Sep 28, 2021
Darknet Diaries – True stories from the dark side of the Internet. — "This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network." I'm hoooked to Darknet Diaries!
#security #internet #podcast
Aug 27, 2021
Why are hyperlinks blue? — Not going to spoil it -- read the article, it's worth the nostalgia trip and has lots of retro screenshots (via)
#internet #nostalgia #retro
Aug 26, 2021
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps — Lengthy and thorough review of Google's attempts at solving chat. Some nostalgia, some unknown gems, a lot of mocking (via)
#google #internet
Aug 24, 2021
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets — Twitter following the Instagram route. Mixed news. People will eventually stop using Twitter as their public blog and online homepage, and treat it as another closed social network. However, a pretty good kinda open public discussion forum will die.
#internet #privacy
May 26, 2021
Freenode shutting down channels with "libera" in the topic — jcs says it best: "New freenode opers are making sure [the freenode/libera] fracture doesn't happen by driving all of their remaining users off the network". Freenode is basically committing suicide.
#internet
May 19, 2021
freenode now belongs to Andrew Lee, and I'm leaving for [libera.chat] — Freenode changed hands, things are going south, and the community is jumping to libera.chat and other alternatives. End of an era. (via)
#internet
May 2, 2021
Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006 — Pizza Hut 1996. The Million Dollar Homepage 2005. Yahoo! 1994. ICQ 2001. Essentially a curated Internet Archive. Check it out to receive an important dose of nostalgia directly to your bloodstream. (via)
#nostalgia #retro #internet
Mar 27, 2021
Projects for futures where current (network) infrastructures have stopped functioning — Fantastic discussion with projects focused on providing connectivity or technological power on pessimistic scenarios. Check out all the links!
#internet #selfhosted
Mar 22, 2021
What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? — Non-technical explanation of NFTs and what are the interesting use cases for them (via)
#internet #crypto #art
Mar 13, 2021
Mailoji: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service — Do you want to own username@💩.kz? Now you can! This is one of those "why?-because I can" projects (via)
#internet #genius
Mar 6, 2021
Zero Data App — Confusingly named compilation of webapps that store your data in localstorage, so you are always in control of it. Interesting how we are de-cloudifying back. (via)
#internet #privacy
Jan 26, 2021
Birdwatch, a community-driven approach to addressing misleading information — Good community moderation initiative from Twitter to stop the spread of fake news. It may not be perfect, but it will help the people who retweet in good faith. (via)
#internet #fakenews
Jan 24, 2021
An Opinionated Introduction to Urbit — Urbit is one of these things constantly hovering over some internet circles. I was interested, but never got even close to understanding what it is. This writeup is pretty simple and also unwraps some of the mindfuck involved in it. (via)
#internet
Jan 1, 2021
Adobe Flash rides off into the sunset — Flash is finally gone. With it, part of the history of the Internet. Thankfully the Internet Archive is preserving many games and animations, even though we won't be able to view them without an emulator. (via)
#internet
Dec 31, 2020
LibrePhotos: Self hosted alternative to Google Photos — Great alternative to cloud photo services for people looking to de-Googlify their lives (via)
#internet #selfhosted
Managing my personal server in 2020 — Very thorough tutorial on how to set up your own cloud server with mail, Nextcloud and a VPN (via)
#internet #selfhosted
Dec 30, 2020
skyjake/lagrange: A Beautiful Gemini Client — A beautiful, full-featured, multi-platform Gemini client. Try it out.
#internet
Dec 24, 2020
How We Saved .ORG (EFF) — The EFF saved a very important part of the internet. If you have some money that you'd like to donate this holiday season, you can't go wrong with the EFF. (via)
#internet #activism
Dec 20, 2020
The web is 30 years old today — I am very grateful to have grown without the Web, because it allows me to appreciate it even more. Say what you want about the "current web", it's still the #1 invention of the 20th Century. (via)
#internet #retro
Dec 17, 2020
No cookie for you — GitHub removes cookie banners with some good willed PR move: “After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really.” (via)
#privacy #internet
Nov 23, 2020
Discover videos - TILvids — You should stop using Youtube and start using decentralized video tools. TILvids is a great communal initiative based on Peertube and has interesting content. (via)
#internet #youtube #video
Oct 14, 2020
Utzoo Discussion Forums — 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts ('81 - '91) now online on the Usenet Archives (via)
#retro #internet #usenet
Oct 13, 2020
world smallest office suite — A Google Docs minimal clone. Is this a joke? Only half of it. Pretty cool. (via)
#internet #minimalism
Sep 25, 2020
jwz: This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla — "They have an entire building full of people. What do all of those people do???" (via)
#internet #freesoftware
Aug 13, 2020
Firefox is letting go the devtools team — Firefox is laying off a lot of people, essential teams included. This is easily on the Top 3 Bad News for the open web of the last 10 years.
#internet
Aug 4, 2020
Replacing YouTube & Invidious — "Subscribing" to Youtube channels via youtube-dl. This is very close to my setup and I'm very happy with it. (via)
#internet #privacy
Jul 18, 2020
Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside — MUST READ article with more details of the Twitter hack. Plausible and consistent with the facts, I'm inclined to believe it. (via)
#security #internet #crypto
Jul 15, 2020
Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Cash App, Ripple all hacked on Twitter — Very interesting that the attacker decided to pull a crypto scam instead of another type of message. I can think of a few better ideas with that kind of exposure. Eagerly awaiting the postmortem. (via)
#security #internet #crypto
Jul 14, 2020
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent — A reminder that your IP is broadcasted in p2p services to anybody who is listening (via)
#privacy #internet
Jul 4, 2020
Websites That Look Like Desktop Apps — If you are a fan of websites, web apps and portfolios which resemble desktop graphical user interfaces here is a curated list. Check out Simone's main website too! (via)
#retro #internet
Jul 3, 2020
Beware the Google Password Manager — You may have saved some passwords in Chrome, even if you don't remember it. Make sure to purge them from Google Password if you don't use Chrome anymore. (via)
#security #internet
Jun 10, 2020
10 Things We Miss About The 1990's Internet — This video that reminds us of the delights of downloading midi files and watching 140px 1fps fish webcams :_).
#internet #retro
May 31, 2020
TuxURLs – World's simplest Linux news aggregator — A great dashboard to check every morning and make sure you don't miss important Linux news. (via)
#unix #internet