
1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

A place to post things of a mixed nature that are kind of interesting to read. Currently there is no set topic for this space, so expect a bit of randomness.
A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1976855
Lemmy search isn’t great, or I’m too new, and can’t tell if this has been posted here before.
1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1950283
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president::1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.
lemmy.fmhy.ml is gone
An update: - fmhy.ml is gone (https://fmhy.net is now up), due to the ongoing fiasco with mali government taking all their .ml domains back and also Freenom being sued by Meta - As such, lemmy.fmhy.ml is also gone, we are currently exploring ways to refederate (or somehow restart federation entirely...
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1484592
An update:
- fmhy.ml is gone, due to the ongoing fiasco with mali government taking all their .ml domains back
- As such, lemmy.fmhy.ml is also gone, we are currently exploring ways to refederate (or somehow restart federation entirely) without breaking anything substantial
- We have backups, so don't worry about data loss (you can view them on other instances anyway)
Currently, we have fmhy.net and are exploring options to somehow migrate, thank you for your patience.
Connor Tumbleson: Someone is pretending to be me
One random day - someone spills the beans. They were picked to impersonate me and get a job using my information.
I recently listened to this on Darknet Diaries, and dang is it a wild episode!
But, I got curious and went looking for the source and here it is!
As part of my ongoing interest in the origins of object-oriented programming and design patterns like MVC, I started to think the best wa...
DOSBox-X is not only a DOS runtime environment. Providing full system emulation, you can run operating systems that are far beyond DOS.
Be careful. New platforms invite bad actors.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/277536
Found the error
Not allowed to load local resource: file:///etc/passwd
while looking at infosec.pub's communities page. There's a community called "ignore me" that adds a few image tags trying to steal your passwd file.
Google will pull news links in Canada in response to new law
Google is pulling news links from its search and news features in Canada after the passage of a new law..
How to Kill a Decentralised Network,
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
A geeks take on what went wrong with XMPP and how it could affect the fediverse if we are not careful. Fairly interesting read.