@@Gigi@kolektiva.social2025-01-15 06:24:23
"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0fs0/til_chinese_companies_rent_white_people_to_look/?rdt=52577
@sillon_fictionnel@paperbay.org2025-02-09 18:22:38
Après maintes hésitations, j’ai tâtonné pour trouver une police de caractère pour Le Sillon. Au départ, le modernisme m’a fait douter de l’usage d’une police Š empattement pour le site du club Sillonesque...
🌊 Lire sur le Sillon https://sillon-fictionnel.club/apropos
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-04-05 07:27:26
"To make a long story short, at some point during early 1996 I bought a cheap 14.4 kilobit per second modem, taking 10 minutes in average to download a single megabyte. Together with a monthly subscription to the new “Blue Window” service by Telecom PTT (soon to be renamed Swisscom), lo and behold, I was online."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/sniffing-packets/
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-04-06 13:16:44
"Simultaneously to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone in January 2007, Google started publishing a series of blog posts called “Testing on the Toilet”. On May 15th, 2008, this series featured a famous issue: “TotT: Using Dependancy Injection to Avoid Singletons.” The writing was literally on the wall of toilets worldwide: Singletons are bad™®©. Sadly, the much more exciting idea of dependency injection contained in the article got lost in the minds of most readers."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-hype-cycle-of-oop/
@sillon_fictionnel@paperbay.org2025-02-16 15:49:14
Publi Fluor - Affaires de Lettres Š Bruxelles
Le groupe de recherche Crickx a publié un travail remarquable et minutieusement documenté sur “Publi Fluor”, un magasin emblématique où Chrystel Crickx a exercé son talent pendant plus de quarante ans. Spécialisée dans le lettrage pour les devantures de magasins Š Bruxelles, elle a façonné un style unique...
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@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-03-19 16:23:53
"On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at precisely 20:14:19 UTC, just a mere three minutes before touchdown, the voice of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. confirmed the “Go for landing” order received from Mission Control together with a phrase nobody wanted to hear at that moment: “Program alarm – 1201.”"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/margaret-hamilton/