Links for category: internet

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

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 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

Dec 30, 2020

skyjake/lagrange: A Beautiful Gemini Client — A beautiful, full-featured, multi-platform Gemini client. Try it out.
#internet

Dec 24, 2020

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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 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

May 31, 2020

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

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