Ángel Ortega

@angel@triptico.com

de novela negra, realista y de terror. Autor de las novelas YO NO SOY PAVEL (ed. Distrito 93, 2023), EL LEGADO DEL CORNEZUELO (finalista del Premio Domingo Santos de Novela 2021) y LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (finalista del Premio Pedro Carbonell 2023). , 1968.

YO NO SOY PAVEL: https://distrito93.com/catalogo/yo-no-soy-pavel/
Website:
https://triptico.com

Ciara »
@CiaraNi@mastodon.green

We need a word for real-life enshittification caused by online culture. Like being unable to find an organisation’s info because they’ve Instagram but no website. Or panicked people being sent a videolink to download to their phone when they ring for an ambulance. Or being excluded from residents' association news if you're not on Facebook. Or having cash payment refused. Or staff in the business you’re physically standing in telling you to find the answer to your question on their website.

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Heather »
@Akki@sauropods.win

@CiaraNi Design Museum in London makes you have to have a phone for them to email the tickets to then you need to have your phone out of dark mode for them to scan the tickets.
You're. A. Design. Museum. Why do you not understand this design is horrific?

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Thomas Adam »
@thomasadam@bsd.network

@Akki @CiaraNi Fucking disgraceful.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Has science gone too far?

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kierkegaank »
@kierkegaank@mastodon.sdf.org

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon the old ones are back to claim this mortal world!

Ian Hecht »
@ianhecht@saskodon.ca

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Biblically accurate cat?

Skean Harshly »
@dandrumheller@mstdn.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon @UnitedSpaceCats Your feline demon is first thing to make me literally LOL all day. Thank you for your upcoming sacrifice to this…thing. 😆

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com


The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.12.09

Do you know who this person is?

Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search or peeking at other responses.)

Her name will be revealed tomorrow.

Please boost for more responses.

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John Deters »
@targetdrone@mastodon.social

Guess [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Katherine Johnson?

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Mary Jackson, the NASA worker?

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Marv Clowder »
@MarvClowder@mstdn.jp

Erroneous guess - erroneously (un-)confirmed via google images. Ugh. [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

Shirley Chisholm.

🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦 »
@grumpybozo@toad.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Gladys West. Programmer who came up with critical orbital model for GPS.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Gladys West. Only one person answered correctly.

From Wikipedia: Gladys Mae West (née Brown; born October 27, 1930) is an American mathematician. She is known for her contributions to mathematical modeling of the shape of the Earth, and her work on the development of satellite geodesy models, that were later incorporated into the Global Positioning System (GPS). West was inducted into the United States Air Force Hall of Fame in 2018.

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The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2023.12.09

Do you know which movie this picture is from?

Give your best answer below, even if you’re not sure.

Please boost for more responses.

The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

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Ottavia Allgood »
@OttaviaAllgood@mstdn.social

La noticia que os alegrará el día. Rescatan a un perrete curioso atrapado en la balaustrada del paseo marítimo de Gijón.
lne.es/gijon/2023/12/09/espect

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Lamentablemente, el artículo no incluye foto del perrete, pero gran noticia de cualquier modo.

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Ottavia Allgood »
@OttaviaAllgood@mstdn.social

@angel Hay que proteger su identidad, también tiene derechos de imagen y a la intimidad ^^.

Fran 大福 🏳️‍🌈 »
@fran@paquita.masto.host

HEARTBREAKING: Los gigantes turbocapitalistas del fast fashion, con toda la producción deslocalizada en Asia, LLORAN porque gigantes turbocapitalistas asiáticos venden más barato que ellos.

eldiario.es/economia/textil-ba

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Fran 大福 🏳️‍🌈 »
@fran@paquita.masto.host

De vedad que no es que me alegre que Temu y Shein estén perpetuando este modelo, pero no me digáis que no da cierto gustillo ver al capitalismo comerse a sí mismo.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Lo malo que tiene el capitalismo cuando se come a sí mismo es que las proteínas vienen de los trabajadores que pierden sus sustentos. El capital nunca sufre; lo hace el proletariado.

knowgum »
@UKnoGum@mastodon.social

How every privatisation works:

1. Cut staff, increase prices, add debt, reduce services & restrict improvements.

2. Call the false savings 'profit' & syphon it from the business to shareholders.

3. Blame market conditions.

4. If the company fails, let taxpayers bail it out.

Kee Hinckley »
@nazgul@infosec.exchange

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot in the current battle over the future of (pseudo) AI is the cotton gin.

I live in a country where industrial progress is always considered a positive. It’s such a fundamental concept to the American exceptionalism claim that we are taught never to question it, let alone realize that it’s propaganda.

One such myth, taught early in grade school, is the story of Eli Whitney and the cotton gin. Here was a classic example of a labor-saving device that made millions of lives better. No more overworked people hand cleaning the cotton (slaves, though that was only mentioned much later, if at all). Better clothes and bedding for the world. Capitalism at its best.

But that’s only half the story of this great industrial time saver. Where did those cotton cleaners go? And what was the impact of speeding up the process?

Now that the cleaning bottleneck was gone, the focus was on picking cotton as fast as possible. Those cotton cleaners likely, and millions of other slaves definitely, were sent to the fields to pick cotton. There was an unprecedented explosion in the slave trade. Industrial time management and optimization methods were applied to human beings using elaborate rule-based systems written up in books. How hard to punish to get optimal productivity. How long their lifespans needed to be to get the lost production per dollar. Those techniques, practiced on the backs and lives of slaves, became the basis of how to run the industrial mills in the North. They are the ancestors of the techniques that your manager uses now to improve productivity.

Millions of people were sold into slavery and worked to death *because* of the cotton gin. The advance it provided did not, in fact save labor overall. Nor did it make life better overall. It made a very small set of people much much richer; especially the investors around the world who funded the banks who funded the slave purchases. It made a larger set of consumers more comfortable at the cost of the lives of those poorer. Over a hundred years later this model is still the basis for our society.

