Ángel Ortega
@angel@triptico.com
I guess we've entered the era where to watch a YouTube video I now have to first download 100% of it in full resolution, before deciding 5 seconds in that I don't care to finish watching.
Works for me. Wishing a very nice day to Google's bandwidth.
@jwz I am very interested in the solution you are using for this!
@jwz the ad blocker thing got you too?
@jwz based on literally all the Google code I’ve ever reviewed, their entire business model is “it doesn’t count if it’s part of the hardware budget”
@jwz
You can stream with https://mpv.io (which is powered by youtube-dl or, preferably, yt-dlp) on the desktop or NewPipe on Android
@adamhotep I click a link. It does not play. I click my bookmarklet. It downloads. Problem solved.
I cannot even imagine a world where running some desktop app is a sane solution to the problem in question.
@jwz that's fair. I've really come to like mpv's interface, and with yt-dlp, I get subtitles and chapters, all without waiting to finish a download.
@adamhotep I have never run mpv but the way it came to my attention put it on my "never touch" list for sure: https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/driver/xscreensaver-systemd.c#L208
@jwz that's unfortunate. I've definitely vacated software over developer hostilities.
Maybe it's been a while since I've used mpv to watch a movie long enough to trigger xscreensaver, but I don't recall an issue with the heartbeat.
@jwz @adamhotep your browser is not a desktop app?
@dragestil @adamhotep How about a nice hot cup of shut the fuck up
@jwz @dragestil @adamhotep Lmao. You could also tried piped or Invidious. They are open source YouTube front ends that happen to bypass the bs. Ofc, that could change since Google sucks.
@jwz
Is this why YouTube has been acting weird these past couple of days? I was worried I did something on my end.
@jwz just in case you’re going through this because of ads and their new obnoxious popup calling you out on adblockers, you can remove it with uBlock Origin.
I need to deploy a local personal Invidious server as well which may also offer the same benefits from what I understood after a quick look.
@jwz I haven't setup a bookmarlet for it yet but https://invidious.io/ instances are a quite good alternative. It shouldn't be hard assuming the instances are stable enough.
FCKGW-RHQQ2-...
@catsalad SyncThing ID prefix?
@catsalad ...YXRKT-...
Would be nice if I could reallocate all these brain cells to something else.
@catsalad
I can't believe how quickly my brain identified what that was.
Everyone that had the VLK code memorized at one point needs look into scheduling a prostrate screening / pap test... 
@catsalad used to know the whole by heart, now it's only the first group that I remember
@catsalad *the crowd goes wild*
@catsalad I still know the whole win98 serial from the top of my head. Not this one though
@catsalad initiating launch sequence…
@catsalad I feel old when reading this and can’t believe I understood what it means.
@solimanhindy Yes! People to feel old with me 😁
There was an even older Windows 95 one I used to have memorized as well, but it eludes me...
@catsalad @solimanhindy
Win95 was 111-1111111. First three could be anything, last 7 had to be evenly divisible by 7.
I remember this one. Wasn't it for MS Office, though?
CC: @catsalad@infosec.exchange @solimanhindy@mastodon.lovetux.net
@angel
I think either, but it was a long time ago.
@catsalad Before I had my own CD burner, my cousin gave me a copy of Win 98 as well as a copy of MS Office as well.
The best part was he recreated the MS Office label with one small tweak. On the left of the CD, it now read, "Please do not make any more copies of this CD." 😄
YouTube giving you snotty adblocker errors? Use you Windows Phone!
FYI, when a website erases your text that you just spent an hour writing, you can use this little trick to recover it 99% of the time:
1. find the firefox pid
$ pgrep -l firefox
2. attach gdb to firefox and dump its core
$ sudo gdb <pid>
gcore firefox.dump
<this takes awhile>
quit
<firefox dies>
3. find your lost text in the coredump
$ strings firefox.dump | grep "a unique word/sentence from ur text"
i just did this today to recover a long post i wrote, and figured i'd show others!! 
Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware
Today is a great day (as any other one could be) to express my gratitude to those adorable persons that had bought me a coffee (sometimes more than one 😆), that have contributed patches to #snac source code or that just simply informed me of errors.
You're great, people ❤️
Me complace contaros que el jueves 19 de octubre por la tarde estaré firmando mi novela YO NO SOY PAVEL en la feria del libro de Majadahonda, en el stand de Bunker Books.
Standard, iframes kann man mit CSS stylen.
https://cards-for-ukraine.at
The past two nights I wrote a "thread reader app" for BlueSky.
