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💬 Paid channels in Slack and Discord
Everything else has a price tag nowadays, so why not charge people to join channels on your Slack or Discord. I’m not a big fan of this drive toward Discord, but I can see the allure since web forums aren’t very usable.
Too bad there is no money in Usenet News.
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🎶 Vinyl production has finally hit the 21st century
For all you hipsters out there, vinyl record production has finally entered the 21st century.
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👨💻 Zoom Royale
I’m not a big fan of all of the crappy attempts at humor that occur on the internet on April 1st, but this one works:
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🖼️ Instagram lack of privacy is number 1!
If you’re not first, your last, and Instagram is the most invasive app in regards to your privacy. No wonder the founders of Instagram left Facebook.
And, not really a surprise, but Facebook is number 2 on their list.
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🤖 AI has it's chance to shine with its pickup lines
GPT-3 is an AI that is trained for different tasks, and apparent the results are sometimes hilarious!
This is pure gold though:
I’m losing my voice from all the screaming your hotness is causing me to do.
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📧 A Windows 95 Easter Egg in Win 95 Mail surfaces after 25 years
Who says there are no more heroes? A windows hacker and developer who goes by the name Albacore discovered a Windows 95 Easter Egg that was hidden for 25 years.
I want more information about how they found the Easter Egg. Unless they always use The Adams Family or Trading Places character names in their research.
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😫 AT&T Wants You To Be Grateful for 10Mbps upload
According to AT&T, 10Mbps upload is enough for anyone. This could be true if you’re the only person in the house, but what if there are two? Or three? Or someone wants to stream to Twitch.
I preordered Starlink just so I could escape the paltry uploads that Spectrum offers. It will be interesting to see how well it works. Hopefully I’ll find out by the end of summer.
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🧟 Radio Shack rises from the Grave
Radio Shack may come back to haunt us. I wonder if they’ll still need my number to buy batteries… On second thought, who would buy batteries from Radio Shack? I’ve replaced all mine with rechargeables.
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👾 Orion Trail updates Oregon Trail for the Apple II
Orion Trail is a cool looking update to the venerable favorite The Oregon Trail.
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🎥 Great Character Actors
The Vulture has put together a list of the 32 greatest character actors working today. Unfortunately, J. K. Simmons is ineligible for this list because he went and won an Oscar.