
What are you favorite browser extensions?
Right now I'm using uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Greasemonkey, Copy PlainText, and Stylus.
What are you favorite browser extensions?
Right now I'm using uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Greasemonkey, Copy PlainText, and Stylus.
Is the lagging Fediverse the result of the #trumpregime surveillance of the #www? I wonder!
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 [tommi.space]!
Unbelievable things happen at #DWebCamp.
(Thanks to @mai for the stolen shot )
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
@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
now if you started doing D3 long enough and are old enough to remember, the HTML5 and D3 rollouts were very much overlapping. so, HTML5 was still getting out there when D3 kind of made a splash.
In the early days of HTML5, there was incredible optimism for web apps completely obviating any other type of software stack. this was nirvana! finally, everything could be defragmented, using WWW standards.
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.
archive95.net wants to make websites accessible again that are too old even for the Web Archive - the latter only started archiving public sites in 1996. For this purpose, commercial CDs from the years before 1996 are used, on which copies of existing websites were distributed in order to present them to offline customers. This brings up various interesting Amiga hits: fan pages for the A/Box, press releases from Gateway etc.
To be clear, my optimism didn't really last all that long, say from about 1995 when the #WWW really took off, to 1998 or so when the #dotcom bubble started to crack. By 1999 it was obvious things weren't working out so well: The #Matrix hit at exactly the right moment.
But oh, how I miss that brief period when it looked like we were going to get #StarTrek instead.
In #CalmTech principles
> A technology called Internet #Multicast may become the next WorldWideWeb (#WWW) phenomenon. [..] Multicast at the moment is not an easy technology to use, and only a few applications have been developed by some very smart people.
https://calmtech.com/papers/coming-age-calm-technology
Some of these smart people are here on #fedi, enabled by @nlnet and #EU funding working on exactly this nextgen internet technology stack
Thank you @librecast for your hard work and efforts
No Javascript Browser fingerprinting - experimental warfare in #links2
https://automa.triapul.cz/nojs-fingerprinting/
...
edit: just a side note, thanks to another fellow links2gangster, you can supply links2 with some completely arbitrary header, which will change the fingerprint: ie
links -g -http.extra-header "Accept: $RANDOM/$RANDOM" https://noscriptfingerprint.com/
But I suppose the best practice would be to rotate real (useless?) headers, as this will potentially make the browser stand out.
Thanks @smoon
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ft: @wtfismyip
#links2gang #www #browser #javascript #serpico
How an 83-year-old short story may predict the chaotic collapse of the open internet
Call for Papers: Exploring the History of the Web, from Inception to Present @TheWebConf 2025 @TheOfficialACM
2-4 pages paper submission 12/12/2024
https://www2025.thewebconf.org/history-of-the-web
#TheWebConf25 #WebHistory #InternetHistory #www
cc @w3c @CERN @Inria @timberners_lee @oshaniws
I'm getting close to being done with the #WWW. It's a flood of #bigotry, #advertising, and #spam owned by #billionaire assholes. I've had enough. The #worldwideweb wasn't supposed to be like this. We should be looking for and using un-exploitable alternatives, like #gemini_protocol. With the big surge of #fediverse platforms like #Mastodon, I'm surprised there wasn't more talk about it. Anyway, yeah. The Web blows.
Dass die Reform des #ÖRR einen Rückzug aus dem #WWW bedeuten soll, zeigt auf erschütternde Weise, wie sehr die politisch Handelnden ihre Zeit, ihre Welt und ihre Bürger nicht verstanden haben.
Wer #Rundfunk im Jahr 2024 immer noch am Wort FUNK festmacht, muss dringend seinen politischen Führerschein zurückgeben. Der ist eine ernsthafte Gefahr für dieses Land.
Okay... it seems Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has just joined the Fediverse at:
(For those wondering about verification, this is genuine as far as I can tell. The account is on the w3c server and they only allow manually verified signups, plus the verified account of the w3c is following him.)
Thank you to @vmstan for the headsup about this!