Jul 29, 2022
Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era — I miss 2009 Facebook (via)
#internet
Jun 19, 2022
The Floppotron 3.0 — Do you remember the guy who played The Imperial March with a couple of floppy drives? Well he's back to leave all of us speechless. I want so bad to play Monkey Island using this as the MIDI. (via)
#hardware #genius
Jun 3, 2022
Installing a payphone in my house — It's what the title says. Great write-up with a cute ending. Now I want one.
#genius #retro
Apr 12, 2022
Finding Waldo in π — Can we find Waldo in a bitmap representation of Pi? Turns out, we can (via)
#math #genius
Jan 16, 2022
OWL Guide, early hypertext, and "replacing" the Web — A gallery with plenty of screenshots of pre-web hypertext systems (via)
#retro
Dec 29, 2021
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack — Hundreds of retro fonts. Yes, the IBMVGA8/DOS font is included. Go get 'em (via)
#retro #typography
Dec 27, 2021
diy email — Great tips in case you want to run your own mail server - and some thoughts on why you probably shouldn't (via)
#internet #selfhosted #email
Dec 23, 2021
(mac)OStalgia — A reimagination of Chrome, Slack, Zoom, and others if they were running on MacOS 9 (via)
#retro #nostalgia #apple
Dec 16, 2021
Ocarina of Time Glitches Showcase — Impressive showcase of glitches for one of the most beloved Zelda games. ZFG is a great speedrunner and he knows the game left and right.
#retro #nintendo
Dec 5, 2021
mirotalksfu: WebRTC with integrated SFU server. Video calls, messaging, screen sharing, recording and more — Impressive self-hosted videoconferencing tool developed by a single person, Miroslav Pejic. (via)
#internet #software #productivity
Old Web Today — Browse the web as it appeared at any point in time, with era-appropriate browsers running in Mac OS and Windows emulators in your modern browser (via)
#internet #genius #nostalgia #retro
Dec 4, 2021
Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) — Oh, so it was not just me. Ten years ago I was able to listen to movies in English without subtitles and now I need to enable subtitles again unless I have headphones on (via)
#movies
Emoji to Scale — This is why I pay for the internet (via)
#genius #internet
Nov 26, 2021
Quick Look extension for Markdown files on macOS — A very simple but useful tool: preview rendered Markdown files with Quick Look
#productivity #apple
Nov 3, 2021
On Desktop Productivity — Very complete list of advanced productivity hacks for your keyboard. Focused on Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro but you can adapt it to almost any setup (via)
#productivity #apple #keyboards
Nov 2, 2021
Game Development in Eight Bits — Great talk that explains basic game programming on the NES: the CPU, video RAM, sprites, collision detection, and many silly optimizations that work really well
#retro #nintendo
Chatcontrol Explained — Video of Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer raising his voice against automated citizen surveillance in the EU. This will be voted in December 2021, you guessed it, with the excuse of "protecting the children" (via)
#privacy #europe
Nov 1, 2021
AI BREAKS NES TETRIS! - 102 MILLION and level 237 — This AI plays Tetris until the game can't handle it anymore and crashes at level 237 after a series of glitches. Amazing feat considering that humans only recently surpassed level 29.
#retro #nintendo #ai
Sep 28, 2021
Darknet Diaries – True stories from the dark side of the Internet. — "This is a podcast about hackers, breaches, shadow government activity, hacktivism, cybercrime, and all the things that dwell on the hidden parts of the network." I'm hoooked to Darknet Diaries!
#security #internet #podcast
Sep 25, 2021
Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities and critique of Apple Security Bounty program — What a mess. Three extremely serious 0-days which leak private user data go unpatched for more than 6 months. Hopefully the disclosure will make Apple expedite the fixes. (via)
#apple #security
Sep 20, 2021
Canarytokens — Discover if your information has been breached by tracking for file reads, database queries, process executions, patterns in log files, Bitcoin transactions or even Linkedin Profile views.
