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A place for your preferably unique useful or fun sites and kind of a bookmark manager for me :p

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Draw diagrams and collaborate with your peers in realtime.

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The Fifth Taste....

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In case you you want to prepare yourself for the upcoming comet "Nishimura" or other celestial events 🌝

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Learning Music is a new, interactive website that helps you learn the basics of music making – beats, melodies, basslines, chords, and song structure – right in your browser. It’s now available in English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Dutch and Italian.

You can even export the music you make on the web as an Ableton Live Set, so you can take your music further.

Learning Music is free, there’s nothing to install, it works on any internet-connected device, and you’ll be creating your own musical ideas right away.

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GIF demo

Source: Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline | Little Short Bulletins

RSS Feed: https://www.leebutterman.com/feed.xml

What is this?

What is this?

This is a browser-based search engine for Wikipedia, where you can search for “the reddish tall trees on the san francisco coast” and find results like “Sequoia sempervirens” (a name of a redwood tree). The browser downloads the database, and search happens offline. To download two million Wikipedia pages with their titles takes roughly 100MB and under 50 milliseconds to see the final results. This uses sentence transformers to embed documents, product quantization to compress embeddings, pq.js to run distance computation in the browser, and transformers.js to run sentence transformers in the browser for queries.

Is this good?

Yes.

Real-time search over millions of documents is happening in real-time completely offline. Results stream back every 10ms on a mobile device, and search results update gradually as the database is sequentially scanned.

Via Simon Willison’s Weblog: Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline

RSS Feed: https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/3053658

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Radio Garden invites you to tune into thousands of live radio stations across the globe.

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See lightning strikes in real time across the planet. Free access to maps of former thunderstorms.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1928779

There is also a libregameswiki which is a seperate thing from this but in a similar vein

https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page

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Spoiler warning: If you do not know yet, but want to read the Terry Pratchett novel Going Postal, please stop reading here. Spoilers below and in the links!

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The page XClacksOverhead.org lists public-facing websites broadcasting the X-Clacks-Overhead header aka Known websites carrying the signal.

I learned about this tribute to Terry Pratchett from a recent Golem.de article [German]: GNU Terry Pratchett: Eine Hommage für Eingeweihte an den Scheibenwelt-Erfinder

Citing Wikipedia:

Users of the social news site Reddit organised a tribute by which an HTTP header, "X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett", was added to web sites' responses, a reference to the Discworld novel Going Postal, in which "the clacks" (a semaphore system, used as Discworld's equivalent to a telegraph) are programmed to repeat the name of its creator's deceased son; the sentiment in the novel is that no one is ever forgotten as long as their name is still spoken.

A June 2015 web server survey reported that approximately 84,000 websites had been configured with the header.

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