#technology

[high-quality-tiktoks]

wichita public library has the most delightful short story dispenser at the airport!

[prokopetz]

Realistically, the Digital Dark Age hypothesis doesn't entail a complete loss of media from the affected eras. Even if the overwhelming majority of digital media is lost, the sheer volume of digital media that's being produced means whatever tiny fraction survives in some retrievable form will represent a very large corpus. The trick is that, the ambitions of archival initiatives notwithstanding, exactly what survives in this way is likely to be a mostly random subset of all digital media, which may pose interesting challenges for future historians.

Of course, generative AI has inserted a new factor into this equation with its ability to crank out widely distributed digital content in much greater volumes than any human creator. It's unclear at this stage exactly how this is going to affect the archival situation, particularly with respect to that portion of digital media which survives by random chance, but I have to confess the idea of historians hundreds of years from now attempting to reconstruct the culture of the 2020s from a corpus of surviving digital media which consists entirely of AI-generated clickbait is at least a little bit funny.

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

[sadmac356]

This one kills me every time I see it

I'm fucking dying at this page someone shared on Bluesky.

Behold, the Embroidery Trouble Shooting Guide that forgot to close its <h3> tags.

[this-jirai-loves-images]

Technology transparent PNGs

free 2 use

[67i203]

hidden messages in electronic boards

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[catchymemes]

[pc98-rom]

[yodaprod]

[nachotorrs]

iPod history, from 2001 to 2019, from clickwheels to mobiles, from playing music to being the center of technology and modern culture

[dawen]

the "you're not using an ad blocker! you should install one!" banner is really cool, actually.

not least because I went to a site today that had one, and that was how I found out my uBlock wasn't working. (turns out I needed to restart Firefox.)

I spent last night looking at Neocities sites and here are my takeaways:

There's a real push to keeping the internet weird, open and less corporate-driven -- info on bypassing paywalls, protecting your data, archiving web media and basic coding/tech literacy.

(I found one tutorial on how to make a pop up that detects whether someone has an ad blocker and suggests they install one if they don't! Love that.)

There's also resources on finding the kind of internet that isn't the default experience anymore - alternate search engines I hadn't even heard of, human-made link lists and webrings. (Webrings! Turns out they never went away!)

If any of that sounds interesting to you, by the way - sadgrl.online has a lot of it and is possibly the best thing on the internet????

The "90's web" aesthetic is really fun and nostalgic, but I particularly loved seeing some people bring the better parts of the "modern internet" into it. What if we had weird, eye-searing personal sites BUT with plaintext alternatives for accessibility purposes? CW for flashing lights and unreality triggers?

(Again sadgrl comes in with a lot of resources for making your website accessible.)

Most of all, I'm honestly emotional about all the sites I found that were like, "hi! I'm 14 and this is my website where I talk about stuff I like haha."

It's so good that so many kids and teens who never experienced the "old internet" are still finding stuff like this and making their own weird stuff! Not just because weird websites are more fun, but because these skills are being passed down.

Anyway it's great and who knows maybe I'll make my own site sometime to keep horror media recommendations or something.

[karagin22]

[designobjectory]

JEAN DUNAND (1887-1942)

A RADIO CABINET, CIRCA 1930

[randomguy0ntumbir]

Switch to DDG, it's better in every way

The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X. “While it won’t catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.

Left: AI filter is off Right: AI filter is on