RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1.
Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site.
When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible.
Explore 30 years of web history: web.archive.org
#90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory #WebDesign
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A video and some photos from Peramola, Spain:
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We stayed in this place for nearly two weeks last month, in a fantastic free motorhome parking area. It did smell like shit (literally), but it is beautiful and close to some great hiking trails 😊
#travel #Spain #vanlife #motorhome #hiking #nature
We stayed 2 weeks in this amazing place
Peramola, Spain. A wonderful motorhome parking spot. Beautiful views, great mountains and hike trails around, quiet. Smells like shit, literally, but a wonderful place overall.This video is also a testing for the new camera I (Tio) got, a DJI Osmo Pocket 3. Second hand, small and really good. Will replace my webcams too, not just my main camera.
It is a long video but we loved this place.
“I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative & cynical & predict doom for the world than it is to try & figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter."
- Jim Henson
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Thank you, Sheril 🙏🏼 As a poet, I seek to uplift and inspire 😇
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Here is my city, Rafah, under occupation. It has been almost completely destroyed, leaving nothing but ruins and loss. Homes are gone, families are displaced, and life as we knew it has disappeared.
Our dreams and memories have collapsed with it, and we now live among the rubble without proper shelter or basic needs.
We appeal to the world to see our suffering and share our voice. Your support and spreading our message may be our only hope.
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Hello my friends, I hope you are all doing well ❤️
Could you please donate and help me? We urgently need your support. My last donation was 5 days ago 💔
If you can, please support me and share my posts so they can reach people who are able to help. We need $300 to buy food and meet our basic needs.
Anyone who can donate, please do. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 😊
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Hello everyone,My name is Raghad, and I am reaching out to you today with a heavy heart, hoping for your kindness and support.Chuffed
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1 of May, Workers' Day...
Many humans, all obey
Trade their way
In this system they are prey,
Celebrations on the way!
Hey Hey Hey:)
This society is still primitive since it relies on everyone to trade, be a worker. Else you are fucked. There should be no celebrations about that. This trade based society has to go. Makes no sense anymore and transforms us into mindless robots.
And now from the window of a four-wheeled cab the Queen of Babylon beheld the wonders of London. Buckingham Palace she thought uninteresting; Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament little better. But she liked the Tower, and the River, and the ships filled her with wonder and delight.
“But how badly you keep your slaves. How wretched and poor and neglected they seem,” she said, as the cab rattled along the Mile End Road.
“They aren’t slaves; they’re working-people,” said Jane.
“Of course they’re working. That’s what slaves are. Don’t you tell me. Do you suppose I don’t know a slave’s face when I see it? Why don’t their masters see that they’re better fed and better clothed? Tell me in three words.”
- The Story of the Amulet, E..E. Nesbit, 1906
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“The realistic threat chain looks like this. An attacker exploits a known WordPress plugin vulnerability and gets shell access as www-data. They run the copy.fail PoC. They are now root on the host. Every other tenant is suddenly reachable, in the way I walked through in this hack post-mortem. The vulnerability does not get the attacker onto the box; it changes what happens in the next ten seconds after they land there.”
And so it begins.
Chrome is shipping a Prompt API - giving websites access to the browser's built-in LLM.
This is the scope creep I wrote about... websites can now pass your page content, inputs and browsing context to an AI baked into the browser itself.
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The opening mail by Deepti Bogadi links to a github md page saying "Web developers: strongly positive" — which file links to a github issue with one (1) comment from August. And a blog that doesn't even exist now.
That's strongly positive feedback from web developers? What?
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Please stop my situation is very difficult🚨💔
I am responsible for the needs of my family but I cannot continue alone😭🥺
My health is deteriorating and I urgently need a doctor,and I am very tired but I have no money😔💔
Any help. No matter how simple it is, you can save me🙏🏻😢
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A thumbs up. A shy smile. Two bowls of snacks, This is happiness in Gaza right now.
Not a toy. Not a trip. Just a few colourful rings in a bowl — and these kids are glowing.
Children shouldn't have to glow over a snack. But here we are.
And here they are — still smiling. Still full of light despite everything.
Help us keep that light alive:
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#gaza #palestine #genocide #Gazachildren #israel #gazaverified #socialmedia #freepalestine #mastodon
I am raising funds on behalf of my friend Mai Ayman Zourob, who launched an initiative to support the children in her displacement camp in Gaza.Chuffed
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Let's not. Kids are people, not property to be muted at a whim. If they have something to say, the government has no business stopping them from saying it in the place where the general public will hear them, and in 2026 that place is social media.
