Tagged “internet”

.io is going away

theory that most online content is not written by humans.

relatedly, wordfreq will not be updated due to slop

some very big numbers

routing explainer

important skills for a world saturated in bullshit

Things get more complicated as they get more complex

How to talk to aliens (other people, who are very different)
Ask Butler

Rigorous Systems Design - Joseph Sifakus
The Design of Design - Fred Brooks

listen to philosophers and calm down, apparently

From 1999, on the Netscape-Microsoft browser wars.

A good lengthy rant of eventual downfalls of online socials

Rate-limit everything, absolutely everything.

Couple of test searches gave lots from early 2000s. Will be interesting to see how bitrotten it is

Awesome diagrams of the inside of undersea cables, and the boats and bots used to lay them.

Security Advisories / Bulletins / Vendor Responses linked to Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)

Good and sufficiently scary summary

Interesting area, and the discussion on whether it matters where the knowledge is stored.

I feel this one. Was just going through some old unread email newsletters (some from 2019!..), and linkrot is made even worse by the tracking links in emails. Tracking / shortened links are just another potential failure point!

Not sure I agree with all the conclusions, but the summary history of reddit and some possibilities is interesting.

Using dig:

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

Using curl:

curl https://ipinfo.io/ip

Using JavaScript:

  Click to fetch
  

Stats on editors/content for reddit, Amazon, and Wikipedia

The worldwide sameness that results from everyone chasing the same internet aesthetic, and impact on tourist experiences.

Depending on algorithms, however, doesn’t work as well in cities, where culture is more important than geography