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44 votes
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Internet Artifacts
61 votes -
The poster’s guide to the internet of the future
22 votes -
Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him
84 votes -
People who manage small websites, how much does it cost you in time (and finances)?
Between "enshittification" and my general admiration for hobbyist websites, I have felt more and more pressed to learn how to make the websites I want to see and offer it at low cost. At the same...
Between "enshittification" and my general admiration for hobbyist websites, I have felt more and more pressed to learn how to make the websites I want to see and offer it at low cost. At the same time, people usually have to maintain their day jobs and development expenses. I am curious how easy or difficult it is for people to do. (Also, I guess please share your small website if you'd like)
24 votes -
After writing an anti-Israel letter, Harvard students are doxxed
36 votes -
Vine Robots — Learn to make your own!
9 votes -
Have I been [domain] squatted?
16 votes -
Have I Been Pwned?
38 votes -
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
5 votes -
Building websites like digital paper-- intuitive, mixed media, flexible, and fun
30 votes -
Discogs’ vibrant vinyl community is shattering
12 votes -
Arts and Letters Daily
5 votes -
Popular thesaurus website used in sneaky cryptojacking scheme
11 votes -
Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action
67 votes -
Timeline of the history of the web
4 votes -
GridStatus.io - see electricity use in each US region
8 votes -
Hollywood’s latest pirate site blocking injunction covers ‘future content’
15 votes -
Tech billionaires launch California ‘utopia’ website
55 votes -
The decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes: The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip
41 votes -
Interactive tool infographic shows antiprotest bills and laws in the United States
11 votes -
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website Kiwi Farms
22 votes -
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, kiwifarms, death, harassment: a critique
58 votes -
Pentagon's new website lets you explore declassified UAP sightings info. Eventually, people will be able to submit their own reports of "unidentified anomalous phenomena."
11 votes -
Literature Map: The more people like an author and another author, the closer together they move
17 votes -
Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music
43 votes -
The creators of TikTok caused my website to shut down
12 votes -
What "lost" web page would you like to find again?
What was your favorite web page back in the day that you would visit religiously and tell all your friends about but have since lost? Did it shutter permanently or did you lose the bookmark when...
What was your favorite web page back in the day that you would visit religiously and tell all your friends about but have since lost? Did it shutter permanently or did you lose the bookmark when switching computers never to find it again?
Back in the days of printed web page yellow pages and search engines you had to submit your page to be reviewed before it was listed, I had found a page about movie easter eggs, errors and insider information. It had factoids about nearly 1000 movies ranging from obscure facts, mistakes in editing, anachronisms, funny on-set stories and the like.
It was fun to read that this character was named after the art directors niece, the stunt car is visible losing 8 hubcaps in the main chase, etc. It was amazing to read how different movies would interact (IIRC, Kim Bassinger's gasp/jump reaction to opening the door in "Batman" was real due to them having a xenomoprh from Aliens there instead of Jack Nicholson since they were filming at the same time). It was also cool to read that certain characters made cameos in other movies (most people caught that Randolph and Mortimer Duke from "Trading Places" were in "Coming to America" but there are so many other not as obvious blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos). I never would have noticed the car visible in the background of Johnny Cage vs Scorpion in the orchard fight in "Mortal Kombat" without this page--and now I can never unsee it when I watch it.
I don't know if I lost the bookmark or if the page shut down so I deleted it but any search I've undertaken for this page in the last few decades only seems to return listicles like "21 obvious anachronisms in modern movies!" but not my all comprehensive target.
Honorable mention to Damn Interesting (although I did find that one again after a few years). Although it's underwent some turbulance and changes since I first disovered it, I would often reread the articles and gleefully looked forward to each new article when I was younger. With article names like Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom it was hard not to be intrigued.
79 votes -
Baldur's Gate 3 Community Wiki
59 votes -
What is a good website to buy legitimate MP3s?
I have a large music collection and I buy some vinyl, some CDs, but mostly MP3s. I've been using 7digital lately but I don't like how they have enlisted Paypal as their payment service. Is there...
I have a large music collection and I buy some vinyl, some CDs, but mostly MP3s. I've been using 7digital lately but I don't like how they have enlisted Paypal as their payment service. Is there any other sites out there to buy MP3s legitimately?
47 votes -
Make the web your sketchbook
24 votes -
FedFingerprinting: A federated learning approach to website fingerprinting attacks in Tor networks
6 votes -
What would the internet of people look like now?
39 votes -
Mini: The minimal language
43 votes -
What is your favorite small internet forum? Whats your favorite story/drama from it?
About a week ago i made A post asking people what their favorite BBS board is, so I'd be curious to see what people answer to his question. Personally the only one i remember is emptyclosets, a...
About a week ago i made A post asking people what their favorite BBS board is, so I'd be curious to see what people answer to his question. Personally the only one i remember is emptyclosets, a forum for queer people.
Edit: By drama/story, it doesn't have to be something someone did that pissed people off. You can also include something interesting that happened on there (e.g on a Nirvana forum that used to exist, theres a micro-famous story about a user who went to a prostitute and talked about it on there)64 votes -
C64 OS: A modern(ish) operating system for the Commodore 64
16 votes -
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
159 votes -
The Password Game
108 votes -
Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score?
86 votes -
Every flashing element on your site alienates and enrages users
43 votes -
Inside Snopes: The rise, fall, and rebirth of an internet icon
23 votes -
The small web and minimalist websites - what are your thoughts and experiences?
I'm a supporter and believer in the small web and minimalist websites (i.e. NOT "minimal design" websites, which are not minimalist more often than not). Some examples: Tildes. Sourcehut....
I'm a supporter and believer in the small web and minimalist websites (i.e. NOT "minimal design" websites, which are not minimalist more often than not).
