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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1246328/laotian-p Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay to visit Japan next week #Japan #Laotian #minister #next #PRIME #Sonexay #visit #VisitJapan #Week TOKYO (Kyodo) — Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone is scheduled to visit Japan early next week, the government in Tokyo said Thursday, as the two nations mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations this year. During his planned three-day visit from Tuesday, which will mark his second trip to Japan as pr…

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David

@tirasdenaranja ¿Tienes que atacar a la gente que me sigue porque no te doy la razón en algo? Nací de una mujer, tengo montones de amigas, mi socia es una mujer, respeto a las mujeres. No obstante tú estás exagerando y sacando todo de contexto. A este paso te vas a quedar sola y frustrada... Que detestable es la gente como tú, de verdad. Por gente como tú el feminismo tiene mala imagen! #Next

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Blake Patterson

Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement.

The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency).

That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available.

It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor.

(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)

But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...

OpenStep CD icon
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Blake Patterson

@bitnacht Good point, re: the busy bee.

As for the spinning disc (or "beachball"), it got its start in NEXTSTEP as a greyscale spinning magneto-optical disc rendering indicating the system is busy / data is loading, which was seen quite often on the early NeXT Cube, as it came with no HD but only an MO drive, and it used that drive for _swap_, if you can imagine...

That spinning disc became color when NEXTSTEP gained a color display on later hardware, and from there it evolved into the spinning "beachball" we know today (macOS being structurally based upon and evolved from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP).

EDIT: Oh, I think I misread - you are talking about the busy mouse pointer icon in Windows, I think. I'm not sure of its specific history. Apologies.

NEXTSTEP OS loading screen showing spinning magento-optical mouse pointer icon indicating that the system is busy
Shot showing the evolution from NEXTSTEP's color spinning MO-disc to the curretn macOS spinning beachball indicating system is busy
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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1236395/nato-secr NATO Secretary General Rutte to visit Japan, meet PM next week #general #Japan #meet #nato #next #PM #Rutte #secretary #visit #VisitJapan #Week TOKYO (Kyodo) — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will visit Japan next week for the first time in his current capacity, and hold talks with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the Japanese government said Thursday. It said the meeting, which will take place during Rutte’s three-day stay through April 10, …

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Mathilde Saliou

« La surveillance croissante des usagers par les administrations est trop peu discutée » / @hubertguillaud

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Next · Hubert Guillaud : « La surveillance croissante des usagers par les administrations est trop peu discutée » - NextNext s’est entretenu avec le journaliste Hubert Guillaud, qui publie Les algorithmes contre la société aux éditions La Fabrique ce 4 avril. Spécialiste des systèmes techniques et numériques, longtemps animateur du site InternetActu.net de l’Association pour la Fondation d’un Internet nouvelle génération (la Fing, dont les activités se sont arrêtées en 2022), désormais derrière la […]
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