Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
#Escritor #Musician #CProgrammer #Illustrator #Linux #OpenBSD #Madrid #fedi22
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Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
there is no spike at all on @mastodonusercount, has anyone seen a single spike anywhere on the fedi from #Brazil yet?
@npub1egwq7glxu7rr7kjwf64zzdhm52lafk74ud0ap5w99syt3ntxcvzsxlnl2z @mastodonusercount you are seeing this post thru a bridge my friend. *THIS* is being posted in the fediverse by a mastodon account and then routed to you via https://momostr.pink
@liaizon @mastodonusercount @jalcine
There's been a tiny one by the looks for a few instances
@liaizon@social.wake.st @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social there's kookie but their federation is disabled apparently so that doesnt count
@penny @mastodonusercount oh shit I hadn't seem that they turned off federation... why tho they were excited about being part of the fediverse
@penny @mastodonusercount found the post where they announced it, thats super disappointing https://kookie.app/notes/9xib8dq5eczl19fk
@liaizon @penny @mastodonusercount the local timeline is busy RN!
They turned off federation because they don't have the moderation capabilities (for incoming federated content)
Their Nodeinfo states:
4600 users
with ~150000 posts!
@liaizon @mastodonusercount I wonder if threads and then bluesky are taking most of the signups
https://mastodon.social/users/o_simardcasanova/statuses/113053473600003123
@liaizon There's maybe some pickup in activity at ursal.zone, which seems to be the only (federated) Brazilian Portuguese instance with over 100 MAU. I've asked the admin how to help.
https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/113055191266435136
@liaizon @mastodonusercount I don't think we will see a lot of people joining Mastodon, the difference from the last Twitter exodus is that we now have Bluesky and Threads, the journalists here only talk about the two options.
Everybody here in Brazil already have an Instagram account with their friends and connections, it is much easier to go to Threads and not have to think about servers and federation stuff.
BLAHBYLON’S EYE-DENTITY QUIZ FOR 2024.08.30
Can you eye-dentify this person?
The answer will be revealed tomorrow.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I'm probably wrong, but Jennifer Lawrence?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Tatjana Patitz?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon no, but I bet she is or was very pretty, and kind. Audrey?
fediverse followers reply test! please reply if you are from the fediverse 👋
other threads users should be able to like and see your replies below now 🫨
Secret Panel HERE 🧠 https://tapas.io/episode/841867
@MrLovenstein I think it just wants him to stop staring at screens and go outside
@MrLovenstein secret panel wasted as it was not "sex".
@MrLovenstein This is me
@MrLovenstein 𝘾𝙇𝙄𝘾𝙆 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙆 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙄𝙈 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙄𝙈𝙈𝙀𝘿𝙄𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙇𝙔 𝙏𝙊 𝙂𝙀𝙏 𝙋𝘼𝙄𝘿👇𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑃𝑎𝑦𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 20 second ... 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚 𝑁𝑜𝑤.. ⬇️⬇️
claim here 👉👉https://bitly.cx/cGHk
@MrLovenstein well the brain dosen't care
@MrLovenstein If it were my brain that would be the WORST thing to do because now it's going to iterate over the whole fucking list like its xmas. Then it realizes that encompasses 40 lifetimes and more and goes, "You know...death sounds relaxing..."
@MrLovenstein so accurate and true
@MrLovenstein poor dude is infected with internalized capitalism :(
This 64-bit integer that stores the byte offset into this file, is a big enough type to store not just an offset into this file and any other particular file, but the entire internet joined together into one file.
MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2024.08.27
Do you know which movie this picture is from?
Give your answer below, even if you have to guess.
Please boost for more responses.
The answer will be revealed tomorrow.
#BlahbylonsMovieQuiz #Movies #Film #Cinema
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon she looks like Vampira, I was thinking Plan 9 from outer space, however I'm not sure as her eye brows don't look pointy enough.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon old horror movie. Sorry that's my best guess!
