Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension

kept by eddie jan 06

Anna's Archive lost its main annas-archive.org domain due to a surprise suspension, but the shadow library remains accessible via alternative domains amid ongoing legal pressure.

Books are not too expensive
Books are not too expensive when accounting for inflation and publisher margins, with commenters debating price variance, DRM, textbook monopolies, and the declining value of physical formats versus free online resources.
also on #piracy, Anna's Archive
Why didn’t IPv6 work in my home network?
IPv6 stopped working on the author's home network because AdGuard Home's DNS settings had an option checked that disabled all IPv6 DNS queries.
also on #dns
Punycode: My New Favorite Algorithm - Ian Duncan - Ian Duncan
Punycode uses adaptive bias adjustment, delta compression, and variable-length base-36 encoding to efficiently encode Unicode into ASCII for DNS without shared state.
also on #dns
Sick of A.I. Slop? So Are Tech Giants.
Spotify, LinkedIn, and other tech companies are fighting the surge of low‑quality AI‑generated content that is clogging their online platforms.
also on Spotify, #ai
Subscriptions Will Survive in Exactly Two Places
The subscription model survives only for genuine utilities and continuously-fresh-context services; the middle—static SaaS and exhausted catalogs—collapses as income shocks, context saturation, and AI repricing erode its math.
also on Spotify, #ai