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9 votes
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Microbrowsers are everywhere
10 votes -
AIM was the killer app of 1997. It’s still shaping the internet today.
16 votes -
An investigation into the theft and sale of over $50 million worth of African IP address blocks by an insider
8 votes -
Four US congressional reps ask Bill Barr to restart his war on porn
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FYI, Wikipedia is discontinuing support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Hey everyone, I noticed accessing Wikipedia today that my old version of the app no longer loaded any pages, so I tried checking with my stock browser and it displayed a warning that Wikipedia is...
Hey everyone,
I noticed accessing Wikipedia today that my old version of the app no longer loaded any pages, so I tried checking with my stock browser and it displayed a warning that Wikipedia is dropping support for anything that can't negotiate TLS 1.2. I haven't seen any articles on it yet online, so just thought I'd holler a mention.
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McKee, Kentucky has a population of 1200 people and gigabit internet provided by the Peoples' Rural Telephone Cooperative
7 votes -
The magical science of wi-fi on airplanes
14 votes -
Ethos Capital paid $1.135 billion for the acquisition of Public Interest Registry (.org)
23 votes -
Why I voted to sell .ORG
28 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee proposes "Contract for the Web": A set of principles to guide a better development of the Internet
12 votes -
Save .org: Help stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry to a Private Equity Firm
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Looking for a domain name registrar and a hosting provider for Intergrid
I will be releasing a beta version of Intergrid in the near future, before New Year. The first thing I need is someone to buy a domain name from. I'm looking for a reasonable yearly price for the...
I will be releasing a beta version of Intergrid in the near future, before New Year.
The first thing I need is someone to buy a domain name from.
I'm looking for a reasonable yearly price for the common generic TLDs ($10~$20), combined with reliability of support.
The only previous experience I had was with GoDaddy, and I had no issues with them. I have, however, heard stories of terrible support service (which I never used, for lack of need), and I'd rather not support a company of that level of service. (Nevermind that I bear strong dislike for post-service spam.)
The second thing I need is someone to host it.
Ideally, I would host it on a personal server, which would probably be a Pi-like platform, because I like the idea of owning the host as far as personal projects are concerned. I have little idea of how viable it is, or whether it's a better option for me than renting server space at the moment.
Lacking that, I'd like to have a EU-based hosting provider with reasonably-cheap ($10~$15) basic-level plans. Since the beta of Intergrid is local-storage-only, having a database hosted or supplied is not an issue at the moment. Low time-to-connect is important.
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That Starlink problem astronomers were worried about is totally happening
19 votes -
What the web still is - The state of the web and its positive qualities
14 votes -
Google is going to deploy Loon balloons in rural Peru
9 votes -
Iran's internet blackout reaches four-day mark
15 votes -
Ethos Capital has acquired the Public Interest Registry, manager of the .org top-level domain
30 votes -
How activists are getting around Iran’s internet blackout
6 votes -
Firefox’s fight for the future of the web: With Google’s Chrome dominating the market, not-for-profit rival Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy
49 votes -
Planetocopia!
6 votes -
The Internet Free Zone
17 votes -
Free Internet access should be a basic human right: Study
19 votes -
Brave browser 1.0 has been released, and eight million BAT will be distributed to mobile users
11 votes -
Online cesspool got you down? You can clean it up, for a price
6 votes -
SpaceX has successfully launched another sixty Starlink satellites
14 votes -
The golden age of the internet is over
6 votes -
Starlink is a very big deal
10 votes -
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising
37 votes -
After three months offline, 8chan returns as 8kun
24 votes -
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
15 votes -
Why 3D logos fell out of favor overnight
8 votes -
First Contact (Internet at 50yrs old) - Dr Julian Onions recalls working to bring the Internet to Nottingham
4 votes -
Australia's idiotic war on porn returns, this time using facial recognition
16 votes -
Firefox to hide notification popups by default starting next year
22 votes -
Those people we tried to cancel? They’re all hanging out together
17 votes -
How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys
5 votes -
Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect | The good: AutoMod saves time and prevents potential mental health issues. The bad: Humans still have to clean up after it.
21 votes -
Nokia's collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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The internet at 50: It has enabled many wonderful things, but we have to fight to keep it that way
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How can we betray each other less on the Internet?
I was thinking about having a general purpose thread about internet drama venting, but that seems like a very bad idea if all the top level threads are different gripes and one in particular gets...
I was thinking about having a general purpose thread about internet drama venting, but that seems like a very bad idea if all the top level threads are different gripes and one in particular gets out of control, so here's mine and this can be dealt with as needed.
There was this recent issue in left adjacent Twitter of a notable YouTube person inviting someone else to read a quote for a bigger project. Invitee had controversial views on gender dysphoria, the host defended their decision, and details aren't super important for what I want to talk about.
I see where Natalie is coming from if she wants to make a point about Tolerance and Outgroups. I think this was the wrong way to do that, #BuckisWrong, but I don't think brigading her on Twitter and asking her social group to disavow her is appropriate, however, I don't have any skin in the game outside of being an anxious cis white male who thinks Twitter enables and thrives off of toxic discourse.I get that this is all some of you are willing to talk about but I want to talk about the meta and the behavior here, so please pretend they're all Martians for the time being.
What I want to talk about is how the internet specifically reacted, asking the creator's circle to walk back any endorsement of them, holding them to a fire and how much it kind of fits in into a pattern of isolation featured earlier in Lindsay Ellis' presentation about being shamed online, and propose that what makes an internet outrage mob is kind of values neutral.
Obviously, your -ism of choice would factor into an internet hate mob and make it into the Eternal Tire Fire that the internet is known for birthing these days, but the key spark seems to be a betrayal of trust. You thought someone or something was in your corner/was values neutral/shared your politics and when that is not the case, you simply want it gone. It was kind of always in the discussion with "Cancel Culture Concern," but it hasn't really clicked until now for me that it's such a common thread.
So, assuming we can't nor want to make it impossible to betray one another or make the Internet a safe space for everybody and for all sensibilities, can we cut down on this outcome, is it incentivised through engagement metrics, and/or is it just something that comes with the ability to mass broadcast and mass response?
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In Norilsk, Russia's most isolated major city, the arrival of high-speed internet gave residents a new window onto the world
9 votes -
A series of mysterious bleeps and bloops defined the early days of the internet
8 votes -
Yahoo Groups will prevent new content from being uploaded on October 28, and all previous content will be deleted on December 14
12 votes -
Your options for saving Yahoo Groups content
9 votes -
The case for fiber to the home, today: Why fiber is a superior medium for 21st century broadband
11 votes -
SpaceX submits paperwork for 30,000 more Starlink satellites
21 votes -
'South Park' scrubbed from Chinese internet after critical episode
12 votes -
The court allowed the FCC to kill net neutrality because washing machines can’t make phone calls
8 votes -
Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Instagram, then shuts down internet amid civil unrest
27 votes