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7 votes
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French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron
12 votes -
False posts about French riots spread online
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Twitter is now forcing us to create an account. Here's another way of viewing tweets without an account.
Just replace "twitter.com" to "nitter.net" Example: https://twitter.com/iamjohnoliver to https://nitter.net/iamjohnoliver
108 votes -
Online police patrol the internet in Denmark, with the aim of making it a safer place for both children and adults
6 votes -
What is a lesser known, yet interesting, internet rabbit hole you've stumbled upon?
There was one which i found a long time ago via a post on r/nexpo or something similar about a subreddit which appeared to be some sort of cult, i dont really remember the details now though....
There was one which i found a long time ago via a post on r/nexpo or something similar about a subreddit which appeared to be some sort of cult, i dont really remember the details now though. Also, apologies if this isn't the right board.
73 votes -
Solar storm risks and the threat of large-scale internet outage examined
12 votes -
The Dead Internet theory
56 votes -
Cloudflare Radar now shows worldwide internet quality
18 votes -
Seven rules for internet CEOs to avoid enshittification
39 votes -
Modern Software Engineering: A Series - Part 1
6 votes -
Why the internet is getting worse, an interview with Cory Doctorow
82 votes -
What are the XKCDs and Admiral Cloudbergs that you follow?
There are many unique and noteworthy sites that post eclectic and insightful content but who can know them all? Share yours below.
38 votes -
Redditors of Tildes .. what is the thing you can live without?
Akin to this: https://tildes.net/~tech/1670/redditors_of_tildes_which_subreddits_are_you_missing_the_most_during_the_blackout What can we leave behind? What should we leave behind? For me, the one...
Akin to this: https://tildes.net/~tech/1670/redditors_of_tildes_which_subreddits_are_you_missing_the_most_during_the_blackout
What can we leave behind?
What should we leave behind?For me, the one BIG thing is the stupid puns.
Threads full and full and full of puns, one after the other.Case in point:
https://tildes.net/~movies/16bf/chasing_horse_faces_sex_assault_chargesI can so live without that side of reddit.
edit: Yeah, that "thread" is two comments long, but I just got reddit flashbacks just seeing those.
100 votes -
What's the most unexpected thing you've stumbled upon on the internet?
Mine is a Facebook group called ALDI Aisle of Shame. I don't know if it's okay to link to it, so I'll just let you all google it if you want to check it out! Not too long ago on...
Mine is a Facebook group called ALDI Aisle of Shame. I don't know if it's okay to link to it, so I'll just let you all google it if you want to check it out!
Not too long ago on /r/femalefashionadvice, someone mentioned a product in a comment section and I went to look for it online. This lead me to said group and the place was so unexpectedly incredibly wholesome..! It is the silliest thing. There are more than one and a half million members all praising the quality of ALDI products, and posting pictures of their hauls.
Recently, a trend was to post pictures of your dog and even a pony in hats gotten from ALDI and it is just so much fun! Even women doing the Spiderman meme in real life as they spot each other with the same outfit from ALDI.
PS: I am aware Tildes is text-focused so please let me know if this many images in a post is against the spirit of Tildes! Wasn't sure if it's ok to include images in a text post like this.
54 votes -
Stop talking to each other and start buying things: Three decades of survival in the desert of social media
68 votes -
Why former Salesforce engineers want to take on Google
6 votes -
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
18 votes -
Dead Internet theory | Esoteric internet
16 votes -
What do you miss the most about the old internet?
Personally one of the things I miss is when social media sites weren’t trying to emulate TikTok.
63 votes -
What are some of your most frequently visited websites?
Aside from (formerly) Reddit and (now) Tildes, what are some of your favorite go-to websites whether for information, wasting time, etc.
77 votes -
The cargo cult of the ennui engine
14 votes -
Stop trying to make a "good" social media site
33 votes -
I will never participate in weird internet caste systems
32 votes -
Why did Usenet fail?
27 votes -
When was the golden age of the internet to you?
I think most of us probably agree that browsing the net and taking part in online communities used to have more of an allure, and that in recent years the online experience has been really...
I think most of us probably agree that browsing the net and taking part in online communities used to have more of an allure, and that in recent years the online experience has been really negatively affected by corporate and cultural trends. At the same time, I have a feeling that many of us probably disagree about when the "golden age" was, and probably disagree even more strongly on what made the golden age so great. So I am curious, what was the golden age of the internet to you? What time or era did you get the most enjoyment and fulfillment out of being online, and what about that era made it so?
