Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
#Escritor #Musician #CProgrammer #Illustrator #Linux #OpenBSD #Madrid #fedi22
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curmudgeon / cascarrabias
Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
BLAHBYLON’S EYE-DENTITY QUIZ FOR 2024.09.16
Can you eye-dentify this person?
The answer will be revealed tomorrow.
@RussSharek I'm glad they safely made their way to you
@angel @RussSharek thanks!
@angel Not totally. I started, but the result wasn't excellent. So I asked for some help and this is the final result.
@gyptazy wow can they only be obtained during conferences? Not that I am a true collector by nature, but these stickers have a certain appeal :-)
And now I have Vienna by Ultravox in my head and I suspect won't leave for a week.
Hey @stefano,
I've got a question about rules on your instance. #8 says "Any kind of attacks are strictly prohibited" (by the way, spaces are missing around the sentence).
Does this mean only personal attacks, or also attacks/critique of people in the world, organizations, or things? Can I (very occasionally :3 ) say that ACLED's conflict index has bad methodology, Lenin's vague language promoted violence, or disagree that cryptocurrency is a scam (or argue that it is, for that matter)?
@sqrtminusone Hi Pavel, the BSD Cafe is a place with a positive mood, PRO and not against. This doesn’t mean you can’t disagree with something. I myself sometimes criticize specific choices, methodologies, or situations. What’s important is that things always stay within the realm of expressing your opinion rather than attacking or discriminating against someone. It is perfectly fine to express your opinion (e.g., “I love systemd and would like to see it on BSDs!”) or your discontent (e.g., “I am extremely opposed to the systemd approach”), but not to discriminate against or attack those who use systemd.
I hope I’ve conveyed my idea clearly. If you have any doubts, feel free to ask!
@stefano Thanks for the explanation! Works for me
@sqrtminusone Glad to read that!
Accurato?
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A humorous map of Europe displays bands of culinary quality radiating out from Italy, the apparent centre of "real food". The further from Italy the more advisory becomes more severe. From "fattening" in Germany to "literally tasteless" in the UK to "toxic" in Northern Europe and Russia
A small compendium of the Fediverse platforms I use/know well.
In the past few days, I revisited some of my old Fediverse instances since some friends asked me to help them set up a new one. I also took the chance to perform maintenance on some leftover instances. Here's my experience:
Akkoma: My oldest instance still running, opened in 2022. It was offline for a few months (3/4). I updated everything to the latest version and restarted it. I’m not sure why, but it’s extremely slow, with a heavy load on Postgres and many queries just to open the main page. I like Akkoma - I'll investigate further.
GoToSocial: I updated a friend's instance - GoToSocial itself was up-to-date, but the underlying system wasn’t. I noticed that once it exceeds 2000 followings, it becomes a bit slow. The database is PostgreSQL, but that's not the issue. The GoToSocial process becomes somewhat heavy on the VPS. Still, it's very usable and a software with great potential, in my opinion. The Mastodon API is implemented quite well and works with the major software.
Mitra: It seems well-built. The person had around 1000 followers and followings on a Mastodon account, which they moved from a large instance. No speed issues, though sending a message makes the server “heavy” for a bit, but it’s temporary. The Mastodon API is partially implemented, but the software is advancing quickly, and I find its native interface quite pleasant.
Snac2: I've always had a soft spot for Snac2. The lack of a database and some design choices make it an excellent solution for small instances. For example, sending posts to all known instances increases visibility and interaction. Its basic, JavaScript-free interface is very clear, though it might not be the best for those used to Mastodon. But the Mastodon API is improving version by version, and I think the developer is doing an excellent job. It struggles a bit with larger numbers, but that's due to the underlying file system, not the software itself. If "move" support (both in and out) were added, I would recommend it to anyone starting self-hosting for single-user or small community instances because "move" is one of the options that gives the most freedom in Fediverse software.
Mastodon: My “old” personal instance was stuck at version 4.1.x and had been offline for a few months. I updated the FreeBSD Jail and upgraded Mastodon to 4.2.12 and then to 4.3.0-beta1. No issues. I also helped a friend (who had an old Pleroma-based instance they barely used) migrate. This user has around 5000 followers and followings - Mastodon is running on FreeBSD on a VPS (arm64) for just over 3 euros a month, with no significant issues (apart from media storage, but that's not Mastodon’s fault). Mastodon is sometimes said to be heavy, and that's partly true, but its modularity ensures that even in cases of overload, queues may slow down, but navigation and the local timeline remain reasonably fast. I think this is a good thing for any larger-scale use of an instance.
In short, I think things are moving in the right direction, and the software is evolving nicely. Well done, devs!
#Fediverse #Akkoma #GoToSocial #Mitra #Snac2 #Snac #Mastodon #SelfHosting #InstanceManagement #FreeBSD #OpenSource
Would you mind pointing me to the Snac2 repo that you use? I’ve noticed a few forks and am curious which you’d recommend. Thanks!
@grimer I'm using the official, original one: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 by @grunfink
I've always had a soft spot for Snac2.By far my favourite option. Without snac2 and the ability to self-host it very easily, I would not be on the Fediverse today. Bonus points for the main developer being very easy to get in touch with, and very reactive when problems are reported.
Keeping in mind that I am not coming from Mastodon or Twitter. Snac2 is my first experience as an active contributor to the Fediverse and more generally to micro-blogging.
@vv221 I totally agree. Snac2 is a great piece of software and the dev is a fantastic person.
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe @vv221@fediverse.dotslashplay.it The only thing snac is missing is a libncurses based TUI client written in C99. I’m not joking either, I love TUI.
