El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

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

Ever heard of vibe coding?
It’s when the code looks fine, tests pass, vibes are good - so it goes to production. Even if it’s wide open to SQL injection.

I’ve seen it happen.
AI wrote it. Devs trusted it. Management loved it.
Nobody understood it.

We’re trading skill for speed.
And that’s how we lose our freedom.

Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/05/vibe-coding-will-rob-us-of-our-freedom/

EDIT: Given the trends and the comments, I wrote something off the cuff about it: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/05/when-we-become-cheerleaders-for-our-own-demise/

#ITNotes #ai #coding #data #ownyourdata #programming #IT #SysAdmin

cat cafe

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A classic

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Ayn Rand, Rand Paul and Paul Ryan walk into a bar. The bartender serves them tainted alcohol because there are no regulations. They die.

Chunda chunda. Felices matemáticas para todos.

BULO. Otra vez el BULO del ahorro fiscal "a cada madrileño".

Es mentira. Para sacar esa cifra hacen la MEDIA, sumando los 1.259 millones que se ahorran 22.185 altos patrimonios en una año (53.000€ en un solo año) y lo suman al 0,5% del IRPF que se ahorra un currito y sacan la media.

Publicidad de Ayuso a OkDiario solo en 2023: 416.602€

Buon giorno!

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

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Higher wages

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Lefty cartoon by B Deutsch and F Young patreon.com/barry  CEO walking down the street talking on his cell phone: i’ve tried everything to find new workers. I’ve gone to job fairs. offered them T-shirts for applying. Guy on the street: did you offer higher wages? CEO continuing his phone call: I can’t fill these jobs. I even got the government to throw people off unemployment. nothing works. Woman on Bike: have you tried offering higher wages? CEO: i’m offering unpredictable schedules, minimal benefits, and nine dollars an hour and they still don’t want my jobs? Little girl playing hopscotch: you should offer higher wages  CEO as he passes two people on the street, holding signs that say higher wages:  i’ve tried everything they just don’t want to work. hello governor, can we arrest people for being unemployed? down at the very bottom of the comic the CEO says: i’d love to pay higher wages, but we don’t have the money. I had to get by on only a $38 million salary this year! 

Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_OCSP_RESPONSE_FOR_CERT_MISSING

I just learned, via a mutual, that cron, the job-scheduling command-line utility, is celebrating 50 years this month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

(In case anyone cares for this sort of thing on here.)

#cron #anniversary

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I used to think ChatGPT was a threat to lawyers. So far, it's been great.

I'm dealing with an opposing party who's clearly using it to answer pre-litigation emails. They're very arrogantly giving me 100% wrong legal takes to justify their actions - and all in writing!

Easiest case ever. And fun!

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendos_en_Espa%C3%B1a#Resultados_de_los_referendos_nacionales

Hoy cuento cómo se financia el pseudomedio donde trabaja el Bertrand Ndongo.

Además he comparado lo que se lleva Periodista Digital con lo que se llevan El Salto y elDiario.es.

También he mirado cuánto supone esa inyección en su facturación.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/comunidad-madrid/ayuso-almeida-inyectado-400000-euros-periodista-digital-bertrand-ndongo-cuatro-anos

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Time for a new variation on a classic.

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A poster listing hourly rates for software development. Minimum: $150/hr If you watch: $200/hr If you help: $300/hr If you worked on it first: $400/hr If AI was involved: $1000/hr

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“I fight for the Right to Repair. Which is why the system wants to torture me to death. It’s about control, kid, and if we can fix what they break, the whole system collapses.”

—Harry Tuttle, rogue heating engineer

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A white man with moustache speaks to another white man who has his back to us.

