Those were the days...and so are these.

Is that for Orion+ supporters? Or did something else open up this week? I want innnnnm

Good to hear, Benj. Take your time and rest up, I hear vintage computers just keep getting better as they age!

Dude I am such a cheap person but never think twice about my monthly Kagi subscription, which is worth it for standalone search BUT also has a pretty good AI search. You can combine it with Kagi's lenses, one of which is the Usenet archive lens. Really good for finding ancient and interesting posts

The unexpected winners of the AI slop boom: Word nerds The rise of slopaganda is fueling a surprising tech hiring boom.

"Because AI generates so much content, 'you would think that actually the job of the comms person or the storyteller would be fewer and farther between,' says Gab Ferree."

It doesn't generate *great* content. So duh you need 2x editorial to sell it.

www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-...

An old man dressed as Leonardo DaVinci "painting" Mona Lisa on a touch screen device hooked up to a TV.

Also a PowerPad lol

A bad ad for a device that photographed CRTs It's funny! It's confusing! It's a camera in a box.

You gotta go back as far as the 80s, when all computer ads were seemingly staged and costumed in a suburban Sears Studio: buttondown.com/suchbadtecha...

This of course ignores that Neuromancer came before all else, which earns it a lot of points. But I believe in compartmentalizing the context of the time separately from how it holds up today, which Neuromancer does with a solid 4/5

Neuromancer wasn't as inscrutable as I had been led to believe. It was great but just a heist story followed by some short and interesting musings on AI and tech. Snow Crash was long and interesting musings on language and tech followed by some B-grade action. I'll take the latter every time.

At almost 40yo I now love Singapore for all the reasons I hated it when I came just before turning 30yo. Their tourism materials really should advertise more non alcoholic brunches, dog parks, and quiet hours

Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition! I really wanted to look at holiday ads. But not all of them were awful so we're switching things up!

And here are 5 more (from other 80s tech magazines)! buttondown.com/suchbadtecha...

It's such a prime example of enshitification. Constantly adding crap that no one seems to use and just clutters up the space, which is weird because they also have a massive accessibility team working on making it more accessible for people who use assistive technology

The story of how RSS beat Microsoft Massive tech companies tried to own syndication. They failed.

Relevant: buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-...

I'm in the middle of his baroque cycle, which, so far, are the only books of his where I enjoyed the endings as much (or more) than acts 1 and 2. Love the guy's work but boy do his endings always feel like B action movies

An email footer that says "Open and click tracking are disabled. And there is no paid upgrade." Then, right below that, "Sign up for a premium subscription."

Testing software for a living is a recipe for disaster.

I enabled premium subscriptions on my Buttondown newsletter to write (professionally) about the feature. Then sent my (personal) newsletter that loudly boasts it doesn't have a premium option.

It's amazing anyone trusts me with this stuff.

Thanks, @segdeha.com. It's been a fun, if somewhat self-indulgent, project. I fell off the wagon after a PNW trip for my sister's wedding. Your post got me back on the horse!

This is the URL template FWIW: web.archive.org/web/*/%s

A GIF of me typing `ia hackaday.com` into my browser's address bar and being taken straight to the Wayback Machine's timeline view of that URL.

My favorite thing about Kagi is custom bangs.

I'm working on an article that relies heavily on archived pages and if I search `ia [URL]` (usually the address bar, sometimes Kagi itself), it takes me to straight to Internet Archive's timeline view of that URL.

A 3D printer and an LED bulb+USB socket. You can have a new, custom built lamp every week if ya want

I'm building a thing to compare all possible matchups (e.g. not a knockout structure) because sometimes first place still loses to others further down the ladder in qualitative matchups (i.e. you never compared Twilight to Wonder Woman)! Here's the same list without knockout

woolean.com?id=imhhp0uH

Bad ad, but almost an iPad (in 1984) I, for one, am glad that one of the greatest paintings of all time wasn't an 8-bit image drawn by this guy.

Writing for @buttondown.com has turned me into a newsletter evangelist. So I started my own to share the whacky, charming, extremely non-AI ads from tech magazines in the 80s and 90s. Enjoy! buttondown.com/suchbadtecha...

Me at mile 7: I should sign up for Portland marathon.

Me at mile 14: I should sign up for a second health insurance plan.

Dogma is way better than Clerks' sequel, Mall Rats

Review Kagi's browser Orion. I can't use it since I'm a boneheaded PC user, but I'm a very happy Kagi user and curious about the promises Orion has made

Sing the national anthem! It'll definitely fix problem number 2. And...maybe problem number 1?

I've been off social media for almost a decade. Came to Bluesky because of feed control, muted words, and other customization stuff made it feel more manageable. Primary goal was getting more connected to the running community (since I live abroad) and...yea...not great so far haha

The Best Dictation Software Every phone and PC includes highly accurate dictation tools. But Microsoft Word’s Dictate feature provided the most accurate text from our tester’s voice.

Our boy @maguay.bsky.social has thoughts

www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Famous Authors on Roller Coasters F. Scott Fitzgerald “Aaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaah ah ah ah ah aaaaaaaaaaah ah aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.” Emily Dickinson “Aah aaaaaaah – ah aah aaah – ah aaaah...

The absence of Cormac McCarthy on this list is a crime: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fam...

My daughter has more frequent flier miles and airport fashion at 4 than I have at 9x her age.

Haha I finished all three of those but don't think they're particularly amazing. More like bad attempts to insert characters into a Brian Cox lecture. Why do books like these garner such cultish followings