Ángel Ortega

@angel@triptico.com

ex-writer, ex-programmer, ex-musician, ex-illustrator
ex-escritor, ex-programador, ex-músico, ex-dibujante
40.4231709,-3.6612241
https://triptico.com

Per Engzell »

Just learned that “stochastic parroting” is the technical term for what ChatGPT does, which makes so much more sense than AI

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Ángel Ortega »

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Ángel Ortega »

The short film is available from here:

https://rarefilmm.com/2022/12/swiss-made-2069-1968/

Emily M. Bender (she/her) »

This framing is so gross. To see (human!) generated (ahem: English) text to be a "vital resource" you have to be deeply committed to the project of building AI models and in this particular way.

Link to original tweet:
twitter.com/emollick/status/16

Link to paper:
arxiv.org/pdf/2211.04325.pdf

Screencap of tweet from Ethan Mollick reading:

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xmlns="Dan" »

@emilymbender There is a demand for low-background steel, steel produced before the nuclear tests mid century, for use in Geiger counters. They produce it from scavenging ships sunk during world war one, as it's the only way they can be sure there is no radiation.

The same is going to happen for internet data, only archives pre-2022 will be usable for sociology research and the like as the rest will be contaminated by AI nonsense. Absolute travesty.

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Ángel Ortega »

TIL that there is something named linker optimization that forces the deletion of unused functions in your final executable. As a bonus, you get the list of unused functions as compiler warnings (dead code is always bad, so you get the change to delete them or comment them out).

If you have a standard build system, do the following:

make CFLAGS="-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--print-gc-sections"

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Ángel Ortega »

Toromino »

Amazing

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brodio »

@foxhkron It reminds me of this meme:

photo of a high speed train with the heading,

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Ángel Ortega »

While I totally agree on the message, if cars are used at their full capacity (5 people), you only need 1000 / 5 = 200 cars to move a thousand people, not 625.

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Toromino »

@angel@triptico.com Do you ever see cars used to their full capacity, especially when there is lots of traffic?

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Ángel Ortega »

No. But if you use an infographic to prove something, it must be somewhat accurate.

Again, I agree with the message and bet for car-free cities and public transportation and have an active role in my community in these regards. But misleading graphics do not help.

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Ángel Ortega »

Sam Bankman-Fried, el pájaro este que estafó miles de millones de dólares con su criptochiringuito FTX y que se fugó del país, ha sido puesto en libertad bajo fianza.

Esto nos recuerda dos cosas: que los EEUU son un país de chichinabo y que el sistema de fianzas es otro castigo para pobres.

A Belén »

Me gustaría saber si aquí también hay gente mayor de 45-50 y cómo encontrarlos, no sé si alguien me puede ayudar. Gracias de antemano 😌

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Víctor Moral »

@Beln82 yo mismo. Cincuenta y tres primaveras y contando.

No sé muy bien para qué pero aquí sigo.

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Ángel Ortega »

Por aquí, 54.

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Ángel Ortega »

Mi relato UN ÁRBOL CON VISTAS fue finalista del premio Domingo Santos 2022 de Relato. El género es realismo mágico.

La entidad convocante (Pórtico, Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia-Ficción y Terror) ha publicado el ganador y los finalistas en un libro electrónico que se puede descargar desde aquí:

https://lektu.com/l/aefcft/antologia-premio-domingo-santos-2021-22/20900

Espero que os guste.

khm »

I would like any feedback on this document:

sciops.net/information/technol

it's supposed to be an easy-to-follow guide to setting up firefox.

Manu Mateos »

Frases que me revientan: “los laístas habláis mal”.

No. La RAE puede decir misa. Pero los laístas hablamos... con laísmo. Igual que hay quien tiene un acento determinado. No es incorrecto.

(Y no. Tampoco es incorrecto tener acento.)

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Sergio »

@manu Pensaba que el laísmo era algo solo de Valladolid

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SergeEU »

@sergio @manu

Es laísmo es andaluz, se extendió a Castilla-La Mancha hasta Madrid.

