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I know things are bad on the open web…but it could get even worse. Imagine any of these scenarios:

1. What if the Internet Archive got shut down after all those lawsuits. Ref: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

2. What if Google suddenly stopped high-ranking Wikipedia links. Ref: mastodon.social/@ricmac/114205…

3. What if the next generation of internet users doesn’t read and so short looping videos *completely* take over. Ref: overcast.fm/+AA1Ledu9mbc

Scary times. All we can is continue to support #openweb.

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I’ve also been pondering this: it’s really fecking difficult these days to get linked to by other websites. Back when I started an unknown blog called ReadWriteWeb in 2003, I was able to grow ‘domain authority’ via backlinks and trackbacks from other blogs (some more well known). But since blogging has all but disappeared now, and people ‘comment’ on things via social media, nobody actually links back to you anymore. Which means hard to grow PageRank etc. Anyway, yet another open web challenge.


I wrote about this last year too - saying that we were spending hundreds of millions on meticulous inquiries and then wasting the learning by not implementing recommendations www.bmj.com/content/386/...

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vqvci…

What is the point of inquiries...



FPV drones of the Samosyd operators of the 11th brigade hit 3 Zala. Kherson region, March 2025. byteseu.com/852535/ #CombatFootage #CombatFootage #Conflicts



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Au détour d’une ruelle à la terrasse d’un café
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A study has found nearly half of the landslides, debris flows and washouts that occurred during British Columbia’s atmospheric river disaster in November 2021 originated in areas that had been logged or burned by wildfire. byteseu.com/852527/ #Science






Sociaaldemocratische MFK behaalt absolute meerderheid bij verkiezingen Curaçao nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/22/socia…


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Netanyahu kondigt aanval aan op tientallen doelen in Libanon nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/22/netan…


NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver Ported To Haiku OS, Mesa NVK Adapted To Run On Top

Haiku OS developer X512 has managed a rather impressive feat: porting NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules to Haiku. Not only did he get NVIDIA's official Linux kernel modules running on Haiku but he also ported the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver to be able to run atop the NVIDIA kernel driver interface...
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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts | New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives. byteseu.com/852520/ #FutureStudies #FuturesStudies #Futurology



#AkademyES 2025 se celebrará en Málaga los días 20 y 21 de junio 🥳

Será dentro del evento sobre tecnología y cultura libre @opensouthcode, en La Térmica, el centro de referencia nacional e internacional de la cultura en Málaga.

Consulta toda la información en la página oficial de Akademy-es 2025.
kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025

Con esta será la segunda ocasión que los simpatizantes del proyecto KDE organicemos nuestro encuentro estatal conjuntamente con #OpenSouthCode, tras Akademy-es 2023.