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Went through some old notebooks yesterday and found these old sketches I did for what later became a small uxn zine.
#ocular #theGallery
https://ocular.nchrs.xyz/feed.html#261008_DSCF7784.jpg

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An open notebook on a table showing sketches and illustrations explaining how to programin uxn tal

I was given one of these little Xte Ink readers a few months back. I put some books on it and carried it around, and I tried to like it, the way I tried to like my Pinebook. I have something against electronics rotting in drawers, so I kept trying, despite the feeling that the people behind it did not care for it one bit.

Unlike the Pinebook, it's well built; it only needed a not-terrible operating system. I've jumped through these hoops before, and it's no different from working on any other embedded platform, except that this time I only had to write the thinnest Varvara emulator I could get away with, and only ever flash the device for critical changes.

Since the firmware is just a ROM, I wrote and debugged it all in Uxn11. The device emulator only had to pass the tests, and once it did, whatever I ran on my laptop ran on the device. The result is a document viewer that works equally well on everything with an emulator!

I'm not sure exactly where this device fits in my life right now, but it will help with one thing: bringing tickets and QR codes to events, which is always a headache for me without a smartphone or a printer. I might as well have something to read on the way there.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now.html

que ella votaría lo que le saliese del coño

• La publicará Planeta (¡Qué me dices!)
• Tendrá menos de 7291 páginas.

Whooooo, I received a new fax :D

https://datakra.sh/fax

Released a firmware for the XTE INK 4, it displays text and draws pictures, and wait for it, it remembers your page. That's it, there's no other features.

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/xte_ink
#uxn

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The XTE INK 4 with a wallpaper, a few files, the battery status.

How to use dithered brushes (screentones) in GIMP (and have it behave like it would in traditional monochrome drawing programs)

https://triapul.cz/automa/gimp_dither

#gimp #tutorial #monochrome @GIMP #linux #art

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GIMP Dither Brush

If you’re looking for external validation in your life, just Stop.

This is a trap. Better is a few close friends, and seek joy and contentment.

Let's make ugly things.

@angel This movement is part of the greater FuckAI Movement I'm already part of.

#FuckAI #FuckOffAIMusic #FuckOffClankers #Clanker #NoAI #AI #KI #IA #GenAI #LLM #BigTech

#FuckAI #NeverSlop

From FB:
Just heard someone call a Cybertruck a “Klanborghini.”
Well, fuck. That’s its name now.

Art by @j-g00da@donotsta.re

🥰

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A photo of Entropy's Rotoscope, issue I

Y digo normal porque si les fuese algo bien económicamente no tendrían necesidad de estas mezquindades. Pero no, no les va bien.

[...] the story of the first bug.

MAN / MACHINE INTERFACES

Back in the days, I worked for a small company that built EGSEs (short for Electric Ground Support Equipment) for civil and military satellites built by Airbus, Thales Alenia, Leonardo and others. The hardware was designed by my boss, a bitter and harsh but incredibly brilliant man, and I was responsible for the software interfaces, networking and remote control systems. Basically, we built human-height racks full to the top with COTS transponders, multimeters, power supplies, RF connectors, etc, and custom-built small Linux systems that coordinated the hardware; on the other side, this monster was commanded from a GUI in a standard laptop or desktop computer, that also provided connections to other Central Checkout / Command Control systems, test procedure scripting, and such. Also, our EGSEs used to have a small touchscreen where you could do very basic things like switching attenuators on / off, switching power supplies on / off, and commanding simple things to them like setting current, voltage, PWM, etc. I designed these small screens with the FLTK (Fast Light Toolkit), which was simple and appropriate for this very small systems.

One day, on an extremely hot summer (what the fuck, this is Spain, all summers are extremely hot), I went from my remote desktop to where my boss was working near the rack, and then he said:

"Please stop fucking around with the remote control system while I'm calibrating the power supplies".

"What? I did no such thing. I was [...whatever I was doing, I don't remember what]"

"Please. I was working when I heard the CLACK of the power supply switching off. I saw the logs and it was software-triggered."

"Maybe a temperature threshold, it's hot as fuck here."

"No. Software-triggered."

"Oh, sorry, then. Maybe I broke something, I'll go check my code."

Next day, I was already there by the rack with my boss. We were discussing something, and then we both heard the CLACK of the power supply going off again.

"Holy fucking Christ", said by boss.

"The remote control is disabled right now, the desktop is not even running, so I'm not to blame", said I, slightly relieved.

There was much swearing, as we were, as always, over the project deadline.

My boss then said:

"Whatever, our client has requested some more information in the rack's screen. I've sent you an email with the details."

I moved to my desktop, checked my email, and there was no message from my boss. I emailed the client and, yes, they wanted some more telemetries to be shown in the already crammed space. So I rewrote the small touchscreen main dialog (FLTK tools are cumbersome but effective), rebuilt and deployed it.

I moved to the rack. The air conditioning was buzzing like a small hurricane, the room hot as an oven. I checked how the mini-screen looked (sometimes, what was shown in the development machine didn't always match the real one): everything was OK, the new temperature telemetries were correctly shown near the power supply on-screen buttons.

Also, there was a fly over the screen. Then I joked to my boss:

"Oh, you must look at what I have done: I put a pretty, hyperreal bitmap of a fly on the man / machine interface, come look at it".

The fly moved a little, and then stepped over the power supply OFF touch-screen button.

