i think it would probably go the other way. google has closed down so much of the android core system that they would probably respond to the court by opening those parts back up.

i used to love kill james bond but then they gave me a cigarette that killed me instantly

the family do claim that they were the first to cultivate it in the 1600s. don’t know if there’s any truth to that.

actual answer: because austin powers made gadgets uncool. there’s an interview with craig abut that.

it does look stupid. and that’s good, because it cultivates on audience of people who can look past that.

the amount of work that goes into each of his videos is also enough that skipping the makeup would barely make a dent. especially since he uses the marks on his face for tracking.

i’m 41

ah so you were 21 when youtube started.

neat

…lemmy has profiles and dms? didn’t actually know that.

reddit grew those after a huge influx of users demanded them, and i’ve still never understood why.

wow you’re petty.

you seem to be under the impression that lemmy wants to be big. i can’t speak for the creators, but the vibe among users (except on .world) seems to be that not growing is preferable. changing the social media landscape? why? let people use what they want. why would there need to be an endgame?

like slashdot, digg, and reddit, lemmy is a link aggregator. the community is not the point, it is an emergent feature.

all the others on the list are america only

but you told me to check the boxes! i’m a nerd for following instructions now?

i should have switched languages, there is of course more nuance in the original article. i’m reading a translated version so i may be missing something but “black jan” seems to be a reference to Jan Schenkman, the author. and although it is indeed stated that he had no intention of it being a depiction of a black person, the zeitgeist seems to have willed it into that shape anyway. after that section, the next reference to soot is in the early 1900s (not the 1990s as i read from the english page though). it does look like the soot explanation was the less popular one until fairly recently though.

every source on the internet will tell you that the soot thing is from like the 90s at the earliest.

Roetveegpiet seems to only have come about because of the blackface issue with Zvarte Piet, which was originally portrayed as a moor said to be a literal slave to Sinterklaas. Sooty Piet only got more popular than Black Piet in 2021., going from polls.

the title bar is traditionally not a toolbar, and that first toolbar is typically not visible unless you press Alt. Thunderbird has looked like this for the past 20 years, because all other programs used to too.

that’s not how that works. “idiot”, “lunatic” and “hysterical” were once medical terms. they are no longer used as such.

can you really call it a euphemism when it just used to be a medical term back then?

happy 25th anniversary to the playstation 2

if a chicken could code, it would use CHICKEN.

a few years ago

ten 🙃