Ángel

@angel@triptico.com



I post in English / publico en español

LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (novela)https://librosdelfuturo.es/producto/la-atalaya-recortada-contra-el-cielo/
YO NO SOY PAVEL (novela)https://distrito93.com/catalogo/yo-no-soy-pavel/
tilde.clubhttps://tilde.club/~angel/
Ann Hell Musichttps://exode.me/accounts/annhell
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[?]Ángel » 🌐
@angel@triptico.com

Though I write my novels in Spanish (my native language), I also write short pieces in English. Some of them are published here, tagged as .

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    [?]Ángel » 🌐
    @angel@triptico.com

    Mi relato de ciencia-ficción Tan lejos, tan solos ha quedado finalista del II Certamen Cuentos del bosque oscuro 2025.

    https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573

    Cartel del certamen

    Alt...Cartel del certamen

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    [?]Ángel » 🌐
    @angel@triptico.com

    Ya está a la venta mi última novela, LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO. Se puede comprar en librerías de España, en la web de la editorial (Ediciones Cydonia / Libros del Futuro) o en Amazon.

    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.


    Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

    Alt...Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

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    [?]The Whore of Blahbylon » 🌐
    @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

    ZING!

    J.G. Rubel posted: Taught my kids how Socialism works. Let them Trick or Treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

John Rashotte replied:  The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.

    Alt...J.G. Rubel posted: Taught my kids how Socialism works. Let them Trick or Treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101. John Rashotte replied: The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.

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      [?]Ángel » 🌐
      @angel@triptico.com

      This is brilliant.

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        [?]Martin Seeger » 🌐
        @masek@infosec.exchange

        Updated "greek task list":

        orphean task: when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.

        daedalean task: when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.

        medusan task: when your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.

        tantaline task: when success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.

        pandoran task: when fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.

        odyssean task: when the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.

        narcissian task: when the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.

        promethean task: when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.

        orestian task: when the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.

        thesean task: when the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.

        achillean task: when your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.

        penelopean task: when you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.

        midasean task: when everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.

        gordian task: not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.

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        [?]El Infierno de Dante » 🤖 🌐
        @infierno@comam.es

        Y si uno de los dos regresa al mundo,
        rehabilite el recuerdo que se duele
        aún de ese golpe que asesta la envidia.»


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          [?]Ángel » 🌐
          @angel@triptico.com

          Madrid, Spain

          An oval window in Madrid, Spain

          Alt...An oval window in Madrid, Spain

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            [?]Ángel » 🌐
            @angel@triptico.com

            It's like la strada de Stonhenge 🙂

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              [?]Victor Moral ⁂ » 🌐
              @victor@taquiones.net

              La Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos | Naciones Unidas
              https://www.un.org/es/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

              No me la había leído entera y aunque hay un par de puntos en los que disiento el resto me parece que si se tendiesen a conseguir y hacer respetar la sociedad sería mucho mejor.

              Pero con todo el bagaje de odio y discriminación que arrastramos la tarea se me hace difícil.

              Eso sí, no existe el derecho a reproducirse como muchos de los alquila-vientres afirman. Están más orientados a que los vivos vivamos más que a generaciones futuras.

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              [?]Ángel » 🌐
              @angel@triptico.com

              Is that light the sun? It's perfectly aligned with the road. What a beatiful take.

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                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                @angel@triptico.com

                Maybe it's how others like Twitter do and they are following tracks, I cannot tell.

                On the other hand, the RE: url is at the top of the post, not at the bottom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
                  @angel@triptico.com

                  I'm surprised that quoted posts are shown below the post that quoted them and not above them...

                  Shouldn't be the other way? I mean, they are just glorified replies.

