El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

#relatos

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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria

I love comic strips that play with the form

Hot Cenobites in your area...

#memes #humour

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Ad with Pinhead cenobite with the words "Hot cenobites in you area have such sights to show you."

AI guys, everyone

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Article titled “The Journey to Get Llama Running on Vintage Hardware”: The project, led by Andrej Karpathy and his team at EXO Labs, started with a Windows 98 Pentium Il machine they purchased for £118.88 on eBay. The first hurdle was making the machine work with modern peripherals. The machine had no USB ports, so they had to use PS/2 peripherals.

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Even more challenging, the mouse and keyboard had to be connected to specific ports—mouse in port 1 and keyboard in port 2, otherwise the setup wouldn't work. Despite these issues, the team persevered, and the machine began to take shape as a functional unit for their experiment.

It is well documented that for every minute that you exercise, you add one minute to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.

#memes #humour

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Daily Mirror posts a photo of Princess Charlotte and the text: Princess Charlotte already speaks two languages at just two-years-old. Cole Allen responds: So do most children of immigrants but | guess it's less impressive when they're poor.

@ConspiracyOfCartographers Well, sure, Blue Sky is a billionaire-owned Nazi bar, but at least you also don't get any engagement there. At least there's that.

I just had to replace the battery. I bought a rather bulky one, but it lasts like a million years of mostly text-only work.

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"#RobertDeNiro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as #trans

I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is … I love all my children"

What is that sound?

A father who respects his child

Airyn, born to Robert and model/ actress #ToukieSmith in 1995: "There’s a difference between being visible and being seen. I’ve been visible. I don’t think I’ve been seen yet"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/01/robert-de-niro-daughter-airyn-trans

#transgender #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

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Robert De Niro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’ After her announcement of her transition, the actor said: ‘I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter’ ‘I love all my children’ … Robert De Niro and his daughter Airyn. Composite: Getty Images/Instagram/@voiceofairyn

Two new books have been announced that, embarrassingly for the authors and publishers, fail spectacularly to understand what the term "vibe coding" means.

In Spanish these insectivorous geckos are called Salamanquesas or Saltarrostros (which means "jump to the face", which is an activity they are famous for not doing). It's said that they bring good luck.

CC: @mms@bsd.cafe

Maybe hell is just entering your email and password over and over with a TV remote.

A few days ago my Mom and sis started getting email bounces for me. They are both on iCloud. I got a look at one of the bounce messages today - Apple is interpreting my graylist 421 temp fail status code as a permanent failure.

The problem showed up now because Apple started using a new netblock. I had the old block whitelisted so graylisting didn't get invoked. Whitelisting the new block fixes it for now, until they change addresses again.

But really, Apple should OBEY THE FUCKING RFC.

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email bounce message showing Apple's iCloud interpreting a temporary failure status code as a permanent failure

I'm here right now. Around me are rioting kids with tired-looking parents, a youngster wireless-speaking cheerly while eating, lonely men rougly of my age dressed with worn-out suits and ties munching silently, a woman that looks like she's homeless (even holding a rusty supermarket cart full of bags and unrecognizable things), two well-dressed boys shouting about the problem with immigrants (probably from an expensive private school nearby) and a stunningly beautiful girl drinking a soda that looks otherwordly out of place here (like Helen when discovered on top of Troy's battlements by the greek soldier).

A Burger King is a sample of this uncertain and undescribable world we live in these days.

Me: huh, I don't remember logging out of my session on the kids' #OpenBSD laptop…oh, right, I did a `doas sysupgrade`, it did the upgrade, rebooted into 7.7, and returned uneventfully to the login screen without requiring any additional intervention or thought.

There's something wonderful about an upgrade-process so boring that you can accidentally forget you did it.

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

I don't think this piece of cake was even sold in Spain, or I'm sure I would remember.

Stefano and everyone, have a great day!

«Va' peazo BUGA s'agenciao el gachó»

[...] copilot [...]. How can something this dumb help you with your job? What is your job?

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/windows-experience-goes-to-11

new plant

CC: @FilmNoirPosters@zirk.us

Desde que empecé me han mantenido el precio y me han ido incrementando los servicios. En un momento dado (cuando en mi barrio se pudo) me cambié internamente a su fibra nativa y me bajaron 10 euros.

Mis cifras son: fibra 1Gbps, 2 líneas de móvil con datos "ilimitados", desactivación del CGNAT (1 euro), línea de fijo y DIGI TV por 45 euros/mes.