Some examples:- Tildes.
- Sourcehut.
- HackerNews.
- To a limited degree, the different motherfucking websites (as they are, in essence, websites with no purpose).
- Members of the 512kb club (also see https://10kbclub.com/).
- Tools like Miniflux and Kanboard.
- Pinboard.in.
- And many others.
What is your experience, if any, with the small web?
Which steps have you taken (if at all) to ensure your website is not bloated?
What do you think can be done better both individually as well as globally to make the web a nicer, faster place?Edit: So I don’t look like I don’t practice what I preach, this is my blog. I try and follow the minimalist principles.
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Thoughts on Notes/Blog/Personal Website Directory Structure
:wave: everyone, I've been thinking about where to put non-technical blog posts and what to call them since, so far, I have bookmark/, cheatsheet/, howto/, note/, snippet/ and tutorial/ folders...
:wave: everyone, I've been thinking about where to put non-technical blog posts and what to call them since, so far, I have
bookmark/
,cheatsheet/
,howto/
,note/
,snippet/
andtutorial/
folders already[1].I think those cover most of the things I like writing about and I intend to share, but I also enjoy poetry, analyzing movies, political commentary and writing an essay here and there.
Following from that, I kept
essay/
,poem/
andcommentary/
around for whenever I felt like sharing some of my non-technical writings, but I don't like those folders :smile:. They seem way too granular, more akin to tags than categories, both of which are contained in each file's metadata.Tags, however, don't feel like a "pillar"/category of a Zettelkasten/ramblings/thoughts crate. They're empty at the moment and in
draft/
, so it's the perfect chance to do some re-structuring and avoid the issues I faced when I ditchedblog/category
and chose the current structure.In case you're asking yourself why I didn't put everything in the same folder, as they reflect categories and each
.md
file has category metadata already, it's because the drafts indraft/
became unmanageable (+120). So, in an effort to give myself an easier way to navigate and edit, I decided/folders
were going to reflect the categories that existed. I'm aware it can be that after note #50 or something I have the same problem, and thus it wouldn't have made a difference whether notes were together with tutorials or not. I've decided to deal with that problem when it arises :)I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts! Would you keep
essay/
,poem/
andcommentary/
or merge them into something else?note/
are short and wouldn't feel right for longer ramblings. I am not a big fan ofwritings/
as everything is a "writing",prose/
also doesn't quite fit and so far the only one I've sort of liked isreflection/
since essays, poems, and comments on happenings are the result of reflecting./rant over, I know, I'm overthinking it. Let those not guilty throw the first stone :)
[1] I've removed quite a bit of the irrelevant stuff but kept what I believe is relevant, but feel free to ask away in case something necessary is missing.
. ├── bookmark/ │ └── sample.md ├── cheatsheet/ │ ├── sample.md │ └── sample.md-data ├── commentary/ ├── draft/ │ ├── bookmark/ │ │ └── sample.md │ ├── cheatsheet/ │ │ └── sample.md │ └── ... ├── essay/ ├── extra/ │ ├── archive/ │ ├── blob/ │ └── robots.txt ├── howto/ │ └── sample.md ├── note/ │ └── sample.md ├── poem ├── private/ │ └── sample.md ├── snippet/ │ └── sample.md └── tutorial/ ├── sample.md └── sample.md-data/ ├── sample.png └── ...
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What are your favorite wikis to browse and/or contribute to?
Just curious which sites people enjoy, and how many other frequent wiki contributors there are around here. I personally spend a lot of time on Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap.
24 votes -
MF FOOM: AI-generated MF DOOM songs
7 votes -
A journey into hip hop lore to discuss one of its forgotten '90s legends; Canibus. Why was he so hyped, why does nobody remember him, and why is his legacy so important?
15 votes -
What are your favourite lightweight websites?
I'm a huge fan of lightweight sites. They load super fast on mobile and that's the most important thing for me. I found a number of outdated lists online and wanted to hear what your favourites...
I'm a huge fan of lightweight sites. They load super fast on mobile and that's the most important thing for me. I found a number of outdated lists online and wanted to hear what your favourites are.
Here is my list.
News
https://lite.cnn.com/
https://text.npr.org/
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news/canada/toronto?sort=editors-picks
http://68k.news/
https://legiblenews.com/
https://www.skinnyguardian.xyz/
https://www.newshound.co/editions/en-us/
http://skimfeed.com/
https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/text/texteditionEdit
- Lots to think about, thank you everyone!
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What webhost and software do you use for your personal website?
In the 2000s, I had Blogger or a subdomain on some random free host. I even tried Ning at some point. Since 2012, I’ve had a personal site at a custom domain, on Squarespace, then WordPress who...
In the 2000s, I had Blogger or a subdomain on some random free host. I even tried Ning at some point.
Since 2012, I’ve had a personal site at a custom domain, on Squarespace, then WordPress who knows where, then Tumblr, then WordPress on Linode, now a combo Bear Blog and GitHub Pages.
I dislike WordPress for how clunky it is, Squarespace for how expensive it is, Tumblr for how obviously Tumblr it is (I could say the same about Squarespace and many WordPress sites), GitHub Pages for making me use git to post. Basically, I’m not happy with anything.
So I thought I’d ask los Tildeños—do you have a personal site? What web host and tech stack are you using for it? What do you like/dislike about it? What else have you tried?
47 votes -
Marginalia Search
10 votes -
Favorite blogs/publications for metal?
For the metalheads here, wondering what you all are reading for news, releases, tour announcements, etc that's primarily focused on metal. I really enjoy black metal so would definitely be...
For the metalheads here, wondering what you all are reading for news, releases, tour announcements, etc that's primarily focused on metal.
I really enjoy black metal so would definitely be interested in sites/forums that focus on that!
9 votes