@agt Back when I was a student employee at my university's two public radio stations they had a computer used for fundraising right in the lobby. Running Knoppix from a CD was how I was able to get on the web and IRC without leaving a trace, and gave me a Linux environment (which I preferred over the WIndows one the computer ran). It took a bit for the disc to load, but the fun certainly began after that.

It was also how I experienced fluxbox and Xfce version 3. This was back when Xfce was still an imitation of CDE, before they decided to imitate GNOME instead.

doctor: the med you’ve been on your whole adult life has stopped working for your severe anxiety

me: ok and the supplemental one isn’t doing anything either

doctor: have you tried yoga

@sinmisterios Y esto es posible que tal vez aun exista:

https://montevideo.gub.uy/noticias/curso-de-espanol-para-personas-migrantes

@lauren I would have thought that much of that freight traffic would have moved over to the giantic Adalando airport (former SAC base), or the remains of Castle AFB near Merced.

Both are outside of urban areas, and Adalanto has excellent rail and highway connections to the further east (and to Southern California.)

Back in the 1980s Mr. Griffiths taught Computer Science in my local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every week have stuck with me for decades.

"A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do"

and

"A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million times faster than you can"

--

There are no rogue LLM agents.

Only negligent people telling computers what to do.

And letting them make mistakes a million times faster than ever before.

Okay all your anxieties about potential future AI's are more saliently directed toward currently-existing corporations, but go off

@sinmisterios Hola!

Fijate a ver si algunos de estos recursos se parecen a lo que estás buscando

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKvfKjPuMGc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Xo6QxpFeQ

https://superespanol.com/curso-de-espanol/

Buenas suerte!

@daisy55 what 😭

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117396502063081694

I’m honestly surprised that AI companies aren’t doing like 3-year subscriptions and give you a computer for free—this was a whole thing during the dot com bubble (free computer but locked into a ISP plan)

HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”

A combined service could lead to higher prices.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/hbo-max-paramount-and-discovery-will-unify-into-a-single-service/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Biblically accurate potentiometer #StraightOuttaShenzen

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007527146861.html

I'm just so tired of this Regression to the Mean in every aspect of society.

Can't have interesting looking buildings, too hard to re-sell.

Can't have fun colored cars, fleets only want black or white or grey.

Can't have any personality, personalization, human curation, have to trust the algorithm.

Can't have art, gotta have statically generated slop.

@quinta Quanto volte ho detto che per me vale «Non fondare un’azienda, fonda una religione»? 😉