CLACK

#ShortFiction #RealNotFiction

https://theconversation.com/este-ano-gratis-cuando-cesar-intento-resolver-el-problema-de-los-alquileres-293157

Every software project should have a page like this: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

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Spam / phishing is getting to levels never seen before. Last week I've received a bunch of emails from fake literary agents trying to contact me (yeah, sure, as if literary agents unsolicitedly contacted authors, and not the reverse). For example, the following one: it's in English, supposedly signed by an existent, real USA-based literary agent, about one my novels, written in Spanish, already published by spanish publisher. It's disquieting, because it gives a shallow analysis of the text, written for sure by an AI (so, yes, somehow my novel has been fed to these infernal machines):

I hope you're doing well.

I wanted to reach out because La atalaya recortada contra el cielo caught my attention for the way it seems to make horror feel deeply connected to memory, loss, and the weight of family history.

What particularly interested me about Bran is that she doesn't simply inherit a house she seems to inherit a history she has spent much of her life trying to distance herself from. The scar, the losses within her family, and her withdrawn nature give the house a significance beyond being a frightening setting. As she moves deeper into it, the physical darkness appears to become intertwined with something much more personal.

I also found the atmosphere of the story intriguing. The decay, isolation, confined spaces, tunnels, and strange imagery create a form of horror that relies as much on unease and anticipation as on the supernatural itself.

There’s also something interesting about setting such a psychologically dark story within a distinctly Spanish environment while exploring experiences that feel much more universal grief, inheritance, family secrets, isolation, and confronting the past.

I'd be interested to hear where your writing is taking you now.

What is the current project you're working on, how is it going so far, and what are you most looking forward to as it develops?

And do you currently have an active literary agent representing you?

There’s no need to send a manuscript or proposal at this stage. I’d simply enjoy hearing about what you're working on and what you're looking forward to next.

Best regards,
XXXXX

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/09/28/smartos-the-illumos-way-of-thinking-about-servers/

#ITNotes #NoteHUB #hosting #illumos #ownyourdata #server #smartos #tutorial #zones

But the hyperactive aerogenerator animation is funny!

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The great Ángel Ortega - @angel - sent me this wonderful BSD Cafe logo, and from now on it will represent this instance.

The old logo won't disappear, of course. It will still be used elsewhere, but this one is sooo cute!

Thank you, Ángel! ❤️

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeLogo #BSDCafeServices

Gonzalo Apolonio López-Van Dam Monsalve

LLMs are fascist technology.

Note that I didn't say "cloud-hosted LLMs" or "LLMs that aren't local-only" or some other qualifier. I did not, in fact, stutter.

This, from the European Correspondent, is a very good way of showing that even though they fill a lot of the media time, the far right are very far from the majority in any country (possible exceptions are Poland Hungary), the main question then is how to ensure the majority views are better represented.
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/going-far-right

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A poster titled going far right where multiple boxes each representing one European country has purple shading showing the proportion of voters who voted for far right parties. Only two get even close to having 40% of the box filled with purple. Most are much much lower

pls boost if you were cyberbullied today by the developers of some firefox fork, or if you follow @catsalad

#sephora #links2gang #unix_surrealism

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when you just got back from Sephora and he starts yapping about his policies.json from sciops.net/information/technology/firefox "it's no links2, but it'll do."

¿No tiene la típica pila que le puedas quitar durante un rato y que la memoria CMOS (o lo que lleve) se borre?

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there's one person on fedi who HATES AI more than everyone else.

please boost.

i am ready to start providing email addresses to the community.

you may have 1GB mail box storage capacity free of charge.

the system-wide code of conduct is at:

https://solarpunk.au/

if you are interested in a non-free account, please click here:

https://ko-fi.com/comradevidak/tiers

the lowest membership tiers:

- $1.25 per month (2GB storage capacity)
- $15 per year (2GB storage capacity)

#selfhosting #server #email #permacomputing #solarpunk

Ori Bernstein is porting GEFS, the crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write filesystem originally written for 9front, to OpenBSD.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2

#openbsd #bsd

New one

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Painting of a google captcha grid with an image of a Palestinian child searching for water among the ruins of Gaza, the text at the top says 'Select all squares with ENEMY COMBATANTS Click verify once there are none left"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4R2nHgfFts

PRO-RED CHARGED IN ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY

#content_review #art #fediart #mastoart #inktober

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Funhole Content Review [you will fuck computers and you will like it] ART [you can just walk away] Is it really possible to draw? Experts say no, but it can be faked with practice. If machines could paint, they would kill themselves. How to become an artist? 1. say you are one STOP! Before you start you must familiarize yourself with creative commons licenses and write a manifesto! Inktober is not a a real month. -Jackson Pollock sucks. I could do that. - Careful what you wish for. There is no such thing as talent. IS THIS SOLARPUNK? 5 million instagram art accounts to follow to make yourself feel miserable! Robert E. Howard's suicide note is in the public domain! You can use it for free! All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre; the feast is over and the lamps expire.

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La bazofia (que es lo que generan las IAs) es algo que parece comida y que puede saber remotamente a comida, pero que en realidad es perjudicial y hasta tóxico.

@angel it's pretty hard when they're this cute

#neverslop #ai #noai #DoUglyThings #artwork

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A doodle by Ángel Ortega depicting Boro The Robot saying robot things and being a sycophant as AIs do

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