Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
#Escritor #Musician #CProgrammer #Illustrator #Linux #OpenBSD #Madrid #fedi22
I post in English / publico en español
I post in English / publico en español
Location: 40.4235492,-3.6617828
104 following, 127 followers
Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
Location: 40.4235492,-3.6617828
104 following, 127 followers
https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573
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Cartel del certamen
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
This cartoon and others are now in the art-for-sale section of my website: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
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A comic strip in six panels. Drawn in ink on white paperand signed by Tom Gauld in pencil.
The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.
Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.
I'm full of Frustration right now.
Thanks to everyone involved. All hail the fish.
https://triptico.com/tag/70312d601fb1640b1e74475951cb08ba.html
‘The exceptionally limited edition book.’ (My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books)
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Title: The exceptionally limited edition book
Part 1.
Bound in cloth taken from the author's wardrobe!
(image of tweed-bound book)
Indecipherably elegant font!
Your mere presence sullies its beauty!
Part 2.
Luxurious presentation!
(the book inside)
Three slipcases
(inside a)
Lightproof Velvet bag
(indide a)
Archival Glass box
(inside a)
Lead-lined Biometric safe
Part 3.
Scroll of Authenticity!
(image of long, text-covered scroll with am ornate seal)
Includes author's signature, home phone number and invitation to stay for a few days over the summer.
Part 4.
Too heavy to hold: reading assistants On standby 24/7
(image of two figures holding huge book)
Sign up promptly to ensure you are considered for the waiting list to enter the lottery to register your interest in preordering a copy!
@lambdacalculus classic
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Girl, holding the cyber mantis leaflet given to her by an ominous robed character comes across a sign with the same symbol and an entrance to an underground club.
Outside the entrance two hackers smoke.
There is a poster for the band lo0.
She enters. In the hallway she walks past 3 coin laundry cultists. The hallway is littered with posters and stickers. She presses on."
She walks into the club. The singer of lo0 is just performing their classic: 'browser poweruser.' The place is packed with hackers.
Everyone in the club turns around to look at Girl. Most are surprised. A few recognize her. Girl is happy.
In the year 1913, the day after Christmas, Ambrose Bierce was heading SW when he met Nathaniel Ebenezer Hickox. He is long forgotten now, but he was a hard-boiled bandit and also a very bad tempered motherfucker.
"Stop there", said Hickox, drawing his gun. It was an impressive object.
Bierce obeyed silently. His horse, a somewhat old but still good-looking male, found Bierce's lack of words disquieting. Silence was not common in his presence.
"What are you doing this far, old man?", said the bandit, almost without opening his mouth.
"I'm going beyond the border to join Pancho Villa's army", said Bierce.
Hickox hummed. "And why would you do such a stupid thing?".
Bierce took a look at the bandit's animal: it was a strong stallion with a very singular white mark on its forehead.
"It's what I have to do", replied Bierce, arms crossed.
"Mmmmm. Do. Mmmmm. Do.", said Hickox, and then: "What do you have on that bag?".
The wind blew for a second and nothing was to be heard.
"Tell me, my friend", said Bierce, "If you had to pick one, what would you prefer, raisins or radishes?".
Hickox scratched his filthy beard with his free hand. Suddenly, he realized that he didn't want to answer stupid questions from a bizarre man, nor breathing dust from the plains, nor bearing the annoying pain in the back that was there for days, nor thinking about raisins nor radishes: he remembered a warm place in El Paso, a site full of music and señoritas and whiskey and with a delicious smell of recently made beef steak.
Then, without a word, he left, leaving Ambrose Bierce alone. The beloved writer and notable bigmouth observed the bandit's figure as he disappeared towards the horizon.
In the USA, it is called “MAGA”
In Germany, it is called “Why grandpa has to live in Argentina.”
Madrid, Spain
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A small window in Don Ramón de la Cruz street, Madrid, Spain
Save the planet. Ask me your stupid questions instead of ai and give me $10. I'll get it right 20-40% of the time and I require very little water
Push notifications have been part of our lives for almost twenty years now. Our days are often punctuated by notifications of all kinds: a new message from the bank, a chat among friends, the work group, the ever-present social networks. All these notifications often have one thing in common: they pass through the servers of our smartphone operating system manufacturers, primarily Apple and Google.
It’s part of the implementation, and that’s fine. But we need to be aware that these notifications reveal a lot about us: in the best case, metadata (meaning they know who sends them to us, the size, etc.). In the worst case, the entire content. Sure, we have nothing to hide. But this morning, when I received a bank transfer from a client, I didn’t lean out the window shouting to the whole neighborhood that a transfer had arrived from that client, of a specific amount, with a specific reference.
UnifiedPush is a protocol that allows creating a different infrastructure for notification distribution. Notifications use WebPush, so they’re encrypted by the sender (e.g., Mastodon or Matrix server) and decrypted by the device. The server, therefore, doesn’t see the notification content itself.
