Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

I was very pleased to discover that Wikipedia provides torrents of the entire English encyclopedia and that they're only about 20GB. I really thought it would amount to more than that, and I'm happy to finally have a local copy of Wikipedia. This doesn't include media like images and audio, or userpages and talk pages, but the text is by far the most critical part to have backed up.

I doubt I'd be able to host all the media at once, but this makes a totally #P2P (or #federated) encyclopedia look very possible.

#Wikipedia #library #torrent #research

En la #Microhobby 219 @yedaijamao.bsky.social vuelve hacernos reír a carcajadas... 🤣🤣🤣

Sin embargo, pon una cosa de estas, que cuesta cuatro duros y ya verás como automáticamente se reduce la velocidad a la que circulan los coches:

2/2

First day back teaching, already a couple of learners in my first class coughing with runny noses. Part way through the class, someone asks me, "Why are you wearing a mask?" "Um, excellent question..." #MaskUp #Covid #FloMask

Esto es accesibilidad hecho poesía.

Ahora sí que con esta genialidad no hay excusa para crear PDF 100% accesibles. Ya no hace falta ser un pro de LaTeX, dominar Adobe InDesign o pagar membresías carísimas de Adobe Pro para lograr resultados mínimos aceptables con demasiado esfuerzo. HTML es el lenguaje de marcado más simple que conozco, luego de Markdown, y con este trucazo que nos enseña el grande de José María Fernández, con conocimientos mínimos de HTML y usando LibreOffice, podemos hacer PDF 100% accesibles. Esto es increíble, yo no salgo del asombro, he leído dos veces ya el artículo y no salgo de la emoción y simpleza de su propuesta. Es simplemente hermoso.

https://www.josemariafernandez.es/2025/08/como-generar-pdf-accesibles-pdf-ua-a-partir-de-html-con-libreoffice/

One of the side-effects of the AI bubble is that we stopped talking about alternative solutions to computing problems. Everything needs to be solved with "AI" - meaning an LLM - and nobody stops and asks if there is an alternative. This drives me mad because LLMs are not only unreliable, but also shockingly inefficient. And I'm positive that for most tasks there *is* an alternative algorithmic solution that is more reliable and less expensive.

I thought I’d try to get a photo of a roadrunner running; not as easy as it might sound. It ran across the gravel but stopped running as soon as it got to the road.

How rich people avoid paying tax

(Originally by Instgram user @newmoney.blog)