#privacy #security
Sep 15, 2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show — Don't want to sound like an old fart. I actually enjoyed using Facebook many years ago. I enjoy Twitter, Mastodon, and other social networks. The problem with Instagram is that by centering the tool on images there are only two good use cases: selling stuff and showing off. This breaks some people. (via)
#lifestyle #facebook
Sep 14, 2021
40 One-Sentence Email Tips — I agree with each and every one of these 40 tips. A must read for those who spend all day around email (via)
#productivity #email
FORCEDENTRY: NSO Group iMessage Zero-Click Exploit Captured in the Wild — Everybody update your iOS devices to 14.8 (via)
#apple #security
Aug 27, 2021
Why are hyperlinks blue? — Not going to spoil it -- read the article, it's worth the nostalgia trip and has lots of retro screenshots (via)
#internet #nostalgia #retro
Aug 26, 2021
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps — Lengthy and thorough review of Google's attempts at solving chat. Some nostalgia, some unknown gems, a lot of mocking (via)
#google #internet
Aug 25, 2021
The Search for a FLOSS Mobile OS — Good review. The world really does need a FLOSS mobile OS, and Android isn't it. Until there is a good realistic alternative to Apple/Google we will all be tied to one of these two options. (via)
#android #mobile
Aug 24, 2021
Twitter starts to require login to view tweets — Twitter following the Instagram route. Mixed news. People will eventually stop using Twitter as their public blog and online homepage, and treat it as another closed social network. However, a pretty good kinda open public discussion forum will die.
#internet #privacy
Aug 6, 2021
Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life — Apple will install a back door to Messages and will scan your photos on-device against an inscrutable and unauditable database. Extremely bad news. Others will follow (or are silently doing it already) and there is still no good alternative to Apple/Google’s ecosystems.
#privacy #apple
Jul 31, 2021
Workman Keyboard Layout — Another keyboard layout aimed to reduce RSI. The writeup is very interesting and explains the rationale, process, analysis and evaluation of the pros and cons of this layout. (via)
#keyboards
Jul 24, 2021
The worst volume control UI in the world — From 2017: "A group of bored developers and designers has decided to start a thread on reddit to figure out who can come up with the worst volume control interface in the world". Funny as hell. (via)
#masterpiece #design #funny
Jun 30, 2021
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer — This is science fiction. It has many implications, yes, but let your mind be blown for a second. (via)
#ai #programming
Jun 20, 2021
Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game — A free and open source RPG, basically a simplified version of D&D 3.5. Great community effort and nice production -- Is 3.5 "oldschool" now? 👴🏼 (via)
#rpg #books
Jun 17, 2021
A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands — Check these out. You really should start using 'ag' and 'jq' if you haven't already. (via)
#unix #productivity
May 26, 2021
M1RACLES: M1ssing Register Access Controls Leak EL0 State — The first hardware vulnerability of Apple Silicon: a system register can be accessed directly from EL0. Two processes can cooperatively exchange data using this register. However, this is more of a curiosity. You shouldn't worry. (via)
#apple #hardware #security
Freenode shutting down channels with "libera" in the topic — jcs says it best: "New freenode opers are making sure [the freenode/libera] fracture doesn't happen by driving all of their remaining users off the network". Freenode is basically committing suicide.
