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gnoll_of_gozagon PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)

everyone involved in seo is a ghoul poorly masquerading as human in my book

gnoll_of_gozagon Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization

conveniently ignoring the fact that real western socialism and eastern larp have been different since day one of the establishment of the deformed worker's state known as "soviet union"

gnoll_of_gozagon Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization

elaborate

gnoll_of_gozagon When did Google get so weird?

I live 2 borders away from it

gnoll_of_gozagon Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS

Can it still run in browser like it would on a regular pc?

gnoll_of_gozagon Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device

can you make youtube poops with it?

gnoll_of_gozagon I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

it's the social in a social media website that matters the most. every decent person is gone and what's left is bots, hucksters, vapid influencers, slop, racists, soyjakparty, pedophiles, proanas, personifications of the dunning-kruger effect and children who send eachother death threats over shipping the wrong roblox characters. there's a persistent aura of misery over everyone's heads

gnoll_of_gozagon How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?

this post is about layouts

gnoll_of_gozagon Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

people on discord get sniped semi regularly by fraudulent child exploitation reports

gnoll_of_gozagon Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

do normies really find these appealing? they look like when robin's actor from 60s batman made a dog food brand that looked like malware

gnoll_of_gozagon Miss the old web? Join us haywood.computer

try as hard as you can, you can't hide the claude style of frontend. get out, poser

gnoll_of_gozagon Midnight social media curfew, infinite scrolling limits proposed for older teens

then just make it default to chronological, no need for this circus with horses

gnoll_of_gozagon Midnight social media curfew, infinite scrolling limits proposed for older teens

calling it that the curfew will be beaten day one by merely changing the system time

gnoll_of_gozagon The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use

big normie social media yes, but people still have hella actual conversations on bluesky and mastodon and (i think) they use chronological fields by default

gnoll_of_gozagon The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

best solution would be to serve paginated by default but you can change page size in the settings or even enable infinite. whoever really wants infinite can use it, it's just not forced on everyone. sated wolves, intact sheep

gnoll_of_gozagon The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

and places other than reddit dont need it

gnoll_of_gozagon The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

infinite scroll/algorithms don't need to be completely gone - just no longer the default setting

gnoll_of_gozagon The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes

tumblr still has pages and it has never impeded me

on the contrary, infinite scrolls are impossible to get back to after some time away and eventually start lagging

gnoll_of_gozagon The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?

this is about commerical blogs but what i miss more are the more casual ones

cohost was great for this. you could see the creator of tcrf just postin out there having a basic day. and the next post could either be an elaborate shitpost or a long read on the inner workings of the nes

ive checked out bubbles town and bearblog but it feels just like a worse doomscroll than social media and the people there are kinda lame.

gnoll_of_gozagon Bring back crappy forums

how actually good is it at russian? online russian is just over halfway full of esoteric slang, multilingual puns and references

gnoll_of_gozagon The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party

just "stricter policy" is an understatement. they want mass expulsions

gnoll_of_gozagon Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids

id say theres more here on the balkans

gnoll_of_gozagon Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids

theres a huge pyramid right now in memphis tenessee??

gnoll_of_gozagon Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

why?

gnoll_of_gozagon Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

strange. i've used disposable emails for reddit accounts several times and everything worked

gnoll_of_gozagon Bitsy

BITSY MENTIONED they were pretty big back on cohost

gnoll_of_gozagon World Capitals Voronoi

would be interesting to see one that takes into account things like railroads or terrain ruggedness

gnoll_of_gozagon Show HN: NoSuggest – Watch YouTube without the recommendation algorithm

i just block the sidebar with an ublock filter

gnoll_of_gozagon Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain

this is a joke right?

why would a ring need a whole ass microphone and a non rechargable battery like yeah dude gotta have a $100 dongle you just throw away once in a while

if it's already compatible with the watch then why not just make it emit some sort of signal that turns on the watch's mic? or put the button on the watch itself?