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🫗 Commercial water dispenser machines may contain more contamination than tap water
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Commercial water dispenser machines may contain more contamination than tap water
Water dispenser machines in commercial spaces may contain higher levels of microbial contamination if they aren't cleaned regularly compared to the tap water sources supplying them that contain residual chlorine, according to a new study.

"Just write a quick note to specify something from your last article." he tought. "It'll be quick and you can be in bed early." he thought.
He's a dumbass. That's what he is. Well, here's "Personal computing"
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-c

Personal computing
When computers entered the homes it was often as toys or toy-like artifacts: These machines, usually called “home computers“, were often used like gaming consoles with magazines giving you code to type in to have simple games on them. Their use was limited to people who wanted to play arcade games without losing all your […]

Robotik-Start-up entwickelt Universal-Industrieroboter in unter zwei Jahren
Noble Machines wurde erst 2024 gegründet. Doch ihr erster Industrieroboter ist schon bereit für seinen Einsatz.
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Dave Farber - Grandfather of the Internet - is reported to have died.
I was never his student, but I learned my way of thinking about networks, as distributed systems rather than collections of connected machines, from his early DCS work (via my friend and Farber student, Frank Heinrich.)
I had the good luck to interact with Farber many times. I have several hours of unpublished video in which we discussed the history of the internet (and other matters) - I remember that day: We…

You can call me an AUTHORITARIAN bootlicking COMMIE all you want, I don’t care. I ain’t shutting up EVER.
LABOR people know more than your damn boss ever will. We run the machines, we keep it all working, we ARE the reason your fancy office even has lights on.

Finding a crate of ancient but precious CD-R and DVD-R's is like finding a chest of scrolls in the basement of a temple that burned down. There's a welcome prize, but many frustratingly missing fragments.
Back in 1994 when asked about the (very popular) bank of Compaq gaming machines packed with latest CDROMs being a core of the Information Highway exhibit at the Ontario Science Centre (god rest its soul), I would explain that the CDROM was a proxy for the bandwidth that was to come.
I think I got that more right than I knew: the CD-R/DVD-R is a TRANSPORT media, and certainly absolutely NOT a STORAGE media. It's charm is transport over very very very slow baud rates of perhaps 4GB/20 years. 😅

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Wrt that last boost, as much as Jenkins can be a slog at times, not having direct access to my builds and build machines would drive me completely insane.

"Personal computing must be [...] a social project of all of us building things, trying things, learning from one another."
(Original title: Personal computing)
https://tante.cc/2026/01/08/personal-computing/

Personal computing
When computers entered the homes it was often as toys or toy-like artifacts: These machines, usually called “home computers“, were often used like gaming consoles with magazines giving you code to type in to have simple games on them. Their use was limited to people who wanted to play arcade games without losing all your […]