wiby  
Settings



ExplainingComputers.com: Computing Health and Safety

https://www.explainingcomputers.com/dse.html

The long-term use of computers has been linked to a range of potential health problems, or "computing related disorders" (CRDs). This section outlines these potential health risks

http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/

http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/

including old and new computers, consoles and mobile devices such as PDAs, mobile phones and pocket calculators. The main historical platforms include Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, A

An Argument for Web5.0

https://charinusraps.neocities.org/pages/writing/articles/2024-02-20-Web5.0

Unix was born, PDP computers were commonly used, and the first computer games were made on PLATO. Time-sharing was a concept established here too. The average consumer knew nothin

((lambda (x) (create x)) '(knowledge))

https://lambdacreate.com/posts/26

using only their oldest computers. For most this meant something with a gig of ram (which was then software limited down to 1/2gb), and some sort of 2000's CPU on old 5400rpm hdds

Liveness.com - Biometric Liveness Detection Explained

https://www.liveness.com/

Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", is a simple challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human or a spam bot. In an article on
Liveness Detection is an AI computer system’s ability to determine that it is interfacing with a physically present human being and not an inanimate spoof

What is the Internet?

http://www2.ic.uff.br/~michael/kr1999/1-introduction/1_01-What_is_the_Internet.htm

such as Web TVs, mobile computers, pagers and toasters are being connected to the Internet. (Toasters are not the only rather unusual devices to have been hooked up to the Interne

Electricmonk.nl weblog

https://www.electricmonk.nl/log/

to replace it, since computers are throwaway devices now. They’ll fail or become obsolete way before the battery ever dies. However, if the battery dies, your computer will
Ferry Boender's blog

"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."

http://blog.zorinaq.com/i-contribute-to-the-windows-kernel-we-are-slower-than-other-oper/

about by technology and computers will benefit the business exclusively, with none of their benefits being shared with the employee. If productivity doubles, profit doubles, workl
I was explaining on Hacker News why Windows fell behind Linux in terms of operating system kernel performance and innovation. And out of nowhere an anonymous...

Kevin Boone: More like Windows every day

https://kevinboone.me/morelikewindows.html

on desktop and laptop computers in the '90s, long before it became a relatively mainstream thing to do. My first Linux distribution took the form of a shoe-box-sized stack of flop
The ease of installation and use of modern desktop Linux distributions comes at a price. I review a couple of low-complexity alternatives to mainstream Linux distributions: Alpine

Shawn's Publications

http://www.uiaccess.com/pubs.html

conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, July 2012. (available from MIT Open Access Articles http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74638 ) Exploring web accessibility sol
About Shawn - Publications

Text Only & Lite Websites

https://bmk.neocities.org/

Google News for Vintage Computers. The headlines work, but the articles do not load at the moment currentevents.email Newsletter summarizing Wikipedia's current events. Has not be
A List of text only & lightweight, News, Sports, Weather, Search Engines, Cooking, Tech News, News Aggregator Websites, and other stuff.

John Gilmore's home page

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy. I remained quite active in EFF, and served on its Board of Directors for decades, until a spasm of political correctness du


Find more...