Es gramaticalmente incorrecto.

No es como el leísmo que se considera un cultismo para Objeto Directo de persona masculina.

Los acentos al hablar son todos correctos.

El español castellano más "puro" es el de Valladolid y Burgos. Es como la Received Pronunciation del inglés británico o el Parisino del francés hexagonal.

Los catalanes y gallegos no son laístas. Y los vascos solo algo leístas.

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Ángel Ortega »

Linux's strcmp() For The m68k Has Always Been Broken:

The m68 hand-written assembler version of strcmp() has always been broken: it returns the difference between the first non-matching byte done as a 8-bit subtraction.

That is _almost_ right, but is broken for the overflow case. The strcmp() function should indeed return the sign of the difference between the first byte that differs, but the subtraction needs to be done in a wider type than 'char'. Otherwise the ordering isn't actually stable.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-m68k-strcmp-Always-Broken

Víctor Moral »

Challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try - Austin Z. Henley
austinhenley.com/blog/challeng

Víctor Moral »

Python Weekly »

Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python

vgel.me/posts/donut/

Discussions: discu.eu/q/https://vgel.me/pos

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Hylke Rozema »

@python_discussions that’s a very nice one to try and learn more about it!

Axel Beckert ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 XTaran »

Just noticed that @grunfink's (codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2, Social Networks Are Crap, a simple, instance written in ) is now available in Experimental: tracker.debian.org/pkg/snac2

Never heard of it before, but having a Mastodon-compatible instance packaged in Debian is great. So maybe time for my own instance? 😁 Will at least toy around with it. The question is on which host. But I suspect my Raspberry Pi running Debian Unstable will do. 😎

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Axel Beckert ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 XTaran »

@grunfink: Ok, is now running on my 2 running Unstable at @xtaran@c3pio.deuxchevaux.org. (BTW, who can guess the wordplay in the hostname? 😎) The host has and is reachable from the Internet by , though. For now I'm just toying around with it, checking how the can look like, too, so don't expect too much from following it for now.

It's reverse-proxied by an as I'm an old-school guy and I know how to run Apache HTTPds since around 1999. 🧔

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Axel Beckert ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 XTaran »

@grunfink: And since ever I wrote that posting, the snac httpd (version 2.11 in Debian Experimental) on my Pi continues to crash with a segfault after a few seconds. *sigh* Will try to get a coredump and write a bug report in Debian and hoping for the package being updated to 2.15 soonish as 2.12 and and 2.14 both fix some crashes according to the release notes.

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The Real Grunfink »

I'm sorry to read this.

Certainly there were some crash fixes since 2.11, but they were somewhat corner cases, not something that caused crashes every few seconds.

Is this still happening? Your public timeline looks fine right now.

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Axel Beckert ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 XTaran »

@grunfink: The package of has been updated to version 2.15. So far @xtaran@c3pio.deuxchevaux.org ran 3 hours without issue. But then again, the previous version hadn't crashed for a while either. Let's see if it survives this mentioning. 😉

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The Real Grunfink »

@xtaran@c3pio.deuxchevaux.org fingers crossed 😉

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Ángel Ortega »

TIL that most video processing tools accept as a valid input stream a set of concatenated PPM [1] files, so you can generate video from your own programs easily. You just have to pipe your program's output to the appropriate tools (indicating the FPS) like

./fancy-prg | mpv --no-correct-pts --fps=$FPS -
or
./fancy-prg | ffmpeg -i - -r $FPS video.mp4
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format

Mignon Fogarty »

OK, now I understand why I'm seeing all the jokes. 😂

A writer misread the Mastodon account that was banned from Twitter as "John Mastodon" instead of "Join Mastodon."

To what extent is that true? Before this latest wave of suspensions, Twitter had already suspended the account posting the location of Musk’s jet. Then, the platform removed John Mastodon, the founder of a competing social media company named after himself, for posting a link to the jet tracker’s Mastodon account.