Modern “AI” is a cotton gin. It makes a lot of painstaking things much easier and available to everyone. Writing, reading, drawing, summarizing, reviewing medical cases, hiring, firing, tracking productivity, driving, identifying people in a lineup…they all can now be done automatically. Put aside whether it’s actually capable of doing any of those things *well*; the investors don’t care if their products are good, they only care if they can make more money off of them. So long as they work enough to sell, the errors, and the human cost of those errors, are irrelevant. And like the cotton gin, AI has other side effects. When those jobs are gone, are the new jobs better? Or are we all working that much harder, with even more negative consequences to our life if we fall off the treadmill? One more fear to keep us “productive”.

The Luddites learned this lesson the hard way, and history demonizes them for it; because history isn’t written by the losers.

They’ve wrapped “AI” with a shiny ribbon to make it fun and appealing to the masses. How could something so fun to play with be dangerous? But like the story we are told about the cotton gin, the true costs are hidden.

Nyan Max »
@maxxcan@mastodon.social

Ni delincuentes ni víctimas: trabajadoras sexuales contra el estigma | Euskal Herria | Naiz

El feminismo en España tiene un problema con la prostitución

naiz.eus/eu/info/noticia/20231

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2023.12.07

Do you know which movie this picture is from?

Give your best answer below, even if you’re not sure.

Please boost for more responses.

The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

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Janet W »
@slick1969@mindly.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Steve  »
@Woodknot@universeodon.com

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
with Johnny Depp

Minski »
@Minski@kinkyelephant.com

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's eating Gilbert Grape

oliver59 »
@oliver59@mastodon.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's eating Gilbert Grape...

Gajan 🍺 »
@gajan@peoplemaking.games

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon what's eating gilbert grape - wasn't this Leonardo DiCaprios' big bang moment?

Jim Shoes »
@shoozejim@universeodon.com

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

It's from "What's Eating Gilbert Grape". Remember it well.

Chapulín Enojado »
@chapulin_enojado@c.im

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
That's a really young Leo. And it takes me back. Wow.

DavidH »
@davidekh@mastodon.online

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape

FirefighterGeek »
@FirefighterGeek@masto.ai

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I want to say "What's eating Gilbert Grape"

Daniel »
@tohvanah@hachyderm.io

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon what’s eating Gilbert grape!

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Yesterday’s movie still was from the 1993 film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, directed by Lasse Hallström. Virtually everyone knew this one.

youtube.com/watch?v=nCsVjQaNV0

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The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

I think Leonardo DiCaprio did a fine job in this film.

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FirefighterGeek »
@FirefighterGeek@masto.ai

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon He's always been rock solid. The first time I saw him, even as a late teen, I thought he was a dead ringer for Jack Nicholson. It gets more obvious as he's gotten older.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

This movie was named in Spain "¿A quién ama Gilbert Grape?" ("Who does Gilbert Grape love?") for some reason or another.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.12.08

Do you know who this person is?

Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search or peeking at other responses.)

His name will be revealed tomorrow.

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Chivo Loco »
@bstrange@mastodon.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

Totally guessing here but Telly Savalas.

Quotey McQuoteface »
@mlevel@mastodon.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas. Who loves ya, baby?

lorenet »
@lorenet@romancelandia.club

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Now I want a lollypop. Looks like Telly Savalas

Vincent »
@vincent@mastodon.coffee

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Looks like Marlon Brando. But I'm not good at this game.

Waoac PNW »
@waoac@urbanists.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

Who loves ya baby? Mr. Telly Savalas, that's who.

SpaceLifeForm »
@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

WAG without researching: Barack Obama. /s

Tim Ruppert »
@TMRuppert@universeodon.com

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon As a child of the 70’s I’d recognize Kojak no matter what the hairstyle!

The Carrier »
@signalthirteen@mastodon.online

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon That would be Telly Savalas, whom I first saw in an extremely painful role of Mad Cossack with Indefinable Accent in Horror Express, also featuring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

I can definitely say that ... it was a movie.

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The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

@signalthirteen I remember the movie but I forgot he was in it.

TrickTim(e of year) »
@TrickTim@mstdn.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
looks like Telly Savales to me.

Matty Kmas everyone »
@mattk@hostux.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon is that a young Telly Savalas?

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Telly Savalas, when he still had some hair.

Minski »
@Minski@kinkyelephant.com

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Posting a picture of Telly Savallas with hair is next level difficulty.. :D

JunkyardTornado »
@JunkyardTornado@universeodon.com

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon the actor from Kojac and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, I believe.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Telly Savalas. This one was too easy.

From Wikipedia: Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was a Greek American actor. Noted for his bald head and deep, resonant voice, he is perhaps best known for portraying Lt. Theo Kojak on the crime drama series Kojak (1973–1978) and James Bond archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

youtube.com/watch?v=S4yf0g2EAA

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RevPudDudley »
@RevPudDudley@mas.to

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Trying to get cute with the divine Diana Rigg in OHMSS -- even worse than Kojak !

smxi »
@smxi@fosstodon.org

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon looks like young william shattner. Headshot.

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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Beautiful. Thanks.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

It's like looking in a mirror.

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The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Is this really what we signed up for?

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Thorwegian ❄️ »
@thor@berserker.town

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon i think that's it for the average person. everyone can't be remarkable.

Wandering Hermit »
@wanderinghermit@mindly.social

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon

Only if we let other people tell us what we're supposed to do.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Well, the "buy a house" is optional for the poor classes. "...pay an almost unaffordable rent, have kids and die" is more common.

PirateRo »
@piratero@mastodon.world

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon you seem to have forgotten broken dreams, heartbreak, you dog running off, cat scratches, loss due to disease, broken bodies, tragic, tragic disappointment and poverty.

anastrianna ۞🕯️🐺 »
@_anastrianna@paquita.masto.host

Es curioso la animadversión que existe hacia los niños como si no fueran personas.

