
Enshittification.
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media. (Via pluralistic.net.)
Prodigy, geocities, collegeclub.com, MySpace, Friendster, Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter. More besides. More next. And if one were to get big enough, like Facebook, this cycle doesn’t stop, it just sort of happens all at the same time without interruptions in service. All while we diaspora from site to site hoping there’s at least one more goddamned Diaryland Andrew out there who gives a fuck about the little universe they created and tempted human beings to set up their lives in.
Replace Diaryland Andrew with Antville.org? 🤔
Understanding systemd-resolved, Split DNS, and VPN Configuration.
Relevant:
- What Does It Take To Resolve A Hostname
- The Sisyphean Task Of DNS Client Config on Linux.
Warum sich die Polizei nicht ändern wird.
Die Polizei wurde nicht geschaffen, um die Bevölkerung zu schützen und ihr zu dienen. Sie wurde nicht geschaffen, um Verbrechen zu verhindern, zumindest nicht so, wie es sich die meisten Menschen vorstellen. Und sie wurde sicher nicht geschaffen, um für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen. Sie wurde geschaffen, um den neuen auf Lohnarbeit basierenden Kapitalismus, der Mitte bis Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entstand, vor eben jener Bedrohung zu schützen, die dieses System hervorbrachte: der Arbeiterklasse.
JavaScriptLandia – A home for those who <3 JavaScript.
Relevant: The OpenJS Foundation’s mission is to drive broad adoption and ongoing development of key JavaScript solutions and related technologies.
The Vela incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22 September 1979 near the South African territory of Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between Africa and Antarctica. (Via Bouvet Island.)

In wiretapped phone conversations German security services heard one of the co-conspirators discussing how deaths “were bound to happen” during the coup. The prince allegedly remarked gleefully: “We’re going to crush them! The fun is over.”
#Reichsbürger #Neofascists

Azymuth “50th Anniversary Tour – In the Memory of Ivan ‘Mamão Conti’ (1946-2023)”.
Am Dienstagmorgen erhielten wir die tragische Nachricht, dass unser lieber Freund, der legendäre Schlagzeuger und eines der Gründungsmitglieder von Azymuth Ivan "Mamão" Conti in der Nacht unerwartet verstorben ist.

Xerox PARC source code (via info.computerhistory.org).
This archive is a collection of source code and digital text documents, image files, and other files from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). This came from the same IFS backup file repositories that the earlier 2013 release of the Xerox Alto source code archive came from, and is a superset of that archive, containing files related to projects from the 1980s, up to 1994, that were not included there.
wader/fq: jq for binary formats.
fq is inspired by the well known jq tool and language and allows you to work with binary formats the same way you would using jq. In addition it can present data like a hex viewer, transform, slice and concatenate binary data. It also supports nested formats and has an interactive REPL with auto-completion.
See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS.
This page performs a live, annotated https: request for its own source.