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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  ARM – a fabless design company – doesn’t seem like a very good example to be using if the argument is “manufacturing and design need to be physically colocated”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for advice for media server storage expansion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He said that he’s exhausted his drive enclosures:

  The desktop has no more open SATA ports or drive enclosures, so I’m not sure what the best option for adding more drives is.

  So I guess he could use eSATA and some kind of external enclosure or something, but he’s gonna need more than just throwing more drives in the desktop and adding a PCI SATA controller card to get more places to plug 'em in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for advice for media server storage expansion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a USB-attached drive array for some bulk, low-throughput storage. I’ve been happy with this, except for one thing that I didn’t think about prior to getting mine: a considerable number of these, including mine, do not have the option to power on after power loss. This is extremely obnoxious if you use or have any intention of using the computer remotely and would like it to come back up after power loss. For me, it was the only component that couldn’t be brought back up automatically.

  I’m in the process of switching to one that does right now, but I’d mention it to you to as something to keep in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re interested in home automation, I think that there’s a reasonable argument for running it on separate hardware. Not much by way of hardware requirements, but you don’t want to take it down, especially if it’s doing things like lighting control.

  Same sort of idea for some data-logging systems, like weather stations or ADS-B receivers.

  Other than that, though, I’d probably avoid running an extra system just because I have hardware. More power usage, heat, and maintenance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, some of those EOLed nearly a decade ago.

  You can argue over what a reasonable EOL is, but all hardware is going to EOL at some point, and at that point, it isn’t going to keep getting updates.

  Throw enough money at a vendor, and I’m sure that you can get extended support contracts that will keep it going for however long people are willing to keep chucking money at a vendor – some businesses pay for support on truly ancient hardware – but this is a consumer broadband router. It’s unlikely to make a lot of sense to do so on this – the hardware isn’t worth much, nor is it going to be terribly expensive to replace, and if you’re using the wireless functionality, you probably want newer WiFi standards anyway.

  I do think that there’s maybe a good argument that EOLing hardware should be handled in a better way. Like, maybe hardware should ship with an EOL sticker, so that someone can glance at hardware and see if it’s “expired”. Or maybe network hardware should have some sort of way of reporting EOL in response to a network query, so that someone can audit a network for EOLed hardware.

  But EOLing hardware is gonna happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While the difference isn’t huge, it looks like that’s for their “premium” package. Their standard one is $39.

  It looks like that’s on the high side, but not radically so compared to typical American newspapers.

  www.thepricer.org/newspaper-subscriptions-cost/

  Digital Pass Subscriptions

  • Local/regional papers – $10 to $30 per month

  • Example: Seattle Times Digital – $7.99 per month

  • National publications – $15 to $50 per month

  Example: The Washington Post Digital – $39.99 per month

  Also, not that FT is British, not American.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nine in ten honey samples from UK retailers fail authenticity test⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lynne Ingram, a Somerset beekeeper and the chair of the Honey Authenticity Network UK, said: “The market is being flooded by cheap, imported adulterated honey and it is undermining the business of genuine honey producers. The public are being misinformed, because they are buying what they think is genuine honey.”

  The UK is one of the biggest importers of cheap Chinese honey, which is known to be targeted by fraudsters. Honey importers say supply chains and provenance are carefully audited, but there has been no consensus on how technical tests should be applied, or which are most reliable.

  A fun bit of perspective that I like to mention in discussions about this. Roll back a bit over a century:

  [Scientific American, November 2, 1907](www.scientificamerican.com/…/artificial-honey/]

