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As usual with culture war topics: Those examples in that article are often selective quoting and abridging information and a multi-step game of telephone and the language barrier h…

> I live and work in a multi-lingual environment, and have set up a keyboard shortcut to switch between the German and English keyboard. MacOS does not have a keyboard shortcut for…

Possibly related: The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Flesh_Pit_National_Par...

Back in the 2000s in the web standards development community there were multiple web development strategies called "progressive enhancement", "graceful degradation" and "unobtrusiv…

There was even a polyglot (X)HTML 5 which I always found genius - there are many more XML parsers than HTML5 parsers in the world. https://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/

I was surprised to see an Eckart Walther cited as an co-creator of RSS. That was news to me, and I followed the RSS wars since 2000. I thought I knew the names of everyone involved…

Also: They don't really work in other countries or demographics. Generational bins presume that shared experiences form a somewhat comparable outlook on life. I am a Xennial. I gre…

... in a diminished state.

There isn't one. It's Google's web now. You should be thankful that you are still allowed to use it.

Some modern electrical solutions seem to be very near this ideal. Take a look a Mahle, their rear hub motor and small in-frame batteries only seem obvious I you take a close look. …

Interestingly there was a real attempt to build an E-Puzzler for shredded documents, to reconstruct the torn Stasi files after the German reunification. But while the system worked…

That's depends very much on age, class, geographic location. Someone could have grown up imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain, hence learning Russian as a second language. Nonetheles…

One about the annoying things about Maciej is that he acquired Delicious the domain .icio.us, but never did anything auspicious, maybe suspicious or malicious with the latter.

I remember when purl.org namespace URIs where the thing for RSS 1.0 modules. 25 years ago,

Here: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr... Easter egg: The example is named dogcow, after a 90s Mac icon, designed by Susan Kare, which later became a sm…

As someone who memorised the key combo for em dashes, curly quotes and guillemot's back in IRC days this notion depresses me.

Only two parties have been banned in Germany's post-war history. Banning a party is a rightfully a huge hurdle, because it goes both ways: While it can be a part of a self-defence …

For a computer what is the difference between 27 and 13000?

According to the video you don't seem to automatically translate everything - thankfully! - but should you plan this in the future, please, please give your users an opt-out or a s…

Knuth in the wake of the Iraq war and the Abu Ghraid crimes asked some "Infrequently Asked Questions" which are of course highly political. He kept this page linked on top of his h…

Back on New Years Eve 2016 I wanted to see once in my life one of these leap second which got inserted every few years. Emerald Time was the only clock app I found which displayed …

Further down on the page they rightly notice that strictly necessary cookies don't require consent. This mirrors the opinion of European Union's Article 29 Working Party back then:…

But current Volkswagen leader- and ownership is not nazi, unlike Tesla. VW in effect was re-founded after the war by the British military administration as a trust and only privati…