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   Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ (brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 18:29:46 JST Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ
   IMO a sign of a proper university "Note that knowledge of Windows among the teaching staff is weak" (i'm not joking i mean it) 🙂
   
   http://cmsc-16100.cs.uchicago.edu/2021-autumn/Lectures/01/intro.php
   
   
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 18:29:45 JST SuperDicq

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     @brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org That could mean two things. Either it is the worst university ever and the staff primarily uses Mac OS, or they are a proper university and they use GNU/Linux.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 18:44:23 JST SuperDicq

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     @brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org I refuse to believe people exist who actually run those operating system as their main one.

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     Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ (brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jan-2026 18:44:24 JST Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ

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     • SuperDicq
     Its University of Chicago, might mean they use Plan 9 or some obscure Multics decendent 🙂
     
     (that uni used to be nicknamed "the place fun goes to die" because the workload was so high lol)