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New comment by tad_tough_anne in "The Vatican's Website in Latin"

tad_tough_anne — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:34:21 +0000

I haven't read it in years, and my Latin's pretty rusty now, but it was the most useful and fun thing I used.[1] If you get the book, you might also like Mr. Ørberg's recordings (widely pirated) of himself reading the text with a Classical pronunciation. There are also some good Latin YouTubers; my favorite is Satura Lanx, <https://youtube.com/@SaturaLanx>, but Luke Ranieri, <https://youtube.com/@polyMATHY_Luke>, is also good and very knowledgeable.

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1. Disci latíne quando cathólica eram quia melius Missam ac Offícium légere volébam. Nunc non christiána, neque Missa assísto nec Breviárium canto, sed multas antiphónas pulchras (et verba pauca!) iam mémini.

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition)"

tad_tough_anne — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:55:10 +0000

If you don't wanna pay, Library Genesis has the first edition (2004), but, if you didn't find the examples to be at least modestly interesting in themselves, is this even your bag? As a Linux sysadmin and occasional writer of lousy C programs, I often consult NetBSD's source tree for when I want good examples that aren't as complex as GNU's, so I expect to come back to these.

Judging by the publisher's sample,[1] the second edition (2025) looked like a worthwhile upgrade, so I ordered it. Much of the material is in the manpages, but this presents it with better explanations.

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1. <https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780135325520/samplep...>

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

tad_tough_anne — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:08:34 +0000

Don't all younger Americans do this? Cutting food and pushing it onto the fork requires less dexterity than conveying it to one's mouth. I know Boomers who put down their knives after each cut (never using them to push) and swap their fork around before using it tines-down, and I think it's more comically affected than the tea–pinky thing.

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

tad_tough_anne — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:02:55 +0000

> where in "real world" can preteen kids go and see not just porn but people limbs removed and other stuff?

For thirty years now, preteens, whether alone or huddled with peers, have peered at computer screens and sought these things on the World Wide Web. In the 1990s, it was porno tapes the cool kid sneaked from her parents' closet and brought to the slumber party. In the 1980s, it was sticky magazines stolen from the newsstand or an older brother's closet. The technologies that made these things possible is part of the real world.

I can't even buy a sandwich in the "real world" without a computer's involvement in the transaction.

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "Bunny Database"

tad_tough_anne — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:06:34 +0000

People need to know!

(Context: <https://xkcd.com/1871/>.)

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)"

tad_tough_anne — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:30:17 +0000

I was disappointed to find Arch doesn't have it. :(

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "Project Gemini"

tad_tough_anne — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:12:27 +0000

Do you have a citation for that? I checked the protocol[1] and gemtext[2] specs but couldn't find it.

1. gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/protocol-specification.gmi

2. gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/gemtext-specification.gmi

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

tad_tough_anne — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:25:08 +0000

But see Gonzalez v. Trevino, No. 22-1025 (U.S. June 20, 2024) (per curiam), <https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1025_1a72.pdf>.

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

tad_tough_anne — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:31:55 +0000

Those quotes aren't in your source.

New comment by tad_tough_anne in "A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)"

tad_tough_anne — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 00:14:07 +0000

Where'd you see the entry for Samhain? I found the two for Beltane and the quarters but not that.