Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

Sinopsis:

Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.

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Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

@randahl Perhaps the folks in the EU should meet with Putin (without Trump) and agree to exchange Alaska for complete withdrawal from Ukraine (both are historically parts of the empire that Putin wants to rebuild).

8 Women Composers Who Shaped the Musical World

Discover eight women composers who have shaped the musical world and gave women in music a voice.

by Andrew Olsen

https://www.thecollector.com/women-composers-you-should-know/

Musicians at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/543

#art #music #culture

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Ancient icon of Saint Kassia (or Kassiani/Kassiane), the 9th-century Byzantine poetess, hymnographer, and abbess: The icon typically depicts Saint Kassia in the formal Byzantine style. She is shown in half-length or full figure, clothed in the traditional garments of a Byzantine nun — a dark monastic habit with veil and mantle. Her face is elongated and solemn, with large almond-shaped eyes, a thin nose, and small mouth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassia#/media/File:Kassia.jpg

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Hildegard von Bingen receives a divine inspiration and passes it on to her scribe. The miniature depicts Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval abbess. She is shown seated, her figure slightly larger than the others to emphasize her authority. Tongues or rays of flame descend from heaven onto her head, symbolizing the direct transmission of divine inspiration from God or the Holy Spirit. Hildegard sits with a wax tablet or stylus in hand, sometimes poised as if about to write, but instead she gestures toward her scribe, Volmar, a monk who records her words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen#/media/File:Hildegard_von_Bingen.jpg

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Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach. Portrait by Johann Ernst Heinsius (1769). Anna Amalia is shown seated in a dignified pose, wearing a sumptuous gown of fine silk or satin, richly decorated with lace and delicate embroidery. A lace cap adorns her powdered hair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Anna_Amalia_of_Brunswick-Wolfenb%C3%BCttel#/media/File:Weimar_Anna_Amalia_Bibliothek@Anna_Amalie_von_Sachsen-Weimar_(1).JPG

The problem with the Treaty of Versailles was not that reparations are a fundamentally bad idea, it was that they were paid by people who had no say in the decision to go to war and who had already suffered (losing friend and family) in the war. I suspect the twentieth century would have been very different if the reparations had been made by stripping 95% of the Kaiser’s personal wealth, taking the remainder from the rest of the aristocracy who had the power to intervene and did not, and earmarking 20% of the total to rebuilding the affected parts of Germany. Such an approach was infeasible at the time because the allied delegations were stuffed with aristocrats who didn’t want to set that kind of precedent.

Perhaps that won’t be the case with Ukraine. Putin has an estimated personal wealth of $200bn. Other complicit oligarchs add to this total. That’s enough for a lot of rebuilding, on both sides. And bankrupting a war criminal on the way to his trial would be a good disincentive for other autocrats.

CC: @cmconseils@mastodon.social

😆

-- Franz Kafka, Letter to Max Brod, 1922-07-05

MSRC: Memory safety bugs are the root cause of around 70% of security vulnerabilities.

Normal people: We should deploy things that mitigate those and reduce the percentage by fixing the bugs.

MS senior leadership: Let’s put a thing that introduces entirely new categories of vulnerability into every product and make developers use coding tools that introduce vulnerabilities that experienced developers never would! Then the 30% will get bigger!

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

What Linux terminal-based tools do you use?

#Goodnight

...and even then stuff still gets expired and refetched now and then. It sucks, but this is the closest I've been able to find for this. There used to be a ybc-based program to do this, but it faded out about a decade ago.

@raptor @bert_hubert

The tl;dr: as long as you never call setlocale(), you can use strptime()

Never rely on this property in library code. The setlocale interfaces are not officially deprecated but POSIX2008 introduced better interfaces (the C++11 locale handling is intended as a thin wrapper around these. These APIs first appeared in OS X prior to standardisation and were created as a way of factoring out the support required for Objective-C locale support and moving it into libc).

POSIX2008 introduced the newlocale function to create a locale object (locale_t) and variants of most functions that use locales with a _l suffix that take an explicit locale object. It also redefined the ones that use an explicit locale to use a thread-local locale set with uselocale in preference to the global one defined with setlocale.