  Artificial Honey

  Prof. Herzfeld, of Germany, recently brought out some interesting points regarding the manufacture of artificial honey in Europe. It is noticed that when we bring about the inversion of refined sugar in an almost complete manner and under well determined conditions, this sugar solidifies in the same way as natural honey after standing for a long time, and it ran be easily redissolved by heating. Owing to the increased production of artificial honey, the bee cultivators have been agitating the question so as to protect themselves, and it is proposed to secure legislation to this effect, one point being to oblige the manufacturers to add some kind of product which will indicate the artificial product. On the other hand, it is found that the addition of inverted sugar to natural honey tends to improve its quality and especially to render it more easiIy digested. Seeing that sugar is about the only alimentary matter which is produced in an absolutely pure state, its addition to honey cannot be strictly considered as an adulteration. Bees often take products from flowers which have a bad taste; and the chemist Keller found that honey coming from the chestnut tree sometimes has a disagreeable flavor. From wheat flowers we find a honey which has a taste resembling bitter almonds, and honey from asparagus flowers is most unpalatable. Honey taken from the colza plant is of an oily nature, an.d that taken from onions has the taste of the latter. In such cases, the honey is much improved by the addition of inverted sugar. Prof. Herzfeld gives a practical method for preparing this form of sugar. We take 1 kilogramme (2.2 pounds) of high-quality refined sugar in a clean enamelware vessel, and add 300 cubic centimeters (10 fluid ounces) of water and 1.1 grammes (17 grains) tartaric acid. This is heated at 110 deg. C. over an open fire, stirring all the while, and is kept at this heat until the liquid takes on a fine golden yellow color, such operation lasting for about three quarters of an hour. By this very simpIe process we can easily produce artificial honey. Numerous extracts are now on the market for giving the aroma of honey, but none of them will replace the natural honey. However, if we take the artificial product made as above and add to it a natural honey having a strong aroma, such as that which is produced from heath, we can obtain an excellent semi-honey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the problem is kind of fundamental. They have a competitive multiplayer game. Many competitive multiplayer games are vulnerable to cheating if you can manipulate the client software; some software just can’t really be hardened and still deal with latency and such reasonably. Consoles are reasonably well locked down. PCs are not, and trying to clamp down on them at all is a pain – there are lots of holes to modify the software. Linux is specifically made to be open and thus modifiable. You’re never going to get major Linux distros committing to a closed system.

  Frankly, my answer has been “Consoles are really the right answer for competitive multiplayer, not PCs.” It’s not just the cheating issue, but that you also want a level playing field, and PCs fundamentally are not that. Someone can, to at least some degree, pay to win with higher framerates or resolution or a more-responsive system on a PC.

  My guess is that the most-realistic way to do do games like this on the PC is to introduce some kind of trusted hardware sufficient to handle all the critical data in a game, like a PCI card or something, and then stick critical portions of the game on that trusted hardware. But that infrastructure doesn’t exist today, and it’s still trying to make an open system imperfectly act like a closed one.

  I think that the real answer here is to use consoles for that, because they already are what game developers are after – a locked-down, non-expandable system. In the specific context of competitive multiplayer games, that’s desirable. I don’t like it for most other things, but consoles are well-suited to that.

  My own personal guess is the even longer run answer is going to be a slow shift away from multiplayer games.

  Inexpensive, low-latency, long-range data connectivity started to give multiplayer games a boost around 2000-ish. Suddenly, it was possible to play a lot of games against people remotely. And there are neat things you can do with multiplayer games. Humans are a sophisticated, “smarter game AI”. They have their own problems, like sometimes doing things that aren’t fun for other players – like cheating – but if you can rely on other players, you don’t have to write a lot of complicated game AI.

  The problem is that it also comes with a lot of drawbacks. You can’t pause most multiplayer games, and even when you do, it’s disruptive. If you’re, say, raising a kid who can get themselves into trouble, not being able to simply stand up and walk away from the keyboard is kinda limiting. You cannot play a multiplayer game without data connectivity. At some point, the game isn’t going to be playable any more, as the player base falls off and central servers go away. You have to deal with other people exploiting the game in various ways that aren’t fun for other players. That could be a game’s meta evolving to use strategies that aren’t very much fun to counter, or cheating, or people just abusing other people. Yeah, you can try to structure a game to discourage that, but we’ve been working on that for many years and griefing and such is still a thing.

