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  • Let me introduce you the splash screen of Krita (pretty much the only capable digital painting app in open source realm): https://krita.org/images/pages/electrichearts_20250824A_kiki...
    by raincole
  • I find it worrying because being super sensitive to stuff like that is usually red flag that the person is kinda into it - Senators in Bathroom stalls and all that (bonus if you get the reference).

    But I think the person who directly contacted Microsoft about this was probably not the person who noticed it and brought it up on the Government side just the Person who was tasked with communicating about it so its good they remain nameless.

    by blkhawk
  • Raymond Chen is my favorite MS blog writer
    by mrosenbjerg
  • "The original wallpaper for Windows XP was Red Moon Desert, until people claimed that Red Moon Desert looked like a pair of buttocks."

    That's not what 'this looks like ass' means.

    by nehal3m
  • The wallpaper in question: https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/Red_moon_desert

    I suppose it looks like buttocks?

    by eska
  • This article includes the photo of the (clothed) hologram (it's the third image).

    https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/038-design...

    by yreg
  • years ago my father got a decomissioned, wiped clean notebook from work and asked me to set it up for him. i didn't want to shell out a hundred bucks for windows, so i suggested trying linux (ubuntu) and he agreed. "intrepid ibex" was installed without issues. a few weeks later i asked him if everything was ok and how he liked it, and he had no complaints, except one: he didn't like the edgy skull on the desktop wallpaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#/media/...
    by stefs
  • Raymond Chen's articles are true wealth of contemporary tech-lore. My favorite is the one where a user reported error on Flight Simulator map [0] and it escalated all the way up to Bill Gates & the then chief of FS division.

    [0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170418-00/?p=95...

    by srvmshr

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