Debian »

Updated Debian 11: 11.6 released debian.org/News/2022/20221217

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Carlos Saltos »

@debian I ❤️ Debian

Kete »

@debian "The following NEW packages will be installed:
"linux-image-5.10.0-20-686-pae"

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mhoye »

Fediverse, let's have some fun:

What is the most trivial life lesson you would like to impart to your younger self?

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anarcat »

@liw @mhoye brush your fucking teeth kids, and floss every day. that'll get you a brand new laptop for a decade or more in dental costs eventually, if not more.

anarcat boosted

Matthew A. Miller »

@mhoye don't read the comment section

John Goerzen »

@mhoye Take more walks, scroll on the Internet less.

Doug Belshaw »

@mhoye Post-it notes don't flutter off the wall if you peel them sideways

Lars Wirzenius »

@mhoye Go the bathroom when you can, even if it's not urgent.

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Ángel Ortega »

@mhoye@mastodon.social Bananas must be peeled from the other end.

Solène »

@binarytango @rickcarlino this comes from the Gemini companion RFC gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/

I really like it, it's neat to have a simple subscription system that doesn't need anything else than a list of dates.

The Book of Kels »

Oh, that's so good.

Actual artists on Artstation, fed up with AI generators scraping their work, started posting "no AI" logos (the classic circle with a line through it) in protest.

And since "trending on Artstation" has become a common prompt among AI users, their results are all getting contaminated, as the algorithm just assumes the logos are part of the image. They're all upset about the "attack" now.

The letters AI in a red circle with a line through it, with

Víctor Moral »

The Real Grunfink »

I've just released version 2.15 of snac, the simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance server. This time is mostly bugfixes:

Fixed bug in message posting that may result in 400 Bad Request errors (contributed by tobyjaffey).

Fixed crash and a deletion error in the unfollow code.

Added configuration files and examples for running snac with docker (contributed by tobyjaffey).

Serve /robots.txt (contributed by kensanata).

Use the Fediverse sparingly and wisely.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

dangerhorns »

"if i replace all the words, is it really plagiarism?"

this argument is known as the ship of thesaurus

Marmoset »

From @pluralistic:

"Earlier this year, many people with Argus optical implants – which allow blind people to see – lost their vision when the manufacturer, Second Sight, went bust.

"Nano Precision Medical, the company's new owners, aren't interested in maintaining the implants, so that's the end of the road for everyone with one of Argus's 'bionic' eyes. The $150,000 per eye that those people paid is gone, and they have failing hardware permanently wired into their nervous systems.

"Having a bricked eye implant doesn't just rob you of your sight – many Argus users experience crippling vertigo and other side effects of nonfunctional implants. The company has promised to 'do our best to provide virtual support' to people whose Argus implants fail – but no more parts and no more patches."

pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/uns

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Ángel Ortega »

It's still probably Caturday somewhere.

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Ángel Ortega »

It gathers all the text available to it, grinds it into a fine paste, and makes verbal chicken nuggets.
verbal chicken nuggets is my new favorite expression for today.

CatSalad🐈🥗 »

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

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LinaB »

@catsalad haha

Emmy »

@catsalad 👍 thank you now I know what to say next time

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Ángel Ortega »

Nueva política: para todo aquel que me vuelva a enmierdar el timeline con textos generados por ChatGPT o alguna otra basura de IA semejante, bloqueo automático.

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The Real Grunfink »

I'm proud to announce version 2.14 of snac, the simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance server, that include the following new features and fixes:

Previous posts in the public and private timelines can be reached by a "More..." post at the end (contributed by kensanata).

Clicking the 'Like' and 'Boost' buttons don't move the full conversation up; after that, the page is reloaded to a more precise position. Still not perfect, but on the way.

New command-line operation, resetpwd, to reset a user's password to a new, random one.

Added a user setup option to toggle if sensitive content is shown or not by default (contributed by kensanata).