  Writing game AI is hard and expensive, but I think that in the long run, what we’re going to do is to see game AI take up a lot of the slack. I think that we’re going to to see advances in generic game AI engines, the sort of way we do graphics or sound engines, where one company makes a game AI software package that is reused in many, many games and only slightly tweaked by the game developers.

  Multiplayer games are always going to be around, short of us hitting human-level AI. But I think that the trend will be towards single-player games over time, just because of those technical limitations I mentioned. I think that where multiplayer happens, it’ll be more-frequently with people that someone knows – someone’s friends or spouse or such – and where someone specifically wants to interact with that other person, and where the human isn’t just a faceless random person filling in for a smart piece of game AI that doesn’t exist. That’d also hopefully solve the cheating problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, there’s no point. Like, if you want to make a good KSP successor, lots of people would be happy to buy it. Why unnecessarily start a fight that risks the game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Halloween older game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about Halloween as such, but ghost-themed, I guess Ghost Master. Twenty years old now, but try to make use of various ghosts with different abilities to drive people out of various buildings and houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never is a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania to get official stage adaptation by Japan's all-female Takarazuka Revue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And thus a piece of Eastern European folklore that was popularized in a novel by a Irish writer and then spread via mostly American movies became a Japanese video game series now at least partially developed in Spain and begets a play acted by Japanese female actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Recommendations] Text-based Interactive Fiction games recommendations from Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Bookmarking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, some London residents are getting fed up with social media influencers whose reviews make long lines of tourists at their favorite restaurants, sometimes just for the likes.

  As Gizmodo deduced, the trend seemed to start on the r/London subreddit, where a user complained about a spot in Borough Market being “ruined by influencers” on Monday:

  “Last 2 times I have been there has been a queue of over 200 people, and the ones with the food are just doing the selfie shit for their [I]nsta[gram] pages and then throwing most of the food away.”

  So, I don’t know what the situation is in London.

  But COVID-19 really clobbered a lot of commercial establishments, and particularly eateries. I’m guessing that at least some traffic might be a return of the public to restaurants, with the supply of restaurant capacity at a low due to having gone through hard times over the past our years or so.

  kagis

  Ah, right. This is Europe, and while the US got hit by higher energy costs too, the Ukraine invasion really dicked up energy prices in Europe for a while. And then you have the hangover from the COVID-19-related spending happening, as inflation bites, and reducing spending on restaurants is an easy thing to cut on one’s budget. And this points out that restaurants are a labor-intensive industry, and Brexit has driven labor costs up by cutting the labor pool.

  ft.com/…/a36ad5fd-db20-4ba8-89ea-e185838c8aa0

  UK restaurant sector hit by cost of living and Covid legacy

  Stuart Devine thought his chain of fish and chip restaurants in Aberdeen had survived the worst when the UK government lifted Covid-19 lockdowns for good in spring 2021 and customers returned to enjoy the classic British meal.

  But before the Ashvale could fully recover it was dealt another blow, when Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 disrupted global supply chains and sent energy and food prices soaring.

  Devine’s struggles are shared by roughly 40 per cent of UK restaurant owners, who are operating at or below break-even point, after the sector was hit by a perfect storm of pandemic shutdowns and the cost of living crisis, according to data from UKHospitality.

  The trade body estimates that up to 30 per cent of businesses in the sector have closed since Covid struck. About 1,169 restaurants shut in the past year alone, equivalent to more than three a day, according to UKHospitality and consultancy CGA by NIQ.

  “The money coming from the front door is just not enough to offset the significant cost of doing business that the restaurants are facing,” said Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality.

  While energy prices have fallen from their peak over the past 12 months, restaurants continue to bear the brunt of elevated food costs. The particularly labour intensive industry has also struggled with staff shortages, worsened by Brexit, and to keep pace with the statutory minimum wage. It stands at £10.42 an hour and will rise to £11.44 in April.

  Devine said “the hardest thing is that the only thing you can do is put your prices up”, noting that there was a limit to how much lifting prices could help at a time of already weak consumer confidence and tight household budgets.

