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[...] I’m in charge of feeding my sister-in-law’s cat. All of a sudden, he’s super affectionate with me and follows me everywhere.This is the real love 🐈❤️
@nazokiyoubinbou @DaveMasonDotMe If you think that the "focus should be on supporting users" before "keeping your website online at all", then I assure you, you *do not* totally get it.
@inthehands Or, the "save government money" stuff was just a cover story, and the real aim of DOGE was exfiltrating all government data to feed Elon's AI. Which he accomplished in the first week.
For #InternationalTigerDay... "Tigerlillia Terribilis" — from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77).
More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-lears-nonsense-botany-1871-77 #InternationalTigerDay2022
Meanwhile…
FreeBSD: You need a processor, preferably something made in the last two decades with 1GB of RAM (although more is better)
OpenBSD: You need a processor, preferably made sometime since the turn of the century and maybe 256MB of RAM (although more is better)
NetBSD: You've got a dead badger you found on the roadside and have attached it to a dodgy 220V power-source? Sure, we'll run on that.
Del fr. bathyscaphe, y este del gr. βαθύ bathý 'profundo' y σκάφος skáphos 'barco'.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. m. Especie de embarcación sumergible preparada para resistir grandes presiones y destinada a explorar las profundidades del mar.
Sin.:
+ submarino, sumergible.
How Gustave Moreau’s Mystical Paintings Defined the Symbolist Movement
Gustave Moreau was the defiant visionary whose mystical paintings shaped a groundbreaking new movement in France and beyond.
by Kelsey Spicuzza
https://www.thecollector.com/gustave-moreau-symbolist-movement/
Symbolism in literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7864
#Books #Literature #Symbolism #Art_criticism
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L'Apparition (1876), watercolor, 105 x 72 cm., Musée d'Orsay
by Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau’s L'Apparition is a haunting and richly symbolic watercolor painting that vividly captures a moment from the biblical story of Salome. In this striking scene, Salome stands transfixed before the vision of the severed head of John the Baptist, which hovers, radiant and bleeding, in the air before her.
Salome is adorned in elaborate, orientalized robes and jewelry that shimmer with color, light, and texture—an opulent reflection of her allure and the decadent atmosphere of Herod’s court. Her expression is one of awe and dread as she gazes upon the miraculous apparition.
The head of John the Baptist floats above a luminous nimbus, glowing with supernatural intensity, contrasting with the dark, richly patterned architectural setting behind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau#/media/File:The_Apparition,_Gustave_Moreau_1876.jpg
Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door
"Magic and ideology are both practices of belief."
By Celia Bell
https://lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/
#Books #Literature #literarycriticism #WomeninArt
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Leonora Carrington
This evocative photograph captures Leonora Carrington, the British-born Surrealist artist and writer. Carrington appears poised and enigmatic, her expression calm but intense, often with piercing eyes that suggest her deep inner world.
She has semi-long curly hair and wears a lacy midi-length blouse with a skirt (or black pants), her arms wrapped around one of her knees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington#/media/File:Leonora_Carrington.jpg
Welp. All that lovely "AI" derailment aside, we now have an answer:
It is literally impossible for XScreenSaver to lock the screen under Wayland. Cannot be done. None of the extant, spottily-supported "protocols" will allow the screen to be locked while an Xwayland surface is visible.
Great job, everybody. Perfect, no notes.
Everything i draw and make here is fediverse-exclusive-in-the-public-domain. That means you can use my work for anything you desire without having to ask for permission!
If you enjoy my content or have some kind of use for it, please, consider supporting my work.
https://analognowhere.com/support
or visit the store:
https://analognowhere.redbubble.com
Thank you!
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Generation 7 color palette'd Girl with a laptop.
Mientras Cristóbal Montoro asfixiaba a los ayuntamientos y les exigía recortes, maniobraba para que las empresas de gas de la trama pagaran menos impuestos locales.
Os explico cómo varios ayuntamientos perdieron más de 10 millones de euros. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/cristobal-montoro/varios-ayuntamientos-perdieron-10-millones-euros-impuestos-locales-caso-montoro
I had a small VPS with small filesystem space, and I (temporarily) needed much more. I also had a Wireguard connection from this VPS to a server in my own home under my desk, slow but with plenty of disk space. My home connection was a standard ISP fibre, dynamic IP, but very stable in time. So, I used sshfs from the VPS to mount a folder in my home server. It was not very fast, but got the work done.
Wait... What the freaking effing Fick? It's Friday, my dudes and dudettes!
Wheee! Where did that week go?
Aren't we supposed to slow down during the summer months?
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/
has a page with all her posts concatenated togetherThis is a brilliant idea.
