You can get smooth transitions with just css too with @view-transition
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@view-trans...
Worth mentioning @view-transition is still not supported in Firefox.
Readit Newstrwired commented on Plain Vanilla Web plainvanillaweb.com/index... · Posted by u/andrewrn
trwired commented on Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015) culture.pl/en/article/phi... · Posted by u/m-hodges
As far as I know Stanisław Lem was not allowed to like anything from US. These days the soviet propaganda in Poland disallowed people to like anything that came from "the rotten west"
> As far as I know Stanisław Lem was not allowed to like anything from US. These days the soviet propaganda in Poland disallowed people to like anything that came from "the rotten west"
Such statement would hold somewhat true for the Soviet Union until the 80s, but not for Poland, whose society never stopped seeing itself as a part of wider European community, and because of significant migration in the XIX and XX century, also felt a connection with the US. Poland took advantage of Stalin's death to wrangle itself somewhat free of Soviet hegemony and starting with Gomułka's Thaw [1], adopted a more liberal model. It was still a dictatorship, but in comparison with the Soviet Union itself and also a few of the more repressive regimes in other satellite states, it was significantly more open. Edward Gierek's [2] rule only reinforced that course.
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't all roses. The inflow of Western culture faced many obstacles still, but those were often more of economical nature — in general books were translated, movies were shown in cinemas, the TV was filled with (somewhat dated) American and Western European TV shows, and Polish artists followed world trends in music (although with significant delay). The „rotten west” mindset never took root in Polish society and the authorities didn't enforce it with much zeal once the most repressive era ended in the mid-50s.
trwired commented on Alcohol-free booze is becoming big business economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/edward
In Poland in last decade there was huge boom of 0% beers
Another booming segment is energy drinks. I wonder if these two have a common root, that is a yet-to-be-(re)discovered market for soft drinks marketed towards adults. In the region's early history that niche was occupied by kvass. It is still very popular in ex-Soviet countries, but not so much in the CEE area.
I don't have anything to add on the subject of the article, but just want to mention I really like the site it's published on. Alongside przekroj.org (which recently started dipping its toes into publishing also in English) it is one of my favorite places on the web. No clickbait, no quantity over quality, just (mostly) interesting, well researched content. I wish there were more places like these around the internet.
trwired commented on Detect when your installed Firefox addons have changed owners github.com/maxtheaxe/unde... · Posted by u/bjord
I noticed about myself that in recent years I am becoming increasingly paranoid when it comes to addons and avoid installing any but the most popular/trusted, not just for Firefox, but all applications I use. If there is an addon that does something I want and doesn't fit my criteria for trust, I either write my own private clone, adjust my habits not not need it or (the most frequent outcome) just suck it up.
trwired commented on Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software kopia.io/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Hm interesting name, I spent a few seconds on the site to figure out origin but no luck.
"Kopia" means "copy" in Swedish and probably more Nordic languages, too. Very hard to pronounce in English so it would be interesting to hear it said.
Kopia also means a copy in Polish and the author is Polish. The first paragraph in the software's Github page also confirms the Polish origin of the name: https://github.com/kopia/kopia/
Tangentially, as far as OSS names of Polish go, kopia is pretty tame. A popular deduplicating app is named czkawka (hiccup). Now that choice is just mean towards non-Polish speakers. :)
trwired commented on Poland’s ‘anti-vampire’ graves atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/Vigier
Poland is not right next to Romania on any current maps that I have found.
Poland is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
Romania does border Ukraine, however if you were to travel from Ukraine to Romania the best route is actually through Slovakia and Hungary.
Fun fact, you can see Romania from Poland on a good weather! [1]
Also before the WWII, the Second Polish Republic shared a border with the Kingdom of Romania. Before the partitions in late 18th century, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth overlapped with some territories making up modern day Romania and Moldova and the Principality of Moldavia was a vassal of Poland and PLC for a time.
This is to say it is reasonable to imply Poland's close proximity with Romania, both in geographical and cultural sense, even though the borders have shifted.
[1] - https://dalekieobserwacje.eu/rumunia-widziana-z-tarnicy-most...
It's also a consequence of constant R&D improvements.
We can make appliances that last for 20 years or more, sure, but then when 20 years pass you have an appliance that is 20 years old and doesn't have any of that new stuff that came out in the last 20 years.
Which is fine by me. I need a fridge to cool things down, oven to heat them up and TV to show moving pictures, all without access to wifi and other bells and whistles modern appliances come with. Just the basic stuff that those appliances could handle 20 years ago. More doesn't always translate to better.
I didn't know Franco-Belgian comics were so popular outside of french-speaking countries.
IMO here are the main differences between Franco-Belgian and American comics:
1. not a single comic (at least the ones written before the Marvel movies began dominating the culture) is about superheroes. Every protagonist is a normal person, though sometimes extremely competent. This results in much more variety in the industry. I'm not sure why they didn't even try to copy the American model if only for business reasons, but I'm thankful for it.
2. Each comic usually gets a single 50-page issue per year. (Seriously, there's a series I've been reading since I was 8, and you can marathon it in a few sittings.) I think this reduces the amount of "filler issues" or low quality churn, as the author has lots of time to get things right.
3. Most of the time the comics are written by the same author, usually the creator of the characters. They're not getting pimped out to every author out there for a run. It makes things more cohesive IMO.
My favorite series is Thorgal, by the author of XIII and Largo Winch. It's a fantasy series set at the time of the vikings, with light sci-fi and magical elements. Think of it like Conan but with a non-violent hero. Read issue 9, The Archers, for an standalone story that can give you an idea of what it's like before you commit. It's been running since the 80s, but once the author retired a decade or so ago, some younger guy took over the writing, and you can see the quality of the writing drop off, so I never kept up. But you got 30 years worth of good books, about 35 issues IIRC.
> not a single comic (at least the ones written before the Marvel movies began dominating the culture) is about superheroes
I would argue that Rork - one of my favorite Franco-Belgian comic characters - counts as one. He would not feel very out of place at DC's Vertigo as Constantine's colleague of sorts.
And then there are Asterix and his friend Obelix, who having access to powers unavailable to regular humans, go around solving problems by punching people particularly hard - just like a regular Marvel/DC character would. ;)
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