My first WWW experience was trying Mosaic on a computer without an Internet connection. I knew what the Internet was, we had access through an X.25 PAD (kind of like a dial-up shell session, no direct TCP/IP) so I’d already used IRC, Usenet, FTP, Archie, Gopher etc. I also knew what hypertext was from various local help and document browser programs. So I figured out that Mosaic can display HTML documents but of course without Internet connectivity just showing some local demo pages didn’t seem all that special. But I figured it out later on…
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donio@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama CanalEnglish11·7 months agodeleted by creator
donio@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•(probably not) Microsoft bought "codeburg.org" and redirects it to github.1·7 months agoFunny how Microsoft registered the domain on PorkBun
Not only that but they decided to redirect it through some random machine hosted on a German cable ISP. And the cheeky bastards would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for OP’s first class detective work!
$ host -t A codeburg.org codeburg.org has address 87.78.130.128 $ host 87.78.130.128 128.130.78.87.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer static-87-78-130-128.nc.de. $ whois 87.78.130.128 ... descr: NetCologne dynamic IP Pool
donio@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you knew in advance about being laid off, how would you YOLO the exit interview?44·1 year agoIt depends. If there is any money on the line or don’t want to burn bridges then I’d do the smart thing, whatever that is. Otherwise I’d just skip it.
donio@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.English32·1 year agoIf you have an email workflow that you like then something like rss2email might be an option. You simply feed your incoming rss into your email. You’ll want to auto-tag (or otherwise organize) these emails to keep them separate from regular emails. Then you use your usual email tools to organize them further.
I’ve been using such a setup for the past 15 years.
donio@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Rich Americans are getting second passports, citing risk of instability32·1 year agoThis is a personal decision but I think it’s better to be pragmatic about it. If your country of origin permits dual citizenship I’d do the naturalization simply because it gives you more flexibility. It’s a more secure status, no need to worry about renewing or spending longer periods abroad. And you get to vote of course.
Citizenships and passports are bureaucracy and they don’t define who you are, that comes from your heart. I’d look at it as a practical matter.
My understanding is that Germany is looking to start permitting dual citizenship later this year.
donio@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•My opinion on Bone conduction earphonesEnglish2·1 year agoI’ve done many hours of phonecalls on mine. Mic quality is acceptable, slightly mushy. Wind is an issue for example when riding a bike at higher speeds. Wearing a hoodie over them can block the mic too.
donio@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•My opinion on Bone conduction earphonesEnglish6·1 year agoI’ve been using various Aftershokz/Shokz models for many years and well over a thousand hours. They are a great option for speech-focused contents like podcasts, audiobooks and that’s what I use them for. I almost never use them for music, the lack of bass (even with earplugs) just doesn’t do it for me. But I don’t find any earbuds satisfactory for music either so maybe I am more picky than most.
I agree with OP about the controls. They are workable but could be much better even considering the limited inputs. I particularly hate the choice of triple-click for backwards-seek and I mess up the timing half the time. Another pet-peeve is the loud beep on play/pause that cannot be turned off. Using the phone/computer controls instead of the on-device ones avoid these issues.
As far as models I originally got the Aeropex and later on “downgraded” to the OpenMove. The audio quality is comparable between the two, the only thing you are missing with the lower end model is comfort - but that is highly subjective! I actually prefer the way the OpenMove feels.
I really wish that there was more competition in this space. The Shokz products are a bit overpriced and slow to evolve and the rest of the options I’ve seen seems lower quality and worse form factor. Would love to hear if anybody has found a different brand that they prefer over the Shokz models.
donio@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt inEnglish5·1 year agoSearXNG is great at what it does but it falls into the Bing/Google/etc-frontend category since it just forwards your query to one of the search engines it has modules for. It doesn’t have its own crawl and index.
donio@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt inEnglish132·1 year agoI wish that was the case but sadly most of them are basically Bing or Google frontends or belong to entities that I trust even less. As far as I can tell there are very few independent crawls out there.
Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack
donio@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Roguelike vs Roguelite - what's the difference?English2·2 years agoYep, that’s the only answer that makes sense to anybody who actually plays and likes roguelikes.
As a rule of thumb I like say that if it needs a pause button it’s a 'lite. This doesn’t come close to covering the criteria but it’s a good shortcut to weed out a lot of them.
donio@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!English51·2 years agoThey federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.
That’s not true. Quiet scraping is much easier to implement than integrating AP into your platform.
donio@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updatesEnglish2·2 years agoAnd keeping the v2 (or v3+WebRequest) support in the browser is not enough, they’d also have to start running their own extension store since presumably the Chrome one will no longer carry such extensions.
donio@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•What inspired you to pursue a career or hobby in programming?1·2 years agoAfter typing in a bunch of programs on my 1KB Sinclair ZX-81 I wanted to understand how they worked and wanted to make some of my own.
Small bug: changing the sort-order loses the filter settings.
But looks great overall! I’ve already rediscovered some of my older favorites and looking forward to finding new stuff too.
Also, any chance of making the filtered/sorted list downloadable as a CSV? In some cases this would be more convenient than paging through the web UI.
donio@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Threads third-party app support could become a realityEnglish11·2 years agoAt the moment you can’t even use the web UI without installing the official app so I am skeptical.
donio@lemmy.worldto Android@lemdro.id•15 years of the Android Market: The app that changed the gameEnglish13·2 years agoThe App Store and Android Market launches were pretty damn close. The iOS app-store launched July 2008 and the first Android consumer device (G1) shipped September 2008 and it had the market from day 1.
Worth noting that iOS users had to wait a full year for the app store after the iPhone 1 launch because Jobs didn’t want it at first. I had both devices fairly early on and on the iPhone side we were running “apps” on jailbroken devices months before the app store existed.
donio@lemmy.worldto Android@lemdro.id•The Meta glassholes have arrived - The VergeEnglish162·2 years agophones are going to ruin everything
they kinda did.
The Internet was already a teenager by then. It hooked up with Hypertext and the result was this brat called WWW.