68 Followers
310 Following
336 Posts
Work in programming
hates computers

If you do not want to use software from a US tech industry that supports Donald Trump, this is the website you have been looking for:

https://european-alternatives.eu

European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

European Alternatives

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

#Vivaldi #Browser #Announcement #Roadmap #PSA

All the "memory is cheap" developers can truly shut the fuck up now.
Music streaming recs that aren’t supporting fascism? Seems like they all do 🥴
Hackers.town

new web stack: NERF

No JS
Excel as the database
Rawdogging HTML
FTP deployment

While understandable given the rise of AI scrapers, it’s sad to see the open web dying a little each day.

Future generations won’t realize how much they’ve lost.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

Reddit caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit the Internet Archive from indexing some data.

The Verge
@lauren @ernie not surprising they suck. Also in CA so I’ll share my fun story that ~ 8 years ago I attempted to put a pots line back in my rebuilt house as a backup. AT&T simply couldn’t figure out how to do it. I had the wires to the house, they couldn’t place the order & didn’t have people who know even what to do. Yet most of my elderly neighbors have working lines. Post Pacbell the system rots like a Dharma Initiative station from Lost still working somehow but mostly abandoned.
Who's still rolling on POTS?

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

ht @mattl