CC: @alderwick@merveilles.town @anarodrigues@front-end.social
Del lat. errabundus.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. adj. Que va de una parte a otra sin tener asiento fijo.
Sin.:
+ errante, errático, vagabundo.
Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
This idea has been in my mind since the very beginning of this adventure, almost two years ago. Over time, several people have suggested it. But until recently, I felt the timing just wasn’t right — for many reasons. Today, I believe it finally is.
So I’m happy to announce a new service: The BSD Cafe Journal.
At first, I thought I’d use BSSG for it (I even added multi-author support with this in mind), but in the end, it didn’t feel like the right tool for the job.
The idea is to create a multi-author space, with content published on a fairly regular basis. A reference point for news, updates, tutorials, technical articles — a place to inform and connect.
Just like people in Italy used to stop by cafés to read the newspaper and chat about the day’s news, the BSD Cafe Journal aims to be a space for reading, sharing, and staying informed — all in the spirit of the BSD Cafe.
The guiding principles are the same as always: positivity, constructive discussion, promoting BSDs and open source in general.
The platform I’ve chosen is WordPress, for several reasons:
This means every author will have their own identity in the Fediverse and can be followed directly, and it’ll also be possible to follow the whole Journal.
Original and educational content is encouraged, but it’s also perfectly fine to link to existing articles elsewhere. Personally, I’ll link my technical posts from ITNotes whenever I publish them there.
The goal is simple: a news-oriented site, rich in content, ad-free, respectful of privacy — all under the BSD Cafe umbrella.
Content coordination will happen in a dedicated Matrix room for authors. There’ll also be a public room for discussing ideas, giving feedback, and sharing suggestions.
Of course, I can’t do this alone. A journal with no content is just an empty shell.
So here’s my call to action:
Who’s ready to lend a hand? If you enjoy writing, explaining, sharing your knowledge — the Journal is waiting for you!
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BSD Cafe banner
Have a nice weekend!
Del lat. permănens, -entis.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. adj. Que permanece.
Sin.:
+ constante, continuo, duradero, estable, perenne, incesante, fijo, ininterrumpido, persistente.
Ant.:
+ pasajero.
2. 2. adj. Sin limitación de tiempo. Se reunieron en sesión permanente.
3. 3. adj. Dicho de una comisión: Que en el seno de una institución u organización asegura la continuidad de sus funciones. U. t. c. s. f.
4. 4. f. Rizado artificial del cabello, que se mantiene mucho tiempo.
Sin.:
+ rizado, moldeado, moldeador, peinado, tocado.
Improbably Compatible #oldknees
This is one of ~140 comic strips that are in my new book 'Ew, It's Beautiful', available for preorder now! https://site.andrewsmcmeel.com/ew-its-beautiful-incentive
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Two crows are flying in front of a gray-blue sky. One says to the other "Do you think we're best friends in other universes too?" The second panel splits into a three by three grid of different reactions of "Um"s and "Well"s from the second crow, in a multiverse sort of way. The third panel is further split again by three, so there are nine by nine squares of the same two crows flying together, the only distinction between the squares is a different sky colour. In the fourth panel, the square are again divided by three so there are now 27 by 27 filling the panel. We can see now that there is a greater pattern emerging from the colours of each square, a pixelated form is starting to emerge. In the fifth panel, the many many squares of different universes is reminiscent of a painting using pointillism, which each dot of colour represent one of many thousands of realities. We can see now very clearly that the pixelated forms are the two crows, flying in front of a gray-blue sky. We return to the visual resolution as we saw in the first panel, as if no time has passed at all. The second crow responds "It doesn't seem likely".
I owe my career to the movie The Big Lebowski.
When I watched it as a young teenager, I wanted to find other people enjoying it so I did my best to setup a PHP forum hosted at home, there were not many choice early 2000 and I struggled a lot to figure how to make apache work with PHP, how to enable port forwarding on my router, how to make mysql work, how to get a domain name (from services like no-ip or dyndns 
).
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Tweet by PackyM: "pro tip: You can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you"What a moron. Does this bonehead really think that reading a summary (IA or not) is the same as reading a book?
Es raro y a más de une puede venirle bien.
‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)
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Title:
Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad
An eight-panel cartoon showing a writer in a series of situations in a foreign country.
Panel 1: looking at historic buildings saying
"Kia bela vilaĝo!" which is translated below as "What a lovely village!"
Panel 2: in a pretty garden asking the gardener "Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj" meaning "Are any of these plants poisonous?
Panel 3: in a bar asking the server “Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?" meaning "
Can one purchase a firearm nearby?"
Panel 4: on a beach asking a fisherman "Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?" meaning "Could the tide carry a dead body away?"
Panel 5: approached by a police officer and saying "Saluton, oficiro." which is translated below as "Hello officer."