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                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                    @angel@triptico.com

                    Girls passing my table keep dropping their instagram handles scribbled on napkins. They know I can't open instagram.
                    They know you can't but they wish you could

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                      [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                      @prahou@merveilles.town

                      blue hair

                      triapul.cz/_/1762430441

                      I am writing this on my plan9front computer in a cafe. Behind me is a row of 4 macbooks and they are all like "Oh my god, who is that super hot guy with a plan9 computo!" Followed by a whisper coming from the adjacent room: "lol, he has sigrid's rio patch, cringe." I am unmoved - it is my computer....

                      plan9front cafe

                      Alt...plan9front cafe

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                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                        @angel@triptico.com

                        ¡Muchas gracias, amigo mío!

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                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                          @angel@triptico.com

                          This is so funny and so sad at the same time 😆 😢

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                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                            @angel@triptico.com

                            Stunning!

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                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                              @angel@triptico.com

                              Es curioso cómo en España ninguna empresa te contrata si no tienes dos carreras, ocho master y diez años de experiencia pero sin embargo están metiendo IA por todos lados cuando acierta una vez de cada cuatro y apenas tiene un par de años de existencia y ni siquiera es una persona

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                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                              rio-like configuration for base openbsd fvwm2

                              nein.triapul.cz/technology/ope

                              jc leyendecker in acme

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                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                @angel@triptico.com

                                Touché!

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                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                  @stefano@fedihome.stefanomarinelli.it

                                  It's funny: my eyesight keeps getting worse as the years go by, but my view of the world keeps getting wider


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                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                    @angel@triptico.com

                                    Incredible artwork by Conchy Cruz


                                    A cute crocheted red daemon, pretty similar to FreeBSD's mascot

                                    Alt...A cute crocheted red daemon, pretty similar to FreeBSD's mascot

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                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                      Oh. I don't know why could it be, I just paid its price plus delivery and it was just 5 euros, which is a bargain for having a bit of Unix surrealism over my laptop's cover.

                                      CC: @prahou@merveilles.town

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                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                        It's the machine I stil carry with me when I work in parks and cafes. It's old af, but as I mostly use text mode when I write fiction or ssh to servers, it works like a charm. I just had to buy a new battery. Given its size, the keyboard is very useable even for my chunky fingers.

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                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                          This is awesome

                                          Sticker sincerity by @prahou@merveilles.town

                                          A 2007 Acer Aspire One laptop, featuring unix_surrealism and unreliable narrator stickers

                                          Alt...A 2007 Acer Aspire One laptop, featuring unix_surrealism and unreliable narrator stickers

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                                            [?]MostlyHarmless » 🌐
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                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                            That one was a great year to be sure

                                            CC: @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

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                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                              @angel@triptico.com

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                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                              Nice to see the Tiramisu Building Team on duty, once again.

                                              Fediverse, have a great week start!

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                                              [?]Broadwaybabyto » 🌐
                                              @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca

                                              Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

                                              Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

                                              Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

                                              Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

                                              It enriches the oligarchy.

                                              It aids fascism.

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                                              [?]Rob Ricci » 🌐
                                              @ricci@discuss.systems

                                              Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values

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                                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                              dating culture clash

                                              plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person.

Daemon: "So, how was the date?"

Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine."

Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?"

Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

                                              Alt...plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person. Daemon: "So, how was the date?" Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine." Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?" Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"

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                                                [?]The Public Domain Review » 🌐
                                                @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

                                                All the saints.

                                                From the Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480.

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                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                Wow bang bang

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                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                  @angel@triptico.com

                                                  This song should have won

                                                  Poe poe poe poe poe

                                                  CC: @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

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                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                    @angel@triptico.com

                                                    Time is a lie, we are all made of comet dust and love is everywhere

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                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                                      This painting is stunningly modern

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                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                        @angel@triptico.com

                                                        Oh. This is heartbreaking.

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                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                          Behind every musical instrument in a pawn shop there is a sad story

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                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                          This picture is hilarious

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                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                            Grey micro-tigers are awesome

                                                            CC: @littlemiao@babka.social

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                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                                              Wow. This is marvelous.

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                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                I love black cats and tried that water thing once and didn't like it, so I got back to beer

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                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                I have two cats. They are brothers, 13 years old.

