Ángel
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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.
Dear friends of #BSDCafe - the BSD Cafe Journal needs some attention.
This isn't the best time for me to revive it myself, and that's exactly why I'm counting on you!
I'm sure you have great ideas, thoughts, projects, and articles that would fit perfectly in that space.
So don’t be shy 🙂
The BSD Cafe Journal is waiting for you!
#BSDCafeJournal #Blogging #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD
one of the nice things about working for yourself is, you can simply choose not to use any microsoft products
#snac por otra parte fue más simple y rápido, no tiene una gran estética pero siempre me ha funcionado bien
https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage
Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/
Finally a #snac first FediClient! @mastoblaster
Too bad I already moved to #GoToSocial due to lack of snac supported apps at that time :(
I forget who relatively recently was looking for an iOS client capable of working with #snac : via @elena I read about @mastoblaster which says of itself:
Built for snac, by design
Many apps support snac as a side effect. MastoBlaster makes it primary and follows snac’s Mastodon API support closely for predictable, polished behavior.
The bigger problem, though, is that it's a bullshit mischaracterization of the opinions he's attacking. At first I though it was a deliberate misdirection; pretty common in online shit-talking. Elsewhere in the document he talks about "Refusing to run an LLM on your laptop because you don’t like Sam Altman" which is exactly the sort of dismissive trivialization of legitimate concerns internet trolls like to undertake.
Then I noticed he writes about 'Ollama' as though it's an LLM itself, rather than a tool used to run an LLM. So, I'm now wondering if he just has no idea what the fuck is going on, and maybe actually does not understand that the tools he's using aren't just of shitty people but have ongoing horrific external costs -- including the "open source"† models to which he's addicting himself.
† - they're almost all not, of course; just another term the AI hypeboyz redefined
#MastoBlaster has its own #Fediverse account - powered by #snac
Follow @mastoblaster to receive all the updates, insights, etc.
Week in Fediverse 2026-02-20
Servers
- snac v2.90
- Castopod v1.15.0
- Ktistec v3.3.0
- tootik v0.21.1
- Badgefed v0.1.1
- Gush! v0.0.30
- Wanderer v0.18.5
- PieFed v1.6.6
- Our technical direction (Mastodon)
Clients
- Sengi v1.8.0
- tooi v0.21.2
- Summit v1.77.0
- Aria v1.4.3
- Pixelix v4.3.2
Tools and Plugins
- feed2fedi v3.5.0
- PeerTube Browser: A video discovery project for the federated PeerTube network
Protocol
- FEP-34c1: Collection Filtering using TREE Hypermedia Vocabulary
Articles
- Where Does Community Live?
- Why MAEPs? What should they look like?
- how to not regret c2s
- Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
- FR#154 – Search and Community
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c5906-05c0-87bf-8302-8226a8513c00
But a simple 'single-community' lemmy server would probably be a neat thing to make...
El perro Paco tiene ya su escultura en Madrid

Muy merecido homenaje al que fue el can más famoso de la Villa y Corte madrileña. Callejero, «gato» a pesar de ser un perro, y gourmet, a juzgar por los manjares que pudo degustar en su azarosa vida. Cayó en gracia a la nobleza madrileña y se hizo muy popular en el Madrid castizo. Hasta que su mala fortuna hizo que un torero le clavara su estoque, por haberle arruinado su faena (repugnante […]
https://nutriguia.com/gastronomia/el-perro-paco-tiene-ya-su-escultura-en-madrid.html
Who could have imagined this. Also, water is wet, or so it seems.
I’ll probably release the first alpha of #MastoBlaster later next week.
There are bugs. There are missing parts. But it works!
Clusters are in datacenters for a lot of reasons, and those datacenters have cooling infrastructure, power infrastructure, and sustainability considerations. Those maintenance considerations can be as simple as making sure there's enough space for technicians to access stuff, or as stupid as "keep the high-voltage wires away from the coolant pipes in case they leak". Those last things are the first thing you lose when you don't have enough space. This in itself makes every successive problem even worse.