Panel 6: being marched to the police station protesting "Okazis miskompreno!" meaning "There has been a misunderstanding!"
Panel 7: in the interrogation room the officer holds up a moleskine notebook, the writer explains "La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia." meaning "The murder planned in my notebook is fictional."
Panel 8: locked in a cell asking "Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo." which means "I would like to telephone the British consulate."
Note: The foreign language used by the writer in the cartoon is Esperanto. It has not been proofread by an Esperanto speaker so there may be errors.
Digo lo mismo todos los años, así que volveré a hacerlo: vería con buenos ojos que le dieran el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (perdón, Princesa) a Stephen King, sería un reconocimiento justo a su carrera y aunque causara sorpresa de inicio (como cuando se lo dieron a Leonard Cohen) creo que pasada la sorpresa inicial se reconocería que es una elección buena y justificada.
Los motivos por los que creo que podría ser merecedor de este premio:
1. Se reconoce el género literario del #terror, incomprensiblemente ignorado. Y dentro de este género, Stephen King es el rey absoluto, rey mundial y quizá de todos los tiempos junto a Lovecraft y Poe. Ya es difícil ser el rey absoluto de un género literario, Stephen King lo es.
2. Por su impacto e influencia en la sociedad, habiendo popularizado el género del terror e intregrándolo en la cultura de masas, con multitud de adaptaciones cinematográficas y televisivas.
3. Por su larga, prolífica y dilatada carrera, en la que ha plasmado como pocos la naturaleza, idiosincrasia, aristas y contrastes de la sociedad y la cultura estadounidenses, siendo un completo espejo en el que mirarse.
4. Por la profundidad psicológica de sus personajes, indagando en su historia, sus circunstancias, sus anhelos, sus miedos, que eleva la novela de terror al nivel literario.
5. Porque ya tiene 77 años, está en la edad en la que los escritores reciben los premios importantes si no se han muerto antes; ya no le queda mucho de caminar entre nosotros.
Además de todo esto, es un hombre sencillo y humilde y buena persona. A ver si este año me lee alguien y le conceden el premio antes de que se muera, porque creo que se lo merece.
#libros #literaverso #bookstodon #StephenKing #PrincesaDeAsturiasLetras
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An altered cover of "The Adventures of Tintin" by Hergé. The title reads "Tintin and the Vibe Coders."
People who should: fill your list or scumbags here
Y eso me ha vuelto a recordar a mi amigo el psiquiatra y a su teoría de cómo la extrema derecha ha monopolizado de manera total al espectro demográfico de gente que está cucú.
this feels weird to explicitly ask, but if you've had a positive experience with ur #tangara can you get in the comments? it's hard to keep my head in a good place when i'm struggling financially and yet still spending a large chunk of my time assembling units and responding to issues/emails and so much of what i see about it is where it's gone wrong or someone is unhappy. some positivity could really help me rn i think.
CC: @mms@bsd.cafe
Es tal el desconocimiento de ese mundo, que puede aplastarte sin esfuerzo ni remordimiento, que ando pasmado de la desvergüenza que muestran. ¿Sufres, mi niño? ¿Qué te falta?
My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books
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Panel 1:
A robot stands before a tech CEO’s desk
“Sir, I can't thank you enough for the opportunity to read so many wonderful books! In fact, I've written a poem to express-“
The CEO cuts him off
“You're here to generate content, not express yourself.”
Panel 2:
Robot, enthusiastically “I'm just proud to be working to pay back all those great writers who taught me so much! “
CEO “The only people we're paying back are the investors.”
Panel 3:
Robot “Well, at least with all this money we can try to make the world a better place!
(No reply )
“Sir?”
CEO “Can someone take this thing away, please
Panel 4:
The robot wanders alone and mutters tearfully “Creating shareholder value is a kind of creativity, isn't it? … Sob!”
Le trou des halles, 2025
Dessin au crayon inspiré de l'authentique chantier ubuesque qui occupa Paris dans les 70-80.
Voir les fondations en béton en dessous de ces immeubles, quel vertige !
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Un diagramme montre des couches de civilisation qui s'amoncellent les unes sur les autres, inspiré par une photo des célèbre du chantier des halles à Paris.
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Photo du chantier des halles à Paris en 1973. On y voit un immense trou qui révèles fondations en béton d'un pâté de maison, ainsi que la fontaine des Innocents suspendue dans le vide par des poutres;
Some random rambling about a Windows / AMD software bug:
Ever since I built my new PC, I always had the issue that sometimes at midnight, a blank "AMDAutoUpdate.exe" cmd window would open and do absolutely nothing. (See picture 1)
Googling it, I found a lot of people complaining about it. The exe is part of AMDs "Ryzen Master" utility that my motherboards "GCC" tool installed for me. The commonly accepted solution is to just disable the auto update service through the windows task scheduler. But that sounded too easy for me, tonight I actually went through the efforts of finding the root cause.