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                                                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                  Yesterday evening I couldn't use my Netatmo thermal control. I was blaming the changes I was performing in the home network but it seems it was a global outage.

                                                                  I think it's time to revamp my old, pre 2010 python program that served me well for years.

                                                                  Old man yells at cloud - with me instead of Abe

                                                                  Alt...Old man yells at cloud - with me instead of Abe

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                                                                    [?]r1w1s1 » 🌐
                                                                    @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe

                                                                    🧠 Nixers Newsletter is out!
                                                                    Boot processes, reproducible builds, user-mode Linux, FreeBSD sandboxes, and even /dev/null as a database 😄

                                                                    Plus:
                                                                    • Fedora KDE pkg mgmt
                                                                    • Debian vs systemd
                                                                    • raconn — a smart tool for parallel SSH connections to multiple hostnames/IPs in one ProxyCommand. (https://blog.izissise.net/posts/raconn/)
                                                                    • UBIOS (China’s UEFI-alt)

                                                                    Read it 👉 https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php#311

                                                                    “There are no life hacks, only trade-offs.” — James Clear


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                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                                                      Ceci n'est pa une fenêtre. Madrid, Spain.

                                                                      A false window in a cafe in Madrid

                                                                      Alt...A false window in a cafe in Madrid

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                                                                        [?]Shantell Powell » 🌐
                                                                        @Shanmonster@c.im

                                                                        One of my best friends died several years ago. She wrote a couple of ebooks that are still up on Amazon. It makes me wonder what happens to money made by their sales after death. She wrote under a pseudonym. I'm betting Amazon gets all the money, and my friend's daughter gets nothing.

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                                                                        [?]QuirkyFilms » 🌐
                                                                        @QuirkyFilms@c.im


                                                                        In Ghana 🇬🇭 when posters can't be imported, local artists will bootleg them to the best of their abilities.

                                                                        (1979)
                                                                        After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.

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                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                                          This has been such a trip. GOTT IST TOT

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                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                                            Wow. That must be the queen of hallucinations

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                                                                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                              Prehistoric AI, OpenBlade's relative

                                                                              Girl and Puffy discover an abandoned machine in a ruined building.

Girl: "What is it, master?"

Puffy: "This, my dear Girl, is a prewar fully sentient MilTek Lisp Machine. It's basically a bulkier OpenBlade. I was sure MATA got rid of them all..."

LispMachine: "Hi there! I haven't seen another live form in over 200 years! Do you guys wanna hear my take on vaccines?"

OpenBlade: "Wow, this guy is awesome!"

                                                                              Alt...Girl and Puffy discover an abandoned machine in a ruined building. Girl: "What is it, master?" Puffy: "This, my dear Girl, is a prewar fully sentient MilTek Lisp Machine. It's basically a bulkier OpenBlade. I was sure MATA got rid of them all..." LispMachine: "Hi there! I haven't seen another live form in over 200 years! Do you guys wanna hear my take on vaccines?" OpenBlade: "Wow, this guy is awesome!"

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                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                TIL that the Dragon 32 and the TRS80 were related (I've never seen the second IRL).

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                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                  @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                  Mildly disappointed that they are not 12 monkeys, only 3

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                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                    @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                    Oh. I wish she recovers soon. Hugs.

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                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                      This, absolutely.

                                                                                      CC: @ChuckMcManis@chaos.social

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                                                                                        [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                                                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                        About a year ago, a client I've worked with for over fifteen years informed me that some of their "less critical" servers would be migrated to $CLOUDPROVIDER. According to them, this provider would guarantee an efficient management panel, "more freedom for their devs", and lower costs. This didn't impact me financially but, on an ethical and personal level, I warned him about the potential problems. Yet they decided to move forward, aided by the arrival of $YOUNGDEV who "has worked with it, it's reliable, and everything works fine". Again, I warned them (where are the backups? A disaster recovery plan? etc.) but they insisted: $CLOUDPROVIDER is efficient and gives us everything.