All images are loaded in lazy mode for a snappier feel (contributed by kensanata).

Fixed crash in the data storage upgrade process when debug level >= 2 (contributed by kensanata).

Log message improvements for excelence (contributed by kensanata).

The logging of "new 'Delete'..." messages has been moved to debug level 1, because I'm fed up of seeing my logs swamped with needless cruft.

Don't show the 'Boost' button for private messages.

Added (partial) support for /.well-known/nodeinfo site information. This is not mandatory at all, but if you want to serve it, remember that you need to proxy this address from your web server to the snac server.

Some internal structure improvements.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

Víctor Moral »

7 pro tips for using the GDB step command | Opensource.com
opensource.com/article/22/12/g

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Ángel Ortega »

Fuzzing ping(8)… and finding a 24 year old bug:

https://tlakh.xyz/fuzzing-ping.html

FediFollows ☃️ »

Picks of the Day:

➡️ @Hamish - Live streaming about fun topics, serious topics, music, movies, gaming and more

➡️ @ncoca - Freelance journalist covering Asia, especially human rights, sustainability, environment

➡️ @nonamenosocks - Beautiful animated pixel art accompanied by original ambient music

➡️ @catsalad - Computer security, privacy and corny humour

➡️ @veronicaexplains - Videos about retro computing and modern libre software

More follows at fedi.directory

Valerie Aurora »

for cryptocurrency advocates only [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

If you think any cryptocurrency is good, please reply so I can block you, thanks!

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Michael Pryor »

I guess there's only one thing better than a banjo, and that's more banjo ...
The Gibson Bass Banjo from 1931: 'The Noblest Instrument of Them All'.

The Gibson Bass Banjo

Raspberry Pi »

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Ángel Ortega »

Drowning in AI Generated Garbage : the silent war we are fighting:

The algorithms are already feeding themselves on their own data. And, as any graduate student will tell you, training on your own results is usually a bad idea. You end sooner or later with pure overfitted inbred garbage. Eating your own shit is never healthy in the long run.
https://ploum.net/2022-12-05-drowning-in-ai-generated-garbage.html

Dr. Heloise Stevance✨🐍 »

Science is a lot of fucking around for a very small amount of finding out

ϻค𝔬ᑭ »

Whoa!
¡Un servidor de ActivityPub en C !

Pero que cosita tan mas hermosa

codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

ϻค𝔬ᑭ »

Whoa!
¡Un servidor de ActivityPub en C !

Pero que cosita tan mas hermosa

codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

Solène »

NixOS webzine url changed to webzine.nixos.cafe

thanks @manheraz for getting the domain the new domain is better

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Ángel Ortega »

@liw@toot.liw.fi here it's another one (this one also talks about roles and principals):

https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-to-properly-manage-ssh-keys-for-server-access/

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Ángel Ortega »

It is. Here is mine:

gemini://tilde.club/~angel/atom.xml

There are many others.

(Well, it's an ATOM file, but whatever).

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Ángel Ortega »

Ah, the suffering.

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Ángel Ortega »

It's the old EEE (Embrace, Extend & Extinguish) tactics used by Microsoft and other perverse corporations since forever, but I don't see a real problem. To follow:

6. Concerned Tumblr users get upset and abandon it towards free, ActivityPub-enabled software platforms
7. Other users don't care shit and keep using Tumblr
8. Tumblr screws it with usual bigtech behaviour like of them do and annoy users that move to step 6

ad nauseam

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Ángel Ortega »

I understand you. I love myself the sound of a 14400 modem getting connecting. Beeeeep - ka-choonda-choonda-prrrrrr.

Those were the days.

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Ángel Ortega »

Here we are some people enjoying soccer in general but having issues with the games' host country politics against women and gay people.

