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Ernie Smith

ernie@writing-exchange.mostr.pub

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Editor of Tedium, an offbeat newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot, and I accidentally made a search engine. Support what I do here: https://ko-fi.com/tedium Interests: #writing #news #history #technology #retrotech #weird #geoworks #freelance

Ernie Smith 3 months ago

About a month or two ago, I got an intriguing email with the subject line “The Laundry Room Search Engine.” A guy built his own quite-good search engine—and yes, it's currently sitting in his laundry room. Here's how he did it: https://www.fastcompany.com/91396271/searcha-page-seekninja-diy-search-engines me @npub17eyh...f2eu

Ernie Smith 4 months ago

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

https://help.aol.com/

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

Learn about why dial up internet has been discontinued.

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Ernie Smith 6 months ago

Just learned there was a new Google udm code discovered. So you know what I had to do.

&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

Still kicking in on the DNS front, but it’s already up.

Ernie Smith 10 months ago

People who try to inject culture war drama into open-source projects *cough Dunluke cough* don’t deserve a moment of your time

Ernie Smith 1 year ago

I bought the Jesse Welles album. He doesn’t have a Bandcamp. I had to buy it from Amazon.

Ernie Smith 1 year ago

Southwest’s tech debt hurt it a few months ago but it seems to be doing it some favors today. Windows 3.1 taketh away, but sometimes Windows 3.1 giveth.