The Female Tinder Experience [Comedy Sketch]
The female Tinder experience is filled with a wide variety of emotions… but mostly frustration. A comedy sketch by the folks from Viva La Dirt League. [VLDL]
Category Archives: Web
Internet Address Logjam Could Be Eased
A proposal could free up “hundreds of millions” of internet addresses, buying a little more time in the move to IPv6. Seth Schoen (pictured) points to four types of address that are reserved for special purposes that may no longer be needed. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, which allow for four billion possibilities. Just like counting […]
Web Rival Gopher Back In Spotlight
A handheld game system designer recently celebrated the first units shipping by posting a text file on Gopher. If you’re old enough to understand that sentence, I hope your knees and back are doing OK. The Playdate console fits in a palm and has a small monochrome screen and retro-style arrow and A/B keys. It’s […]
Reliving the Dial-Up Internet Experience in 2022
From Gough Lui: A video where I demonstrate the late 1990s dial-up experience using near period-accurate hardware, connecting to modern websites using outdated browsers over a 31.2kbit/s dial-up connection. The narration is unscripted and page loads are in real-time. [Gough Lui]
Passwordless Sign-In Getting Easier
Apple, Google and Microsoft have agreed a joint program to boost passwordless sign-ins. They’ll give greater support to the FIDO Alliance standard. The idea is to almost completely remove the need to use any passwords, sidestepping the trade-off between security and convenience. At the moment FIDO often requires users to type in a password the […]
Google To Label “Great” Chrome Extensions
A new Google badge system aims to make it easier to find high quality Chrome extensions. The Chrome Web Store will now indicate which extensions and developers meet a “high standard.” The badges aren’t meant to be a guarantee of a useful, quality extension, but rather an indication that they follow Chrome’s best practices. It […]
Cheaper Netflix Could Include Ads
Netflix may introduce a low-price tier that includes ads following a surprise drop in subscribers. It’s also talking again about restricting password sharing. In the first three months of 2022, Netflix had a net loss of 200,000 subscribers on the previous quarter, the first such drop of any significance in its history. That’s misleading to […]
Rejecting Cookies May Get Easier
The choice between blindly accepting cookies and going through complex settings menus could soon be over. At least that’s what researchers at the University of Wisconsin say. They’ve developed an automated tool that aims to reject all non-essential cookies when you first visit a site. In principle, such a tool should be totally unnecessary. The […]
DuckDuckGo Browser Debuts On Desktops
The DuckDuckGo browser is now available in beta form on MacOS. It’s the first time the privacy-focused browser has come in desktop app form. The beta is available on an invite basis, with users on a waitlist being added over time, while a Windows version is in the works. Rather unintuitively, the signup point for […]
When Today Was Tomorrow’s World (2020 Imagined in the Early 90s)
Two archive videos show that what is today a mundane reality was once a fantastical future… though not everything worked out as planned. The clips come from BBC show Tomorrow’s World, which featured a combination of the latest technology available at the time and the ideas in the works. The first, from 1989, imagined what […]