44 votes -
Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me
87 votes -
Rediscovering the small web
23 votes -
Another update to Kagi plans - More searches and unlimited AI interactions for subscribers
13 votes -
Neeva.com is shutting down
22 votes -
Where do you see the future of IT going?
So, what's the hottest new thing in IT today, what's that coolest new tech which might prove to be a goldmine some years down the line? The way PCs, websites, databases, programming languages,...
So, what's the hottest new thing in IT today, what's that coolest new tech which might prove to be a goldmine some years down the line? The way PCs, websites, databases, programming languages, etc. used to be in the 90s or mobile computing used to be in 00s? Early 00s gave us many a goodies in terms of open source innovations, be it Web Technologies, Linux advancement and propagation through the masses or FOSS software like Wordpress and Drupal, or even the general attitude and awareness about FOSS. Bitcoin also deserves a notable mention here, whether you love it or hate it.
But today, I think IT no longer has that spark it once had. People keep mulling around AI, ML and Data Science but these are still decades old concepts, and whatever number crunching or coding the engineers are doing somehow doesn't seem to reach the masses? People get so enthusiastic about ChatGPT, but at the end of the day it's just another software like a zillion others. I deem it at par with something like Wordpress, probably even lesser. I'm yet to see any major adoption or industry usage for it.
Is it the case that IT has reached some kind of saturation point? Everything that could have been innovated, at least the low hanging fruits, has already been innovated? What do you think about this?
13 votes -
IPinfo's free IP address location database
6 votes -
DarkBERT: A language model for the dark side of the internet
11 votes -
The best temporary email services for 2023
2 votes -
What do you not ask the internet about?
This could be for any number of reasons. The reason I was thinking of this, was realizing that there are certain topics that I could probably find the answers to online, but I happen to have a...
This could be for any number of reasons. The reason I was thinking of this, was realizing that there are certain topics that I could probably find the answers to online, but I happen to have a friend who is an expert in that field. So it's usually easier to ask them, and trust that their answer is either accurate or that they will tell me "I don't know".
The other aspect of it was, there are certain topics that are likely to be extremely "noisy" with disinformation (intentional or otherwise) or ads online, and so I'll avoid trying to research them and instead ask a friend.
15 votes -
What was Twitter, anyway?
13 votes -
Speed trap | Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
14 votes -
The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon
8 votes -
How culture made Japanese internet design "weird"
6 votes -
The World Wide Web became available to the broader public thirty years ago
5 votes -
Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul.
5 votes -
They posted porn on Twitter. German authorities called the cops
7 votes -
Here is the FBI’s contract to buy mass internet data
7 votes -
Update to Kagi Search pricing
22 votes -
The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999. ExRx.net is little changed since the days of GeoCities yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
16 votes -
The Verge complains about ubiquitous login prompts
19 votes -
The internet is already over
7 votes -
Google lawyer warns internet will be “a horror show” if it loses landmark US Supreme Court case
13 votes -
Dear Quora, please stop holding information hostage on the internet and remove the paywall
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who...
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who can afford access to it. These benefits are something that makers of quora platform themselves used in the form of open source software like Python, Django, HTML, etc. to build that very platform in the first place.
But now, by denying those benefits to others and bringing in a paywall, quora is striking on its own proverbial roots. There are much better ways to reward their content creators than holding their answers hostage with a paywall. The plain old advertising revenue sharing model can be still used, just like Adsense does. This is a win-win thing where everyone gains including the platform, content-creator and advertiser.
It's extremely important to oppose this paywall move by quora because this attacks the very foundation of the free and open Internet as we know it. Imagine what happens tomorrow if other informative sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc. start following quora's path. Imagine the plight of the poor and under-privileged sections of the society who cannot afford costly subscription to information. And yet, as members of the evolved human race of 2023, they very much deserve access to this information.
I urge all netizens who consider themselves part of this free and open culture tribe to sign this petition and through it, convey our grievance to quora and let them know why this is wrong and what is at stake (our freedom).
If you agree with my cause, I urge you to sign this change.org petition created in this regard requesting Quora to revert the Paywall move.
5 votes -
Twitter restricted in Türkiye in aftermath of earthquake
8 votes