link roundup: fall STEMlord edition
Oct. 1st, 2024 09:40 pm* rear admiral grace hopper in a rare 1-hour lecture (1982) - I have a lot of respect for hopper; awesome seeing this piece of history digitized. :o
* cobalt.tools - great image/video/audio downloader from youtube & twitter and a lot of the major social media sites. doesn't work on ok.ru but other sites do ;>
* udm14 - the deshittified (AI-removed) google. personally i still like startpage as my main one, but those two and yandex are my three leading current search engines for slightly different reasons.
* inside intel's new chip factory - cool documentary on intel's chip factory that felt vaguely in the spirit of mythbusters in terms of slowly explaining the what and why in addition to 'oooh cool shiny'
* tornadohq - have used this for a good 4 years now; fantastic lightweight site specifically for letting you know where a tornado is in the US and where it's headed. great for when you need to conserve phone battery and needing to know if you gotta get to shelter.
* bsky.app is popping up as, to me - the most strongly viable twitter alternative. i've been on there for what, a year now? and while there's still minor issues i have (mostly to do with the inherent short-text format and irrelevant personal grudges) it's becoming a lot more stable and active if you just Cannot take twitter anymore for mental health adjacent reasons. they're also taking a new and experimental route with moderation via labeling, which feels like something the newest generation of social media needs to fix from the old giants.
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armaina from a while back - webdiscussions (thread on pillowfort) is a neat comm to find out the tl;dr of big news on the indie/fandom web; it almost feels like the front page of hackernews for tumblr types. great to check every month to see what platform's closed or had drama without digging in the weeds of a discord or whatnot.
* cobalt.tools - great image/video/audio downloader from youtube & twitter and a lot of the major social media sites. doesn't work on ok.ru but other sites do ;>
* udm14 - the deshittified (AI-removed) google. personally i still like startpage as my main one, but those two and yandex are my three leading current search engines for slightly different reasons.
* inside intel's new chip factory - cool documentary on intel's chip factory that felt vaguely in the spirit of mythbusters in terms of slowly explaining the what and why in addition to 'oooh cool shiny'
* tornadohq - have used this for a good 4 years now; fantastic lightweight site specifically for letting you know where a tornado is in the US and where it's headed. great for when you need to conserve phone battery and needing to know if you gotta get to shelter.
* bsky.app is popping up as, to me - the most strongly viable twitter alternative. i've been on there for what, a year now? and while there's still minor issues i have (mostly to do with the inherent short-text format and irrelevant personal grudges) it's becoming a lot more stable and active if you just Cannot take twitter anymore for mental health adjacent reasons. they're also taking a new and experimental route with moderation via labeling, which feels like something the newest generation of social media needs to fix from the old giants.
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armaina from a while back - webdiscussions (thread on pillowfort) is a neat comm to find out the tl;dr of big news on the indie/fandom web; it almost feels like the front page of hackernews for tumblr types. great to check every month to see what platform's closed or had drama without digging in the weeds of a discord or whatnot.