#internet
May 22, 2021
Floppinux - An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy — Impressive due to the fact that it uses a modern kernel. Long gone are the days of bootable floppies with tomsrtbt or DOS 6.22 for recovery (via)
#linux #genius
May 19, 2021
Using AirTags to detect stationary iPhones · Łukasz's website! — We're moving towards a world where we will need to constantly "scan" for listening or tracking devices in our surroundings. Is this the future we wanted? Worth a thought. (via)
#privacy #apple
freenode now belongs to Andrew Lee, and I'm leaving for [libera.chat] — Freenode changed hands, things are going south, and the community is jumping to libera.chat and other alternatives. End of an era. (via)
#internet
May 18, 2021
A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages — There's life beyond Brainfuck. Meet Shakespeare, Hexagony or Piet! (via)
#programming #
Prosecutors admit they can't prove a deepfake is actually a deepfake — First one on a long list of cases to come (via)
#ai #privacy #law
May 5, 2021
The Instagram ads Facebook won't show you — Very smart campaign from Signal to make people aware of how targeted ads work and how their data is being used. (via)
#privacy
May 3, 2021
Musicmap, The Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres from Origin till Present (1870-2016) — This is the Ultimate Music encyclopedia. A guide to all musical genres and subgenres, with playlists of the most representative artists and songs. If you like music (who doesn't?), prepare to be amazed. (via)
#music #masterpiece
May 2, 2021
Web Design Museum 1991 – 2006 — Pizza Hut 1996. The Million Dollar Homepage 2005. Yahoo! 1994. ICQ 2001. Essentially a curated Internet Archive. Check it out to receive an important dose of nostalgia directly to your bloodstream. (via)
#nostalgia #retro #internet
May 1, 2021
Internal Combustion Engine — I always wanted to learn the basics of a combustion engine, and today I have. This single website with interactive animations is much more informative than any textbook I've read or class I've attended. (via)
#masterpiece #hardware #engineering
Apr 22, 2021
Moxie Marlinspike on Twitter: "A few months ago Cellebrite announced that they would begin parsing data from Signal in their extraction tools. It seems they're not doing that very carefully. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite's software, from an app's perspective: https://t.co/9ar6ypnPe2" / Twitter — Moxie finds RCE vulnerabilities in Cellebrite, triggered just by placing a carefully crafted file on any app, which render the software useless. This is hacking at its best and purest.
#genius #privacy #hardware
Apr 13, 2021
The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme — "the intent is to awaken you to many of the peculiarities and weirdness of computers." Sure enough, a perfect presentation of obscure, funny, and pop culture computing concepts, from y2k to the Bedlam3 incident (via)
#masterpiece #lore
Apr 11, 2021
Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music — Incredible tree with the history of electronic music over the years, with examples of songs for all subgenres. Any textual description of this project cannot make it justice. You must visit this page. (via)
#music #masterpiece
Mar 29, 2021
Text to image generation using OpenAI — Phsychedelic yet recognizable image generation using neural networks
#ai
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text — Crazy accurate image generation from a textual prompt. Check out the examples on their homepage. See it to believe it. (via)
#ai
Language evangelists, why should I use [common lisp]? — 1-minute introduction to the main strengths of clisp with some links to get started
#programming
Mar 28, 2021
Cheatography.com: Cheat Sheets For Every Occasion — From "New Baby" to "Prices and Markets", here you will find thousands of interesting cheat sheets and checklists
#productivity
Mar 27, 2021
Projects for futures where current (network) infrastructures have stopped functioning — Fantastic discussion with projects focused on providing connectivity or technological power on pessimistic scenarios. Check out all the links!
#internet #selfhosted
Mar 25, 2021
SQLite is not a toy database — I'm a big fan of SQLite and use it a lot. If your go-to database is MySQL or Postgres, you should learn how powerful SQLite is (via)
#software #programming
Mar 22, 2021
What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? — Non-technical explanation of NFTs and what are the interesting use cases for them (via)
#internet #crypto #art
Mar 20, 2021
Dungeons and Directories — "Dungeons and Directories is a short text adventure game that you play in your file browser." Yes, you read it well. Try it! (via)
#videogames #genius
Mar 13, 2021
Mailoji: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service — Do you want to own username@💩.kz? Now you can! This is one of those "why?-because I can" projects (via)
#internet #genius
Mar 6, 2021
Zero Data App — Confusingly named compilation of webapps that store your data in localstorage, so you are always in control of it. Interesting how we are de-cloudifying back. (via)
#internet #privacy
Feb 25, 2021
A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B — Extremely detailed article about a historical oddity (1 bit processor) which includes one of the best explanations about how transistors work. Great read. (via)
#retro #hardware
Feb 23, 2021
Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security — Regular reminder that you should assume that all the content you share on the internet may be downloaded and rehosted somewhere else. The part about using Agora for the backend is truly worrying though. (via)
#privacy
A retrospective look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard — "Well, if you dislike the current Big Sur UI and Mac experience, what’s an example of Mac OS UI and experience you DO like?". Great review on how macOS interface design is going further down the drain with every release. (via)
#apple #design
Feb 22, 2021
I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You — Check it out and get down the rabbit hole of retro magazine links. (via)
#retro
Feb 6, 2021
Super Mario World Restored OST — Incredible archaeological effort to identify original synthesizers, libraries, and samples, to generate CD-quality restorations of Super Mario World songs (via)
#retro #nintendo
Feb 2, 2021
The PDP-11/45 used to do the Star Wars computer graphics — Short video that showcases the computer that was used to generate the graphics for the Star Wars movie. A piece of history.