Cooling is a huge pain in the ass -- it was bad back then, and it's worse now. Your average HPC rack (almost indistinguishable from an "AI" rack) is pulling hundreds of kilowatts, and there are realistic plans for that to hit a megawatt within a year or two. All that compute generates heat. In the conex box (basically a shipping container) the only option we had was basically to air condition the inside of the box, which was fragile. The current favorite is to run cooler liquid through pipes that make direct contact with the heat sources, and pump it outsite to heat exchangers, essentially venting the heat into atmosphere. This requires regular maintenance (pumps break, pipes corrode) which is going to be infeasible in orbit. It also, you know, requires an atmosphere into which we can dump the heat. Space, famously, does not have one of these, and as a result, heat is a problem. Check out the ISS and you can see how huge the radiators are compared to the rest of the structure. The ISS uses ammonia as coolant and can dissipate six kilowatts of heat, which is enough for one of our hypothetical rack switches.
Power's an issue; I mentioned the scale earlier, and nobody has a serious plan for producing that much power in orbit.
Finally there's maintenance. The traditional dipshit techbro approach is to just spam hardware until you have so much that it doesn't matter if something breaks. Actual datacenters, while not exactly job-rich, still require technicians to come in, prune dead hardware, and replace it with working stuff. The power and cooling systems need maintenance. It's not going to look good on the balance sheet when you've got a network technician stuck in orbit for eight months, especially when the mission they're supporting is something that would have worked just as well in Duluth.
These are the primary problems we hit trying to put a small cluster in a box to achieve well-understood, stable workloads. AI is eat-the-world hungry; you literally cannot have enough compute, by design. You would need to lift hundreds of thousands of tons of shit into the sky... if you could get it to work at all, which I do not think they can.
My prediction: Tesla's got some half-assed coprocessors they've creaively named "AI1" and so forth. I believe they're going to build some super-low-powered completely goddamn useless machines, shove them into an existing space-capable structure, line the walls with lead to block out the stray radiation, and put a handful in orbit to declare victory. They will not serve any real function, but dumbasses will eat up the resulting press release.
Next up in a new #FediMerch store is #snac merchandise! I had to grab my own set of stickers for this one, the artwork is so cool!
You've got Susie, snac's default icon embedded in a QR code. And then this ridiculously amazing artwork from @prahou that is just a must have for your sticker collection - or on a shirt - or mug. Just get it!
I think it's interesting how software engineers are (among?) the most eager working class group to replace themselves with LLMs.
It's interesting because LLMs do a worse job than us, we lose ability/skill to do our job the more we use it, lose our jobs, produce worse software, are less satisfied with our work, etc.
Yet so many of my peers seem to be super excited about and advocate for it, while other working class groups at least detest LLMs if not even consider organising themselves to protect their trade/jobs from LLMs.
Are we becoming the cops (read as: class traitors) of this techno-fascist dystopia?
@joshbressers Some people like driving too fast on mountain roads. Some people parachute. Some people juggle running chainsaws on fire. We commit to main. We are all the same.
Del lat. umbella 'quitasol'.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. f. guardapolvo (‖ tejadillo voladizo sobre un balcón o ventana).
Sin.:
+ guardapolvo, tejadillo, voladizo.
2. 2. f. Bot. Grupo de flores o frutos que nacen en un mismo punto del tallo y se elevan a igual o casi igual altura.
Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.
He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.
The scale says:
The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:
The Kardashian scale
So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.
We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.
The time is probably right.
Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.
A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.
So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.
The app will have one key trait: #snac2 support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).
Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.
I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.
Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.
On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.
It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.
I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.
This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.
Stay tuned!
#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #iOS #FediverseApp #Announcement #Apple #snac #snac2 #BSDCafe #illumosCafe
acquired - tome of pf
(this is not sponsored content, I just like the book)
thank you @pitrh
May's tech-hype predictions for 2026 onwards:
- The month after major public pensions and governments buy huge stakes in the AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), the US AI bubble will start crashing. This will happen in 2026.
- At this point, free access to LLMs will go away. Corporate LLMs will raise their prices by at least 100x to make up for the loss in users and casual revenue.