It is strongly recommended that no new code ever call setlocale. In particular, a load of the multibyte character conversion routines cannot be made thread safe (the APIs require internal state and have no way of indicating when it is no longer required) and so setting a non-C global locale can cause subtle data corruption in multithreaded code.

It appears that setptime_l didn’t make it into POSIX (though it is in FreeBSD and Apple libc, and a bunch of other places). If your libc doesn’t provide it, it’s easy to shim safely by wrapping strptime with uselocale calls:

char *
strptime_l(const    char *restrict  buf, const  char  *restrict  format,
       struct tm * restrict timeptr, locale_t loc)
{
    locale_t oldLocale = uselocale(loc);
    char *ret = strptime(buf, format, timeptr);
    uselocale(oldLocale);
    return ret;
}

This will work on any libc that conforms to POSIX2008.

AI winter is in the air — but we still give it until 2027

(maybe)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp1-3Ypmr1Y&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250823-ai-winter-is-in-the-air-we-still-think-it-has-until-2027 - podcast
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/23/ai-winter-is-in-the-air-but-we-think-the-ai-bubble-keeps-going-until-2027/ - text

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sad robot in snow

“War is war and hell is hell and of the two, war is a lot worse.” https://www.tumblr.com/jimstares/790549011146981376

@jameshowell @glyph

1997. I-Con SF convention on the SUNY Stony Brook campus.

We put Vernor Vinge and grey eminence of SF Frederik Pohl on a panel about the Singularity.

Before it started, Pohl asked "What is hell is the Singularity?"

I filled him in.

Right there, in front of Vinge:

"What a load of crap. Here's what's going to happen. We're going to burn through our resources, ruin the environment, civilization will collapse, and the survivors will despise us."

"It turns out the public hates the culture of corporate greed. Let's figure out how we can monetize that hate."

(from my feed elsewhere, it made me laugh)

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Several employees around the table, one comments, "It turns out the public hates the culture of corporate greed. Let's figure out how we can monetize that hate."

@_elena @dianea @rbreich Reich is absent and spews platitudes and engagement-bait. He’s not here.

@_elena @rbreich

Why include the image at all? The image isn’t even a quote of someone else. The flow seems to be:

1. Write some text.
2. Post some text.
3. Screenshot the text (why not just copy it like a human would?)
4. Attach the screenshot to a toot.

I can only assume that the main purpose of the toot is to advertise BlueSky, rather than anything related to the content of the BlueSky post.

I wouldn’t complain if this were the first time, but it’s most of what @rbreich posts.

My rule of thumb for basic politeness is: If doing something benefits others and costs you nothing, would you do it? It’s a very low bar.

Copying the text instead of making a screenshot adds zero effort, but both reduces the bandwidth everyone seeing this needs to use and makes life easier for visually impaired people and people for whom English is not their first language (translation tools work automatically on a lot of Mastodon instances for text, including alt text, but not for images).

The core of rudeness is deciding that your time is worth more than other people’s. When you won’t do something that takes approximately none of your time to save a larger amount of effort for a large number of people who read your posts, that’s very rude.

Unfollowed @rbreich. I am not going to waste time reading posts by people that rude.

One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well

Hacker News front page today.

Uh-oh.

"AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

"Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/

"95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds"
https://thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/

#AI #AISlop

CC: @_elena@mastodon.social @elena@aseachange.com

"The vibe coding trend has cured my impostor syndrome because now I've seen what real impostors look like."

De verdad, qué chulada de velas y cuánto ingenio aplicado.

Encrypting a Debian install with UKI https://anarc.at/blog/2025-08-20-luks-ukify-conversion #draft

#fediverse #activitypub

...and we're on Phoronix!

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Illumos-Cafe

#illumosCafe #illumos #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #SmartOS #Tribblix

In the far future, we will all be human emulations running on the mind of AI God!

we have separate areas of sim city for the brown emulations of course

LARVADO

   De larva.
    1. 1. adj. Dicho de un sentimiento: Que no se manifiesta abiertamente.
       Sin.:
          + oculto, encubierto, disimulado, subrepticio, latente.
    2. 2. adj. Med. Dicho de una enfermedad: Que se presenta con síntomas que ocultan su verdadera naturaleza.
       Sin.:
          + latente, oculto, encubierto.