Yesterday’s movie still was from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
From Wikipedia: Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science-fiction horror film. The film's storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of producing a visually identical copy of a human.
casual eldritch horror is my favorite
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a dark, misty road winding through a forest with tall trees on either side. The central focus is a large, ominous red monolith floating in the middle of the road.
"God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you're back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun's cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me."
Oh FFS!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon JFC! (Or Keanu)
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon The matrix want you to believe these are green strawberries ...
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon is that a stable diffusion "draw this picture, but using that other picture/prompt as your paintbrush"?
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Welsh or C standard library function? mbsrtowcs rhowch strxfrm cwtch mwyn wcstold wmffre wcsoll
BLAHBYLON’S EYE-DENTITY QUIZ FOR 2024.08.26
Can you eye-dentify this person?
The answer will be revealed tomorrow.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Judy Garland?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Jennifer Tilly?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Sigourney Weaver?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Annie Lennox?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Eye'm beginning to think eye'm not very good at this.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
My wife told me to say Dinah Shore.
Yesterday's Eye-Dentity was Cyndi Lauper, and I don’t understand how so many of you got it wrong. Only one person answered correctly.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
I missed this one which is frustrating because I could easily answer it.
I am useless at recognising people, with only a handful of exceptions.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon well there is your research project!
-- Fernando Pessoa
Death camp
Concentration camp
Genocide
Starvation as weapon
All terms that the AP can use here and chooses not to
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As I've said before, Halloween IS my favorite holiday.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon So I won't be bringing the kids by . . . 😅
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I have heard people say those taste awful.
@TocsicZader Perhaps so, but they're very filling.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon where do the many small ones go?
@dkalintsev Wherever you want them to.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I don't have enough imagination for that
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I’ll take this opportunity to promote one of the good people in the sex toy industry
I think we don’t talk enough about how NASA has stranded astronauts in space and is relying on commercial services to get them back but one of those commercial services can’t manufacture safe equipment and the other is run by a fascist.
BLAHBYLON’S EYE-DENTITY QUIZ FOR 2024.08.22
Can you eye-dentify this person?
The answer will be revealed tomorrow. This is a super easy one.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I'm going with Cher
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Nancy Pelosi
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Nancy Pelosi?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
Hillary Clinton
‼️OJO A ESTO: Francia le quita el estatuto de medio online a un esparcidor de bulos: no podrá optar a subvenciones, ni ventajas fiscales (y supongo que tampoco a publi institucional).
Luchar contra la financiación de los pseudomedios ES POSIBLE. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fake-news/medio-frances-france-soir-pierde-estatuto-servicio-prensa-bulos-covid
@EconoCabreado y dejémonos de gilipolleces la pasta es lo que hace daño de verdad y cuanto más progresivo mejor, según lo que ganes y si reincides más pasta. Nada de, no te dejo decir más mentiras por internet.
1 point for the episode/main plot.
1 point for the joke/scene.
I heartily award points to this event or product.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c68ee9e3-3885-47e2-99bd-0cdf2f226c4a.jpeg
![Guess the Episode [Easy]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/87cc5cb8-08f5-4f39-868e-619589591ec3.jpeg "Guess the Episode [Easy]")
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Guess the Episode [Easy]
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from a developer working on a new site for a mutual client. The message was: "I uploaded the new WordPress and plugins to your hosting (dedicated FreeBSD jail with PHP 8.3, MySQL, etc.), but there seem to be issues. The site is behaving strangely - possibly due to an incompatible plugin. Could you install PHP 7.4 for full compatibility, or consider moving the current development server to production?"
The "development server" is a small VPS with Docker on their infrastructure, where they set everything up without much oversight from me.
I pointed out that installing PHP 7.4 in 2024 is not advisable, as it has been unsupported (including security updates) for quite some time. I suggested upgrading to PHP 8.2, or 8.1 for temporary testing.
They proposed creating a production server based on Docker so they could "manage versions and dependencies independently." I was open to this idea but rejected the notion of putting such an outdated setup into production in 2024.
