While AI companies are allowed to slurp everything they want, Quad9 warns that legal fees are drowning DNS resolvers, which are now being targeted by copyright owners to enforce blocks on piracy sites quad9.net/news/blog/wh...

My favorite was the Northern Telecom DisplayPhone with the pull out keyboard. This was way before the internet, we used a proprietary email system named CoCoS (Corporate Communications System), PCs weren’t really a thing yet…

Cursed idea I had. If this comes across your feed, sorry not sorry

First day of 5-day RTO, it's a miracle the building didn't crumple. For a few hours in the middle of the day we got to listen to DJ waterhammer rocking the entire floor.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.

dreams can become reality… #lasercutting #tractor_feed #trypophobia

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

Cool $10k bounty: https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ge-refrigerator-water-filter-replacement

Archive\.is / archive\.today's policy of non-removal and ignoring signposts makes it a favorite among serial doxers and harassers targeting trans ppl. For years the site refused to answer DNS resolvers that didn't hand over invasive geo EDNS info, anyone on 1.1.1.1 couldn't get to the site 1/

Librarians told 404 Media they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, academics www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Do what we tell you and we won't abandon you to everlasting torment

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

reposting this one CAUSE ONCE AGAIN VERY RELEVANT

When you book a flight through major travel sites, a data broker owned by U.S. airlines will sell details about your flight—your name, credit card used, and where you’re flying to the government. We found out how to opt-out of ARC selling your travel data. A guide: www.404media.co/how-to-opt-o...

Would you share some wine with me? 🍇 🎨 @tatujapa.bsky.social

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

Amiga seen at Howl in Vancouver

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Wait, what? Do these people remember Salt Typhoon?

Gay ᶜᵒʷ boys 🏳️‍🌈✨

@skepchick.org this sounds ripe for your next riff www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

the Trump FCC this week voted to completely neuter rules requiring that your Broadband ISP be transparent about the speed and limitations of your broadband connection at the point of sale, which will make it easier for them to rip you off:

There are low-level serial communication protocols everywhere for those with I2C

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

Silly little Critter badge idea

as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

PSA: don't say "Psychotic" when you mean delusional. Delusions are beliefs Psychosis is experiencing things that aren't happening. You can recover from psychosis, Delusions take much longer to get over.

It's Science.

At this point I feel like there's a strong possibility that the people who run Plex are just intentionally trying to destroy the service and company so they can take up fly fishing or something.

Anyone going to pawcon have room for a fox and yeen? Lmk ^^

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Party at the internet! @archive.org

just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at wizardzines.com#posters

Fight your local tech dystopia today. Connect with a local grassroots group (or start your own) with resources from the Electronic Frontier Alliance. efa.eff.org/

AWS outages are interesting because each time it affects more and more disparate things, each is a snapshot scan of the metastatic cancer infecting the internet.

"No way to prevent this", says only us-east-1 where this routinely happens. Please, not the week I'm on-call 😭

Amazon’s Ring now works with video surveillance company Flock

Join the celebration next week! 1 trillion pages have been saved to the #WaybackMachine, & The Web We’ve Built brings stories, music & digital history to life. 📅 Weds, Oct 22 🎟️ In Person ➡️ zttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133239 🖥️ Virtual ➡️ zttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011939 #Wayback1T

"i'm a human"

POV: The edibles wore off and the littles are done little spacing

Next infra-interest meeting next Thurs 23 Oct 18:30 - 20:00 PDT. Agenda: wiki.pawprint.space/interest_gro... This meeting will be covering some in-depth usage of running containers with Docker. Come in-person, participate online over Google Meet, or watch the livestream. Links to come.