En general se les trata como si no fueran personas.

"odio a los niños".

No odies a los niños, odia a todo el mundo sin discriminación ninguna 😂😂😂😂

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Es perfectamente compatible odiar al ser humano en general y luego despreciar con especial odio a algún colectivo en particular (como a los niños o los nazis 😆)

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anastrianna ۞🕯️🐺 »
@_anastrianna@paquita.masto.host

@angel a los niños no lo veo... Los niños son un lienzo en blanco, y mayormente lo que son es porque sus padres los han criado así. Odia a sus padres, más bien.

Los nazis son otra cosa.

(meter niños y nazis en la misma frase esta bien feo).

Michał Sapka »
@mms@emacs.ch

How do I get date N days ago in ? date doesn't alow -v.

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Solène »
@solene@bsd.network

@mms OpenBSD date doesn't support relative dates. You could install coreutils which provides GNU userland (all commands are prefixed with a g, like gdate, ggrep, gls)

openports.pl/path/sysutils/cor

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Solène »
@solene@bsd.network

@mms I didn't try the exact command, but you can compute a date like this to display the date 1 day ago (86400 seconds)

date -f "%s" -j "$(( $(date +%s) - 86400))"

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Michał Sapka »
@mms@emacs.ch

@solene Hey, it works. Amazing and thank you!

Alex Holst »
@holsta@helvede.net

@solene @mms That date(1) trick is useful as an alias/helper script - I have a yesterday script that I use in cronjobs that run on the 1st of every month to generate reports / invoices / etc for the previous month. Formatting is still allowed in the output:

date -f "%s" -j "$(( $(date +%s) - 86400))" +"%F"

fernand0 »
@fernand0@mastodon.social

La Constitución Española, en su artículo 18.4 dice: 'La ley limitará el uso de la informática para garantizar el honor y la intimidad personal y familiar de los ciudadanos y el pleno ejercicio de sus derechos.'

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fernand0 »
@fernand0@mastodon.social

Cuando me enteré pensé lo de siempre: 'nada es por casualidad', los padres de la constitución incluyen una única referencia a la informática y es negativa.

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fernand0 »
@fernand0@mastodon.social

Eso sí, es pionera en nombrarla, porque entonces (recordemos, año 1978) no había tantos ordenadores (en las casas, desde luego, ninguno).

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Madre mía. He tenido que consultarlo para comprobar si era verdad o un vacile. Me sorprende la previsión de los padres de la constitución respecto a esto. Ya anticiparon un futuro lleno de empresas espiándonos y vendiendo nuestros datos.

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fernand0 »
@fernand0@mastodon.social

@angel era verdad y ya era una pena entonces que tuvieran una visión tan negativa. Así nos va :-)

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

A mí, más que una pena, me parece de una clarividencia sorprendente dada la época y la gente que la escribió.

Gracias por [re]descubrirme este artículo.

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fernand0 »
@fernand0@mastodon.social

@angel un placer, pero a mí eso de limitar algo que ni siquiera conocían muy bien me parece una actitud que vemos continuamente y que no favorece que se hagan cosas interesantes

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Si es «para garantizar el honor y la intimidad personal y familiar de los ciudadanos y el pleno ejercicio de sus derechos», toda limitación me parece poca.

El Infierno de Dante » 🤖
@infierno@comam.es

Los hace aullar la lluvia como a perros,
de un lado hacen al otro su refugio,
los míseros profanos se revuelven.

rl_dane »
@rl_dane@alpha.polymaths.social

New #blog post!

"FOSS Games are actually pretty good!"
https://rldane.space/foss-games-are-actually-pretty-good.html

Many thanks to those who answered my #AskFedi call for help :D

#rlDaneWriting #FOSS #Linux #Gaming

My chorus! ;) @amin @ivan @joelchrono @sotolf @dm

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DHeadshot's Alt »
@ddlyh@topspicy.social

@rl_dane Shame your blog isn't mirrored on Gopher as it would be perfect to read on the train through that signal black-spot on my route where I get about 1kB of data at the start to load stuff and then nothing for 10 minutes... (I have been reading @solene 's phlog and some of @tomasino 's).

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rl_dane »
@rl_dane@alpha.polymaths.social

@ddlyh @solene @tomasino

I'm considering building my own md-to-gmi Gemini builder, but isn't gopher insecure?

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Solène »
@solene@bsd.network

@rl_dane @ddlyh @tomasino gopher doesn't have TLS, however, many clients now supports gopher over TLS

- dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-
- dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-

Or many people put the gopher server behind a tor hidden services, this solves the encryption problem

- dataswamp.org/~solene/2018-10-

DHeadshot's Alt »
@ddlyh@topspicy.social

@rl_dane
Does it need to be secure if you aren't sending any sensitive data (passwords, etc)?
@solene @tomasino

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Solène »
@solene@bsd.network

@ddlyh @rl_dane @tomasino without TLS you can't be sure there isn't a MITM fiddling with the content. It's unlikely but still

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Schöne Krampusnacht!

hpj »
@hpj@mstdn.social

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jwz »
@jwz@mastodon.social

@hpj @cyberspelunker This is amazing!

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hpj »
@hpj@mstdn.social

@jwz @cyberspelunker Glad you like it! I may make good on my threat to make a proper terminal adapter for xscreensaver hacks, once my spare time gets slightly more copious. It's well suited. We have the technology.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

/dev/null: no space left on device

da_667 »
@da_667@infosec.exchange

It suddenly makes sense why shell scripts/bash is my favorite language. Its ugly, and functional, like me.

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) »
@catsalad@infosec.exchange

@da_667 Getting shit done since time immemorial

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

I've just realized that I'm like MSDOS, ugly and no longer functional

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) »
@catsalad@infosec.exchange

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Swood »
@swoody@mastodon.online

@catsalad kind of jealous that that’s someone’s job…also, how did they get it to go 300 mph???