La multa es menos de lo esperado, pero viene en un momento perfecto: Teresa Ribera multa a Apple y Meta con 500 y 200 millones respectivamente. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/comision-europea/bruselas-multa-apple-meta-500-200-millones-plena-guerra-trump

... https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/170163871

#unix_surrealism

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DO NOT TALK TO COMPUTERS badge featuring an evil computer doing drugs in the vicinity of weapons.

Puffin's Bluff

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A puffin stands on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. "I always thought I'd get wiser and braver with time... but I'm only becoming more neurotic". We see its perspective, looking down at the rough water below. "Why am I like this? Does it help me?" A close up of the puffin's face, looking momentarily cheerful. "Maybe overthinking IS wisdom! I AM the contemplative figure, gifted with great insight". They look down again "...and nervous bowels".

Son 2 novelas del ciclo de Franz Hauzman, en concreto:

• FRANZ SE ARREPENTIRÁ DE TODO. Novela (88000 palabras). Horror cósmico, fantasía urbana, new weird, bizarro fiction.
• RUIDO EN LA TORMENTA. Novela corta (20000 palabras). Horror cósmico, ciencia-ficción, new weird, bizarro fiction.

Los diseños de portada son de Marisa Ortega.

#HorrorCósmico #FantasíaUrbana #CienciaFicción #NewWeird #BizarroFiction

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Portada de la novela FRANZ SE ARREPENTIRÁ DE TODO

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Portada la novela RUIDO EN LA TORMENTA

[...] if the at daemon will do its job [...]

Did you leave your Wii at the #EMF2024 Swap Shop?

If so, it's now hosting my blog:

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/

Huge credit to @jmcwhatever for the effort porting NetBSD to the Wii!

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Picture of someone holding up a fairly scruffy Nintendo Wii. It's at the EMF 2024 Swap Shop, so the image is taken in a field with a table behind with an assortment of various Swap Shop goodies on it, including tech books, an Oculus dev kit, and what appears to be a venus flytrap.

Chocolate Easter bunnies are hollow to represent God's promises.

#memes #humour #Easter #EasterSunday

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Photo of chocolate bunny with a bite taken out of it showing that it is hollow inside. Text reads: Chocolate Easter bunnies are hollow to represent God's promises.

Be like Dolly.

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A post from M.S. (@MalaakSafa ) on X reads: "Dolly Parton didn’t spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children." Below the text, there is an image of Dolly Parton in a white dress, sitting on a chair and reading to a group of children seated on the floor in a large, ornate room with a crowd of adults standing in the background, some taking photos.

A verified ID is required to access AI models in OpenAI's API to prevent IP theft. 😂 They went from stealing everything from everyone to now claiming it's their original work, despite hundreds of pending copyright cases against them in the courts. Why is this even allowed? That's hypocrisy at best.

#ai

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OpenAI identity verification screen with "Begin verifying" button.

Con el software de ActivityPub que uso (#snac) es muy fácil montar cosas de estas.

Asking for a little favor.

A few years ago -for obvious reasons- I deleted all my american services. (instagram, facebook etc)

The result was my business plummeting down, no projects came in anymore, making it nearly impossible to come around after 20 years of career.

The favor I'm asking is if you know someone who's working with illustrators, or even just interested, just share my stuff please. Thanks :)

My portfolio
https://www.itchi5.com

#freelanceillustrator #illustration #europe

But have you heard of baklava code? Thousands of fragile sticky layers. Some of them are nuts.

I added some basic #activitypub support to humungus based on the #forgefed vocabulary. Repository, Commit, etc. And of course updated #honk as well. So now you can follow the honk repo from within honk itself and see all the commits fly by. Still a work in progress, but it’s live now. Probably do a longer write up next week.

asking ai to read my emails and give me a bullet point summary
asking ai to watch that movie I've been meaning to see and give me a bullet point summary
asking ai to read those poems my best friend sent me and give me a bullet point summary
asking ai to fuck my boyfriend and give me a bullet point summary
asking ai to grow old and gray surrounded by the laughter of loved ones and accept the embrace of death with peace and without fear having lived a full life and give me a bullet point summary

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

https://www.thecvefoundation.org

"We and our 887 partners store..."

Sure. (Closed tab).

That's my reaction, usually after some shouting to the screen.

CC: @HannahHowe@toot.wales

My unsolicited comment on the results: I'm a bit surprised that Down Under is so low in the list (being one of the most uplifting songs ever and, of course, Australia's national anthem 😉 ). I also wished Tears for Fears to be up in the list, being one of my favourite bands. I even never heard the song by The Pogues before (but I'm from Spain, and I know this was from the UK top lists). And, honestly, I'm also surprised Fast Car to be that up (not bad, but fourth?).

