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Un camion démolit trois véhicules dans un village paisible en Angleterre

(2022-05-06_16-19-19)


Mercredi, une caméra de surveillance a filmé le moment dramatique où un camion a percuté trois véhicules garés et détruit plusieurs murets dans un village paisible en Angleterre. Par chance, personne n’a été blessé dans cet accident qui a été décrit comme un “carnage absolu”.


Brief History Of Linux (#4)
Walls & Windows

Most people don't realize that many of the technological innovations taken
for granted in the 20th Century date back centuries ago. The concept of a
network "firewall", for instance, is a product of the Great Wall of China,
a crude attempt to keep raging forest fires out of Chinese territory. It
was soon discovered that the Wall also kept Asian intruders ("steppe
kiddies") out, just as modern-day firewalls keep network intruders
("script kiddies") out.

Meanwhile, modern terminology for graphical user interfaces originated
from Pre-Columbian peoples in Central and South America. These natives
would drag-and-drop icons (sculptures of the gods) into vast pits of
certain gooey substances during a ritual in which "mice" (musical
instruments that made a strange clicking sound) were played to an eerie
beat.