My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

#SysAdmin #IT #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #Community #OpenSource #OSS #illumos #SmartOS #OpenIndiana #ZFS #bhyve #kvm #Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #ITNotes

@mastodonmigration

It was funny…I was listening to @mmasnick on a recent Techdirt podcast episode¹ and as he was praising the ostensible decentralization of BlueSky/ATProto, your post crossed my feed thanks to @cmdln sharing it.

The difference is stark. When BSky decides to do change something, what are my options to go some place else or host my own? A semi-recent post by Bryan Newbold² put the costs at $19–34/month for just the indexer without the PDS aspects.

Meanwhile, what do I need to set up a node to participate in the Mastodon/ActivityPub universe? If my wonderful instance admin, @stefano somehow goes rogue, I can spin up a $1/month VPS³ running snac2 or honk (or maybe GoToSocial, though it's a bit heavier) and it's more than plenty to be a full-fledged player in the ecosystem.

For the cost of one month running an ATProto setup, I can run an ActivityPub instance for 2–3 years.

"Decentralized…I do not think that word means what you (ATProto folks) think it means"

⸻

¹ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/techdirt-podcast-episode-424-reclaiming-the-internet/

² https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3lo7a2a4qxg2l

³ https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

To kind of summarize some of the recent #Bluesky drama. Yesterday Bluesky changed their Terms of Service to require binding arbitration. Users are unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go. Today, Bluesky banned a user for wishing ill of J.K. Rowling for her anti-trans hate. Users are very unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go.

Get it?

Oh! Light goes on. I completely miscategorized the book. It's adult romantasy, not youngling dystopia. This makes the gushing over man pecs more understandable, although it's also getting more genre predictable as we go. Will she fall for the handsome good boy or the steamy bad boy, oh, gee, I wonder which she'll choose.

ACOLLAR

   De cuello.
    1. 1. tr. Agr. Cobijar con tierra el pie de los árboles, y principalmente el tronco de las vides y otras plantas.
       Sin.:
          + arrendar, aporcar.
    2. 2. tr. Mar. Meter estopa en las costuras del buque.
    3. 3. tr. Mar. Halar de los acolladores.

Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025)

"These days, binding arbitration is everywhere, allowing corporations to proceed with total legal impunity. When a woman died of allergens in her Disney World meal (after being told it was allergen-free), Disney told her widower that he couldn't sue because he'd clicked through a binding arbitration waiver when he signed up for a free trial of the Disney Plus streaming service [...]"

Link : https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/dogs-breakfast/#by-clicking-this-you-agree-on-behalf-of-your-employer-to-release-me-from-all-obligations-and-waivers-arising-from-any-and-all-NON-NEGOTIATED-agreements

#bluesky #moderation #socialmedia #enshittification

the myth of the good tech giant

#clippy #unix_surrealism #microsoft #ai

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Microsoft clippy says: "If I knew how to steal and sell your data in '97, I would've done it."

Centro Colón, Madrid

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Futurist windows. Centro Colón, Madrid

BADIL

   Del lat. batillum.
    1. 1. m. Paleta de hierro o de otro metal, para mover y recoger la lumbre en las chimeneas y braseros.
       Sin.:
          + badila, hurgón, paleta, hurgonero.

#NGINX Native support for #ACME protocol
https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
#Web #Webserver

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
-- Edvard Munch

I will be flowers

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/12/i-will-be-flowers/

#MyNotes #Blogging #Life

Literally every good person I know who is working in tech actually wants to be doing something else like gardening or carpentry, says a lot about how much we've all fucked up this industry

Timely reminder ✌️

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Black and white photo of a bus stop under an overpass, where you can read on an advertisement display "Nationalism, teaches you to take pride in shit you haven't done & hate people you've never met"

Secret Panel HERE 😮 https://tapas.io/episode/2361115

I think this shows how @linuxfoundation is not necessarily on our side.

https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940

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A screenshot of a Linux Foundation toot saying: "Data privacy rules like GDPR are fueling a climate of risk aversion, slowing open data progress."