The protocol is absolutely insane.
There's no privacy. And I don't mean missing DMs.
All your posts are available through API endpoints. Without any authentication. By design.
The "invite-only" thing may have you think otherwise.
Here are my last 100 posts.
#OpenBSD 7.4 has been released. Congratulations to everybody involved.
Don't forget to read the guide before upgrading:
Probably, though I don't remember the details. I do remember the half-flexible leather cover you mentioned.
This one was my first mobile phone. With its default battery, it lasted an oustanding TWO hours of idle operation. I then bought the "thick-as-a-soda-can" battery and life bumped to 24 hours. You could store TEN numbers inside its memory.
I accidentally dropped it on a client's facilities and cracked a marble floor. No kidding.
sierra my beloved
In Spain, this movie is titled "El mensajero del miedo" ("The Messenger of Fear") for whatever reason
Pobresitos empresaurios, si al final hasta pierden dinero con tal de ayudarnos a llevar un peaso pan a nuestras torpes, parasitarias e inútiles bocas
It's an interesting idea. I'm (also) a musician, and though certainly sheet music is subject to interpretation, it's a pretty accurate representation.
So, if the instruments are the hardware and the toolkit, and the interpreter is the compiler, then it's more or less true that music is the object and the sheets are the source.
Similarly, one may consider a MIDI file source code for music.
I just realized. The more you comment your code and make it understandable, the easier it is for other people to takeover and rewrite your code. This means that when you retire/pass-away, your code will likely be quickly overwritten and your legacy gone from the active code base.
So, if you write complex clever code with little to no documentation, your code is more likely to be immortalized in the code base as everyone will be too afraid to touch it and possibly break it.
I thought of this when looking into the Linux TTY code base
#RecomendacionesDeHumocefalo
Hace poco descubrí que con el carnet de la biblioteca (España) se puede acceder a una plataforma de streaming muy guay. Se basa en tickets gratuitos (3 a la semana) y hay un montón de títulos que también están, por ejemplo, en #Filmin
La web es https://efilm.online/ y si tienes cuenta en cualquier biblioteca de España puedes acceder con los mismos credenciales. CORRIJO: aún faltan algunas zonas de España, aunque la idea es estar finalmente disponible en todas. En la propia página podéis consultar qué servidores hay.
La plataforma, aparte del contenido, tiene un inicio atractivo con buenas listas de recomendaciones. Es una web muy atractiva y se agradece el cuidado en este tipo de servicio público.
In Spain, this movie is titled "Canción de cuna para un cadáver" ("Lullaby for a corpse") for some reason.
Well, not really; "pavo" by itself means turkey, but a peacock is a "pavo real", just like a "badger" and a "honey badger" are not the same thing.
“Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.”
~ David Benatar
This is Ángel Ortega, crime and horror fiction writer and former systems programmer (on space, avionics and cryptography environments).
My first contact with a #UNIX system was on 1989 on a Sun Sparcstation 2 running #SunOS. I discovered #Linux on 1993 with the SLS distribution. I ditched all Microsoft software on 1999 and moved all my computers to Linux and never looked back.
My first encounter with #OpenBSD (inside a VM) was circa 2015. I was debugging a ground station software that was complicated as hell and had some memory leaks and was driving me mad; a friend of mine recommended compiling my beast on OpenBSD because the memory management is very different and it immediately crashed on a place I never expected. That filled my heart with bliss.
My first experience with OpenBSD in real hardware was on a laptop in 2020. Everything worked (except Bluetooth because, you know, there is no Bluetooth support on OpenBSD). I finally had to install Linux on that laptop because of reasons and my heart was a bit broken.
I now have OpenBSD on a tiny Toshiba NB 200. It's 32 bit, so no Firefox for poor old Ángel, but I don't really care because I used it mostly for fiction writing and remote server maintenance while on coffee shops, libraries or parks. Battery usage is great. Everything works like a charm.
I love OpenBSD because it's compact. It makes me feel like on a vintage UNIX system, simple and solid. Native tools and servers share lookalike configuration files. Man pages are awesome af. It includes a C compiler in its base system and that means "I am a real Operating System" to me. I love security is one of its main goals. OpenBSD hackers are brilliant, stubborn, unique people.
I don't love the filesystem.
I don't care that it's a bit slower than other OSes.
If you haven't tried OpenBSD, do it this October.
Out of these four movies directed by Quentin Tarantino, which is your favorite, and why?
