Year of the Linux desktop:

I never mind when people crosspost things that I post. It’s just a way of dispersing content to relevant communities.

Also, the cross-posting feature usually automatically provides a link to the original, so I don’t know if there’s a need for an etiquette around it.

That sounds like some Lovecraftian story: briefly glimpsing knowledge beyond human limits, then losing it forever.

I laughed and then was surprised by the comments. Damn, tough crowd. I didn’t think OJ jokes would still be so touchy in 2026.

Bold choice by Sam Reich. That mic is probably half as tall as he is!

We used to be a proper country.

The fact that we can even ask…

If you find one, I want to know too. This would be a fun customization.

This comment section is the first time I’ve seen the word, and it’s been multiple times.

I think more than one of them were like this! I just ripped a bunch of old DVDs to my Jellyfin server, and for some movies, I had to first run it in VLC to double-check that I was ripping the right track, which meant navigating through that nonsense… I remember doing it with multiple HP discs.

This takes me back.

Yeah “You mean like my idol??”

Public chatrooms were everywhere too. It was just the default, anywhere you went. AOL, yahoo games, random websites for no reason.

Even as late as Starcraft 2 (so 2010-), you’d open the game and immediately be dropped into a giant public chatroom on the home screen with everyone else currently playing.

Surely it’s happened. A lot of dudes with perfectly good hair are anxious about balding.

Make it so.

That’s amazing. It doesn’t seem crazy these days to meet your spouse online, but I know y’all must have gotten some funny reactions telling people back then.

I’m thinking the other way: if it ever happens to me, I’ll just embrace the baldness. But I imagine it’s a lot easier to say that now than it would be at the time.

Very true. I think there definitely needs to be a framework for accepting late work in these cases, which is much better than calling it 50% out of thin air.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about punishment for behavioral issues or expelling students. What I’m suggesting is that the logic of grades determining behavioral issues is flawed, and it’s far more likely that both the behavioral issues and poor grades are symptoms of something else.

I’m saying that throwing out the legitimacy of our metrics by fudging the numbers for these students is not the right approach and is in fact a disservice to them.

What would be a better way to check whether students have acquired the necessary knowledge other than a scored assessment of it?