Frankly I'm shocked at how quickly freedom of speech flies out the window. When I was in school, I was taught that freedom of speech is sacred and our ancestors died for it! Am I the only one who took it to heart?
And what would you sacrifice it for? The convenience of not having to set up parental controls on the devices you give your children? That hardly justifies the burden you'd impose on everyone else.
Are you perhaps worried that your kids will find some other adult who will give them another, unlocked device and social media account to use? Because even with age verification they can still do that!
@argv_minus_one @oberstenzian
When I was a teenager, I learned to make decisions about my own behavior. Yes, I did things that my parents disapproved of. We kept talking, and got through it with growth for us all.
With my own son, my wife taught me that the important part was to maintain communication. That means listening as well as speaking. Forbidding behavior shuts down that communication.
Talk of what you want, not what you don’t want.
This! Kids aren't stupid. They can be reasoned with. In fact they *must* be reasoned with; they don't learn anything from unexplained commandments.
And does anyone else remember their own childhood? Sometimes I was rash and arrogant, sure, but I wasn't dumb, and neither were my fellow kids. We figured out for ourselves how to stay safe online.
Now I'm supposed to believe that kids these days aren't born with brains? Baloney. Of course they are.
@argv_minus_one I use parental controls. I’ll gladly accept more parental controls.
I’m opposed to any forms of age check bs. Especially the methods being rolled out currently.
I think commercial social media entities should be held criminally liable for allowing children on their platforms. And any sleazy ID or age check racket should be forbidden.
They’ll have to come up with a better way to prevent liability. *Like going out of business.*
@argv_minus_one My ancestors didn’t die for freedom of speech. They died to escape slsvery. And the enslavers were demanding freedom of speech for their fellow landowners, not the folks that tilled the soil.
Nationalist myths aren’t a starting point for this. But I get what you mean.
I don’t think social media as we know it was designed for freedom of speech. It can allow for it… but that’s the problem. The *allow* part.
Even better:
banning #bigtechs from owning social media.
Social media developed by bigtechs is the real problem.
Sensitive content
Billionaires destroy humanity.
Save the children from them.
me no sci-fi man, but:
What Data says. 
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Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.keepandroidopen.org
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Free software enthusiast from Kerala elected Debian Project Leader
One of the oldest and widely used Linux-based operating systems, Debian has been developed by a community of volunteers from around the world
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Happy to have voted for her in the election.
#FreeSoftware #Debian #OpenSource #FOSS @srud
Sruthi Chandran from Kerala elected as the first woman and Asian Debian Project Leader, promoting free software globally.The Hindu
Yes, I look at the history. Btw, I like Debian as it is the most successful "community based" and most principled distro!
Glad to see the efforts from Kerala Software Freedom Community!
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Today we launched code.overheid.nl: the NL government-wide code platform 🥳🥳
Code.overheid.nl is a pilot in which we are going to test @forgejo; an open source and sovereign alternative to GitHub/GitLab.
This is an initiative of @BZKopensource, in collaboration with our friends from team DAWO (SSC-ICT), @opensource , @developer , and a number of participating government orgs. 🤝
@tomootes from developer.overheid wrote a nice piece about it: developer.overheid.nl/blog/202…
@bo @johan @marlenabcn
Op 24 april was de softlaunch van code.overheid.nl: één gedeelde gitomgeving voor de overheid, gebouwd op Forgejo. In deze blogpost bespreken we wat er nodig is om dat tot een succes te maken: beginnen met bouwen, en samenwerken.Tom Ootes (developer.overheid.nl)
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Very cool, congratulations on the launch!
De Nederlandse overheid publiceert een deel van haar broncode als vrije opensource software. Om software te beheren is een versiebeheersysteem nodig. Hiermee kun je veranderingen in de broncode traceren en beheren.Jan Vlug (developer.overheid.nl)
make a plan for what to do when AI crawlers hit and put it in the desk for emergency (though I hope it will sit there until infinity and never be used)…
…that's the reason I moved my Forgejo instance into my VPN… >10k req from unique IPs in half an hour basically brought it down… …all to relatively "expensive" paths… …Anubis caught none…
Tjeempie!
Proton die werk gaat maken van z'n native linux cliënt en forgejo voor de overheid.
