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The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame

91 points by divbzero 2y ago

cmpalmer52 2y ago
Damn, that article was interesting, but too hard to read on my phone with the ads jerking it around.
- littlestymaar 2y ago
  I don't know how people accept to brows the web without an ad blocker, especially on a small phone screen where ads are just invasive…
  - allenrb 2y ago
    Since I’ve made pihole a part of my home infrastructure, using this same phone away from home is noticeably much more painful.
    - fragmede 2y ago
      there are other ways to block ads
    - littlestymaar 2y ago
      Installing Firefox + unlock origin does the job without the effort.
    - grishka 2y ago
      On an Android phone, you can use AdGuard DNS-over-TLS server to block ads system-wide even on mobile data. Or install a browser that supports extensions or has a built-in ad blocker. On an iPhone, you can also use the DNS method, but Safari supports extensions so you can install a proper ad blocker as well.
    - allenrb 2y ago
      Tbh it’s probably been a decade since the last time I looked into it. Glad to hear some ad blocking is doable on the iPhone. Certainly I use an ad blocker everywhere else. Will see what’s available. Thanks!
thrance 2y ago
As a parisian, I'm still a bit sad the conservative opinion won and that the roof was rebuilt exactly as it was before the fire. It wasn't even the original roof! It was rebuilt with little concern over faithfulness to what existed before, not two centuries ago by Viollet le Duc. After the fire, they were some neat proposals for a glass roof, or some wild ideas like a walkable, vegatalized one. But even without going there, nowadays it seems like old stone is sacred and we can't touch it anymore, ever. We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres or the Eiffel Tower with this mentality.
- littlestymaar 2y ago
  I'm really glad de didn't go for the monstrosities that where proposed after the fire. I'm was not against making something new (like what Violet le Duc did), but everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. > We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres This is big misunderstanding: the glass pyramid wasn't built by replacing parts of the Louvre: it was built in place of the parking lot of the ministry of Finances! (And yet, to say it was controversial back then is a massive understatement) Also Parisians now aren't against new things, we've been numerous to sign a petition to make the Olympic flame aerostat a permanent feature of the city.
  - jim-jim-jim 2y ago
    > everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. The McMansion Hell lady introduced me to the idea of "PR-chitecture." You'll see it everywhere once you're familiar with it, including many other fields of design.
    - throw0101c 2y ago
      > PR-chitecture is, essentially, the architectural equivalent of vaporware: Proposed projects, ideas, and innovations that generate a lot of hype and publicity and yet never materialize (and even when they do materialize, they do so in a muddled-down form). It’s architecture for the click economy, a product of the internet age of short attention spans and a constant, uncritical drive towards the new and shiny. PR-chitecture is the inevitable result of an image-driven, buzzword-laden media atmosphere where big ideas and sumptuous imagery are rewarded time and time again with attention, clicks, and opportunities over the work of up-and-coming or more critical and subversive practitioners. * https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-wont-save-us-from-the-pandemic/ https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-w... * https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrifting-a-design-phenomenon https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrif...
susiecambria 2y ago
https://archive.ph/IdCwK https://archive.ph/IdCwK
Aeolun 2y ago
Opening this page lights my phone on fire. It’s absurd that opening a news website is more intense than running a game with a million baloons on-screen at the same time (without any slowdown).
- grishka 2y ago
  It's just a reminder to install an ad blocker. Before I saw these comments, I had no idea there are ads on that website.

91 points by divbzero 2y ago

cmpalmer52 2y ago

Damn, that article was interesting, but too hard to read on my phone with the ads jerking it around.

littlestymaar 2y ago
I don't know how people accept to brows the web without an ad blocker, especially on a small phone screen where ads are just invasive…
- allenrb 2y ago
  Since I’ve made pihole a part of my home infrastructure, using this same phone away from home is noticeably much more painful.
  - fragmede 2y ago
    there are other ways to block ads
  - littlestymaar 2y ago
    Installing Firefox + unlock origin does the job without the effort.
  - grishka 2y ago
    On an Android phone, you can use AdGuard DNS-over-TLS server to block ads system-wide even on mobile data. Or install a browser that supports extensions or has a built-in ad blocker. On an iPhone, you can also use the DNS method, but Safari supports extensions so you can install a proper ad blocker as well.
  - allenrb 2y ago
    Tbh it’s probably been a decade since the last time I looked into it. Glad to hear some ad blocking is doable on the iPhone. Certainly I use an ad blocker everywhere else. Will see what’s available. Thanks!

thrance 2y ago

As a parisian, I'm still a bit sad the conservative opinion won and that the roof was rebuilt exactly as it was before the fire. It wasn't even the original roof! It was rebuilt with little concern over faithfulness to what existed before, not two centuries ago by Viollet le Duc. After the fire, they were some neat proposals for a glass roof, or some wild ideas like a walkable, vegatalized one. But even without going there, nowadays it seems like old stone is sacred and we can't touch it anymore, ever. We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres or the Eiffel Tower with this mentality.

littlestymaar 2y ago
I'm really glad de didn't go for the monstrosities that where proposed after the fire. I'm was not against making something new (like what Violet le Duc did), but everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. > We would never have had the glass pyramid in front of the Louvres This is big misunderstanding: the glass pyramid wasn't built by replacing parts of the Louvre: it was built in place of the parking lot of the ministry of Finances! (And yet, to say it was controversial back then is a massive understatement) Also Parisians now aren't against new things, we've been numerous to sign a petition to make the Olympic flame aerostat a permanent feature of the city.
- jim-jim-jim 2y ago
  > everything was so lazy and dull I'm really glad they got dismissed. The McMansion Hell lady introduced me to the idea of "PR-chitecture." You'll see it everywhere once you're familiar with it, including many other fields of design.
  - throw0101c 2y ago
    > PR-chitecture is, essentially, the architectural equivalent of vaporware: Proposed projects, ideas, and innovations that generate a lot of hype and publicity and yet never materialize (and even when they do materialize, they do so in a muddled-down form). It’s architecture for the click economy, a product of the internet age of short attention spans and a constant, uncritical drive towards the new and shiny. PR-chitecture is the inevitable result of an image-driven, buzzword-laden media atmosphere where big ideas and sumptuous imagery are rewarded time and time again with attention, clicks, and opportunities over the work of up-and-coming or more critical and subversive practitioners. * https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-wont-save-us-from-the-pandemic/ https://www.archpaper.com/2020/06/opinion-no-pr-chitecture-w... * https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrifting-a-design-phenomenon https://mcmansionhell.com/post/618938984050147328/coronagrif...

susiecambria 2y ago

https://archive.ph/IdCwK https://archive.ph/IdCwK

Aeolun 2y ago

Opening this page lights my phone on fire. It’s absurd that opening a news website is more intense than running a game with a million baloons on-screen at the same time (without any slowdown).

grishka 2y ago
It's just a reminder to install an ad blocker. Before I saw these comments, I had no idea there are ads on that website.