https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573

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Cartel del certamen

Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

Sinopsis:

Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.

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Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

Okay so the main thing I'm learning from all the US healthcare horror stories being dropped the past few days is that the United States is a ghost story told to smaller nations of what will happen to them if they're bad.

Ya está abierta la convocatoria de relato e ilustración para participar en el número 19 de la Revista Opportunity: hasta el 15 de mayo de 2025.

Bases: https://www.asociacionportico.com/convocatoria-de-relato-e-ilustracion-para-el-numero-19-de-la-revista-opportunity/

If a site badgers you to turn off your ad blocker, remember that advertisers, not you, are the site’s real audience.

You are what the site sells.

Ad/tracker blocking is self-care.

Is there any escape from the tyranny of modern work tools?

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/modern-work-fucking-sucks/

In recent days, I've received a few messages and noticed some posts regarding my articles on the blog. The criticism is mainly about the fact that, in some cases, I don't document "every" step but assume a basic understanding of the topics discussed. For example, if the article is about "how to install Y within a FreeBSD jail," I don't document how to install FreeBSD, what jails are, or how they should be managed, etc. In some cases, I refer to previous articles, but my aim is never to create "for dummies" tutorials. I believe that self-hosting, if done without awareness, creates more problems than it solves.

I’ll probably need to publish an article specifically about this—and maybe link it to a menu at the top of the page to explain it. My approach has usually been to provide tools to understand how I solved a problem, not to hand out "ready-made solutions"—the goal is to help people understand, not to mindlessly copy without comprehension.

After all, the blog is called "IT Notes," and they are my notes, turned into articles, mostly related to direct experiences I’ve just had. It’s not called "IT Course"—those, when necessary, I create in other ways.

#ITNotes #BlogPosts #Blog

For those who might have missed this excellent piece by Timothy Snyder over the weekend. Excellent piece. Excellent context. More than worth your time.
#politics #history

https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumpomuskovia

Si es que estos dos son unos jefazos... https://buff.ly/4eV4eTa

https://elpais.com/icon/2024-11-30/como-el-algoritmo-ha-arruinado-tu-bar-favorito-estamos-condenados-a-que-todo-se-parezca-a-todo.html

#paywall

CC: @oxyhyxo@bsd.cafe

Secret Panel HERE 😑 https://tapas.io/episode/2927671

CC: @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @fencepost@infosec.exchange

I'm truly a fool. 😆

CC: @Roquette@paquita.masto.host

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

I’m not pirating movies, I’m just training my model.

If you are thinking of moving from Windows to Linux and are not sure where to start, here's the software that I am using day to day:

https://decoded.legal/blog/2024/09/running-a-law-firm-on-free-software-2024-edition/

(Work-focus, as that is where I spend most of my (computing) time, but I am Linux-only for personal computing too.)

And don't forget that many Free software programs have Windows versions too, so you can test before you leap.

Good luck!

#Linux #FOSS

Mi experiencia es diferente. Yo no me corto en sonreír, ser afable y hasta simpático, respetando las distancias y sin intentar ser gracioso. Muy pocas veces he tenido otra respuesta que simpatía de vuelta y buen rollo, y cuando no ha sido así, entiendo que no es el momento ni la situación y paso a un modo correcto y distante.

Yo soy un tipo bastante sociable y me resulta fácil entender las señales que mi interlocutor/a me manda. Entiendo que no todo el mundo tiene esa facilidad (pero, conociéndote como te conozco, creo que tú también la tienes).

When I talk about the importance of going all in on the Fediverse, I speak based on experience.

At Opera we built a massive user community. When I quit, we had something like 35 million registered users and 35 million monthly visitors.

The new Opera management did not see the value of that. They believed it was cheaper and better to just use Facebook and that investing in your own community was a waste of money. So they closed down MyOpera and built a following on Facebook and Twitter instead. Then they got caught by the bait and switch when Facebook changed and you would no longer reach your audience, without paying. Later on Twitter changed as well.

This is important to explain to companies and institutions as they go shopping for social media sites to invest in. The best investment is clearly in your own site, being part of the Fediverse. It is not even all that expensive to do. It may take longer to build, but at least it is your own.

Not saying you cannot build a following on those other sites, but your long term strategy should be the Fediverse with your own server.

We try to lead the way here and thus we build Vivaldi Social. Not just for our selves, but to make a point and support the Fediverse.

#fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #Threads #BlueSky #Vivaldi

For years, I misread the title as Lonely as an Eyesore.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

Mastodon Follow Pack FAQ 1.0

What are Follow Packs?

They are just packaged topical lists of up to 35 accounts you can follow from your Mastodon or other Fediverse account. You can follow the entire pack by importing a file. And the entire pack loads into a list, so it becomes a feed for that subject. You can also just browse for accounts you might want to follow individually.

So, they’re like Bluesky Starter Packs?

Yes, but not quite as convenient. It’s not hard, but because Mastodon does not have a one-click way to do this, you need to download a follow pack file and then use Mastodon’s import facility. Instructions are provided in the directory and also below.

What Follow Packs are there?

Packs are being added all the time. Right now there are packs for Astronomy and Space, Climate, US Politics and Miscellany. For a current directory check out the Mastodon Migration FediBlog at: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/mastodon-follow-pack-directory-nov-20-2024/

How do I do do it?

Check out the latest directory at https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/mastodon-follow-pack-directory-nov-20-2024/ . Basically determine which pack you want to follow and download the .csv then import the pack. Instructions are provided. Follows are loaded into a list in your account.

OK, but I don’t want to mess up my lists. What happens if I already follow an account in the pack?

That’s fine. The followed account will just be added to the new list, and if you already had that account in a list, it will now just be in both lists.

Can I then add more accounts to the list?

Sure! That’s the idea. Many of these accounts boost other great accounts in their topic area. You will quickly find additional accounts you will want to follow. When you do follow a new account add it immediately to the list by clicking the “…” button at the top of the profile and selecting “Add or Remove from lists”

What if I don’t like your pack list title?

Simply change it. Click on the list, then the gear icon and you can edit the list name and contents. Also, you can determine if you want to “Hide these posts from home” so they don’t clutter up your home feed.

What if I’ve been added to a list and I don’t want to be in it?

Every follow pack has a listed administrator. Message them to ask to be removed.

How do I know if my account is in a Follow Pack?

You can search through the directory. Also, whenever a new directory is posted all members of every pack are notified by being copied on the post.

What if I don’t want to follow accounts from Threads or Bluesky?

Any pack that contains Threads or Bluesky bridged accounts will have a special notice. Just don’t import one of them.

#FollowPack #StarterPack #MastodonMigration #MastoTips #Help #Directory #Guides #Mastodon #Fediverse #FediBlog

Follow Pack Notices

OPT-OUT NOTICE: If your account is listed in any Follow Pack and you do not want it to be, please message the pack administrator and refer to the pack from which you would like your account removed.

BRIDGE ACCOUNT NOTICE: Packs that include accounts that bridge outside the Fediverse will be identified with a special notice.

REPLIES ON MASTODON NOTICE: Replies include all named accounts. Please edit any replies to remove addresses you do not intend to send the reply.

Follow Pack Instructions

Download the pack .csv file and import into Mastodon to follow all accounts:

– Click on a FollowPack .csv file link to download
– Click on Preferences (gear) icon on bottom right
– On mobile or narrow desktop click top right “hamburger” button
– Click Import and Export >>> Import
– Import type dropdown: Select “Lists” (NOT “Following list”)
– Verify that ‘Merge’ is selected (IMPORTANT)
– Click Browse… button >>> Select “[file name] – list.csv”
– Upload >>> Confirm

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This post comes from the WordPress Mastodon Migration Blog: https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/

You can receive all new posts to this WordPress Blog on Mastodon by following Mastodon account:

https://mastodonmigration.wordpress.com/@mastodonmigration.wordpress.com

(Copy and paste above address into search to find and follow)

Important: Replies on Mastodon to this WordPress post by default include all named accounts. Please edit your reply to remove all addresses you do not intend to send the reply. Thank you.

#accountlist #activitypub #astronomy #Astrophysics #bluesky #Booster #Climate #ClimateScience #Dire #Directory #FediBlog #fediverse #followpack #followpackdirectory #GlobalWarming #guide #Guides #Help #mastodon #mastodonmigration #MastoTips #Media #Miscellany #mmfp #Politics #Random #socialMedia #Space #StarterPack #Threads #twitter #USPol #USPolitics #USPoliticsBoos #USPoliticsMedi #USPoliticsMedia #USPoliticsThreads

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

#Bluesky is so decentralized that Bluesky Inc. can cut you off to help their infrastructure. 🙃

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://snarfed.org/2024-11-21_54148

Same, Gustave, same.

