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fuck the web, embrace the internet
Published: November 6, 2025 by Anonymous
Even a dual core pentium is a supercomputer by 80s standards, that's THE way to look at it insert one(1) hdd and use as a backup target (you should have multiple, so it doesn't matter if this one fails eventually) fuck the web, embrace the internet: FTP, SMTP, NNTP, IRC and so...
On the Future of Social Media
Published: October 13, 2025 by LostintheCycle
The perception and attitudes of social media It's amazing how we all have an astonishingly low opinion of social media. Facebooks privacy violations and experiments are well known; Instagram with it's infamous reputation around body image issues; Reddit's API incident, and the site being known as manipulable and censored; Twitter is hated by it's own...
Online Esotericism: Where's it coming from?
Published: October 10, 2025 by LostintheCycle
In the past few years when I went further into the net, I discovered many people have a deep fascination with esotericism. I must admit, I was young and impressionable not very long ago, and found it all very new, exciting and interesting. Specifically, I was interested in 'astral projection',...
The Stock Market
Published: October 9, 2025 by LostintheCycle
A lot of young people are into stocks, trading, all that junk. My belief is these people are effectively playing a complex gambling game. There is an extra dimension to stocks that gambling lacks, which is it's perception. It is socially acceptable, and moreover it has an intellectual veneer. Success...
Old/low quality camera aesthetic pics
Published: September 23, 2025 by Anonymous
My single camera phone has really shit quality, but the pictures it creates are kind of alluring. It has some sort of feel to it that I can't find anywhere else. I don't know why. I took the following all with the same phone: ...
Modding Minecraft Alpha to make the game enjoyable again
Published: September 10, 2025 by wirefaux
step 1 - add pathfinding step 2 - make the game harder (as it should be) by making all mobs outpace the player step 3 - allow mobs to invade bases to encourage proper defense this is how you make the game fun again ...
The Social Media Trap: Stop Pretending You Control Your Data
Published: August 30, 2025 by l-i
Addiction by design Social media platforms have perfected the art of human exploitation. They've created what might be the most efficient attention-harvesting system ever devised - and most users have no idea how thoroughly they're being manipulated. The mechanism is elegant in its simplicity: provide just enough stimulation to prevent boredom without...
How Agora Road Turned Internet Nostalgia Into a Subscription Service
Published: August 29, 2025 by meatwheels
You should consider this article an extension to this one: https://cy-x.net/articles?id=13 If you haven't, you should read that one first before reading this one. I (meatwheels) have purposefully structurally mirrored that article to directly serve this purpose. A honeypot masquerading as a haven Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe bills itself as "the best kept...
WinClassic's Windows Modding Delusion: Why You Can't Polish a Turd
Published: August 28, 2025 by wirefaux
A Sisyphean Task Scroll through any Windows theming community and you'll find the same tragic pattern: hundreds of users desperately trying to make Windows 10 and 11 look and behave like Windows 7, Vista, or XP. They've created an entire ecosystem of hacks, patches, and third-party tools to fight against the...
Why Your New Computer Feels Slower Than Your Old One
Published: August 28, 2025 by Osaka
>This problem exists on Linux as well, but I'd like to just target this instead as Linux can still happily run on even the shittiest of boxes in the modern day. Broken Promises Twenty years ago, we were promised a future where computers would get faster, more efficient, and easier to use....
Digital Cargo Cult: How Zoomers Ruined Old Internet Nostalgia
Published: August 27, 2025 by rave + wirefaux
>+ wirefaux? Who's this? A reader of this article, who posted it around several "nostalgia" hivemind circles, only to be met with immense backlash and several bans from many tech circles as a result. They requested that they add more onto this article before Cyberix went back online for the public....
The Decline of Internet Communities: How Polarization Killed Creativity and Innovation
Published: August 27, 2025 by Osaka
A divided web The internet was once a vibrant and diverse landscape of communities, where people from different backgrounds and with different interests could come together to share ideas and learn from each other. In recent years, however, this landscape has changed dramatically. Communities have become increasingly polarized and sensitive,...
Privacy Browsing
Published: June 24, 2025 by Dr.R
What browser+plugin combination do you all use for safely browsing the web? I use Firefox and uBlock Origin, but I'm sure there are better options out there. What do you all use?
Abandoned or otherwise strange and unusual discoveries on the 'net.
Published: June 20, 2025 by l-i
Recently I managed to stumble onto a really old, pristine and untouched fan forum for a band called 'Ozma'. I know nothing about what or who this band may have been, but there are posts spanning from 2006 to early 2022, where unfortunately, the owner of the forum caved in...