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8 votes
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Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for 'blasphemous content'
5 votes -
Hatepedia's guide to online hate
7 votes -
Unpopular opinion: Wikipedia's old look was much better than the new one
I say that after throwing some caution to air because I understand that every new thing has some initial resistance or pushback due to the "past comfort zone" effect. But having said that, I feel...
I say that after throwing some caution to air because I understand that every new thing has some initial resistance or pushback due to the "past comfort zone" effect.
But having said that, I feel the aesthetics of the old site was much better than the new one. But then again, I'm from the old-school world who also prefers old reddit to the new one in browsing experience, so my opinion could be biased! But even considering the modern web design, don't you think the black icons on the top right have a somewhat odd look? And the "21 languages" feels a bit verbose, the I10N icon already conveys what that dropdown is about? And finally, that scrollable sidebar on the left looks a tad ugly?
I just hope this is just a beta stage or something of Wikipedia's new version and a better one will evolve soon! But that's just one humble unpopular opinion, me thinks!
15 votes -
To use Disqus or Giscus (Github Discussions) for comments is the conundrum
I happen to host my blog https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog statically, built using Pelican and served on Github Pages. Plebs like us can't afford a backend server infrastructure, so we must rely...
I happen to host my blog https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog statically, built using Pelican and served on Github Pages. Plebs like us can't afford a backend server infrastructure, so we must rely on external services like Disqus for comment hosting.
So far, Disqus was the only fellow in town who allowed us to host comments on a free plan. Though there were some issues (bloat, adware, etc.), people seemed to be generally happy with it so far.
But now, a new fellow named giscus commenting system has entered the town, it's basically powered by github. Since I already host my blog on github pages, this should be a natural choice for me, right? Many bloggers seem to be migrating to this new system and I might too soon. The downsides however are as follows:
- It won't allow me to export existing comments from the old disqus system. Understandable to an extent as those exact author usernames may not be on the Github platform?
- Disqus interface seems to have improved all of a sudden in last few days! There no longer seem to be any ad and even the comment interface seems to be less heavy or cluttered now. It might sound a bit conspiratorial in nature but could this be the result of rising competition in the form of Giscus!
I'm a lazy status-quoist by nature and might well end up retaining disqus if they don't deviate too much from where they are now. But I'll keep an eye out on Giscus too and its progress. What do you guys suggest?
5 votes -
ChatGPT mostly breaks the parts of the internet that are already broken
15 votes -
AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
6 votes -
WebTV returns with custom server emulating 1999 experience
6 votes -
How online mobs act like flocks of birds
4 votes -
What is your earliest memory of the internet?
When did you first get on the internet? What do you remember of that time?
23 votes -
Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data
11 votes -
Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?
17 votes -
Cloudflare blocks Kiwi Farms
36 votes -
‘Pre-bunking’ online misinformation
7 votes -
What cool online services should I sign up for while I have a burner phone?
I have a burner phone for the next month. (Lately a number of services refuse to accept my google voice number, and I refuse to share my actual number.) Are there any cool services I should try...
I have a burner phone for the next month.
(Lately a number of services refuse to accept my google voice number, and I refuse to share my actual number.)
Are there any cool services I should try out that maybe require a phone number to sign up?
5 votes -
Hide nothing
11 votes -
Rogers CEO says service back online for most Canadian customers, blames outage on 'network system failure'
17 votes -
She spent a decade writing fake Russian history. Wikipedia just noticed.
8 votes -
Minitel: France’s alternate Internet that survived until 2012
13 votes -
A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate
9 votes -
A stupendously wonderful interview with one of the founders of @ Cafe, an internet cafe that launched just as the internet was coming into the public eye
5 votes -
Is the long-extinct social network Orkut on the verge of a comeback?
5 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
The Quasi-Official 2022 r/place Atlas
12 votes -
Move fast and break things
6 votes -
Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
19 votes -
ICANN rejects Ukraine's request to block Russia from the internet
15 votes -
Wikipedia is declining: In defense of inclusionism (2018)
11 votes -
/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
19 votes -
North Korea hacked him. So he took down its internet.
12 votes -
These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time
6 votes -
IRS will soon require selfies for online access
18 votes -
Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience
6 votes -
How the SOPA blackout happened
5 votes -
China’s next regulatory target — algorithms, the secret of many tech giants’ success
13 votes -
Minitel: The online world France built before the web
4 votes -
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!
6 votes -
If I fits, I sits: Starlink's self-heating internet satellite dishes are attracting cats
10 votes -
2021 was the year lawmakers tried to regulate online speech
10 votes -
The art of the pause: Is anything on the internet real?
2 votes -
Internet literacy atrophy
4 votes -
High readability Wikipedia
9 votes -
LastPass is going to become an independent company
16 votes -
China unleashed its propaganda machine on Peng Shuai’s #MeToo accusation. Her story still got out.
19 votes -
VPN testing reveals poor privacy and security practices, hyperbolic claims
20 votes -
Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos
13 votes -
Notes on Web3 for the "cautiously curious"
5 votes -
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?
17 votes -
Can data die? Why one of the internet's oldest images lives on without its subject's consent.
27 votes -
The dark side of .io: How the UK is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal
6 votes