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a month later

We now have a Net Neutrality status map that lets us look at which countries that have sufficient consumer protections or not by its color. Blue means a country has sufficient protections, red means a country is undergoing legal changes, yellow means no protections at all, and black for countries lacking data. You may have to scroll it down a little to see the map.

You can click on a country by hovering over the colored region to provide details of how a country got that color. For countries too small to click, they let you zoom in/out.

Global Net Neutrality Coalition

LucianDreamer wrote

We now have a Net Neutrality status map that lets us look at which countries that have sufficient consumer protections or not by its color. Blue means a country has sufficient protections, red means a country is undergoing legal changes, yellow means no protections at all, and black for countries lacking data. You may have to scroll it down a little to see the map.

You can click on a country by hovering over the colored region to provide details of how a country got that color. For countries too small to click, they let you zoom in/out.

Global Net Neutrality Coalition

ooo! cool! Nice to see that the FCC wants to catch the USA up to... uh... oh

15 days later
GlassMoon wrote

http://www.reocities.com/tokyo/fuji/2931/

A bit different from the others, but this is an archived treasure of the early days when the internet was solely for outcasts and weirdos

I've always had an appreciation for little pieces of e-history like that. I've pmuch lived on the web since middle school, so I can remember the last days of the "old" internet. Though I couldn't quite grasp it then, I'd imagine the death of USENET and the runaway success of Facebook might've felt like the end of an era to many people.

'Course, the new net ain't all bad. Quite the contrary; I just stumbled upon a nifty little site that houses a repository for book scans! It's got pretty much every significant text you could ask for, ranging from scholarly journals to The Conquest of Bread, and it's even got a growing library of modern and classic fiction.

Right now, I'm stepping through Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. I was fortunate they had an English version; the corpus is largely English and Russian, but one of the novels I'd searched for was only available in French. ^^

Here, have a link! - http://libgen.io/

malmon wrote

ooo! cool! Nice to see that the FCC wants to catch the USA up to... uh... oh

It looks like the whole U.S. has just turned yellow not too long ago. :c

Also, Uruguay is now seeking legal changes, turning red.

a month later

Well, now that 4chan is a textboard we have this site to make images for us. Really cool.

17 days later

bump because i love this

here are some sites i like/occasionally check on

im really into forums and image/textboards

http://afternoon.dynu.com/
a comfy site with a textboard, image, and video section. it has a news section that you can write yourself, and even an interactive part. its small and slow, but very nice.
its fun to sit and watch the videos playlist sometime.
https://meguca.org/a/
a live imageboard, people can see as you type
http://oldweb.today/
basically like an interactive archive
https://dangeru.us/
good layout, good site.
i once read about this guy treating for his sick cat in the /news/ section. it was really sad but i got invested in it.

2 months later
All in One wrote

>dankmaymays.com
One of [s4s]'s off-site colonies. A shrine to all things dank, it boasts an odd combination of completely static webpages and decidedly less static webpages with each one centered around anything from flavor of the week shitposting to long standing memes like baneposting. Third King, CIAss and Froge are my favorites. It also has a flash archive with all the essentials.

I remember this! The guy started a thread on [s4s] and said he would add any images to the front page as they came in. I put in the 'best viewed on internet explorer' image at the bottom.

You lewders who have watched lain will probably like this.
To read the text on some of the pages you will have to set the charset to utf-8.
Find your browsers Text Encoding tool and set it to Unicode or just download the html files and change it.

It's comfy to explore, so enjoy <3 http://fauux.neocities.org/

8 months later

Swashbuckling games has never been easier, but how's about Steam Workshop mods? Luckily, the community's gotcha covered. You do hafta to learn how to install 'em yourself, but I'd reckon most consummate pirates would rather spend a few hours' Googling than $40, $60, even $200+ spare cash.

Just make sure you use this one. The other site (with the black background) threw up red flags when it said I'd have to install their own custom userscripts via GreaseMonkey. >>'

http://steamworkshop.download/

19 days later
4 days later

Cryin' shame that mixtape.moe just up and vanished. Imgur doesn't seem to like mobile uploads, so I was using it for roleplaying while at work.

Backlash wrote

Cryin' shame that mixtape.moe just up and vanished. Imgur doesn't seem to like mobile uploads, so I was using it for roleplaying while at work.

Looks fine on my end! And there's always catbox.moe and 0x0.st if it doesn't work.

5 days later

Seems like somebody took the trouble to completely recreate the PS1 Serial Experiments Lain game in the form of a website. There's a simple About page that gives more background on the game and how it should be played. I haven't personally gone through it yet but I can vouch for the quality of the content as I've seen all the cutscenes from the game and found them to be comparable in tone to the original anime. The site certainly has the proper aesthetics going for it.

a month later

I found a site lists all the "boorus" you can go to by popularity that isn't just limited to Danbooru and Safebooru, almost all of them aren't SFW, but you can try going there and see it for yourself. Every single one of them has its own way of what content can be posted but one thing they all share in common are the content ratings on every tagged image. Some names are even weird, funny or containing the more controversial ones like furry.

https://booru.org/

a month later

Kinda sad that mixtape.moe is closing down tomorrow. It seems like every pomf clone or its derivatives invariably get swamped with cheese pizza.

Backlash wrote

Kinda sad that mixtape.moe is closing down tomorrow. It seems like every pomf clone or its derivatives invariably get swamped with cheese pizza.

Extremely unfortunate this happens. And I wish I could advise a solution, but I've never run a service like that so how does one really prevent people from abusing the service? If they're abusing it they probably have the smarts to get around whatever bans or restrictions are applied to them. Seems rough. Really shitty that scum have ruined yet another good service.

seel wrote
Backlash wrote

Kinda sad that mixtape.moe is closing down tomorrow. It seems like every pomf clone or its derivatives invariably get swamped with cheese pizza.

Extremely unfortunate this happens. And I wish I could advise a solution, but I've never run a service like that so how does one really prevent people from abusing the service? If they're abusing it they probably have the smarts to get around whatever bans or restrictions are applied to them. Seems rough. Really shitty that scum have ruined yet another good service.

A CP detection algorithm? Though that would require a crapload of it to train on :/