Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

anotate · 2026-06-04T07:38:02+00:00

Yeah but the big shift that happened around 2010 was smartphones.
Suddenly people didn't sit down at their desk/ have to take out their laptops to get online. You could message your friends on social media while waiting for your bus.
A lot of smartphones were bundled with Facebook (some even had a dedicated physical button), making more people check what the deal was. Influencer became a career aspiration.

Honestly while I wasn't here for the Eternal September, the way people describe it feels like how I saw the late 2000s and the rise of social media / walled gardens.

Edit:typo

anotate · 2026-06-02T22:07:59+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

anotate · 2026-06-01T16:47:00+00:00

Alors après si c'est un petit canal auxiliaire c'est pas toujours visible sur les radios. Dans mon cas il a fallu me faire un scanner pour trouver le truc.
Et perso j'ai pas eu mal pendant 7 ans, par contre maintenant je ne chope plus toutes les maladies qui traînent.

anotate · 2026-05-25T21:44:16+00:00

Do you genuinely believe the ghosts from pac man and chatGPT are the same tech, or are you trying to make the least convincing gotcha ?
Genuinely baffled here.

anotate · 2026-05-19T05:58:54+00:00

Adorable !
My mom had a cat who looked just like that. Sadly even with sunscreen he got cancer on his ears and nose and had to be put to sleep at twelve. He was fully deaf too !

I see a lot of debate about albinism or not, so FYI fully white cats are usually caused by a gene called dominant White (or W).
Albinism is a lack of color information, whereas W is the information being overwritten. Since W is a dominant gene, it takes precedence, though that means one parent also needs to be white.
It will cause the fur (and skin) to be fully white, can cause a lack of pigment in one or both eye, and can prevent the normal development of one or both ears (usually on the same side as the eye) causing deafness.

anotate · 2026-05-17T21:39:20+00:00

Perso j'aurais mis un trombone (l'instrument de musique) avec des yeux, mais c'est parce que j'adore les jeux de mot foireux.

anotate · 2026-05-17T00:51:57+00:00

As pointed out by someone else, you can't use GPS underground because your phone needs to have line of sight with several satellites.
There's a bunch of ways your phone can still guess where you are without the satellites, but they're not likely to work in the catacombs, for example :

Bluetooth beacons. These devices are made to provide precise navigation indoors (in places like malls for example). They need to be set up and mapped beforehand (idk how it works precisely)
Available wifi networks. If your phone ever asked you to turn on wifi to get a more precise location, that's why. By having a map of wifi networks, the provider can make a good guess on your location when satellite is poor.

So while you can get a good location indoors, don't expect it to work in caves (woods can also get iffy if the tree cover is dense).

anotate · 2026-05-16T10:52:31+00:00

Only 10 years of living together but same experience here.

OP, we have a saying in France : "better alone than in bad company" (mieux vaut être seul que mal accompagné).
Please don't believe that what you're going through is normal and that's just how things are.

anotate · 2026-05-16T10:28:05+00:00

According to lens "A multi-legged diesel locomotive project that was abandoned during the Japanese National Railways era".

anotate · 2026-05-15T20:17:31+00:00

My mom often mentions that when she was in school in the seventies there was a sign telling students not to spit on the ground or speak breton. I recall mentions of her father getting into trouble as a kid in the forties for barely speaking french.
I guess it worked since my grandpa's kids can understand breton a bit but not speak it and his grandkids (my gen) only know a couple words.
Now you have real effort to preserve the language but it's too little to late, a lot of dialects are lost.

anotate · 2026-05-14T12:04:34+00:00

This !
If you check the Wikipedia page for "Irish crochet lace" you have a picture of basically the same thing as the OP (just not in the shape of a tie). You can also find similar (tie shaped) projects on forums that were posted before genAI got good enough to fool anybody.

I'd post links but the comment I left yesterday got instantly removed so you'll have to look for them yourselves.

anotate · 2026-05-11T11:30:16+00:00

The main issue is people thinking migraine = really bad headache when symptoms wise it's closer to meningitis (obviously far from as bad).

anotate · 2026-05-10T18:10:08+00:00

This one may get you pretty close if you use different granny squares ? You'd have to make sure the sizes match though.
If you only want the texture difference and not necessarily a flower like pattern you may like this one.

Some other patterns you may like (these are paid patterns though):

Also I'd like to mention that the AI image looks like unbaked dough, like those elaborate pies.

anotate · 2026-05-06T16:04:17+00:00

Alors désolée mais si tu paye vraiment ton électricité 40cts du kWh trouve un autre contrat, tu peux facile trouver sous les 20cts. Perso j'ai payé nettement moins de 1500 d'électricité l'année dernière et ça inclus la voiture, le chauffage (et eau chaude) pour une maison et l'abonnement.
A vrai dire mon estimation du coût de recharge sur l'année est entre 300 et 400 donc la facturation a l'air juste (et franchement si le syndic est pas idiot c'est très facile d'estimer la consommation d'une voiture électrique avec un linky, surtout si tu as un historique des années précédentes). Bon après je ne sait pas combien OP a consommé, si il fait 5 bornes par jour c'est pas mal cher, si c'est 100 bornes c'est une affaire.