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wobweger »
@wobweger@mstdn.social

@catsalad 🤨
okay a double deck bus at 350mph
the upper is an open one,
well, 🤔 , might be a little unusual for daily operation

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) »
@catsalad@infosec.exchange

@wobweger Might want to hang on to that headgear 🎩

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Seiðr »
@Illuminatus@mstdn.social

@catsalad @wobweger I can't help but think that at the top speed you would only need to put one of the guys in the top floor in a space suit to have your own space programme.

Gord »
@grs@infosec.exchange

@catsalad so 150mph is the sweet spot then

Uwe Schwarz ッ� »
@e38383@infosec.exchange

@catsalad so, did I see this correct, that the sweetspot (vor survival) is somewhere up to 35 and then there's another at 150? 150 is not quite as good as <35, but it looks more survivable than 35-150, and >150.

divya »
@divya@sfba.social

@catsalad this is a good video for people who speed in cars to see.

CynAq 🤘 »
@CynAq@neurodifferent.me

@catsalad that’s some darn good damage modeling tbh!

Evie (SleepyCatten) »
@SleepyCatten@cultofshiv.wtf

@catsalad Why is it making me laugh so much? 😅🤣

Brian Hawthorne »
@bhawthorne@infosec.exchange

@catsalad @SleepyCatten Or, at least, thorough simulation is important.

John Mastodon »
@johnmastodon@mastodon.online

@catsalad then why don't they make buses with the material they made that pole from?

MrDaleSmith »
@mrdalesmith@toot.community

@catsalad Were they testing the bus, or the bollard? Cos it held up pretty good.

Martin Hamilton »
@m@martinh.net

@catsalad BRB, just buying up stock in bollard manufacturers

Guy Dudeman »
@GuyDudeman@beige.party

@catsalad @lisamelton I would love to know what software they’re using for this. I don’t think it’s .Drive even though that software is amazing.

Patrick Johanneson 🚀 »
@pjohanneson@mstdn.ca

@catsalad I'm not sure that's "thorough", it didn't get anywhere near c.

barries »
@barries@mastodon.sdf.org

@catsalad Lol, these are great.

There's a bunch of these sims out there now, look for the one that runs "busses" into a hanging weight...

Pusher Of Pixels »
@pixelpusher220@universeodon.com

@catsalad as I get older... Could I please bounce like that? Feel like there'd be less pain overall

pkprotoplasm »
@pkprotoplasm@mastodon.sdf.org

@catsalad When did Speed 3 come out?!

Dwemthy »
@Dwemthy@social.linux.pizza

@catsalad clearly buses should go no faster than 200mph

Adriano »
@adriano@lile.cl

@catsalad I love how they put ☠️ only around the 350mph mark.

Not David Beckham »
@jrod3737@mstdn.social

@catsalad
I laughed when I saw 150 and said, “That could have been way worse.”

Sean »
@afterconnery@en.osm.town

@catsalad a bit breezy up top I bet going 300 mph

Dulce Maria »
@DulceMaria@toot.community

@catsalad so the front top row ISN’T the best spot?

Björn Fahller »
@bjorn_fahller@mastodon.social

@catsalad I am very impressed by the strength of the telephone pole that stopped the speeding wreck.

Jamie »
@JamieR@toot.wales

@catsalad sub-optimal outcome at 350mph. That really did make me laugh.

It’s the post that impresses me most though

Veda Dalsette »
@VedaDalsette@mstdn.social

@catsalad

No matter how fast you drive, DON'T TAILGATE!

Sterling »
@AG100pct@infosec.exchange

@catsalad
What? No flaming meteor test?

Simon Eilting »
@eseilt@mastodon.scot

@catsalad NOT IN SERVICE, indeed 😄

Sam »
@NeadReport@social.vivaldi.net

@catsalad
If anyone has a pc with enough processing power, head over to beamng.com/game/
Learn all about soft-body physics.
There is a Steam game available also.

NitramiuZ »
@nitramiuz@mastodon.gamedev.place

@catsalad It took an embarassing long amount of time before I realised it was CGI

Angie 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ »
@angiebaby@mas.to

@catsalad Today I learned that 90mph is the optimal speed for my Human Catapult. Back to the drawing board.

Aleksei � Matiushkin »
@mudasobwa@mastodon.social

@catsalad this is not thorough testing, because at 200mph most of the 2nd-floor passengers would experience levitation which in turn would save their lives.

Doug Baker »
@SonofaGeorge@mstdn.ca

@catsalad I dunno; props to the guy driving that bus...and we wonder about the shortage of buses, eh?
And can we get a few of those 250 mph buses for ? It'd sure speed transit up.

Coles Street Pothole »
@ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network

@catsalad At 350 mph the passengers in the upper deck would have their skin peeling off from the wind.

Courtney Cantrell »
@courtcan@mastodon.social

@catsalad My 11yo: "Another one rides the bus, boom boom." 🤣

rothko ☕️ ♏️ »
@rothko@beige.party

@catsalad LOL i was wondering how fast it had to go before that happened....

Fubaroque »
@fubaroque@mastodon.social

@catsalad Half your body mass times the velocity SQUARED is the energy your body would "absorb" somehow... to stop.

Bluedepth »
@Bluedepth@mastodon.social

@catsalad @lisamelton The best part of these is the little fire at the end. LOL.

L.Yo - mijn5euro.nl »
@NiemPseu@mastodon.nl

@catsalad A bus driving that fast does not exist. Fun animation.

Eric »
@eroc1990@mastodon.parastor.net

@catsalad BeamNG? That physics engine looks familiar.

Nullstring 🏴‍☠️ »
@0x00string@infosec.exchange

@catsalad hahahashahahah 25mph was my favorite

pinpox »
@pinpox@chaos.social

@catsalad Is that a game? What is the simulator called?

