Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de), page 13

For those wondering if that example does happen, there is a semi-famous story of Jimmy Carter's Japanese interpreter translating an anecdote of his as "President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh."

I'm imagining him feeling like the funniest person in the world before finding out how they translated it

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This kind of short-sighted thinking is what undermines trust in institutions. I'm feeling guilt by association for what they did, just by being Swedish and having gone to a Swedish uni.

Making a very cool promise and then going back on it after 20 years due to penny-pinching is not how a 200-year-old respected and beloved institution behaves.

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#keming
#TShirtSpotting

@Lichtenbergian @shiflett

#keming

@shiflett

Official post in English about the decision: kth.se/en/student/studier/2.95…

#KTH

The decision, excerpt translated from Swedish:

[ . . . ]

[This decision takes force on 2019-10-01.]

[ . . . ] [The affected shall be informed by e-mail about the coming deactivation and be given the opportunity for a limited time to move their e-mail service to a different provider. The aim is for this to be finalized by 2020-03-31.]

[ . . . ]

Full statement, PDF 1.1 MB, Swedish:

intra.kth.se/polopoly_fs/1.916…

Everything rots.

Apparently the decision was made in 2019. The aim was to kick everyone off by the year after, but apparently it didn't reach my friend until just now.

kth.se/en/student/it/kth-accou…

Uuuugh.

I was a student at Linköping Institute of Technology at Linköping University. We received an email address with five letters from your first and last name, then three digits, at a liu.se subdomain depending on the student section your program was under. After graduation or drop-out you'd lose your account. That's fair, and we knew the deal.

My friend went to the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. They had a much sweeter deal. You could pick your user name yourself, and you had an @kth.se email address for LIFE. Very cool.

That is, until my friend received an email from noreply@kth.se just now, 20 years later, saying hey you have an email account here but you're not faculty or student, so we'll disable it in November.

WHAT.

Can you imagine how many places a person has been using their email address when they've had it for 20 years??

Not cool, KTH. Not cool.

@mansr Yeah it's an fla, not an flv.

No, I'm not sure. 😅

Maybe in the end I'd need an actual Flash authoring tool to get this thing out.

We found another source with some low-resolution PNGs for now.

@bkhl Best comment:

"Not sure what i just watched, but I liked it as much as I like vodka mixed with salty liqourice. 👍"

Turmion Kätilöt: "Yksi Jumalista"

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=6l_BsWhslk…

@0bm

If you have a .fla file with Flash assets, how do you use them in something people use in 2024?

What can convert a .fla to something that can be imported to Krita, Blender or Roblox Studio?