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Thx @lina for exposing the #Copyrightmafia's #DNS-based #internetcensorship:
cuiiliste.de

As for circumvention: Just use #OpenNIC's DNS servers...

The sheer #Zensursula-Style bullshit is the #IllicitActivity! #ISP|s should have no right to interfere with any traffic (except to defend their own infrastructure from getting hacked) unless explicitly requested by customers to do so.

I do wish @ooni would take a look at the CUII blocklist and add that to their #OONIprobe to test for.

cuiiliste.deCuiiListe.deDie CUII Liste zeigt dir, welche Domains von der CUII gesperrt sind und wie du die Zensur umgehen kannst.

i just ftp'd into a public ftp server running in Ecuador, and discovered an absolutely critical piece of US Robotics ISP modem pool software that has been missing for 20 years

thank you from the bottom of my heart, rolando felix of Educational Unit 10 De Agosto, for leaving your departmental computer ftp wide open ❤️ you just preserved some insanely useful and important dial-up ISP history. (don't worry rolando - i didn't peek too deeply into your ms-dos games and music folders)

the story:
in the mid-90s i was a teenager who had a summer job at a dial-up isp. we had 32 incoming lines which were handled by 32 external USR Courier modems, which were fed into a super chonky Livingston Portmaster terminal server. all of the support hardware took up an entire rack - just to let 32 people call in for internet service at 28.8kbaud. it ate a ton of power, and made a lot of heat.

then, in 95-96, US Robotics delivered two insane appliances: the Total Control Modem Pool. these were *tiny* devices that offered 16 dial-up modems at 33.6kbaud. if you paid a bit more, you could buy the NetServer version, which gave you a terminal server too. an entire isp in a box the size of a network switch.

the modems had buggy firmware. so USR offered firmware updates via their ftp site. you could even upgrade some of the modems to "x2" 56k service with a firmware patch. they supported it for years, and when 3com bought USR, they kept the ftp site running for years. and then, 3com shut down their ftp site. and no one thought to mirror it.

after 3 hours of searching, i was able to track down a single filename thanks to WBM: mpv90an.zip. not a single site on the web had it - not even IA or discmaster. on a hunch, i plugged it into the Napalm FTP Indexer (www.searchftps.net) and... unbelievably, there it was, sitting on an ancient box in someone's university office in Quito, Ecuador.

the most amazing part was how slow the server was. at 250 ms pings, it was like digging through a public ftp on a 14.4k modem in 1994.

tomorrow i'll be uploading these files to IA. for now, sleep.

About #GPL .

If I buy a second-hand device with #Linux on it, who's responsible for giving me the sources?

It seems logical to me that the person I bought it from. But good luck getting sources from a private rando ( #sustainability #reuse ).

On the other hand, my #ISP sells me, say a #Huawei device. Is the ISP obliged to give me sources or can they say "it's not our problem" and send me to the manufacturer?

Finally, there's #fiber optic #internet connection at my building!

Germany's internet is slow to come and expensive, but it did finally come. A decade after my friends in Poland got fiber in a similar place, lol (theirs is faster and cheaper).

A question to experts about German ISPs.

Does the law here let me connect using my own fiber terminal (ONT)?

#askfedi#ISP#ONT

When your free service (@BoxyBSD) kicks you out of bed on a Saturday morning.

The monitoring just alerted me about a potential abuse at my free hosting project and indeed - much traffic from a single user but luckily legit traffic.

Better safe than sorry.

#hosting#isp#network

Could it be? There is actually competition in the high speed Internet space?

“Comcast recently started offering five-year price guarantees and said it would continue adding more customer-friendly plans because of its recent struggles. After reporting a net loss of 183,000 residential broadband customers in Q1 2025, Comcast President Mike Cavanagh said during an April earnings call that "in this intensely competitive environment, we are not winning in the marketplace in a way that is commensurate with the strength of [our] network and connectivity products.””

#comcast #ISP #competition

“Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data”

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited dataBy Jon Brodkin

⚠️ Resources got restocked:

- Two new nodes in Netherlands
- One new node in Ukraine
- Extended resources on nodes in Germany

@gyptazy is now improving the self-service portal and then we can go straight to the 1k free boxes :) We're currently hosting ~ 600 free VPS instances.