#retro #movies #unix
Jan 27, 2021
Heap-based overflow in sudo — sudo privilege escalation introduced in... 2011. Holy smokes. Update your servers, people. (via)
#unix #security
Jan 26, 2021
Birdwatch, a community-driven approach to addressing misleading information — Good community moderation initiative from Twitter to stop the spread of fake news. It may not be perfect, but it will help the people who retweet in good faith. (via)
#internet #fakenews
Jan 24, 2021
The PGP Problem — In college I was taught PGP and RSA as the golden standard of cryptography. Nowadays they're terrible choices. Excellent read (and the via) to learn why. (via)
#privacy #crypto
An Opinionated Introduction to Urbit — Urbit is one of these things constantly hovering over some internet circles. I was interested, but never got even close to understanding what it is. This writeup is pretty simple and also unwraps some of the mindfuck involved in it. (via)
#internet
Jan 23, 2021
How We Ported Linux to the M1 — Very accessible technical writeup on the particularities of M1 macs and how the work started by porting the kernel to the A10 processor early last year. (via)
#linux #apple
I made a bot that turns reddit arguments into Ace Attorney — This bot turns Reddit arguments into Ace Attorney scenes. Extremely well done. (via)
#genius #nintendo
Jan 21, 2021
Free The Game Boy — A Game Boy redesign that runs without a battery, harvesting energy from solar and key presses. Very cool. (via)
#retro #nintendo
Jan 18, 2021
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — A crazy deep dive into monochrome dithering techniques: how to transform a picture into a 2-bit image with the maximum possible fidelity (via)
#art #retro
Jan 15, 2021
A Week With Plan 9 — If you have never heard of Plan 9, the operating system, this blogpost is a good intro to it. Prepare to be sucked into a rabbit hole... (via)
#unix #software
Jan 12, 2021
‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom — WHY?!? Stop connecting random devices to the internet! If you need an app to control your sex toy, do it via bluetooth. (via)
#privacy #iot #hardware
Jan 8, 2021
Unclack for macOS — Unclack is a little tool that automatically mutes your microphone while you're typing. I was actively looking for something like this to mute my machinegun-like typing while on calls. Great! (via)
#productivity
WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never having access to private keys — Next installment in the Whatsapp ToS change: now they don't promise they don't read your messages (via)
#privacy #facebook
Jan 7, 2021
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app — Facebook continues the war against their own users. Unfortunately, in some regions, it is just impossible to stop using whatsapp. You may as well stop carrying a cellphone. As much as I will whine about this, there is no recourse. (via)
#privacy #facebook
Jan 6, 2021
DOSBox-X - Complete DOS emulation package — DOSBox-X is a fork os DOSBox which adds support for Windows 9X, which is pretty amazing. Check out their screenshots. (via)
#retro #emulation #dos
Asahi: Linux on Apple Silicon — Great initiative to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs. Let's hope it has a bright future. (via)
#apple #linux
Jan 1, 2021
Adobe Flash rides off into the sunset — Flash is finally gone. With it, part of the history of the Internet. Thankfully the Internet Archive is preserving many games and animations, even though we won't be able to view them without an emulator. (via)
#internet
Dec 31, 2020
LibrePhotos: Self hosted alternative to Google Photos — Great alternative to cloud photo services for people looking to de-Googlify their lives (via)
#internet #selfhosted
Managing my personal server in 2020 — Very thorough tutorial on how to set up your own cloud server with mail, Nextcloud and a VPN (via)
#internet #selfhosted
An album in the style of The Beatles, generated by OpenAI — Surprising insight on what will probably be the future of music. Definitely worth a listen. (via)
#ai #music #video
Dec 30, 2020
skyjake/lagrange: A Beautiful Gemini Client — A beautiful, full-featured, multi-platform Gemini client. Try it out.
