From Vice: Nearly everyone has been RickRoll’d. But few know the real story of the artist behind the 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up” nor do they know about the mysterious origins of the viral RickRoll video meme that exploded in the mid-2000s. VICE meets Rick Astley and the creators of the song to […]
For today’s edition of “Deal of the Day,” here are some of the best deals we stumbled on while browsing the web this morning! Please note that Geeks are Sexy might get a small commission from qualifying purchases done through our posts (as an Amazon associate or a member of other affiliate programs.) –Sticky Password […]
The female Tinder experience is filled with a wide variety of emotions… but mostly frustration. A comedy sketch by the folks from Viva La Dirt League. [VLDL]
A proposal could free up “hundreds of millions” of internet addresses, buying a little more time in the move to IPv6. Seth Schoen (pictured) points to four types of address that are reserved for special purposes that may no longer be needed. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, which allow for four billion possibilities. Just like counting […]
A handheld game system designer recently celebrated the first units shipping by posting a text file on Gopher. If you’re old enough to understand that sentence, I hope your knees and back are doing OK. The Playdate console fits in a palm and has a small monochrome screen and retro-style arrow and A/B keys. It’s […]
From Gough Lui: A video where I demonstrate the late 1990s dial-up experience using near period-accurate hardware, connecting to modern websites using outdated browsers over a 31.2kbit/s dial-up connection. The narration is unscripted and page loads are in real-time. [Gough Lui]
Apple, Google and Microsoft have agreed a joint program to boost passwordless sign-ins. They’ll give greater support to the FIDO Alliance standard. The idea is to almost completely remove the need to use any passwords, sidestepping the trade-off between security and convenience. At the moment FIDO often requires users to type in a password the […]
A new Google badge system aims to make it easier to find high quality Chrome extensions. The Chrome Web Store will now indicate which extensions and developers meet a “high standard.” The badges aren’t meant to be a guarantee of a useful, quality extension, but rather an indication that they follow Chrome’s best practices. It […]
Netflix may introduce a low-price tier that includes ads following a surprise drop in subscribers. It’s also talking again about restricting password sharing. In the first three months of 2022, Netflix had a net loss of 200,000 subscribers on the previous quarter, the first such drop of any significance in its history. That’s misleading to […]
The choice between blindly accepting cookies and going through complex settings menus could soon be over. At least that’s what researchers at the University of Wisconsin say. They’ve developed an automated tool that aims to reject all non-essential cookies when you first visit a site. In principle, such a tool should be totally unnecessary. The […]