Interesting Reads

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1976855

Lemmy search isn’t great, or I’m too new, and can’t tell if this has been posted here before.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1950283

The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president::1998 plea for restraint reveals a lost world where the 'Net was an opt-in experience.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1484592

An update:

• fmhy.ml is gone, due to the ongoing fiasco with mali government taking all their .ml domains back
• As such, lemmy.fmhy.ml is also gone, we are currently exploring ways to refederate (or somehow restart federation entirely) without breaking anything substantial
• We have backups, so don't worry about data loss (you can view them on other instances anyway)

Currently, we have fmhy.net and are exploring options to somehow migrate, thank you for your patience.

I recently listened to this on Darknet Diaries, and dang is it a wild episode!

But, I got curious and went looking for the source and here it is!

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/277536

Found the error Not allowed to load local resource: file:///etc/passwd while looking at infosec.pub's communities page. There's a community called "ignore me" that adds a few image tags trying to steal your passwd file.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

A geeks take on what went wrong with XMPP and how it could affect the fediverse if we are not careful. Fairly interesting read.