Manet's famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it.
The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!
But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!!! To prove it, he did a photographic reconstruction of this scene. Check it out in my next post.
"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
I recently published an article on my personal blog about the history of WigglyPaint, how it works internally, and my feelings regarding the flood of unscrupulous websites and mobile apps which have s...
I was an Oberon fan/user back in the v2 and v4 days. I remember reading some code from the University of Linz that was in German and it was the first time I realized that programming didn't need to be in English, that there was really no reason it couldn't be in someone's native language as long as there was a character set for it. I think Oberon had always been at least Latin-1, and at the time I heard through the grapevine that there were Russian variants, probably lost to time now.
Then, stubbing my toe on Plan 9 and Unicode.
And now, I have to admit, wondering what tal would look like mapped to Maya script. 😂 But the Toki Pona rabbit hole will do for now.
Gold mining kills indigenous peoples throughout the world like the Yanomami people of Brazil and Papuans in West Papua. The bloody, violent and greedy landgrabbing that goes on for gold forces indi…
@emil it has a kind of screw type head. I just looked, and the refills are sold locally for me, they're 6$ for a new head. But from what I could see online, people loose them before it gets time to refill them X)
Valve put up their Steam Year In Review 2025 and initially, they made it seem like their hardware plans were a lot more uncertain but they've since clarified.
A Unit of time measurement similar to normal time, however very flexible - something that Valve says might take a week could take a day, or something that they say might take a month, will take a year. Generally fluid.
No te creas, uso un programa algo antiguo que funciona correctamente pero mi Win10 no lo quiere, tengo que usar en un portátil con Win 7. Asimismo uso otro en Win10 que no puede actualizarse porque mi Win10 no lo soporta y yo en medio porque no soporto a ninguno de los dos. No son programas genericos por lo que la opción es quedarme como estoy.
actually there are programs that you can no longer install on Windows for various reasons: 16 bit Windows programs, some programs have been made incompatible on purpose (they continue working when you update Windows, but a new install fails), some others you can no longer register and activate, but have to buy a new license for.
old programs call old libs with release number 0.0.1 . So they dont start until the old lib is found e.g from the internet. Then the next other lib is missing and takes more time. Also this may get insecure without checking hash codes. The bragging phrase it might be installed is prooved false for many old lib calls
Step 8: "sensible cebtrists" try to make the occupation slightly less of a shitshow and cop 100% of the blame Step 9: hawks run for office on a "stop the war" platform.
@wilbr Thanks for the reply and all your great comics over the years. For real I thought it was a new one, so it's pretty funny that it actually was a repost. I was being silly about how it feels just like 2001 again but with even less competency.
genuine question, why is your alt text in all caps? perhaps you didn’t know this, but some screenreader software will read out each capital letter, rather than the full word. it’s also harder to parse visually for sighted folks, especially those with dyslexia. just wondering if you’d ever be open to converting it to sentence case at titlecase.com or something
War isn't stupid. American citizens are stupid for electing people that clearly lying. Them they get us into war, lie about the enemy having weapons and these morons believe it.
another aspect that pisses me off is Trump didn't even try to manufacture consent for the inevitable war crimes committed in our name. He thinks so little of us.
Researchers exploring Bolivia’s Great Tectonic Lakes discovered a landscape transformed over centuries by sophisticated engineering and diverse agricultural traditions.
This post against "age certification" laws is yet another reason I'm proud of our local Colorado Linux computer factory, @system76blog.system76.com/post/system7…
I sense something brewing with the issue of incorrectly managed copyright renewals and Public Domain Philip K. Dick stories. We have already seen the news about…
Forest 500 report shows 150 of the world’s largest financial institutions invested nearly $9 trillion in deforestation-linked industries. Support EUDR!
i think the mastodon app is missing the heading for this error message and is only displaying the summary/description. it makes for an oddly poetic popup.
let’s just create another reasonable operating system. Make it compatible with apps from other OSes and try to sell it to individual users, not companies @keepandroidopen
“No stupid rules of engagement.” That was Pete Hegseth, the American war secretary, boasting during a press conference about the approach with which he and...
I don't think the UK media have made nearly enough noise about the US Navy sinking an *unarmed* Iranian warship and then, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions, leaving them to drown.
This is a heinous war crime which the media would be rightly up in arms about if any country that wasn't nominally an "ally" had done it.
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You can use snaps, flatpaks and deb-packages side by side, and you can allways decide by yourself which one to use, so what's all the fuss anyway? Ubuntu just works.
I've been using Slackware and spinoffs for years - currently Porteus - and I accept that this is Linux so everyone is entitled to their own opinion of 'what works'. We may not agree because we have differing priorities, and needs from our software 'ecosystem' but STOP WITH THE UBUNTU BUTTHURT willya? ' The hate it gets is over the top'? Grow up! Stop crying! Grow some more distros!
I don't hate Ubuntu but the last LTS came with some issues that were very frustrating for me and which would have vexxed someone with less experience. Three that spring to mind:
-NTFS driver that doesn't work (why can I suddenly not access my NTFS drives!?)
-appimages restricted (why can I not open these programs that I rely on!?)
-GTK version not being backwards compatible (why do the GUIs of these plugins I rely on suddenly not work!?)
I learned a lot with Ubuntu desktop many years ago, but at one point, I felt like I was fighting more with it than I was actually using it. Snap made it even worst... For the desktop, I left for Pop!Os for many years, but now that they are not updating the Gnome version anymore, I switched to Debian. I still use Ubuntu-server a lot though...
my first distro was kubuntu (ubuntu shipping with kde) and its probably the worst distro ive used so far and ive used a lot, its not that its doing anything wrong (even tho it does with snap and probably other things) its that i dont see much reason to use it over something like fedora or just base debian
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