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I've ran once on some streamer who along with the CGI animation also wears some full body suit of anime girl with helmet, wig. That looked like a blend of two ideas. But that's still nothing new - there were always people on youtube who did fully cover their faces to not be recognized.
How to not be seen
Original title: Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting. Modified due to field limitation
Was good? I've seen cases of hostile take overs of already established fan wikis when Fandom was still Wikia
Nearly a month ago AUR malware happen, now this - it starts to feel like there's some organized attempt to paint Linux distros as dangerous.
Desktop could some attention as well because both Organic and CoMaps have a rather basic custom interface that feels imo off
Pedagogy covers this widely within theory of education and particularly in errors and failures topics (e.g. educational mistakes, pseudo-upbringing)
I dare to say that this market change works both ways. Software is now created by people who have little idea about UI concepts, or even who don't want to bother themselves with these. Because the dominant type of a device is no longer a desktop computer. This isn't about strictly Apple as other companies also create, or allow to exist "awful" interfaces with no substance.
Is it a bad thing? Not necessary. Smartphones revolution made Internet truly accessible to everyone by cost of dumbing down software by features and UI - turning effectively these devices to work like any other home appliance. Software today has to have that captivating appearance so user wouldn't be scared away. But nothing is perfect and there are examples where users are being treated with this nasty infantile approach by literally showing confetti and balloons as the satisfaction derived from interaction.
The peak was flat style which not only introduced maximum simplified interfaces, design but also provided grounds for all sorts of darkpatterns where content is indistinguishable from active element. That let companies manipulate the user's informed choice.
It's over a year for me with CachyOS now after endless issues with Manjaro after bigger updates, and after Mint getting hiccups-freezes randomly during operation.
And it's also a return to KDE for me, after many years with Xfce and Gnome. The whole environment feels more stable and mature - tho, I miss title bar window shading that's not present under Wayland.
Somehow related: there's browser extension called "Ukraïnsjka Latynka" [1] that transliterates on the fly Cyrillic script to Latin using various systems. It's quite helpful (especially nowadays) for someone who never had chance to familiarize with that script.
Dirty summary (not involving AI):
Just like Christianity arrived in Poland by marriage of Mieszko with Czech princess Doubravka/Dobrawa in 10th century, we also adapted Czech alphabet (and thus Latin) from Jan Hus efforts of codifying Czech language. Scholars believe that around same time Polish began to develop as a separate language. And up until the 13th century it was still possible to communicate with southern neighbors without much of issues.
Between 15th and 16th century Polish orthography forms; Stanisław Zaborowski and Jan Kochanowski tried to customize alphabet by introducing letters that would accurately reflected Polish phonology at that time - their alphabets proposals were really long.
Jumping to the Partitions period, where heavy russification aims at eradicating the Polish language and culture. There were attempts of introducing Cyrillic script but occupier's efforts eventually failed - Polish people stood up; literature of these times was full of titles exploring patriotism, love for homeland as a theme.
Linguistic reform of 1936 molds language to what we know today. The communistic period introduced second person plural within the public language, which naturally exists today in Czech and Slovak (vykání). Here it didn't lasted as it was unnatural and politically branded. While Polish language divides into dialects, that time also forms the standard Polish dialect, as post-WW2 migrations blurred the differences.
Today our language is heavily populated with borrowed words and terms from English, which in some case become "naturalized" - hater become hejter.
Remember how alt+c used to launch ATI Catalyst Control Center instead of "ć"?
I had Xubuntu, Lubuntu on mentioned above eMac and frankly, it was awful - only OSX and OS9 were making that machine somehow usable. I had fun running that computer during mid-pandemic with all sorts of gems found in macintosh garden.
I thought you’d be here - thank you!
There was a similar project called TenFourFox that was halted in 2022:
https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-end-of-tenfourfo...
Some 12 years ago I had to order a new motherboard and at that time all I had at hand was some old eMac. I'm not sure if it had 512MB or 1GB of ram installed by previous owner but browsing the Internet was tiresome. Still, both that chunky white boy and TenFourFox managed to help me and I've purchased that mobo.
One of my pals was back then writing his thesis around web browsers, modern technologies and components that at that time were considered to be crucial in the upcoming years. He included Acid tests and browser market share; also covered Internet Explorer dominance and Firefox that managed to break it. All of this in context of standard computers - smartphones were about to become a thing.
