Tonight on GeekNights, we muse a bit on the problem of discoverability. Nearly all experience is mediated, and this includes deciding what web site to look at. In the news, Rym is back from Zenkaikon, Moon Zooz is continuing to rock it, the cosmological constant might not be, niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a dangerous idiot.
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Things of the Day
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- Rym: I Drove to Every McDonald's in America
- Scott: FamiTracker
Content tagged with internet
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Blogs
December 2 2024
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider blogging. In the news, Roblox is making a closed …
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Web Trackers and Analytics
September 23 2024
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the evils of web trackers and analytics. They are used …
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Moderation, Section 230, and Free Speech
February 26 2024
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the ramifications of a ridiculous Texas law being argued before …
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Archiving the Internet
March 27 2023
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the immense challenge of archiving the Internet. This is a …
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Online Advertising and Adtech
January 30 2023
Tonight on GeekNights, Rym is back from his ski trip, so we resume our regularly …
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Federated Architecture
November 21 2022
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss Federated Architecture in light of the collapse of Twitter. Federation …
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The POSSE Model and The End of Twitter
November 7 2022
Tonight on GeekNights, in the shadow of Twitter's collapse at the hands of a narcissistic …
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Hosting in 2022
April 4 2022
Tonight on GeekNights, we revisit the topic of hosting we last covered in 2006. …
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The Dark Web
July 8 2019
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the Dark Web. In the news, our flights were …
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