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10 votes
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Canon has a “museum” of every camera they’ve produced on an obscure part of their website
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Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers
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The Quasi-Official 2022 r/place Atlas
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Retrieving your browsing history through a fake CAPTCHA
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Little 12ft.io bookmarklet
Today I was doing some paywall hopping and wondered why there wasn't a 12ft.io bookmarklet to make it a little easier. So I whipped up this little 5 second bookmarklet for anyone who hasn't...
Today I was doing some paywall hopping and wondered why there wasn't a 12ft.io bookmarklet to make it a little easier.
So I whipped up this little 5 second bookmarklet for anyone who hasn't bothered to do it themselves yet.
Just make a bookmark with the code snippet below as the URL.
javascript: (() => { window.location.replace("https://12ft.io/" + window.location.href)})();
I tried to make a link here that could be dragged and dropped directly into a bookmark bar, but it's disallowed.
20 votes -
My 90's TV!
14 votes -
Swedish price comparison firm PriceRunner is suing Alphabet-owned Google for promoting its own shopping comparisons in search results
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Classic social networking in 2022: SpaceHey
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High readability Wikipedia
9 votes -
Retiring Alexa.com on May 1, 2022
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Webcams
There was a very brief period of time in the late 90s early 00s when the word “webcam” had just started existing and entering the popular discourse; and where that word was practically synonymous...
There was a very brief period of time in the late 90s early 00s when the word “webcam” had just started existing and entering the popular discourse; and where that word was practically synonymous with “sex show”.
I think around the time I first heard that word, having a webcam usually meant you would use it to do nude shows with.
They weren’t integrated with computers back then (laptops were super expensive and not popular yet, and they weren’t a mainstream laptop accessory until way later). So if you had a webcam, you had to really seek it out and pay quite a bit of money for it. It made little sense for people to buy them just to use them for personal reasons and most jobs didn’t have a utility for them.
… except sex work. Live, paid access cam shows immediately caught on. And people would see those in ads (ads tended to be trashy with zero quality control back then, even automated. Worse than now, I swear), and associate “webcam” with “webcam show”.
There was no reason to otherwise hook up a camera to a computer if not to stream its contents to the web, anyway. The first webcam, that famous coffee pot, was just that: a web-connected camera. Web cam. Wikipedia talks about “Jenni cam” — I wasn’t on the anglosphere’s internet at the time so this escaped me, but it does seem to agree that the concept entered the mainstream not via videoconferencing, but via cam girls.
5 votes -
The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com
10 votes -
Musician Holly Herndon open sources her voice
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Tech workers rebel against a lame-ass Internet by bringing back ‘GeoCities-style’ Webrings
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Peachesnstink: An interesting tildes/reddit-esque website
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Why have web pages dropped the www?
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet. So my question is: why there is a trend of...
I don't know where to put this question, if here or in ~tech, but I chose here due to I want a response for someone who doesn't know all about internet.
So my question is: why there is a trend of removing the www of every web address? why it was standard in the first place and not now?
There are a handful of popular web pages that don't use a triple w in their link and they have replaced it or removed it. Tildes, for example, doesn't need triple w. Why?
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New ad-free search subscription service: Neeva
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How should I make my personal website?
I am not a developer, but I do have interesting in learning. A while ago I asked a question similar to that. I did not take any concrete action since then, and now have some new information to...
I am not a developer, but I do have interesting in learning.
A while ago I asked a question similar to that. I did not take any concrete action since then, and now have some new information to add.
The website shall be called
myactualname.com
, and will contain about/biography, and a few sections containing articles that I wish to write on different subjects.That can probably be done without coding on one of the many free blogging platforms currently available, such as Medium, Wordpress, and Substack, but the lack of control is unfortunate.
At the same time, I wish for this website to last a long time, and to be reasonably independent of maintenance. With the Brazilian Real valued at less than one-fifth of the US dollar, hosting prices skyrocketed. Besides, I cannot always rely on my own ability to stay on top of that kind of thing, so it would be beneficial for my web presence to be more resilient than my bank account and mental state. I figure that hosting it on Github Pages, Gitlab Pages (or both) would be a good way to avoid ever going down (it looks like duplicate content is bad for search engines, though, so I might keep one of those private, just for backup reasons). And I could reserve the domain for two or three years in advance.
I really like simple text-focused personal websites like this one. They load fast and are easy to read, but are generally not very pretty or responsive. I have basic notions of HTML and CSS and intend to learn more.
In the previous post, someone suggested using Hugo, which seems like a good option. On the other hand, for something that simple, I wonder what would be the downside of simply coding it from scratch. One thing I know for sure is that I want this website to be rather permanent: whatever changes I ever do to its design should not impact accessibility to previous content (link rot). How can I achieve that? No idea.
Since I write in English and Portuguese, the website must be bilingual. I'm not sure how to implement or manage that, especially in regards to search engines.
I resumed the course on Free Code Camp, which I expect will help in achieving all that.
With that in mind, I reiterate my question: should I make my personal website? Should I just use a free blogging platform? Should I use Hugo or something similar? Any particular free CMS? Or maybe just use what I learn to code it from scratch?
Thanks!
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Built a satirical social network (ShlinkedIn)—would love to pick y'alls brains about social media and this project!
39 votes -
The internet feeds on its own dying dreams
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Quit Social Media - An educational website that argues against proprietary social media and its risks
7 votes -
Stumbled, a collection of anything interesting, weird or astonishing; websites of exceptional quality, sites to kill time or learn something new
14 votes -
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage
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Blind people and advocates criticize AccessiBe, a company claiming to automatically make websites ADA compliant
10 votes -
Am I FLoCed?
22 votes -
RIP SpaceJam.com, 1996-2021
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Inside a viral website - An account of running istheshipstillstuck.com
10 votes -
Substack paid a secret group of writers to make newsletter authorship seem lucrative
9 votes -
Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites
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This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline ☀
31 votes -
The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
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Techworker.com launches, a new reader-funded site focusing on employees at tech companies
10 votes -
Same Energy, a visual search engine
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Riff.cc, a torrent website for Creative Commons and free culture
Riff.cc is a private tracker torrent site that is completely focused on works distributed with creative commons, public domain, gpl or other free culture licenses. It has some plans to allow...
Riff.cc is a private tracker torrent site that is completely focused on works distributed with creative commons, public domain, gpl or other free culture licenses.
It has some plans to allow tipping creators and seeders using digital currency.You can use this invite to signup (I believe there is a limit of 90 people who can use it).
https://u.riff.cc/register/fb4dc3bf-af81-43f4-94fb-5afc6b24b159
17 votes -
Reddit Search.io
6 votes -
1MB Club - Collection of websites under 1 megabyte
11 votes -
Zalgo Text generator
3 votes -
Browservice demo - Browsing modern websites on retro computers
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NewPipe: A FOSS alternative to classical YouTube
15 votes -
Gmail suffers another outage
12 votes -
Tool for adding trigger warnings to links
6 votes -
Company made to change name that could be used for XSS vulnerabilities
11 votes -
Announcing Good Reports, a new review site with recommendations for "non-toxic" online tools available as alternatives to Big Tech services
18 votes -
The search engine Hacker News has been asking for
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Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US
14 votes -
QAnon/8Chan sites briefly knocked offline after call to internet provider
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Spritely - A project to improve the capabilities of the federated social web, from one of the co-authors of the ActivityPub standard
8 votes -
Analysis of UK charity websites finds that tracking is prevalent, with almost all of the most popular charities including trackers for advertising or data brokers and failing to comply with GDPR/PECR
8 votes -
A website that randomly displays YouTube videos with zero views
22 votes