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…
There are some nice metaphors in there.
#IndieWeb
Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping. - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/why-are-top-university-websites-serving-porn-it-comes-down-to-shoddy-housekeeping/
Sky (which hijacks and redirects all port 53 traffic even if you don't enable parental controls) was returning SERVFAIL for all nhs.uk DNS lookups for some period on Tuesday.
(But I think this may have been the fault of one of Sky's third-party providers, since we saw an issue with an NHS lookup originating outside the UK.)
Hey, it's LaMonica McIver
— and today I'm taking my fight against Trump to a federal appeals court.
Trump's DOJ charged me with baseless federal crimes for conducting congressional oversight of an ICE detention facility in my own district.
A federal judge denied my motions to dismiss. So I took the fight higher.
Today, we argue that this administration cannot criminalize oversight.
Cannot be allowed to weaponize its Department of Justice.
Ca…
Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/software…
On Website Technicals (2026-06) - Tech updates: house ads off, paper and conference poster that rhyme, sulphation, utility 12M kgCO2e, off gas... - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-109.html
Huh. This is interesting (shows where the IRD (our tax department) hosts our data): https://hosting-checker.net/websites/ird.govt.nz how's that data sovereignty working out for us, Aotearoa NZ?