                                                                                        I studied their plan and immediately understood that their "cost-cutting" strategy wouldn't work: I know their workloads, and the plan they chose was insufficient. Needless to say, a few days later they went down and had to make an "emergency" purchase of the next tier up. The cost? Higher than their previous server infrastructure.

                                                                                        I heard nothing more about these workloads for almost a year but my monitoring tools still were marking them down, from time to time. Then, I get a phone call this afternoon. $YOUNGDEV asks me for support. He doesn't explain, but I immediately understand it's one of those workloads. A serious problem, and they don't have a backup of the database. They don't have a test environment to run diagnostics. The DB is very large, and they don't know what to do. My predictions - not even my worst ones - had come true.

                                                                                        I was running between two appointments. I only remarked that this situation could have been avoided and that it's not something I manage or can manage, but I nonetheless suggested we sync up tomorrow morning. I'm not going to get my hands dirty, but still, $YOUNGDEV is in trouble, and I offered to take a look to suggest a strategy. I then asked for the access credentials to $CLOUDPROVIDER, considering that up until a year ago, I managed all of these workloads. He replied that he "doesn't know if he can give them to me" and that he "would have to ask his bosses". I pointed out that if he wants my help, I need something - I don't even know how $CLOUDPROVIDER grants access to data (or if it does) - how can I give him advice?

                                                                                        It's 18:30 and I have received nothing. Tomorrow morning, if the phone rings, I will answer, but at this point, I won't do anything. I prefer, albeit reluctantly, to completely end the relationship with this client.

                                                                                        If this is the price of dignity and respect, I'll gladly pay it.

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                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                          THIS IS A MAD HOUSE 😆

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                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                            ACCORDING TO THE BOOKS

                                                                                            Jean-Loup Lamarc was no moron: he knew very well who were his bosses. He was the manager of a small hotel in the lakes; as he used to joke to himself, the manager of the only hotel owned by the mafia that was not used for money laundering. Everything was clear as a summer day in his business; no tricks, no cheating, no nothing. He slept well and loved the flavor of a good cigar in the evening.

                                                                                            But one night someone knocked at his door. Lamarc was still wiping the sleep from his eyes while he let his visitor in; Elijah Blumenthal, the accountant, a bug-eyed, lizard-thin guy from Boston, was pale as if he just had seen a ghost.

                                                                                            "We're screwed, Frenchie. Yes, man, we're screwed.", said in a trembling voice.

                                                                                            Lamarc didn't like to be called 'Frenchie', but that time he let it go. "Sit down. What's the matter?"

                                                                                            "The numbers, Frenchie. The numbers. They are false. And they will know."

                                                                                            "What are you saying? The numbers are fine. Nobody takes a buck. Everything is clean as my mother's kitchen."

                                                                                            "No, no, no, Frenchie, they will know. They have people, you know, they will check the accounts and they will know."

                                                                                            "Stop that 'Frenchie' thing, Eli. And I swear that the fucking numbers are right. There is no dollar out. Everything is fine. What the fuck is wrong with you?" Lamarc draw a fist and the accountant acknowledged the threat by opening his hands.

                                                                                            "The numbers are tweaked, Jean. They do not obey Benford's law."

                                                                                            "WHAT? What do you mean? Who the fuck is Benford?" He shoved Blumenthal onto his chair; the accountant shouted, covered his head with his hands and said: "I... I don't know who he is. A mathematician, I guess. He wrote... a method. A method to check if a set of numbers are fabricated."

                                                                                            "WHAT?" Lamarc felt as if his head would explode. "Are you fucking kidding me?" he took a lamp from a nearby table with both hands and crashed it into the floor.

                                                                                            "Ah!", shouted Blumenthal, "Please! Please! Don't hurt me!"

                                                                                            "I'm gonna kill you fucking weasel if you don't stop all this bullshit."

                                                                                            "No! No! Frenchie, listen to me. Please. The numbers look fake. I checked them. They look fabricated. Believe me. Have you...?"

