The warning is timely. But some of the folks like Vint Cerf became part of the issue when we remember how we had to fight to keep .org affordable. But again it's a reflection of big tech. Our early internet pioneers flirted with VCs and capital not that long ago. So it's on us to save the open web. No one is coming to save it. So we must try.

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Brewster Kahle (@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org)

"An urgent warning about the open web’s shrinking commons" Vint Cerf,Cindy Cohn,Jon Stokes (ars technica),and me. a take: "remake the connectiv...

I hadn't even heard of DNS0.EU Europe's privacy-first DNS pulls the plug overnight European DNS shutting down European public DNS service DNS0.EU has shut down its operations immediately https://cybernews.com/news/european-public-resolver-shuts-down/ #DNS

While the article is about what I expected, I am pleased @Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 was interviewed for this. I do wonder what the reporter left out from Michal's comments. "Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together"

the Guardian

Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together

Behind every meme and message is creaking, decades-old infrastructure. Internet experts can think of scenarios that could bring it all crashing dow...

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It's probably safer to assume anyone using the Meta branded Raybans is a non privacy respecting glasshole, who doesn't understand consent. "A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light" Available to Zuckerbergs customers via a hobbyist.

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Joseph Cox (@josephcox@infosec.exchange)

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bou...

Thinking about it, I do quite like the terminal. Not quite ready to abandon the gui entirely, but for git, using ssh to access remote systems or plain distraction free writing in base Vim there's nothing like it. I prefer simplicity because I want the spare brain cycles for other stuff. My computer should be under my control, not another source of anxiety or pain.