This article nicely sums up my suspicion about the state of 'Xwitter'…
"Twitter is now a siloed attention roulette machine just like TikTok. That was the plan when Elon took over and they succeeded. There's no going back."
These guys actually tracked down a copy of Archie (including the source code) and now have a public Archie server back online!
Archie was the Internet's first search engine (before the web existed). I remember using it in the early 90s.
It's pretty funny how usable 90s tech is: imagine, a search engine that just gives you direct links to file downloads without any other nonsense involved!
Ja… äähhh,… ja und dann vielleicht gleich auf @briar und/oder @cwtch zum chaten wechseln? Wenn dies überhaupt noch jemensch aktiv nutzt. Nun ja, @signalapp ist leider nicht dezentral.
»Messenger der 2000er – ICQ macht nach mehr als 27 Jahren dicht:
Er ist einer der ältesten Chatdienste ‒ und hat die Jugend der frühen 2000er geeint: Nun ist für den Messenger ICQ bald Schluss.«
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When Bing, Microsoft’s search engine platform, went down early yesterday, it took down a number of services with it, including ChatGPT search, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo — all of which rely on the Bing API to operate.
With the majority of Google search alternatives taken out in one fell swoop, it highlighted the lack of competition that Google search truly has, and the implications that has on our online experience. Is there another way? @arstechnica has more.
Can someone with mad computer skillz tell me if this is legit, or if doing so will open a wormhole to a shady hacker underworld that immediately steals my identity?
(also, if any members of the shady hacker underworld are reading this and tempted to respond, I’ll only believe you if you say “scout’s honor”. Can’t fool me!)