- Unfortunately, this^ means AI coding /marketing wouldn't go away. It'd just be far, far more expensive and require deeper approvals. Your boss will have AI and you won't be able to summarize it.
- China and the rest of BRICS will take over the free AI market because they can. Perfect opportunity for propaganda and cyber warfare here.
- Many software products that wrap base commercial models will see their operating costs skyrocket. They'll basically need to rip it all out, or embed a cheaper model.
- Essentially, companies who haven't built out a proper data/AI team will fail unless their base non-AI product is still relevant.
- Small companies will die when they fail to transition out of this mess. There will be a wholesale buyout, like the dot com crash. This means deeper consolidation at the FAANG level.
- We've had essentially an entire generation of juniors who had a cheap/free magical crutch for years. How will you train people to read, write and code again across every industry?
- The costs of cloud services will also skyrocket, since they need to pay off their bullshit AI hardware/data centre investments. We may see a return to on-prem/hybrid IT. (This will be REALLY interesting for how software evolves from the current SaaS model.)
- Some people will start hyping quantum, but we're at least 2+ hype cycles away from that.
- (This one's a wild guess.) The next hype cycle is probably going to be in hardware/wearables/physical space, but that's ridiculously expensive to get into. It'll basically just be marketing.
- The techbro doomers will claim to have predicted this the whole time. They'll have more than enough money to start the next hype cycle for the next round of VC/PE hot potato.
- Western governments are still going to try to implement "AI" even after the crash and the prices go up.
Every time I see an interesting or good quote posted online, I run to Wikipedia to make sure the person quoted wasn't some closet Nazi, sexual predator, or religious nutjob, and time and time again I find only disappointment.
Del gr. ἀποτρόπαιος apotrópaios 'que aleja el mal' y -aico.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. adj. p. us. Dicho de un rito, de un sacrificio, de una fórmula, etc.: Que, por su carácter mágico, se cree que aleja el mal o propicia el bien.
@Migueldeicaza @bigzaphod @jamesthomson "I feel like I get 10x more done" is the new "I think the stripper really likes me".
https://subversive.pics is now aggregating 11 subversive galleries with @occult being the latest addition.
Instagram is starting to foam at its machine mouth!
Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?
edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!
last of the fish
#unix_surrealism #technomage #gameoftrees #9front no #thinkpad #openbsd #runbsd
Let's say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren't covering it.
So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat.
Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, "Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren't selling kitten deli slices?"
Some might say - maybe you aren't an animal shelter any more. Some might say.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2A
the return of AUTOMA!
automa was the name of my blog in the past. it was abolished for no particular reason and its contents lay spread about in various corners of the internet.
the section now returns, aggregating all the weird articles, stories, guides and posts.
He realized he was unable to express that love in words; so big, so overwhelming, so eerie. He had no alternative than to keep living his life: lost some friends, met new others, found a job in number crunching, as he liked to say.
Years passed and he missed no new movie featuring her; he saw great stories, mediocre films and crappy flicks just because she was there. Every time the screen showed her face he felt like a delightful rendez-vous: how is you life, are you doing well, missed you so much. And every time he felt his heart breaking into pieces. Sometimes he even cried, his face covered by his hands, warm tears in the dark theater, always surrounded by strangers. Because love hurts, love is like a sickness, love is a strange and silent death.
One day, on one of those occasions when disappointments pile over each other, he decided to travel to Paris. Once there he felt he also loved the streets, the corners, the chimneys; it was a world that was a bit like her, a bit part her. He also felt the sadness of loving something that is almost not there, a mirage, a trompe-l'oeil. The bittersweet feeling of a life wasted loving a ghost.
And then he saw her. It happened on those tiring stairs in Montmartre, no less; he was sweating and panting while she moved almost like having the wind in her sails. He recognized the crow-black hair, the pale face, the glittering eyes now surrounded by little wrinkles, more beautiful than ever. Twenty-five years ago he saw her playing the grieving spouse of the great composer Patrice de Courcy and that day he started living. He smiled her and she smiled back.