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Finally there is a number to call to query the Internet and ask for resolution (absolution is an add on extra).

The audience holds their breath in unison, and when the music turns emotional, everyone sits perfectly still together. These are the initial findings from the world's largest music experiment.

cross-posted from: https://fed.dyne.org/post/355146

Qwant, France's privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and

Cooperation worked better for ants than for humans in a Weizmann Institute experiment

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

Spotify’s plot against musicians

This BBS (Bulletin Board System) was created as part of the efforts of the retronetworking community which happens to run a retronetworking assembly at CCC events, the same group also behind the c3isdn on-site ISDN/POTS networks at Chaos events. C3BBS should enable older hackers to re-visit some of the BBS days of the 1980s and 1990s, as well as provide an idea about what BBSs were all about to the younger generation who has never used them back in the day. We're using Synchronet BBS, one of the few BBS packages that are still under active maintenance and development in 2024. Synchronet doesn't just offer the authentic experience of BBSs decades ago, but offers integration and interfacing with a variety of more modern communications systems and protocols.

cross-posted from: https://fed.dyne.org/post/334651

Discover how I built a quantum-ready encryption tool using Alpine.js, Web Components, and Zenroom—all in a single HTML file.