We went a full circle and whole world nearly runs on a single browser engine. And beyond that if we consider the portability of modern software.
Yet, this Blink-Chromium monoculture is not a matter of concern to competition regulators. Whether because "it is what it is" or perhaps because of some deep shenanigans we don't see, it's terrifying because we lost choice and we're dependable on Google whims. All the hope lies in these small projects that bloomed around, and perhaps even in Firefox - if Mozilla will be ready to take own examination of conscience. But even so, wind of change might be not that strong.
Kinda related: back on Windows 7 I did add my MS account to Credentials Manager out of pure curiosity. But there was nothing else that could be done beside storing login and password. Even Windows Live applications bundle hold login data separately from Manager.
So I removed that account but when W10 was released, it was offered during initial setup of upgraded system. Windows still stored information about that account somewhere.
And yes, there are system tools still present today in W11 that allows users to create additional local accounts beside the default one set during installation - that's mmc snap-in (terrible name) local users and groups or net user for console. But I totally get it and support: people don't want to be forced for an online account out of the box, for a local workflow.
My rather distant friend has a tendency of not reading what happens on the screen. She uses her computers for years only for browsing the web and writing papers. Whatever else obstructs her way is dealt with "next next finish" approach. Despite I told her many times, she should read and look up for solutions online if there's any doubt.
She locked her W11 laptop. Disk was encrypted and she couldn't recall neither login or password for MS account.
Yeah I'd expect someone here will note it and page will get a "deserved" update
It's not just Apple, Microsoft but whole corporate world, and hell - even open source projects use same sterilized safe language of "we're so excited" in communication with users, customers. That's the actual reality distortion field.
Out of the 300 people logged in, 50 of them have custom profiles.
That's why I'd count Discord subs as a specific case targeting specific kind of a terminally online user who doesn't mind paying for such customization to show own digital identity, that for the rest means nothing. Discord had a brilliant idea here while at the same time allows to use their service without all these bells and whistles. Tho, I expect they'll start limiting it for those who refuse to subscribe in the nearest future.
I've seen more interest in Telegram among my contacts in recent years and less of it in Signal. I managed to grab my partner, sister and my friend to use Signal but they all three still use facebook along with whatsapp and doesn't seem they want to leave it.
The recent yet another revival of Gadu Gadu pass by without much fanfare. For those unfamiliar: GG was created by single guy upon ICQ idea of UIN's and quickly become the default messenger in Poland some 20 years ago - even gov't used it at some point. But it lost its position to Skype, Whatsapp and Viber. I admire somewhat the dedication this new company has in restoring our "homemade" network. But it's way too late: new generation of people who's mainly familiar with big corporations services have grown up and GG has nothing that'd made it replace these.
Yes, some older version but I've grabbed carbonlib 1.6.1 from macintoshrepository and that helped with launching MacSurf under that premade 9.0 machine
You are aware that there's a huge retrocomputing community around the world that with hearts and passion preserves old machines and software?
Anyone had luck running it under infinitemac? I can't boot anything beyond 9.0 and it throws some error upon launch - seems it needs at least 9.1.
They had to calculate jump fast to join the fleet and the only way was to break the taboo - connecting the computers.
Cylons seized the opportunity and despite of the software firewall they managed to periodically disturb this network. In the end all computers were disconnected. IIRC Gaeta later had to wipe drives and install operating systems again, from these fancy octagonal "cds".
Found the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CkDyc1TLrQ
I went even further and my small set of the most important applications runs in the background - rest doesn't have that privilege. I've treated my spare Samsung phone same way.
I also don't use Siri either beyond setting timers and lights in home and every application is also excluded from being "suggested". Apple for 14 years didn't bother to add support for Polish so it basically remains useless.
Oh damn... I'd guess they had their own "industry-specific" term for Pavulon.
There's English article on Wikipedia about this particular topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_Hunters?useskin=vector
My sister had her diagnosis described in Latin in the early 90s by CZMP hospital in Łódź
JavaZone is the biggest community-driven Java conference that has been organized in Oslo, Norway since 2001. JavaZone 2026 happens between September 2nd and 3rd at NOVA Spektrum, Lillestrøm.
Here's a teaser video (or an invitation video as some would say) for JavaZone 2010 featuring Jenny Skavlan. Have some laff~