Random link from the archives: http://reallifemag.com/web-of-lies/ originally archived Mon Jun 19 11:30:55 EDT 2017

Master of web puppets: abusing web browsers for persistent and stealthy computation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/12/master-of-web-puppets:-abusing-web-browsers-for-persistent-and-stealthy-computation/

Why the Web is Communist - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgjljQSbj0

The Web’s Sickest Perverts Are Lurking on r/Handholding - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/r-handholding-reddit-4chan-meme

Ok, everything is back on my tilde.town homepage. Thanks to web.archive.org ^^ I’m just sad I couldn’t retrieve my twtxt.txt file :/

why did they call it ‘Web Prolog’ instead of ‘PlanNET’? was it just so that people couldn’t say ‘hack the PlanNET’ every time a vuln was found? that’s a bad reason.

The web we broke. “ Ethan Marcotte https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-web-we-broke/

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

In the Web’s Hyperreality, Information Is Experience | Hapgood https://hapgood.us/2018/11/20/in-the-webs-hyperreality-information-is-experience/

The Kernel Programming Language http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

Hier & Jetzt – Open Web 1: Wo das Open Web heute steht ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/a/52H

RIP Culture War Thread | Slate Star Codex https://web.archive.org/web/20190222094427/https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/

The “Intellectual Dark Web” is just a bunch of whiny rich people | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4459/the-intellectual-dark-web-is-just-a-bunch-of-whiny-rich-people

The ineffectiveness of lonely… | Matt Wilcox, Web Developer & Tinkerer https://mattwilcox.net/musing/the-ineffectiveness-of-icons

GitHub - postlight/mercury-parser: “ Extracting content from the chaos of the web. https://github.com/postlight/mercury-parser

The Web is Made of Edge Cases by Taylor Hunt on CodePen https://codepen.io/tigt/post/the-web-is-made-of-edge-cases

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

Remembering Geocities, the Suburbia of the Early Web - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/geocities-archive-netscape-browser-first-web-suburbs-aol/580285/

Nice to see TBL admits DNS is centralized; I’m still skeptical that SOLID can address aspects of web tech that encourage recentralization. https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/

The Ethics of Web Performance - TimKadlec.com https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/

The post-Web is single tenant “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/the-post-web-is-single-tenant/

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

GitHub - orbitdb/orbit-db: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db

Recommended whole-web text replacement: s/man/mom/

I Used The Web For A Day With JavaScript Turned Off “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/using-the-web-with-javascript-turned-off/

I Used The Web For A Day With Just A Keyboard “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/web-with-just-a-keyboard/

I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/12/voiceover-screen-reader-web-apps/

GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/

Sprite https://web.archive.org/web/20040402163929/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/sprite.html

Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html

While we Blink, we loose the Web https://andregarzia.com/2018/12/while-we-blink-we-loose-the-web.html

The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen

1. don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/machines.html

Archiving web sites [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/766374/

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/taste.html

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/organic.html

Pet peeve: when people nitpick rhetorical flourishes in my examples while completely ignoring the main point. Hint: If I bring up the web or the macintosh, that doesn’t mean my essay is specifically about the web or the macintosh.

webreview.com - Why Rebol Matters https://web.archive.org/web/19991012205739/http://webreview.com:80/pub/1999/08/27/feature/index2.html

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

The Web That Wasn’t - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8

rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md at petnames · cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018 · GitHub https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md

@71m@timmorgan.org: why web when it is local? I use sxiv for local browsing and llgal to generate a static gallery from a directory: https://github.com/bgoglin/llgal. If you want something more CGI-ish, you could build it with a few lines of perl: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Application::PhotoGallery

Toward a Critical Technical Practice https://web.archive.org/web/20051221192206/http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html

Concurrent and Distributed Programming in Web Prolog https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2018/09/24/concurrent-and-distributed-programming-in-web-prolog.html

Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

Peer-to https://peer-to.peer-to-peer-web.com/

GitHub - dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated: measuring memory usage of popular webapps https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated

QOTD: ‘The web is broken because it is a half-hearted, incomplete implementation of Xanadu.’ (Source: https://dev.to/tux0r/comment/586n)