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38 votes
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Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for breaching firm’s founding mission
27 votes -
FastSDXL.AI: Free demo that lets you generate AI images as fast as you can type
44 votes -
Happy Leap Day
21 votes -
Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app
26 votes -
Tumblr to begin selling user content to AI generative service companies, opt-out will be per blog
75 votes -
Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European Parliament
30 votes -
What is your favorite project that you worked on when first learning to code?
I went to university for computer science up until the pandemic started. It was great. I remember working on so many projects that were basic but a lot of fun and others that were a lot more...
I went to university for computer science up until the pandemic started. It was great. I remember working on so many projects that were basic but a lot of fun and others that were a lot more complex but still fun and rewarding. For example, one of the staples of beginner projects is Conway's Game of Life. I remember building that in HTML, CSS, and Java Script. One of my other favorite projects was a website for alum to visit to see alumni news and events, and also to lookup other alum.
What were your favorite projects when learning to code?
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How the Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets—and Vladimir Putin
29 votes -
Journalist Tim Burke faces charges under the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
27 votes -
Texas is right. The tech giants need to be regulated.
10 votes -
The business of winding down startups is booming
15 votes -
Indexing the information age - Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable
13 votes -
Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of Canadian college students
72 votes -
I got paid $0.33 for confirming with Google that I got a haircut where I did and paid with a card
Who got the better end of that deal? It was in Google rewards. They were already involved in that transaction. How much is me matching their phone records really worth?
27 votes -
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
23 votes -
AT&T widespread cell phone outage in US
27 votes -
More "old web" sites?
I really love Tildes feeling of community, and how it feels like what the web used to feel like. Any suggestions for other sites like that?
72 votes -
Leak of documents on spyware developed by vendor for Chinese government
33 votes -
Stability AI announces Stable Diffusion 3 (currently in the early preview stage)
18 votes -
Resources for starting your own small website
23 votes -
Bluesky announces data federation for self-hosting
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Conservative government would require websites to verify age to watch porn: Pierre Poilievre
36 votes -
Kagi Smallweb [a website where each visit shows a random indie/small website, e.g. personal blogs]
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Have a blogroll
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RSS users - how do you use, organize and maximize your enjoyment of RSS?
It's not something I've thought about much until I had a conversation with someone who sets up their RSS reader, and uses it, completely differently to me. I self-host FreshRSS, and typically just...
It's not something I've thought about much until I had a conversation with someone who sets up their RSS reader, and uses it, completely differently to me.
I self-host FreshRSS, and typically just use the Web UI provided by that - sometimes I use Android RSS apps to consume from that, but I've never found one I like that much. But I just categorize my RSS feeds by broad theme, e.g. computing & tech, local news, programming, tech news, gaming, business and so on...
For the most part, I just browse through my main feed a few times per day and see if anything catches my eye. The only exception to this is that I have a few feeds in the 'Important' feed. One example is the forum related to a university project, where I need to know about entries pretty quickly.
The person I was discussing with never subscribes to anything noisy. No BBC, no Ars Technica, and really nothing that posts more than once per day. They split their feeds into "Important", "Casual", "Videos", "Podcasts" (I never thought to add Podcasts, as I use a separate map) and "Comics". They have it set up with the intention of reading everything that comes through.
I respect the curation effort that it must take to have an RSS feed where everything is interesting enough that you'd want to read it all. But for me, RSS is a method of discovering content. I don't need it too clean or overly curated. For the most part, I'm just going to skim it for interesting titles and subjects. The most curation I do is removing feeds after a while, if I notice I'm never interested in their content.
I'm very keen to hear how you use RSS.
46 votes -
Signal messenger releases 'usernames' so you no longer need to tell someone your phone number in order for them to message you
59 votes -
Downtime due to sign up spam
25 votes -
How Google is killing independent sites like ours
59 votes -
Google’s retiring of Internet archiving tool draws ire of China researchers
18 votes -
Exhausted Pakistani content moderators are now trying to find other work but have been unsuccessful because their experience isn’t transferable
12 votes -
Exodus bitcoin wallet: $490K swindle
6 votes -
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
67 votes -
Frequent/long-term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways
17 votes -
The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
50 votes -
Changes to Unraid OS licence keys
15 votes -
How Kharkiv’s tech start-ups became the ultimate test of business resilience
5 votes -
World's longest-distance drone delivery – Norwegian start-up Aviant has expanded its drone delivery service in Lillehammer
3 votes -
Scientists make breakthrough discovery while experimenting with urine
21 votes -
An archive of Wikipedia from Thursday, December 20, 2001
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Study finds emojis are differently interpreted depending on gender, culture, and age of viewer
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Does anyone else have posting anxiety?
To preface, I have accounts on multiple link aggregators, three microblogging platforms, and I have my own (transiently online) blog. I'm a member of more niche Discord servers than I can count,...
To preface, I have accounts on multiple link aggregators, three microblogging platforms, and I have my own (transiently online) blog. I'm a member of more niche Discord servers than I can count, and I'm in a few other nooks where people generally seem to gather and talk. Despite all that, I find that it's incredibly rare that I ever actually participate in any of the discussions that I see taking place, and that's something that I think I'd like to change.
I think part of the problem is that I grew up in the formative years of the "modern" net, and was always taught that you should be careful about what you say online (and, implicitly, that saying nothing is probably even better), lest an axe murderer track you down and explodify your tibia while you sleep.
So, does anyone else, or have stories about, posting anxiety? Anyone gotten over it? Am I just crazy?
81 votes -
Google Bard is now Gemini; Gemini Advanced launched
24 votes -
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
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Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
41 votes -
Word processing like it's 1993
I thought younger people may find it interesting to experience what older, very popular, word processors were like. Here's WordPerfect 6.0, emulated in the browser:...
I thought younger people may find it interesting to experience what older, very popular, word processors were like.
Here's WordPerfect 6.0, emulated in the browser: https://archive.org/details/msdos_wordperfect6
Here's a link to the instruction manual: https://archive.org/details/wordperfectversi00word/mode/2up
Here's a bit of history: DOSDays - WordPerfect $495 in 1983 is roughly $1500 today.
Here's the recommended specs (not the minimum specs)
Personal computer using 386 processor
520k free conventional memory
DOS 6.0 or memory management software
Hard disk with 16M disk space for complete installation
VGA graphics adapter and monitorF1 is the default help key.
Page 409 of the manual talks about menus. This is version 6 so they give you a drop down menu. To get an idea of how version 5 and earlier would appear by default (without the menubar, just the blue screen), hit alt v, then p. T (To get the menu back hit alt =, then V, then P) People might find it weird but those drop down menus first appeared in 5.1, and were a bit deal: "On 6th November 1989 WordPerfect released what would be their most successful version - WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, selling for $495 in the U.S. This was the first version to support Macintosh-style text-based pull down menus to supplement the traditional function key shortcuts and mouse support."
I'd be interested to know how easy people find it to use. At the time I had the keyboard overlay (example for WP5) and the muscle memory, but that's all gone now.
53 votes -
Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
68 votes -
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within twenty days
37 votes -
OpenAI releases Sora: Creating video from text
66 votes -
Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro is a new, more efficient AI model
10 votes