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21 votes
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The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
20 votes -
Winning back the internet by building our own
11 votes -
The world's first internet bench
5 votes -
UK sees record bandwidth use on Xbox Series X/S launch day
8 votes -
SpaceX Starlink beta users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures
10 votes -
Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF
7 votes -
Web history - Chapter 5: Publishing
4 votes -
Microsoft Edge Browser on Linux: Surprisingly good
12 votes -
Announcing Good Reports, a new review site with recommendations for "non-toxic" online tools available as alternatives to Big Tech services
18 votes -
Using GPT-3 for search
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[SOLVED] US websites no longer work, at all, in EU (?)
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just...
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just spins its wheels until it times out.
I went thru and systematically shut down all of my add-ons, no joy. Tried other browsers, does not work anywhere ... except, oddly, sometimes, in TOR. On a hunch, I fired up my VPN service and tried to connect thru a US-based VPN server ... and there it is.
I have now confirmed, multiple websites (I'm assuming these are all US-based -- have not checked) no longer resolve for me, here in Hungary. Can anyone, anywhere else in the EU, confirm this?
I'm guessing this is the US response to the latest GDPR ruling against data-sharing across the Pond, but I'm on a "news fast" and haven't been keeping up-to-date ... anyone care to fill me in -- the "in a nutshell" version?
Update: Definitely something local-ish, probably specific to my ISP. VPN thru Hungary works, non-VPN thru Hungary does not.
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A legislative path to an interoperable internet
9 votes -
Helping people spot the spoofs: A URL experiment
7 votes -
How Reddit's "Am I the Asshole?" subreddit created a medium place on the internet
9 votes -
It's been twenty-four years since internet companies were declared off-the-hook for the behavior of their users. That may change, and soon
20 votes -
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read
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A GPT-3 bot was posting on /r/AskReddit for a week and routinely getting upvoted and replied to
43 votes -
Time to decolonise the internet
25 votes -
AT&T shelving DSL may leave hundreds of thousands hanging by a phone line
6 votes -
The end of the American internet - Technology is becoming a regulated industry, and we can no longer assume that companies, products, and users will be primarily from the USA
11 votes -
EARN IT Act introduced in House of Representatives
37 votes -
The Online Content Policy Modernization Act is an unconstitutional mess
7 votes -
Washington emergency responders first to use SpaceX’s Starlink internet in the field
8 votes -
Project Gemini: Stripped back web // souped up Gopher internet protocol
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Moxie Marlinspike on decentralization
14 votes -
The flashing warning of QAnon: The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress
9 votes -
President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
8 votes -
A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online
5 votes -
Web history - Chapter 4: Search
4 votes -
How to be helpful online
15 votes -
What the internet could be
18 votes -
Does Google know me better than I know myself?
5 votes -
Please read the paper before you comment
25 votes -
The historical amnesia of culture warriors
7 votes -
How to not make an ass of yourself in online discussions
24 votes -
Belarus is trying to block parts of the internet amid historic protests
9 votes -
Beware of Facts Man
11 votes -
Former social bookmarking site Del.icio.us appears to be making a return this summer
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I'm on a mass social media detox (Twitter, Instagram, etc.) - What blogs that you read regularly should I check out?
I limited the intake of high volume news and I'm currently taking a break from social media. I've been enjoying to occasionally visit blogs directly as my source of online reading. I tend to enjoy...
I limited the intake of high volume news and I'm currently taking a break from social media. I've been enjoying to occasionally visit blogs directly as my source of online reading. I tend to enjoy short essays, opinions, and honest observations. What blogs have you been following lately that you think are worth taking a look at?
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If it's your own, please shoot me a direct message: I'd love to check it out.25 votes -
The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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Reddit releases their new content policy along with banning hundreds of subreddits, including /r/The_Donald and /r/ChapoTrapHouse
85 votes -
My hot take on internet "Privacy"
Internet privacy it is a farce and companies are using the fear for profit. In reality the only thing you can do is decide in which company do you trust. First thing you choose is the ISP, we all...
Internet privacy it is a farce and companies are using the fear for profit. In reality the only thing you can do is decide in which company do you trust.
First thing you choose is the ISP, we all know that they are all scummy and get caught every year selling information, throttling services, lying, etc.
Then, if you want to be safe from your ISP you have to get a VPN and it is the same old story again. Even if you manage to never send or receive a bit outside the VPN you have to trust they are not loging everything and selling it.
It is a never ending story, because after that you have to trust the OS, the hardware manufacturers of each piece of your phone/pc, the modem, the router, the apps, and if you are talking with someone make it double because you have to trust all the same things from the one receiving the message.
People talks about huawei spying for the CPP like if things like PRISM doesn't exist. Every country has some kind of mass surveillance program and there is nothing we can do about it. If I were american I would prefer being spy by the Chinese that can't get me extradited.13 votes -
Cloudflare outage and the risk of today's Internet
8 votes -
Seven "zero logging" VPN providers leak 1.2TB of user logs unprotected and facing the public internet
20 votes -
Friction, snake oil, and weird countries: Cybersecurity systems could deepen global inequality through regional blocking
5 votes -
Bad faith is the condition of the modern internet, and shitposting is the lingua franca of the online world
35 votes -
Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
8 votes -
Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path
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Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online
27 votes