pndy

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by pndy 2mo ago
My friend from Czechia struggled while pronouncing Polish words including /w/ sound represented by "ł" letter. What I find interesting is that /w/ sound > V západoslovanských jazycích navazuje na praslovans
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by pndy 2mo ago
Some accounts have a clearly more privileged status here and are allowed to upload content without limits - especially from big outlets.
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KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal(theregister.com)
42 points by pndy 2mo ago|56 comments
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by pndy 2mo ago
There's at least 10 other accounts who do the same
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by pndy 2mo ago
You're not the first commenting on this and I wonder what's the trigger because I haven't seen a single suggestion for setting up a passkey anywhere.
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by pndy 2mo ago
> This is a low friction way to attest "this image came from an iPhone sensor and Apple approved it". Which surely will be useful in ID verification on the Internet; Android devices most likely will follow with same or similar
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by pndy 2mo ago
Anyone got saving files from the web on the phone replaced with iCloud Drive? Overall it took over 1h20m or so for download and install this version in my iPhone. And Settings still displays indexing notification while I have little on the
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by pndy 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo ago
Pinta is based on an old Paint.net code
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Endonym and Exonym(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pndy 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pndy 2mo 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 2mo ago
Hah, literally named Sydney Monorail - thanks
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by pndy 2mo 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 2mo ago
It's present in both Polish and Czech as well but rarely used
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by pndy 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 3mo 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 3mo ago
Oh mio Dio :x
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by pndy 3mo ago
You may say that " There's too much confusion ", ha!
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by pndy 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo ago
It reminds me of a Polish reddit spinoff attempt called strims, where subs were streams - hence the localised name.

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