Ángel Ortega
@angel@triptico.com
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.
@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?
Has science gone too far?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon the old ones are back to claim this mortal world!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Biblically accurate cat?
@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. 😆
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Don´t be rude.
MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.12.09
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Katherine Johnson?
@targetdrone Nope.
Shirley Chisholm.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Gladys West. Programmer who came up with critical orbital model for GPS.
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.
MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2023.12.09
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon American Werewolf in London?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I’m guessing The Last of Us
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon American werewolf in London.
Yesterday’s movie still was from the 2016 film The Void, directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie.
La noticia que os alegrará el día. Rescatan a un perrete curioso atrapado en la balaustrada del paseo marítimo de Gijón.
https://www.lne.es/gijon/2023/12/09/espectacular-rescate-perro-quedo-atascado-95630110.html
Lamentablemente, el artículo no incluye foto del perrete, pero gran noticia de cualquier modo.
@angel Hay que proteger su identidad, también tiene derechos de imagen y a la intimidad ^^.
HEARTBREAKING: Los gigantes turbocapitalistas del fast fashion, con toda la producción deslocalizada en Asia, LLORAN porque gigantes turbocapitalistas asiáticos venden más barato que ellos.
https://www.eldiario.es/economia/textil-barato-temu-shein-amenaza-trono-gran-consumo_1_10750685.html
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.
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.
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.
Ni delincuentes ni víctimas: trabajadoras sexuales contra el estigma | Euskal Herria | Naiz
El feminismo en España tiene un problema con la prostitución
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
with Johnny Depp
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's eating Gilbert Grape
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Pirates of the green screen.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's eating Gilbert Grape...
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon what's eating gilbert grape - wasn't this Leonardo DiCaprios' big bang moment?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
That's a really young Leo. And it takes me back. Wow.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon what's eating Gilbert grape
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Gilbert Grape
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Gilbert grape!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I want to say "What's eating Gilbert Grape"
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon when johhny depp was hot.
@Prettiest_Gnostic_Machine He's never been hot to me, tbh.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Gilbert Grape?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon What's Eating Gilbert Grape
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon what’s eating Gilbert grape!
Yesterday’s movie still was from the 1993 film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, directed by Lasse Hallström. Virtually everyone knew this one.
I think Leonardo DiCaprio did a fine job in this film.
@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.
MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.12.08
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas (Kojak) with hair!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas. Who loves ya, baby?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Now I want a lollypop. Looks like Telly Savalas
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Looks like Marlon Brando. But I'm not good at this game.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalos
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalis
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas (sp?)
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon telly savalas?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Montgomery Scott
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon i like this Savalas much more:
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon who loves ya baby
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon As a child of the 70’s I’d recognize Kojak no matter what the hairstyle!
@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.
@signalthirteen I remember the movie but I forgot he was in it.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
looks like Telly Savales to me.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon is that a young Telly Savalas?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Posting a picture of Telly Savallas with hair is next level difficulty.. :D
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon the actor from Kojac and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, I believe.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon That’s Kojak!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Telly Savalas. With hair!
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).
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Trying to get cute with the divine Diana Rigg in OHMSS -- even worse than Kojak !
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon looks like young william shattner. Headshot.
It's like looking in a mirror.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon bottom right is the no drama here girl
Is this really what we signed up for?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon however, don't underestimate a good 💩.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon i think that's it for the average person. everyone can't be remarkable.
Well, the "buy a house" is optional for the poor classes. "...pay an almost unaffordable rent, have kids and die" is more common.
@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.
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 😂😂😂😂
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 😆)
@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).
How do I get date N days ago in #openbsd ? date doesn't alow -v.
@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)
@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 "$(( $(date +%s) - 86400))"
@solene Hey, it works. Amazing and thank you!
