The internet and time spent online is often cited as one of the biggest contributing factors to low self esteem and poor mental health, but a new study has found the opposite to be true.
“Nearly everyone seems to think that internet-powered technologies are driving an epidemic of ill-being and mental health problems,” said lead study author Dr. Matti Vuorre, assistant professor of social psychology at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, in an email to @CNN.
“Our study of over two million individuals from 160+ countries runs contrary to this idea.” Here’s more on the findings.
Am 11. und 12. Juni finden die »IFG Days 2024« beim @lfdi statt. Die Teilnahme ist sowohl vor Ort als auch online möglich. Wer Interesse hat: Habe euch mal den Flyer angehängt.
Do you yearn for the “good old days” of the internet? The acronym-based chat clients, the Geocities sites filled with dancing hamsters, the MySpace pages filled with glitter GIFs and MIDI tracks?
@molly0xfff writes about a time when being online was simpler, but how with the tools at our disposal, getting back to that would be easier now than ever. Here’s more from her newsletter, Citation Needed.
The Affordable Connectivity Program was a landmark piece of U.S. government legislation passed in 2021 that aimed to make it easier for people to afford an internet connection in their homes. Today it all comes to an end, leaving an estimated 23 million households — roughly one in six — at risk of losing broadband access, widening the digital divide.
Despite pleas from the Biden administration and several advocacy groups to save the program, it has now officially lapsed. So what’s next? @WIRED has more.
Do we need another social network? AirChat thinks so. Built by AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and former Tinder exec Brian Norgard, it has you talking your posts instead of typing them, and as your followers scroll, they'll hear your voice, with a transcription of what you've said.
Having seen it in action, @TechCrunch says it has some fundamental differences from the now-defunct Clubhouse that make it a more promising experience. But does its content moderation policy raise too many red flags?
Did you know the internet is carried around the world by around 800,000 miles of fragile cables that sit at the bottom of the ocean? It's a precarious system that is constantly breaking, and relies on a global network of ships to be on hand to repair them, and keep the world online.
In this long read, @theverge tells the story of the people doing that job, the struggles with recruitment, and what happens when "the world's most important infrastructure," falls foul of Mother Nature.
Starting today, major ISPs will have to publish "nutrition labels" with basic information about their broadband offerings.
It's taken almost eight years to enforce, but the FCC hopes the move will "allow consumers to more easily comparison shop between plans and avoid any hidden fees," reports @theverge
Adobe Magneto: una pericolosa minaccia RCE per i siti di e-commerce
Gli specialisti di Sicurezza Informatica hanno avvertito che gli #hacker stanno già sfruttando una nuova #vulnerabilità in #Magento (CVE-2024-20720) e l'utilizzatore per implementare una #backdoor persistente sui siti di e-commerce.
Enatega is a fully realized and customizable food delivery application that can be used to set up your own order/delivery management system. For more information, visit the Enatega product page: 🚀🛒...
Enatega is a fully realized and customizable food delivery application that can be used to set up your own order/delivery management system. For more information, visit the Enatega product page: 🚀🛒...
Why the worldwide Meta outage spread unease amongst its users who use Facebook, Instagram and Threads to make connections, understand the world and use the services as a go-to archive of their lives.
Honestly, I had no idea DuckDuckGo had its own web browser lol. This article reminded me to try out DuckDuckGo's search engine again, and compare its search results with those of Google Search. I was actually surprised to find out that DuckDuckGo churned out way better search results. I'm definitely gonna use it instead of Google from now on.
I'm in the #Humanities Commons instance, and we have free profiles like https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan that include a link to the old blue bird of Twitter, and members are increasingly leaving, so our admins at @hello might want to reconsider having that item in the next version of profiles.
Recently, I brought a #book from an online seller. I had to the return it due to the low level damage that it had suffered in transit. This is not the first time that this has happend. I have noticed a marked deterioration in the quality of packaging used to transport #books bought online. Before envelopes were used that had bubbled wrapping inside and gave some sort of protection. Now one has to be thankful if paying 'top dollar' for a brand new #book and it arrives without any minor scrapes especially if it is just stuck in a standard cardboard envelope.
Hm. Lief zou thuiswerken en de ene les van vandaag online doen, maar moet toch naar school omdat school lessen op locatie door laat gaan en de studenten er al zijn.
Sommige scholen hebben door de lockdowns zo'n sterke allergie ontwikkeld tegen 'online' dat nu alles op locatie móet. Waarom die alles-of-niets-insteek? Niks mis met de mix. #Onderwijs#Online#Storm#Edutooters@edutooters
Auch deswegen nutze ich YouTube nicht direkt, sondern Links über @invidious* oder nutze es mobil via @newpipe*, um Videos zu sehen und so weit frei vom Tracking zu sein. Leider sind noch nicht sehr viele anregende Videoproduktionen im Fediverse zB auf @peertube vertreten.
🧵 …ich kann wieder darauf hinweisen (wie schon oben), dass zB ua @invidious mit @sponsorblock so wie @newpipe Daten sparsam #Videos sich #online ansehen und auch als Link verteilen lassen.
GitHub - ninjas-code-official/food-delivery-multivendor: Enatega is a fully realized and customizable food delivery application that can be used to set up your own order/delivery management system. For more information, visit the Enatega product page: 🚀� ( github.com )
Enatega is a fully realized and customizable food delivery application that can be used to set up your own order/delivery management system. For more information, visit the Enatega product page: 🚀🛒...
GitHub - ninjas-code-official/food-delivery-multivendor: Enatega is a fully realized and customizable food delivery application that can be used to set up your own order/delivery management system. For more information, visit the Enatega product page: 🚀� ( github.com )
Enatega is a fully realized and customizable food delivery application that can be used to set up your own order/delivery management system. For more information, visit the Enatega product page: 🚀🛒...