Very interesting article!
This is the Internet I miss!
What? You don’t like browsing the web, where everyone is shoving politics down your throat, and making violent hostile threats, and everybodys offended over baby names, and the web is like 3 websites big???
You don’t LOVE that?
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Try finding a nice desktop background picture of something specific. It’s all just links to subscription based stock image sites.
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing. Just wanted a whale shark photo in 2K…
If anyone knows places to search for freely shared images that would be amazing
Good shout, thank you
Unsplash is great if you want photography
Looks good, thanks!
There is also wallhaven.cc if you need more options
It’s unfortunate, but AI image generators will make exactly what you want, royalty free.
Just today was looking for a seamless tile of grass for desktop background (decided to just use solid color, because eyes get tired looking at separate grass blades, though), spent like 15 minutes. On that.
This is how I learned that InterFaceLift was kill.
Google image search has a rights filter.
Onboarding the general population was such a historic mistake
It is still there, just not picked up by Google or Bing.
Nice find. Really whips the Llamas ass.
This takes me back to a simpler time.
A time of playing Total Anihilation and hanging on MSN messenger.
Does anyone remember musicmatch jukebox with the jumping sheep visualisation?
Oh god musicmatch was soooo good, it was my daily driver while everyone else was using winamp…something about whipping unsuspecting animals in the ass.
So much nostalgia right now. I wish we could go back to those days!
Musicmatch! I thought I was the only one!
This threw me for a sec because I was like “no way was someone playing Total Annihilation and not listening to that incredible OST”.
Me and a friend used to love the menu background sound. Like a deep mechanical humming sound.
We used to call it “indust”. My friend looped it for an hour and recorded it to minidisc.
Maybe this is why I like dark ambient drone sounds so much even today…
The Jukebox was better because of cataloging from online sources and library features. Don’t remember the visuals
Hell yeah!
This is pretty cool, although it makes me feel old.
I can’t imagine anyone younger than 30 would even get what this article is about.
Actually, I’d love to hear from anybody younger than 30. Does this article make sense to you at all?
I am not at all representative of my age group (I am on lemmy ffs), but yes, I do know what winamp is/was.
Same
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I’m under 30, I have no idea what winamp is but I figured it’s some music software from the skins’ pics. I imagine it was popular for it to have a museum thing about user created skins
(I haven’t googled anything yet)
It was the only thing at some point in time which explains the popularity.
It was the thing in its time.
*crickets*
27, I dimly remember what Winamp was (never used it though) and extrapolated what Skins would be. I assume they’re essentially an archive of image files used to give a music player a custom look? Except they’re not technically restricted to image files and can apparently contain other files too, which I assume will make them invalid as skins, i.e. corrupted.
How far off am I?
Mind, I’m far from representative for my age group, given my IT expertise.
I’m 21, but people talk about winamp online all the time so I’m pretty familiar
Bro people know what hieroglyphs and wax Edison cylinders are. People know things, winamp is not some obscure hidden knowledge
Wasn’t implying it was hidden knowledge.
I was thinking about the zeitgeist of different generations in context of computing.
This is like finding digital time capsules. Very interesting.
Oh wow, I never heard of the skin archive. This is fantastic.
I still use Winamp 2.95, with a Pure Pwnage skin I downloaded back in the mid 2000s. Added it to the archive.
You must be a l33t h4x0r!
Boom! Headshot!
Such a lovely post, a nice distraction from all the doom scrolling articles! I wish we had more of this.
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I should write a happy news moderator bot for my instance.
What a great read. Thanks for sharing.
I wonder if a “KOOL” tube is a tube for smoking a cigarette out of (I remember that being a brand).
Post the Flintstones image, you coward!
Oh for fucks sake, now the article itself has a misplaced mobile Wikipedia link and there’s nowhere I can quickly see to put my copy paste about it.
copy paste for context:
Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.
General infosec tip: keep your browser add-ons to the absolute minimum you can live with. Add-ons are attack vectors. The more you have - the more at risk you are. And only install the ones you have a reason to trust.
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You live by that and I’ll live by the advice I’ve seen from infosec professionals that recommend as few add-ons as possible due to security concerns. But yes, browsers are getting more secure over time and that’s good.
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You obviously shouldn’t install closed source or otherwise shady extensions from dodgy authors you don’t know, but on the whole there is very little they can do that you should worry about.
Sorry if I’m nitpicky or confused here. You just said it’s obvious that you shouldn’t install closed sourced or otherwise shady extensions. Do you think a normie knows and cares if an extension is open source? And how do they know if an extension is “shady”? And what about legit extensions that get bought by shady people and turned into shady ones long after they’ve been installed and the user base trusts it?
I mean, couldn’t an addon just read the password you put into a login field, or send in a request, and send it off to their servers?
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Obviously a simple URL redirector for wikipedia requesting access to this data is absurd and would be an immediate red flag.
To you, yes it should be. But it does require knowledge about how websites and browsers work that most people don’t have. I’d be very surprised if 50% of people have any idea what those permissions actually do and what would be reasonable for different extensions to have.
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People not having the Wikipedia app baffles me. Sharing from there gives you reasonable links.
Why use an app when there’s a web site? In case of Wikipedia I fail to see any functional benefit for an app.
The app has offline capabilities and to save articles on a named list. I use it as a reference when forgetting something or to save the list type article as a starting point when researching a software to use. Or just generally a reading material when on the go (yes, I find reading wikipedia articles entertaining)
Ok, offline functionality does make sense
Better reading experience overall. Compartmentalizing all my Wikipedia reading so as not to mix it with my other many open tabs. (Wikipedia app has tabs, too.) Sections are not collapsed by default. Easier to search on the page by default than in the browser.
I can probably go on it I made a more in-depth comparison after using the web version for a bit…
There’s a Wikipedia app? I find that baffling.
Try it. It’s great.
How much time do you spend on Wikipedia?
My man, I think I have over a hundred tabs and saved wikipedia articles alone that I always refer to when needed. The app works great for me
I would assume, and hope, it works really well for such usage. I only tend to end up on Wikipedia a couple of times a week, and 95% of that is on my desktop to have a quick look at something I won’t be getting back to ever again.
Then the app is not for you. 😊
Time? Pff, no clue. But I look things up all the time and don’t have time to finish articles the first time round, ever (two kids under six).
So it’s great to have and get back to articles.
Yes that works, and you can also use something like URLCheck and just drop that path
What is that, an extension?
That was truly strange, awesome
If you want to see the Flintstones R34 image you have to the crack the file yourself.
Eventually I figured out that the password needed to be lower case. Inside were a bunch of
.avsfileshttps://fileinfo.com/extension/avs
… is a configuration file used by Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), an audio visualizer for the Nullsoft Winamp media player.
This is a truly fantastic story. It reminds me of why the Internet is cool, if you dig deep enough, there’s always treasure to be found.
what a great article
