It’s not a project for most people, but watching someone ride up to 20 miles, and up to 30 mph, on tossed-out vape batteries is transfixing.
Wark knocks on the door of the situation room in the beach beneath the street
What source would you like with that binary blob?
"Open" source software with LLM-driven disassemblers ...
Then there is Tuvalu's TLD .tv that generates around 8% of the country's total government revenue. Due to rising sea levels, the pacific atoll nation may not exist much longer.
There is also the double barrelled but still active oz.au domain hierarchy - so good they named it twice! Back in the early Australian Internet days we admin'ed pegasus.oz.au for one of if not the first major national internet access networks in Australia.
There's also the story of the moribund .gb TLD for Great Britain .
Not a TLD such as .io, but In terms of Internet domain diasappearances, there is the legend that is fuckedgoogle.com, an anonymous economist's massive click-fraud expose of Google's business model and practices. The true reason for it's disappearance is made of legends and conspiriacies. See What Happened to fuckedgoogle.com for a tasty intro to the aftermath.
Mozilla reveals its true colours ... as ad pushers
BRAD SMALLWOOD, SVP AND ANONYM CO-FOUNDERGRAHAM MUDD, SVP OF PRODUCT AND ANONYM CO-FOUNDER It’s been four months since Anonym joined Mozilla. Anonym was
With the suspicious strategy to 'make digital advertising more private', we can be sure google:zilla has not been subverted by its major funders. Take steps to make sure you are in complete control of the hardware crypto components of your own devices. Or perhaps understand the consequences of disabling them.
Film: Peer to Peer - the OGs of distributed networking
What can we learn from poets and coders who engineered a parallel internet that, by 1992, had email servers running in 72 countries? Peer to Peer’ is a deep-dive into data sovereignty and decentralised data flows as described by two generations of information communication rights peers.
Many of my peers contributed to this lovely film about establishing regional network inclusion. Made by good friend & filmmaker Andrew Garton for Engage Media.
Zuck on this - Paris Marx on Mark Zuck rebranding & rebuilding the same harm machines, including himself.
Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the (profit of) future (harm) instead of the present (shitshow)
Bruce Sterling on Richard Barbrook's Californian Ideology
The Medium is not just the Massage
Privileged port is a trust belief system where you believe that the remote system only offers services below port 1024 if they were started with elevated privilege. Author PK Dick once said reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I posit that the point of the video is that port changing is an inconvenience non-feature, especially at scale of distributed legitimate use.
Listen up, changing SSH daemon to non-standard port is a waste of time & even less secure
Stop it right now. It does not help your threat environment. It just makes things worse.
Care like a Pirate - Pirate Care reclaims extractivist property structures
Attached: 1 image When #care needs piracy .. the case for disobedience in struggles against imperial property regimes .. @[email protected], @tmedak Reclaiming the idea of #piracy foregrounds the need for radical collective action to challenge contemporary global systems of property & power ...
The aim of the Pirate Care project is to put the politics back into caring and to disrupt the global property regime that is colonising public welfare services and turning them into privately traded assets. Piracy refers to all the practices of survival and solidarity that disobey unjust legal and social rules that support property at the expense of living beings. The idea of piracy enables the foregrounding of the need to expand the realm of conceivable political responses to the crisis.
Graziano, Valeria & Medak, Tomislav & Mars, Marcell. (2021). When care needs piracy: the case for disobedience in struggles against imperial property regimes. Soundings. 77. 55-70. 10.3898/SOUN.77.04.2021.
Veritasium on SS7 global phone vulnerabilities
Do not trust robots ... or mobile phones. Featuring Karsten Nohl, Berlin-based long time phone security researcher, this Veritasium episode is an easy introduction to the general public as to why you should question everything about your mobile devices.
(the issues outlined explain why some groups consider the use of alternate comms networks such as pagers, walkie talkies, meshtastic, etc)
Note for non-Googliness, the URL can work with invidious instances (such as yewtu.be) which may or may not be stable. just use the path /watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y
Poetic Intents: Seeding the next generation of TEEs
Proposal for the Creation of an Open Source TEE Initiative
In a world with power asymmetries, building the grounds for autonomous confidential computation is a means to gain a strategic advantage.
This is a call from Poetic Technologies to form a broad alliance to unite in building a trustless, open-source, tamper resistant TEE.
historic max headroom origin story over telnet
historic & awesome telnet transcoded video clip
browser click here for maxed out telnet
or full screen your terminal and connect:
telnet 1984.ws
you can almost hear the audio stutters ...
carpentopod - a walking table
Attached: 1 video Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See https://decarpentier.nl/carpentopod for project info. (Or come see it live at Maker Days Eindhoven this 14 & 15 Sept.)
table in motion towards public domain
be the whois you always wanted to be
Interesting adventure in exploring hidden consequences of outdated trust architectures ...
Find Alternatives to Data-Centres - Emissions of the Cloud
Attached: 4 images "We tend to hoard data and are largely unaware of our resource wastage." Emission of the Cloud by Simon Weckert. more info: https://www.simonweckert.com/emissionofthecloud.html
The online activities of just one German town, Chemnitz, burn 450 kg of C02 per hour. Most of this is from Data-Centres supporting cloud infrastructures.
"Smoke builds a staircase for you to ascend ..." (Laurie Anderson, Home of the Brave)
Instead of climbing a staircase of thin air, use Simon Weckert's project as inspiration to find local, lower emission alternatives to using data-centres for digital activity.
Where Warlocks Stay Up Late: Anthropological Hacker Map
An Interesting start to historical mapping of hacker groups and more detail around the fringes and around the world would be fascinating ...