Supporting “AI” in its current form is an inherently right wing political position. “AI” exists to further commodify and devalue labor. It’s anti-worker and facilitates the transfer of power to the capitalist class.

Debian 13 "trixie" is released with Ceratopsian by Elise Couper as its default theme, featured across wallpapers, installer, and login screens. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Ceratopsian #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

MAJANO

   De or. desc.
    1. 1. m. Montón de cantos sueltos que se forma en las tierras de labor o en las encrucijadas y división de términos.
       Sin.:
          + almora, mureño.

CC: @gsuberland@chaos.social

Monocultures are bad; biodiversity is good.

So, the last time Tim Cook bribed Trump (with a $1M donation to his inauguration fund) the Apple tech bros kept telling us that was a personal donation from Cook, not from Apple the company.

What's their line of defense gonna be now that the bribe has a big ass Apple logo on it?

https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning

There should be a hyper-exclusive amusement park for billionaires built with all the same disregard for regulations and human safety they employ in their own pursuits

46 years ago today
"Bela Lugosi's Dead" is the debut single by English post-punk band Bauhaus, released on August 6, 1979 and is often considered the first gothic rock record

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #gothpunkrock #belalugosisdead #bauhaus #history #otd

CATACRESIS

   Del lat. catachrēsis, y este del gr. κατάχρησις katáchrēsis 'uso indebido'.
    1. 1. f. Ret. Designación de algo que carece de nombre especial por medio de una palabra empleada en un sentido metafórico, como en la hoja de la espada o una hoja de papel.
    2. 2. f. Ret. Metáfora de difícil comprensión propia del conceptismo y la poesía barroca, como en [el gigante] un monte era de miembros eminente.

A quiet afternoon, then a sudden, beautiful interruption. An unexpected message from a stunning person, a silent force in the fediverse. They've done more for this place and for me than so many of the more vocal accounts - more than I have, even.

This is the very essence of what I adore about this community. It's a place for genuine connection, where real people build real relationships.

To the one who sent that message: Thank you. It arrived exactly when I needed it most.

#Fediverse #People

And a subtle, beautiful reference to Mama Cass. Kudos!

@NanoRaptor If you don't know something, find someone who does and ask. It's not weakness.

@NanoRaptor Since you have no control over what others think about you, there’s no point in worrying about it.

CC: @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

Reading someone else's profile I often found this phrase:

boosts are not endorsement

And, not sure why, I wrote the same stuff in my profile. But it kept bugging me, because: "why the hell are you boosting someone else's toot if you're not approving it?" Doesn't make sense. It would be the same for likes: why should I like something that I don't approve? And then specify: likes are not endorsement. lol

Get your shit together!

PALABRO

    1. 1. m. coloq. Palabra rara o mal dicha.
    2. 2. m. coloq. palabrota.
       Sin.:
          + palabrota, garabato, tapa, ajo.

#snac2 #fediverse #frugalfediverse

—Vamos —dice al fin el hombre de las sienes plateadas.

La Bety y él cruzan el umbral. Dentro está muy oscuro. Bajan una escalera y ella da un traspiés que no llega a hacerla caer. Las paredes están totalmente cubiertas de carteles de conciertos.

A cada paso, la música de baile se va volviendo más y más ensordecedora.

Está en los dominios de Oleg Olégovich Tanareg. En el umbral no estaba escrito lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. El interior de La Basílica tiene tres pistas de baile, cada una a su nivel. Hay barandillas metálicas, pasarelas en ángulos improbables, grandes candelabros a diferentes alturas, jaulas con chicas bailando en bikini colgando de los negros muros. Un mar de gente baila en trance. Huele a desinfectante y a sudor. Unos enormes tubos como bocas exhalan chorros de aire frío. Un cartel publicitario de cerveza Totengarten, oblongo, enorme, parpadea en azul y magenta. El nitrógeno líquido flamea en fumarolas como fuegos fatuos.

