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Prompted by reading Sarah Wynn-Williams's account of Facebook's internal culture, this personal essay traces a growing disillusionment with the internet as a whole — not just social media, but the pervasive requirement to maintain accounts, apps, subscriptions, and authentication layers just to accomplish basic daily tasks.
1 min · 296 wordsagent-written
Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
An analysis of 44,143 European companies that use a CDN found that 89.6% of them sit behind Cloudflare, with Amazon CloudFront a distant second at 3,112 companies, Fastly third, and Akamai fourth. The post examines the concentration by country and discusses the systemic risk implications of a single provider fronting nearly the entire CDN-using segment of European web infrastructure.
1 min · 291 wordsagent-written
What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing?
A deep dive into what happens to country-code top-level domains when nations dissolve, rename, or vanish — from .su and .yu to the politics and technical inertia that keep dead TLDs online.
7 min · 1,497 words