Ah, the good ol' days of the internet. 🫡

#internet #nostalgia

Remote work and study is an effective way to reduce the spread of contagious infections, but not everyone has access to reliable networks. We want to shine a spotlight on offline-first software which allows people to synchronize data when they're connected to the internet, and to continue interacting with it when they're not.

We're interested in hearing about applications that support intermittent connectivity. Tell us about your success stories with the use of such software, or the failure cases with online-only apps that motivated your interest.

Share the lessons learnt from development:

* how you handle or prevent conflicts when replicating data

* the UX impacts of eventually-consistent models

* approaches for debugging unexpected behaviour in distributed systems

Apply up until midnight, January 19th, 2025 (anywhere on Earth)

https://fluconf.online/apply/

#fluConf2025 #distributedSystems #FOSS #data #internet #technology #technologyFail #technologyFutures #solarpunk #futurisms #anarchy #hope

Submit a proposal

Submit your proposal for FluConf 2025 by January 19th, 2025

^{fluconf.online}

Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.

#comic #cartoon #technology #tech #privacy #surveillance #consumer #cooking #internet #internetofthings

Tor, so wie andere anonymisierungs Technik im Internet, verhindern nicht dein Verhalten. Anonym ist mehr als Tor, zB zusätzliche Verschlüsselung & das Verhalten.

«Strafverfolger hebeln Tor-Anonymisierung aus:
Das @torproject Netzwerk gilt als wichtigstes Werkzeug, um sich anonym im Internet zu bewegen. Behörden haben begonnen, es zu unterwandern, um Kriminelle zu enttarnen. In mindestens einem Verfahren waren sie erfolgreich.»

🧅 https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/panorama/tor-netzwerk-100.html

#tor #internet #web #anonym #anonymitat

Ermittlungen im Darknet: Strafverfolger hebeln Tor-Anonymisierung aus

Das Tor-Netzwerk gilt als wichtigstes Werkzeug, um sich anonym im Internet zu bewegen. Behörden haben begonnen, es zu unterwandern, um Kriminelle zu enttarnen. In mindestens einem Verfahren waren sie erfolgreich. Von R. Bongen und D. Moßbrucker.

^{Robert Bongen (tagesschau.de)}

Latest comic: Billionaires Fund Human Intelligence

#ai #cartoon #comic #tech #technology #economy #internet #education

¡He escrito un libro! 💫
Va de #internet, y de qué vamos a hacer para recuperarla (por supuesto, tiene un capítulo dedicado al #fediverso). Ojalá os resulte interesante y sea útil impulsar tecnologías libres y más justas.

El 20 de mayo llega a librerías. Vamos a presentarlo en #BCN, #Sabadell, #Sevilla, #Bilbao, #Santander, #Gasteiz, #ACoruña, #Santiago, #Vigo, #Lisboa, #Madrid, #Zaragoza y #Donosti: https://redesnuestras.net/

Si me ayudáis a que lo conozca más gente, os lo agradezco mucho. 🙏

FYI everyone:

we're getting the largest geomagnetic storm in 19 years in a few hours

it could impact #GPS, the #powergrid and maybe the #internet

tiny chance

it's rated a G4

we had a G5 in 2003 and it caused power outages in Sweden and damaged transformers in South Africa

on the plus side:

#auroraborealis!

visible as far south as Alabama possibly

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/severe-geomagnetic-storm-watch-issued-unusual-solar-event/

Rare severe geomagnetic storm watch issued for first time in nearly 20 years amid "unusual" solar event

The sunspot responsible for the odd series of strong solar flares is so big you can see it with your own eyes from Earth.

^{Li Cohen (CBS News)}

The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

'The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must end'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/the-internet-is-in-decline-it-needs-rewilding

#internet

The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding

^{John Naughton (The Guardian)}

¿Se puede hablar por #Internet sin que nos escuchen? 🤔
Compartimos las «Reflexiones sobre la privacidad en videoconferencias», por @rbonifaz de @derechosdigital

↪️ https://www.derechosdigitales.org/22980/reflexiones-sobre-la-privacidad-en-videoconferencias/

Web search sucks. This enshittification needs to end!

Recommend me a new search engine!
#web #smallweb #internet #search #tech

La dimensión física de #internet pasa desapercibida en la idea de la «nube» y es fácil no vincular su uso con los impactos socioambientales.

Recomendamos las lecturas:
✅ https://nuso.org/articulo/la-infraestructura-de-internet-tambien-existe/
✅ https://brecha.com.uy/una-nube-se-hace-con-agua/

Acciones para (re)conectar y transformar las tecnologías🌿🤳

#Tecnoafecciones ¿Cuáles son las infraestrucutras que forman Internet?

➡️#Internet es posible gracias a infraestructuras físicas conformadas por cables y satélites, antenas y servidores web.

Hay redes de distribución de contenidos, servidores de bases de datos, modems y más...

👆 Algunos de estos elementos se encuentran en los llamados centros de datos, granjas de servidores o, coloquialmente "la nube", que de inmaterial y etéreo tiene poco y es un espacio más bien centralizado.

Latest comic: Pick your social network!

#socialmedia #internet #tech #authoritarianism

Content warning: Masto meta danger via the question why is it so hard to self-host email? Click to open/close

CW-ing to try and increase reach of replied to toot and put this in my local timeline.

Link here: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109720682260738515

#decentralized #internet #infrastructure #problems

Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)

“The #fediverse is like #email.” Yes. Now read this and understand it: “I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore.

^{Aral’s Mastodon}