Spanish (native), English (work), Italian (certified B2).

I formally studied (5 years spread in) French, Arabic, and Korean, and spent at least a semester doing Hebrew, German, and Esperanto each. That must have been a lifetime ago, as I can now barely read Arabic and Korean. Funnily enough, I think I can read modern Greek even if I don't know any.

Quote from: xpb on January 25, 2026, 02:59:39 PM[...]
2.6.7.1 Any Talossan citizen living in another country can petition the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish an embassy in the country of their residence.
such as
Bråneu Excelsio Monterrey, Nuevo León. Mexico
[...]

Sadly, that Embassy closed in 2024. CC: @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN.

Linux From Scratch builder here. These days most of my machines/servers are Debian/Ubuntu. Sadly, the few remaining Gentoo servers I had had been decommissioned, but those were a joy.

I generally shuffle my Likes or listen to what YT Music mixes out of that, but today I'm listening to these guys: Temple Of The Dog, https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCgf3d2y9zlw2QvY7OlFt6uw

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on January 21, 2026, 08:34:53 AMDoes it have audiobooks and podcasts?

I don't know myself, but the search bar says: "Search songs, albums, artists, podcasts".

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on January 21, 2026, 06:36:21 AMMan, I've been trying to make the switch from Spotify to something else, but TidaL is just not cutting it.  *sigh*

My family is big on YouTube Music. We grandfathered some benefits from Google Music into YouTube Red (now Premium), and to me this bundle is totally worth it.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on January 17, 2026, 04:03:47 PM@Danihel Txechescu As our resident tech guru, do you by chance know if this is possible. I didn't want to jump in and just fiddle around before asking.

I'm afraid I know very little about the Wiki, I don't know how to do that.

Transcription for our archive:
TXEC, par la Graçù da Dïeu, Regeu da Talossa es toct i sieux Bains es Raxhiuns, Regeu
da Cézembre, Dómnul Soveran es Prostexheir da Pengöpäts es las Nouăs Falkland,
Zefençadeir del Feitz, Micjeu dals Forçuns Armeschti, Viceregeu da Hoxhă es Vicar
d'Atatürk, Azul àd ár citaxhiens es cestours:

WHEREAS the Seneschal has made his recommendations to the Cabinet;

THEREFORE We hereby appoint to Our Cabinet the following:

* To the office of Distain, We appoint Þerxh Sant-Enogat,
* To the office of Minister of Immigration, We appoint the Baron Alexander Davinescu.
* To the office of Minister of Finance, We appoint Françal I. Lux.
* To the office of Attorney General, We appoint Tric'hard Lenxheir.
* To the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, We appoint Sir X. Pol Briga.
* To the office of Minister of Technology, We appoint Danihel Txechescu.
* To the office of Minister of Culture, We appoint Françal I. Lux.
* To the office of Minister of Propaganda, We appoint Þerxh Sant-Enogat.

Given under Our hand Royal at the city of Riverside this twenty-first day of December,
being the winter solstice, in the year of salvation 2025, of the independence of Talossa the
forty-sixth, and of Our reign the second.

Txec, Regeu da Talossa

Quote from: King Txec on December 17, 2025, 03:27:36 PM

Transcription for our archive:
TXEC, par la Graçù da Dïeu, Regeu da Talossa es toct i sieux Bains es Raxhiuns, Regeu
da Cézembre, Dómnul Soveran es Prostexheir da Pengöpäts es las Nouăs Falkland,
Zefençadeir del Feitz, Micjeu dals Forçuns Armeschti, Viceregeu da Hoxhă es Vicar
d'Atatürk, Azul àd ár citaxhiens es cestours:

WHEREAS the Secretary of State, having declared the results of the most recent General
Election; and

WHEREAS having commanded a majority of the Cosa in this, Our 62nd Ziu; and

WHEREAS Under the provisions of Article VI of the Organic Law, We have been
presented with a petition, signed by a majority of els Membreaux dal Cosa;

THEREFORE We hereby appoint Our dedicated Servant, the Baron Alexandreu
Davinescu, to serve Us as Our Seneschal.

Given under Our hand Royal at the city of Riverside this seventeenth day of December, in
the year of salvation 2025, of the independence of Talossa the forty-sixth, and of Our
reign the second.

Txec, Regeu da Talossa

Quote from: Hüseyin Çiftçi on November 23, 2025, 12:51:08 PMI am a candidate for president

Best of luck!

Relatedly, does the time seasonally change to "TDT"?

Claim.

Pascal Obispo - Superflu

Gérard Presgurvic - Et Voilà Qu'elle Aime

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Taxi.

Quote from: King Txec on October 08, 2025, 12:50:31 PMI wonder if @Danihel Txechescu could set up some type of digital locker or upload page that could host just pictures. I bet it wouldn't be hard to do.

Yes, this is my kind of thing. Let me look for some alternative that would work for us.

It will most definitely require authentication to upload images, so I'll talk to Sir Lüc to work on a solution to this before we can open the service to the general populace.

Gheorghe Zamfir & André Rieu - The Lonely Shepherd (Einsamer Hirte):

Arturo Márquez - Danzón no. 2:

Here's Inti Illimani's take on Guillén's Sensemayá:

And the much earlier composition by Silvestre Revueltas [1] of the same Sensemayá:

[1] I've seen in the score that it's in 9/8 (3/4 + 3/8) and 7/8, but have also read that it's occasionally 7/16).

I was looking a topic on this yesterday myself and found none. I remembered Flip too on his birthday.

For those not in the know, Flip passed away early in the year due to an aggressive brain tumor. His presence is missed in Talossa.

Quote from: GV on July 19, 2025, 10:04:05 AMYes, I need to get my Witt archives put up somewhere.

You can share with me. I'm digitally archiving Talossan stuff.

I have a translation of Silent Night by Iustì.