What’s cool? I know where the town is…
And I tag ’em in pinboard and run good old trusty RSS through Feed2JS (alas no more as of 2022, now using WordPress RSS block). These also get posted (via IFTTT) #cogdogcooltech to Mastodon (the tag is dead in birdspace). Enjoy the Coolness…
- Features for institutional instances of Mastodon Mastodon is a widely used open-source social media platform and the best alternative to the big tech text-based social media. This proposal aims to enhance its suitability for institutional use deploying their own server by introducing features such as customizable branding and landing pages, […]
- Radiooooo is a project born in 2013, dreamt up by a little family of friends, both djs and music lovers, who decided to share their record collections and the fruit of many years of research, for all to enjoy. « Sharing and discovering», « curiosity and pleasure » these are […]
- The historical tech tree is a project by Étienne Fortier-Dubois to visualize the entire history of technologies, inventions, and (some) discoveries, from prehistory to today. Unlike other visualizations of the sort, the tree emphasizes the connections between technologies: prerequisites, improvements, inspirations, and so on. These connections allow viewers to understand […]
- wanderer is a self-hosted trail database. You can upload your recorded tracks or create new ones and add various metadata to build an easily searchable catalogue. Manage your trails Plan new routes Extensive map integration and visualization Share trails with other people and explore theirs Advanced filter and search functionality […]
- Want a Google search, and literally nothing else? Start here. Brought to you by Tedium, the dorks that brought you &udm=14.
- 3D model hosting for the Fediverse! This is the flagship public instance for the Manyfold project, a self-hosted 3D print file hosting and management tool. It is provided as-is, without guarantees, as a service to the community.
- Welcome to Questionopoly! This is a game to help you develop research questions for a social science, education research project. I made this as a board game first for my MEd students as part of their research methods course. The aim was to prevent them from going down research rabbit […]
- Create, issue, and verify digital credentials in a decentralized, secure, and community-driven ecosystem. h/t https://social.coop/@dajb/114669333190280293
- A collaboration between TED Countdown and Fine Acts, Artists for Climate started as a global open call that sought digital illustrations targeting climate change, with a focus on hope and solutions. The project received 2,222 submissions by 1,432 artists from 95 countries. The outstanding work of a total of 50 […]
- Videos explaining the fediverse by FediHost, approproately hosted in PeerTube. Get Federated!
- Back in summer 2022, Philip Shane, the director of an upcoming documentary about the computer game series Myst, posted a video on Kickstarter. He was up at the headquarters of Cyan, the developers of Myst, and the Cyan team had dug hundreds of video tapes out of their storage room, […]
- Quick Response codes (or QR codes) are everywhere these days, from restaurant menus and product packaging to tombstones and tattoos. They are a type of 2D barcode invented in Japan in the 1990s and released patent-free, meaning anyone can generate and use them without restriction. But how do they work? […]
- This QR code generator works entirely in your browser. No data is sent to any server. just say pfffft to bit.ly h/t https://jrdingwall.ca/blogwall/just-a-qr-code/
- Over 1,000,000 users create high quality replicas of their voice by deploying the most cutting-edge AI voice cloning model. Use your own voice data to gain unparalleled control over synthetic speech and capture human emotion in stunning detail. Create natural sounding AI Voices with just 10 seconds of data. The […]
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- A 3×3 display of live TV news from around the world. h/t https://social.ds106.us/@koutropoulos/114530144869363012
- What does it look like if you center a map on a specific country? Click on a country to find out. World maps are used to show the geographic relationships between the countries and regions of the world. Their design shapes our perception of the world and those relationships. Two […]
- The simplest way to create forms Say goodbye to boring forms. Meet Tally — the free, intuitive form builder you’ve been looking for. Tally makes it simple for anyone to build free online forms. No need to code — just type your questions like you would in a doc. Unlimited […]
- A search engine for blogs and podcasts Find what you are looking for across millions of blog posts and podcast episodes. Every search is an RSS feed Subscribe and stay up-to-date when a new result matches your criteria. A perfect match Discover content creators you may not know about, all […]
- We introduce LegoGPT, the first approach for generating physically stable LEGO brick models from text prompts. To achieve this, we construct a large-scale, physically stable dataset of LEGO designs, along with their associated captions, and train an autoregressive large language model to predict the next brick to add via next-token […]
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