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Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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I’m confused. Did the ‘Rona get him? Or are you referring to a lawsuit?

He lost the lawsuit, but he hasn't posted anything on his site or twitter since early 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddox_(writer)

lolsuit*

Re: Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

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I think Open Street Map comes close.

Kinda, but Wikipedia is pretty universal, while open street map is limited to Earth.

When there is human-made pavement on another planet (or moon) I highly suspect OSM will model it.

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Obviously wikipedia.org. Nothing better has been invented in 20-some years. I honestly feel relief when I research some topic and it has Wikipedia page on it, so I don't need to dig through some sh**y blogposts Edit: I mean: it's one of the very few websites that actually provides sources of information. It's insane it's that rare these days. And most important facts are just placed in visible and easy to spot place,…

Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects in the history of mankind. Very little compares to it in scale and value.

It’s hard to overstate the value of Wikipedia to humanity.

I hope there are lots of copies of it in government survival bunkers around the world.

I wonder if they keep an offline copy on ISS?

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I'm bias of course but it's a goal of mine to have the best "misc" website one day... It can do a lot. https://dustinbrett.com/

It's super cool! I saw it in the other thread yesterday. I can't figure out how to resize the linux terminal, was one of the things I noticed.

Thanks! Ya currently https://copy.sh/v86 afaik can't be resized once booted.

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I also applaud their user-respecting design choices. E.g. if your browser sets the DNT (do not track) header, they won't show a cookie consent banner and just assume you selected "reject all"

My sites don’t present a cookie banner to anyone, and don’t check for the DNT header. We simply don’t spy on our users. Any cookies we set are session and other “essential” cookies.

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