Keith Haring used white chalk to draw on blank advertising panels inside subway stations. Now, 31 surviving examples of these works have sold at auction for more than $9 million.
In 1840, a young French doctor named, Victor Tixier, accompanied the Great Osage on their summer bison hunt into the arid country northwest of (what is now) Wichita, Kansas.
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The cuirass and helmet of King Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, is a notable example of ancient Macedonian armor, made of bronze and adorned with gold decorations.
Philip II was a key historical figure known for his military innovations and kingdom expansion. In 339 BC, he suffered a severe lance wound to his leg during a battle, which resulted in a permanent limp.
Universities risk becoming tinned food with an expiry date.
"we believe that we live in a time where rethinking the university as an institution, as a place for situated knowledge production, dissemination and authority, could not be more urgent."
Similar to today, people believed that the movements of celestial bodies influenced their personalities, health, and ideal times to do certain activities.
Elon Musk unveils new risk-free self-driving broom to help people carry buckets of water
The autonomous self-driving broom which he claims will remove the hassle of carrying buckets of water for good.
The broom – known as xBROOM because of course it is – uses a sophisticated route-plotting algorithm to self-drive from your kitchen to the well and back bringing buckets of water without risk of malfunction.
You might use Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse through your server's website or through an app, but there is also a third option that many people prefer: web apps.
Web apps are special kinds of websites that can also be installed like apps. They appear as app icons, keep you signed in, work separately from your browser and provide notifications just like any app does.
Web apps are extremely easy to install, there's a complete beginner's guide at:
A lot of app store apps are actually just web apps packaged to be downloadable from app stores!
But web apps don't give Apple or Google any money or control, so they tend to get downplayed. It's also harder to access a user's data from a web app than an app store app, so companies who want to spy on their users do it through app store apps.
@Fedi.Tips 🎄 I've never understood the purpose behind web apps. Why have something that must be installed, that looks and acts just like a webpage, when there is already a website for the given servvice? Even regular apps, if they provide no real difference from the site, don't make sense to me, as it's much easier to just have one web browser that can visit all of these sites. Things with dedicated clients, or clients that focus on specific features (TweeseCake for accessibility, for example), are different. Maybe, I'm missing something in all of this.
tl:dr - They let you use the website without the browser interface getting in the way, you don't have to open or close the browser as it runs separately, and web apps provide notifications like app store apps do.
EDIT: I've rewritten it a bit to make clearer what the differences are between bookmarks and web apps.
This entry was edited (Sunday, December 1, 2024, 5:29 PM)
@dandylover1 it gets rid of the browser 'chroming' (the tabs, the headers, all the extension toolbar stuff) so you JUST have your app, acting like an app. It can be separately sized (without impacting what a new browser window will open as), separately iconified.
Take a music player - it isn't a web page. It is an app. It just happens to use web-tech. By installing it as a PWA, I can control where it goes, give it its own icon, and more, and THINK of it as an app, not a web page.
Here are two views of my own music player (a client for #Subsonic). One is a self-contained app interface. The other is...an annoying tab in my browser. Buried when I am in another tab, distracted by all the 'stuff' around it. Just...meh. If you want to keep to the tab, fine. But I find having an app be separate is more aesthetically pleasing.
@JWSGeek @Fedi.Tips 🎄 I'm totally blind and use a screen reader. For me, both require alt-tabbing to another window. But clients can definitely be cleaner than websites in general, especially with all the rubbish they include today. To me, though, web apps just seem like webpages. They're not the same as, say, Media Player Classic, which is a regular media player. That has a normal menu interface, etc.
@Fedi.Tips 🎄 @JWSGeek There's no need to apologise. smile I don't go around waving a sign that says "I'm blind". Obviously, the perspective of sighted users would be different as well, so it makes sense to feel as you do.
As a Fediverse tech support account, it's really useful to hear the screen reader perspective, because I should be keeping that in mind when offering support.
One of the best things about joining the Fediverse has been discovering more about accessing the internet via audio tools like screen readers. It's a totally different approach.
For some reason, this is what I thought Vitellus looked like before I saw a picture of him. Just the name conjured images of someone too fond of a good meal.
The statue of a ‘high priest’ in a vessel, dating back to 3000-2000 BC. Discovered during the excavations at the Ancient Mesopotamian City of Uruk (modern day Iraq) in 1929.
At first glance, it could easily be mistaken for a Viking relic. But it’s actually a coin from the Himyarite Kingdom, showcasing the ancient Musnad script—one of the earliest forms of Arabic writing.
The resemblance between Musnad and Viking runes is astonishing, sparking curiosity about the potential visual and cultural parallels between these two distinct civilizations.
is that actual currency? It's incredibly elaborate.
I'm using a search engine, and the only image I find of it has been deleted (on Reddit), and the only very similar coin is related to a video game 🤔. All other currency related to "himyanite kingdom musnad coin" look much less elaborate, more crude.
A funerary stele from Vári, Greece (420 BC), portrays a poignant scene: a young woman holding a bird toward her infant brother, who reaches up to grasp it. The accompanying epigram reveals their tragic story—they were siblings who perished together. Their grieving parents commissioned the stele in their memory.
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