  So the combination of all those things would tend to have squeezed the supply of restaurants, and it might be that if there’s enough demand to consistently fill restaurants in London, expand existing or open new ones, that things will tend to return to a more-normal state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In total, there were 118 false positives — a rate of 4.29%.

  Earlier this year, investors filed a class-action lawsuit, accusing company executives of overstating the devices’ capabilities and claiming that “Evolv does not reliably detect knives or guns.”

  I mean, I’d be more concerned about the false positive rate than the false negative rate, given the context. Like, if you miss a gun, whatever. That’s just the status quo, which has been working. Some money gets wasted on the machine. But if you are incorrectly stopping more than 1 in 25 New Yorkers from getting on their train, and apply that to all subway riders, that sounds like a monumental clusterfuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a nuclear missile is launched at the United States the President has just 6 minutes to come to terms with that and decide to launch a counter attack or not.

  US nuclear deterrence in 2024 doesn’t rely on launch-on-warning, but on the expectation that no hostile power has the ability to locate and destroy the US ballistic missile fleet prior to them performing their counterlaunches.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike

  In nuclear strategy, a retaliatory strike or second-strike capability is a country’s assured ability to respond to a nuclear attack with powerful nuclear retaliation against the attacker. To have such an ability (and to convince an opponent of its viability) is considered vital in nuclear deterrence, as otherwise the other side might attempt to try to win a nuclear war in one massive first strike against its opponent’s own nuclear forces.

  Submarine-launched ballistic missiles are the traditional, but very expensive, method of providing a second strike capability, though they need to be supported by a reliable method of identifying who the attacker is.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_on_warning

  Launch on warning (LOW), or fire on warning, is a strategy of nuclear weapon retaliation where a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of enemy nuclear attack and while its missiles are still in the air, before detonation occurs.

  In 1997, a US official stated that the US had the technical capability for launch on warning but did not intend to use a launch on warning posture and that the position had not changed in the 1997 presidential decision directive on nuclear weapon doctrine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was gonna say…GPUs have to be more significant today for general compute than they’ve ever been.

  Okay, yeah, maybe you don’t need one for CAD acceleration in 2024, but that has to be a vanishingly small thing compared to parallel compute on stuff like AI work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did NVIDIA stop selling videocards in Russia?

  kagis

  pcmag.com/…/nvidia-to-stop-all-product-sales-to-r…

  Nvidia Stops All Product Sales to Russia

  March 5, 2022

  I don’t think that it matters a huge amount, since companies are just gonna re-export them out of China or Kazakhstan or wherever. I mean, it’s not like the hardware has some kind of region-locking. It’s a piece of consumer hardware, sold and resold anonymously all over the place. It’s not some kind of specialized military hardware.

  kagis

  hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-loses-just-2-of-its-reve…

  In October [2022], NVIDIA officially shut down all its operations in Russia as sales of both data center and consumer graphics cards were wrapped up. At the time, around 240 employees worked for the Santa Clara-based company. These folks were given the option to either relocate abroad or look for other jobs.

  Furthermore, NVIDIA hardware has been banned from sale via official channels.

  Fortunately for Team Green, the Russian Federation represented a minor market for its wide portfolio. Disclosures from the Q3 2022 earnings report indicate that the Federation accounted for just 2% of its revenue and 4% for the gaming business.

  Although channel partners are forbidden to sell the latest GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards, Russian gamers can still procure them from the grey market.

  It’ll probably add cost and some risk of getting ripped off and no manufacturer’s warranty, but I would be surprised if someone who wanted a new GPU couldn’t continue to get ahold of one in Russia, given the funds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can operate a VPN service in Russia legally, but it is obligated to block state-specified stuff internally to the VPN.

  www.cloudwards.net/russian-vpn-ban/

  VPN vendors have to get approval from the authorities to operate within the Russian borders. Usually, this means the provider has to comply with Russia’s censorship demands, like connecting to the FSIS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most sanctions, aside from ones aimed at individuals, are going to have indirect effect. That is, they will produce pressure on Russia in aggregate, and that means that they’ll impact the typical citizen.

