baking christmas cookies, i make 8-9 different kinds every year in big quantities and then ship boxes to all my friends :3

the Dot Com bubble burst + World Trade Center in 2001 was another animal

Y2K wasn’t that bad compared to the rest

cool beans out of 5

originally, as a noun, “le train” comes from the latin word trahere “to pull”. It’s then use to describe a convoy of animals. Later its meaning evolved into the “the going motion” (of a horse, a human).

It’s currently in that sense in “arrière-train” to designate the back legs of a quadruped. “Aller de bon train” = to walk briskly, or in automotive, the “train avant” and “train arrière” are the front and rear axles.

There are other expressions like “le train-train quotidien”, meaning the daily grind.

edit: additional information to the etymology

it would seem like that because the words are the same, but in the locution “en train de [verbe]”, en train has the 15th century meaning of “in action”, “in movement”, this predates the invention of the railroad :)

yup you gonna end up in Guactanamo

How pareidolic of you!

They do try, but many vigilant members of the FOSS community do their best to find out what’s being done and prevent it.

You can read this summary of the attempt to inject a malware payload into a widely used compression tool that is used when remotely accessing servers: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119342/xz-utils-linux-backdoor-attempt

It was a close call with potentially dramatic consequences, where a bad actor took 2 years to progressively gain reputation and rights to a key FOSS project, and one performance obsessed engineer to find out what they did and undo everything.

The big difference between FOSS and closed source software is that FOSS gives the possibility to audit the code, whereas binary analysis / retro engineering is much harder.

archive link: https://archive.is/2025.04.22-200229/https://www.wkow.com/news/top-stories/man-told-to-leave-u-s-despite-being-a-born-and-raised-citizen/article_4b4090c6-0ae0-56ae-b408-d36cf6c1fa48.html

illustrations in the article with the missing text:

you can check this account on bsky, they repost lots of people who participate https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social

the owner also has a youtube channel in German where he shows every aspect of his business, really interesting. I’m getting shoes from them next time I need to replace mine.

oh yeah I guess I forgot when MLK got sued and lost for embezzlement of millions of public money and lost his right to take part in an election

The noun that describes a person or thing from a place is a “demonym”. American, Michigander, Californian, New Yorker…

• Moscow: a Muscovite
• Versailles: a Versaillais (pronounced “ver-sah-yeah”)

it’s on the wikipedia page of most places

fucking imagine it!

kudos for posting an uncensored “fucking”!

Let me get the smallest violin to play the saddest little song for them.

i witnessed the creation of the mp3 format!