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Home :: Internet 17 Mar 2026 AI scrapebot update Internet A long time ago I set up a toy web farm, which turned out to be very popular with web spiders, particularly the ones from AI companies. To help their training process, rather than just pages of links, it now has paragraphs of training text. See more ...   posted at: 13:48 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/scrapeup.html 15 Apr 2024 Layers and Gateways, a historical view Internet One of the major issues in building the Internet or any large network is internetworking. If you have two networks built and run by different entities, how do you connect them together? The Internet addressed this problem in two ways. One is by layering, so that consistent upper layers can hide differences in lower layers. (In my office I have devices using wired Ethernet, fiber, wifi, and 5G, all looking the same at the Internet level.) Another is gateways, connecting things togeher and translating the differences, which to some extent is what fiber modems and routers do. But the Internet is hardly the first time these questions have arisen. See more ...   posted at: 17:58 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/gauge.html 29 Nov 2022 Portable social media accounts, good idea, not going to happen Internet The usually perceptive Tim Harford has a column in the current Financial Times complaning that since he can move his phone number from one carrier to another, why can't he move his social media account from Twitter to Mastodon. If only it were that simple. See more ...   posted at: 21:46 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/notport.html 30 Sep 2022 Why Facebook is not a common carrier Internet The ever-entertaining Fifth Circuit has recently upheld a strange Texas law that forbids most kinds of social media moderation. (Techdirt explains many of the reasons the court is wrong, so I won't try.) This brings us to the trendy question of whether Facebook, Twitter, et al. should be treated as common carriers. See more ...   posted at: 22:51 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/common.html 30 Mar 2022 How not to take Russia off the Internet Internet Last week the Ukrainian government sent a letter to ICANN asking them to revoke the “.ru”, “.рф” and “.su” top-level domains. It also said they were asking RIPE, which manages IP addresses in Europe, to revoke Russian IP addresses. Both ICANN and RIPE said no. Other people have explained why it would have been a policy disaster, but beyond that, neither would actually have worked. See more ...   posted at: 12:42 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/notru.html

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