Thank you very much to all the people involved in this, and specially Hannah for the ride!

MATRAZ

   Del fr. matras.
    1. 1. m. Vaso de vidrio o de cristal, de forma generalmente esférica y terminado en un tubo estrecho y recto, que se emplea en los laboratorios químicos.

So now I'm waiting to see what decides to die next…the washer or dryer? Stove? Some pipe bursting?

May be she is a modern Sysyphean or Promethean archetype, lost in a wasteland of overflown stacks and bad drive blocks.

Is she a ghost, trapped in an infinite loop of sorrow?

I never satisfy her needs, nor even talk to her, but she keeps coming back! But, why, Nicole, why?! 😭

The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border

On The Border

He leído por encima el comunicado del hijo de Vargas Llosa sobre su muerte y me ha hecho gracia que tu padre haya sido un escritor famoso con hasta un Nobel y tú escribas "detrás suyo". 😅 Ah, la hipotenusa.

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Tonnerre (Borgoña, Francia) es un pueblo de viñedos y castillos que esconde su particular misterio: Dionne, el pozo sin fondo.

Descubierto por los romanos, este pozo expulsa 300 litros de agua por segundo (y hasta 3 mil durante los días de lluvia) que han abastecido a la ciudad desde hace muchos años. Se surte de la lluvia, pero también de ríos cercanos como el Laigne, y filtraciones de la piedra. Los celtas lo consideraron una fuente sagrada, y los franceses, que no veían el misterio, como un simple lavadero, o piscina pública. En 1758 se construyó la cubierta circular que perdura hasta hoy, y que le otorga su peculiar aspecto. Y aunque se sabe que el agua proviene de cuevas subterráneas de piedra caliza, hasta hoy nadie ha podido encontrar su nacimiento. Desde los años 70 del pasado siglo se han llevado a cabo expediciones para dar con su origen, pero todos los intentos han quedado en fracaso debido a la estructura subterránea, de estrechos pasillos. Algunos buceadores han perdido incluso la vida intentando salir. Tras la última muerte en 1996, la localidad prohibió las exploraciones, por lo que solo se conocen sus primeros 370 metros de profundidad.

Como todo misterio que se precie, sobre el pozo pesan varias leyendas que guardan relación con basiliscos, santos, y hasta con los abismos del infierno.

Fuentes: Viajar, El Confidencial. Adobe Stock

#articulos
#fossedionne

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Pozo circular rodeado de casas con el agua manando

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Casas rodeando el pozo, que aparece en la parte inferior de la imagen

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Detalle de cerca del pozo, de aguas azules y fondo verde

Some day you'll realize you can't remember the last time you went down the stairs two at a time, but you know it'll never happen again.

PAVESA

   Del lat. vulg. *pulvisia, y este der. del lat. pulvis, -ĕris 'polvo'; cf. povisa.
    1. 1. f. Partecilla ligera que salta de una materia inflamada y acaba por convertirse en ceniza.
       Sin.:
          + chispa, chiribita, favila, bolisa.

After Mark Fisher: at this point it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Meta, Inc.

And Meta is not alone: companies live in an outer existence plain, where they devour each other, bound to laws unfathomable by the plain human. We just cannot know which one will devour which one, they are like eldritch abominations, Lovecraftian beings with their own rules, that ignore even the existence of mankind.

We the humans, miles below their behemoth space, can and do build different, small, interconnected worlds, where we share our little pleasures and anxieties and interests. This space, due to passion, will endure. I cannot say if this will be the Web, the Fediverse, or a totally different thing; I'm just an ignorant observer. But, in my opinion, companies will come and go, but we, the unwashed masses, will abide, sharing our little things with our beloved ones using our weak communication channels.

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And this is pure bliss: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/25/25-years-later/

Because of the ongoing fucktastrophe, the cries of "Use SIGNAL!" are constant and unavoidable. And I get it, it may be the least-bad option in a sea of terrible options. If, that is, you choose to ignore the advice of "don't use your phone for that shit" (the Stringer Bell Rule).

But out of curiosity, because I haven't been keeping up, has the Signal Corporation addressed: ...

https://jwz.org/b/ykmD

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#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

Regard the name, well, I'm afraid a rewording will need to follow the refactoring you mention 😉

BSD-Sympathetic Site Generator.

Se puede leer en el Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20250307124242/https://www.nasa.gov/calliefirst

I have one question: how much is it depending on specific Bash features, that cannot be resolved with a POSIX shell + UNIX tools? (sorry if you did mention this in the article and I overlooked it, I'm on mobile and without my glasses).