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I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it. I can no longer talk with anyone at all without becoming furious. Gustave Flaubert Letter to Ivan Turgenev 13th November 1872

It's probably one of the oldest sounds on Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1hWp4pQpAs

#Religion #Catholicism #Poverty #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens

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Mother Teresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. — Christopher Hitchens

Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I’ve entered into community with there. While there are many independently maintained servers that provide services to Bluesky and its users, there is only one Bluesky server. A federation of multiple servers, each a peer to the other, has been on Bluesky’s roadmap for as long as I’ve been following it, but they haven’t (yet) delivered it.

It looks pretty cool.

The more I learn about cryptography, the more I think Alice and Bob should probably just talk in person.

it’s reassuring to know that the most vocal leftist influencers are laser-focused on the greatest challenge of our time: the size of their audience on bluesky

Se aprueba finalmente la conocida como "Ley Mbappé", con su trampa incluida como expliqué hace un tiempo en El Salto...
https://buff.ly/4hVrK4W

real ones know

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"born to dilly dally, forced to lock in" meme except that instead it says "born to write asm and C, forced to shit out web apps"

https://www.eldiario.es/economia/40-minutos-decidir-si-casa-vida-competimos-inversor-pagar-contado_1_11813746.html

Joder, en esto no había caído yo. Ahora resulta que comprar casa es también una especie de juegos del hambre trampeados. Estaría bien saber cuántas personas trabajan ahora mismo para dar con soluciones al problema de la vivienda. No importa de qué partido, es por saber si hay alguien pensando en ello y no haciendo el paripé.

Bueno, la solución de la derecha es siempre construir más vivienda y eso está superbien porque tenemos mogollón de pruebas de lo bien que ha funcionado en este país tiempo atrás.

Es que todo empieza con las definiciones. Te dicen que cincuenta kilómetros es aceptable como distancia al lugar de trabajo y a partir de ahí date por jodido. 😞

https://song.link/es/i/392428921

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4442029

This afternoon, an acquaintance joined a Mastodon instance and asked me which "celebrities" are present in the Fediverse, as if it were important to determine the value of a social network based on that.

I told him that the most important user in the Fediverse is him. Just as it’s you, reading this. Someone who has decided to interact with others freely. Who has chosen to trust their administrator (or create their own instance) more than they trust those who run traditional, monolithic, centralized social networks.

So, I want to thank all the friends of BSD Cafe, whether local or not, for being here and making this place what it is. And I thank all my friends in the Fediverse, who make my timeline lively, interesting, intelligent, fun, and thought-provoking - every day, at any time.

#BSDCafe #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialNetworks #SocialMedia #Community #Trust #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #JoinTheFediverse

ME: Hello computer! Please show me what I was doing recently

COMPUTER IN THE 1980's: l cease to exist when I am powered off. Please start whatever you were doing from scratch

COMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champ

COMPUTER IN THE 2020's: I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres at a carbon footprint equivalent to leaving a semi-trailer idling 24/7 and also sent a copy to the FBI just to be safe. Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out. By the way here are 10 things which are similar to what you were doing and 9 of them are ads. Do you like this? Please select "I love this very much" or "I'll be in love with this later" to continue

He visto muchísimos programas que no utiliza, especialmente VPN y "aceleradores del sistema", que muestran ventanitas informativas de muchas formas y a las que hay que contestar, patrón oscuro mediante, que no te interesa, gracias, me cago en tus muelas, etc., para que se cierren.

Lo peor es que al desinstalarlos han redoblado esfuerzos y han vuelto a sacar otras muchas ventanas más y, como no parecía suficiente, abriendo también varias páginas web. En todas ellas me recuerdan que desinstalarlo es una mala elección y que me ofrecen un descuento si compro una licencia del programa que estoy desinstalando. ¿Tan difícil es de pillar o es que son unos cabrones desalmados?

Google Chrome, por cierto, estaba desaparecido en el sistema sin saber cómo y es su navegador favorito. He tenido que desinstalarlo (fallo), acceder a la página de descargas de Google vía Microsoft Edge primero (imposible con todas las pantallas que me ha abierto para preguntarme cosas) y luego con Firefox.

