Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 35 starts NOW! With me today is @rwg . Robert's next book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" will be published by Oxford University Press this year.

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Good day all!

We're going to be talking with @rwg today in about 2 1/2 hours, 1100 Eastern UTC-4.

We'll talk to @benpate tomorrow, August 14th at 1100 Mountain, 1300 Eastern UTC-4.

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Los jueces de #ReinoUnido rechazan el recurso de #Wikimedia contra la Ley de Seguridad Online, que obliga a la página (por su tamaño) a reforzar la identificación de los editores y verificar por edad los contenidos especialmente violentos. La Fundación dice que ante la situación se puede ver obligada a desactivar algunas funciones de la #Wikipedia en el país

#censura #internet #noticias
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo

Is #Betanet or #Internet 2, not just a worse version of all the other layers such as #I2P, #Tor, #Freenet, #Hyphanet, etc?

Perplexity bietet Google 34,5 Milliarden US-Dollar für Chrome-Browser

Ein US-Gericht könnte Google demnächst zum Verkauf von Chrome zwingen. Das KI-Start-up Perplexity legt aus heiterem Himmel bereits ein Milliarden-Angebot vor.

https://www.heise.de/news/Perplexity-bietet-Google-34-5-Milliarden-US-Dollar-fuer-Chrome-Browser-10519628.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Good day all. We're rescheduling talking with @benpate . I apologize for the inconvenience, but we will talk with Ben in a future episode.

Just a reminder that tomorrow, August 13th at 1100 Eastern UTC-4, we're talking with @rwg !

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Does anyone understand this #cookie Notice? There's one button which says "Sorry!! accept all cookies" on the @iscdotorg ISC's #DHCP doc's website, does anyone understand what that means? I can't see any other buttons, can that be translated as "sorry we have to track you, there's no details and no consent, yolo!"

AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day

AOL will end its dial-up internet service, the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)-based internet connectivity service, on September 30, 2025. Its dial-up service has been publicly available for 34 years.

#AOL #history #dialup #internet #newsoftheweird #endofanera #technology #tech

https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/aol-will-end-dial-up-internet-service-in-september-34-years-after-its-debut-aol-shield-browser-and-aol-dialer-software-will-be-shuttered-on-the-same-day

My eldest informed me that starting tomorrow there is a boycott of YouTube to protest the age restriction b.s. they're going to be running.

Now's a good time to switch to another app like FreeTube or PeerTube. I just finished copying my subscription list to FreeTube this morning.

I regret that I won't be able to support my favorite creators with likes and comments but I hate YT and the enshittification more so there ya go.

Bonus: the FOSS alternatives are supposedly ad-free.

»Webseiten – Reddit sperrt das Internet Archive aus:
Die Snapshots des Internet Archives werden wohl für KIs genutzt. User sollen geschützt werden. Dabei verkauft Reddit diese bereits«

Ein Argument mehr um Reddit nicht mehr zu nutzen. Erst stolz KI einsetzen und nun wegen @internetarchive sperren, nicht für den Userschutz - für ihren Profit. Es gibt ja @LemmyWorld im Fediverse.

https://www.golem.de/news/webseiten-reddit-sperrt-das-internet-archive-aus-2508-199082.html

AOL schaltet Ende September Internet-Zugang per Modem ab

Wie viele Menschen in den USA sich noch über ein Modem ins Internet einwählten, ist unklar. Der Internetdienstleister AOL stellt seine Einwahl über Modem jedenfalls Ende September endgültig ein.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/aol-internet-einwahl-modem-internetanbieter-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

"The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D..
New safety rules require users to verify their identities before gaining access to sites. This spells the end of the relative anonymity that we’ve come to expect online."
#newyorker #internet #youtube #google
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-internet-wants-to-check-your-id

Currently indulging myself by reading about the enshittification of Substack lol.
It's sad, but predictable, how if you bring social media dynamics to a once-cosy platform of writers, things go to hell.
A well-known writer I follow who has 39k followers wrote about how things have drastically changed the last few months. Journalists, celebrities are now dominating the platform and small fry writers are no longer seen.

For me, I've seen an uptick of outrage content and reply guys and debate bros. It's sad how the moment one writes a narrative that the mob doesn't agree with, they pile on you.

This is the opposite of what Substack stood for in the past.

I will still use Substack, because I'm a practical person nor do I choose platforms based on its morality or ideals, but how it serves me. But it's sad because I remember how it was before the bigwigs tried to change it to the next Twitter.

However, this is a very good reminder for me to double, triple down on my website and remember NOT to "build a presence" and do more digital sharecropping than necessary on Substack.

Britit raivostuivat uudesta netin käyttöä valvovasta laista – suomalaisasiantuntija pitää huolta aiheellisena

Electronic Frontier Finlandin toiminnanjohtaja Tapani Tarvainen pitää Britannian uutta lakia monella tapaa ongelmallisena.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20175986

#AOL will #discontinue its #dialup #internet service on 30 September. While this change will not impact many people, it highlights the ongoing issue of limited broadband access in rural and Tribal areas. Efforts are being made to improve this situation through programmes like the Affordable Connectivity Programme. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/aol-discontinues-its-dial-up-internet-and-were-just-surprised-they-even-offered-it-in-2025/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/technology/personaltech/ai-kids-photos.html

Lame. #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #internet #movies #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

AOL is ending dial-up internet after 34 years.

I honestly had no idea they still offered dial-up. I thought they had ended it several years ago.

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/aol-is-ending-dial-up-internet-after-34-years-081125.html