@puppygirlhornypost2 I was going to suggest toot, then I saw you asked for a client in C99 😉
@eltheanine @puppygirlhornypost2 it's nice, but isn't it written in go?
@stefano I ysing Gotosocial for my primary account but lack of ability to edit post is so painful for me because I always tipo anywehre.
Snac2 is good and fast, it’s good except the timeline is messed up even I open it using enafore or phanpy. But I love snac2, I hope someday I can access the API using scope and auth.
Oh Gotosocial also doesn’t support scoped auth right now.
Remember when the word "cyber" sounded cool, not the cringiest shit known to humankind? Not sure what happened there hey
@Daojoan
The word and the meaning remain the same, we are the ones that changed.
@Daojoan back in the 90s? yep
For me it lost all its cool when tRump started talking about “the cyber” in 2016
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-cyber-worst-quotes-statements-hackers-ukraine-russia/
@Daojoan this happened
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Cybertruck with Trump flag wrap
@Daojoan
I also remember a time when "trump" and "meta" were just words that you could use as intended and not be all ick
@Daojoan
It started with "cyberspace" in #Neuromancer where we started collectively dreaming of the Internet.
@Daojoan they put the word “sex” after it
@Daojoan maybe we can reclaim it by pronouncing it with a hard 'c' like it would be in ancient greek. Maybe then we would give it a pass.
@Daojoan Actual conservative British government ad campaign. (Additional comments by humans)
@Daojoan Never seen Dr Who? Here's a cybermen from way back
@Daojoan still beats "information super-highway"…😛
@Daojoan
Elon Musk happened. 🤷
MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2024.09.10
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 It looks like Johnathan Frakes but I have no idea what movie it would be from, even if it is.
Yesterday’s movie still was from Snow White: A Tale of Terror.
From Wikipedia: Snow White: A Tale of Terror[a] is a 1997 American dark fantasy gothic horror film based on the fairy tale of the same name. It was directed by Michael Cohn and stars Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill and Monica Keena. It premiered on Showtime on August 24, 1997.
I remember loving that back then.
There was a shop in the SFV somewhere that sold random stuff, and when they closed down they had the stone baby prop for sale. I was so ready to buy it and the guy said it was already sold.
I was so bummed, especially when he told me that he practically gave it away to someone he wasn't even sure wanted it because he had to get rid of it and no one was interested.
What's the best non-Kindle e-reader these days? I'm looking for an e-ink screen, so an iPad or phone won't cut it.
BLAHBYLON’S EYE-DENTITY QUIZ FOR 2024.09.09
Can you eye-dentify this person?
The answer will be revealed tomorrow.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Weirdly I want to say Michael J Fox? I'm terrible at these eyes but I actually got Cher's right somehow!
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Paul Newman?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon kevin kostner?
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon
I gotta say, every time you do this I look at the pic and have absolutely no foggiest idea, but this time I immediately thought Paul Newman. I have no idea why.
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon Paul Newman!
(...he said with certainty, like a fool.)
look, correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation, but everyone who's ever drunk water has eventually died
@Daojoan I never touch the stuff. Fish fuck in it.
@Daojoan Dihydrogen monoxide is the toxin that no one will acknowledge https://dhmo.org/facts.html
@Daojoan Too late to stop now. 🤷🏻♂️
#NoBillionaires #Unionize #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich
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UNIONS ARE WHY THERE ARE FIRE EXITS AT YOUR WORK, AND WHY THE DOORS AREN'T PADLOCKED DURING WORK HOURS.
A great Fediverse software, written in 
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
«No obstante, el eurodiputado de ultraderecha Alvise Pérez, líder de la plataforma Se Acabó La Fiesta, ha votado este jueves en el Parlamento Europeo en contra de las subvenciones al toro de lidia por considerarlo un espectáculo de “brutalidad, crueldad y tortura”, en una posición muy diferente a la de PP y Vox.»Vaya, el tarado este votando cosas razonables. Vivir para ver.
So my org-mode agenda view informed me that yesterday was labor day.
Which I found confusing. First of all it's spelled wrong, it's supposed to be May Day. And well, it's the wrong day. It should be May 1st.
I doubt a patch to the holiday-general-holidays variable in holidays.el would be accepted though.
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
Barbara Ehrenreich
(08/26/1941 – 09/01/2022)
US writer
the right are obsessed with "owning the libs" because they miss the good old days when their ancestors also owned people
Just a reminder that the "existential risk" from AI is not that somehow we'll make Skynet or the computers from The Matrix.
Nobody is going to give a large language model the nuclear codes.
The existential risk is to marginalized people who will be silently refused jobs or health care or parole, or who will be targeted by law enforcement or military action because of an ML model's inherent bias, and that because these models are black boxes, it will be nearly impossible for victims to appeal.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_PvQ7tRfwvLCeR-jnqdbf6BVayqqC0QW
https://mastodon.social/users/o_simardcasanova/statuses/113053473600003123
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."
-- Fernando Pessoa
‼️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
@ewenmcneill Possibly worth noting that the versions of grub revoked by this are known insecure
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
A motivational message 🫶🏻
#motivation #mindset
@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
#OtD 23 Jul 1944 19-year-old French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a Nazi officer walking in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lives to this day https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9570/madeleine-riffaud-assassinates-nazi?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Solo tienes una gatita muy muy especial.
La referencia solo la pillarán los de la Generación X, pero aquí está el documento original:
Trump to the press: I will crush you like the bugs you are.
Journalists: Haha there goes Trump again.
Biden: I'm incredibly disappointed in your coverage:
Journalists: How dare you? Resign immediately, you ungrateful pathetic SOB.
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
Hey for no particular reason let’s all read up on this, kay?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
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.
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