  But that being said, there have been a lot of sanctions applied, and…the impact on Nvidia drivers isn’t, I think, really a huge one relative to those. Like, things like cutting off access to all kinds of electronics parts and payment system access and stuff are going to be, I’d say, a lot more impactful to a typical person in Russia, even if the impact is secondary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is now watermarking its AI-generated text.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than as a mind game, I don’t see the point.

  Google provides a centralized service. They own the generator system.

  You could solve the whole problem much more simply and reliably by just retaining a copy of all generated text at Google – the quantities of data will be miniscule compared to what Google regularly deals with – and then just indexing it and letting someone do a fuzzy search for a given passage of text to see whether it’s been generated. Hell, Google probably already retains a copy to data-mine what people are doing anyway, and they know how to do search. And then they could even tell you who generated the text and when.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “probably 1% of the companies will stand out and become huge and will create a lot of value, or will create tremendous value for the people, for society. And I think we are just going through this kind of process.”

  Baidu is huge. Sounds like good news for Baidu!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, thanks, yeah. And given that that lists a lot more instances than does the defed.xyz site, my guess is that defed.xyz is incomplete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the latter one is just showing which instances the named instance has defederated from, not which instances have defederated from the named instance.

  That’s easy to get by checking /instances on a given instance already.

  The problem is that you’d need some kind of spider that crawls all of the instances to get the reverse of that.

  The former one does seem to show it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t seem to get into friction over it. I’ve never heard of @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com or mods on their communities banning people for being statists. Granted, I don’t subscribe to any communities there, but I haven’t seen a stream of comments complaining about interactions with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  slowly being edged out of the wider lemmy experience.

  If your home instance is lemmy.ml and it’s just people using communities on instances other than lemmy.ml, then you still get the full experience.

  If instances are defederating with lemmy.ml, then you’re missing content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  crows

  There’s !corvids@sopuli.xyz, but it doesn’t have much activity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

  Lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net definitely.

  Lemmy.ml has some less-bonkers communities, but !world@lemmy.ml generates some of the most complaints, and I’m willing to paint with a broad brush on this one. There’s only one community that I can think of that doesn’t presently have a non-lemmy.ml alternative, and that’s !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml, and !ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world has overlap. Also, aside from issues with instance policy, I think that lemmy.ml in particular is not a great instance for major communities, because it’s the “dev” instance and Lemmy has had some serious periods of problems where stuff slipped through testing and led to major problems. Lemmy.world did not hit this, because the admins there are more-conservative about updating, held off until they were sure that new releases were solid. My own home instance at lemmy.today crashed into repeated serious problems with new releases, and the admin decided that in the future, he would also be more conservative about updates.

  I also think that it’s broader than disagreeing with someone. I’m not a furry or trans, for example, but I’ve no problem with pawb.social or lemmy.blahaj.zone and have never seen any complaints about moderation on those special-interest instances. However, there’s an entire community, !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works, that highlights a lot of stuff that often I’d call pretty unreasonable off in .ml land.

  That being said, a number of major lemmy instances have defederated with lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net, and I chose my home instance of lemmy.today specifically because it did not defederate with instances. I want to personally make the call on instance content and on users on an instance. I’ve only ever blocked one user, and they were just relentlessly spamming images in communities, and I’ve never blocked an instance. I normally just view communities by subscribed, look at a “whitelist” of communities, not “all” plus a blacklist, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What websites still feel like the old internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kernel.org, home of the Linux kernel, hasn’t changed much.

  Kernel.org today:

  kernel.org

  Kernel.org in 1998:

  web.archive.org/web/19980130085039/…/kernel.org/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What websites still feel like the old internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a website, but since you mention BBSes…one thing that would look pretty familiar to a 1990s Internet user would be most of the text-based MUDs that are around.

  The MUD Connector is still around, and still has a list.

  While I suspect that dedicated MUDders use dedicated clients, the base protocol is still normally telnet, a protocol that predates Internet Protocol itself.