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Why I š§” the web. Stories about this involving #tech #medical and family. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with #amnesia https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard
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"27.6% of the Top 10 Million Sites are Dead" https://medium.com/@tonywangcn/27-6-of-the-top-10-million-sites-are-dead-6bc7805efa85 "..more than a quarter of the top 10 million domains are no longer accessible. This suggests that as time passes, your history and contributions on the internet could gradually disappear." Also: "38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later"…
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Why I š§” the web. Paccam is multiplayer #pacman USING YOUR ACTUAL FACE. As such requires a #webcam to play, but video stays local. https://eieio.games/paccam/ #game #tech
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"What is the point of an online conference?" https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/what-is-the-point-of-an-online-conference/ Accessibility and affordability usually are the big reasons. Sometimes it's being in the right mindset. I've seen online conferences done right. I miss live tweeting conferences like #PHP and #WordPress WordCamps – got a lot of interaction from people watching them online. #conferences #tech
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Using an 8K #TV as a #monitor https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/y2023m12d15/ #tech #devlife #programming
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Was in #Aldis and saw they had "meatless meatballs". Laugh, but i stood there and pondering giving that a try with more time than my considering if i wanted to try any of the latest smartphones that came out this year. #tech
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Some nice happy #opensource news "āAll Things Openā Revives the OpenSource.com Community Abandoned by Red Hat" https://fossforce.com/2024/10/ato-revives-the-opensource-com-community-abandoned-by-red-hat/ #tech
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Reminded of ArchiveBox recently. Basically Archive.org but #selfhosted for your site(s). https://docs.sweeting.me/s/archivebox-plugin-ecosystem-announcement "New features coming to the future of self-hosting internet archives: a full plugin ecosystem, P2P sharing between instances, Cloudflare/CAPTCHA solving, auto-logins…" #webdev #tech #archiveorg
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Ward Christensen, (co)inventor of the #BBS, passed away. Remember the BBS kids? Sometimes I prefer those days. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/ #tech
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"Scale Ruins Everything" No, not a #webdev post but close. #Startups, ideas, and a little VC funding but I think worth a read if you're into #tech. Sometimes the most successful ideas and concepts are the ones that remain "not huge". https://coldwaters.substack.com/p/scale-ruins-everything
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"Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, going gray" #opensource #tech https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/open_source_maintainers_underpaid/
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Someone: Let's combine the name portable" and "monitor" for our product to post on Amazon. š¤ #Tech #memes
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Consider giving the gift of a domain to someone. Especially a younger person who might need it someday (for content or just protect against identity abuse). #tech
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Why I š§” the web: https://ismy.blue/ Interesting #tech online experiment, see how far you get before you doubt yourself and if your #colors match your other screens. HackerNews thread has owner's thoughts/reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41430258
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Wow. After 27 years AnandTech closes it's doors. One of the first tech publications I remember. #OldSchool geeks a moment of silence. https://www.anandtech.com/show/21542/end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell #tech
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Larry Tesler was passed away. A tip of my hat to him – he was the computer scientist behind cut, copy and paste (and find/replace). How many programmers (at least) should him a š«” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51567695 #tech #programming
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OH: Today: "We will not use, read, or sell your data". One year after rollout: "We've updated our policy. Click accept or lose access to your device/service". #tech #privacy #AI
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Everything #tech has an overhyped cycle (usually in the beginning of its introduction to a critical mass but not always). If youāre reading this on Mastodon then youāll likely rightly think about #AI #Apple etc. But also #Mastodon #ActivityPub #WordPress etc also had theirs. Maybe you werenāt around for them. And these (and more) have…
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When it comes to #tech I see: 1. Glass half full2. Glass half empty3. Potential for glass to be great.4. Potential for glass to be misused.5. Want to know how the glass is made.6. Question if it's a glass.7. Where am I and why is there a glass in front of me? #pessimistic #optimist #realist…
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From time to time I stumble onto a modern Tweet worth adding to my https://davidbisset.social collection (via #mastodon). — About #coding / #tech industry: "Early in my career, I joined a project that used a lot of #SQL. I was new to SQL so I found an āintro to SQLā book on the company bookshelf,…
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TIL that March 31 is World Backup Day. https://www.worldbackupday.com/en #tech
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Question to my tech people on #Mastodon: My wife and daughter are building an app for web/iPhone/Android that requires storage of text/CSV files in a *secure* #database or storage via a service. Not AWS. Not preferably iCloud. Is there a service that can JUST provide SECURE storage with an API? Files contain records of students,…