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Ángel Ortega »

This is totally crazy:

"With our extremely linear history, the first commit in a repo hash a hash that starts with 0000000, the second commit is 0000001, the third is 0000002, and so on!"
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"There is no way to easily create content with the desired prefix (that would prevent the whole point of checksums). So we only have one option: testing many combinations of junk data until we can find one that passes our criteria."
https://westling.dev/b/extremely-linear-git

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Ángel Ortega »

@Norvell@bsd.network @solene@bsd.network

Thanks. Will the fix be propagated to 7.2? I don't use -current.

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Ángel Ortega »

With ComposeKey + N + ~

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Ángel Ortega »

I'm glad to know that we're a bit safer because she is there 💓

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Ángel Ortega »

Your test thread is being actively ignored.

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Ángel Ortega »

The "Quite OK Image" format for fast, lossless image compression:

https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoi.h

Interesting things: the overall simplicity and the chunk QOI_OP_LUMA, which implements diff compression from previous byte giving more weight to the green channel.

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Ángel Ortega »

He seguido el enlace con ilusión para ver si formo parte de ALGO, pero no, ni siquiera de eso 😞

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Ángel Ortega »

@solene@bsd.network @falsifian@mastodon.sdf.org this solution is pretty neat.

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Ángel Ortega »

@solene@bsd.network

I'm experimenting this same thing with Firefox since upgrading to OpenBSD 7.2. Crashing also seem to match the timestamp of pledge "rpath" log messages. I had no time to investigate seriously so I'm not sure what is causing it (sure it's not Mastodon because I don't use it). I also didn't change anything in its global configuration. Also, the rofi tool is crashing 50% of the times I try to run it.

I'll try this weekend to find what it's happening.

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Ángel Ortega »

Hey, @andybell@ravenation.club , are you the same Andy Bell that collaborated with Anne Clark?

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Ángel Ortega »

Surely it's the nerdiest.

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Ángel Ortega »

I you end up in hell because of this, I'll personally go there to take you out because this is how things must be done.

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Ángel Ortega »

Structural Regular Expressions were first described by unique genius Rob Pike when he found the line-oriented nature of usual regular expressions limiting.

An interesting article on them by Getty Ritter:

https://what.happens.when.computer/2016-08-30/structural-res/

The original Rob Pike paper (PDF):

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf

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Ángel Ortega »

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Ángel Ortega »

I don't see the cat you mention, he may be hidden or something.

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Ángel Ortega »

@solene@bsd.network As far as I know, there is no official term for what you want. In my current development team we call these ones 'interim' versions, but this is more like private slang among us. In a previous team I was a part of they called these versions (that can be very broken if you are not careful) 'unstable' checkouts.

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Ángel Ortega »

I remember from decades ago that wmbiff, a biff-like WindowMaker applet (i.e. a program to notify you of email messages arrived) allowed you to execute an arbitrary script on every new input. IMAP4 was supported.

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Ángel Ortega »

¿Por qué «salvas» la producción artística? ¿Por qué en ese caso sí te parece justo trabajar una vez y cobrar por lo mismo cientos de veces?

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Ángel Ortega »

Es que ellos son más del Dios iracundo y envidioso del Antiguo Testamento, no de ese más flojo y ausente que sale en el Nuevo.

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Ángel Ortega »

No me parece tan «simple». Simple es un open P, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" y escribir en P un mensaje con sus cabeceras y todo 😆

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Ángel Ortega »

@JacoboDopicoUC3M@laterracita.online

Lo malo de Threaderapp es que esos hilos recopilados tienen fecha de caducidad. Lo propio sería, una vez generado el hilo, descargarlo de Threaderapp y ponerlo en una página web, blog o lo que sea.

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Ángel Ortega »

Esto puede estar bien.

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Ángel Ortega »

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Ángel Ortega »

@liw@toot.liw.fi @joeyh@octodon.social

The word is old and comes from mystical Gnosticism:

Pleroma (Koinē Greek: πλήρωμα, literally "fullness") generally refers to the totality of divine powers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleroma

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Ángel Ortega »

@Anarcat@kolektiva.social @benjojo@benjojo.co.uk I use snac, which is also lightweight and less 'crazy' than honk...