Please boost if you can for a greater response.
| Reservoir Dogs (1992): | 44 |
| Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003): | 49 |
| Inglourious Basterds (2009): | 33 |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): | 10 |
Closed
MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.10.06
Do you know who this person is?
Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search or peeking at other responses.)
His name will be revealed tomorrow. This one may be tough since he is so young and not a celebrity in the traditional sense.
Please boost for more responses.
MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2023.10.06
Do you know which movie this picture is from?
Give your honest answer below, even if you’re not sure.
Please boost for more responses.
The answer will be revealed tomorrow.
One of my favourite (and oh so simple) hacker tricks is to abuse JSON support in APIs and pass TRUE instead of the actual API key. If the code does loose comparison, you don't need the key! 😎 😈 🍿
https://securinglaravel.com/p/security-tip-type-juggling #PHP #Laravel
Hace unos meses me recomendaron Mañana y tarde, que es el que @Sark@mastodon.social menciona.
Va a quedar una edición de mi libro TAN guay que ya le gustaría a cualquier editorial tenerla. Es que estoy segura xD
Every Internet Child Protection bill:
1:"New child safety bill!!"
2: "Wow great! What's in it?"
1: "Well, you have to give your social security number, a picture of the weakest part of your skull, and your home address to Hammers The Clown. You also have to download COVID 19 into your eyeball once per month."
2:"What that sounds terrible what does that have to do with--"
1:"Wow. Ok. HEY EVERYONE THIS GUY HATES CHILDREN!!!!!!!"
It's Hitchcock's Rebecca. Joan Fontaine's anonymous character re-created the original Rebecca's dress. She looks very blissful right now; things will change immediately when she shows her creation to her husband Maxim de Winter.
Great movie and great book.
La de «Memorias...» se enriquece también un poco porque en ella salgo yo de figurante 😀
Creo que las he visto todas, pero sí, un maratón no estaría mal. Aunque algunas no serán fáciles de encontrar.
El ayuntamiento ha dicho que "era imposible saber que estaba abierta", como si fuese un speakeasy de la época de la ley seca en EEUU a la que se accediera detrás de un biombo escondido dentro de un armario al fondo de una tienda de comestibles y no un mazacote horripilante lleno de colores y luces y anuncios por todas partes.
@jmadelman @NBarreyre
Historians are, unfortunately, no more immune to hype and marketing than other humans under late capitalism.
En esta lista, como en todas las que tratan el mismo tema, aparece incluída "Memorias del ángel caído" dirigida por mi amigo Fernando Cámara junto a David Alonso. Es una de las piezas más peculiares e interesantes del cine español de género de los 90.
Here's hoping someone creates a Karikó Prize, to be awarded annually to someone that academia kicked to the curb and who went on to change the world anyway. Of course, there should also be a UPenn prize every year for the most egregious example of an academic institution failing to support someone when it would have mattered but later taking credit for their work anyway.
The University of Pennsylvania is acting proud of Katalin Karikó now that she's won a Nobel. But they kicked her out of her research assistant professor job when she insisted on doing the work that won her that prize:
"She recalls spending one Christmas and New Year’s Eve conducting experiments and writing grant applications. But many other scientists were turning away from the field, and her bosses at UPenn felt mRNA had shown itself to be impractical and she was wasting her time. They issued an ultimatum: if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, and face a substantial pay cut.
”It was particularly horrible as that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer,” said Karikó. “I was facing two operations, and my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card, had got stranded there because of some visa issue, meaning he couldn’t come back for six months. I was really struggling, and then they told me this."
"While undergoing surgery, Karikó assessed her options. She decided to stay, accept the humiliation of being demoted, and continue to doggedly pursue the problem. This led to a chance meeting which would both change the course of her career, and that of science."
Elsewhere she recalled:
“I thought of going somewhere else, or doing something else. I also thought maybe I’m not good enough, not smart enough."
She's now an adjunct in UPenn's neurosurgery department. Will they fast-track her for tenure now that she has a Nobel, or just live with the shame?
Both quotes here come from interesting stories. The first is from here:
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech
The second is from here:
Hola. Sí, yo fui el programador y diseñador gráfico del juego Glub para ZX Spectrum. El año de producción fue 1985.
Gracias por su interés.
Let's start #OctOpenBSD ! Let use this month to show #OpenBSD is not a niche operating system!
Write stuff, take screenshot, record videos, do what you want using #OpenBSD and share it to the world!
Los like significan "estoy de acuerdo con todo lo que dices, así que apúntame como coautor".