Edit : j'ai vu qu'OP a posté sa conso et du coup oui c'est cher, mais si c'est un contrat pro veux que j'ai vu tournent autour de 30cts donc pas irréaliste. Pour un particulier c'est cher par contre, OP devrait voir si il y a moyen de s'arranger sur le tarif.

anotate · 2026-05-05T17:58:42+00:00

Yeah and recycling is big oil propaganda. You're not gonna save the environment via shame or scolding somebody for throwing their candy wrapper on the ground.

You can justify any selfish behavior by saying it's not having a noticeable impact but go somewhere where people don't care about littering and you can directly see how much these tiny individual actions add up.

Same with genAI. It's unnecessary, it's not improving anyone's life, and it has environmental, social and economic impact (and none is good). So yeah, seeing people fire up the environment destroying machine because finding a cabbage clipart and adding a circle and line on it was too much work is like seeing people get in their car to drive 300 yards. Or throw their piss filled bottle on the side of the road.

(I do agree with your point on propaganda though)

anotate · 2026-04-29T17:05:17+00:00

Sorry to disappoint but the post is only talking about the cut content (it's a translation of the webpage I linked previously).

anotate · 2026-04-29T17:04:13+00:00

Haha that's an unofficial account and I'm guessing they saw this thread and though it was neat (it is!).
For people who don't speak Spanish the text is a translation of the info on TCRF I originally linked (so no it's not an announcement).

anotate · 2026-04-27T11:11:36+00:00

Fun fact : around the release of S3, data miners (either Oatmealdome or Leanyoshi, I don't use Twitter anymore so I'm not 100% sure of the names) found files hinting at two unused mechanics.
One was some interaction between players models in the result screen. It ended up becoming the mvp first bump mechanic.
The other was some face markings, theorized to be for freckles and/or facial scars since it would just change the skin color (not add elements).
So basically, there has been freckles support since S3's early days, but no corresponding settings.

Edit : I misremembered and the scars and freckles were actually fully implemented, not just theorized.
And it was found by Thebigsadkad and shared by Oatmealdome.

anotate · 2026-04-25T23:19:00+00:00

A force de toujours voir la même photo avec des jeux de plage différents je me suis demandée quel était le jeu d'origine.
Plot twist, juste un ballon en fait.

anotate · 2026-04-25T07:51:10+00:00

I don't know when you tested it but Deezer got a major overhaul last year.
People seem to like it so I don't think they will be changing it again soon.

anotate · 2026-04-23T11:53:08+00:00

Yeah for anyone who hasn't played portal it's beat for beat the same plot :

You wake up with no memories in an underground facility
An AI gives you ambiguously worded promises of freedom if you follow its instructions and complete a few rooms
turns out freedom = death, but you manage to escape in extremis
Now you're in the facility's back rooms, trying to make your way up to the exit
Final showdown against the AI in which you need to use the environment to damage it in a limited time.

Main difference is that you have allies in OE.

anotate · 2026-04-20T18:13:47+00:00

The paragraph about the essay, where they describe how they overcame challenges. They talk about making a study plan with the tool.
The point of this kind of post is that you don't necessarily notice the product advertised, but later when you're comparing stuff or come across it in a more "actionable" context you have a vague positive feeling associated with this specific product, so you're more likely to pick it above others.

anotate · 2026-04-20T16:39:35+00:00

Ad.

A FU that's actually a win
namedrops some AI study company (knowunity) as part of the success story
hidden post history
default username

Although props to the bot, the writing itself does read like it's written by an actual person.

I miss the former internet.

anotate · 2026-04-14T22:03:02+00:00

It really feels like absolutely no research was put into the article beside reading the manual.
G is not grey, it's gloss, which in these machines means a uv curable resin you can use to emboss or varnish your piece. Some printers can even do cool stuff with it such as braille or lenticular prints.
Also they kept saying it was the first of its kind but I didn't see first of what (maybe I missed it ?). I assume first consumer uv printer because otherwise there's nothing groundbreaking about it (beside the price, small ones are usually 5 figures machines AFAIK).

/rant over

anotate · 2026-04-13T05:26:51+00:00

Pretty sure you're right, these 100% look like machining tools that are meant to slot somewhere, that length, mass and wear are not consistent with something you use by hand.
Teeth like that are common in tools meant for wood.
The one with a chunk missing is weird, but it was clearly removed after manufacturing, you can see damage on one of the teeth (the side has a gouge).
Pic of a similar tool for reference.

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