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Friday, 9 January 2026
quote [ The Republican calendar crystallised a French dream of rationality and symmetry, which echoes in everything from the geometry of garden design to the metric system. ]
[sings] Time is on my side, yes it is
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Sunday, 4 January 2026
quote [ ProtoWeb is an online service that allows users of vintage computers to browse classic web sites. It is the easiest way to browse the Internet as it appeared in it's early days. ]
I thought you might be interested in this. While the link goes to the main page, read the Features page for info.
This is a combination of proxy/archive allowing for browsing on very old devices seemingly using a combination of http/ftp protocols for use with backports like Retrozilla. Didn't test.
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Saturday, 3 January 2026
quote [ Our results show that people are conditionally corrupt: They offer bribes based on their partners’ national backgrounds for whom they hold inaccurate corruption stereotypes. ]
That looked like something you might be interested in: people over-estimate the corruptness of nationalities they assume corrupt and vice-versa.
(thumb via free study PDF)
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Friday, 2 January 2026
quote [ “Cyberselfish” saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian. ]
Great summary of a book that's currently being unearthed by many people. The original website is still online and has an update from 15 years later (10 years ago) in two parts.
(full in extended)
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Saturday, 27 December 2025
Seeing many people with not enough posting karma lurking in the background: why don't you share interesting blogs/portals/communities in the comments to gain posting karma and build a community blogroll for gathering new posts more often?
thumb via Clawmarks
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Sunday, 21 December 2025
Late again, sorry! Gifting how-to, contribution and infos in the extended.
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Saturday, 20 December 2025
quote [ Intermarché, France: Let's make a cute Christmas ad with handmade 3D
Migros, Switzerland: Hold my brainrot Absolute wild. I saw an interview with the marketing person behind this and they were most definitely on coke. ] well, nothing to add. ad people doing ad stuff, I guess.
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Wednesday, 17 December 2025
quote [ For now, just one question: Why should I waste my time correcting what the SumoBot writes when I could have simply updated what needed updating? ]
Via a Firefox subreddit moderator: Some translation teams had been assigned a bot that moves fast and breaks things, leading to the Japanese community stepping down last month.
Auto-translation seems to work better for some languages than others. Also, the bot is Gemini-based. Quote: an Italian contributor chiming in on the announcement referenced in the post (thumb: marsf's profile picture).
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Sunday, 7 December 2025
quote [ Eich himself wrote in 2006 that “ECMAScript,” the official name for the language standard, “was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.” ]
No new facts for people in the know, but a nice recollection of 90s style programming and trademarks lingering in our machines. Also: the 10 days were a demo prototype, as the article states itself.
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Wednesday, 3 December 2025
quote [ While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there, the fact that you could set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in song birds is crazy. ]
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