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Play this unique twist on the classic snake game, where your mission is to eat as many apples as you can given their location and navigate the globe.
This was fun :-)
Perhaps the snake moves a tad too fast for my liking, but I imagine that could depend on clock speed or similar.
Via https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/04/snakes-on-planet.html?m=1
This post replaces two of my previous posts on the same subject and adds more links.
Please do NOT include any websites that require registration or signup to play, even if they have a "free trial".
Sound libraries and generators
- https://mynoise.net - a large library of noise generators, nature sounds and ambient music
- https://www.ambient-mixer.com - large crowd-sourced library of ambient sounds, with a voting system if you signup (effectively Stackoverflow for ambiance)
- https://noises.online - a selection of masking sounds (requires WebAudio support in your browser)
- https://coffitivity.com - a dynamic selection of ambiance sounds
- http://www.rainymood.com - sound of rain and thunderstorm
- http://asoftmurmur.com - let's you mix your own soundscape from a selection of ten sounds
- http://rainycafe.com - selection of either cafe or rain ambiance
- http://raining.fm - rain ambiance, optionally add thunder
- https://29a.ch/noise-generator - a noise generator (requires WebAudio support in your browser)
- https://onlinetonegenerator.com/noise.html - a rather limited tone generator (white, brows or pink)
Tracks or videos
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=xNN7iTA57jM - forest sounds, woodland ambiance, bird song
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=cUZbRc0lwjA - jazz bar in Paris (jazz piano)
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=tChc64ikVR8 - cozy cabin in the mountains, rain sounds, thunderstorm
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=8lW8CrVL95g - underwater study room
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYnA9wWFHLI - Marconi Union, Weightless (10 hours)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ4KSllyROs - Marconi Union, Weightless & Beyond (24/7)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZV9FmHOsRg - coffee shop ambiance (2 hours)
Via
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Via https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/113794180924217390
This is a user-friendly guide to retrieving your digital life from the Tech Giants.
In it, you will find an awesome guide split over 21 steps:
- Day One: Getting Set Up
- Day Two: Better Browsing
- Day Three: Your Data Roadmap
- Day Four: Secure Your Email
- Day Five: Masking Email Addresses
- Day Six: Leave Gmail (or another insecure provider)
- Day Seven: Settle In
- Day Eight: Contacts and Calendars
- Day Nine: Secure Messaging
- Day Ten: Leave Social Media
- Day Eleven: Get Social Again
- Day Twelve: Password Protection
- Day Thirteen: Shop Securely
- Day Fourteen: Replace your Accounts
- Day Fifteen: Trash Unwanted Accounts
- Day Sixteen: Get a VPN
- Day Seventeen: Control your Collaborations
- Day Eighteen: Personal Photos
- Day Nineteen: Adios, Alexa!
- Day Twenty: Fix your Phone
- Day Twenty-One: Look Forward
Authored by Damien Irving, Kate Hertweck, Luke Johnston, Joel Ostblom, Charlotte Wickham, and Greg Wilson.
I learned a lot, and you should come back to it for more, especially the chapter on building CLI tools with Python.
All their advice is sound, except I do not agree that the MIT license should be recommended (which the authors argue based on the observation that "The last thirty years have shown that this restriction [of the GPL] isn’t necessary" which I cannot understand).
The book is a thorough walk-through that is sure to get most anyone up and running creating research software with Python and is beneficial to any researcher or research student curious about the Python programming language and the shell.
Is there some tool(s) that can identify which Unicode character I am looking at? (Because it is not always possible to copy-paste...)
- https://shapecatcher.com (which reminds me of Detexify)
Bra läsning för att påminna sig om solens, månens och planeternas rörelse på himlavalvet så som de upplevs från jorden.
Detta utbildningsprogram presenterar himlafenomenen som de ter sig för oss vanliga seende människor. Med ett i huvudsak geocentriskt perspektiv knyter det hela tiden an till vad läsarna direkt kan erfara.
Best way to write and share your knowledge in markdown.
Pretty neat!
Over >1300 public domain movies, tracked in #wikidata and hosted by Commons, #internetarchive (and even YouTube), watchable from a bespoke interface.
https://wikis.world/@magnusmanske/111743082678277750
What a cool project! This could make public domain movies much more accessible for all kinds of users.
Learn more on the WikiFlix Help page.
A very nice resource!
I found it while reading up on presentation software (pdfpc and such).
Really nice work by Steve Byrnes. Very useful.
Archived.
A private collection of movie posters of Egyptian movies.
Delightful and detailed interactive article explaining the physics of a bicycle.
Via Andy Baio.
This unofficial site let's you explore the In Our Time archive by topic and year.
Via kottke.org.
A work in progress. Over 700 pages, encompassing band structure, symmetry and much more.
By Daniel Arovas, UC Santa Barbara.
Lectures on theoretical physics from Cambridge University professor David Tong.
David Tong at Cambridge is a gifted educator and communicator who has written lecture notes that span a wide swath of the physics curriculum, from introductory material on mechanics through advanced graduate-level treatments of quantum field theory. Truly, these are a fantastic resource, made freely available.
Link and quote thanks to Douglas Natelson (nanoscale views).
I particularly like his notes on solid state physics (which contains links to other resources).
Note that red ochre contains primarily hematite (α-Fe₂O₃).
This (old) library is a digital repository that accompanied the following published papers:
There's a forest of sites out there with the sole purpose of allowing you to test your microphone.
This is the only decent one, as far as I know.
By that I mean it does what it says, runs no ads, and handles your recording strictly client-side.
electricityMap is a live visualization of where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it.
The map is open source, and improves weekly thanks to 1700 contributors and counting.
The project has an informative FAQ, a list of its data sources, and a wiki.