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

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Ángel Ortega »

Well, I bet on brave things 😉

Jokes aside, it feels pretty stable and slim.

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Ángel Ortega »

Using the [XTerm] bell as modern notification (Antoine Baupré):

https://anarc.at/blog/2022-11-08-modern-bell-urgency/

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Ángel Ortega »

As you requested, I say hi. I've been following you from the Planet Debian RSS from like forever, and I've always enjoyed your aggregated posts, specially those regarding your kids and their love of trains. I miss those posts, they were very charming and well written.

On a more prosaic matter, I also was for years a happy user of you offlineimap application.

Cheers!

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Ángel Ortega »

TL;DR: «el fediverso también es una mierda porque está lleno de personas».

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Ángel Ortega »

I think this show works because the main characters are horrible persons (among other things, of course).

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Ángel Ortega »

I totally agree with you, it's their descensus ad inferos what make the show fascinating, as they start being good people and end up being cold monsters because of the circunstancies. The case for Ruth is specially heartbreaking because he is how she is due to poverty and family issues, she tries but never succeeds.

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Ángel Ortega »

Como estoy totalmente fuera de las redes se me pasó enterarme de que mi relato Un árbol con vistas fue finalista del premio Domingo Santos de Relato 2022.

El convocante del certamen, AEFCFT/Pórtico, publicará un libro electrónico gratuito incluyendo mi relato junto al ganador y los otros tres finalistas. En cuanto me entere de cómo y desde dónde descargarlo, pondré el enlace por aquí.

https://twitter.com/Portico_AEFCFT/status/1576181898488950786

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Ángel Ortega »

There is no univocal relation between users and people in this network (nor in any other, for that matter). Some 'users' may belong to the same person. Some 'users' may be bots.

What you have in you hard drives are users (or accounts), not people.

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Ángel Ortega »

TIL that you can have a full-path soname in a dynamic library, so that binaries linked to it can find it even if it's in a non-standard place:

gcc -shared -o libcrazy.so -Wl,-soname,/an/esoteric/place/to/store/libcrazy.so crazy.c
gcc -o main -L. -lcrazy main.c
This way, you don't need kludges regarding the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH nor anything else.

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Ángel Ortega »

TIL by accident that you can type make from inside gdb and does what you think it does.

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Ángel Ortega »

Wow, strangest.saddest.city is probably the most beautiful domain name ever.

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Ángel Ortega »

I wonder what do they sell in this place.

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Ángel Ortega »

I suggest that, instead of keeping the "thread" format as a chain of brief messages (which were used in Twitter to avoid one of its severe limitations), you move all your valuable information to a more suitable format, like a web page or a blog entry or somewhat similar.

Then you can publish here links to your creations for us to enjoy.

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Ángel Ortega »

If you want to create an executable program in memory and execute it without going through the filesystem, this is how you do it (Linux only):

int fd = memfd_create("foo", MFD_CLOEXEC);
// write your image to fd however you want
fexecve(fd, argv, envp);
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/230472/can-i-exec-an-entirely-new-process-without-an-executable-file

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Ángel Ortega »

Madre mía. ¿Esto pasa en todas las opciones del menú, o solo en el de "Eliminar cuenta"?

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Ángel Ortega »

If you develop in C, you'll probably end up using memory leak detection tools like valgrind, libleak or the scan-build tool from the LLVM compiler. There is a less known tool inside the GCC compiler itself: the -fsanitize=address.

If you use a standard make setup, you can recompile your project doing

make CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
After exiting your program, a summary of memory leak errors (including the line of the source code were it happened) will be printed out.

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Ángel Ortega »

Interesting, will try. I'm surprised about the use of mustard, though. Is mustard taste too present?

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Ángel Ortega »

Why is it called the fediverse?
It comes from FEDerated unIVERSE.

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Ángel Ortega »

Fast character case conversion (or how to really compress sparse arrays):

Converting strings and characters between lower and upper cases is a very common need.