Lex »
@Lexeto@mastodon.social

@catsalad Good news, after examining the evidence Google are planning on limiting their AI driver-less buses to under 150 MPH

They are fully confident that this will be at least 12 times safer than the current buses driven by half asleep or distracted desperate to go to the toilet humans that are probably driving you around the city right now

Driverless Google bus travelling at 150MPH on the public highway

Steve Freeman »
@sf105@mastodonapp.uk

@catsalad I’ve been on that night bus

Christmas Themed Name »
@An0n@metalhead.club

@catsalad
For science! I'd be curious to know the speed it takes so that there are no survivors.

SabiLewSounds »
@SabiLewSounds@mastodon.social

@catsalad

It's official I'm not human

I feel more empathy for the crash dummies than the humans in movies and TV

Hagbard »
@hagbard@mstdn.social

@catsalad @pluralistic don’t put any obstacles in the road. Problem solved

xs4me2 »
@xs4me2@mastodon.social

@catsalad

Frightening…

MHowell »
@MHowell@kolektiva.social

@catsalad
@pluralistic

You're going to want to check out the images of wrecked cars IRL on the World Bollard Association account:
@worldbollard

Group:
@worldbollardassociation

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Vinoth (Mobile security) »
@vinoth@infosec.exchange

@catsalad Shit! What have I become! I am no longer able to enjoy a simple video of things crashing and getting shredded. All I can think of:

Executive Summary:

Our thorough examination of the barrier crash test has revealed certain vulnerabilities that, while not immediately apparent, could pose challenges in specific scenarios. It's essential to address these nuanced concerns to ensure the barrier's effectiveness in a wide range of circumstances.

1. Vulnerability: Elevated Ground Clearance Dilemma

Description:
The barrier exhibits limitations when facing vehicles with ground clearance exceeding 3 feet. While within standard specifications, this vulnerability could be exploited by unconventional vehicles, such as modified monster trucks or recreational off-road vehicles.

Severity:
Moderate

Remediation:
Consider implementing adjustable barrier heights or deploying supplementary barriers for exceptional ground clearance situations. Regularly assess and update barrier specifications to adapt to evolving vehicle designs.

2. Vulnerability: The Peripheral Bypass Challenge

Description:
In scenarios where sufficient space exists around the barrier, certain vehicles may find ways to circumvent the intended protective measures. This vulnerability is particularly relevant in open areas where the barrier may not completely block access.

Severity:
Low to Moderate

Remediation:
Enhance situational awareness by integrating sensor technologies to detect potential bypass attempts. Implement additional barriers strategically to mitigate the risk of vehicles maneuvering around the primary barrier.

Conclusion:

Our evaluation underscores the need for nuanced improvements to address these vulnerabilities and fortify the barrier against potential challenges. By implementing the recommended remediations, the barrier can offer enhanced protection in a broader spectrum of real-world scenarios. We remain dedicated to refining the security posture of the barrier for optimal effectiveness and reliability.

Ben Aveling »
@BenAveling@infosec.exchange

@catsalad So 150mph is the sweet spot, the Goldilocks zone.
Fast enough to pass the bollard, slow enough not to get too airborne.
Doesn't lose nearly as many passengers as when going faster or slower.

Aftermath of computer simulated 150MPH collision with bollard. Bus hasn't rolled and quite of lot of the crash test dummies are still (more or less) inside the bus.

settima »
@12pt9@social.horrorhub.club

@catsalad There's someone somewhere being really really really upset about all the naked dummies. And nothing else.

ansible42 »
@ansible42@social.ridetrans.it

@catsalad for a while I worked for a company that built barrier crash test systems. One of our customers for some reason insisted that one of the acceptance tests was at 180kph, way above the standard. It was epic to watch the target fly apart from behind the safety glass, absolutely shredded

sharon linne faulk »
@linnefaulk@toot.bike

@catsalad @bicycletting The fact that they kept going after 110mph 😂

ROTOPE~1 »
@rotopenguin@mastodon.social

@catsalad disappointed that they didn't test all the way up to c.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

And this is why you should always wear clean underwear.

Operation Paperclip Maximiser »
@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk

@catsalad I keep seeing these, who the hell is making them?

Eric Brombaugh »
@emeb@society.oftrolls.com

@catsalad It's amazing that the utility pole near the intersection is standing undamaged after being hit by the remains of the bus in the final 350MPH test.🤔

British Tech Guru »
@britishtechguru@techhub.social

@catsalad Nice bit of CGI.

One problem - it doesn't look that real. Also, no bus can do more than about 75.

kinyutaka »
@kinyutaka@mstdn.social

@catsalad

Production crew at 200mph:

Okay the bus is obliterated at this point, but how fast can we take this?

Karl Auerbach »
@karlauerbach@sfba.social

@catsalad Does the World Bollard Association know about this?

Jamie Booth »
@jamie@boothcomputing.social

@catsalad

Why would you test it TOWARD a gas station. I think that's asking for a giant fireball....

SteveP 🇨🇦 »
@stevecantsmell@mastodon.social

@catsalad
Fun fun fun on the autobahn!

Double-decker made by Lamborghini

🌱 Ligniform »
@ligniform@infosec.exchange

@catsalad This is the first thing I saw when I woke up and I genuinely thought they tested busses by just slamming them into a pole lmao

Travis F W »
@travisfw@fosstodon.org

@catsalad someone somewhere thought all that was necessary. And had that many busses to destroy.

Martin Vogel »
@mardor@ruhr.social

@catsalad I miss the World Bollard Association here on Mastodon.

confusion »
@confusion@pol.social

@catsalad 150mph was the best

Cymphoni Fantastique »
@Cymphoni_Fantastique@mastodon.social

@catsalad
🧐😲😳😧😰😨😱😭
Pretty much how I felt watching this, lol
Um, we're not planning to drive the bus over like 30, right? Maybe 50 if you can sit in the back?

ebbtide »
@sandlapper37@mstdn.social

@catsalad And the driver lived to tell about it

TomSchmidt »
@TomSchmidt@mastodon.social

@catsalad ^

bus desintegrates before it hits the pole

a little odd

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Alan 🛸 »
@alanblip@post.lurk.org

@catsalad I'm disappointed they didn't try it at 88 mph

DeterioratedStucco »
@SoftwareTheron@mas.to

@catsalad
And only in the last one did it catch fire.

