Streaming radio from around the world: Radio Garden
Best language lessons short of full immersion: Language Transfer
https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.
http://mymindblewup.com/ for all your cow stacking needs.
https://posthog.com/ Its best on desktop or in desktop mode Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.
It’s the weirdest shit I’ve ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I’ve been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It’s just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one’s hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it’s all there.
I’m sure there’s some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there’s always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like “What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?” and “How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?”
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I’m struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it’s the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don’t understand it.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
But they’d have written it in alienese. That’s why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they’d naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
What if they wrote it in english cuz ofcourse aliens have english to alienese translator.
If they are missing one, I haven’t needed it yet.
It’s been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It’s like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
Project Gutenberg predates the internet. I still remember how their goal was to give away one trillion ebooks.
Project Gutenberg is still around, so I won’t say this is an example of the internet getting worse. But I loathe how it’s come to focus on damnable social media like there’s nothing else of worth out there. Social media, among other things, filled the air with noise that starved many worthwhile projects of attention.
There is a modern Library of Alexandria, just fyi, it’s pretty fucking dope.
Not sure how known these are, but it’s similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
IIRC, they’ll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don’t get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
It’s still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20018103
Probably the same response I put when someone else asked this 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say nobody, it’s got a cult following, but I think even more should try it
Edit: !youraislopboresme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I just think it’s neat, so made a community a few days ago
I don’t get it.
It’s a neat piece of satire. Turning the humans into AI. There’s this saying that AI really means “actually Indians”. As many AI companies have been caught using humans, mostly outsourced offshore daily workers, to cover up for incomplete AI models, and agentic AI. So as to hide the fact that the tech is not actually all the way to what’s promised, and actually depends on human labor to keep up the façade of advanced technology. This webpage drops the pretense altogether, to mock the state of the LLM bubble.
Thank you!
On of Eyezmaze made the Grow games, which are currently still playable here: https://www.eyezmaze.com/
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
Duuuuuuude, I haven’t seen these games in around two decades. Thanks for posting this!
Oh shit I used to play these games all the time in school, thanks for the hit of nostalgia
cool websites !coolwebsites@lemmy.ca has quite a lot of them
To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material
Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.
I just tried it and it’s so much harder to understand than just playing around with transistors on a breadboard.
Like, I can easily make a nand gate with a couple NPNs and a PNP. But I couldn’t figure out what they wanted me to do with those relays, so I didn’t get past the first task.
Saving this for later! As someone who knows more about software than hardware, this sounds interesting!
I tried it but the game is kind of confusing cause it uses relays instead of transistors. I think it’s more frustrating and would only discourage potential learners.
A better way to get a solid grasp on low-level hardware logic is to just build an eight-bit breadboard computer. Here’s a tutorial: https://eater.net/8bit
I’m working on it now. I’ve only done the first module so far and I’ve already learned so much.
Considerably more user friendly than Escape from Robotropolis was for me.
Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
Noooo don’t look at the NSFW camera in the shower!!!
Poor Gimli…
I’m old. I was an adult when the internet first started. And this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen online. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! I was an older teenager when the worldwide web started taking off in '94 — is that what you mean? A lot of people associate the Internet and the WWW, but IIRC the first email was sent in the 1960s. I’m getting old. Sometimes I feel old, sometimes I feel young. As a gamer, I try to stay current with tech, but while I like some modern games, I’m having so much fun catching up on 360/PS3 and 3ds era gaming. Like my wife got Animal Crossing for the Switch, but I’m enjoying the 3ds version more. It’s a bit older, a bit uglier, my girl has hair like Claire/Molly Ringwald in Breakfast Club, but it’s okay, I’ll unlock the hair salon eventually.
This is triggering habbo hotel nostalgia for me
right? had the same thought immediately. the whole page is art.
Thanks for this. That site’s dope.
I didn’t recognise the name but when I clicked I recognised it instantly, I’m astounded but happy this is still around
This wins the internet for today.
Yo that techno Viking is spot on. Nailed the point and the moves.
Did you throw popcorn into the black hole?
Of course!
Book marked 😘
Haha, that’s so bizarre but wild and fascinating.
Found Marvin, inspector gadget, r2d2, Wall-e, and many more.
I think there’s a guide. I follow them on Telegram and they post whenever they add something (with a direct link to the coordinates). Lately he’s been working on the flea market area with Link and Zelda.
Thanks for reminding me about this – such an astounding work of art.
Neat!