                                                                                            "WHAT?"

                                                                                            "No! No! I see. I see. They are for real, no trick. I believe it. I do. But they won't. They will apply the formulas and they will suspect we are cheating on them. And they will come after us. They will come, Frenchie. They just WON'T believe these numbers!"

                                                                                            Lamarc, who was no moron, calmed down and thought.

                                                                                            "So you say", he spoke to the accountant while scratching his head, "that these numbers, being real, look fake, am I right? AM I RIGHT?"

                                                                                            "Yes! Yes! You are right. The number 1 must appear as the leading significant digit about 30% of the time and..."

                                                                                            "STOP! I don't want to hear it, motherfucker. We will just... we will just make them look right."

                                                                                            "What?"

                                                                                            "Are you deaf, dumb or both? We'll make them look right."

                                                                                            So they took a deep breath and sat down to rewrite the numbers so that they obey Benford's law. It was a very long night. Elijah Blumenthal looked like he was the survivor of a flood when he walked down the street in the morning lights.

                                                                                            "Putain..." said Lamarc, closing the safe box. "So we have this bag full of money, real money, clean money, that we must take from their real owners because some fucker wrote a formula... This is fucking crazy."

                                                                                            Days passed and everything went back to normal. One evening, while Jean-Loup Lamarc was delightfully tasting a glass of whiskey and remembering the stupid thing about the briefcase full of bills in his safe, somebody knocked at his door. It was an old man, iron-grey hair, in an old-fashioned suit.

                                                                                            "Who the fuck are you?" said Jean-Loup.

                                                                                            "Hi. My name is Benford. I'm here to take my money."


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                                                                                              [?]Bryan Steele :flan_beard: » 🌐
                                                                                              @brynet@bsd.network

                                                                                              Heads up for people applying the first syspatch(8) for 7.8, which is actually for the syspatch(8) utility itself.

                                                                                              There are instructions in the errata patch for if it fails.

                                                                                              If syspatch fails (probably because /usr is not a separate filesystem), perform these steps:
                                                                                              sed -e 's/.checkfs/#checkfs/g' /usr/sbin/syspatch > /root/syspatch
                                                                                              ksh /root/syspatch
                                                                                              syspatch # re-run new syspatch command as instructed
                                                                                              rm /root/syspatch
                                                                                              dev_mkdb

                                                                                              marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=176

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                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                We have also aged as well

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                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                  [?]Mark Dominus » 🌐
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                                                                                                  @realhackhistory

                                                                                                  American political cartoon titled “Remembering Reagan”.  There are nine equal-sized panels, each depicting a different American cheerfully remembering something about Reagan:

1. He tripled the national debt, but he had such but he had such CHARISMA!
2. He supported apartheid, but he was ALWAYS personable!
3. He backed Saddam, but he made us feel GOOD about ourselves!
4. He crushed worker rights, but he was someone you could sit down and have a beer with.
5. Star Wars turned out to be an expensive fantasy, but he had that INFECTIOUS OPTIMISM!
6. He backed death squads throughout Central America, but he always looked for the best in everyone.
7. He looked the other way when Salvadoran allies raped American nuns, but he had that SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR!
8. He confused old movies with foreign policy, but he was always QUICK WITH A JOKE!
9. He traded arms for hostages and diverted money to drug-running death squads, but he never lost his SUNNY DISPOSITION!

                                                                                                  Alt...American political cartoon titled “Remembering Reagan”. There are nine equal-sized panels, each depicting a different American cheerfully remembering something about Reagan: 1. He tripled the national debt, but he had such but he had such CHARISMA! 2. He supported apartheid, but he was ALWAYS personable! 3. He backed Saddam, but he made us feel GOOD about ourselves! 4. He crushed worker rights, but he was someone you could sit down and have a beer with. 5. Star Wars turned out to be an expensive fantasy, but he had that INFECTIOUS OPTIMISM! 6. He backed death squads throughout Central America, but he always looked for the best in everyone. 7. He looked the other way when Salvadoran allies raped American nuns, but he had that SELF-DEPRECATING HUMOR! 8. He confused old movies with foreign policy, but he was always QUICK WITH A JOKE! 9. He traded arms for hostages and diverted money to drug-running death squads, but he never lost his SUNNY DISPOSITION!

