Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".
Officials in Loveland and Timnath, Colo ratify an Inter-Governmental Agreement that will bring ubiquitous, affordable high-speed Internet access to yet another community in the Centennial State
An increasing number of Colorado cities and towns are embracing municipal #broadband after years of frustration with the inadequate, high-priced service from the region’s monopoly incumbents
Last week I gave a talk about the importance of trust in building an #internet that is free, safe, and open at #RustGlobal / #WasmCon. In it I talked about moments of trust I've seen built here on the #fediverse, and in my work rebuilding the #Fastly#opensource program as #FastForward.
X has #blocked the account of @KhaledBeydoun on its platform in India.
Software Freedom Law Centre, India (SFLC.in) has been reporting on the blocking of social media accounts and #websites. Please #report any blocking cases you may have seen to us.
Send us an email at mail@sflc.in or mention @sflcin on social media platforms.
"The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks."
#blog Highlights: “We need to rewild the Internet”
Today I read We Need To Rewild The Internet by Maria Farrell and @robin (Robin Berjon) (April 16, 2024), and I selected personal annotated highlights from it.
AI 'art' is metastasising through the internet. I just looked up Hieronymus Bosch and there were more AI imitations than I expected (or recall seeing on previous searches). I tried three browsers: Google, DuckDuckGo, and Brave. At a glance, Google seemed to be the worst offender, which shouldn't surprise me, given that its functionality & quality seem to have plummeted in recent months... #AI#art#history#internet
Warning: Tomorrow is April 1st, so be careful, don't believe everything you read on the internet, and don't share all the shocking things you stumble upon. On April 2nd, you're good to go, everything on the internet will be true again, and share away everything.
#TIL about Internet Underground Music Archive, "the internet's first free hi-fi music archive", which "existed as FTP and Gopher sites, before the World Wide Web was widely used."
A town or neighborhood generally functions as a large village.
But a city does not function like a large town or a large neighborhood. It functions like a collection of competing and cooperating towns and neighborhoods.
I think this is a big reason why capitalism and our car dependent zoning has broken the way cities function. Urban and civil planners and franchise planners, etc. plan out development to optimize cities, not to optimize towns/neighborhoods.
For example, when Walmart plans a new store, they plan to optimize their sales based on service to the larger city, not in service of the town/neighborhood they are opening up in. When city planners plan a new highway, they plan it to optimize transportation in the whole city, not to optimize transportation in the town/neighborhood. Everything is planned to optimize on the city level and the village/town/neighborhood level is sacrificed as a result.
That's why people have to drive 30 minutes to go to a grocery store and 40 minutes to go to church, etc. this is what has killed our communities.
To expand on this, this is also why our "global village" of the #internet fails as a village. Because companies that have taken over the internet didn't treat it like a village, they treat it like city planners treat a city. Optimize everything for the greatest number of users.
Which is part of the interesting thing about #Mastodon and ActivityPub. An individual Mastodon server really does function more like a village than it does a city. It's a small group of people collectively trying to make their little internet community better, and they are more able to police their own users as a result. #ActivityPub is able to function like a more healthy city that supports cooperating and competing towns and villages.