The client called, frustrated because "I refused to install what they asked." I explained that what they were asking was risky and outdated, and that a plugin requiring PHP 7.4 was clearly obsolete and would cause problems quickly.
Then, everyone disappeared. This morning, the client called in a panic: "Our server's been hacked! Do something!"
Upon investigation, I found that:
- They had gone live with their development server without informing me.
- They had been hacked through a plugin and malicious software was installed for phishing and other purposes, consuming bandwidth and CPU.
- All antivirus/antispam systems flagged the site as malicious.
I explained to the client that the server itself wasn't hacked (especially not mine), but rather the "site" was compromised - a different issue altogether. I advised them to restore the DNS settings and bring the previous site back online.
Their site is a simple institutional one, which is updated every 2-3 years by the developer. It doesn't need dynamic CMS features. The previous site was static, created with Simply Static, and remained online and problem-free for years.
Unfortunately, this is a common trend today. Some developers deploy outdated, vulnerable systems and then blame others when the site is compromised.
#WebDevelopment #Security #PHP #CMS #ServerManagement #Vulnerability #IT #Infosec #SysAdmin
@stefano Let me say simply 🤦♀️
I see the same pattern on non-security related things, even in bigger companies.
What can I say? In a different scenario, I would say, lets go to the pub for beers 🍻
@tara @stefano hhm, I'm seeing this kind of behaviour in others aspects of life, too.
Professionally I know it can be hard/frustrating to see people "crashing knowingly into a wall" but it's a way to learn ("trial and error") from mistakes and experience self competence (or the lack of) to cope with similar situations and decissions.
The blame game mostly comes from being unwilling to cope with the thought of being responsible and or being unable to reflect on own actions...
btw. a "told you so" won't do any good, tho. It just adds up of them being defensive. Show them a way out, if they follow good for them, if not... back to "trial and error". Rinse and repeat
Yeah, it's hard in a customer relationship, but...🤷♀️
@Tionisla @tara Sure, I didn't say "I told you so". I just proposed to go back to the developement site, upgrade all the components to the last ones and put it into the production jail. Meanwhile, they can generate a static copy of the website. I'm trying to convince them to ALWAYS use that static copy in production and generate a new one those 1/2 times per year they'll be updating the contents.
@stefano Sometimes, the hardest talk with a client, is convincing them that their 100 hits/hour [including bots/recon] website, doesn't need WordPress 😅
MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2024.08.19
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.)
Her name will be revealed tomorrow.
Please boost for more responses.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I don't know who that is. I may just as well say it ist Abbe Lane, because I do not know who that is.
Yesterday’s Mystery Person was Abbe Lane.
From Wikipedia: Abbe Lane (born Abigail Francine Lassman; December 14, 1932) is an American singer and actress. Lane was known in the 1950s and 1960s for her revealing outfits and sultry style of performing. Her first marriage was as the fourth wife of Latin bandleader and musician Xavier Cugat, more than thirty years her senior.
MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2024.08.19
Do you know which movie this picture is from?
Give your answer below, even if you have to guess.
Please boost for more responses.
The answer will be revealed tomorrow.
#BlahbylonsMovieQuiz #Movies #Film #Cinema
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon the ninth gate
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Johnny Depp as Dean Corso in "The Ninth Gate"
The book ,for me, is much better than the Movie...
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
The Ninth Gate
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon das neunte Tur / The Ninth Gate
Yesterday’s movie still was from The Ninth Gate.
From Wikipedia: The Ninth Gate is a 1999 neo-noir horror thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. An international co-production between the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain, the film is loosely based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 novel The Club Dumas. The film stars Johnny Depp as a dealer of rare books . . .
A motivational message 🫶🏻
#motivation #mindset
When you use Twitter, you ride with Elon and Trump
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Image that says "When you use Twitter, you ride with Elon! Get off that awful garbage fire site today!" It's in the style of the 1940s US government poster "When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler" and has a picture of a person driving their car alone next to an outline of Elon Musk dressed up like Hitler.
Para quien no haya entendido mi post sobre nacionalismos, aquí dejo una explicación más gráfica.