My first thought was: What is so broken about my hardware / setup that this random tool is just broken, it surely can't just be broken for everyone... right?
Right?....
Well... The tool in question is written in .net, this is very good because
A) .net is easy to decompile / reverse
B) I have written .net code a few years ago
So I went ahead and reversed what the tool does (or at least, what it is supposed to do).
The tool will attempt to download the file "VersionInfo.xml" from some URL that's stored within it's .exe.config file. Looking into that, hilariously enough there are two URLs, one being labeled "Production", the other being labeled "Develpment" (not a typo on my end), you can guess which of the two is commented out :P. However, this does not appear to be the issue, since both files appear to be the same in practice, let's dig deeper.
I noticed the downloaded file ends up being 0kb, so obviously something went wrong.
For downloading they use the "WebClient" class, they set a completion callback in which they call a different method to parse the file and display update option based on it's content. They also wrap the whole "WebClient" invocation into a try/except block, but since no error is being logged, it doesn't seem there is an exception happening. (See picture 2)
However, I noticed the callback is being fired with an object of the type "AsyncCompletedEventArgs" and looking at the documentation, this object has an "error" property that they unfortunately do not check for, nor log it. Instead, if there is an error, the program will simply try to open the 0kb xml, fail and deadlock forever, with absolutely nothing being done in the background.
Using a .NET debugger, I was able to retrieve the error:
ERROR: The request was cancelled: A protected SSL/TLS channel could not be created
Long story short, it turns out that WebClient by default sends a TLS 1.0 request to the server and the server at some point was updated to only support TLS 1.2 and 1.3.
This also means, it is in fact, BROKEN FOR EVERYONE. IN PRODUCTION. FOR POSSIBLY YEARS...
Using a .net recompiler (man .net really has some fancy tooling...), I was able to add the line
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12);
which fixes the issue and I'm probably the first person in probably years to see the proper "update available" dialog (see picture 3), lmao.
So who's to blame here?
AMD? Microsoft?
I really don't know why this .net API doesn't try newer TLS versions if the older fail and instead requires an explicit flag to be set. On the other hand, AMDs tool is really shitty, doesn't do proper error checking and I would argue this cmd window should never open to begin with, which it wouldn't if they configured the task correctly.
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A four-panel comic:
Panel 1: An orange, round-headed character with dot eyes and a small dot mouth stands facing a yellow, similar-looking character who is partially obscured, reaching out a hand. The orange character says, "YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME, I'M STUCK IN A TIME LOOP."
Panel 2: The two characters are now fully visible, standing opposite each other. The orange character asks, "HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?" The yellow character, looking concerned with a downturned mouth, responds, "ABOUT 4 PANELS."
Panel 3: The orange character looks at the yellow character with a slight smile. The yellow character is now shown climbing the brown border of the comic panel, looking back at the orange character. The orange character asks, "HAVE YOU TRIED CLIMBING OUTSIDE OF THE COMIC?" The yellow character, with a determined expression, says, "GOOD IDEA."
Panel 4: The yellow character has successfully climbed out of the comic panel and is no longer visible. The orange character stands alone in the bottom right panel, smiling brightly, and says, "GOOD LUCK."
"But they'll take the jobs with them"
A) No they won't. It's expensive as shit to uproot your entire operation, rehire, retrain, and reorganize entire production lines from the ground up, not to mention a gigantic pain in the ass.
B) Even if they do, that will leave a hole in the economy which can be filled by small business and entrepreneurs.
C) Even if it doesn't, trickle down economics is a filthy lie sold to you to keep you complacent. You can do better than a below minimum wage gig economy sidehustle. Demand better from employers.
Illustrations of the “utsuro-bune” (hollow ship), complete with inhabitant, reported to have washed up on the coast of Japan in 1803. Was this a castaway from the West? An embellished folktale? Or even, as some suppose, an extraterrestrial visit? https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utsuro-bune #ufo
Del fr. immarcessible o immarcescible, estos del lat. tardío immarcescibĭlis, de in- 'in-' y marcescibĭlis 'marchitable', y este der. del lat. marcescĕre 'marchitarse'.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. adj. Que no se puede marchitar.
Sin.:
+ inmarchitable, imperecedero, eterno, perenne, perpetuo.
Ant.:
+ marchitable.
I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.
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A screenshot of a post previously from Greenpeace. It’s a photo of a blue fence with black writing on top. The writing says: ‘If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction. Remember that’s trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you. ‘
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