@solene @mms That date(1) trick is useful as an alias/helper script - I have a yesterday script that I use in cronjobs that run on the 1st of every month to generate reports / invoices / etc for the previous month. Formatting is still allowed in the output:
date -f "%s" -j "$(( $(date +%s) - 86400))" +"%F"
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.'
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.
@angel era verdad y ya era una pena entonces que tuvieran una visión tan negativa. Así nos va :-)
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.
@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
Los hace aullar la lluvia como a perros,
de un lado hacen al otro su refugio,
los míseros profanos se revuelven.
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
@rl_dane @ddlyh @tomasino gopher doesn't have TLS, however, many clients now supports gopher over TLS
- https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-07-gopher-server-tls.html
- https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-07-haproxy-tls.html
Or many people put the gopher server behind a tor hidden services, this solves the encryption problem
- https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2018-10-11-tor-hidden-service.html
@hpj @cyberspelunker This is amazing!
@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.
It suddenly makes sense why shell scripts/bash is my favorite language. Its ugly, and functional, like me.
@da_667 Getting shit done since time immemorial
Thorough testing is important 🧐
@catsalad
WTF?! 🤣
@catsalad I say CG. *g*
@catsalad so 150mph is the sweet spot then
@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.
@catsalad this is a good video for people who speed in cars to see.
@catsalad that’s some darn good damage modeling tbh!
@catsalad Why is it making me laugh so much? 😅🤣
@catsalad @SleepyCatten Or, at least, thorough simulation is important.
@catsalad then why don't they make buses with the material they made that pole from?
@catsalad Were they testing the bus, or the bollard? Cos it held up pretty good.
@catsalad BRB, just buying up stock in bollard manufacturers
@catsalad @lisamelton I would love to know what software they’re using for this. I don’t think it’s #BeamNG.Drive even though that software is amazing.
@catsalad I'm not sure that's "thorough", it didn't get anywhere near c.
@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...
@catsalad as I get older... Could I please bounce like that? Feel like there'd be less pain overall
@catsalad When did Speed 3 come out?!
@catsalad clearly buses should go no faster than 200mph
@catsalad I love how they put ☠️ only around the 350mph mark.
@catsalad
I laughed when I saw 150 and said, “That could have been way worse.”
@catsalad a bit breezy up top I bet going 300 mph
@catsalad so the front top row ISN’T the best spot?
@catsalad I am very impressed by the strength of the telephone pole that stopped the speeding wreck.
@catsalad sub-optimal outcome at 350mph. That really did make me laugh.
It’s the post that impresses me most though
@catsalad It's my whole job 👍🏻 😁
@catsalad
What? No flaming meteor test?
@catsalad NOT IN SERVICE, indeed 😄
@catsalad Wow, that's a strong pole!
@catsalad
If anyone has a pc with enough processing power, head over to https://www.beamng.com/game/
Learn all about soft-body physics.
There is a Steam game available also.
@catsalad It took an embarassing long amount of time before I realised it was CGI
@catsalad Today I learned that 90mph is the optimal speed for my Human Catapult. Back to the drawing board.
@catsalad How was this done??
@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.
@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 #BC #Translink? It'd sure speed transit up.
@catsalad At 350 mph the passengers in the upper deck would have their skin peeling off from the wind.
@catsalad LOL i was wondering how fast it had to go before that happened....
@catsalad Half your body mass times the velocity SQUARED is the energy your body would "absorb" somehow... to stop. #respectthelawsofphysics #dothemath #consideryourspeed
@catsalad @lisamelton The best part of these is the little fire at the end. LOL.
@catsalad high speed bus 🤔
@catsalad A bus driving that fast does not exist. Fun animation.
@catsalad BeamNG? That physics engine looks familiar.
@catsalad hahahashahahah 25mph was my favorite
@catsalad Is that a game? What is the simulator called?
@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 
@catsalad I’ve been on that night bus
@catsalad
For science! I'd be curious to know the speed it takes so that there are no survivors.
