Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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Australia’s Labor governments are a mixed bag when it comes to digital infrastructure and legislation. They introduced the teen “social media” ban that experts warned them would be ineffective and easy to circumvent. They also introduced the National Broadband Network which was…
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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I hope you’ll read and understand that for many of us, this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction or a culty, cosmic doomer rant. It’s about money, power, and quality of…
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I'll admit to being the kind of person who gets irrationally tilted when I see people bringing self-censorship practices from TikTok or Instagram to other…
Life
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At the start of this year, I was showing my dad a video of me and my (new friend at that point) best friend singing together. I was so excited that I had found…
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My baby moves at midnight,Goes right on ’til the dawn,My woman, take me higher,My woman, keep me warm Ahhhh you cannae beat a bit of Bee Gees eh! What a tune!…
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The breaking of the fragile bonds. A couple weekends back, I drove out to one of those rural, forgotten Virginia counties for a security training class held at…
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Commenting on an article about disability.
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If there's one thing that comes to mind for me when I think of Hakodate, it has to be the Goryokaku, a star-shaped fort that was completed in 1866.…
Tech
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LibreOffice 26.8 became the app's most popular update, with over 1 million downloads, after the foundation behind it declared that LibreOffice doesn't come…
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No one, not even Google, knows when a site is indexed or not. Thankfully there are other search engines out there.
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Overviews of the very many snippets of code that were once commonly included on websites to address specific cases with certain technologies, browsers,…
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Thanks to Brennan Day for pointing out how How the Mysterious ScreenJesus can DDoS You, and the subsequent How to Control Your Neocities Thumbnail tutorial, I…
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How a bug in my own CI/CD accidentally uncovered a novel vulnerability in NeoCities: ScreenJesus, the undocumented screenshot bot behind thumbnail previews,…
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