Tagged “internet”
How the internet is saving bespoke shoemaking
What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? | The New Yorker
some very big numbers
How Did I Get Here?
routing explainer
Parasociality! At the Vibe Camp
how i learned to stop worrying and love the internet hate
Calling Bullshit — Syllabus
important skills for a world saturated in bullshit
The age of average
Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here? | Hacker News
Alan Kay addresses Qualcomm
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
How do you deal with information and internet addiction?
listen to philosophers and calm down, apparently
The internet wants to be fragmented
The Do’s and Don’ts of Judo Strategy
From 1999, on the Netscape-Microsoft browser wars.
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
A good lengthy rant of eventual downfalls of online socials
I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
Botspam apocalypse
Rate-limit everything, absolutely everything.
Oldest Search - Search for the oldest result on internet.
Couple of test searches gave lots from early 2000s. Will be interesting to see how bitrotten it is
The race to reconnect Tonga
Awesome diagrams of the inside of undersea cables, and the boats and bots used to lay them.
BlueTeam CheatSheet for Log4Shell
Security Advisories / Bulletins / Vendor Responses linked to Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)
Naomi not Niomi
Good and sufficiently scary summary
“One with the cloud: Why people mistake the internet’s knowledge for their own”
Interesting area, and the discussion on whether it matters where the knowledge is stored.
Ask HN: Whatever happened to exploring the internet?
The Internet Is Rotting
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!
Reddit: Organized Lightning
Not sure I agree with all the conclusions, but the summary history of reddit and some possibilities is interesting.
How to check your IP address
Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
Stats on editors/content for reddit, Amazon, and Wikipedia
The Algorithmic Trap — David Perell
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
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