It's official I'm not human
I feel more empathy for the crash dummies than the humans in movies and TV
@catsalad @pluralistic don’t put any obstacles in the road. Problem solved
@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
@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.
@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.
@catsalad There's someone somewhere being really really really upset about all the naked dummies. And nothing else.
@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
@catsalad @bicycletting The fact that they kept going after 110mph 😂
@catsalad disappointed that they didn't test all the way up to c.
@catsalad I keep seeing these, who the hell is making them?
@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.🤔
@catsalad Nice bit of CGI.
One problem - it doesn't look that real. Also, no bus can do more than about 75.
@catsalad Does the World Bollard Association know about this?
@catsalad
Fun fun fun on the autobahn!
Double-decker made by Lamborghini
@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
@catsalad someone somewhere thought all that was necessary. And had that many busses to destroy.
@catsalad I miss the World Bollard Association here on Mastodon.
#worldbollard
@catsalad 150mph was the best
@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?
#WorldBollardAssociation is still not on Mastodon!
@catsalad And the driver lived to tell about it
@catsalad I'm disappointed they didn't try it at 88 mph #backtothefuture
@catsalad
And only in the last one did it catch fire.
@catsalad Someone should get that road fixed after so many bus accidents. 🤣
@catsalad ahh I get it, the last one has 💀💀 because they die in that one, understood.
@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!
@catsalad The bus as software: First test = dev testing. Second and third tests = QA testing. All the rest are actual users.
@catsalad
Did the pole pass its test, or did the bus fail?
@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. 😆
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #ViernesDeVentanas
Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, Madrid
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
The scene in the country house where he has to fight and kill the police man in silence is pure suspense.
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.
@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)
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).
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.
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.
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' 🤦
I live in a country that was almost self-destroyed by fascists and people still vote for fascists.
Mi padre lo decía: "hay mucha gente que dice ser de izquierdas hasta que tiene algo en propiedad".
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
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)
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/cmxp66/2019_bypass_verizon_hotspot_throttle_no_root/
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.
Según ellos, en su época no existía ni el agua, tenían que recoger los átomos de hidrógeno y oxígeno y mezclarlos para poder lavarse.
Bobby Fingers did it again: another masterful video of craft, insanity, imagination and sadness. He also travels to Turkey for an "implant":
A reminder. Religion and traditions are just peer pressure from dead people who maybe have never even existed.
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.
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
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.
Los «Judías blancas guisadas en la olla de cocción lenta»
https://nutriguia.com/recetas/judias-blancas-guisadas-en-la-olla-de-coccion-lenta.html
Ningún creyente individual es responsableLas 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.
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
I remember this one. Wasn't it for MS Office, though?
CC: @catsalad@infosec.exchange @solimanhindy@mastodon.lovetux.net
YouTube giving you snotty adblocker errors? Use you Windows Phone!
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!! 
Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware
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 #snac source code or that just simply informed me of errors.
You're great, people ❤️
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.
Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at
The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.
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.
#OpenBSD 7.4 has been released. Congratulations to everybody involved.
Don't forget to read the guide before upgrading:
Probably, though I don't remember the details. I do remember the half-flexible leather cover you mentioned.
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.
sierra my beloved
In Spain, this movie is titled "El mensajero del miedo" ("The Messenger of Fear") for whatever reason
Pobresitos empresaurios, si al final hasta pierden dinero con tal de ayudarnos a llevar un peaso pan a nuestras torpes, parasitarias e inútiles bocas
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.
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
#RecomendacionesDeHumocefalo
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 #Filmin
La web es https://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.
In Spain, this movie is titled "Canción de cuna para un cadáver" ("Lullaby for a corpse") for some reason.
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.
“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
This is Ángel Ortega, crime and horror fiction writer and former systems programmer (on space, avionics and cryptography environments).
My first contact with a #UNIX system was on 1989 on a Sun Sparcstation 2 running #SunOS. I discovered #Linux 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 #OpenBSD (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.
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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