#internet
Dec 24, 2020
Russians insert a back door in software used by multiple governments — Backdoor hacks to popular software are going to be much more popular in the coming days. And the world isn’t ready for it. (via)
#security
How We Saved .ORG (EFF) — The EFF saved a very important part of the internet. If you have some money that you'd like to donate this holiday season, you can't go wrong with the EFF. (via)
#internet #activism
100 Tips For A Better Life — Clickbaity title, but solid tips. Check out the HN discussion too. (via)
#lifestyle
Dec 20, 2020
The web is 30 years old today — I am very grateful to have grown without the Web, because it allows me to appreciate it even more. Say what you want about the "current web", it's still the #1 invention of the 20th Century. (via)
#internet #retro
Dec 19, 2020
Federal prosecutors accuse Zoom of working with Chinese government to surveil users and suppress calls — Please don’t use Zoom and please don’t make me use it to talk to you. Xinjiang Jin monitored Zoom for discussions of political and religious topics [...] and he gave government officials the names, email addresses and other sensitive information of users, even those outside China. (via)
#privacy #china
Dec 17, 2020
No cookie for you — GitHub removes cookie banners with some good willed PR move: “After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really.” (via)
#privacy #internet
Dec 16, 2020
The world's worst video card? — Ben Eater is at it again, showing how to create a VGA card on a breadboard and making it display an image. Excellent content as usual.
#electronics #hardware
Dec 7, 2020
Court forces mail provider Tutanota to insert a backdoor — "A ruling by the Cologne Regional Court is now forcing [Tutanota] to incorporate a function with which investigators can monitor individual mailboxes and read emails in plain text."
#privacy #europe #email
Nov 23, 2020
Discover videos - TILvids — You should stop using Youtube and start using decentralized video tools. TILvids is a great communal initiative based on Peertube and has interesting content. (via)
#internet #youtube #video
Nov 21, 2020
YouTube Will Now Show Ads On All Videos Even If Creators Don’t Want Them — Nth installment of the "if you're not paying, you're not the customer, you're the product" series. (via)
#google #ads
Nov 20, 2020
Windows turns 35: a visual history — I haven’t used it in 20 years, but I still hold fond memories of its early versions. Happy 35th birthday, Windows! (via)
#nostalgia #windows
Nov 16, 2020
Safely open apps on your Mac - Apple Support — In 2021, Apple will encrypt OCSP traffic and introduce a way to opt-out of these checks. This is the right thing to do. (via)
#apple #privacy
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back — Great news and a big thumbs up for the EFF and github. (via)
#activism
Nov 15, 2020
Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur — The more I read about this feature the more I'm convinced that Apple slipped big on its design. Just imagine if this had happened to Microsoft instead. Apple deserves more flak for it. (via)
#apple #privacy
Nov 14, 2020
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application — The more I think about this, the worse it seems to me. I'd rather Apple ran everything sandboxed by default, with an option to disable it, than having libc phone home. (via)
#apple #privacy
Nov 10, 2020
Capitalism in the age of robots: work, income and wealth in the 21st-century — An alternative title: "The economics of the singularity." Excellent seminar on the future of labor, public policy and economics in general.
