Bookmarks tagged and internet

"An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet."

Blog post about writing a finger client that features Happy Net Box.

Tool for streaming playlists of videos, to, for example, make your own web TV station.

Self-hosted streaming tool with built in chat that works with the fediverse. Pretty neat!

"How I got some ancient images in a forgotten format off of a CD I couldn't mount."
Jessamyn is the best, This is an exemplary post about the things that she has helped people with at the library, and includes a great story about the lengths she went to in order to access files on an old cd rom. Best of the internet right here.

"I’m gravitating away from the discourse of measuring and fixing unfair algorithmic systems, or making them more transparent, or accountable. Instead, I’m finding myself fixated on articulating the moral case for sabotaging, circumventing, and destroying “AI”, machine learning systems, and their surrounding political projects as valid responses to harm."

Micropub is an open API standard that is used to create posts on one's own domain using third-party clients.

This is so impressive, the entire thing is distributed as a single html file, yet is a fully featured vector illustration tool. It reminds me of MakePixelArt, but vectors. Lovely!

"The one thing you can choose to do that will make your internet life better and make the internet better for everyone else, too."

This talk is 🔥 and talks about the attacks on public libraries already underway, and all the things libraries do for us, and how amazing it is that you can get "that weird and wonderful thing that cannot be found anywhere else"