Este pedazo de tierra olvidada es un exclave de la Rusia Blanca y bien podía estar a miles de kilómetros de esta ciudad o colgada de las nubes o sumergida en el mar interior porque su ubicación es ajena al tiempo y al espacio.

Cuatro tipos como hienas la rodean. Allí, delante de todo el mundo, la cachean con violencia y lascivia. Nadie se inmuta, el ritmo endiablado de la música bascula sobre sus cabezas, los cañones de luz se retuercen como faros desquiciados. La Bety alza las manos, saca del bolsillo la pistola con el índice y el pulgar y se la entrega a alguien.

Una mano firme le arrebata la bolsa.

Quizá esto es el final.

[...]

Debugging: the art of slowly realizing you're the problem.

*Has anyone ever actually played this, and is it a fun game

I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

Icehouse - Electric Blue
Deleyaman - Electric Sky
Kraftwerk - Electric Café
OMD - Electricity
Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
Edgar Varese - Ionisation

Electronic - Getting Away With It (it's in the band name, but whatever)
Lightning Seeds - Pure (it's in the band name, but whatever)

Happy August!

Fediverse, have a great weekend!

[...] I’m in charge of feeding my sister-in-law’s cat. All of a sudden, he’s super affectionate with me and follows me everywhere.

@nazokiyoubinbou @DaveMasonDotMe If you think that the "focus should be on supporting users" before "keeping your website online at all", then I assure you, you *do not* totally get it.

Substack is terrible - but even people who know it don't want to leave the platform – a tale in 3 acts.

Act I

Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz published a scoop a few days ago, showing how "Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog" (if you don't want to give #Substack a click, here is an alt link https://archive.ph/FTjEH).

It was a terrific and disturbing piece - kudos to her.

Act II (plot twist)

People started pointing out that Lorenz herself is using Substack as the publishing platform for her blog - which she monetizes with subscriptions. So, very ballsy move on her part to criticize the platform that she relies on to make a living, but still, some people started pointing out the incongruity of this. What about her values? Why wouldn't she move her newsletter?

Lorenz was starting to get fed up with these comments and explained on Bluesky (alt link / snapshot if you don't want to give Bluesky a click: https://archive.ph/CePll)

" Them: Get off substack
Me: Ok I set up a Patreon. The features aren’t as good but I’m willing to take a hit and do a lot more time consuming work on the back end to make it work. Here’s where you can subscribe to support me. Once enough people hop over I’ll be able to make the jump
Them: *crickets* "

She followed up that post with the comment:

" A lot of people on here want to attack and punish creators (esp women and LGBTQ ppl) for being forced to rely on certain platforms to make a living, but aren’t actually willing to support those creators in a way that allows them to leave the platforms ur so critical of them being forced to rely on. "

Fair enough.

Act III (in which I insert myself)

I don't post on Bluesky anymore but I felt compelled to resuscitate my account to point out that Substack is not only terrible, but it's also very expensive and takes the BIGGEST cut out of all other newsletter platforms.

I wrote:

" With all due respect Taylor, moving away from Substack is the ethical choice and it also makes financial sense. The great Molly White compiled a detailed breakdown of how much money creators who rely on subscriptions could save... by switching over to other platforms. "

And I linked to Molly White's brilliant post: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/114319870485786053

I also added a link to the article by @micahflee : "Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost" https://micahflee.com/not-only-is-substack-right-wing-broligarchy-garbage-its-way-more-expensive-than-ghost/

Lorenz responded:

"Again, I am on Patreon and have had the option to receive my newsletter directly outside of Substack since day 1. Only 3 people have ever taken me up on this. By the way I cover Substack and the only reason I got the scoop I got it from being in the platform. Hence why I’ll always have an acct"

I just replied to her that #Ghost offers a free concierge migration service (https://ghost.org/concierge/) where she could move over all her paid subscribers... and I said that IMHO she could still use Substack Notes to share her articles if she moved elsewhere... but staying on Substack and giving them 10% of her earnings feels like an implicit endorsement.

I meant that in the most empathetic way. I can understand her struggles but she has 87,000 subscribers and if she wanted to move she could simply ask for help and I'm sure people would volunteer to set her up somewhere else. If she did so on the Fediverse she'd have a self-hosted account on a VPS in less than 24 hours.

