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Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
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How “Z” became Putin’s latest propaganda meme for the war against Ukraine
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Megathread: April Fools' Day 2022 on the internet
As is tradition, here's the (late) thread to collect this year's April Fools' events: Over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies,...
As is tradition, here's the (late) thread to collect this year's April Fools' events:
Over the next day or so, the internet will be filled with jokes, pranks, fake "announcements" from companies, fun interactive activities, games, and so on. A lot of these can be quite clever and interesting so I think posting about them in general is fine, but in the interest of preventing them from completely taking over Tildes, let's try to keep as many of them restricted to this thread as possible. Ideally, a separate top-level comment for each individual item would be good.
If something particularly discussion-worthy comes up (like an ARG or activity that a lot of people want to talk about), a separate thread is reasonable, but please make sure it has the "april fools day" tag. That way, if anyone wants to avoid seeing the April Fools' Day threads, they can use the topic tag filters and filter that tag out.
I'm going to use the "official" styling for this topic (that's usually only for ~tildes.official topics) to make it stand out more to try to encourage people to notice it. If you notice people making individual topics for April Fools' Day things that don't really warrant their own topic, please (nicely) encourage them to delete and post in here instead.
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Radio streams! I need more.
I did a fresh install of Foobar2000 [1] for the first time since it came out. I'm rebuilding playlists and figured I'd do some digging for some new ones. My old list had a bunch from somafm,...
I did a fresh install of Foobar2000 [1] for the first time since it came out. I'm rebuilding playlists and figured I'd do some digging for some new ones. My old list had a bunch from somafm, Luxuria, the BBC ones, and a few others. Here's a list of some ones I dug up tonight. If you have any other good ones that are indie, hip hop, jazz, exotica, or really well-curated EDM, list 'em up! Bonus points for direct links to the stream.
- 90.9fm WDCB
- Luxuria Music Radio
- BBC6
- BBC3
- WWOZ
- KEXP
- BBC1XTRA
- Pigpen Radio (Internet-Radio.com)
- The Current
- Arctic Outpost
[1] my foobar2000 setup with a custom W10 high contrast theme
With the default interface, foobar2000 has some ugly white panels like this. I could patch uxtheme.dll, but its a pain if you forget to restore it before an update kicks in. To get around this, I made my own high contrast Dracula theme, which looks kind of like a UI you'd see on TV.
This system only runs Kodi and Foobar2000. I would recommend this route for anyone who actually wants to use the system due to high contrast themes taking over the entire color scheme for everything.
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The Quasi-Official 2022 r/place Atlas
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Move fast and break things
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Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
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Anyone can defeat Goku now
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning
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ICANN rejects Ukraine's request to block Russia from the internet
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Wikipedia is declining: In defense of inclusionism (2018)
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Looking for a good map of the internet
I did some cursory Googling but found stuff that I'm not looking for (maps of the web and traceroutes hooked up to GeoIP lookups). Is there a resource that will show me the internet as a series of...
I did some cursory Googling but found stuff that I'm not looking for (maps of the web and traceroutes hooked up to GeoIP lookups). Is there a resource that will show me the internet as a series of interconnected hops? Preferably with information on the connections between nodes that indicates the amount of traffic. I'm interested in the topography of the internet itself - not physically where hops are located.
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/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
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International Astronomical Union establishes centre to coordinate response to satellite constellations
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SpaceX loses forty Starlink satellites to geomagnetic storm a day after launch
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North Korea hacked him. So he took down its internet.
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These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time
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IRS will soon require selfies for online access
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Marginalia Search - Exploration Mode
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Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience
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How the SOPA blackout happened
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China’s next regulatory target — algorithms, the secret of many tech giants’ success
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Minitel: The online world France built before the web
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I think Keyword Research doesn't work at all. Prove me otherwise!
Keyword Research and SEO are entire industries today. There are tools like ahrefs and semrush that promise to give you "trending" topic keywords for a sum of monthly subscription money. However,...
Keyword Research and SEO are entire industries today. There are tools like ahrefs and semrush that promise to give you "trending" topic keywords for a sum of monthly subscription money.
However, you can discard all their claims using a similar logic that you use to discard the claims of Astrologers, Voodooists, Stock Experts who "recommend" stocks, etc:
- If an Astrologer knows the future of everyone, wouldn't they profit massively from it themselves using the information rather than telling the trick to everyone else (just for a pittance)?
- If a Stock Expert knew that a stock's price will go up (and how much), won't they invest thousands and make millions themselves instead of giving those "tips" to "subscribers" and again, earn only a pittance?
- If SEO and Search Marketing companies knew exactly which keywords can rank your blog or site in the Google Search Engine, won't they write articles on those topics/keywords themselves and profit massively with the page views instead of revealing that secret to you for merely a few cents!
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If I fits, I sits: Starlink's self-heating internet satellite dishes are attracting cats
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2021 was the year lawmakers tried to regulate online speech
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Inside the online movement to end work
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The art of the pause: Is anything on the internet real?
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Internet literacy atrophy
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High readability Wikipedia
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The great offline - The concept of “offline” is built on the earlier concept of “wilderness,” inheriting its flaws and hazards
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LastPass is going to become an independent company
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China unleashed its propaganda machine on Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusation. Her story still got out.
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Birds aren't real, or are they? Inside a Gen Z conspiracy movement
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VPN testing reveals poor privacy and security practices, hyperbolic claims
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Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
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Notes on Web3 for the "cautiously curious"
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How to scrub your online footprint?
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and...
I don't necessarily want to delete everything there is about me, but I want to significantly clean it. I've been deleting old accounts lately, I've seen some screenshots of my tweets on Reddit and I've asked the authors to delete them. They've been kind enough to do it.
But I feel like there's more that I need to do. I just realized that there are probably a lot of screenshots of YouTube comments and Tweets that I've put out there in the world with my name and face. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't drastically increase my footprint last year during my time on Twitter.
I'm not a techy person, I was thinking about asking or hiring some type of hacker or expert to help me. Because they could probably find more information about me than me.
Can anyone help?
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Who controls the Internet? And should they?
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Can data die? Why one of the internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent
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The dark side of .io: How the UK is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal
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Could search engines be fostering some Dunning-Kruger?
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Epistemology of the Internet — and of traditional media
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32 bit real estate
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Does the Internet feel American centric to you?
Maybe it's because I only interact with the side of the Internet that uses English.
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Hampster Economics - Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy
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Why Section 230 'reform' effectively means Section 230 repeal
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Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
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How mental health became a social media minefield
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