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Anil Dash on why you should quit Substack while you still can: every new feature they add increases lock-in, making it harder to leave while they court some of the worst people online https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

When does Instagram decide a nipple becomes female?: Ada Ada Ada is documenting her transition on Instagram, uploading shirtless photos weekly to test their nudity guidelines https://www.404media.co/when-does-instagram-decide-a-nipple-becomes-female/

Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival: the creator of A Short Hike relaunched his charming interactive ghost town where players design and share jack-o-lanterns https://adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver

One Million Screenshots: a zoomable explorable rendering of 1M+ homepage screenshots, updated monthly https://onemillionscreenshots.com/

anagrams.io: elegant anagram finder with a sharable visualization for each https://anagrams.io/

500,000 books removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library after publisher lawsuit: ebook licensing for libraries continues to be far too expensive and restrictive https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/

Archie, the internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running: a copy of the source code for the FTP search engine was found at the University of Warsaw in Poland https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/

FCC votes to restore net neutrality: a 3-2 vote predictably split on party lines https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/25/24140157/fcc-vote-restore-net-neutrality-rosenworcel-biden

musicForProgramming();: beautifully chill mixes for focused work with an excellent interface https://musicforprogramming.net/

NASA fixes Voyager 1 glitch, resumes communication after five months: no big deal, they just patched code to work around a corrupted 46-year-old memory chip 15 billion miles away https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

Two-thirds of NYT articles on anti-trans legislation quoted zero trans people, 18% contain misinformation: Media Matters and GLAAD report the numbers behind the last 12 months of the Times' transphobic fearmongering https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/seen-not-heard-new-york-times-failed-quote-trans-people-over-60-2023-stories-anti

Hank Green announces We’re Here, a weekly newsletter of “good and cool stuff from around the internet”: sounds like my cup of tea and probably yours too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qhqnGed9jM

SDXL Lightning: generate janky 1024x1024 images nearly as fast as you can type, try random strings and nonsense https://fastsdxl.ai/

Why Quora isn’t useful anymore: a failure of content moderation, SEO spam, bad financial incentives, and a hard pivot to AI, its shutdown is only a matter of time https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/quora-what-happened-ai-decline.html

ASCII Theater: MSCHF's latest project lets you stream pirated movies to your terminal in glorious ASCII, with color and captions, now playing Barbie https://ascii.theater/

Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year, deleting nine years of posts without warning. What happened? https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

Clickbait Remover for YouTube: replaces ridiculous thumbnails with an image from the video, open-source and available for Firefox https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-for-you/omoinegiohhgbikclijaniebjpkeopip

Source code for Infocom’s original interpreters released: with little fanfare, Andrew Plotkin uploaded a trove of newly-discovered source code for various 1980s computers to GitHub https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/

Half-Life celebrates 25th anniversary with new documentary and big updates: the game's free on Steam right now for PC/Mac with new maps, restored content, and… Too Much Coffee Man!? https://half-life.com/en/halflife25

Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3: fascinating post by Simon Willison with details about how ChatGPT was instructed to use DALL-E 3 https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/26/add-a-walrus/