. They look for dogs, too.
It’s not just in Phoenix, by the way. This is happening all over the country. A friend was robbed by this gang, and he lives in a guarded, gated community in California. Kudos to the Phoenix Police Department — they arrested three members of the gang who were in my neighborhood that night.
So, what can you do?
☑️​ Wireless cameras go kaput with no signal. Try a wired camera for a backup.
☑️​ A cam with SD card storage will still record if there’s no Wi‑Fi.
☑️​ Put up motion-activated lights; they make it harder for anyone to sneak around.
☑️​ A femtocell (think of it as a mini cell tower) could be enough to keep your connection if thieves use jammers — T‑Mobile or Verizon.
☑️​ Have an Amazon Echo? Away mode lets you control your lights so it looks like someone’s home.
☑️​ Make it look like someone’s watching TV at your house when you’re not there with a Television Simulator.
☑️​ A University of North Carolina survey of over 400 incarcerated burglars found security system signs deter thieves.
☑️​ Check Zillow, Realtor⁠.⁠com and Redfin for photos of your house. The more crooks know about the layout, the better for them. Ask to have them removed.
☑️​ Blur your house from Google Maps and Apple Maps while you’re at it.

What are your favorite examples of mundane mysteries that have been solved by or with the internet? Thinking of that classic Reply All episode about the forgotten song (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx)

#158 The Case of the Missing Hit
A man in California is haunted by the memory of a pop song from his youth. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. PJ takes on the Super Tech Support case.

51 hours of no internet, still counting...
Previous ISP (of which we were customers for 13 years) had a grand total of 2 hours of downtime, including the Puma6-period...
How do you have more than 25x the amount of downtime in 1/39th the amount of time...

@… Hey folks, quick question: any idea why the embed of my video at the European Parliament from your PeerTube instance is showing a password field and lock. (I’m on my phone and haven’t had a chance to view source.) Would appreciate it if you could take a look. Thank you :)

The Future of Internet Regulation at the European Parliament
A brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.

Today in funny hotel wifi #ToS.
* We won't tell you what we log.
* You'll pay for our laywers' fees.
* We assert copyright on anything you transmit.
* But don't transmit porn.
(I've not yet tried the room's ethernet port.)
#wmhack

WEST GCN-LSTM: Weighted Stacked Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Regional Traffic Forecasting
Theodoros Theodoropoulos, Angelos-Christos Maroudis, Antonios Makris, Konstantinos Tserpes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00570

WEST GCN-LSTM: Weighted Stacked Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Regional Traffic Forecasting
Regional traffic forecasting is a critical challenge in urban mobility, with applications to various fields such as the Internet of Everything. In recent years, spatio-temporal graph neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art results in the context of numerous traffic forecasting challenges. This work aims at expanding upon the conventional spatio-temporal graph neural network architectures in a manner that may facilitate the inclusion of information regarding the examined regions, as well …

yeah, that 3TB Fusion drive was real spiffy until it came time to try to recover/recycle it. That’s a lot of random data to write out. One would hope they’d just get like one block of real entropy and use that to generate the remaining 6 billion blocks rather than use a blocking random device, but the slowness of this is suggesting to me that Apple chose the latter as the fastest actual overwrite method.
And what's with skipping updates to how Internet Recovery picks a target?

💡 Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
#led #electronics

Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting is gaining substantial relevance in the realm of ultra-low-power electronics and Internet-of-Things devices with limited access to classic power sources. Several harvesting approaches are available, depending on the energy source; among them, photovoltaic devices benefit from the highest energy density. However, the inclusion of a dedicated photovoltaic cell in a low-power system may result in increased costs and complexity, thus hampering economic sustainability. Conversely, …

https://archive.org/details/SEqlite

SEqlite : Stack Exchange Community : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A SQLite version of the Stack Exchange Data Dump. 100% Unendorsed by Stack Exchange. Terms same as the original.The following is reproduced from the original...

Every year I forget, but the LockPickingLawyer on April Fool’s Day might be the filthiest thing in the Internet.

