A bit ironic given this is disseminated over the Internet...
The Internet would be far better if giant corporations didn't control platforms & endlessly surveille & profile & do so very unequally--to me that largely is a capitalism, governance & regulatory failure--power & control of infrastructure.
Fifteen years before the commercialization of the internet, millions of amateurs across North America created more than 100,000 small-scale computer networks. The people who built and maintained these dial-up bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.
@appassionato@bookstodon Wow, gotta read this one. Except I was there the first time (American Tune BBS was me). I should get a copy to show somebody's grandkids, though.
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.
1973 #Ethernet as one of the defining information technologies in modern communication was developed at #PARC by Chuck Thackers for #Alto#Computer s. What Bob Metcalf, Butler Lampson, and Dave Boggs built for the #ARPAnet is connecting us all today— via the #Internet, & @fediverse.
You are conflating layer 1 technologies (shielded or unshielded twisted pair, CAT3 through CAT7) with layer 2 technologies (Ethernet).
Layer one is the physical media itself. Alternatively some modern-day L1s are MoCA, Powerline, WiFi, fiber, and of course, 1000BaseT, whose standard specifies CAT5e or higher STP.
Layer two is how those bits get sent in that media. Ethernet is, by and far, the most familiar L2.
And then layer three is where we get to networking and start talking about IP addresses (IP being the most familiar L3).
With the price increase in every single tech subscription service of today already happening or coming, I think it's high time to reconsider whether we really need all the streaming, video games, task management programs, etc.
Because I understand the rising costs of living, but some companies are being utterly rude toward their paying customers.
@sharan I miss the times when we could buy an app and keep it for years. Nowadays you keep paying every month. If you stop, all is lost :(
I'd prefer to pay for a version that is supported for at least 5 years and that I can stick to. If new features are implemented on future versions, I could still think about paying for an upgrade...
@thomas I understand monthly subscription from the long-term support for devs point. Unfortunately, that is not what I can survive in the long term.
I am rethinking my to-do app - I've been using TickTick, and their price was 27 dollars per year. They made a raise to 35 bucks. I don't understand the reason why. No explanation was given. And their dev cycles are SLOW.
So that's one of the many frustrations I'm having right now, alongside PS Plus.
Freedom House has kicked off promotion for the launch of the 2023 #FreedomOnTheNet ranking on 4 Oct.
As a primer, have a look at our recent article with @tanyalokot on how competing rankings have shaped global understandings of what internet freedom is (and isn't)
We adopt a relational approach to explain how & why such a complex landscape of internet freedom rankings has emerged and identify how the ranking organisations’ varying approaches to capturing internet freedom have played a role in defining and legitimating it as a global issue.
Since both the uses of the internet and discussions about what freedom means in relation to it have developed so rapidly, ranking organisations have had to continually respond to these developments, negotiating their authority in relation to other actors in their field.
As we approach the annual media event that surrounds the launch of FoTN, our article can serve as a useful primer for what internet freedom rankings can - and cannot - tell us.
Ich hasse es, dass Österreich es schlicht und einfach verkackt hat, sinnvolles Internet für alle auszurollen. Nicht mal in Wien gibt es Tarife mit >50 Mbit/s Upload (in meinem Bezirk) und das ist einfach lächerlich.
Es ist 2023 und wir haben Internet-Angebote wie anno 2000. Von LTE am Land will ich gar nicht anfangen, das ist oft auch einfach nur grottig.
Danke für nix, Politik, ihr habt es einfach verschissen. 😡
@hiramfromthechi There is a video by Jim Stephanie Sterling (#TheJimquisition) about the gambling elements of video games and how they are actually targeting players with a gambling problem. It's fucking sick!
Okay telecom guys from #albania - no offense, but how do you keep track of this? Looks like a maintenance nightmare 😂
Still: Connecting a new house to the fiber network (yes, there is some fiber optics up there!) is probably just a matter of hours. Looking at you Germany! 👀
c’t-Workshop: Kea-DHCP richtig einrichten und konfigurieren
Kea-DHCP hat den bisherigen DHCP-Server des Internet Systems Consortium abgelöst. Die modular aufgebaute Software hat gegenüber ihrem Vorgänger viele Vorteile.
Crawler für Training von GPT ausschließen: OpenAI stellt Code für robots.txt vor
Für das Training von KI-Chatbots wie ChatGPT wird das Internet durchpflügt. Wer Inhalte davon ausschließen will, kann das nun über Code in der robots.txt tun.
"When you’re tracked online, a tracker, such as a cookie or a tracking pixel, is inserted into the code of the website you’re visiting. These tracking technologies could be owned by advertising and marketing companies, government agencies, or other monitoring authorities. Usually the owner of these websites agrees to sell your data to advertising companies in exchange for whatever service the advertising company provides.
It is believed that your data is shared with as many as 70 third parties when a website has embedded trackers. Furthermore, Google has trackers on more than half of all online traffic."
@I_Like_Books Good that articles like this are being written from the perspective of public outreach, and it is correct that tracking can be stopped, but their recommendations are not something that should be taken as the limited few options.
@richard yes there are more, yesterday? I shared these in a thread someone else started
edit to add: I a pretty sure there are even more
"In the modern age of digital data exploitation, your privacy has never been more critical, and yet many believe it is already a lost cause. It is not. Your privacy is up for grabs, and you need to care about it. Privacy is about power, and it is so important that this power ends up in the right hands." https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/why-privacy-matters/
"When beginning the journey of restoring digital privacy, some people get overwhelmed with all the work involved, and perhaps give up. Don’t let that be you. Understand that you don’t need to do everything right away. Instead, start small and go step by step at your own pace. With each step in the process, you get more security and control over your personal data, which is a small victory." https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/