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ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital

Posted on 2020/05/01 by Carl Robitaille

BREAKING: ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .ORG their home online. #SaveDotOrg https://t.co/K2qk85c3Ug pic.twitter.com/sFLcwZqU1B
— EFF (@EFF) May 1, 2020

Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody

Posted on 2020/04/29 by Carl Robitaille

Google Meet video conferencing is now free for anybody

Hold my teleconference beer

Posted on 2020/04/29 by Carl Robitaille

hold my teleconference beer pic.twitter.com/9GDbVBUIJ9
— banana (@0xBanana) April 28, 2020

Doomscrolling, doomsurfing.

Posted on 2020/04/25 by Carl Robitaille

Ouiaip, je "doomscroll" et "doomsurf", et je ne le savais même pas! 😉

P.S. Les vrais termes sont doomscrolling et doomsurfing, mais j'ai pris la liberté d'en faire des verbes à l'infinitif. Webster, pourra me donner le crédit plus tard… 😉 https://t.co/FWJD73H9s8
— La_Maudite 🐧 (@La_Maudite) April 25, 2020

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/doomsurfing-doomscrolling-words-were-watching

My cat feeder has a service outage

Posted on 2020/04/24 by Carl Robitaille

My cat feeder has a service outage. Why did I do this to myself 🤦‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/OD6q9osChF
— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) February 15, 2020

Petnet could *barely* keep its feeder's backend running before COVID19 but now it's trying to use it as an excuse to charge a monthly fee? holy hell pic.twitter.com/jUEoJCQrJ3
— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) April 24, 2020

Demand for Sharp’s face masks crashes website and smart home gadgets

Posted on 2020/04/21 by Carl Robitaille

Demand for Sharp’s face masks crashes website and smart home gadgets

I don't know what's crazier here: that the website was hosted on the same server as their smart home platform or that we live in a dystopia where mask demand ddos'd an air conditioner https://t.co/1XijlCyRXZ
— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) April 21, 2020

Keeping up with the news online

Posted on 2020/04/18 by Carl Robitaille

This is what reading the news online feels like according to @mattsurely. I won't argue with him on this one… pic.twitter.com/MvPGLYMyUD
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) April 18, 2020

TCP Meltdown

Posted on 2020/04/17 by Carl Robitaille

Media Consumption in the age of COVID-19

Posted on 2020/04/15 by Carl Robitaille

Media Consumption in the age of COVID-19

Charles Darwin posting

Posted on 2020/04/13 by Carl Robitaille

Charles Darwin posting his finding using social media. lol. Taken from "Department of Mind-Blowing Theories" comic book about science for New Scientist magazine https://t.co/8tk5uuobMl pic.twitter.com/cBJbuVKBMB
— nixCraft 🐧 (@nixcraft) April 13, 2020