Opposite use of POV is one of the weirder Internet things in alast few years

Zonde: goed geschreven, weloverdacht essay had ook rammelend podcastgesprek van 2,5 uur kunnen zijn

@evelinemeijer.bsky.social @kafygi.bsky.social

Illustration for a piece by Debora Robertson in Waitrose Food about how British people always apologise for their cooking when hosting dinner parties. I always enjoy making everybody’s outfits look characterful and interesting in my illos - and yet spend very little effort on my own 🤔

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com. Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

A reminder that every sign has at least one bad story behind it. Sometimes many.

*Hahaha, I can literally list these for years on end www.deadmedia.org/notes/index-...

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Ahhh .. the "simpler" times. lol

Setting up Windows 98

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

Web remake of the Polish cult classic 3D Tetris "Blockout": blockout.nu

Other people have already posted about it here, but I have now released the Virtual OS Museum. Sorry for the issues with downloads before; the server I was hosting it on had a failing drive. I now have torrents and direct downloads from archive.org linked on the site virtualosmuseum.org

the hungry observatory

Cc @webamp.org @winamp.bsky.social

Bambu Lab is verwikkeld in een felle opensourcestrijd. Wat is er precies aan de hand? #Tweakers

youtu.be/YSkysFOkupI?... A tour from about 3 years ago.

We can rebuild them, we have the technology

Kwaliteits-podcasts voor deze warme dagen met o.a. @d0nner.bsky.social, @nielskooloos.bsky.social, Jochem Visser, Luc de Klerk en ondergetekende, mede namens @bnr.nl 🙌

If you type -ai at the end of your Google search it filters out the ai slop at the top of the results.

so, funny story about why Google has turned into the same *very specific* flavor of useless shit that Yahoo has: www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...

Also… bit more shameless self-promotion (gotta pay the bills and all) I do this kinda stuff as a job! Here’s a portfolio of more fun stuff - enjoy! chazhutton.com

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

5 manieren om de oer-Hollandse haring weer populair te maken onder jongeren

My generation is haunted by the past

brb, writing a research grant to Logitech.

Een beetje hackersconferentie heeft een hippe badge die meer computer dan identificatiemiddel is. Cybersecuritybijeenkomst OrangeCon wil ook een mini-pc als badge aan bezoekers geven, maar dan wel eentje waarmee je ook na afloop iets kunt. Daarom krijgen bezoekers van de con een… #Tweakers

Google wil dat je niet langer gaat googelen en zet allemaal stappen om te zorgen dat je dat niet hoeft te doen. Maar wat gebeurt er inmiddels met het internet? #Tweakers

Samsung Electronics bereikt een akkoord met de vakbond, waardoor de dreigende grote staking op de valreep niet doorgaat. Werknemers zouden achttien dagen lang het werk neerleggen. Dit zou wereldwijd grote gevolgen hebben, onder meer voor de beschikbaarheid en prijzen van chips. #Tweakers

Deze maand verschenen snel achter elkaar ernstige bugs in Linux. Daardoor kunnen aanvallers rootrechten krijgen. Vijf vragen over deze kernelkwetsbaarheden in Linux. #Tweakers

Sony en Microsoft heroverwegen hun strategie voor firstpartygames. Vijf hints dat PlayStation en XBOX weer meer exclusives krijgen. #Tweakers

"BLAKE'S 7: Seek-Locate-Destroy" (transmitted 06/02/78) Vila (Michael Keating (1947-2026)) and Blake infiltrate a Federation base... Michael Keating's Vila was the only character to appear in every episode of "BLAKE'S 7" (1978-81). #scifi #sciencefiction #Blakes7 #1970s #1980s #horrorfam

182.8 Meters xkcd.com/3248/

And @greatdismal.bsky.social as well (with @clivebarker.bsky.social ?).

I'm playing with 3D Movie Maker again and I tried messing with the framerate (a la e3dmm from way back) and WOW it's strange to see 3D Movie Maker movies without its characteristic low framerate.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

(H/T to @josie.zone for alerting her followers (of which I am one) to his reactivation)

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

Also I KNOW both valve/steam AND the Nintendo eShop (where I imagine most people are buying "software") apply local sales tax rates to games you buy and add them to the price! He's straight up factually wrong!ñ

“If I use Gmail to compose emails, print them and take them to the post office, isn’t it unfair that people who just press ‘send’ don’t have to buy stamps?”

my blog is turning into a weird art project where i just post the same thing over and over in different languages. it's uh a meta-commentary. on the social construction of meaning through repetition

Michiel van den Bos maakte legendarische muziek voor Deus Ex en Unreal Tournament – waaronder voor misschien wel de beste multiplayermap ooit gemaakt. ‘Ik ben blij dat mijn tracks zo in de gaming zeitgeist zitten.’