Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@feoh I guess I'll have to just imagine the unlikely scenario in which most of the people in the Spanish-speaking track of the English-language conference can empathize with feeling self conscious about your grammar and accent in a language that isn't your native language 😉

I am of two minds about giving a talk in Spanish, to be honest.

On the one hand it is a personal goal to be good enough in a foreign language to give a useful or interesting talk.

On the other hand, if I ever hear the recording I might die of embarrassment when I hear myself speaking Spanish, so....

Two of my three proposals are for the Spanish language Charlas track. I have heard that they would very much appreciate more proposals, even from non-native speakers.

@kevin Disappointed in the sense that you would not have started if you knew it would end that way or just in the sense that you wanted more seasons?

@andrewblasco El concepto ya existe, se llama estivación: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estivaci%C3%B3n

No sé el verbo en español, en inglés es "to aestivate". Supongo que sería "estivar", aunque "estibar" también existe y es otra cosa.

New framework model ships "December". I do not want to go a whole month without a computer... Hopefully I can maybe get my ThinkPad working, but the "charging" light doesn't even turn on when I plug it in, which I think is a very bad sign.

@webology Hah, yeah I need a laptop, I already have a pile of desktops.

@graves501 Sorry I forgot to respond to this.

The biggest degradations have been the unread count capping out at 99 and subfolders collapsed by default: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/9882

I am going to try fairmail, I heard it handles replying from catch alls, which never was in K9 but was a huge missing feature for me.

I guess now is also the time to think about stuff that is built to run LLMs locally?

This is a pretty interesting article about Quaker use of *thee* and *thou*: https://www.friendsjournal.org/2007098/

I knew about the general phenomenon and the justification, but I didn't realize that it had come full circle with some Quakers using thee as an informal register 😅

Also a culture war with proxy battles fought over pronouns sounds familiar 😂

I also really prefer to use informal forms in Japanese, and that is an intermediate case between Spanish and English. In Japanese everyone grows up fluently using informal forms so it's not nearly as weird, but I get the impression that if you use informal forms with bank tellers and waiters people will think something is off (though I haven't spent enough time in Japan to know exactly how this plays out).