Twitter users who are fleeing to the social media platform Mastodon are finding it to be a different animal. Brian C. Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder In the wake of Elon Musk’s noisy takeover of Twitter, people have been looking for alternatives to the increasingly toxic microblogging social media platform. Many of those fleeing or […]
Dear ladies and gentlegeeks, I’m now on Mastodon. For those interested, you can follow Geeks are Sexy at this link > https://mastodon.social/@geeksaresexy Planning on posting a lot of cosplay pics there, so it’s going to be fun! Come say hi! 😊
The turmoil inside Twitter headquarters is sparking discussion of a mass exodus of users. What will happen if there is a rush to the exits? Photo: Kevin Krejci (CC BY 2.0) Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder Elon Musk announced that “the bird is freed” when his US$44 billion acquisition of Twitter officially closed on […]
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 […]
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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 […]