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Una guía para principiantes sobre nacionalismos.
Un burgués rico, abrazando un cofre lleno de oro en su castillo, dice «Mirad todas las cosas bonitas que tenemos». Unos campesinos, fuera de los lujos del castillo, le responden «Nosotros no tenemos nada, lo tienes todo tú».
El burgués traza una línea en la tierra con un palo, formando un círculo, dejando su castillo y a los campesinos dentro del círculo.
Pone un cartelito al lado del círculo dibujado en la tierra «Frontera del país». El burgués rico, abrazando un cofre lleno de oro en su castillo, dice «Mirad todas las cosas bonitas que tenemos». Los campesinos, dentro de la frontera, pero fuera del castillo, responden «Vamooosss, somos los mejores, estoy orgulloso de mi país, oleee».
@brucknerite @RichardJMurphy @25kV
Es que de hecho ocurre que es una balanza presupuestaria muy clara: si el estado se endeuda, las familias no lo hacen; si el estado no se endeuda, lo tienen que hacer las familias. Vivimos en un sistema económico impulsado por el crédito, lo queramos o no; y la relación entre los estados y las familias en cuanto a la deuda es casi de vaso comunicante.
tenemos que dejar de decir lo de noseque no, lo siguienteEsto es casi más rancio que lo de la cerveza sin plomo.
Secret Panel HERE 🙂 https://tapas.io/episode/3241718
Solo tienes una gatita muy muy especial.
La referencia solo la pillarán los de la Generación X, pero aquí está el documento original:
Okay. Big move for me.
I have started serialising my novel, There Will Be No Violins.
"Reality has an expiration date. Consume at your own risk."
It's free to read on Wattpad.
I hope you like it.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/373419239-there-will-be-no-violins
Usuarios de Linux/OpenBSD: ay que se me ha partío el ojete de la risa
Echas una mano a alguien a que tenga presencia en Internet (por poner un ejemplo real), con buena disposición, amplia disponibilidad y coste cero por aquello de la "amistad" y de que eres un magnífico profesional cuya carrera hacia la indigencia es inexplicable y bla, bla, bla ...
Y resulta que cuando le dices que tiene un precio mínimo, chiquitito, lo que se ha llamado de siempre precio de coste y voy a la ruina (pero de verdad porque nunca acierto con el cálculo), justo en ese momento, VayaPorDios, ya no tiene tanto interés. Y por supuesto, está en otro sitio a una décima parte de lo que tú le dices.
A partir de ahí supongo que cada cual tendrá una historia diferente donde habrá de todo. Yo hasta ahora podía ignorarlas pero ahora, que necesito de verdad el dinero, va a doler más saber que a) no eres tan bueno, b) no es tan importante y c) no necesitaban tanto.
Me sorprende que en ese hospital no vendan cervezas con alcohol, yo me tomé una la última vez que estuve.
El guardián entre el centeno solo es un peñazo si lo ves desde un punto de vista capacitista y neurotípico.
Puede que se haya quedado antiguo en muchas cosas, ahí puedo coincidir.
¡Haber especificado!
"Paul Dirac's remarks on God and religion (1927)
If we are honest — and scientists have to be — we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is quite understandable why primitive people, who were so much more exposed to the overpowering forces of nature than we are today, should have personified these forces in fear and trembling. But nowadays, when we . . . "
Yes, you read that right. While the overall numbers might suggest growth, a deeper look reveals a worrying trend: the monthly active users on the Fediverse have plummeted to half of what they once were. Even the big profiles are feeling the pinch with dwindling interactions. Could it be that the Fediverse honeymoon is over?
Meanwhile, Twitter/X is seeing a resurgence. More and more users are flocking back, reigniting the platform with a surge of interactions. Is this the beginning of the end for the Fediverse, or just a bump in the road?
Let’s hear your thoughts!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Federated #socialmedia #Twitter #X #Posting #Interactions #MAU #monthlyactiveusers #social #socialising #tech #techbubble #alternatives
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