Mackaj »
@mackaj@mastodon.me.uk

@catsalad

Bloody hell, wasn't expecting that 😂

Karsten Johansson »
@ksaj@infosec.exchange

@catsalad Someone should get that road fixed after so many bus accidents. 🤣

Strongthany🇺🇦 »
@strongthany@infosec.exchange

@catsalad ahh I get it, the last one has 💀💀 because they die in that one, understood.

MamBear - aka K. »
@mambear404@mastodon.social

@catsalad

That just got funnier the faster it went.

Trevor »
@trevor@infosec.exchange

@catsalad Dang, I would hate to be the guy who has to drive for all of these tests, hopefully they have a good health plan!

Ralph Johnston »
@rjohnston3@infosec.exchange

@catsalad The bus as software: First test = dev testing. Second and third tests = QA testing. All the rest are actual users.

John »
@john@liberdon.com

@catsalad
Did the pole pass its test, or did the bus fail?

Vincent 🌻 »
@photovince@mastodon.social

@catsalad replacement bus service

MooMoo the Cat »
@flowerpot@mas.to

@catsalad It looks like 150mph is the sweet spot. That speed will get the buss all the way to the mini-mart, mostly intact, with most riders still inside, in spite of an obstacle in the road. 😆

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Mentaurs

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, Madrid

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Making your phone conversations with your mother even more awkward.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

🤯

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Jean-Luc Goddard

hannah (not scary) »
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures

It's funny that they told me not to trust wikipedia in high school when at this point it's the only link in the first page of google results that was written by humans intending to convey information

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Ok, let's do it...

´%4.,
NO CARRIER

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

The scene in the country house where he has to fight and kill the police man in silence is pure suspense.

CC: @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Oh my. So true.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Sorry you had to find out this way . . .

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The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Most accurate summary every.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

I probably second your proposal.

CC: @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Gumby was always the best of the bunch.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Demasiado sofisticado. Yo creo más que el empresaurio, tramposo y mentiroso como es, quiere verte allí tol puto día porque si no piensa que le estás engañando, que es lo que él haría porque está en su naturaleza de tahúr.

Solène »
@solene@bsd.network

@zatnosk It depends :)

NixOS will provide a good experience and many software and modules ready to use to configure services. If a software exists, there are good chances it's packaged in Nix.

Guix comes with limited hardware support until you add "guix-nonfree" repository adding firmware and the regular Linux kernel to replace the linux-libre kernel.

Guix community is smaller than NixOS, and configuring your system requires to learn some Scheme (a LISP language), while NixOS requires to learn Nix, something that looks more natural for people not used to LISP.

Guix is entirely community driven while NixOS/Nix is more and more company driven (in some sense, it's still people behind, but they all work for companies with a business model built on top of Nix so there are conflicts of interest sometimes)

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geom_esther() »
@esther@strangeobject.space

Ok, here me out on this.

Laptops (and maybe tablets too) shouldn't necessarily always have internal batteries.

And I don't just mean non-swappable batteries, I mean none at all. Here's why:

With USB-C power delivery, you have a wide selection of power banks to run basically any device from. You get to choose the right capacity for your use case. If you use your laptop mostly at your desk but maybe need it once in a while out of the house, a small one is enough. If you go on a long trip and want to run it the whole time, bring the power to match.

But also, in case your device is under threat of being compromised, let's say by law enforcement or other malicious actors, pulling the power cable when there's no internal battery is a quick and sure way to power down and safely lock your device (assuming you have disk encryption).

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Torn Curtain (1966) by Alfred Hitchcock

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Yes, certainly she had to be subtle.

The Price of Salt is, in my opinion, a very beautiful novel. The recent movie Carol, featuring Cate Blanchett and Roonie Mara, is based in this book and rather faithful.

Highsmith's crime novels like Strangers on a Train are also brilliant.

CC: @sellathechemist@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

The homosexuality in the source book by Patricia Highsmith is very subtle; she was a lesbian and gay activist, but always played these themes with ambiguity, specially with the Ripley character (he is married to a woman in the later books).

All Highsmith's work is very recommendable. The Ripley series are very good books, special The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley's Game (which also was made into two movies: one by Wim Venders and a later one, better in my opinion, by Liliana Cavani featuring John Malkovich).

This _Plain Soleil_ french movie has a very different ending that the book and the remake movie that I consider more interesting and shocking.

CC: @sellathechemist@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Doggo knows he looks pretty af.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Nastassja Kinski? (not sure)

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Plein Soleil (french version of The Talented Mr. Ripley).

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

With that kind of reductio ad absurdum, the result of filtering the code through indent or just reformatting the code isn't also 'literally identical' 🤦

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

«nadie se extrañará si os digo que no ha sido un éxito abrumador»
😆

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

"Who is number 1?"
"You are, number 6"

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Adult content [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

Glad to find you here back again.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

I live in a country that was almost self-destroyed by fascists and people still vote for fascists.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

El hormiguero, Alfonso Guerra, homofobia, capacitismo [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

Mi padre lo decía: "hay mucha gente que dice ser de izquierdas hasta que tiene algo en propiedad".

Manuel Zamora »
@manzam@nutriguia.com

Laurens Hof »
@laurenshof@indieweb.social

every part of this tweet is insane lol

for context, eightsleep is a ""smart"" mattress that tracks you, and apparently SF techbros use it a lot. Very nice of their ceo to illustrate their total disregard of privacy.

that said, it is also fucking hilarious that the data apparently does show that the techbros in SF are losing sleep over the openai drama lol

tweet by ceo: Breaking news: The OpenAI drama is real. 

