Ángel Ortega
@angel@triptico.com
<h3>You can only pick one</h3><h2>Choose wisely</h2>
Closes in 19:57:12
@catsalad i picked one because i could only pick it as it was a requirement, while picking wisely was only a suggestion, not requirement
;)
@catsalad good are you a robot text, robots will definitely pick one😄
@catsalad
Not yet, isn't dogma 🤷🏻♀️
@catsalad most people can follow directions so far I see!
@catsalad
One is the only choice?
While likely not your intention...
This poll is the best visual for our election system in America.
We truly do have a problem.
@catsalad Can is a suggestion, choose is an order.
@catsalad Excellent!
@catsalad I'm a conformist
@catsalad I learned a lot about myself by reflecting on why this was so easy for me. 1. I never do what I am told to do. 2. I never ever choose wisely. 3. I can only do what I can do.
MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.11.30
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Woody Allen's brother.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Jean-Luc Godard
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I dont know the faces of a lot of '60s french dudes!
Looks like some Foucault friend.
Or maybe a Kerouac friend.
Theres some beatniky in him.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Jean-Luc Godard
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Anna Karina’s husband
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Jean-Luc Godard, which was not French, but Swiss, if I remember correctly
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Jean-Luc Godard
It's funny that they told me not to trust wikipedia in high school when at this point it's the only link in the first page of google results that was written by humans intending to convey information
It's now safe to turn off your computer.
MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2023.11.27
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Torn Curtain?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Behind the Greenish Door?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Blair Witch project. 😝
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Who framed Roger Rabbit!
Yesterday’s movie still was from the 1966 film Torn Curtain, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon underrated film even if it’s not on par with his best
@kierkegaank I need to see it again. It's been ages.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon HAH! That's why I have a Thermos Thermocafé mug!!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I assure you it is not.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Godsdamnit..
**turns around and finishes his cup**
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Needed this. LOL. Thanks
Also... wtf is my coffee!!!!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon @darac Site I work at has heated thermal mugs in the fab bays - there's PSUs all over the place with RCA jacks on them. When you're working, you plug your mug in to keep it warm...
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon nuh uh, I have coffee mugs that are mini thermoses!!!!! (so proud of myself)
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon thanks for the reminder
Sorry you had to find out this way . . .
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I would lie so hard to this fresh-fish priest in confession it would turn into an argument and he'd storm out
MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.11.27
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
I'd recognize those eyes anywhere. 🐱
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon J. Edgar Hoover.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Norm Macdonald. Norm Macdonald's mother.
Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Julie Newmar.
From Wikipedia: Julie Newmar (b. August 16, 1933) is an American actress, dancer, and singer, known for a variety of stage, screen, and television roles. She is also a writer, lingerie designer, and real-estate mogul. She won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Katrin Sveg in the 1958 Broadway production of The Marriage-Go-Round and reprised the role in the 1961 film version.
La causa de la avalancha de “volver a la oficina”. https://laboro-spain.blogspot.com/2023/11/causa-reduccion-eliminacion-teletrabajo.html
@VictorMoral No sé yo. Muy elaborada veo ésa estrategia, la verdad.
@Nilace ¿La de la empresa? Sí es así coincido, pero es que los directivos no destacan precisamente por elaborar estrategias. Ni siquiera en las pequeñas en las que ellos son también dueños.
Es una colección de ñapas y a ver hasta dónde cuela.
@VictorMoral Y patá pa'lante que lo que sea a la que nos dediquemos tiene que estar para ayer, que ahí fuera hace mucho frío y yo cuando era joven trabajaba 86 horas diarias en taparrabos por el derecho a comQUE AQUI SE HACE LO QUE YO DIGA Y NO ME MOLESTES CON TUS MIERDAS QUE IGUAL MAÑANA DIGO OTRA COSA.
@VictorMoral Sí, coincido completamente. Plantear que la vuelta a la oficina tiene un motivo subyacente de filtrar empleados problemáticos, aunque una patanada, no me parece propio de las estrategias que he conocido, que suelen tener más que ver con cuestiones mucho más mundanas e infinitamente menos elaboradas.
