Bookmarks tagged internet

A list of RSS feeds that are RSS only

Go Jason!
"But I have an independent website and a platform, and I’m going to use it the way that I have always used it: to inform people about the truth of the world (as best as I understand it) and what I feel is important."

"It’s no surprise that tech billionaires like Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg have rushed to kiss the ring of the twice-ascendent Trump. The marriage of big tech and Trumpworld should make clear that Silicon Valley and authoritarians share the same goal: to crush dissent by keeping their would-be opponents spinning on an endless hamster wheel of reactive anger. And just like in the classic 1983 thriller WarGames, the only winning move is not to play."

"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.