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by pndy 4d ago
Jadwiga of Poland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadwiga_of_Poland crowned as king Anna Jagiellon - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jagiellon
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by pndy 6d ago
Of course that's a matter of taste but Luna interface/theme made whole XP being more appealing to ordinary people - especially with these task-oriented elements. On the other hand, "classic" widgets had that strong bare-
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by pndy 8d ago
There were memes ridiculing Wales and all that annual effort regarding supporting Wikipedia - probably that did the job
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by pndy 8d ago
> Memory Alpha seems to be better run. Some few months ago I couldn't find actors credits for particular roles they had in Star Trek franchise. For whatever reasons these bits were removed but still were present within Wayback Machi
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by pndy 10d ago
We are sadly already beyond the point where sites are locked behind accounts. Today, I'm more concerned about fact that "local" registration is often bundled by SSO from big corporations because it's so supesconvenient.
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by pndy 14d ago
Pinta is based on an old Paint.net code
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Endonym and Exonym(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pndy 15d ago|0 comments
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by pndy 18d ago
There was also Lycoris Desktop/LX https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lycoris Heavily XP inspired and it even came with similar task-oriented interface "hacks"
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by pndy 18d ago
Hah, literally named Sydney Monorail - thanks
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by pndy 19d ago
By the way, wasn't there a monorail in Sydney that was dismantled in recent years? I remember watching some show where this train was running in the background
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by pndy 19d ago
It's present in both Polish and Czech as well but rarely used
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by pndy 19d ago
It's close enough and has been already in use. A regression of features quality - for example. There's no reason to coin a new term at all, nor chasing this idea of using long German word as a replacement.
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by pndy 19d ago
I'm darn sure that in time the original German pronounciation would be lost and you'd hear something comparable to reading Straße as "Strabe". Probably it would become "verskimbeserong".
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by pndy 19d ago
Yes "cheesy" and "dated" because new Windows version was about to be released in 3 months from publication of that article. So marketing machine portraying everything old as bad and everything new as better was running f
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by pndy 27d ago
Shocked, horrified and apparently binge-watching the trial because it's a "blockbuster": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355825 This is economist.com but I've seen local news outlet going with sim
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by pndy 28d ago
Oh mio Dio :x
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by pndy 29d ago
You may say that " There's too much confusion ", ha!
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by pndy 29d ago
The fact that Sz in Hungarian reads as s and other way around, S becomes sh - is mind-boggling especially for Poles, where Sz is pronounced as sh . and S remains s .
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by pndy 29d ago
Ikea mobile application has little speaker near the product name that invokes pronunciation - sadly, that's not available on desktop site. I still tend to read Swedish accented letters in these names as German umlauts. So that wouldn&#
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by pndy 29d ago
Just a side note if someone decides to watch that The Engoodening "docu-meme" : the channel author reads a very "rich" fanfic involving Sean at the end of the video - you've been warned lol As for NMS itself, it al
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by pndy 1mo ago
This should be deemed as illegal - this isn't a consent choice but coercion resulting from the tiredness of being constantly harassed
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by pndy 1mo ago
This wasn't even a serious project but an example of malicious virtue signaling with a long-term plan for sort of hostile takeover. People involved just took the original code and replaced every GIMP occurrence with Glimpse, added new
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by pndy 1mo ago
It reminds me of a Polish reddit spinoff attempt called strims, where subs were streams - hence the localised name.
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by pndy 1mo ago
The Orange Telefon app? So far it's good but I had some reverse situation where my outgoing call to bank call center was marked as "unwanted". I wonder why Orange so far doesn't support built-in iOS SMS/Call Reporti
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by pndy 1mo ago
For me it stopped working suddenly yesterday (2026-08-10); some "proxies" are still getting in but heavens know for how long.
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by pndy 1mo ago
Poland isn't any better in that matter; we're still facing huge property development and housing "abnormalities", or as is being said here - pathologies.
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by pndy 1mo ago
That commitment probably won't change anytime soon but more and more people are dissatisfied of the church here - how it interferes with politics, tries to dictate what is morally right and of course covers up pedophilia cases. During
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by pndy 1mo ago
They'd have to gave up on huge amount of own bloat to make system work fine again under 8GB. I'm not sure how that can be achieved with Microsoft attitude towards desktop users - they're just a... data cattle for them.
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by pndy 1mo ago
Hard to call Windows an operating system nowadays when its main only purpose nowadays is to extract personal data from whoever uses it. I don't expect anything changes positively for the users - at least for those who are aware of all
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by pndy 2mo ago
Mozilla removed DNT as of Firefox 135, after 13 years since introducing it in 2011 with Firefox 4 In 2024 Mozilla acquired Anonym from former Meta executives and decided to introduce PPA: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=privacy+pr

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