#ai #economics
Nov 8, 2020
Color: From Hexcodes to Eyeballs — Excellent introduction to color theory. If you are interested in learning how color works, this post is a must read.
#genius #color #hardware #biology
Nov 6, 2020
The impact of COVID-19 related school shutdown on sleep in adolescents — "[...] the shutdown of schools due to COVID-19 led to a 2-h shift in the sleep of developing adolescents, longer sleep duration, improved sleep quality, and less daytime sleepiness" This is consistent with my own experience. I used to sleep during my commute, but nothing beats a bed. (via)
#science #covid19 #lifestyle
Oct 23, 2020
YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA — GitHub has complied with the takedown request. This is unacceptable. Stop using Github and stop using servers hosted in countries with unacceptable copyright laws. (via)
#activism
Oct 22, 2020
I miss Microsoft Encarta — Being able to instantly search information on an encyclopedia was an incredible feature. Multimedia content was just the icing on the cake. (via)
#nostalgia #microsoft #retro
Oct 17, 2020
On Managing People — "The key to managing people is giving them ownership." (via)
#startups
Oct 14, 2020
Utzoo Discussion Forums — 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts ('81 - '91) now online on the Usenet Archives (via)
#retro #internet #usenet
Oct 13, 2020
world smallest office suite — A Google Docs minimal clone. Is this a joke? Only half of it. Pretty cool. (via)
#internet #minimalism
Oct 12, 2020
Self-Hosting Part 5: Finale — Good series of articles, extensive and functional, on how to self-host as an alternative to using iCloud. Same route I'm taking.
#privacy #apple
Oct 10, 2020
[The history of the] Asterisk — "Challenged to write about a single Unicode character, I chose the humble asterisk." Fascinating read about its origins, uses, designs, and technological applications. (via)
#trivia #typography
Apple Tells Secure Messaging App Telegram to Take Down Protestor Channels in Belarus — Couldn't find a better source, so take this with a grain of salt. If true, this is a scandalous overreach of Apple's power. Policing user-generated content is not acceptable. (via)
#privacy #apple
Oct 3, 2020
THE HOOD INTERNET presents 1990 — Samples of more than 60 songs from 1990 mixed together into one 3½-minute song. So many classics! (via)
#retro
C Programming on System 6 — Screencast that presents "a quick introduction to System 6, HFS resource forks, THINK C 5.0, and a look at some of the progress of my IMAP client so far"
#retro #classic_mac
Sep 26, 2020
The Windows XP source code was allegedly leaked online — Leaking Microsoft's source code has become sort of a classic, yet it always amuses me. Will be waiting for some analysis. (via)
#retro #windows
Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac — First discoveries from the analysis of the leaked code. Pretty interesting, in perspective. (via)
#retro #windows
Sep 25, 2020
jwz: This is a pretty dire assessment of Mozilla — "They have an entire building full of people. What do all of those people do???" (via)
#internet #freesoftware
Sep 23, 2020
A look at /e/OS on the FairPhone 3 - a FOSS OS for phones — Yes, please. The world needs a serious, de-googlified mobile phone. (via)
#video #privacy #android
Sep 21, 2020
Photoshop: The First Demo — Watch history repeat itself as John Knoll, one of the creators of Adobe Photoshop recreates the first demo he ever gave with the product
#retro #classic_mac
Sep 19, 2020
Argos - Create GNOME Shell extensions in seconds — Finally, a way to easily display the output of any script on the system tray, open a menu on clicking, and launching any command.
#software #productivity
Sep 15, 2020
A look at the die of the 8086 processor — Fantastic detailed pictures of Intel's 8086, along with a good explanation and some historical bits (via)
#retro #hardware
Sep 11, 2020
DOS applications - Visicalc — This is what made people in 1979 rush to buy computers. Show Visicalc to an office worker and they'd get their mind blown. Bonus: check out the whole FreeDOS channel for excellent retro content!