In particular, case conversion is often used to implement case-insensitive comparision, an operation that is often present on the program's fast paths as a part of data container lookups and content manipulation.

So it is usually desirable to make case conversions as fast as possible.

In this post we are going to look at one of the options - very fast case conversion using compressed lookup tables and also at some options for compressing these even further.

https://github.com/apankrat/notes/tree/master/fast-case-conversion

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Ángel Ortega »

Stop writing Twitter threads! (Pierre Equoy):

So please, please, if you plan on writing something longer than a bad joke or a snarky comment, do not use Twitter. Your ideas, your findings, your knowledge deserve better. Put your thoughts on your own website or blog, and share it with the World using whatever social network you see fit.
These apply much more so to the Fediverse, where you don't have the stupid character limitation.

https://pierre.equoy.fr/blog/posts/2022/10/stop-writing-twitter-threads/

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Ángel Ortega »

Insightful thought, but... doesn't this apply to mostly all artistic disciplines, e.g. books? You always pay before being able to know if you like it or not.

I was about to say it happens on music records at well, but the economic model has changed on this as you don't buy those things anymore.

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Ángel Ortega »

Estropeo el clickbait: usar el lavavajillas consume menos agua y menos energía para calentarla que lavar a mano.

Además, hay otra cosa que (creo que) el artículo no menciona: usar el lavavajillas es más higiénico porque las temperaturas que se alcanzan dentro también achicharran a buena parte de los bichos.

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Ángel Ortega »

Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so... (Jan Schaumann):

"At the time we didn't have tapes and we had a couple of file-systems running and we kept changing the origin of time," he said. "So finally we said, 'Let's pick one thing that's not going to overflow for a while.' 1970 seemed to be as good as any. "
-- Dennis Ritchie
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/epoch.html

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Ángel Ortega »

Igual es el momento de que pruebes OpenBSD. El soporte de 32bits es completo y no tengo noticia de que piensen abandonarlo en breve. No necesita demasiados recursos y tienes todos los escritorios ligeros que conoces.

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Ángel Ortega »

Ya de paso, conviene recordar también que los administradores de las instancias Mastodon pueden leer los mensajes directos de sus usuarios:

" Clarify that DMs can be read by instance owners #18079 "

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079

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Ángel Ortega »

From the article:

Unlike Ext4, Btrfs does not support encryption [...]
Does ext4 really support encryption? I meant, of course you can use LUKS and ext4 over it, but...

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Ángel Ortega »

Perceptual hashing (Matt Rickard):

Hashing algorithms map data to an arbitrary fixed-size value. Most hashing algorithms actively try to avoid collisions – e.g., minimizing the probability of two different keys having the same hash. Perceptual hashes do the opposite – they maximize collisions by creating some dimension of data locality – similar keys have similar hashes.
https://matt-rickard.com/perceptual-hashing

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Ángel Ortega »

Si no recuerdo mal, incluso lo puedes configurar para que siempre grabe las conversaciones telefónicas.

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Ángel Ortega »

Respecto a esto, existe una aplicación en F-Droid que se llama FFUpdater que permite actualizar a la última versión del Firefox. Yo la tengo instalada en mi Samsung J5 con Lineage OS y funciona de cine.

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Ángel Ortega »

OpenBSD 7.2 has been released:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=166627387020774&w=2

Congratulations to everyone involved.

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Ángel Ortega »

My OpenBSD home server and my OpenBSD laptop have been upgraded with no problem. Maybe even faster than in previous releases.

The ps program now implements the -f (forest) argument, which is not really that important, but makes my muscle memory happy because I'm accustomed to decades of Linux typing ps xaf.

The pkg_add -u command is now blazing fast.

