The Daily Journal had pictures. I go by the Burlingame station, which is a nice Spanish-revival station from the Southern Pacific days.[1] SP built good stations, and Caltrain maintains them mostly as decoration. I'm surprised they don't put a Starbucks in each one.
Google Street View coverage is so good that you can see the apartment.[2]
I grew up in Millbrae. Oddly satisfying to solve the mystery of why I often saw a couple dudes hanging inside the decommissioned old station over the last 5-10 years. It has a display train car. I wonder if they were living in that too. https://maps.app.goo.gl/vk9ZXxWGJT9UmM3D6?g_st=ic
The Millbrae one would be easy to get away with but the Burlingame one is more surprising. If we're talking Bgame Ave, that's a very busy area. If they mean Broadway station then that makes more sense.
They are converted offices, I imagine something akin to resting rooms for rescue workers. I wonder what the plan was. They could never profit from this. They risked so much just to have a hidden sleepover place between commutes?
Well, given the prices in Bay Area, perhaps they were simply priced away so far that it saved them several hours per day? Or perhaps it was closer to family?
Thank you for sharing this. I hate all the hoops everyone is using the justify why it was ok what they did. These were not some sort of sleep area for all employees, these were private accommodations for these two individuals.
At one point there was a sort of "starter" content set that was made up of CC or public domain works that was distributed by the community as a torrent. But the project itself was always about the hardware/infrastructure aspect, not the content itself.
Following completion of the sale transaction, YNV will retain a portfolio of international businesses and other non-Russian assets, including four early-stage technology businesses and other assets:
* Nebius AI, an AI cloud platform that is one of the largest providers of GPU capacity in Europe;
* Toloka AI, a data solutions partner for GenAI and Large Language Model development;
* Avride, one of the leading developers of self-driving technologies;
* TripleTen, an EdTech service that equips people with in-demand tech skills;
* our data center located in Finland; and
* minority investments in other technology businesses.
From what I understand, this means basically that they are selling search and associated services that are mostly popular in Russia to some Russian consortium. Bringing Yandex under complete Russian control, without influence from western shareholders.
Those western shareholders (YNV) get a bunch of money and the above AI related subsidaries located outside of Russia.
Wait. I'm confused. Google Groups was still interfacing with the Usenet? In a way that one could post to Usenet via Google Groups? I never knew that! I thought they were only hosting a read-only archive based on what they acquired with DejaNews. And I seem to recall a post about that having been discontinued... So this was somehow secretly all still alive? Damn.
It's not 100% clear if OP wanted two-communication, eg. display replies as comments. His title seems to imply one-way communication only. That is super simple to implement.
Simplest solution is to use something like https://mastofeed.org/ which automatically posts your RSS feed to Mastodon.
Also https://indieblog.page/ to randomly jump to a post from any of the mentioned personal blogs from that post plus many many more. (close to 3500 personal blogs)
As a first time home owner I fully agree. I set up a wiki and document everything.
It's roughly organized by room. General Utilities have their own pages. Drawings, Photos, Invoices all get uploaded there. My wife writes down where which plants got planted in the garden and how they need to maintained.
My hope is that this not only helps us when trying to remember where we put those cables or when an inspection is due but will also make selling in the far future a bit easier. And of course future owners will hopefully thank us.