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#oldknees

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A group of crows are gathered and chatting. "Thanks for comic everyone! Who'd like to start? Alessandro?" "Sure!" says Alessandro "For this week's flower share I brought an apple blossom! Delicate, simple in form, modest and subtly charming". They are all admiring the flower at Alessandro's feet. "Pretty" says one. "Beautiful specimen!" continues the first crow, "One of my favourites. Thank you for sharing! Who'd like to go nex–" they are interrupted by a loud clearing of a throat. "AHEM". The group of crows looks up to see another crow, perched on a branch nearby. It swoops down, something in its talons. It lands the the middle of the group in a dramatic way, to reveal the most perfect example of a magnolia flower. The group stares in an entranced silence. The strange crow declares "I didn't prepare a speech".

@pkw copy the url of the post, put it in the search bar in your snac, it will load and you can interact with it.

Bane of the javascriptless:

Getting around anubis'd websites in (not just) links2.

If you enable the "Fake Firefox (improves privacy)" option in links2 (Setup - Network Options - HTTP options - Header options), links2 then pretends to be the tor browser, imitating the same headers and user-agent - this results in websites that use anubis to bully you and expecting the completion of some javascript challenge. If you do not enable this option, you can get around the annoying anime girl.

Presumably you could use the links2 user-agent in any other browser. I suppose this is true for lynx as well.

> Links (2.28; NetBSD 9.3 amd64; GNU C 7.5; text)

You can also use wget's user-agent, which currently lets you get past anubis as well.

> Wget/1.25.0

You can check what headers your browser is sending at https://wtfismyip.com/headers .

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To try this in firefox - go to about:config, add `general.useragent.override' and paste in the links2 user-agent string.

#anubis #links2gang #serpico

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silly skeleton girl who bullies ai and internet users.

Odio, detesto, me asquea recordar estas cosas. Y no puedo evitarlo. Qué rabia.

And today? The internet seems like a modern evolution of "The Game of Life." [...] The internet is now in everyone's hands, yet it belongs to no one. We no longer possess the tool; the tool (and those who control it) possesses us.

The waitress at this restaurant keeps asking “Are you happy with your choices” and I think she means the food but I damn that’s a deep question

https://relay.fedi.buzz/

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

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Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup. "By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything). The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"

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Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol. Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil. The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow." In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"

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Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc. "We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel. "What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia." In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back. "Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."

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Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!" "The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!" "How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.

https://www.elespanol.com/ciencia/medio-ambiente/20181004/accidente-nuclear-madrid-franco-oculto-contamina-toledo/342966217_0.html

Even though I eventually edited the article to clarify that there was no organized crime involved, many comments keep insisting that, since it happened in Italy, there must be organized crime or the mafia behind it.

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

My workflow matches yours totally, though.

And of course, I’ve left out the worst parts of the story.

I no longer work professionally on IT, so my opinion is irrelevant here.

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I even had a (known unreliable and crash-prone) RAID 6 configuration using 4 USB thumb drives that had a long life of continuous mp3 transcoding. Finally, the USB hub died, and then I decomissioned the ugly monster (it was mostly for testing).

Maybe I'm lucky (I'm not).

ZFS [...] on one hand, I saw it as a "betrayal" of the Unix philosophy, something foreign within the base system

Happy Mother's Day

Secret Panel HERE ♥ https://tapas.io/episode/3175205

I've watched this several times and laughed harder each time.

Have no idea what either is saying but it's hilarious!

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."

13/ We hope you enjoyed our look at the geographic strangeness of Spain 🇪🇸

Thanks for reading (and sharing) 🙏.

We have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc on our blog. Some are still on twitter, but over time we are moving them to mastodon.

Enjoy: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

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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🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱#goVegan 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🔊 It's Official. Mexico City just banned bullfighting - ending a 500 year tradition 🙌👏

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Text: It's Official. Mexico City just banned bullfighting - ending a 500 year tradition. Photo: bullfighting

"#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.

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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

Las autonomías peperas pidiendo el ejército en las calles para garantizar el orden, ayuso saliendo de uniforme en teleespe, paranoias con que si mochilas de 48/72h

Las calles: las terracitas llenas de gente festejando el día libre, vecinos preguntando puerta por puerta si hace falta algo, poniendo la radio alta en la terraza pa que quien no tenga se entere de lo que pasa xD

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.