This is a fantastic piece of work by a fantastic group of people. If you use it, it would be nice to contribute:

https://www.openbsd.org/donations.html

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Ángel Ortega »

How to check if any word is zero (Wojciech Muła):

http://0x80.pl/notesen/2021-03-11-any-word-is-zero.html

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Ángel Ortega »

Cory Doctorow:

20 years ago, if you ate dinner under the unblinking eye of a CCTV, it was because you were housed in a supermax prison. Today, it's because you were unwise enough to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for "home automation" from Google, Apple, Amazon or another "luxury surveillance" vendor.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/#sensorship

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Ángel Ortega »

@chuso@mastodon.social @VictorMoral@mastodon.social yo uso el servicio web y lo tengo siempre abierto en una pestaña del Firefox (de esas pinned, pequeñitas, a la izquierda). Igual me pierdo alguna funcionalidad, pero yo no he echado de menos nada.

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Ángel Ortega »

While re-reading ActivityPub documentation, I've discovered that there is a Dislike message type. Not to repent from liking something (that would be an Undo + Like message), but to actively show your disapproval of something 🤷

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Ángel Ortega »

No sé si será el caso, pero he visto que los programas hechos en Go ocupan locuras como esas.

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Ángel Ortega »

My opinion is that it should return a 5xx as a way to tell the client they did not do anything wrong. If the client is a user-operated web browser there is not much to do about it, but if the client is a library it tells the programmer that the error is not their fault (i.e. packets are not malformed nor data missing and so).

Good question, anyhow.

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Ángel Ortega »

@freezr@bsd.network @brynet@bsd.network will obsdfreqd be included in the packages, Solène?

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Ángel Ortega »

ꙮ҄ꙮ҄ꙮ҄ Night is a beast made of eyes Ꙭ ꙮꙮ҄ꙮ҄

The multiocular O is a rare form of the Cyrillic letter О. How rare?

Rare enough to occur in a single phrase, in a single text written in an extinct language, Old Church Slavonic.

The text is a copy of the Book of Psalms, written around 1429 and kept in Russia

https://languagehat.com/multiocular-o/

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Ángel Ortega »

It's not new at all (2005, things may have changed very much), but this document about the architecture of QEMU from its author Fabrice Bellard is fascinating:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix05/tech/freenix/full_papers/bellard/bellard.pdf

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Ángel Ortega »

Read out there:

What's the word that's not schadenfreude, but means "enjoying someone else's tech misery because, thank fuck it's not me, but also hoping the poor schmuck manages to solve his problem because, (a) he's a nice guy and (2) I really want to know the solution".
😆

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Ángel Ortega »

Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software:

https://berk.es/2022/09/06/frameworks-harm-maintenance/

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Ángel Ortega »

Poor man's profiler, or profiling a running program with a cheap combination of gdb, awk and scripting:

Sampling tools like oprofile or dtrace's profile provider don't really provide methods to see what [multithreaded] programs are blocking on - only where they spend CPU time. Though there exist advanced techniques (such as systemtap and dtrace call level probes), it is overkill to build upon that [...]
[...] one needs to improvise, like.. use debuggers - they can walk threads and provide stacks.
http://poormansprofiler.org/

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Ángel Ortega »

@solene@bsd.network @alderwick@merveilles.town It also protects you (somewhat) in ransomware intrusion cases if your snapshots are read-only.

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Ángel Ortega »

The Days since incident web site keeps track of the latest catastrophic events:

https://neal.fun/days-since-incident/

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Ángel Ortega »

Though I understand those who were against it, I think this is a very good decision.

Debian will be much more accessible and easier to install, and that can only be good for everyone.

Congratulations.

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Ángel Ortega »

Awesome. Also, the MD5 starts and ends with 1337 which is also awesome.

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Ángel Ortega »

Deliberately on purpose.

See also aibohpphobia: fear of palindromes.

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Ángel Ortega »

Hola. Esto parece suficientemente estable como para tener mi presencia aquí.

Escribiré poco pero leeré todo lo que mandes.

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"I need privacy. Not because my actions are questionable, but because 'your' judgement and intentions are."
https://tilde.zone/@gemlog/109025812633991107

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