Kyle Drake
@kyledrake.com
Made https://neocities.org, https://geocities.restorativland.org, buncha other stuff. Tech/90s computing. Strong opinions loosely held. Old school rubyist.
Whoops we accidentally passed a North Korean style operating system control law that's either insane or a pretext for something really bad, let's exempt Linux that should fix it!
California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the ori...
SteamOS could still be affected
tomshardware.com
Go back to when you were a teenager and ask yourself how cool you would be with a government saying you can't look at web sites and forums because they're "too addictive", you can't listen to Nine Inch Nails because it's "for adults only", and Geocities needs to be shut down because it's "too LGBT".
EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media
"We are investigating platforms that allow children to go down "rabbit holes" of harmful content," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.
cnbc.com
Honestly if I knew I had to complete @pfrazee.com's "feats of strength" obstacle course upon arrival I would have skipped #atmosphereconf this year
I recognize that this will not be a popular opinion, but I think it's true. And I hope people will read the whole thing before they start yelling at me based on the headline.
Techdirt@techdirt.com · 6mo agoAI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturally). Some friends I had met on Usenet were…
I'll be at atmosphereconf.org, I'm not just lying about that to get a tax write-off on a Whistler skiing trip, no sir
ATmosphereConf 2026
ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.
atmosphereconf.org
Update on Bing: The block seems to have been removed! Sites are slowly starting to re-index. Special thanks to @ashleybelanger.bsky.social for this really helpful article and visibility. We now have a direct contact at Microsoft we're communicating with to see how this can be prevented again.
Ashley Belanger@ashleybelanger.bsky.social · 7mo agoNeocities sites are slowwwwwly popping back up in Bing results, I'm told, but this remains one of the weirdest exchanges I've had with a tech company, where Microsoft admitted there was an issue but wouldn't connect directly to resolve it. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index. We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere. Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing. Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
blog.neocities.org
Files have always been the superior interface, this is still true. When I had 100k mp3s I couldn't even use iTunes because the fcking indexer would crash trying to load all of them into the interface. "Songs/Artist/Album Name/01 - Title.mp3" was a perfect interface, fast to load, and easy to use.
bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · last yr.hot take: the implementation complexity of POSIX semantics contributed to the decline of "files", and this has been bad for user freedom
Don't read negative reviews of a restaurant to learn anything about the restaurant, read them to learn how insane the reviewers are. Check out this full-blown existential crisis about greed, illegal child labor, and the slow death of the American dream for a review of a mom and pop SANDWICH SHOP.
HTML Day 2025 is this Saturday! If the idea of coding HTML in nature with fun and creative people appeals to you, see if there's a local event happening near you (or create one!)
HTML Energy
HTML Day is on August 2nd, 2025!
html.energy
On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML. Join us ❇️ html.energy/html-day/202...
HTML Energy
HTMl Day is on August 2nd, 2025!
html.energy
Interesting variation on the "give us a link to our shitty spam site so we can improve its page rank" grift. Most of the time it's something like "Hello, I'm a teacher and my students wanted you to add this link!" but this one rolls in like Bluto from Popeye.
Trying to figure out how to process this.. I love the idea of simpler browsers but I think that conversation is over.. cutting all of the funding for browser development seems like a great way to shove everyone into hyper addictive social media apps on monopolistic app stores and kill the web.
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their…
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Ruby Jewel ice cream sandwiches are dope, if you're ever in the PNW try one
"You can't scare people into using shit.. you give them cool things that make them love themselves" @rudyfraser.com #ATmosphereconf
There will be an #atmosphereconf breakout session today to build a client that looks like this
Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social · last yr.Metallica Windows Theme