I’m announcing a service that has already been active for some time – almost a year – on BSD Cafe servers. It’s an ntfy server, and the rationale is simple: if you use it for BSD Cafe services (like Mastodon and Matrix), no notification or data will leave BSD Cafe servers to pass through third parties: from BSD Cafe server, to BSD Cafe ntfy, to your device.
Server address: https://ntfy.bsd.cafe
Obviously it’s not limited only to BSD Cafe services, but you can use it with any other service that supports ntfy or UnifiedPush.
Just install the ntfy app (available on F-Droid, Play Store, etc.), go to settings and set https://ntfy.bsd.cafe as the server. From that moment on, any app opening a UnifiedPush channel will do so through that server.
The server is also accessible via pure https, from a browser: https://ntfy.bsd.cafe
From there you can also create a topic, subscribe, and send or receive messages and updates.
The goal is, also with this service, to provide another opportunity to access content and services without necessarily depending on a fixed provider, because monoculture is and will always be a problem.
The service is available to everyone. Happy notifications!
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a white square with a red circle on top of it
https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573
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Cartel del certamen
activitypub: fucking exists, cheap, clunky but works
atproto: what if we redesign the whole thing from first principles and it's super complicated and costs a bundle to run and it's been two years and it still doesn't fucking work and also we keep a centralised kill switch, but here's our white papers on how it's superior to the solution that fucking exists
Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, Madrid, Spain
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Thin window in the external wall
Sign that you're getting old: People are nostalgic about the thing you think of as the crappy new thing that replaced a much better old thing.
First, we agreed to leave him there; we were no one to decide on what the sea had decreed. But soon we understood that rotting under the sun and becoming food for the seagulls was not a fair ending to what probably had been a life of bravery and courage, so we moved him among the rocks and covered his head with a shelter made of planks and ropes.
My sister thought that he needed some eyes and she filled the scary holes that led to his long gone brain with branches of lilies, small blots of blue and violet.
Our life went on and we forgot about the seaman. There were long days of light, rain and storm. My sister grew up and became a woman; me, I don't know very well what I ended up being.
One day I returned to that beach and found it very different. I visited the rocks where he rested: he didn't look like a fisherman anymore. A sense of apathy and ennui filled by heart. Upon my head, a flock of birds flew in circles chasing each other.
Iglesia evangélica de habla alemana (Deutschsprachige Evangelische Gemeinde), Madrid, Spain
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A window in the Deutschsprachige Evangelische Gemeinde, Madrid, Spain
My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”
Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner
Kiddo: that’s AI
The Man of MATA pt1
next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115271822786360293
pls consider supporting my work: https://analognowhere.com/support
#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #linux #penguin #mata
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Somewhere in a desert...
Girl and Penguin are eating breakfast.
Penguin: "Morning, slept well?"
Girl: "mhmhmhm"
Penguin: "What's today?"
Girl checks her school schedule. It's Monday, morning class - history.
Girl: "History.
Penguin, unenthusiased: "Sounds exciting."
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Classroom. Fish begins the lesson.
Fish: "I wanted to call this class mythology, but Purple said history suggests that some of it might actually be true. Nobody remembers how long ago, but as you know, the world ended. While the inheritors of the ravaged land learned to adapt to their predicament, three brothers, successors of those who brought about the end, set out into the destroyed world to ruin it some more."
LAST REMAINING MATACORPBUNKER B_73; three brothers
"Well, gentlemen, we ate all the women, children and uly. The water purifier is busted and the only person who could fix it was Parkinson."
"We ate her last week."
"We ate her last week."
"Nothing to eat, nothing to drink. So now what?"
"I think it's time to do what our great great great grandparents spoke of - Go outside and restart civilization."
"Ugh..."
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Penguin and Fish are dressed as the MATA brothers.
Penguin: "I have the best ideas."
Fish: "You're going to have to help us play the third brother."
Girl, ecstatic: "School trip!"
analognowhere presents: techno-mage in:
Girl, Fish and Penguin stand outside their cave home.
Fish: "... they gathered a bunch of thumbdrives with ancient CORPO tech and went on a journey to find people and machines they could poison."
Penguin: "It's a good day to fuck shit up. Come on, bros!"
Girl: "He's really into it!"
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The three brothers cross the ancient desolate land.
"This suuuuuuuuuuuucks."
"Shut up."
CC: @chebra@mstdn.io
Esta chica, salida de la nada, se erige en una especie de "justiciera" y decide que se salta lo que los autores han decidido que es su (equivocado o no) medio de subsistencia.
Pero bueno, allá cada cual.
Pero así, sin saber más, solo son conjeturas.
This has got to be one of the best. In Wales, UK, there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. So, in this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads..... "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."
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The picture is of a road sign. The top part is in English and the bottom part in Welsh.
The English part says, "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only."
Ahora también en los idiomas euskera, gallego y castellano, entre otros, más los que están en preparación.