CC: @CortoMunchausen@eldritch.cafe @Fitx0@paquita.masto.host
Oh my. This thread is the most valuable and eye-opening miniessay on artist patronage platforms I've seen in years.
Do you have this same content in a less temporary, time-proof format, like a blog post or whatever?
@angel
Here you go. I've bloggified it and expanded it further:
"How to Compete with Patreon"
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html
😱
Fortunately, I don't do any web browsing in this nano-machine (it's mostly unbearable), just have it installed just in case
@ifixcoinops HTH
You can add yourself to the www-data system group (or whatever your Apache runs as) and set your Notes folder setgid www-data; this way, combined with an umask that sets your files rw-r-----, Apache will have read access to your files while running as a not-you user.
I have an old Toshiba notebook with OpenBSD that is i386 and so there is no Firefox there, so yes, Chromium is my only option...
Apart from the recent vulnerability, what more thinks I should be afraid of? End of support?
Siempre se ha considerado como la historia de la generación ochentera de los niños de papá, ricos, aburridos y sin talento para hacer nada más que holgazanear y gastar dinero.
Si te sobra cocido, puedes desmenuzar la carne, hacer un roux (una bechamel o una velouté), mezclarlo con la carne desmenuzada y rebozarlo para hacer croquetas.
Si te sobran croquetas (en el caso muy improbable de que eso pase), puedes desmenuzar las croquetas, hacer un roux (una bechamel o una velouté), mezclarlo con las croquetas desmenuzadas y rebozarlo para hacer METACROQUETAS: croquetas de croquetas.
No dejemos de aprovechar la comida. Aquí no se tira nada.
Muchas: La Cosa (la de Carpenter), Mulholland Drive o El club de la lucha.
También, como dice @VictorMoral@mastodon.social, cualquiera de las de Mad Max menos la de Tina Turner.
"Supervillain has a non-aggression pact with a country with winters hard as fuck and then decides to invade the frozen-balls-country in winter anyway"
Do you screenwriters want us to believe this shit? Are you even trying?
Oh, yes, the clickbait: "You WON'T believe what happens if you put a piece of metal and a string in a lake".
Qué bien me lo pasé ayer en la presentación de T.Errores: en el bosque ya estás muerto. Qué antología más chula, por favor.
Así da gusto escribir.
Te recuerdo que hoy presentamos el libro _T.Errores: En el bosque ya estás muerto_ en la biblioteca San Fermín de Madrid. Allí estará la gente de Dentro del Monolito y algunos de los autores que participamos en esta antología.
Si no vas, más pierdes tú.
Feeling a bit jealous because he can do the Elvira nipple dance.
Han detenido en Gibraltar a un juez por enseñar los genitales. ¿Cómo se llama el juez? Pitto.
Los guionistas que escriben la realidad cada vez se esfuerzan menos.
https://www.europasur.es/gibraltar/Detenido-juez-Pitto-acusado-genitales_0_1829818402.html
Curiously, none of my cats want to be touched while monching. Eating is a very 0-human process for them.
Yo lo entiendo todo excepto eso de «si pagáis 333.333 pavos, publico un capítulo» y luego no publicarlo. Eso es feo.
Do you know who this person is? (This is likely to be a tough one.)
Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search or peeking at other responses.)
Her name will be revealed tomorrow.
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¿Hay que gente que no entiende retroalimentación pero sí feedback?
Respecto al color del culo de un camello, pues ahí me has pillao porque no tengo ni idea. Tendría que buscarlo.
A ver si va a ser como cuando la gente llama "color vainilla" a algún tipo de amarillo y luego vas a ver cómo es una vaina de vainilla y es marrón caca-de-oca.
Retroalimentación.
No pasa nada si estos términos se usan en el lenguaje coloquial o en un documento técnico, pero si escribes un artículo sobre el uso correcto del castellano hay que tratar de evitarlo.
Que tampoco es tan grave, claro, pero queda feo.
"Lo tomó muy bien, lo de ir allí, con mucho estoicismo. Los niños pequeños son estoicos. Lloran por un simple porrazo, pero las cosas grandes las toman como vienen, no lloriquean como tantos adultos."
-- "Los desposeídos", page 384
Sometimes I close my eyes trying to force it to finish faster, but even that doesn't work. They smell anxiety
Excepto en el caso de que tengas una ETS y vayas a ponerte a algo con alguien. Entonces sí es obligatorio decírselo a la otra parte.
El psiquiatra puede decir misa en copto si quiere. Nadie está obligado a decir nada sobre su condición médica a nadie. Estaría fino.
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