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    | Tildes
    I wanted to hit the gym all my life, but I never really made it until this year. Granted, I do have a sports background and have been active most of my life, but going to the gym was never really for me, until I decided to really do it this year. After years of shoulder and knee [...]
    | MetaFilter
    "Back in 2021, the internet briefly lost its collective mind over a very particular headline: rats had been trained to play Doom — specifically, Doom II. Four years later, the project is back with a substantial update, and this time it's less of a novelty and more of something that actually resemble [...]
    | MetaFilter
    For the last two years, we've been working on a large-scale project to preserve the history of Sega Channel. Today, we unveiled our findings in a new YouTube video. The Video Game History Foundation post about the project includes a summary. 144 unique ROMs have been recovered. The majority are syst [...]
    | MetaFilter
    Unloved [YouTube, 2 minutes 30 seconds] – a short animated story (which is technically an advertisement for a French grocery chain, but I don't think you'll mind being advertised to in this way).
    | MetaFilter
    It's about time for another LINKME thread. These are a form of freethread where you can post links to things you want to draw attention do, but for whatever reason don't want to make a full post about. Then someone else, if they choose, can take your link and make a FPP around it. Or not; the links [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    Today's anonymous submitter sends us a short snippet. They found this because they were going through code committed by an expensive third-party contractor, trying to track down a bug: every report in the database kept getting duplicated for some reason. This code has been in production for over a d [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    Three blind anonymice are unbothered by the gathering dark as we approach the winter solstice. Those of you fortunate enough to be approaching the summer solstice are no doubt gloating. Feel free, we don't begrudge it. You'll get yours soon enough. Here we have some suggestions from a motley crew of [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    We recently asked for some of your holiday horror stories. We'll definitely take more, if you've got them, but we're going to start off with Jessica, who brings us not so much a horror as an omen. Jessica writes: I work for a company in the UK which writes legal software for law firms. This raises [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    (Read Part 1 here) By the 10-month mark of her job search, Ellis still lacked full-time employment. But she had accumulated a pile of knowledge and advice that she wished she'd started with. She felt it was important to share, in hopes that even one person might save some time and sanity: Th [...]
    | The Daily WTF
    When writing software, we like our code to be clean, simple, and concise. But that loses something, you end up writing just some code, and not The Code. Mads's co-worker wanted to make his code more definite by using this variable naming convention: public static void addToListInMap(final Map theMap [...]
    | PieFed
    If you’d like a PieFed instance of your own but don’t want to deal with setting up a server, installing PieFed, and maintaining it yourself, get in touch with the team at fedihost.co! They’re currently offering reduced-price PieFed hosting to a limited number of instances as part of a beta program. [...]
    | PieFed
    When Cloudflare had problems recently pretty much every PieFed instance went offline. This was a real “wtf are we doing” moment, for me. What’s the point of having multiple instances (there are now 64 PieFed instances!) if they all have a single point of failure. Due to some technical limitations of [...]
    | PieFed
    PieFed 1.2 has just been released. Details and links to examples at https://piefed.social/post/1278967 The post PieFed v1.2 is released appeared first on PieFed.
    | PieFed
    RSL is a new initiative by a group of big internet publishers that seeks to define the conditions under which AI crawlers can harvest their content. Their guide describes the various ways the content can be made available, including for free or a paid royalty but only by digging deeper into their re [...]
    | PieFed
    Anubis uses a javascript-based challenge to stop scrapers from hammering your server. Installing it is easy enough but then you need to figure out how to configure it and it’s pretty intense. Here is the config I have for piefed.social, so far: bots: - name: allow-api-json-xhr   user_agent_regex: .* [...]
    | InterPals
    Where it’s the cherry blossoms, samurai, sushi or manga, are you curious about Japan and its culture? Or perhaps you’re even thinking of learning Japanese? One of the best ways to learn about a culture is to begin to learn the language. In this post we introduce you to some important Japanese words [...]
    | InterPals
    Join us on an exhilarating journey through the picturesque landscapes of France, all while mastering the French language on a bicycle. Imagine pedaling through lavender fields in Provence or along the scenic Loire Valley, embracing both the beauty of France and its melodic language. Whether you’re c [...]
    | InterPals
    Immerse yourself in the alluring blend of rich coffee traditions and Spanish language found across Latin America. Each cafĂ© offers a window into the local way of life, transforming your daily coffee ritual into a vibrant learning opportunity. Picture yourself sipping a freshly brewed ‘cafĂ© con leche [...]
    | InterPals
    Whether you’re just beginning to learn English or you’ve been studying for years, there’s always room for improvement. And one of the best ways to improve your comprehension skills is to listen to podcasts.  There are tons of great podcasts out there — both geared specifically to English language le [...]
    | SpaceHey
    New: SpaceHey Groups! https://groups.spacehey.com; A lot of small improvements: View Details
    | SpaceHey
    New: Pin Group Forum Topics to the Top of the Group Forum section; New: Enable/disable individual features in your Group (Group Bulletins/Forum)
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