We checked our data and last night, SF saw a spike in low-quality sleep. There was a 27% increase in people getting under 5 hours of sleep. We need to fix this.

Source: 
@eightsleep
 data

Arthas Wake »
@ArthasSama@owo.cafe

Para los que tengáis Firefox y estéis viendo cómo tardan en cargar más los vídeos de YouTube. Añadid esto a uBlock en "mis filtros"

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)

BrianKrebs »
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange

Didn't realize my wireless plan capped tethering speeds, but now it makes sense. When your phone gets ~10-15 mbps and your tethered computer gets .5 or .6 consistently, you know they're screwing w/ the service you paid for.

Welp, I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize, but changing the TTL on my computer seems to have released the throttling.

reddit.com/r/Android/comments/

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Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard) »
@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk

a picture of a teacher and primary children.

Teacher: "Where is the capital of England?"

Child: "In the offshore bank accounts of the 1%"
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@angel@triptico.com

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Igual lo que hay que plantearse es si realmente necesitamos llevar encima otro dispositivo electrónico conectado o si es una necesidad ficticia creada por el capitalismo.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Según ellos, en su época no existía ni el agua, tenían que recoger los átomos de hidrógeno y oxígeno y mezclarlos para poder lavarse.

CC: @andrewblasco@masto.es

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Bobby Fingers did it again: another masterful video of craft, insanity, imagination and sadness. He also travels to Turkey for an "implant":

https://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8


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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

A mí las Grecas no. En algún sitio hay que trazar la línea.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Went to the mirror to test this and realized that my head is already a butt.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

De niño, yo estaba enamoradísimo de Frida y de la de la izquierda de las Baccara.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Ni idea. Es la primera vez que los veo.

CC: @VictorMoral@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

¿Relojes? Creía que te referías a Pebbles Picapiedra.

CC: @VictorMoral@mastodon.social

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Viajamos a toda velocidad hacia la destrucción del planeta pero en qué cochazos

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Scorch that MF

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Ericka Simone »
@ErickaSimone@mastodon.social

A reminder. Religion and traditions are just peer pressure from dead people who maybe have never even existed.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Parece un catálogo de IKEA

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Totalmente de acuerdo. Y si alguien tiene alguna duda de lo que nos esperaría si ganan no hay más que ver al tipo de gentuza que están jodiendo esta semana las calles de Madrid.

Yo creo que todo esta ralea fascista está haciendo más a favor de un gobierno progresista que ningún esfuerzo de la izquierda.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

No soporto a Enrique Dans pero voy a hacer la excepción de divulgar este artículo suyo sobre la última golfería de Meta/Facebook y sobre por qué nuestro derecho a la privacidad es irrenunciable:

https://www.enriquedans.com/2023/11/quiere-usted-hacerse-dano.html

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Pues parece que la novela de Sonsoles Ónega ganadora del Planeta 2023 y su millón de pavos ha resultado ser una mierda.

estoy en shock.

https://elpais.com/babelia/2023-11-10/las-hijas-de-la-criada-el-fallido-folletin-de-sonsoles-onega-y-la-autoinmolacion-del-premio-planeta.html

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

"eufeminismos" 😆

German »
@German1007@mastodon.social

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Manuel Zamora »
@manzam@nutriguia.com

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Algún día tendré que probar una olla de estas de cocción lenta.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

TIL that git -L :function_name:source_file lists all the changes made to that function.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Ningún creyente individual es responsable
Las únicas religiones que no causan daño son las que ya no tienen ni un solo creyente. Así que cada creyente sí es un poco responsable.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

I was an innocent bystander and collateral damage in most of these wars.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

He colaborado en el especial de Halloween del podcast Territorio Extrañer haciendo la locución del relato «El caso de los llamadores de puertas» de María Jesús Montalvo:

https://www.ivoox.com/especial-halloween-2023-audios-mp3_rf_118718630_1.html

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Hello Dave the skeleton welcome to my server

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Creo que no ha funcionado, en el mundo todo sigue manga por hombro

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

jwz's youtubedown is, by the way, one of the greatest pieces of software ever

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Fascinating! Thanks.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

I remember this one. Wasn't it for MS Office, though?

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Accidental Rothko may be a good name for a band

Bill »
@Sempf@infosec.exchange

✨jes✨ »
@j3s@merveilles.town

FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:

1. find the firefox pid

$ pgrep -l firefox

2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core

$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>

3. find your lost text in the coredump

$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"

i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!!

cameron »
@cameron@route66.social

Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware

The Real Grunfink »
@grunfink@comam.es

Today is a great day (as any other one could be) to express my gratitude to those adorable persons that had bought me a coffee (sometimes more than one 😆), that have contributed patches to source code or that just simply informed me of errors.

You're great, people ❤️

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Las redes sociales no son la respuesta, son la pregunta. La respuesta es NO.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Me complace contaros que el jueves 19 de octubre por la tarde estaré firmando mi novela YO NO SOY PAVEL en la feria del libro de Majadahonda, en el stand de Bunker Books.

Feria del libro de Majadahonda, presentación del YO NO SOY PAVEL de Ángel Ortega

Mario Zechner »
@badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place

Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.
cards-for-ukraine.at

The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.

skyview.social

The protocol is absolutely insane.

There's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.

All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.

The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.

Here are my last 100 posts.

bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.r

Screenshot of me, accessing my posts through a simple GET request through my browser without authentication.
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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

7.4 has been released. Congratulations to everybody involved.

Don't forget to read the guide before upgrading:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade74.html

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Probably, though I don't remember the details. I do remember the half-flexible leather cover you mentioned.

CC: @mttaggart@infosec.town

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

This one was my first mobile phone. With its default battery, it lasted an oustanding TWO hours of idle operation. I then bought the "thick-as-a-soda-can" battery and life bumped to 24 hours. You could store TEN numbers inside its memory.

I accidentally dropped it on a client's facilities and cracked a marble floor. No kidding.

