I'm not the first person to be saying this, but the days of replying "JFGI" ("just fucking google it") to someone asking what you assume is a question easily answered by search engines – are over.
I really, really hate what the web has become.
(Jinja is a Python-based template language.)
I went to clear some cookies to test some software I'm working on and I was startled to see that fandom.com, a site I avoid as much as possible, was using over 100 MB of storage on my browser
I got nostalgic, so I ended up browsing pictures from #DWebCamp2023, and I found these wild shots of me and @timbl. Almost two years have passed, and I still cannot completely believe that I spent time chatting with the creator of the #WorldWideWeb and that he autographed my thesis!
Unbelievable things happen at #DWebCamp.
(Thanks to @mai for the stolen shot 
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Fun fact: @mark kindly came and picked me up at the airport and he drove me and TBL to DWeb Camp. The first thing they asked me about while getting to the car was this patch I had, simulating the hammer and sickle communist symbol, but actually representing a sickle popping open an Aperol Spritz. So there was me, super jet-lagged and hungover (because I had my last exam of my bachelor the day before) trying to explain what that was to the creator of #HTML and the director of the #WaybackMachine. It was super embarrassing but it is a great story to tell.
@dweb #TBL #WWW #Internet #InternetHistory #decentralization #HTTP #Web
On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal for an information management system to his boss at CERN. “Vague but exciting” was his feedback. The project later became the World Wide Web.
Thank you, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for changing the world!
#OnThisDay #Birth of the World Wide Web (#WWW): On 12 March 1989 Berners-Lee issued a proposal, titled "Information Management: A Proposal", which used the term "web".
The 1993 Mumbai bombings took place in Mumbai on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries.
Today is World Day Against #Cyber #Censorship.
Mehr „KI“ – weniger Weblinks
Auch Google will die User auf ihrer Seite halten und sie nicht mehr zu anderen Websites schicken. Dafür sollen die Anfragen direkt von der Google-eigenen „KI“ beantwortet werden – ob die Antworten stimmen oder nicht. Das hat der Konzern gerade angekündigt.
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Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated
https://silly.business/blog/bookmarklets-and-custom-url-schemes-are-criminally-underrated/
@briankrebs it is basically ww3 in slo mo whereas before it was more of a proxy war (of many) - with regards to the economy everybody knows we are in a superbubble - it could unwind gradually or it could burst tomorrow; more than likely it will be some sort of shock that gets things rolling and then dominoes start to fall #mkt deadwood
https://www.ft.com/content/9a0da0d6-92b4-4034-ac25-7b4abcbb0bbe
#www.ft.com #overleveraged #contrarian #superbubble
in case you missed it: back in 2016, before the US general election, we published this browser game, "election fighter", to test our visualization engine :) at the time, we never could have imagined that we would have to see what we're seeing today happening. truly revolting! perhaps this game can still serve its original purpose: to help you de-stress :)
das hier ist technisch (!) und von der #recherche her das beste, was ich bisher zur #antifa im #www gesehen habe; …und ich bin hier immerhin schon seit dem kalenderjahr 1994 unterwegs.
nehmt euch die zeit, zu lesen, wieso die #nsdap immer noch nicht nur nachwirkt, sondern auch 2025 immer noch höchst aktiv ist.
urheber dieses kunstwerks ist https://chaos.social/@michaelkreil. toll gemacht; ich kann die url als webarchiv lokal wegsichern und habe offline die volle museumserfahrung.
Some great stuff from @thisisaaronland here, focused on cultural heritage but relevant widely.
On the web, the unglamorous “plywood” of digital, which if we can finally let go of chasing eyeballs, might let us ”foster discovery and revisiting on the time scale of the humanities rather than the marketplace.”
https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/02/13/gummy/#fact2025
@netizenparty Welcome. I think today we're expected to live in an Internet culture, but the level of education about how the Internet works is virtually nonexistent for non-technical audiences.
Imagine a city of netizens who can't read street signs, and who allow themselves to be (mis)directed by any colorful display or printed map that floats by. The people who are maintaining this city have arrived at the idea that they installed the street signs (of course) for their own use; instructing netizens to check them is frowned upon. If you require the security of verifying who/which address you're actually traveling to, you're given the advice to "avoid all web links and use apps from the app store instead".
Consider this... Some banks now require a verified app to access their services. That means you cannot use a PC or a libre mobile OS to access them. In other cases, users assume this must be the situation because they cannot imagine non-app access to a bank anymore, despite their bank offering web access (sometimes I check this). IMO, this is a major threat to the viability of the Internet. As cultures go, it appears to be one that has passed its heyday and is now in steep decline. The richest and arguably most powerful man in the world claims that in the near future his single app 'X' will be the preferred way to access all types of online services.
Muscle memory now automatically right-clicks every news article and selects “Open link in new private window“ or “Open link in incognito window“ so I can just click the fucking “accept all cookies” button without having an anxiety attack. I do this for YouTube links as well.
#NetNeutrality Rules Struck Down by Appeals Court
The #FCC voted in April to restore #NetNeutrality regs expanding govt oversight of broadband providers to stop broadband providers from slowing or blocking access to web content, protect consumer access. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/technology/net-neutrality-rules-fcc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE4.Ae86.lGlOY-qdm7Xs
Since getting an #internet connection 30 years ago I sometimes wish people would imprison me for a few hours every day with only a book, a pen and a notepad.
"Anbieter sollen die Nutzung von Rechenleistung und Speicherplatz minimieren und Geräte durch Rückwärtskompatibilität möglichst lange nutzbar machen."
So naemlich! #Nachhaltigkeit #WWW
"The scale of art, music, and literature being lost each day as the #WWW shifts and degenerates represents the biggest loss of human cultural production since WWII. My generation was continuously warned by teachers, parents, and authority figures that we should be careful online because the internet is written in ink, and yet it turned out to be the exact opposite. As writer and researcher Kevin T. Baker remarked, 'On the internet, Alexandria burns daily.'"
#digitalmemory
https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/
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