L’Internet Society Italia esprime forte preoccupazione per la disattivazione del dominio autistici.org da parte del Public Interest Registry (PIR), conseguente alla designazione di Autistici/Inventati da parte del governo statunitense come Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
https://www.isoc.it/la-disattivazione-di-autisticiorg-minaccia-la-natura-globale-e-libera-di-internet
Static ActivityPub Publishing
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/09/04/static-activitypub-publishing/static-activitypub-publishing/
RE: https://nfdi.social/@toolregistry/117120571271056863
Yes, unfortunately we have heard about it, and perhaps it does not belong in the domain of digital humanities.
★ Required reading for makers of websites: Matuzo’s HTML boilerplate in 2026.
Every element Viennese front-end dev, book author, a11y auditor & web standards speaker Manuel Matuzo uses for the basic structure of an HTML document … with explanations.
Updated from his 2021 boilerplate, ’cuz a lot has changed in HTML since then.
RE: https://toot.cat/@riley/117101215682458860
☞ "We create our own digital libraries"
☞ "design an electronic card catalog that can be easily mass-replicated"
Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived....
DHH is a fascist. Do not call him anything else. He is a fascist.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260717193933/https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d
Memories Can’t Wait—or, How I Learned to Keep Worrying About the Web
The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants....
https://zeldman.com/2026/07/06/memories-cant-wait-or-how-i-learned-to-keep-worrying-about-the-web/
RE: https://toot.community/@internetarchiveeurope/116873369103040652
"A second demo used a locally run open source model to search the Rijksmuseum’s digital collection for images connected to alchemy and the pursuit of knowledge, producing usable results entirely on Davide’s own hardware. No cloud service, no rented compute, no data leaving the machine."
@mala is this already documented? It would be very useful for digital humanists.
UPDATE: I am watching the recording here https://archive.org/details/mozilla-ai-agent https://ia903107.us.archive.org/34/items/mozilla-ai-agent/Mozilla%20AI-HR.ia.mp4
Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/germanys-1-5-million-project-to-build-the-worlds-largest-game-archive-collapses-after-funding-dries-up
#digpres
RE: https://mastodon.social/@JakeOrlowitz/116800605894021158
"Whoever shapes Wikipedia shapes a large share of what the machines tell everyone."
Author/developer @adactio critiques the current browser landscape.
Cheers for Apple’s WebKit team for Safari 27, highlighting their decision to fix an enormous backlog of bugs and edge cases instead of just chasing new features.
Jeers for Chrome 148’s rollout of the proprietary prompt API against developer consensus—burning through years of hard-earned community goodwill.
Read “A Tale of Two Browsers” at https://adactio.com/journal/22609.
"What would it take to build a movement to abandon the current internet and start anew?"
Life After Data: the conference on de-datafication
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/education/life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication
seen on HN: https://kage.tamnd.com/
kage renders every page in headless Chrome, snapshots the final DOM, removes every script and event handler, and downloads and rewrites the CSS, images, and fonts.
saves in ZIM Format, in the comments the author says it will support WARC too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529990
`webbed` extension for DuckDB
Comprehensive processing extension for web markup languages (XML and HTML) with SAX streaming for large files, intelligent schema inference, XPath-based data extraction, and HTML table parsing.
https://duckdb.org/community_extensions/extensions/webbed
XML ain't dead!
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116617713796430542
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live:
Laibach
Sunn O)))
King Dude
Of the Wand and The Moon
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
Nurse With Wound
Test Dept.
SPK
Legendary Pink Dots
Spiritual Front
A new post from Mark Litwintschik's blog, which I always highly recommend:
12K+ JPEGs from NASA's Artemis II Mission
https://tech.marksblogg.com/nasa-artemis-2-jpegs.html
This one is about image analysis, very useful in archival and digital humanities research
"Regardless of whether GitHub is here to stay or projects find new homes, what I would like to see is some public, boring, well-funded archive for Open Source software."
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
that's why https://www.softwareheritage.org/ exists, thanks @zacchiro
This whole Github drama is so depressing.
"a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains: annas-archive.org, .li, .se, .in, .pm, .gl, .ch, .pk, .gd, and .vg.
Domain registries and registrars of record, along with hosting and internet service providers, are ordered to permanently disable access to those domains, disable authoritative nameservers, cease hosting services, and preserve evidence that could identify the site’s operators."
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/