#retro #dos
Sep 6, 2020
7 versatile Vim commands that are easy to memorize — Good selection of commands, definitely one of the most useful compilations I've read recently
#vim #unix
Sep 4, 2020
Winamp Skin Museum — Scroll through 65k interactive Winamp skins. I still remember many of these. (via)
#retro
SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW — Seth Bling manages, for the first time ever, to perform a 100% manual code injection on a SNES during a livestream. The target code? Flappy Bird. (via)
#retro #genius
Sep 3, 2020
Most-favorited Hacker News posts — One of these meta-posts that send you down a rabbit hole. Enjoy!
#toplist
Sep 2, 2020
microCOVID Project — This tool tells you the risk of contracting covid-19 in different scenarios: grocery shopping, car sharing, on a bar... (via)
#covid19
Lo-Fi Player — Delightful toy to generate your own lo-fi tunes. The visuals are very cute, too. (via)
#lofi #retro
Aug 31, 2020
MTV First Four Hours Remastered - 12am Saturday August 1st, 1981 — Would you guess which was the first video clip on Mtv? Think for a few seconds, then click the link! (via)
#retro #music
Aug 13, 2020
Firefox is letting go the devtools team — Firefox is laying off a lot of people, essential teams included. This is easily on the Top 3 Bad News for the open web of the last 10 years.
#internet
Aug 12, 2020
What Pac-Man Brought to Game Design — I had never considered the amount of product design that went into Pac-Man. Excellent short documentary that highlights the key inventions of one of the most iconic games ever
#retro #videogames #design
Unacceptable, where is my privacy? — Smart speaker assistants are triggered regularly by accidentally uttering words similar to their wake words, like "unacceptable / Alexa", "a city / Siri" and "ok, cool / ok, Google". You already have your phone's microphone constantly listening to you, please don't sign up for extra surveillance. (via)
#privacy
Aug 4, 2020
Replacing YouTube & Invidious — "Subscribing" to Youtube channels via youtube-dl. This is very close to my setup and I'm very happy with it. (via)
#internet #privacy
Aug 2, 2020
Illustrated Self-Guided Course On How To Use The Slide Rule — Includes a virtual slide rule so that you can try from your computer (via)
#retro #programming #math
Jul 25, 2020
SNES game prototypes being compiled from leaked source code — Check it out: "First up there's this Yoshi's Island proto with different UI graphics, placeholder music from Mario World, and has a prefix of 'Super Mario Bros. 5'"
#videogames #retro
Jul 18, 2020
Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside — MUST READ article with more details of the Twitter hack. Plausible and consistent with the facts, I'm inclined to believe it. (via)
#security #internet #crypto
Jul 15, 2020
Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Cash App, Ripple all hacked on Twitter — Very interesting that the attacker decided to pull a crypto scam instead of another type of message. I can think of a few better ideas with that kind of exposure. Eagerly awaiting the postmortem. (via)
#security #internet #crypto
Jul 14, 2020
I Know What You Download on BitTorrent — A reminder that your IP is broadcasted in p2p services to anybody who is listening (via)
#privacy #internet
Jul 11, 2020
Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera — Apple is on the wrong. Camera covers have a different function that indicator lights. I don't want to be notified when a rogue or buggy app takes a picture of me, I want to *avoid* it! (via)
#privacy #hardware
Jul 4, 2020
Websites That Look Like Desktop Apps — If you are a fan of websites, web apps and portfolios which resemble desktop graphical user interfaces here is a curated list. Check out Simone's main website too! (via)
#retro #internet
Jul 3, 2020
Beware the Google Password Manager — You may have saved some passwords in Chrome, even if you don't remember it. Make sure to purge them from Google Password if you don't use Chrome anymore. (via)
#security #internet
Jun 27, 2020
Alpha Waves, the first 3D platformer ever — Very interesting and visual presentation of early 3D games, with some history about the legendary French studio Infogrames. (via)
#retro #games
Jun 21, 2020
Papercraft Models — Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models, free to download and share. Print, Cut, Score, Fold and Glue. (via)
#retro #diy
Jun 20, 2020
My Favorite CLI Tools — A good collection, with screenshots and usage examples. Some were new for me.
