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Chinese is one of the most popular languages on Wikipedia

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5


I've seen claims about Wikipedia pushing both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine agenda, depending on who you ask. Which only makes me think that the real bias lies in the reader.

On the current events page, yes there is a bias. It will take time for them to be ironed out. I was referring to misinformation and disinformation on historical events. I have seen two parallel articles, the second created to give an incorrect narrative, of an event.

That's because apparently adhering to Wikipedia's own policies is a "pro-Israel" agenda. Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (the founders of Wikipedia) have both called out the site/foundation on this, but I can't find the one on Sanger from a more trustworthy source than the New York Post.

https://www.theverge.com/news/813245/wikipedia-co-founder-ji...

https://nypost.com/2025/03/10/business/wikipedia-disrupted-b...


How is this relevant to the question?

GeoIP services can sometimes be wrong, they are essentially just lookup tables for IP subnets. I have a VPS in the Netherlands which most GeoIP providers detect as being in Czechia, for example. I assume whichever one the site is using just has the wrong country listed for your IP.

Unlike their fanbases, KDE and Gnome teams collaborate all the time

...until it comes to bikeshedding new standards


Why are "personal homepages" listed as dead? Sure, they're not as ubiquitous as they used to be, but almost every tech-adjacent person I know has one. Webrings and guestbooks are also very much still a thing. I'd say they are far from dead.

Of the people I know in tech roles, there are far more who have no online presence at all.

Personal pages were once an option in those people's minds (i.e. get around to it later). Then it got bargained down to social media profiles. Now anything at all has become a liability and the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

I think that's what they mean.


They used to be part of your ISP. You got a usenet server, and a mail server and a web server with a certain amount of space, just as part of signing up.

This meant that everyone had one, you didn't have to go sign up somewhere else. You still could if you wanted to have a URL that didn't have your ISP's name in it.


Did they? I've been around for ages (I know the dial up tone by heart). My early ISPs at best offered a mailbox (not a mail server), no web server, Usenet was extra.

And few people used the ISP mailbox because you couldn't take it with you when you left. Hell, I got my gmail during the invite only era


I also got a gmail during the invite only. I was so stoked, I drew a picture of Link (from Wind Waker) holding a Gmail icon over his head in his triumphant "got a new item!" pose.

Some ISPs from back in the day did offer a few megs of space for a web site with a ~username url that you could use to build a personal site. But by the late 90s this practice began to wane as services like GeoShitties became the norm.


I guess mainly because of insta, facebook and other social media platforms, but I am a fan of old days. But our numbers are pretty limited compared to the mass.

Sure, but I think it's just that internet is now used by much more non—tech-savvy people, not because people are switching from having a personal homepage to social media. The ones who know how to create a personal site still usually have one. Almost every post you see on HN is from someone's personal website.

That doesn't include Quarto, which seems like the closest alternative

I'm not familiar with Quarto, feel free to update the table in a PR

Memories are failable :) Here is the PR you merged June of last year, changing the file extension from `.qmd` to `.qd` after a discussion about Quarto: https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown/pull/90

Of course, just saying I'm not familiar with the language itself and its capabilities! :)

Wow, I'm surprised everyone has a very negative opinion about this. I liked it when I saw it for the first time, seems pretty convenient to me. Kinda like Zen Browser's "glance" tab but built into github.

I usually treat an app putting stuff into $HOME with no reason to change that as a reason to not use the app. I've genuinely switched software multiple times because of the old one doing this.

I also suggest you try xdg-ninja, which automatically scans your home directory and shows which of those directories you can change to a different location:

https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

I have a big shell config file that sets proper locations for all sort of programs I use:

https://github.com/flexagoon/dotfiles/blob/main/dot_config/f...


> Slop fonts: Space Grotesk, Instrument Serif, Geist, Syne, Fraunces

Nooo please don't ruin great fonts by associating them with low effort vibecoding

They may be somewhat overused but they are popular for a reason


yeah lots of these are used by AI because they're good. i use Space Grotesk for headings on my current project, rotheme, with Instrument Sans in the body, and my link shortener project uses Geist.

maybe i'm an LLM too


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