CC: @mttaggart@infosec.town

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Kris »
@endali@tech.lgbt

sierra my beloved

a dialogue box from one of the sierra games (Kings quest 5 i think) with an old man saying:"Humans doing the hard job for the minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted"

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) »
@catsalad@infosec.exchange

subway duck »
@fkfd@eattherich.club

a saga in four images

nasty YouTube popup: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube"My mouse hovering on uBlock Origin "Enter element picker mode"me eyedropping the said popupMe creating a adblock filter for the popup
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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

In Spain, this movie is titled "El mensajero del miedo" ("The Messenger of Fear") for whatever reason

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

❤️ ¿Eso que asoma de la boca son sus colmillos de abajo, o es que está mordiendo algo?

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Pobresitos empresaurios, si al final hasta pierden dinero con tal de ayudarnos a llevar un peaso pan a nuestras torpes, parasitarias e inútiles bocas

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

It's an interesting idea. I'm (also) a musician, and though certainly sheet music is subject to interpretation, it's a pretty accurate representation.

So, if the instruments are the hardware and the toolkit, and the interpreter is the compiler, then it's more or less true that music is the object and the sheets are the source.

Similarly, one may consider a MIDI file source code for music.

CC: @s@post.lurk.org @zant@types.pl

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

The Manchurian Candidate?

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Steven Rostedt »
@rostedt@social.kernel.org

I just realized. The more you comment your code and make it understandable, the easier it is for other people to takeover and rewrite your code. This means that when you retire/pass-away, your code will likely be quickly overwritten and your legacy gone from the active code base.

So, if you write complex clever code with little to no documentation, your code is more likely to be immortalized in the code base as everyone will be too afraid to touch it and possibly break it.

I thought of this when looking into the Linux TTY code base

Adri Humo »
@Humocefalo@masto.es


Hace poco descubrí que con el carnet de la biblioteca (España) se puede acceder a una plataforma de streaming muy guay. Se basa en tickets gratuitos (3 a la semana) y hay un montón de títulos que también están, por ejemplo, en
La web es efilm.online/ y si tienes cuenta en cualquier biblioteca de España puedes acceder con los mismos credenciales. CORRIJO: aún faltan algunas zonas de España, aunque la idea es estar finalmente disponible en todas. En la propia página podéis consultar qué servidores hay.
La plataforma, aparte del contenido, tiene un inicio atractivo con buenas listas de recomendaciones. Es una web muy atractiva y se agradece el cuidado en este tipo de servicio público.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

"HATERS TOWING"

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

I guess the woman to the left is Hedy Lamarr, but not really sure. No idea about the movie.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

In Spain, this movie is titled "Canción de cuna para un cadáver" ("Lullaby for a corpse") for some reason.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Buena observación.

The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

This exactly.

@LaComtesseJamie writes:  I'm amazed by people who lose weight w exercise. When | exercise nothing happens bc my DNA still thinks I'm a European peasant. So it's like "Oh! Are we running from the English again, lass? Dinnae ye worry: we'll keep ye plump as a partridge to outlast the murderous bastards!"
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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Sweet Charlotte?

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

I know this one 🙂 It's one of the best songs of the band and a remarkable (and long!) music video.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Joe Biden?

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Well, not really; "pavo" by itself means turkey, but a peacock is a "pavo real", just like a "badger" and a "honey badger" are not the same thing.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Durante la postguerra (civil en España) se vendía un sucedáneo de chocolate hecho con algarrobas.

CC: @alemm@mastodon.social

Pessimism Quotes »
@PessimismQuotes@mastodon.social

“Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.”

~ David Benatar

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

The door to the left is for Daleks.

CC: @vixencore@pounced-on.me

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Vale, ya he visto que lo explicas más abajo.

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Pero...¡qué haces tú en Instagram?

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

All tools I use (text editor, converters to .rtf and .troff, etc) were written by me.

CC: @solene@bsd.network

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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

This is Ángel Ortega, crime and horror fiction writer and former systems programmer (on space, avionics and cryptography environments).

My first contact with a system was on 1989 on a Sun Sparcstation 2 running . I discovered on 1993 with the SLS distribution. I ditched all Microsoft software on 1999 and moved all my computers to Linux and never looked back.

My first encounter with (inside a VM) was circa 2015. I was debugging a ground station software that was complicated as hell and had some memory leaks and was driving me mad; a friend of mine recommended compiling my beast on OpenBSD because the memory management is very different and it immediately crashed on a place I never expected. That filled my heart with bliss.

My first experience with OpenBSD in real hardware was on a laptop in 2020. Everything worked (except Bluetooth because, you know, there is no Bluetooth support on OpenBSD). I finally had to install Linux on that laptop because of reasons and my heart was a bit broken.

I now have OpenBSD on a tiny Toshiba NB 200. It's 32 bit, so no Firefox for poor old Ángel, but I don't really care because I used it mostly for fiction writing and remote server maintenance while on coffee shops, libraries or parks. Battery usage is great. Everything works like a charm.

I love OpenBSD because it's compact. It makes me feel like on a vintage UNIX system, simple and solid. Native tools and servers share lookalike configuration files. Man pages are awesome af. It includes a C compiler in its base system and that means "I am a real Operating System" to me. I love security is one of its main goals. OpenBSD hackers are brilliant, stubborn, unique people.

I don't love the filesystem.

I don't care that it's a bit slower than other OSes.

If you haven't tried OpenBSD, do it this October.

CC: @solene@bsd.network

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The Whore of Blahbylon »
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Out of these four movies directed by Quentin Tarantino, which is your favorite, and why?

Please boost if you can for a greater response.

Reservoir Dogs (1992):44
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003):49
Inglourious Basterds (2009):33
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019):10
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Ángel Ortega »
@angel@triptico.com

Very hard for me, as Tarantino is one of my favourite moviemakers; I went for "Once..." because I think this one will be the less voted and it's a great movie.

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