@zatnosk It depends :)
NixOS will provide a good experience and many software and modules ready to use to configure services. If a software exists, there are good chances it's packaged in Nix.
Guix comes with limited hardware support until you add "guix-nonfree" repository adding firmware and the regular Linux kernel to replace the linux-libre kernel.
Guix community is smaller than NixOS, and configuring your system requires to learn some Scheme (a LISP language), while NixOS requires to learn Nix, something that looks more natural for people not used to LISP.
Guix is entirely community driven while NixOS/Nix is more and more company driven (in some sense, it's still people behind, but they all work for companies with a business model built on top of Nix so there are conflicts of interest sometimes)
@zatnosk I stopped using NixOS because it was boring as I never had any issue
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-10-10-nixos-is-the-most-boring-os.html
You may also enjoy this reading about immutable operating systems, where NixOS and Guix are the best examples, but not the only challengers 
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-12-intro-to-immutable-os.html
Ok, here me out on this.
Laptops (and maybe tablets too) shouldn't necessarily always have internal batteries.
And I don't just mean non-swappable batteries, I mean none at all. Here's why:
With USB-C power delivery, you have a wide selection of power banks to run basically any device from. You get to choose the right capacity for your use case. If you use your laptop mostly at your desk but maybe need it once in a while out of the house, a small one is enough. If you go on a long trip and want to run it the whole time, bring the power to match.
But also, in case your device is under threat of being compromised, let's say by law enforcement or other malicious actors, pulling the power cable when there's no internal battery is a quick and sure way to power down and safely lock your device (assuming you have disk encryption).
MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2023.11.25
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Purple Noon. Our first on-screen look at the talented Mr. Ripley. Oh, and read the 'Ripliad.' You'll be glad you did.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Dracula the Seaman.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon That would be the talented Mr. Delon back there a the helm...
Plein soleil... Needed to look up the English titel.. Purple Noon.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Plein soleil.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Sorry. I only have dishonest answers 🫤
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon la piscine
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon looks like something out of an old 007 movie, but that doesn’t look like Sean Connery’s head.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon The Muppets Take Manhattan.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon @nullabee plein soleil 🌞🌞🌞
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon That looks like it could be a James Bond movie, but I don't recognize the guy. Is that a Polish flag on the boat?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Miami Bang Boat 3?
But seriously, not a clue. Looks ‘70s or early ‘80s
Yesterday's film still was from Purple Noon.
Wikipedia: Purple Noon (French: Plein soleil; Italian: Delitto in pieno sole; also known as Full Sun, Blazing Sun, Lust for Evil, and Talented Mr. Ripley) is a 1960 crime thriller film starring Alain Delon in his first major film, along with Maurice Ronet (as Philippe Greenleaf) and Marie Laforêt (as Marge).
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon And I will watch here: https://archive.org/details/purple-noon-1960 Thanks for the suggestion.
@sellathechemist It's different from the more recent one with Damon and Law. The homosexuality is erased from this one from what I recall. And it has a very different zeitgeist since it was produced in Europe during the 1960s.
The homosexuality in the source book by Patricia Highsmith is very subtle; she was a lesbian and gay activist, but always played these themes with ambiguity, specially with the Ripley character (he is married to a woman in the later books).
All Highsmith's work is very recommendable. The Ripley series are very good books, special The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley's Game (which also was made into two movies: one by Wim Venders and a later one, better in my opinion, by Liliana Cavani featuring John Malkovich).
This _Plain Soleil_ french movie has a very different ending that the book and the remake movie that I consider more interesting and shocking.
@angel @sellathechemist Yes, considering her time, it had to be subtle. I tried listening to The Price of Salt, but was unable to get into it for some reason. Never read any of her other work. I have seen the Wenders film.
He's a true problem solver.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon now this looks much better already 😼
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Tie the visitors. Problem solved.
MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.11.25
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Is that Britt Eckland?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Brooke Shields maybe?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Nastassja Kinski
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Definitely Nastassja Kinski
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Nastassja Kinski
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Nastassja Kinski
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Natasha Kinski.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Take a good look at her lips and eyes and you'll know who was her daddy.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon (1) Welcome back! (2) Nastashia Kinski?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Nastasya Kinski and the back of Roman Polanski’s head…
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Nastasja Kinski?
Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Nastassja Kinski. Almost everyone gone this.
From Wikipedia: Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979).
"Decompiled code isn't literally identical to the original source code so there's no copyright infringement" is an intensely galaxy brain perspective
turning a big dial taht says "Mechanical transformation" on it and constantly looking back at the supreme court for approval like a contestant on the price is right
(This is the LLM business model)
@mjg59 "Save as JPEG" to remove copyright from PNG. It's not the picture, it's just a bunch of coefficients. It can carry other data, too, so clearly not infringing.
@mjg59 I irritate colleagues by telling them LLMs are closer to being a fancy zip archive utility than anything else, and if you frame it that way, it’s fairly obvious what the big players are up to.
@mjg59 yeah i was going to say
The llm vendor argument seems to be that re-encoding input data in a lossy format means it is no longer a derivative work of the input data, which if they can do that, I want the same principle to apply to encoding copyrighted works as JPEG
@mcc to be fair that's approximately a description of how humans learn things so there's a distinction *somewhere*
@mjg59 Unfortunately rulings such as Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music seem to suggest that the distinction in question is drawn in an extremely copyright-maximalist place, so like, if the eventually-coming court case on whether LLM outputs are derivative works turns out to be generous to LLMs/statistical models, then I want human brains to be granted the same rights
With that kind of reductio ad absurdum, the result of filtering the code through indent or just reformatting the code isn't also 'literally identical' 🤦
@mjg59
*throws ball at wall like house*
the thing is there’s the idea of substantial similarity. In a few ways it’s similar to paraphrasing something for an essay.
I’m arguing with myself whether or not a decompiler would pass court scrutiny on diff. with how code is expressed. Like if someone were to argue a complex method was stolen and but the logic is reordered, would they consider that enough? would the court cross check variable names? I have so many questions for an IP lawyer…
@haifisch I think it doesn't matter how complex your decompiler is - if you feed it the same input and it produces the same output every time, I don't think you get to argue that there's any creative endeavour, and certainly not enough to assert that it's not a derived work of the input
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer it is a derivative tho
@mjg59
This is why the GPL only applies if you distribute source code, not binaries.
@mjg59
It's a perspective that shatters to pieces as soon as you consider translation into a different language, so yes, at least planet brain.
@mjg59 photos app showed me this, November 24, 2003:
@Migueldeicaza oh good lord, New York? Thanks for the evidence that I've been part of the conspiracy for 20 years
@mjg59 pretty sure yes
Un servidor público como red social adolescente
http://panicerror.org/blog/servidor-publico-del-instituto.md.html
@VictorMoral Interesante. ¿Y meter monopoly modo texto, o el juego paranoia?
TRIVIA QUIZ FOR 2023.11.24
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@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon it would appear as though plenty of people beat me to it! He’s not a number you know, he’s a free man!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I am not a number!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I believe that’s from The Prisoner.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon definitely looks like The Prisoner. Classic.
The Truman Show meets British spy fiction - Gnostic TV all the way!
I love Patrick Magoon; his voice especially. And I really dig the austere minimalism of being surveilled by a giant golf ball.
My Rorschach:
We are all Sophianic Prisoners trying to escape Demiurgic God’s Village in the great Gnostic cosmodrama of descent and return!
I am not a number!
I am a STAR in the Theater and its Gnostic Double.
Gefangene wach!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon the prisoner
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon the prisoner
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon The Prisoner. No other show looks like that.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon The Prisoner.
The template for every 'weird, existential' show since.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon The Prisoner
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
"By hook or by crook, you will."
Poor number twos.
"I'm not locked in here with you! You're locked in here with ME!"
Okay, this one was Rorschach, but sounds right.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Alice in wonderland?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I recognised it, but had to look up the title: The Prisoner. Does that count?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon If it's not the Prisoner then I am a number and not a man.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon The Prisoner! One of my favorites!
