Another try at a Pinboard bookmarklet
I asked ChatGPT to write a bookmarklet that would add a URL to Pinboard and paste in text copied from the clipboard as a description. And it works.
The Internets, sometimes wonderful
A flurry of visits from the Czech Republic.
“What is internet, anyway?”
Internet Artifacts, from 1977 to 2007.
.mov and .zip
Google has created eight new top-level domains, including .mov and .zip. Imagine the hilarity when someone clicks to open what appears to be a .mov or .zip file and gets taken to a sketchy website. Taken, indeed.
“The old Internet”
Marie LeConte misses “the old Internet.”
Netizen Trump
“You guys may not be following the Internet the way I do”: Donald Trump, pushing his Department of Justice to investigate a conspiracy theory about Italian satellites changing votes for him to votes for Joe Biden.
Five cyber freedoms
From Print Mag, and in the form of posters, five cyber freedoms.
“Tape Here”
Today’s Nancy.
Mac Open Web
Brian Warren’s Mac Open Web, “a collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.”
Brett Terpstra’s guide to DuckDuckGo
Brett Terpstra has written “the ultimate guide to DuckDuckGo.”
HTML Scratchpad
HTML Scratchpad is a webpage for messing around with HTML.
Donate to the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a hugely valuable resource. A generous donor is matching donations, two to one.
“The” four
People can be slotted into “the” four or five or six anything, one slot per person, only if you’re looking to attract eyeballs on the Internets.
Search OCA with DuckDuckGo
It’s easy to make a DuckDuckGo search box for a website.
Rabbits
As Brett Terpstra says, in a markedly different context: “Some of us always follow the rabbit.”
Net neutrality in Illinois
For Illinois readers only.
Cloudflare’s DNS
Numbers to know: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, the numbers for Cloudflare’s new DNS service.
“You must go offline to view this page”
You really do. Go to it and turn off your network connection.
Garg’s Law
Anu Garg: “Do not forward anything you’ve received online without verifying it yourself.”
Photobucket fail
Good riddance.
OMGiraffe
The Internets.
Quotation marks and the Internet
It’s not that difficult to create smart marks.
notebin.cc
An online text editor.
GTmetrix
A useful tool for those who write online: GTmetrix clocks the speed at which a webpage loads and gives recommendations to make things faster.
Spartz / Bentham
Clickbait and push-pin.
Internets broken yesterday
Why this news hasn’t been more widely reported, I don’t know. But I’m doing my bit.
Life Without Reader
“Life Without Reader is my suggestion for greater engagement with those whom one reads online. I’d like to see it catch on.”
Marco Arment on RSS
“RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it’s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself.”
Feedly it ain’t
“The interface is (to my eyes) beautiful, but Feedly takes too many liberties with content, as I discovered when I looked at a few recent Orange Crate Art posts with images.”
ISP, WTF?
“As the Electronic Frontier Foundation reports, the ISP practice of hijacking has been common with both searches and mistyped URLs.”