When you set your paperclip optimizers to optimize for "engagement," this is the obvious, inevitable result.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-fl…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

Moore v. Harper ARGUED: 12/7/2022
The Supreme Court Considers the **Independent State Legislature Theory**, shoots it down! #law
**DECISION**: 6/27/2023: In a 6-3 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court's majority found that the Constitution's Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elec…

Starlink users in some unauthorized regions can seemingly still use the internet, despite SpaceX telling users the service would be unavailable to them by May 1 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Elon Musk’s Starlink Persists in Unauthorized Areas Despite Shutdown Warnings
Elon Musk’s Starlink service is still operating in multiple unauthorized regions, defying warnings issued by the company last month that its satellite internet will be shut down by May 1 in areas where it doesn’t have a license to operate.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long reads we couldn't do justice to in our daily newsletters.
This week's long reads cover
--Client-side scanning is not a solution,
--Explosion of satellite surveillance data is coming,
--Taylor Swift deepfakes will change the internet,
--Cyber should be integral to foreign policy,
--more

Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week of 1/27/24
Client-side scanning is not a solution, Explosion of satellite surveillance data is coming, Taylor Swift deepfakes will change the internet, Cyber should be integral to foreign policy, more

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13799 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Reverse Training to Nurse the Reversal Curse
Large language models (LLMs) have a surprising failure: when trained on "A has a feature B", they do not generalize to "B is a feature of A", which is termed the Reversal Curse. Even when training with trillions of tokens this issue still appears due to Zipf's law - hence even if we train on the entire internet. This work proposes an alternative training scheme, called reverse training, whereby all words are used twice, doubling the amount of available tokens. The LLM is trained in both forward…

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 16 nodes and 18 edges.

Non-trivial solution to a simple problem
A. I. Milstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.00050
arXiv:2405.00050v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The problem of finding the frequencies of small longitudinal oscillations of a spring having a finite mass and stiffness, attached at one end to a wall and at the other end to a body of finite mass, is discussed. This problem was repeatedly proposed at Olympiads for schoolchildren, in various lessons on the Internet, and even on tests in mechanics for students of universities. In all the cases known to me, the implied solution was actually wrong. I discuss two cases: (A) a spring lies on a smooth table, (B) a spring is attached to the ceiling. It is shown that the solution to this simply formulated problem is non-trivial.

Looking back at the stylesheet I created for the journal I managed a decade ago. A few usage examples have definitely become dated:

A Lightweight Security Solution for Mitigation of Hatchetman Attack in RPL-based 6LoWPAN
Girish Sharma, Jyoti Grover, Abhishek Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01689

A Lightweight Security Solution for Mitigation of Hatchetman Attack in RPL-based 6LoWPAN
In recent times, the Internet of Things (IoT) has a significant rise in industries, and we live in the era of Industry 4.0, where each device is connected to the Internet from small to big. These devices are Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled and are capable of perspective analytics. By 2023, it's anticipated that over 14 billion smart devices will be available on the Internet. These applications operate in a wireless environment where memory, power, and other resource limitations apply to th…

A eulogy for TinyLetter, as the newsletter tool acquired by Mailchimp in 2011 shuts down after a brief run nurturing great personal writing on the internet (Kevin Nguyen/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24085737/tinyletter-mailchimp-shut-down-…

TinyLetter: looking back on the humblest newsletter platform
On February 29th, 2024, Mailchimp shuttered TinyLetter, a simple email service that attracted a number of personal and experimental writers in the mid-‘10s.

Come on. This push to summarize all webpages and written content with #AI is ridiculous.
See this example from #Arc Search - in what world is this an adequate summary for an 8,000 word article that takes 43 minutes to read?
The amount of detail, specificity, narrative, and actual arguments that get lo…

This is literally why we invented the internet https://www.tiktok.com/@streetpizzallangollen/video/7343905593528257824

No entiendo a la gente que sigue ahí "porque tiene mucha difusión" https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-floods-the-internet/103498070

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15479 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Navigating the Post-API Dilemma | Search Engine Results Pages Present a Biased View of Social Media Data
Recent decisions to discontinue access to social media APIs are having detrimental effects on Internet research and the field of computational social science as a whole. This lack of access to data has been dubbed the Post-API era of Internet research. Fortunately, popular search engines have the means to crawl, capture, and surface social media data on their Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) if provided the proper search query, and may provide a solution to this dilemma. In the present work w…

Hitzetod des Internets, oder: neue Anpflanzungen.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2024/05/02/kurz-hitzetod-des-internets-oder-neue-anpflanzungen/

