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   Jay Bear (jbear5@floofy.tech)'s status on Monday, 29-Jun-2026 22:51:56 JST Jay Bear

   @thomasfuchs I think I have a USB floppy drive around here somewhere, but I don’t think it works.

   It’s funny Sony went with such a ubiquitous data storage format when they were otherwise so detected to their own Memory Stick instead of common flash memory formats.

   I risk a visit to eBay….

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   Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-May-2026 06:35:16 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

   in reply to

   for extra annoyance, this machine has a floppy drive that only usually works.

   It's an LS-120 superdrive emulating a real floppy through some horrible magic. And it only mostly works. sometimes I boot it and it just fails to read the disk

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   Liam Proven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Dec-2025 02:16:28 JST Liam Proven

   The @distrowatch end-of-year roundup does not pull its punches, in an admirable way:

   «
   Some distributions, particularly the commercial projects, shifted focus this year, discarding useful tools and replacing them with AI buzzwords, less capable installers, and broken core packages. We saw Red Hat/Fedora discard an old, functional installer for a limited, broken replacement while introducing a barely functional AI chatbot into Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Ubuntu swapped out its tried and true GNU core utilities for less functional Rust alternatives while also breaking Flatpak packages. Meanwhile, openSUSE threw away its famous YaST system administration tools and brought in a system installer which barely works.

   It's been a bleak year if you're a user of commercially-backed Linux distributions. Programs licensed as free software are being replaced by more liberally licensed alternatives, AI slop is being hyped as a main selling point, and powerful administrative tools are being replaced by watered down web-based alternatives.
   »

   https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251222

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   Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Dec-2025 21:19:03 JST Randahl Fink

   Trump realizing that the shooter in Washington D. C. was Afghan, and then immediately moving to deport everyone from what Trump calls "third world countries", is a sad example of how the racist mind works.

   It is the equivalent of deporting everyone named Brian, if one guy named Brian murdered someone.

   I hope Trump does not notice, the murderer has black hair, because 85 percent of the US population has it, and that is a lot of deportations.

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   Jean (reiayanami@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 16:04:44 JST Jean

   Last year, I wrote about how Google Scholar was one of the few remaining instances where search works.

   It is not perfect. But it works especially if you know the specific keyword that you are up to.

   Google included AI on Google Scholar, which as they claim will

   "analyzes [sic] your question to identify key topics, aspects and relationships, then searches all of them on Scholar"

   So in simpler terms, you are expected to type your research question/s and it will come back to you with papers relevant to your work.

   Sounds good? Sure, if youre only looking for papers to back up your Dunning Kruger.

   But that is NOT how research works. I cant remember how many back and forth I have had with my research arguments because I found a strong counterargument. That is what makes research research.

   You are not just living in your vivid hallucinations that your premise is gospel from the beginning. You are researching to PROVE, DISPROVE (quanti) or EXPLAIN (quali).

   Out of curiosity, I tried it:

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   HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jul-2025 04:04:35 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

   in reply to

   @SnowyCA @monotonehell @dgar

   Boy, that was no glitch, but a major f...

   Anyway, this thread was important to me, so I invested another half hour to fix it.

   Hope it works.

   It is a 5-post-thread now. 😁