http://wiby.me/ is a cool site. It’s a search engine that only has web 1.0 and web 1.0-styled websites.
zoo.replicate.dev - a bunch of free ai image generation models
snowfl - a search engine for torrents
I’ve actually seen this used in movies and TV shows.
Ian’s Shoelace Site:
Different ways to lace your shoes.The Phrontistery:
Glossaries of, e.g., obscure words, lost words, etc.Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian’s Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.
And Ian’s Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it’s as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.
The what???
A variety of neat activities and educational pages.
My goodness. I love this website’s activities and educational pages. I really should be studying right now, but here are a few of my favorites so far.
https://neal.fun/lets-settle-this/
https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/
https://neal.fun/life-checklist/
Plenty more to check out!
I feel like 35 is too young to have completed 51/66 tasks in the life checklist. I’m too young for a midlife crisis (fingers crossed, anyways)!
Yeah, I feel like it’s heavily skewed towards the beginning of life, but tbf I feel like the cool things you do later in life are harder to quantify? Could add things like:
- I’m trying to think of how to quantify a “Have 0 debt” option but like, post mortgage or something.
- Establish a friend group
- Hang out with at least one member of that friend group for 5 / 10 / 15 years
- Go to an interesting location as part of your job (conventions count)
- See a historical human-made artifact in person
- See a legitimate dinosaur bone in person (not cast)
- Visit your country’s capital
- Create a piece of art and enter it into something that has it be viewed by people outside your family / friends
That space elevator was really engaging and interesting!!
There is this really cool place called Lemmy, I’m sure many people here have heard of it but not anyone I ask in other places. It’s like Reddit, it’s a forum-esque place where people can exchange their thoughts. The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things, but overall it’s pretty nice.
The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things
(and we like it that way, tyvm)
It’s one thing to have a dominant demographic, but any place could do without a black and white mindset when they go about it.
Lol.
Foldnfly.com - shows dozens of ways to fold paper airplanes.
www.thetruesize.com - Find the true size of one country compared to another.
Is this like the digital equivalent of a million monkeys with a million typewriters?
Yeah sorta. It’s apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that’s ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.
I thought humanity was the “million monkeys with a million typewriters”
And also “every finite number is contained within PI” but with words.
Okay, cool! I had some fun looking for words in the pages. But if I understand it correctly, what we’ll end up with individual words surrounded with gibberish on the pages. You’re never going to get a page full of real words, right?
I haven’t looked at it yet but if u understand correctly you just have to search for a page where surrounding gibberish is also words. Probability plummets to zero fast, I’d guess
Every possible page is generated somewhere. I think there’s a checkbox on the search page that fills the rest of the query with spaces.
That statement may be false, a simple explanation is that if you make a number out of π by removing all 9s it will keep the properties of π being infinite and non-repeating but never contain 9.
The website for the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult is still up, 27 years after they all killed themselves.
I wonder who’s renewing the domain? I guess I could do an ICANN lookup for registrar info, but I’m lazy.
I saw in a documentary that a few of the cult members were ordered to stay alive to keep the site up. Apparently you can email them and talk to them too.
💀 imagine being told as the IT team for the suicide cult that your job is to tirelessly maintain a site and renew the domain and SSL cert for eternity and provide Q&A
http://endless.horse The only sad thing is it doesn’t support https :(
Does it need to?
Yes. What if someone MITMs me and chops off the poor horse’s leg?
I really liked this blog like 10+ years ago.
He’s got a lot of funny stuff on there where he eats unusual food, talks about a fungus growing on his trees, and other things he has observed. He even has an interview with Adam Savage!
He is also the none pizza left beef pizza guy.
Basically a model viewer/freecam for stages from various video games. Really neat to see the tricks various devs pull to conserve detail.
…can you not make me feel like a fossil
I’m pretty sure everyone on Lemmy is exactly 37 years old, and grew up with ytmnd
Surprised no-one said <your lemmy instance here>