Kurz: Hitzetod des Internets, oder: neue Anpflanzungen
In den letzten Tagen sind mir drei ganz unterschiedliche Texte über den Weg gelaufen: Heat Death of the Internet ist ein nur ein klein wenig zugespitzter Text, der wunderbar auf den Punkt bringt, was gerade falsch läuft mit dem Netz, AI und Co. Wir müssen zurück zum wilden Internet wurde in di

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06429 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

The Impact of Load Altering Attacks on Distribution Systems with ZIP Loads
Load-altering attacks (LAAs) pose a significant threat to power systems with Internet of Things (IoT)-controllable load devices. This research examines the detrimental impact of LAAs on the voltage profile of distribution systems, taking into account the realistic load model with constant impedance Z, constant current I, and constant power P (ZIP). We derive closed-form expressions for computing the voltages of buses following LAA by making approximations to the power flow as well as the load m…

April Fool's is over - return to your previously scheduled believing everything you read on the internet

🔥Tomorrow, this vital program will abruptly end. 🔥
On November 21, 2021, President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The new law included the ☀️Affordable Connectivity Program☀️ (ACP), which provided up to $30 per month to individuals or families with income up to 200% of the federal poverty line to help pay for high-speed internet.
(For a family of four, the poverty line is currently $31,200.)
On Tribal lands, where internet access…

Why millions of Americans may lose internet access tomorrow
In 2024, reliable access to high-speed internet is no longer a luxury; it is a basic necessity. From job applications to managing personal finances and completing school work, internet access is an essential part of daily life. Without an internet connection, individuals are effectively cut off from basic societal activities.

Dan Lynch died. I started working with Dan about 35 years ago, and 30 years ago I met my wife when we were both working with Dan.
The NY Times pieces is good but a much stronger underline should be drawn under Dan (and the Interop show network, on which I worked for 15 years) had on the maturation of the Internet from a maybe-it-might-work toy into a the near lifeline utility that it has become today.

Remember before the internet when we foolishly wished we could read peoples' thoughts?

Here lies the internet, murdered by generative #AI
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by

FCC to vote on net neutrality's return on April 25
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/03/fcc-will-probablly-restore-net-neutrality-on-april-25

FCC to vote on net neutrality again on April 25
The Federal Communications Commission will be holding a new vote on April 25 that will likely reinstate net neutrality, bringing back protections affecting broadband internet usage in the United States.

Good Morning #Canada
I am obviously not celebrating this National Day of Unplugging as demonstrated by this post. I recommend that we all participate. Just boost this first.
In 2022, the number of internet users in Canada surpassed a record 36.9 million, approximately 94% of our population at the time. The good news: we don't rank in the top 25 countries for screen time.
Here's …

Unveiling Internet Censorship: Analysing the Impact of Nation States' Content Control Efforts on Internet Architecture and Routing Patterns
Joshua Levett, Vassilios Vassilakis, Poonam Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19375

Unveiling Internet Censorship: Analysing the Impact of Nation States' Content Control Efforts on Internet Architecture and Routing Patterns
Heightened interest from nation states to perform content censorship make it evermore critical to identify the impact of censorship efforts on the Internet. We undertake a study of Internet architecture, capturing the state of Internet topology with greater completeness than existing state-of-the-art. We describe our methodology for this, including the tooling we create to collect and process data from a wide range of sources. We analyse this data to find key patterns in nation states with high…

I think anyone who legitimately posts about left issues eventually accumulates a lot of online gossip. I cannot attest to whether other leftists are monsters who steal from minorities or not. I can attest that I have seen people walk back obvious lies about these people and then everyone keeps repeating the obvious lies anyway. I can attest that I myself am neither a right wing troll, business major, landlord, person who lives in the woods, or prostitute who sleeps with tech bros to get ahead. Those are just rumors I know about (for all I know there are even worse ones). If someone on the internet is telling you to hate one of the five remaining people actually trying to shine a light on fascism, I am begging you, please ignore it. We are not going to get ahead by targeting every leftist, only by building leftist politics. You don't have to support any particular leftist but spend your time building things and not fighting anyone you heard from a friend of a friend did something probably maybe