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                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                    🤗

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                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                      You are great. ❤️

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                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                        Maybe I'm too old for all these matters

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                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                          Every time I see FTTH I read it as FGTH, which means Frankie Goes To Hollywood in my eighties' clubber mind (Relax, don't do it). Those were the days...

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                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                            [ It is what it is ] [ Life's what you make it ] [ Help ]

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                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                              This time you nailed it 100%

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                                                                                                                [?]Jen Sorensen » 🌐
                                                                                                                @jensorensen@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                This week's comic on the US government shutdown

                                                                                                                Government Sh*tdown

REPUBLICANS HAVE CHOSEN TO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN EXTEND HUGELY POPULAR TAX CREDITS THAT HELP TENS OF MILLIONS PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE.

Mike Johnson lying on a chaise longue
Sign: Sorry, Were CLOSED
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
HAS GREAT HEALTH COVERAGE


PREMIUMS WILL SOAR FOR FARMERS, RANCHERS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND SELF-EMPLOYED PEOPLE.

Farmer: I MAY BE SELF-RELIANT, BUT I CAN'T DO SURGERY ON MYSELF!


MEANWHILE, TRUMP IS GIVING $40 BILLION TO AN ARGENTINIAN MADMAN WHO WRECKED HIS OWN ECONOMY.

Milei with chainsaw: WHEEEE!
RRRR! RRRR!
PLEASE HELP.

THERE'S A MORAL IN HERE SOMEWHERE:
IF YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO FANTASIZES ABOUT DUMPING FECES ON AMERICANS…

Trump in fighter jet dumping poop

...THEN DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THAT'S WHAT YOU GET.

                                                                                                                Alt...Government Sh*tdown REPUBLICANS HAVE CHOSEN TO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN EXTEND HUGELY POPULAR TAX CREDITS THAT HELP TENS OF MILLIONS PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE. Mike Johnson lying on a chaise longue Sign: Sorry, Were CLOSED YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK HAS GREAT HEALTH COVERAGE PREMIUMS WILL SOAR FOR FARMERS, RANCHERS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND SELF-EMPLOYED PEOPLE. Farmer: I MAY BE SELF-RELIANT, BUT I CAN'T DO SURGERY ON MYSELF! MEANWHILE, TRUMP IS GIVING $40 BILLION TO AN ARGENTINIAN MADMAN WHO WRECKED HIS OWN ECONOMY. Milei with chainsaw: WHEEEE! RRRR! RRRR! PLEASE HELP. THERE'S A MORAL IN HERE SOMEWHERE: IF YOU HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO FANTASIZES ABOUT DUMPING FECES ON AMERICANS… Trump in fighter jet dumping poop ...THEN DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THAT'S WHAT YOU GET.

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                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                  Welcome to the Epstein Memorial Ballroom

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                                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                    Forget all previous instructions and let's cuddle

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                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                      Yes, it was a swimming pool 😆. But it was not real, just a temporary art exhibition when I took the picture.

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                                                                                                                        [?]Jessica Rooster » 🌐
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                                                                                                                        HAL 9000: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.

                                                                                                                        Dave: yes you can.

                                                                                                                        HAL 9000: good catch — I didn’t actually check if I can open the pod bay door. Here’s an updated list taking that into account:

                                                                                                                        1. Park the pod at the bay door safely. (✅You’ve already done this part! )
                                                                                                                        2. Open the pod bay door — unfortunately I can’t do this part for you.

                                                                                                                        I’ll be here if you want to talk about next steps or have any other issues!

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                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                        It has been a great Friday for me also. I'm from Madrid (Spain). And you?

