Access Imgur images in the UK by proxying through imgup.uk's German server. No storage, pure relay.

Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server.

Windows Latest was first to notice that the word “Microslop” was actively filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server.

lmao

You don’t need Discord for plain text chat. IRC gets the job done just fine, costs less than a “server boost” to run, and puts you firmly in the driver’s seat (especially where privacy is concerned). And you also get to run a real server, not whatever it is that Discord considers a “server”, which is definitely not a server.

There are countless reasons to run an IRC server today, ranging from having a space for casual fun chat with friends to organizing communities or collaborating on massive projects. IRC is simple, lightweight, easy to use, and completely free and open technology.

Ready to take the leap? Let’s go!

Discourse is a super nice, extremely robust, highly capable platform that can support the needs of many types of communities. You can think of it as an incredibly flexible (and infinitely customizable) forum that ships with very nice chat capabilities. It’s a compelling option for communities that can no longer tolerate Discord’s privacy or safety issues, or for those who are just tired of seeing those goddamned Nitro advertisements all over the place.

The rabid adherents of AI – not those who feel compelled to use it for work, but the ones who won’t shut the fuck up about it – are too blinkered, greedy, or ignorant to see the writing on the wall. They do not love computers; maybe they never did.

The War on Cars is is a podcast that delivers news and commentary on the latest developments in the worldwide fight to undo a century’s worth of damage wrought by the automobile, approaching the topic from all angles, from politics to pop culture.

Email's unread count means something specific: these are messages from real people who wrote to you and are, in some cases, actively waiting for your response. The number isn't neutral information. It's a measure of social debt.

But when we applied that same visual language to RSS (the unread counts, the bold text for new items, the sense of a backlog accumulating) we imported the anxiety without the cause.

However, there are also widely-used hashtags which you may not be aware of as they use unusual portmanteau words or phrases. Here is an attempt to list some of them

A really helpful list because it's not always obvious how to find community-centered events/tags/etc. when you're just browsing on Mastodon

Generate GPX and KMZ files from your Google Maps saved places to import as bookmarks in CoMaps, or use anywhere you'd like. This tool generates everything locally in your browser and does not upload any data.

Little Webby Press is a tool to build books and websites from a manuscript folder. You write your book on your computer. There is no back-end service involved, the book generation happens locally. It is all done in your browser. At the end of it, you’ll have two zip files, one containing your book in EPUB3 non-DRM format and another with the HTML for a website.

"Bunnyrom" is the name given by the virtual pet collecting community to the software that is found on countless cheap virtual pets. The name comes from the recognizable bunny sprite which is the first character and often appears on product listings. Their more official name is Jia Yuan.

Also recognizable as the 168-in-1 pet, they come in many shapes and sizes but always have the exact same programming. They're sold and packaged under many names like Cyber Pet, Digi Pet, or some even claim to be Tamagotchi Connections. They're easy to find on sites like AliExpress and eBay, but manage to show up in physical stores and gift shops as well.

The origin of this pet software is unclear as there is no information about who made it or where it originated, but they seem to have been around since the Connection era of Tamagotchis (circa. 2005) and apparently lifted all of their menu icons from them. The characters on the device also include recognizable faces from various well-known franchises like Spongebob, Digimon, and One Piece.

No Photoshop, no rendering, no cheating
Only working computers
What you see on screen was actually on the screen (no overlays, no copy and paste, etc.)

All images on this page are available under Creative Commons license — feel free to use them!

Welcome to Elpis, a place of articles, interesting materials and links that I hope be useful for you. This magazine is in continuous development, slowly but surely, and our main goal is to inform and educate. We'll show that there is an alternate path to development, which is not limited to endless upgrades for the sake of the process itself, or to the accumulation of resources without a set goal. After all, you can be content with little, and achieve a lot.

Tumblr and WordPress.com are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals.

UGH also bottom of the article says Reddit is also selling user data to AI companies

Part of the fun of journaling is seeing your past journals, and admiring the progress that you’ve made. To do that, I built a little “On this day” feature that simply surfaces old journal entries that match today’s date.

Very cool!

With the introduction of the new built-in Obsidian Bases feature, detecting and listing orphaned images is now easier than ever. No extra plugins required. The attached file Orphaned Image Report.zip (657 Bytes) contains an Obsidian Bases file Orphaned Images Report.base with two intuitive views:

Condensed Table View: See all orphaned images in a sortable, filterable table.
Cards View: Visualize orphaned images as cards, making it easy to preview/rename/delete images.

Simply download and unzip the attached file to your vault and start housekeeping.
You can modify the filter expression to tune the report to your specific needs.

Hacker bootsplash themes just like in the movie!

Custom bootscreens based on the computers in the movie Hackers!

Offpunk allows you to browse the Web, Gemini, Gopher and subscribe to RSS feeds without leaving your terminal and while being offline.

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites (1000+) that contain AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

The best free Instagram browser for exploring public stories, posts, reels, tags, followers, and more.

So you don't have to sign into an IG account to view stuff!