6 Discontinued '90s Gadgets People Still Miss
From the Walkman to the Talkboy, these were '90s classics.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/6-discontinued-90s-gadgets-people-still-miss-01kqfmc6zb9f?utm_source=RSS
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Our fights over what technology should look like is what enables it to diffuse and be useful. So to build a better future, we need to study past governance struggles.
A technology's critical junctures, can reveal entire counterfactual worlds and help us envision the steps needed to reach them.
In my newest post I briefly allude to worlds where centralized platforms aren't the lifeblood of the Internet. https://misaligned.markets/gtr-internet-history-governance/
#internet #history #technology #gopher #xmpp #googleAI #google
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On Taking Care of The Self
It is with a slow dawning that I have come to notice, day after day, the multitude of unspoken assumptions that haunt me like ghosts, ever present yet scarcely acknowledged. They're the soft, invisible mandates that require me to approve of particular narratives, to the quiet adoption of certain scripts that have become, in our present age, almost cultural orthodoxy. Among these scripts, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the well‑intentioned, if not occasionally perfunctory, messaging of […]
https://untilted.weblog.lol/2026/06/on-taking-care-of-the-self
#PersonalBlog #Blog #Weblog #MentalHealth #SelfCare #SelfCompassion #SocialMedia #Gratitude #Pressure #Expectations #Mental #Physical #Health #Psychology #Technology #Tech #Adjacent #ThisIsNotAWordPressBlog
Blur and Fade CSS for Owncast Chat Overlays in OBS Studio
Unlock a simple solution to improving Owncast chat overlay appearance using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in OBS Studio.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/owncast-obs-chat-overlay-css-blur-fade/
Resetting the Owncast Admin Password in a Docker Container
Remedy the panic, frustration and forgetfulness of the Owncast administrator password by following this Docker container step-by-step guide.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/owncast-docker-reset-admin-password/
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Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus discloses one more aspect of its strategy: to offer lower quotes than TSMC.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]
“CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI,” Box founder Aaron Levie wrote on X. Here's @Techcrunch's Julie Bort on the consequences of execs not understanding the technology they're implementing.
Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard
"if people knew about data centers beforehand, it would give them leverage."
#datacenter #datacenters #artificialintelligence #ai #technology #tech
https://www.theverge.com/policy/930629/data-center-policy-map-interactive
I've been approved onto MakerTube.net!
https://makertube.net/c/nerdnextdoor
https://makertube.net/a/iamthenerdnextdoor
You can follow me there, where I'll hopefully start posting videos soon!
The scale of the New Glenn explosion is a reminder of the staggering amount of energy locked up within a rocket, and the extreme engineering it takes to release that energy in a precisely controlled way.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/05/29/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-during-prelaunch-testing-at-cape-canaveral/ #space #technology
An appreciation: Roland Jackson’s Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State
by William Thomas
https://www.aip.org/history/jackson-scientific-advice
Books about Science at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/51
Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude AI in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees
A new report cites an AI consultant claiming a client accidentally spent $500,000,000 on Claude in a single month.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]
🧠🇸🇪 Swedish #education officials are scaling back digital device usage in schools after reports indicated a decline in basic #literacy skills.
The new strategy prioritizes printed #books and handwriting to support cognitive focus and deep #reading. #Research suggests that physical materials enhance memory retention and reading comprehension compared to digital screens.
#sweden #neuroscience #technology #tech #learning #teaching #psychology
New YT video is up!
This one is about four privacy-respecting European alternatives to US tech products, just in case anyone out there is looking to pull a France and repatriate some of their data and tech consumption.
#Video #Technology #Privacy #YouTube #SocialMedia #ContentCreator #DigitalSovereignty
Good morning. ☕☕☕
30 May 2026
I remember when telephones with push‑buttons started showing up. They looked so modern, so futuristic, like something out of a science‑fiction movie. If you had one sitting on your desk, you must have been somebody — even though, at first, they didn’t really do anything the old rotary phones couldn’t do. I still wonder why we started with a dial instead of buttons in the first place. I don’t wonder long, though. It had to be whatever the technology of the time could manage.
When I was a small child living with my grandparents — my parents were off at the Great Lakes while my dad went through Navy training — I had to memorize their phone number. To this day, it still doesn’t make sense to me. It was “Sycamore 5‑2453.” Try dialing that into a phone today. There have been a few changes since then.
And isn’t it funny that after all these years, after all the technical leaps that led to the cell phones we carry in our back pockets, we still say we’re “dialing” a number? I’m sure plenty of young people don’t even know what that means. I’ve seen clips online where teenagers are handed an old rotary phone and look as confused as I’d be if someone handed me a crank‑and‑jar churn. I wouldn’t know its purpose, let alone how to use it.
Makes you wonder what the next fifty years will bring. I’m certain of one thing: nobody will be running down to the telegraph office. And someday, even cell phones will go the way of buggy whips.
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan
“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.” — Doug Larson
“If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.” — General Eric Shinseki
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #technology #telephones #dial
Rivian says AI makes debate over CarPlay ‘completely obsolete’
Rivian’s chief software officer, Wassym Bensaid, joined Nilay Patel in the latest Decoder interview. And his comments on CarPlay show Rivian continuing to double down on its refusal to support Apple’s platform. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/28/rivian-says-ai-makes-debate-over-carplay-completely-obsolete/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #9to5Mac [9to5Mac]
The voyages of Ancient Pacific mariners echo in modern space exploration
There are many ways to traverse vast cosmic distances—including exploiting natural forces like slopes, winds, currents, or gravity as fuel-efficient means of acceleration.
by Geoff Manaugh
Books about Outer space -- Exploration at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/5990
落幕🕯️ 😭
Mastodon 自定义主题 Tangerine UI 于今日停止维护，发布最终版本 v2.5.4-EOL (end of life)，正式宣布生命周期结束。Tangerine UI 的 GitHub 仓库将于 6 月 30 日宣布归档。
https://github.com/nileane/TangerineUI-for-Mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.4-EOL
#科技 #新闻 #联邦宇宙 #Mastodon #Technology #Fediverse #ActivityPub #TangerineUI #News
Customizing the Font in Firefox Reader View
Gain the freedom to choose a custom font in Mozilla Firefox Reader View by following this step-by-step guide on a desktop operating system.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/firefox-reader-view-custom-font/
#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a #war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samples
So #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆
Well not strictly, it's only for allies
And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed
It's called #TrophyLab
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Global institutions are caught in a delusion, begging Silicon Valley to "do the right thing."
They fail to grasp the ironclad law of fiduciary duty. You cannot shame a corporate machine engineered strictly for capital efficiency. It’s a category error. If a system cannot feel empathy, stop trying to teach it how. Logic must fight logic.
#Politics #Economics #Finance #Reading #Writing #Substack #Technology #Business #Law #Philosophy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116688186377550000
i need y’all to take a bat at every #techbro and anybody who said there should be no funding for #liberalArts degrees, that the future of college education is #STEM as in SCIENCE, technology, ENGINEERING and maths.
the biggest con was that T: there is no #technology without #arts, #crafts and #maths first. science and engineering are more specialized aspects of the other three. computers are a technology, not #tech.
#SiliconValley is a wasteland that should be nuked into oblivion.
We at @Vivaldi are different from most other companies. We are a Icelandic-Norwegian company. We host our servers in Iceland. We have no external investors.
I am lucky enough to work with some really wonderful people, including @brucelawson who has made this video that I hope you enjoy!
#Vivaldi #Technology #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #IOS #Browser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r9eJv2J7WA&list=RD1r9eJv2J7WA&start_radio=1