@LilFluff

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I'm from Arizona, where it's hot and dry most of the year but there's little else to complain about.

University professor, circa 2010 : You can’t trust Wikipedia. You cannot use it for your essay.

University professor, circa 2025 : Here are powerpoint sildes on how to use ChatGPT to do your essay.

Personal conclusion: the only problem with Wikipedia was that it was not corporately owned and that it had no marketing budget.

And now for something COMPLETELY different:

Linux booting *inside* a PDF file. (Uses embedded JS to run a RISCV emulator and boot Linux to a command line prompt):

https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf?tab=readme-ov-file

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/16/dev_linux_pdf/?td=rt-3a

GitHub - ading2210/linuxpdf: Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator

Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator - ading2210/linuxpdf

GitHub
you trying to tell me that LibreOffice almost had the coolest looking mascot ever and they just said... no??? wtf??????

RE:
https://lethallava.land/notes/a4776tvc51
kade² (@thawkade)

no joke she would have singlehandedly caused at least several dozen furries to cancel their Microsoft Office subscriptions (📎1)

Lethal Lava Land
Does your company also forget about the real security threat that comes by allowing for remote work?
@cstross
English language speaker jealous of early Japanese typewriters
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typewriter
Japanese typewriter - Wikipedia

@quixoticgeek the same way you type é but with a different wikipedia page
Well, fuck. Today I check online to find that Don of the Novaspirit Tech YouTube channel lost his battle with cancer.
Once more, fuck cancer. This time sponsored by a favorite crafts and diy youtube couple loosing their supurrvisor kitty. Goodbye black void, we'll miss you.
What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n