wiby  
Settings



The Anatomy of a Search Engine

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

As the capabilities of computers increase, it becomes possible to index a very large amount of text for a reasonable cost. Of course, other more bandwidth intensive media such as

YOU are the Dead Internet.

https://lukesmith.neocities.org/vids/dead_net

unlike personal computers, are used only for content consumption and give the user almost no power at all. I think in 10 years personal computers will be gone, people will just co

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

http://danluu.com/seo-spam/

few users interact with computers, that doesn't appear to be normal, even among people who are quite competent in various technical fields, e.g., mechanical engineering 2 . Howeve

Will the real oppressed group please stand up?

http://digdeeper.love/articles/oppression.xhtml

90% defaults on bought computers. Where is the planning? And we don't even know what's under "others" so the situation might actually be worse. Only 2% of people are certain to ac

Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share

https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

human communication, computers need a common set of conventions in order to share information. The history of networked computing is rich with stories about developing protocols.

The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation [LWN.net]

https://lwn.net/Articles/286233/

existing quantum computers have already attained the ultimate limit on computational speed - on a very small number of bits and in a research setting, but attained it nonetheless.
Moore's Law - we all know it (or at least think we do). To be annoyingly exact, Moore's Law i [...]

Svedic.org

https://svedic.org/

. Posted in Programming Computers Have Had Emotions for Quite Some Time Posted on September 29, 2017 by svedic A common assumption is that computers can’t have emotions. But there

Web Surfing

http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/surfing.html

Interacting with Computers , 2016) (26-Apr-19; 07-Jan-21) The Craft of Text Editing --or-- Emacs for the Modern World (Craig A. Finseth, 1999) (24-Jul-19; 11-Jan-21) Evil Mode: Or

Luke Smith Fanclub & Archive

https://lukesmith.neocities.org/

Technology Only Use Old Computers! tl;dr: modern computers are overpriced spyware; old ThinkPads are cheap, durable, repairable; Linux runs fast on them; most people need nothing
LukeSmith.xyz fanclub and archive – removed articles, lost videos, and community opinions. Explore content no longer on lukesmith.xyz.

Digital Freedom across the World

https://eylenburg.github.io/countries.htm

all smartphones and computers sold in Russia must come with pre-installed Russian software, which most likely facilitates government access to these devices anyway. In practice, R

Chris Koehnke's Webpage

http://chriskoehnke.com/

2002, tinkering with computers since I don't know when. Enjoyer of music , beer, and humor jokes . I used to be cool and did things like solve Rubik's Cubes and be in a rock band


Find more...