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27 votes
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How trolls on Reddit try to manipulate you (Disinformation and how we beat it)
9 votes -
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is
20 votes -
2,500 museums you can now visit virtually
5 votes -
How to boost your home’s Wi-Fi
6 votes -
Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Tim Berners-Lee
17 votes -
Brave has filed a formal GDPR complaint against Google for infringing the GDPR “purpose limitation” principle with an internal data free-for-all
12 votes -
The history of the URL
9 votes -
Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
9 votes -
[SOLVED] Some of my internet radio stations aren't playing on my computer
EDIT: The problem has been solved. @Sill identified the problem here and @cfabbro found a work-around here. Crisis averted! I listen to some internet radio stations on my computer, but a couple of...
EDIT: The problem has been solved. @Sill identified the problem here and @cfabbro found a work-around here. Crisis averted!
I listen to some internet radio stations on my computer, but a couple of them aren't working any more: they appear to play, but there's no sound coming from my computer's speakers.
It is only two stations. I've tested other internet radio stations I listen to, and they still work: I can hear them. I can play and hear YouTube videos. I can stream Spotify on my computer. I can play and hear my music files stored on my computer's hard drive. So I know my speakers work. I know Chrome works as a music player for other sources, including other internet radio stations. It's just these two radio stations.
One of them is this radio station. Also this radio station. I know their digital streams are working, because I can listen to them via an internet radio app on my phone. So I know their digital signals are being sent out. But, while my phone app can play them, my computer browser can't play them.
I've tested both non-working stations in Chrome and Internet Explorer. They both don't work in Chrome, but this station also doesn't work in IE.
I'm using Chrome 80.0.3987.122. And I'm running Windows 7.
This problem only started a couple of days ago.
What's going on? How do I fix this?
12 votes -
Changing e-mail and cleaning up my Internet presence
I'm trying to clean up my internet presence and move away from at least Facebook and Google. I've come a long way with deleting my Facebook and it's now basically an empty shell for messaging....
I'm trying to clean up my internet presence and move away from at least Facebook and Google. I've come a long way with deleting my Facebook and it's now basically an empty shell for messaging. I've installed Signal and will start the grooming process with my friends and family now. If you have some solid arguments for the change regular ol' folks can understand please share them with me because as we all know "privacy" just isn't enough.
Next phase is the big one...Google or basically G-mail.
1. Is there any way to get an complete overview of where you've used your e-mail for a service online?
2. What e-mail would you recommend?
2a. I'm OK with paying a bit for overall quality, security and equally important UX!
2b. I don't use any other relevant Google products like Drive etc. It's just regular e-mail and sign in credentials for other services I basically need3. I use a Mac, iPhone and iCloud. Is iCloud a problem? IF this needs to change it HAS to be an "easy" switch and not like setting up a server for myself. Because it won't happen and I'm not skilled enough.
I would very much appreciate your input :)
EDIT: Thank you all for your thorough comments!
22 votes -
Dragon Ball Z Abridged will not be continuing past the Cell Arc
18 votes -
America’s monopoly problem, explained by your internet bill
11 votes -
US FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not
26 votes -
EFF calls for disclosure of secret financing details behind $1.1 billion .ORG sale including $360 million loan, and asks FTC to scrutinize deal
20 votes -
Gopher: When adversarial interoperability burrowed under the gatekeepers' fortresses
8 votes -
A novel way to prevent email overload
7 votes -
I’ve fought for a free internet for thirty years. Here’s where I think we went wrong, and right
15 votes -
Dangerous Domain Corp.com Goes Up for Sale
21 votes -
Re-evaluating the DMCA twenty-two years later: Let’s think of the users
13 votes -
Proposal to increase the price of .COM domains up to 28% every six years
14 votes -
Creating a safer internet with .gay
13 votes -
The internet of beefs
11 votes -
Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
15 votes -
How ads follow you around the internet
8 votes -
The California Attorney General has requested 35 pieces of information from ICANN regarding the proposed sale of the .org TLD
12 votes -
How sustainable is a solar powered website?
10 votes -
Product Hunt has launched YourStack, a social network for people to share products they use and love
4 votes -
The English Wikipedia has reached 6,000,000 articles
21 votes -
Sci-fi magazine pulls story by trans writer after 'barrage of attacks'
20 votes -
When we give in to manufactured internet wars
7 votes -
The Fediverse in 2019
15 votes -
Cut undersea cable plunges Yemen into days-long internet outage
6 votes -
Sinkholed
12 votes -
Billions of medical images available online
10 votes -
Canceling
26 votes -
1996 talk by Cliff Stoll about the future of computers and the internet
9 votes -
Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
10 votes -
Don't trust online reviews (personal anecdote)
I recently bought a product online. I wasn't able to find it in a bricks-and-mortar shop, so I had to buy it online to even see it, let alone try it. I received it, and it wasn't right for me. I...
I recently bought a product online. I wasn't able to find it in a bricks-and-mortar shop, so I had to buy it online to even see it, let alone try it. I received it, and it wasn't right for me. I was able to exchange it for a different version, but even the different version wasn't right. So I returned the product and got a refund. All along, the customer service was excellent, but the product itself turned out not to be what I wanted.
The way the product failed for me was connected to the "headline" description of the product. It wasn't a minor failure. It did something that they explicitly said it wouldn't do, which was one of the main selling features of the product.
After the dust settled, I wrote a review of the product. I don't normally do this: I neither write nor read reviews. However, I know that other people do rely on reviews and, seeing as this product is only available online, and its failure was linked to a major selling feature of the product, I felt duty-bound to inform other prospective buyers that it might not suit some people. I gave it a 2-star (out of 5) rating, as well as writing up why it didn't suit me (while allowing that it might still suit other people).
Since I submitted the review, I have checked the website (I'm an egotist: I wanted to see my words being published!). Other reviews with more recent timestamps have appeared, but my review has not appeared. I've now noticed that the lowest rating in their reviews is a single 3-star rating, with some 4-star reviews and lots of 5-star reviews. There are no 2-star or 1-star reviews. My only conclusion is that the company selects which reviews to publish - and which ones not to publish.
I've always wondered if companies would post negative reviews of their own products. Now I know for sure that at least one company does not.
18 votes -
What's one thing you HAVEN'T been able to find online, no matter how hard you tried?
It could be the final piece to your prized collection, a person you talked to before they seemingly disappeared, a story you read that has since been deleted, etc. In my case, I really wanted to...
It could be the final piece to your prized collection, a person you talked to before they seemingly disappeared, a story you read that has since been deleted, etc.
In my case, I really wanted to find a website called notebookinhand.com, a forum I came across while I was a teenager in the early 2010s. It was solely dedicated to people describing their hobbies, and the community seemed very nice and welcoming, and I also like how the site was designed. It looks like it's been shut down but I can't stop thinking about it!
So, tell me what's your internet "unicorn", so to speak.
44 votes -
SpaceX set for record-breaking 2020 manifest
5 votes -
The internet made trans people visible. It also left them more vulnerable.
11 votes -
Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet
21 votes -
Alienated, alone and angry: What the digital revolution really did to us
15 votes -
The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy
8 votes -
India suspends internet and phone services in some parts of the country to quell protests over new citizenship law that excludes Muslims
21 votes -
Apple has secret team working on satellites to beam data to devices
5 votes -
What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy and found that automakers collect data through hundreds of sensors and an always-on Internet connection
22 votes -
This Page is Designed to Last
23 votes -
"Link in bio": it seems like a harmless phrase, but it represents a strategy of controlling users and keeping them away from the open web
15 votes