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Interestingly, this one completely freezes my Chrome 115.

https://flashmuseum.org/%d0%be%d1%84%d0%b8%d1%86%d0%b8%d0%b0...

Haven't seen this in a while.

pionerkotikon Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

𝕋𝕎𝕀𝕋𝕋𝔼ℝ

pionerkotikon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

I am currently building a (open-source) hiking and mountaineering equipment management web app.

An early prototype is at https://www.zaino.io . It's a bit rough around the edges (does not work on mobiles, not a lot of features, some UX issues probably) but core functionality should work.

Code, docs, issues are at https://github.com/igor-krupenja/zaino

pionerkotikon WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

> Cars stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross

Not in Italy though.

pionerkotikon WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic

I hope these WhiteHat Jr fellas get hit hard by the Streisand effect.

pionerkotikon Cable 1971

OK, now I get it too. It was difficult to understand as the article does not mention the 1971 coincidence explicitly.

pionerkotikon A brief history of government efforts to stop people from wearing masks

Estonia has had a mask ban since around 2008 I think, after the Bronze Night riots. [1]

This does produce ridiculous results occasionally. My friend was briefly detained by the police for wearing a ski mask on a long winter walk. It was -25°C outside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Night

pionerkotikon Outlaw Country

Interesting read.

Reminded me of the nearby Humboldt County, California. Similarly remote, rugged, quite lawless and attracting people who want to stay hidden. It also the focus of California's secretive marijuana industry. There is a good documentary series about it: https://www.netflix.com/ee/title/80217475

pionerkotikon Our culture has two types of forgetting

I still think that Coldplay is going to be forgotten way faster than Lennon though.

pionerkotikon Rome in Ruins

I have been in around 20 countries in Europe and Italy was the second-worst (after Georgia) in terms of rubbish.

The problem is not only with Rome. I have lived for three years in Milan and it is as dirty. Turin is only marginally better. In fact, on some days the road from Milan's Bergamo airport to the city was so dirty that it looked almost as if in a third-world country.

Interestingly, from my experience there was very little dog poo on the streets. Italians always seemed to painstakingly collect the poo of their pets and put it into rubbish bins. No such enthusiasm with other types of rubbish.