Category: Digital Life
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Encounter: The Backbone
This page provides a single entry point to all the posts in the story of how the world got online. The Backbone: Introduction One System, Universal Service? The Unraveling, Part 1 Discovering Inter… Source: The Backbone – Creatures of Thought
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Encounter: 365 RFCs
Super interesting details on internet (standards) beginnings. Commenting on one RFC a day in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first RFC. Source: 365 RFCs — Write.as
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Encounter: How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
Turns out, a lot of it, actually. Source: How Much of the Internet Is Fake? — The article is from 2018, and I have to confess I didn’t look for more recent statistics, but I can imagine it only got worse. I did a quick of search on this topic, and a lot of articles…
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Encounter (again): This Person Does Not Exist
With the flood of AI generated imagery, can we still distinguish what is real and what is “fake”? Is it really fake if it was generated by an algorithm? This website shows a new face every time it is loaded, and that person does not actually exist. It’s using StyleGAN2 and was created in 2019,…
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Where goes
Get a link and not sure where it goes? https://wheregoes.com/ twitter.com/swiftonsecurity/status/1317687070219997184 Also https://linkunshorten.com/
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ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving.
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view sites you want to preserve offline. You can set it up as a command-line tool, web app, and desktop app (alpha), on Linux, macOS, and Windows. You can feed it URLs one at a time, or schedule regular imports from browser…
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Tell stories with simple embedded math and sliders
https://account-account.netlify.app/disease https://account.postlight.com/funnel
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Util Folder
I’ve got a Util folder where I keep some utilities, most of them are web-development related. I keep it in Dropbox so I can easily update it and get it when and wherever I need it.
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New times, new words
What does it all mean – Smartphone face, BlackBerry prayer, Facebook facelift, Continuous partial attention, Attentional blink