so i guess i hacked samsung?!
it's not quite xz but at least my grandma knows what samsung is
April 2024
March 2024
There is no EU cookie banner law
You mean it's greed? I'm shocked!
January 2024
Massive leak exposes 26 billion records in mother of all breaches
It includes data from Twitter, Dropbox, and LinkedIn
Age Verification is Incompatible with the Internet
September 2023
The Age of the Grift Shift
August 2023
Death Spiral of Hollywood Monopolies
Too big to fail? Not so fast. A showrunner's cautionary memo
June 2023
Some blogging myths
May 2023
Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet
Building the Micro Mirror Free Software CDN
Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site
People in Utah who visit Pornhub will now be greeted by adult performer Cherie DeVille asking them to tell their representatives to change their age verification law.
February 2023
Enshittification
December 2022
The dance of the naked emperors
About scientific article publishing and peer review in the internet era.
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
I bet you're wondering how we got here...
November 2022
Lessons from DeviantArt’s AI Debacle
The Lesson of Elon Musk’s Twitter? Everything the Far Right Touches Dies.
What Happens When You Give the Keys to the Town Square to the Lunatics?
October 2022
Why we're leaving the cloud
September 2022
Extreme California heat knocks key Twitter data center offline
July 2022
No Sex for You
Life in the metaverse will be tacky, prudish, and dull
How ironic that now I know exactly how to make a good blogging-oriented SSG but don't need one anymore. Oh well, the time will come again.
Turns out my new journal page is already very popular just a couple of days after coming online. Best decision ever.
On a related note, I got around to mentioning this linklog on my homepage. Let's see if anyone notices.
June 2022
“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results — rendering them useless.
May 2022
“Destruction of digital privacy of correspondence”: lawsuit filed against chat control
March 2022
How proprietary social-medias are shaping the future of Pepper&Carrot
“I bought a one-way ticket”: Inside Russia’s sudden tech exodus
Wartime Is a Bad Time To Mess With the Internet
Analyzing Every Second of the Classic Dial-Up Modem Sound
February 2022
No user accounts, by design
January 2022
Why I Broke Up with Firefox
Mozilla’s decision to allow people to donate to them in cryptocurrency really turned me off.
Netflix Lost $50 Billion in Value Overnight
Wall Street is freaking out about the streaming giant’s growth prospects
DSA: EU Parliament Vote Ensures a Free Internet, But a Final Regulation Must Add Stronger Privacy Protections
Media Websites: 70% of the Carbon Footprint Caused by Ads and Stats
Pseudonymous
Remembering Aaron Swartz, who died on this day, a victim of the copyright system
Who runs the internet? Furries
November 2021
The Internet is Held Together With Spit & Baling Wire
UN Human Rights Committee Criticizes Germany’s NetzDG for Letting Social Media Platforms Police Online Speech
Then again, this is Germany we're talking about. You know, where anyone who publishes one word online has to display their name and address for everyone to see. In other words, to self-doxx. Welcome to European democracy.
Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
Come to think of it, microformats are invisible metadata (exactly what they claim not to be), and putting them inline only makes them harder to extract, not to mention a mess.
October 2021
Black cosplayers are tired of being told who they can and can’t portray
Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla
.io considered harmful
August 2021
https://b2evolution.net/
Turns out b2evolution is now a complete social networking app, and looks really nice. Large, but clear and easy to figure out. Edit: also fast. Too bad it's basically abandoned.
Just completed my periodic survey of the flat-file CMS market. FlatPress is a decent option I missed so far. Kind of dusty and creaky, but usable. Bludit is still unbeatable.
What is money, really? And why Bitcoin is not the answer (even if blockchain is brilliant & potentially helpful in democratising money)
July 2021
Age Verification In The Online Safety Bill
Why I no longer trust Github
June 2021
(awesome Tumblr rant about Americans on the internet)
May 2021
How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
February 2021
Meet the people fighting to keep a language alive online
January 2021
Over 700,000 paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free
‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone, EU Commission says
This is terrifying. Now they speak up? When marginalized people are silenced online, where's the outrage from politicians?
Old farts, get your hands off the internet already.
October 2020
RIAA’s YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub’s CEO
September 2019
Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
August 2019
Terminating Service for 8Chan
June 2019
US demands social media details from visa applicants
May 2019
Uh-oh .io: Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains as UN condemns British empire hangover
Internet Sensation Grumpy Cat Has Passed Away
April 2019
Scary legalese and the content clause: Don’t be afraid of the license grant!
Nothing Fails Like Success
March 2019
Endlessh: an SSH Tarpit
January 2019
This Man Bought a Far-Right Group’s Domain and Made a Furry Dating Site
October 2015
Ermahgerddon: The Untold Story of the Ermahgerd Girl
Meet Maggie Goldenberger, who helplessly watched an Internet meme spawn from her awkward adolescent photo. Except, maybe the “Gersberms” girl never existed the way we thought she did?