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Wednesday, 27 March 2024

vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media

quote [ By embedding an RSS/Atom feed URL in a vCard, it becomes a single file that has all the information needed to identify a person and follow their updates. Since it's a single file, it's easy to share it with others as well as store the vCards for all your connections locally. ]

that sounds a bit like finger to me.

Thumb is Moroccan threads at New Old Stock.
[SFW] [people] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@8:51pmGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out

quote [ The use of English as the norm poses challenges for scholars from regions where English is not widely spoken. They must decide whether to publish in English for global visibility, or publish in their native language to make their work accessible to local communities. And when they work in English, they end up expending more time and effort writing and revising papers than their native English-speaking peers. ]

Some notes on scientific inclusion – as a study, no less.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@9:10pmGMT] [0 comments]

Monday, 25 March 2024

Daddy long-legs—a weird and wonderful railway

quote [ Only a few days after it opened, the railway was put out of action by a severe storm. It reopened in July 1897 and ran without major incident until damage to the trackbed meant it couldn’t operate during the summer of 1900, causing a serious loss of business to Magnus Volk. Then in 1901, Brighton Corporation exercised its right to remove some of the track to enable sea defences to be built, and the project came to an end. ]

Crawling through the waves – found via Fallen London newsletter (← link to actual subscription).
[SFW] [history] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@8:17pmGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 24 March 2024

Internet Pleasures

quote [ “Addiction is not fundamentally a moral failing — it’s not a disease of weak-willed losers. When you look at the biology, the only model of addiction that makes sense is a disease-based model, and the only attitude towards addicts that makes sense is one of compassion.” ]

Musings from 2011 about web dopamine starting from a neuroscientist's interview about his book on NPR. This was in the earlier smartphone times.

(thumb)
[SFW] [science & technology] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@7:12amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 22 March 2024

The Pirate Book

quote [ EDITED BY Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska ]

Cool project from 2015 you can either print on demand, read as PDF or click through the essays. Thumb is Saharan cellphone music sharing.
[SFW] [people] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@8:12amGMT] [6 comments]



Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Kaval, the prince of hard drum

quote [ Dabbling as well in dancehall and techno, the hyperproductive producer continues to trace his path without losing sight of raves and sound system spirits. ]

Interview and mix from 2021 – some great EPs over the last years – the soundcloud stream has up-to-date music, mostly other live mixes.
[SFW] [music] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:40amGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 17 March 2024

How to help someone use a computer

quote [ Don't take the keyboard. Let them do all the typing, even if it's slower that way, and even if you have to point them to every key they need to type. That's the only way they're going to learn from the interaction. ]

From 1996, seems solid. (judgemental owl thumb)
[SFW] [do it yourSElf] [+3]
[by Paracetamol@9:29pmGMT] [5 comments]

Saturday, 16 March 2024

FilmHydra: What did I just watch?

quote [ Movie reviews for weird, obscure, and cult films from the 1920s to the 2020s. ]

Great blog on watching trashy DVDs and streams.
[SFW] [tv & movies] [+3 Original]
[by Paracetamol@4:52pmGMT] [2 comments]

Friday, 15 March 2024

Friends from Blogging

quote [ I agree, social media person, it is a great of meeting people, but so is a blog. ]

An opinion on internet connections, via blue dwarf.

(thumb)
[SFW] [people] [+1 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@9:50amGMT] [4 comments]

Sunday, 10 March 2024

Warner Bros. leave developers feeling "sick and dizzy" as more Adult Swim games are being delisted

quote [ There are many other games that are at possible risk, however, including Desync, Kingsway, Mega Coin Squad, Obllitus, Pool Panic, Rick And Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, Rise & Shine, Super House Of Dead Ninjas, Super Puzzle Platformer, Traverser, and Zenzizenzic. ]

Moves like these hit hard in the midst of other crass cuts. They're delisting stuff that came in through other aquisitions. Thumb is Super Puzzle Platformer – still a great game (which in this case luckily is also available on GOG)
[SFW] [games] [+4]
[by Paracetamol@5:55amGMT] [4 comments]



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