altilunium

long time ago, i joined a mass protest on the chromium-dev mailing list because google was unilaterally trying to remove a certain javascript functionality that plenty of people still heavily relied on.

i don't even know whether we won that fight or not... but, good times.

most of the things within a half-hour walk from us are actually banned on wikipedia because they're not notable enough.. i was expecting this site to let us freely add "those forbidden" things. i had high hopes when reading the title alone..

turns out, it just filters existing wikipedia articles based on their proximity to a given coordinate.

> He and a music producer recreated the song

haha. back then i also used this exact same method to search for a song i'd heard a long time ago (but i didn't know either the artist or the title). it wasn't really that complicated, since i just reproduced the chorus using a keyboard. turns out somebody on the forum knew the song and gave me the details, so i finally reunited with that song after decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMRqCa2k0o

We have matter-antimatter asymmetry in physics... and now I just learned there's a similar concept in chemistry (one variant frequently occurs in life while the other mirrored variant is rarely found in nature)

can any layman user simply use it without running their own instance?

I immediately noticed something was wrong when the "daily tech message board" appeared. Before that point, I 100% believed that this was a real story.

probatio diabolica

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probatio_diabolica

https://07th-expansion.fandom.com/wiki/Devil%27s_Proof