#cli
Jun 11, 2020
Report: Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux [...] — Fascinating story with tons of technical and ethical implications. (via)
#privacy #crime
Jun 10, 2020
10 Things We Miss About The 1990's Internet — This video that reminds us of the delights of downloading midi files and watching 140px 1fps fish webcams :_).
#internet #retro
Jun 5, 2020
How to Do a Five-Day Food and Tech Fast — Tips on how to do a short retreat with no food and no tech. (via)
#lifestyle
Jun 4, 2020
Getting started with Finnish and Old German Folklore — Good discussion on classical influences on Tolkien's books.
#books #lotr
The Lord of the Rings (1944) - YouTube — Hilarious 9-minute masterpiece that parodies LotR using cuts from black and white movies.
#humor #lotr #genius
May 31, 2020
Hundred Rabbits — Fascinating content from two people who live off grid on a sailboat.
#lifestyle
TuxURLs – World's simplest Linux news aggregator — A great dashboard to check every morning and make sure you don't miss important Linux news. (via)
#unix #internet
DaddaRuleKonge - itch.io — PDF encyclopedias of all games available for each console, with a short description and screen shots. Print versions also available.
#retro #games
May 29, 2020
An Altair connected to the Internet — SDF user jebug29 has connected their Altair to the internet, and set up SSH access to play with it!
#retro #genius
GitHub - jcs/progman — An OpenBSD window manager that mimics Windows 3.1. (via)
#retro #genius
Linux Sucks 2020 — I've been following this series from Bryan Lunduke for some years, never disappoints. (via)
#unix #humor
May 25, 2020
Windows 95 in 2020 - 25 Years Later — A very cute nostalgic celebration of the 25th birthday of Windows 95.
#retro
May 23, 2020
Debunking Fake Cooking Videos — Not a big surprise, but this made me realize that we're being increasingly played by media. Our online lives are directed by maybe only half a dozen algorithms. (via)
#shiternet
May 21, 2020
Sxmo: Simple X Mobile - A Pinephone UI that is simple and suckless — If you ever wanted to manage your phone apps with dwm and compose your texts using vi, this is for you. (via)
#genius #mobile #unix
May 20, 2020
The Miracle Sudoku — "I never thought I'd watch a 25-minute video of a guy playing Sudoku, but here we are". Yup. (via)
#masterpiece #videos #puzzle
Antidepressants or Tolkien — Test your LotR skills! (via)
#puzzle #tolkien
May 15, 2020
Virtual Reality DOS — You are in a very retro VR room, and in front of you, a computer with DOS installed. Delightful. (via)
#retro
Windows 3.1 in WebVR — Another emulator-inside-a-vr-environment experiment. The win31 installation is full of goodies, don't miss this! (via)
#retro
May 14, 2020
This Word Does Not Exist — Words which are generated by an AI, but it really seems they were invented by a witty novelist. More impressive than you'd think. (via)
#ai
May 11, 2020
Pinephone first steps — This is one of those aspirational projects I'd love to tackle on, if only I had time. I really wish I could make my own cellphone. (via)
#dev #mobile
The FLOPKEY, a keyboard which you type on by inserting specially labeled floppy disks — I... am speechless. Please, you have to see this. (via)
#hardware #genius
May 10, 2020
Dithering — Gruber and Ben Thompson try a monetized short podcast model. Insta-subscribed! (via)
#podcast
A Parks and Recreation Special - Full Special - YouTube — Parks and Rec special? Count me in! This show always put a smile on my face, and this episode was no different. Cute as ever. (via)
#tv
Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads — I was thinking exactly about this concept a few days ago. We need to start decentralizing sites used for reviews of books, movies, and others. I will seriously think about implementing this in the short term. (via)
#decentralization