Wat een dag 😃
There is a whole lot of awesome in this.
@BZKopensource @tomootes @bo @johan @marlenabcn @opensource @developer
It seems to be hosted at Odidio. That's weird.
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Find out where code.overheid.nl is hosted and what hosting infrastructure is used for webserver, nameservers and mailservers.hosting-checker.net
Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers - TecharoHQ/anubisGitHub
"Overheidsorganisaties ontwikkelen samen ..." and "Uw organisatie aanmelden"
gives the impression that it's meant to foster collaboration among *government* organizations.
Great ofc, but is there or will there be a facility for 'outside' contributors, ie Dutch (or why not, global) citizens to improve upon the code? (IOW: send Pull Request)
ideally yes, although I admit that we still have to work out some of the permission sets, esp while arranging a connection to the gov SSO.
Edit: more detailed answer is that ideally it should be possible to allow external, trusted and verified contributors onto the platform. What would be far more elegant is if federation came to be, so that external people can do PR's from a different Forgejo instance.
That sounds like federation is (indeed) a much better solution.
I was thinking about (what to do with) a (hypothetical) drive-by-patch ... but opening up the platform to (literally) anyone seems 'a bit' out of scope 
we have
@forgejo @BZKopensource @tomootes @bo @johan @marlenabcn @opensource @developer
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Bluetti VS Custom Power System - videos.trom.tf/w/86uzfqsAHh86C…
This is the final video about our power system. Since we use 2 completely different and independent power systems, I thought we are in an ideal position to compare the two since we always switch between them.
On one hand we have a Bluetti AC180 power unit connected to 260W of solar, on the other we have a custom built power system with 2x100Ah 12V EcoWorthy batteries, a Victron 100/50 MPPT, and a 1000W inverter - all connected to 650W of solar power.
We will compare the specs, the costs, the reliability, upgradability and repairability.
#powersystem #campervan #motorhome #van #travel #vanlide #bluetti #victron #solarpower #solar
The Dungeon of Dark Patterns
Sources and bonus timelapse: peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantas…
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
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I truly dig that we have a talented artist who also understand the modern worlds enshitification.
Nothing communicates better or stronger than art.
It’s like seedy anime sites and YouTube mp3 converters. They do what they promise - but WILL try to trick you into downloading a virus. At this point it’s almost a greeting.
I try to extract a song and it goes: « free VPN installer tonight perhaps ? » « Free VPN installer tonight, queen ? »
And I’m like: « you sly dog, you know why I’m here. Show me the goods. »
And the converter goes: « ahhh you got me. Worth a try tho. Here you go, king. »
The last panel should have had "maybe later" with like an incredibly long and tedious staircase or something ending in a open door to the trap.
The Dark patterns are sure real. Thanks again for your nice comics all the time 
i love your drawings
perfection.
For me those dark patttern contracts for cookies and software license agreements always feel a little like those infamous deals with the devil.
⚖️🇪🇺 To find out more about your Right of Access and the European Commission's plans to restrict it via the #DigitalOmnibus, click here 👉 noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-rea…
#GDPR #EC #Europe #Commission #EU #law #rights
We analysed the access requests filed in relation to noyb cases to find out how many were properly answerednoyb.eu
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Motorhome Power System: 6 Mistakes - videos.trom.tf/w/9bivUa41wQJYf…
These are the biggest mistakes I made with our power system for the motorhome. So far nothing too severe, but these mistakes are the reason why we ended up with such a complex power system.
From buying the wrong power station to blowing up the car relay, these are the mistakes I made 😄.
#vanlife #camper #motorhome #spain #travel #diy #powersystem
Motorhome Power System: 6 Mistakes
These are the biggest mistakes I made with our power system for the motorhome. So far nothing too severe, but these mistakes are the reason why we ended up with such a complex power system.From buying the wrong power station to blowing up the car relay, these are the mistakes I made :D.
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source: i was one of the people paid to answer questions for them back in the day. it was a lot of fun. technically probably my first job but their accountant probably will not want to admit to writing cheques to minors.
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Looking for images of my mouse yesterday, all were from sponsored video/ review, store pages like tiktok shop, eBay, big box retailers, or the manufacturer themselves. Not a single image was indexed from community forum, micro blog, sns, repair page... absolutely nothing. Meaning everything was advertising:
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Who would use search that's just an advertisement in disguise?
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