Your smartphone has a metal detector — here's how to use it

Modern smartphones are packed with a wide range of sensors, and their magnetometer can successfully identify certain kinds of metals.

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Terence Eden's maintaining a list of websites that are presented as, or are wholly or partially available via, plain text. Obviously my own text/plain blog is among them, and is as far as I'm aware the only one to be entirely presented as text/plain.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/01/06/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/

#repost #blogging #geeky #technology

A small collection of text-only websites

Terence Eden's maintaining a list of websites that are presented as, or are wholly or partially available via, plain text. Obviously my own text/plain blog is among them, and is as far as I'm aware the only one to be entirely presented as text/plain.

Dan Q
Froggering

FoxTrot by Bill Amend | July 10, 2022

FoxTrot Comics by Bill Amend
On Geek Grotto this week, I discuss the Indie Games Awards, Sony buying Peanuts, the Avengers Doomsday teaser & spotlight La Bandera in #ObscureCharacterCorner!
Tune in 2pm every Saturday on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen, online at https://www.shmu.org.uk or via your smart speaker. 
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Season’s Greetings From the Lab

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On Geek Grotto this week, I pay tribute to actor Gil Gerard, discuss Free Comic Book Day, Archie Comics & spotlight Lodar in #ObscureCharacterCorner!
Tune in 2pm every Saturday on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen, online at https://www.shmu.org.uk or via your smart speaker. 
#Radio #Geeky #SciFi

researching the motivations and narratives behind building alternative social media, came across the old kickstarter campaign for diaspora from 2010. with video: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mbs348/diaspora-the-personally-controlled-do-it-all-distr

fascinating stuff

#diaspora #decentralization #geeky