Hmm... I was going to try to live-post the #SCOTUS oral arguments about #NetChoice today... but I **don't know the voices of the US Supreme Court justices**, and the live stream is *audio*-only.
There will be transcripts later, which will be helpful.
In the meantime, though, I don…

Just updated my 2014 post “W3C CSS Odor Module Released” to mention GameScent, which spews smells at your face while you game:
https://adrianroselli.com/2012/04/w3c-css-odor-module-released.html#Update07

W3C CSS Odor Module Released
The web was always a visual medium, but with the addition of sound and video it has locked up two human senses. With development of specifications and techniques around vibration, the internet you “feel” is getting closer, too. That leaves only a couple senses left to cover Ever since the…

I had an arrangement to get wholesale prices on a bunch of ISATAP.[tld] domain names through a friend at a registrar. That friend has left and it appears my account has been reverted to basic status.
The names were registered, monitored on behalf of the Internet community (see our Plight at the End of the Tunnel paper), and parked to prevent anyone else from abusing them.
Do I know anyone who'll see this that might be able to hook me up if I transfer them away to somewhere better?

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 30 edges.

Via internet hall of fame @InternetH0F
·
May 2

Remembering the unstoppable Leonard Nimoy and the "Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation" #StarTrek #Spock #LeonardNimoy (courtesy: Internet Archive)

I’m sorry but if you bought an *internet connected mirror* I have no sympathy for you when it can’t connect… 🤦🏼‍♂️ https://beige.party/@itsjustjenn/112009227994877821

It's Just Jenn 🏳️‍⚧️ (@itsjustjenn@beige.party)
Attached: 1 image Surely this is the stupidest of timelines we live in...

Elon Musk shared on X:
“SpaceX just achieved peak download speed of 17Mb/s from satellite direct to unmodified Samsung Android phone”
Ofcourse it’s all in pilot/experimental stage but the future is clear, internet access, anywhere through Low Orbit Satelites using ordinary smartphones (future models probably). National governments will have less control over mobile networks. Although my guess is it only works outside.

WEST GCN-LSTM: Weighted Stacked Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Regional Traffic Forecasting
Theodoros Theodoropoulos, Angelos-Christos Maroudis, Antonios Makris, Konstantinos Tserpes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00570

WEST GCN-LSTM: Weighted Stacked Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Regional Traffic Forecasting
Regional traffic forecasting is a critical challenge in urban mobility, with applications to various fields such as the Internet of Everything. In recent years, spatio-temporal graph neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art results in the context of numerous traffic forecasting challenges. This work aims at expanding upon the conventional spatio-temporal graph neural network architectures in a manner that may facilitate the inclusion of information regarding the examined regions, as well …

yeah, that 3TB Fusion drive was real spiffy until it came time to try to recover/recycle it. That’s a lot of random data to write out. One would hope they’d just get like one block of real entropy and use that to generate the remaining 6 billion blocks rather than use a blocking random device, but the slowness of this is suggesting to me that Apple chose the latter as the fastest actual overwrite method.
And what's with skipping updates to how Internet Recovery picks a target?

💡 Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
#led #electronics

Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting is gaining substantial relevance in the realm of ultra-low-power electronics and Internet-of-Things devices with limited access to classic power sources. Several harvesting approaches are available, depending on the energy source; among them, photovoltaic devices benefit from the highest energy density. However, the inclusion of a dedicated photovoltaic cell in a low-power system may result in increased costs and complexity, thus hampering economic sustainability. Conversely, …

The internet is doing terrible things to the English language. "Buy the Kindle edition, or purchase the Kindle edition edition"

Cambridge (MA) councillor Burhan Azeem did the only good thing you'll see on the internet on this cursed day https://www.annexboston.com/

I went for a walk around the Internet in search for an affordable shared hosting, and I sh@t my pants.

April Fools pranks in person - can be inventive and charming.
April Fools on the internet - welp I guess the whole internet is useless today while people post and forward things that really try to be funny.

US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/…

Biden’s internet-for-all program needs Musk’s help
Officials say Starlink’s satellites will probably fill gaps in the Biden administration’s $42 billion push to hook every U.S. home up to high-speed internet.