Looks like someone is spending Thanksgiving alone. #NSFW
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon hahaha greatest comeback ever, nice to see you 
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Yay! You're back!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Alone, but not lonely.
The fundamental intentionality of consciousness in which it is COMPELLED to engage with the world so as to bring Meaning-Fullness to it resolves itself in two fundamental ways: It can become the ground for the project of domination and exploitation of others i.e., a cockacracy, or the liberation and affirmation of the inherent dignity and value of others as equal Transcendental Subjects/Stars!
Cue Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30:
@Prettiest_Gnostic_Machine More like:
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Wanksgiving. Welcome back!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon haha welcome back, happy thanksgiving 🦃 😉
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon https://youtu.be/IFPwm0e_K98?si=G3X279LO1_oyCAnP
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
En français ça marche aussi, Adulte content :)
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon what does he plan to do to that pie?
@billclawson Nothing wholesome would be my guess.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Welcome back!
@miker Thanks.
Mi padre lo decía: "hay mucha gente que dice ser de izquierdas hasta que tiene algo en propiedad".
every part of this tweet is insane lol
for context, eightsleep is a ""smart"" mattress that tracks you, and apparently SF techbros use it a lot. Very nice of their ceo to illustrate their total disregard of privacy.
that said, it is also fucking hilarious that the data apparently does show that the techbros in SF are losing sleep over the openai drama lol
Para los que tengáis Firefox y estéis viendo cómo tardan en cargar más los vídeos de YouTube. Añadid esto a uBlock en "mis filtros"
www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), *, 0.001)
Didn't realize my wireless plan capped tethering speeds, but now it makes sense. When your phone gets ~10-15 mbps and your tethered computer gets .5 or .6 consistently, you know they're screwing w/ the service you paid for.
Welp, I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize, but changing the TTL on my computer seems to have released the throttling.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/cmxp66/2019_bypass_verizon_hotspot_throttle_no_root/
Igual lo que hay que plantearse es si realmente necesitamos llevar encima otro dispositivo electrónico conectado o si es una necesidad ficticia creada por el capitalismo.
Según ellos, en su época no existía ni el agua, tenían que recoger los átomos de hidrógeno y oxígeno y mezclarlos para poder lavarse.
Bobby Fingers did it again: another masterful video of craft, insanity, imagination and sadness. He also travels to Turkey for an "implant":
A reminder. Religion and traditions are just peer pressure from dead people who maybe have never even existed.
Totalmente de acuerdo. Y si alguien tiene alguna duda de lo que nos esperaría si ganan no hay más que ver al tipo de gentuza que están jodiendo esta semana las calles de Madrid.
Yo creo que todo esta ralea fascista está haciendo más a favor de un gobierno progresista que ningún esfuerzo de la izquierda.
No soporto a Enrique Dans pero voy a hacer la excepción de divulgar este artículo suyo sobre la última golfería de Meta/Facebook y sobre por qué nuestro derecho a la privacidad es irrenunciable:
https://www.enriquedans.com/2023/11/quiere-usted-hacerse-dano.html
Pues parece que la novela de Sonsoles Ónega ganadora del Planeta 2023 y su millón de pavos ha resultado ser una mierda.
estoy en shock.
Los «Judías blancas guisadas en la olla de cocción lenta»
https://nutriguia.com/recetas/judias-blancas-guisadas-en-la-olla-de-coccion-lenta.html
Ningún creyente individual es responsableLas únicas religiones que no causan daño son las que ya no tienen ni un solo creyente. Así que cada creyente sí es un poco responsable.
He colaborado en el especial de Halloween del podcast Territorio Extrañer haciendo la locución del relato «El caso de los llamadores de puertas» de María Jesús Montalvo:
https://www.ivoox.com/especial-halloween-2023-audios-mp3_rf_118718630_1.html
I remember this one. Wasn't it for MS Office, though?
CC: @catsalad@infosec.exchange @solimanhindy@mastodon.lovetux.net
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.
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
History
Shai Berger
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑