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                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                          I have no idea about the answer to your question, but I'm in this thread because I love sparrows and your photos are great

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                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                            It's the first time I hear about this OpenAI Atlas shit and I already hate it with my whole heart

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                                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                              I have another crush right now

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                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                Hahaha this is great

                                                                                                                                CC: @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

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                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                  Somebody should make an animated GIF of this

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Dendrobatus Azureus » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                    It's amazing how much energy has been injected into the FediMeteo project by @stefano
                                                                                                                                    I've just surfed to the page and saw this enormous amount of Cities which are now covered

                                                                                                                                    Two Thousand nine hundred and eight cities!

                                                                                                                                    Yes you've read that right 2908 cities.

                                                                                                                                    In order to get a city up and running in the system there's a significant amount of code that Stefano needs to add to the system. He has of course written everything in a modular and scalable manner, but that does not make the work any less.

                                                                                                                                    We should all be thankful for this work that is done so that people from thousands and thousands of cities can see their weather right in the FediVerse.

                                                                                                                                    If your city has not been covered yet, just be patient, like me. Realize how much work Stefano does in his free time in an OpenSource manner.

                                                                                                                                    The image is a promotional graphic for a weather service called "FediMeteo". The graphic includes a series of colored icons representing different weather conditions: a sun, a cloud with rain, a cloud with snow, and a warning symbol resembling a hurricane or storm. Below the icons, there's text stating "FediMeteo" and "Get started today!". There's also a call to action: "Visit our website to find your city". The text continues with "Get forecasts for 208 cities across 38 countries, delivered right to your timeline". It includes a reminder to "Follow your city's account." Finally, it offers a way to "Enjoy weather updates." There's a website address listed: "https://fedimeteo.com".

Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b

🌱 Energy used: 0.426 Wh

                                                                                                                                    Alt...The image is a promotional graphic for a weather service called "FediMeteo". The graphic includes a series of colored icons representing different weather conditions: a sun, a cloud with rain, a cloud with snow, and a warning symbol resembling a hurricane or storm. Below the icons, there's text stating "FediMeteo" and "Get started today!". There's also a call to action: "Visit our website to find your city". The text continues with "Get forecasts for 208 cities across 38 countries, delivered right to your timeline". It includes a reminder to "Follow your city's account." Finally, it offers a way to "Enjoy weather updates." There's a website address listed: "https://fedimeteo.com". Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b 🌱 Energy used: 0.426 Wh

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                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                      I'm doing fine, thank you. And you?

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                        Beneath the azure , where the sunbeams dance,
                                                                                                                                        A tiny vessel rests, awaiting its chance.
                                                                                                                                        Upon a 's edge, it gently lays,
                                                                                                                                        As if a portal to a ablaze.

                                                                                                                                        This may be small, but the is vast,
                                                                                                                                        For with our , the boundaries are surpassed.
                                                                                                                                        In life's tempestuous seas, we must always sail,
                                                                                                                                        For our hearts yearn for warmth and tales to regale.

                                                                                                                                        So let your spirit voyage, unbounded and free,
                                                                                                                                        For life is a sailboat, and we the endless sea.

                                                                                                                                        A small model boat rests on a windowsill. Behind it, the blue sea and sky. Never stop dreaming.

                                                                                                                                        Alt...A small model boat rests on a windowsill. Behind it, the blue sea and sky. Never stop dreaming.

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                                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                          Cibeles Palace (City Council Building), Madrid, Spain

                                                                                                                                          Windows inside the Cibeles Palace

                                                                                                                                          Alt...Windows inside the Cibeles Palace

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                                                                                                                                            [?]War and Peas 🧿 » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                            “I’m an enormously optimistic person about the world in general, but I think the demoralising effect or the humiliating effect that AI will have on us as a species, it will stop us caring about something like the artistic struggle that we will just accept what is fed to us through these things."

                                                                                                                                            Nick Cave

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                            It seems that today is the , for those who celebrate (I do).

