Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

These are just two of the affixes, by the way. I really liked the whole system of them, it makes it pretty easy to quickly build a big vocabulary, and it’s very expressive: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Esperanto/Appendix/Table_of_affixes

-ul = person characterized by (juna = young, junulo = a youth)
-ej = place characterized by (lerni = to learn, lernejo = school)
-ilo = instrument (skribi = write, skribilo = writing implement)

They can also be used by themselves, like:

iĝi = to become
ulo = dude, chap
ilo = tool

One thing I really like about #Esperanto is the infix -iĝ- which refers to becoming, it basically makes words intransitive, like:

So ruĝa = red, ruĝiĝi = to blush
naski = to give birth, naskiĝi = to be born
edzi = to marry, edziĝi = to get married

There is a similar (maybe annoyingly so) infix for “to make/cause”, -ig-, which makes them transitive:

morti = to die, mortigi = to kill
riĉa = rich, riĉigi = to become rich, riĉigi = to enrich

Those and the question marker “ĉu” are features I often wish I had in other languages.

We are far too informal these days, which is why I’m taking a bold stand against the rampant use of Nicholasnames.

Thank you for coming to my THEODORE Talk.

The other thought I had was that I’d set up a local e-mail provider. Normally I’d be afraid of getting on an e-mail blackhole list or something, but presumably deliverability is less of an issue if you never send anything?

There’s a website I use all the time where the log-in mechanism involves sending a code to my e-mail address.

Anyone know of a simple way to write a script that retrieves that code? I can set up a custom e-mail address on any free provider and have all these “log-in” e-mails automatically forwarded to that. Is the best way to use something like imaplib?

“Hey look, they have video games for the Switch here; maybe we can try something other than Minecraft?”
My 6 y/o: “Cool! Is everything square in this one, too?”

(I think it was a deal-breaker if the answer was “no”)

I think it was Ctrl + ., but it only works in certain places…

My 2-year old was mashing keys on my keyboard and somehow summoned an emoji picker (something I’ve been meaning to configure for ages), and I can’t figure out what he did…

OK, I bought a used gaming computer so I can run my own ML models locally, so now you get to see what it would look like if Abraham Lincoln had a baby with Chris Evans.

#stablediffusion #sdxl #genai

Anyone have a good recommendation for a tablet case for kids? I have a #Lenovo #Tab #P11 Pro for my son, but the case we have is a bit rigid and makes it very hard to get at the volume buttons (I believe it’s this one).