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Technology@lemmy.world•AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same dayEnglish
48·10 个月前GET OFF THE INTERNET! I NEED TO MAKE A CALL!
Ok, mum! Let me just upload my geocities site.
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Programming@programming.dev•Unpopular opinion: 95% percent of all modern programming langueges are either bloated/proprietary/unneccesarily complex. pretty sure C & assembly can do it all (even for web development,
2·10 个月前Totally agree.
Also rolling your own data structures all the time isn’t much fun.
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Tech@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop
5·10 个月前Me using onboard graphics…
Reminds me of Papers Please.
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Biscuits@feddit.uk•McVities forced to change name of popular biscuit after rule breakEnglish
5·10 个月前The article starts by telling us they had to change the name 5 times!
Yeah, It’s actually quite a secure way to store passwords, since it requires physical access.
I knew a guy who had a drawer full of slips of paper with passwords written on. He called it the “security drawer”. Made me smile, but probably shouldn’t have been advertising it.
Maybe navidrome too?
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It’s Sainsbury’s in the UK
Hahahahhah.
I made it up, but if be happy for it to be adopted.
Ah yes, and the old “flash some faded out rectangles” to prepare you for that sweet, sweet, information that’s coming any… moment… now…
No, now…
Now…
The key idea remains though. Text on a page, fast. No objections with (gasp) colours, if the author would like to add some.
Yep.
On a rare occasion I hit a website that loads just like “boom” and it surprises me.
Why is that? Because now we are used to having to wait for javascript to load, decompress, parse, JIT, transmogrify, rejimble and perform two rinse cycles just to see the opening times for the supermarket.
(And that’s after you dismissed the cookie, discount/offer and mailing list nags with obfuscated X buttons and all other manner of dark patterns to keep you engaged)
Sometimes I wish we’d just stopped at gopher :)
See also: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
EDIT: Yes, this is facetious.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify usersEnglish
1·11 个月前It reminds me of the eyeballs in linqspace in Beneath a Steel Sky.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.English
1·11 个月前Lol.
Meanwhile here I am in the UK with my ADSL at 67MB down.
Lots of the UK is this way. Some of it is fast though.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Looking for Privacy-Oriented Open-Source Android Browsers - Lemmy.World
1·11 个月前I like the duckduckgo browser for android.
Also has a vpn built in to block app trackers.






















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