Em Adespoton

When I went to university, some professors were just starting to distribute material in postscript; TeX was brand new technology. PDF had just been accepted as a standard. The world wide web was still mostly local to NCSA, and Gopher was the preferred method of distributing electronic academic material.

Today? There’s no reason not to use PDF or ePub. There’s less and less that should require a trip to the library unless you’re studying pre-turn of the century literature of some sort.

The likes of Elsevier and HarperCollins Education should not exist in 2025. But they do, and so here we are.

Yes; the bigger question is: has Friendlybirdseggs heard of capitalization or abbreviation?

Only if you have hardware that can handle it.

Don’t run Windows 11 on ARM.

But they put other people on those rockets, not themselves.

It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.

Finally! Meta does something for the good of humanity!

YET?

Who’s Asap?

Before the printing press was before organized timekeeping or most automated machines.

This meant there was plenty of space for introverts doing isolated manual labour that we now automate.

What did they do at the end of the day instead of visit at the pub? Probably collapse in exhaustion.

For those who had more power, there was always religious orders.

Back when this happened to me, I had three courses over three semesters that taught from the same $300 textbook.

By the time I got to the third course, they’d moved to a new edition.

So I went to the library and photocopied all the questions pages and the answer key. While I was there, I discovered the library also had the instructor’s manual, so I gave that a quick read too.

Oh, that’s not the only thing that’s changed; they’ve also randomly re-ordered the questions at the end of the chapters so that the old one COULDN’T possibly be used.

The one I have on me. Which happens to be my Yubikey currently.

“We hereby enjoin you from doing the illegal thing you were doing, and decrease the fine we were going to give you for doing it.”

Interesting timing, as NSO is now owned by US investors.

That’s normal. And for some reason it makes me think of Caught in the Crowd by Kate Miller-Heidke.

I think that about covers dark rooms? Although I’ve never used one for colour photography; I doubt many people have though, as that’s been mostly done by automation in full darkness since it became a thing.

If you saw it in Lemmy, try using the search function with keyword perplexity?

I think I remember the article you mean; I think it was about local agentic search. No idea where that was though.

People using that legacy hardware generally can’t run Windows 10, which just ended support this month. The patch is only for Windows 11, which won’t run on older hardware.

It’s what comes with more users. As people you don’t know start writing in styles you’ve only seen parroting arguments you disagree with, the urge to shut things down increases.

Plus, there ends up being more stuff to read in the same amount of time, which leads to shallower reading to cover it all.

By mates, do they mean buddies or procreative partners?

The Chinese perspective was actually more informative; I had more questions than answers after the first article.