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[Link] Holding onto a teenage email address: ‘The lawyer raised her eyebrow when she saw’
Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Louise is an Oompa Loompa. She has been an Oompa Loompa for more than 15 years. “It’s too much hassle to change it,” Louise tells me. Most of Louise’s internet presence is linked to the Willy Wonka-inspired email address she picked as a teenager. And she’s not the only one.
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[Link] The Digital Colonialism Behind .tv and .ly
Read: 23/11/2021 www.wired.com
In late 2018, the tiny South Pacific island of Niue filed a lawsuit worth more than its entire economy. The case, which is under litigation in Stockholm, hinges on the rights to .nu, one of those country-specific extensions that appends a URL.
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[Link] A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic. The contract to run .tv has been held by dot-com operator Verisign for 20 years.
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[Link] The Pirate Bay Story Will Be Turned Into a TV Series
Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay's turbulent history will be turned into a six-part TV drama. The Swedish production is scheduled to start filming next year and will be aired by public broadcaster SVT. The makers will base their story on input from various insiders but the site's founders are not part of the crew.
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[Link] The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More.
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
One of the web’s oldest functions remains one of its most powerful and promising. As we debate the negative effects of social media, consider the earliest and arguably most prevalent way that we use the internet to connect with other people: the chat.
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[Link] Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, Founder of Something Awful, Is Dead at 45
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka—the creator of the era-defining Something Awful forums—died by suicide on November 9, Motherboard confirmed with the Lee’s Summit, Missouri police department.
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[Link] Five police officers injured in clashes with protesters in Parliament Square
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Five police officers have been injured after clashing with hundreds of anti-establishment protesters in Parliament Square on Bonfire Night. Demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes-style masks had gathered at nearby Trafalgar Square at the annual Million Mask March with some throwing fireworks at officers.
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[Link] A Treasure Trove of Furry History Is Available on the Internet Archive
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Internet Archive is full of gifts: malware museums, secret public domain books, random VHS tape collections, basically any esoteric interest you can think of, there's probably an archive collection of it, built by volunteers who are just really into that thing.
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[Link] Adobe Uses DMCA to Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure & Adware Free
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
In January 2021, development and support for Adobe Flash was discontinued. That marked the end of an era but in reality, Flash wasn't quite dead.
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[Link] ⚠️ Caution! ⚠️ These emoji mean different things in different countries
Read: 27/10/2021 restofworld.org
Emoji are practically a universal part of language now, with chat conversations liberally sprinkled with little pictograms.
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[Link] In Search Of The First Comment
Read: 25/10/2021 hackaday.com
Are you writing your code for humans or computers? I wasn’t there, but my guess is that at the dawn of computing, people thought that they were writing for the machines.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Adobe Uses DMCA to Nuke Project That Keeps Flash Alive, Secure & Adware Free
Read: 14/10/2021 torrentfreak.com
In January 2021, development and support for Adobe Flash was discontinued. That marked the end of an era but in reality, Flash wasn't quite dead.
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[Link] YouTube Removes Legendary Meme Video After 14 Years for ‘Violence’
Read: 29/9/2021 www.vice.com
You probably don’t know Paul Weedon by name, but you’ve probably seen him get punched in the face.
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[Link] ThePirateBay.com Goes Up For Sale, But Renting is an Option Too
Read: 13/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
ThePirateBay.com has been listed for sale this week. The domain was bought at an auction last year after The Pirate Bay team accidentally let it expire. The buyer initially planned to turn it into a legal download portal but that never got off the ground.
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