De hipo- y -ónimo.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. m. Ling. Palabra cuyo significado incluye el de otra. Gorrión es hipónimo de pájaro.
npm was a mistake. the concept of pulling live dependencies that are not collectively managed by a QA team but each individually managed by many thousands of people with wildly varying skill and availability is inherently doomed to constant incidents.
Ken Thompson, 1984: Whenever you use other people's software, you should think about why you trust it.
npm, 2010: LEEEEROY JENKINNNNNSSSSSSS!
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/self-replicating-worm-hits-180-software-packages/
The traveler no longer knows where he goes nor where he comes from. He has brief glimpses, yes he does, but they are more and more blurry every time; all is like a mesh of milky lines, pale lights, paths to destinations that have no meaning to him. Sometimes a kid asks him what does he do: "I travel", he says, faking a smile while his eyes try to fix a point and fail.
His life is a hollow pit of departures; here, there, anywhere. He tries to recall his past but a curtain of headache lies in front of it: he barely remembers a loving mother, a cozy blanket, a puppy gone too early.
But soon the traveler is back again in endless corridors, all similar, all white, all convergent to a hub that links to another. He only hopes for one trip more, the one that finally erases him from existence, because he is starting to feel like he's slowly disappearing, mirrors not bothering to reflect his wasted image anymore. "Only one trip more", says to himself while trying to breathe an air thick as mud, blinded by light, almost defeated.
"If you don't like it, then leave" is the subtext of the response from Jay Graber.
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A reply on Bluesky by its CEO Jay Graber on September 13th, 2025 stating "We knew from the start we can't get everything right. Moderation is a hard problem, and it's impossible to please everyone. So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave. If you don't trust us, or don't like our decisions, you deserve the right to choose an alternative."
I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.
#Linux #FreeBSD
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Screenshot of a Reddit comment saying this:
Time for my OS opinion that's guaranteed to be unpopular with someone...
Sun Solaris used to be the OS that required overpriced proprietary hardware and still couldn't compete with Linux. That OS is now MacOS.
MacOS used to be the colorful and friendly walled garden OS that your non-techie parents would enjoy but was completely useless to you as a power user. That OS is now Windows.
Windows used to be the OS that could run a lot of apps, but was a headache to setup and maintain correctly and would sometimes blow up for no reason. That OS is now Linux.
Linux used to be the techie and developer oriented command-line OS that was lacking in desktop apps and might not support your hardware, but once you got it going, was rock solid and had no limits. That OS is now FreeBSD.
The Brazilian Supreme Court found Bolsonaro guilty of the coup attempt in January 2023 after losing the elections! His sentence: 27 years in jail!
This is how you do it!!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Girls, don't cry over Louie,Vaya Con Dios, Don't cry for Louie
He wouldn't waste a tear on you
Plaza de Manuel Becerra, Madrid, Spain
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Plaza de Manuel Becerra, Madrid, Spain
A fitting eulogy for Kirk is that he tirelessly fought for two ideals: that 70% of the American public was undeserving of the protections of the Constitution, and that tools of violence should be freely available.
The internet never forgets. Your "brilliant" mistakes will come back to bite you in the ass, even after you’re dead.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-gun-deaths-quote/
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photo of Charlie Kirk with quote "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights"
Y una vez que lo tengas en el dispositivo intenta abrirlo desde el administrador de archivos o desde los ajustes.
@dangillmor
No.
So much no.
These people are asking us to judge the AT protocol on its own merits, entirely divorced from Blue Sky, the company founded and funded by fascists. These are the "keep politics out of tech" people who wan to believe that any tech can be apolitical.
Blue Sky must be destroyed.
As for the purportedly-apolitical and untainted AT protocol, I must again refer to the sage Jules Winnfield: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know."
Ya está disponible la versión 3.0 (2025) de nuestro libro "Fundamentos de Sistemas Operativos: Una Aproximación Práctica Usando Linux". Novedad: un capítulo dedicado a la seguridad.
Es libre (Creative-Commons) y gratuito, puedes descargar el PDF aquí:
https://honecomp.github.io/librossoo.html
https://thenewstack.io/unix-co-creator-brian-kernighan-on-rust-distros-and-nixos/
I guess Another Man's Woman is also crying now.
IIUC,
$ gcc -fpreprocessed -dD -E -P file.c > no_comments.c
should do the trick. You really need a proper C/C++ aware lexer/parser because while simple substitutions
:%s@\_s*//.*\n/\r
in Vim can get thrown off by "//" or "/*…*/" embedded in string-constants. There are additional complexities with multi-line strings and nested comments. I'm not sure if you also intend to take into consideration ":#if 0" blocks.
I keep reading that the “right way” to use AI for coding is to treat it like a team of junior developers.
Wow, every developer’s dream: writing less code, managing more people, and reviewing lots of poorly written code. And with the added bonus that the “junior devs” you are pouring all this time into, will never improve as a result of your efforts.
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