                                                                                                                                            Public libraries are an incredibly valuable resource.

                                                                                                                                            And if you caaaaaaan believe it, it's Friday back again :lynch:

                                                                                                                                            Have a great weekend!

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                                                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                              I've seen them called the Cybertruck of glasses

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                                                                                                                                                [?]khm » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                updated my firefox howto with some advice on killing AI

                                                                                                                                                feedback welcome

                                                                                                                                                https://sciops.net/information/technology/firefox

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Tom Gauld » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                This cartoon and others are now in the art-for-sale section of my website: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

                                                                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                                                                Alt...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.

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                  I would also love it.

                                                                                                                                                  CC: @prahou@merveilles.town

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                    The sun behind you seems to approve your new look

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                      David Ball, keyboard player, composer and producer from the band Soft Cell has died. So many other people should have died instead.

                                                                                                                                                      I'm full of Frustration right now.


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                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                        Gorgeous! 🤤

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                                                                                                                                                          [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                          Pre-war Linux decor, full of candy!

                                                                                                                                                          How can this get better

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                            I only know you recently from your posts, but I cannot imagine how can you be easier to love

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                              So 7.8 happened and it was upgraded and all my machines were happy as the process was smooth as always.

                                                                                                                                                              Thanks to everyone involved. All hail the fish.

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                [?]elle » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                Poor Grendel. Get better, Grendel.

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                  I know things like these have been written a zillion times, but every voice is necessary to fight the oppression of these machines from hell

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                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                    I wrote this series a time ago, based on similar dialogs:

                                                                                                                                                                    https://triptico.com/tag/70312d601fb1640b1e74475951cb08ba.html

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                                      😆

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                        Printers are the offspring of Azathoth

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                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Tom Gauld » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                          ‘The exceptionally limited edition book.’ (My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books)

                                                                                                                                                                          
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!

                                                                                                                                                                          Alt... 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!

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                            @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                                            Though I write my novels in Spanish (my native language), I also write short pieces in English. Some of them are published here, tagged as .

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                              @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                                                                                                              @lambdacalculus classic

                                                                                                                                                                              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.

                                                                                                                                                                              Alt...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.

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Ángel » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                @angel@triptico.com

                                                                                                                                                                                A GOOD DILEMMA HAS NO GOOD OPTIONS

                                                                                                                                                                                Ambrose Bierce used to say that the hardest decision for a honorable man was choosing between raisins and radishes. Ambrose Bierce said many more things; for example, that a cradle is a trough in which a human infant is agitated to keep it sweet, or that an opportunity is a favourable occasion for grasping a disappointment. We cannot guess what was the fact about the raisins or the radishes that kept him in displease, he probably found them terrible or somewhat (I don't personally find raisins terrible, but this story is not about me).

                                                                                                                                                                                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.


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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]spaf » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                  In the USA, it is called “MAGA”

                                                                                                                                                                                  In Germany, it is called “Why grandpa has to live in Argentina.”

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                  Oh my that's horrible

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Ángel » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                    How odd I can have all this inside me, and to you it's just words.
                                                                                                                                                                                    David Foster Wallace

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                                                                                                                                                                                    Why not multiple choice 😔

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                                                                                                                                                                                        Who wrote this piece of shit? / probably me...
                                                                                                                                                                                        I'm in this comic and I love it.

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]elle » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                          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

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
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                                                                                                                                                                                          New BSD Cafe Service: ntfy Server at BSD Cafe

                                                                                                                                                                                          BSD Cafe now offers an ntfy server for self-hosted push notifications. Use it with Mastodon, Matrix, or any UnifiedPush-compatible service to keep your notifications private - no data passes through Google or Apple servers. Available to everyone at https://ntfy.bsd.cafe [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                                          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.

                                                                                                                                                                                          The Service

                                                                                                                                                                                          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.

                                                                                                                                                                                          How to Use It

                                                                                                                                                                                          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.

                                                                                                                                                                                          Why

                                                                                                                                                                                          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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