https://internet.nl/ that tests a bunch of security related things and gives your server a score. Great for checking a few more boxes.
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It's the weirdest shit I've ever seen. Before I get into it, I want to point out that I've been using this site for years, since before LLMs were a thing, so this is definitely not generated by AI.
It's just like, generic outline drawings of things. Objects, people, places, everything.
So sometimes I like to draw, and I need a model to work from for the pose and the proportions, and this site has a ton of them. Child kicking a ball? Yes. Adult man sitting on a bench? Several options to choose from. Woman carrying a box? Three different poses.
Pointing, pushing, protesting, thinking, vacuuming, raising one's hand to summon a waiter in a restaurant, it's all there.
I'm sure there's some kind of industrial use for it, like for diagrams or blueprints or something, but then we get to the descriptions. Like on the page for people carrying boxes, it says:
People lift boxes either in their personal lives or at work. People lift boxes to move residences. Mailmen or delivery truck drivers lift boxes everyday as part of their job. Some jobs may require their applicants to be able to lift a certain weight of box. When lifting boxes, it is important to lift with your knees instead of your back to prevent back injury.
Then there's always three questions, which they provide answers to. For carrying, those questions are:
What is a carry on bag?
What is carrying capacity?
How much can a horse carry?
Why? Whom is that for?
Under the pictures of elderly people it asks things like "What are the best exercises for maintaining mobility in seniors?" and "How can seniors adapt their homes for safety and accessibility?"
Is this for dolphins? Did a dolphin learn to read English, and they want to understand human society?
I'm struggling to find the weirdest examples, because honestly it's the breadth as well as the depth. Someone clearly put a ton of work into this, and I love it, but I don't understand it.
Alright. I figured it out. This is for aliens trying to understand us.
But they'd have written it in alienese. That's why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they'd naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.
What if they wrote it in english cuz ofcourse aliens have english to alienese translator.
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https://posthog.com/ Its best on desktop or in desktop mode Its basically a recreation of a desktop with icons in the browser. Its super cool to just navigate around in.
It's been around for half a century and nobody knows about it. It's like a world wonder, a modern Library of Alexandria.
Not sure how known these are, but it's similar.
https://librivox.org/ public domain audio books
https://freemusicarchive.org/ free access to open licensed music
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There is a modern Library of Alexandria, just fyi, it's pretty fucking dope.
IIRC, they'll add new books every year, as older books slowly become Public Domain, so classics like a bunch of Tarzan books (though not all of them, yet) have become available.
Also, for those that don't get the name: Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press that was much better than existing presses (and pretty new to Europe).
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Floor 796 — https://floor796.com/
this is so cool
Noooo don’t look at the NSFW camera in the shower!!!
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omnicalculator.com
If they are missing one, I haven't needed it yet.
It's still the same same as it was almost 30 years ago and is an example of both how websites used to look and also shows how much more functional things used to be when implemented well, inspite of modern aesthetic evolutions
Learn how a computer works by building your own from scratch.
I just tried it and it's so much harder to understand than just playing around with transistors on a breadboard.
Like, I can easily make a nand gate with a couple NPNs and a PNP. But I couldn't figure out what they wanted me to do with those relays, so I didn't get past the first task.
Sure, building your own breadboard computer is much better than playing with some website... However transistors and relays are kind of similar in function, they both gate whether current flows.
If you are already familiar with transistors, then I agree those are a simpler introduction, however most regular people don't know anything about a transistor, and they seem a little bit magical.
A relay however can be grasped by most people just by looking at it in operation. Magnet attracts... Electromagnets only attracts when powered... wire doesn't conduct when not connected... Wire does conduct when connected... Electromagnet can pull or push wire to either connect or disconnect...
If you want the solution for the first task (building a nand gate with relays), you can see my solution here:
spoiler
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To figure out what type of adhesive/glue you need to attach x material to y material
Ferry Halim made Orisinal, a website full of simple and relaxing Flash games that lives again now through various means, I think a combination of HTML5 conversion and Ruffle: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
Duuuuuuude, I haven't seen these games in around two decades. Thanks for posting this!
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https://windows93.net/ - Some mad lad implemented a custom parody version of Windows 95 that has a bunch of working applications and emulators. Also, check out !internetisawesome@sh.itjust.works for a lot of similar sites.
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I’m not saying it’s the coolest, but I made a thing to scratch an itch that others may enjoy. I modeled it after something I found a few decades back that I never found again.
Forgot to mention it is available as a tui too. cargo install rhuidean-studio
That's so cool! The name is a nice reference, too
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On of Eyezmaze made the Grow games, which are currently still playable here: https://www.eyezmaze.com/
if the moon were only one pixel
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
gives a better idea of how ridiculously vast the solar system and outer space actually is--if you turn on "scroll at light speed" it feels slow at these distances
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https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/20018103
Probably the same response I put when someone else asked this 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn't say nobody, it's got a cult following, but I think even more should try it
Edit: !youraislopboresme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
I just think it's neat, so made a community a few days ago
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this is my favorite regeneration.org a bunch of issues our world faces with all sorts of different solutions
Thanks for this. It seems to have something for everyone, and the idea of punch lists sounds like what's sometimes missing to get from concerned / informed to actually effective.
https://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
A free text-based RPG browser game with a unique sense of absurdist humor.
Came here to post this, it's probably my favorite game
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