A hotel I stayed at a few years ago (pre-pandemic) had a computer there, in a corner, so to speak. Pretty sure I’d go there once a day to browse my preferred forum on the topic of Internet Addiction. I was active enough there, I was eventually offered an opportunity to take over as a mod. But then the mod said they were holding on for sentimental reasons or something and instead told everyone they were shutting down, and told us to download any posts we wanted to keep. I did not do that, thinking I’d just Wayback Machine into it. But I later learned that’s not how that works, as the forum was not there in its completeness, ready to be browsed freely. Also, this all before that Netflix documentary that had gone popular, and I also don’t recall hearing “touch grass” as an expression back then. Simpler times, it now feels like. Miss 'em. I was already familiar with some of the folks behind the documentary, though. I was familiar with Tristan Harris back when the Center for Humane Tech was Time Well Spent instead. Pretty sure it all started from within Gmail or something, with a slideshow Tristan made on the topic of design and ‘hacking’ people for attention (e.g. red notification bubbles, as red grabs one’s attention)

Isn’t that sorta what humans do? Picking words based on the ones used before, taking into consideration the context of the conversation?

Club Penguin

'Murican tries not to make everything about their News & Politics challenge (impossibel), what happens next will SHOCK you (not clickbait) (gone wrong), INSTANTLY REGRETS IT **emotional** **she cried** (Epic Fail)

That guy? Bill Jerbs, of iFame, and co-CBO of GWiU/Pixer (or as I’ve taken to callin it, GWiU + Pixer)

Just spliit.app that shit

One million Dollars

That image was used for a project I had to do about 7 years ago. Can’t recall exactly what it was, but it involved binary and that image. Not sure if I did that project, though. This time around, we had no images to deal with, though I reckon that might just be to switch the assignment every year to stop people from taking the previous year’s project (I could be wrong, though. But I think I’ve heard they used an image last year, though I think it wasn’t Lenna, which is good)

I hope she’s at least consenting to these photos being posted, seeing as she is the only one appearing in them (afaik) and never seems to be the one posting them (though granted, she never appears in full, i.e. we never see her face. Nevertheless)

“Damn, hella dangerous in here. Better cancel elections until the war is over. Can’t have our innocent civilians gathering at a voting place”

Bro scored a date

There is nothing quite as wonderful as money

My life is in shambles

God bless the backwards parkers, for they know not what they do

Pretty sure Firefox can search for open tabs directly from the Awesome Bar out of the box. Can’t remember the specific character that activates that filter on the bar. Maybe ^ or ~

Honestly, is there anything stopping a country from just “mirroring” US tariffs? US gives them X% tariffs, they give the US X% tariffs back. Is this feasible? Or is it a crappy idea?

How’s that gonna break NewPipe and the likes? Surely they don’t rely solely on the Trending page to get videos and such. I can see unpopular videos as well.

Sure, that could break their Trending pages. But they can then adapt by adopting the different Trending categories, innit? Make it a drop-down on the Trending page to select a category and avoid cluttering other parts of the interface with all the options

Well done? Or rare?

Zucc hates this one simple trick: switch to Signal and quit WhatsApp. I ain’t done so, but if I did, I sure would have way less messages. Not by a lot, given I barely maintain regular chats in WhatsApp. But the chances would be slimmer, given barely anyone’s on Signal

Say, what’s this rather interesting piece of clothing called? My understanding of clothes is rather lacking :( and I’m curious

Edit: upon further research, it appears this could be some sort of thong leotard