Mitigating and Analysis of Memory Usage Attack in IoE System
Zainab Alwaisi, Simone Soderi, Rocco De Nicola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19480 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19480
arXiv:2404.19480v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Internet of Everything (IoE) is a newly emerging trend, especially in homes. Marketing forces toward smart homes are also accelerating the spread of IoE devices in households. An obvious risk of the rapid adoption of these smart devices is that many lack controls for protecting the privacy and security of end users from attacks designed to disrupt lives and incur financial losses. Today the smart home is a system for managing the basic life support processes of both small systems, e.g., commercial, office premises, apartments, cottages, and largely automated complexes, e.g., commercial and industrial complexes. One of the critical tasks to be solved by the concept of a modern smart home is the problem of preventing the usage of IoE resources. Recently, there has been a rapid increase in attacks on consumer IoE devices.
Memory corruption vulnerabilities constitute a significant class of vulnerabilities in software security through which attackers can gain control of an entire system. Numerous memory corruption vulnerabilities have been found in IoE firmware already deployed in the consumer market. This paper aims to analyze and explain the resource usage attack and create a low-cost simulation environment to aid in the dynamic analysis of the attack. Further, we perform controlled resource usage attacks while measuring resource consumption on resource-constrained victims' IoE devices, such as CPU and memory utilization. We also build a lightweight algorithm to detect memory usage attacks in the IoE environment. The result shows high efficiency in detecting and mitigating memory usage attacks by detecting when the intruder starts and stops the attack.

"the rise of AI products like #ChatGPT, and the #LLMs underlying them, have made high-quality training data one of the internet’s most valuable commodities. That has caused internet providers of all sorts to reconsider the value of the data on their servers, and rethink who gets access to what. Being too …

With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial
For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

April Fool's is over - return to your previously scheduled believing everything you read on the internet

So… #FuckYouTubeMusic if they’re gonna dump staff who’re trying to unionize. I have my music sitting on computers in my house, 400GB in Apple lossless, I have a fast Internet connection (firewalled of course), I wanna be able to do “shuffle all songs” or "shuffle Miles Davis" while I’m driving or walking around out in the world.
Anyone out there actually done this? [Don’t wa…

TCP/IP 50th anniversary event…
This ought to be interesting (I will be attending). There will also be an online presence.
https://engage.ieee.org/celebrate-i50

If you're annoyed by #DST, spare a thought for Montaigne, who found Italian cities disagreed on whether mechanical clocks should start from 0 at sunrise or noon.
#JacquesLeGoff, "Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages": a classic I often think about.

Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages : Jacques Le Goff : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Remembering the unstoppable Leonard Nimoy and the "Leonard Nimoy Should Eat More Salsa Foundation" #StarTrek #Spock #LeonardNimoy (courtesy: Internet Archive)

A eulogy for TinyLetter, as Mailchimp shuts down the newsletter tool acquired in 2011 that had a brief run nurturing great personal writing on the internet (Kevin Nguyen/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24085737/tinyletter-mailchimp-shut-down-…

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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

Q - do you know of well-researched articles, or academic papers, that explore the risks to the Internet’s infrastructure due to climate change?
I.e. how do we keep the Internet functioning in the midst of extreme weather and other aspects of climate change? For example, if sea levels rise, what will that do to subsea cable landing stations?
I am building a list of articles and papers, and I have some.. but am looking for more.
Thanks!

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Quentin De Coninck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01279 https://…

Core QUIC: Enabling Dynamic, Implementation-Agnostic Protocol Extensions
While applications quickly evolve, Internet protocols do not follow the same pace. There are two root causes for this. First, extending protocol with cleartext control plane is usually hindered by various network devices such as middleboxes. Second, such extensions usually require support from all participating entities, but often these run different implementations, leading to the chicken-and-egg deployment issue. The recently standardized QUIC protocol paved the way for dealing with the first…

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A profile of Samir Mezrahi, the ex-BuzzFeed social media director behind Zillow Gone Wild, which has 4M followers and a spin-off HGTV show debuting in May (Rachel Kurzius/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/04/29/wild-rise-zillow-g…

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15735 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

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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

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14236 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_…

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https://www.reuters.com/technology/fcc-vot

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https://www.reuters.com/technology/fcc-vot

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#Facebook has a long histor…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10550 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

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https://wapo.st/3wd9nFQ

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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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10550 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Deep transfer learning for intrusion detection in industrial control networks: A comprehensive review
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31…

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