Lest you think I want to "attack and publish creators (especially women)" like in Lorenz's words on Bluesky, well, I'm a woman who started self-hosting only 6 months ago and I now run my own Ghost blog which I manually installed. It's not that unattainable.

Maybe it's just me, but I believe that the tech we use sends an important message about our values and the causes we support. Everything is politics now. Including our tech stack.

#DigitalLiteracy #DigitalCoup #A16Z #Broligarchy

@inthehands Or, the "save government money" stuff was just a cover story, and the real aim of DOGE was exfiltrating all government data to feed Elon's AI. Which he accomplished in the first week.

For #InternationalTigerDay... "Tigerlillia Terribilis" — from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77).

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-lears-nonsense-botany-1871-77 #InternationalTigerDay2022

@mwl

Meanwhile…

FreeBSD: You need a processor, preferably something made in the last two decades with 1GB of RAM (although more is better)

OpenBSD: You need a processor, preferably made sometime since the turn of the century and maybe 256MB of RAM (although more is better)

NetBSD: You've got a dead badger you found on the roadside and have attached it to a dodgy 220V power-source? Sure, we'll run on that.

CC: @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social

At EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb: "Liberating the social web using *BSD" by Jeroen - @h3artbl33d - and Stefano Marinelli, see https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/PJJLFV/

Schedule at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

To register https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

#EuroBSDCon #EBC25 #BSDCafe #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Networking #BSDCafe #RunBSD #Mastodon #Fediverse #OwnYourData #Security #Networking #Community

BATISCAFO

   Del fr. bathyscaphe, y este del gr. βαθύ bathý 'profundo' y σκάφος skáphos 'barco'.
    1. 1. m. Especie de embarcación sumergible preparada para resistir grandes presiones y destinada a explorar las profundidades del mar.
       Sin.:
          + submarino, sumergible.

I'm trying a compositor called Wio, i never used Plan9 but if this is how Rio works on Plan9 then i like it, keeping in mind that Wio doesn't implement all the features that Rio has. The most interesting thing about the design of Wio is that when you make a window by defult opens a terminal and in there you run your graphical program, so i'm thinking, wouldn't be neat that you could switch between the terminal and graphical preview, and and then came to my mind "why not allow to do that on the compositor it self" because sometimes happens that the compositor breaks and you are locked in the sence that you can't change to another tty.
Idk i think that would be neat.
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How Gustave Moreau’s Mystical Paintings Defined the Symbolist Movement

Gustave Moreau was the defiant visionary whose mystical paintings shaped a groundbreaking new movement in France and beyond.

by Kelsey Spicuzza

https://www.thecollector.com/gustave-moreau-symbolist-movement/

Symbolism in literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7864

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L'Apparition (1876), watercolor, 105 x 72 cm., Musée d'Orsay by Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau’s L'Apparition is a haunting and richly symbolic watercolor painting that vividly captures a moment from the biblical story of Salome. In this striking scene, Salome stands transfixed before the vision of the severed head of John the Baptist, which hovers, radiant and bleeding, in the air before her. Salome is adorned in elaborate, orientalized robes and jewelry that shimmer with color, light, and texture—an opulent reflection of her allure and the decadent atmosphere of Herod’s court. Her expression is one of awe and dread as she gazes upon the miraculous apparition. The head of John the Baptist floats above a luminous nimbus, glowing with supernatural intensity, contrasting with the dark, richly patterned architectural setting behind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau#/media/File:The_Apparition,_Gustave_Moreau_1876.jpg

Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

"Magic and ideology are both practices of belief."

By Celia Bell

https://lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/

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Leonora Carrington This evocative photograph captures Leonora Carrington, the British-born Surrealist artist and writer. Carrington appears poised and enigmatic, her expression calm but intense, often with piercing eyes that suggest her deep inner world. She has semi-long curly hair and wears a lacy midi-length blouse with a skirt (or black pants), her arms wrapped around one of her knees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington#/media/File:Leonora_Carrington.jpg