Good to hear, Benj. Take your time and rest up, I hear vintage computers just keep getting better as they age!
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Good to hear, Benj. Take your time and rest up, I hear vintage computers just keep getting better as they age!
Dude I am such a cheap person but never think twice about my monthly Kagi subscription, which is worth it for standalone search BUT also has a pretty good AI search. You can combine it with Kagi's lenses, one of which is the Usenet archive lens. Really good for finding ancient and interesting posts
"Because AI generates so much content, 'you would think that actually the job of the comms person or the storyteller would be fewer and farther between,' says Gab Ferree."
It doesn't generate *great* content. So duh you need 2x editorial to sell it.
www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-...
An old man dressed as Leonardo DaVinci "painting" Mona Lisa on a touch screen device hooked up to a TV.
Also a PowerPad lol
You gotta go back as far as the 80s, when all computer ads were seemingly staged and costumed in a suburban Sears Studio: buttondown.com/suchbadtecha...
This of course ignores that Neuromancer came before all else, which earns it a lot of points. But I believe in compartmentalizing the context of the time separately from how it holds up today, which Neuromancer does with a solid 4/5
Neuromancer wasn't as inscrutable as I had been led to believe. It was great but just a heist story followed by some short and interesting musings on AI and tech. Snow Crash was long and interesting musings on language and tech followed by some B-grade action. I'll take the latter every time.
At almost 40yo I now love Singapore for all the reasons I hated it when I came just before turning 30yo. Their tourism materials really should advertise more non alcoholic brunches, dog parks, and quiet hours
And here are 5 more (from other 80s tech magazines)! buttondown.com/suchbadtecha...
It's such a prime example of enshitification. Constantly adding crap that no one seems to use and just clutters up the space, which is weird because they also have a massive accessibility team working on making it more accessible for people who use assistive technology
I'm in the middle of his baroque cycle, which, so far, are the only books of his where I enjoyed the endings as much (or more) than acts 1 and 2. Love the guy's work but boy do his endings always feel like B action movies
An email footer that says "Open and click tracking are disabled. And there is no paid upgrade." Then, right below that, "Sign up for a premium subscription."
Testing software for a living is a recipe for disaster.
I enabled premium subscriptions on my Buttondown newsletter to write (professionally) about the feature. Then sent my (personal) newsletter that loudly boasts it doesn't have a premium option.
It's amazing anyone trusts me with this stuff.
Thanks, @segdeha.com. It's been a fun, if somewhat self-indulgent, project. I fell off the wagon after a PNW trip for my sister's wedding. Your post got me back on the horse!
This is the URL template FWIW: web.archive.org/web/*/%s
A GIF of me typing `ia hackaday.com` into my browser's address bar and being taken straight to the Wayback Machine's timeline view of that URL.
My favorite thing about Kagi is custom bangs.
I'm working on an article that relies heavily on archived pages and if I search `ia [URL]` (usually the address bar, sometimes Kagi itself), it takes me to straight to Internet Archive's timeline view of that URL.
A 3D printer and an LED bulb+USB socket. You can have a new, custom built lamp every week if ya want
I'm building a thing to compare all possible matchups (e.g. not a knockout structure) because sometimes first place still loses to others further down the ladder in qualitative matchups (i.e. you never compared Twilight to Wonder Woman)! Here's the same list without knockout
woolean.com?id=imhhp0uH
Writing for @buttondown.com has turned me into a newsletter evangelist. So I started my own to share the whacky, charming, extremely non-AI ads from tech magazines in the 80s and 90s. Enjoy! buttondown.com/suchbadtecha...
Me at mile 7: I should sign up for Portland marathon.
Me at mile 14: I should sign up for a second health insurance plan.
Dogma is way better than Clerks' sequel, Mall Rats
Review Kagi's browser Orion. I can't use it since I'm a boneheaded PC user, but I'm a very happy Kagi user and curious about the promises Orion has made
Sing the national anthem! It'll definitely fix problem number 2. And...maybe problem number 1?
I've been off social media for almost a decade. Came to Bluesky because of feed control, muted words, and other customization stuff made it feel more manageable. Primary goal was getting more connected to the running community (since I live abroad) and...yea...not great so far haha
Our boy @maguay.bsky.social has thoughts
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
The absence of Cormac McCarthy on this list is a crime: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fam...
My daughter has more frequent flier miles and airport fashion at 4 than I have at 9x her age.
Haha I finished all three of those but don't think they're particularly amazing. More like bad attempts to insert characters into a Brian Cox lecture. Why do books like these garner such cultish followings
*1,923 PAGES, not words. This is what reading long-winded descriptions of floor tiling does to my brain.
Four books and 1,923 words later, I can finally confidently say that King's Dark Tower series is not for me. Took me a while to accept considering a fun premise and nigh universal praise, but my god is it slow and tedious--not methodical (which I love!), just so dry.