Descargar, instalar y ... ¡reiniciar el sistema! Tampoco sé por qué pero los enlaces de escritorio y barra de tareas NO reconocían el programa al que estaban apuntando que antes no estaba pero ahora sí. La hostia, oiga.

Aún me queda por quitarle Skype corporativo que ella tampoco utiliza y que se abre siempre, quieras o no, al iniciar sesión. Curiosamente no aparece como aplicación instalada (curioso para mí, que soy rarito para estas cosas) aunque sí aparece mencionado cuando abres el menú ese que está abajo a la izquierda e incluso te indica que puedes desinstalarlo. Pues guay, ¿no? Pues no, porque te abre el navegador de archivos en un directorio concreto y allá te las compongas.

Supongo que estará instalado junto con el Office y habrá que decirle que, joder, NO se abra en cada comienzo de sesión. Como ella tenía que irse pues lo hemos dejado para otro momento. Al menos ha recuperado el Chrome y el sistema va más fluido. Y únicamente se aprecia porque no hay que andar cerrando ventanitas.

Ah, y en la barra del sistema, la de abajo y lo digo porque no sé si hay más, también aparece el tiempo, la cotización del IBEX, el tráfico y noticias de salseo (Nuria Roca te enseña cómo debes ir vestida a trabajar, por ejemplo) entre otras cosas. No veo forma de eliminarlo pero al menos he podido quitar lo del IBEX y las noticias. Esta chica, rozando el medio siglo, no tiene mucho interés en que la enseñen ahora cómo vestir. Me ha dicho que ya sabe. Y yo la creo.

Y ya. No me extraña que tantos y tantos informáticos aprecien y promocionen windows como sistema. Tienen trabajo para siempre jamás.

Decentralised social media site Bluesky has gone down under the load of new users.

Not to worry, I'll just use one of the other decentralised instances. One of the many wonders of decentralisation.

... What do you mean, there aren't any?

... If a central server goes down, I can't get onto this oh-so-decentralised network?

I guess this must just be how decentralisation works!

CC: @joseli@mastodon.social

Black Friday is approaching, so remember: Buying shit on Amazon is part of how we got here. Quit giving money to billionaires and corporations.

Buy used, buy hand made, support a local creator, make something yourself.

End consumerism.

Se la conocía como «la ciudad de las corrientes de agua». Y este mural, que tiene el texto «fui sobre agua edificada, mis muros de fuego son», hace referencia a eso. Lo de los «muros de fuego» viene de que las murallas eran de pedernal, y los flechazos contra ella soltaban chispas.

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Foto de un trampantojo en la plaza de Puerta Cerrada en Madrid, con el texto mencionado arriba

CC: @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

"Work harder, monkey!"

Everyone, have a nice day!

This is my comic about chicken.

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Chickens Coming Home / I woke up at one A.M. and checked the election results. / Then I couldn't sleep. / I was thinking about my great-great-grandfather. / He fought in the Civil War / The first one - for the Confederacy. / And when my father talked about him, he always referred to him in the same way - / As a SUCKER. / Him and all the other white subsistence farmers in the part of eastern Mississippi where the soil was no good. SUCKERS. / They found bigotry and superiority so compelling that they would act against their own economic interest - even LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES - / To protect the monstrously ill-gotten fortunes of a small white Southern elite. / We live - now - in an oligarchy / And the oligarchs got the president they wanted. / And some of their voters - the poor, the weak, the pregnant - will find themselves laying down their lives to protect the fortunes of the oligarchs. / Am I a sucker? I vote for candidates beholden to the oligarchs who value precedence and decorum. / So probably. / At three I fell back asleep and dreamt of the last piece of chicken in the world. / Everyone fighting over it / Tearing off the last pieces of flesh as they get smaller and smaller / Gnawing on the cartilage / Until nothing was left by the bones.

Just bought a typewriter.

You can tell it's old because it's got neofetch on it.

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I'm typing on a Olympia Traveller de Luxe S. My nails are painted in the colors of the bisexual flag.

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A photo of the sheet of paper I was typing on in the previous photo. A fake Neofetch output has been painstakingly typed on it: - The user and the host are root@olympia; - The OS shows up as Olympia UNIX x86_16; - Its host is Traveller de Luxe S; - The uptime is 49 years, 6 months, 18 days, 5 hours, 4 mins - The resolution is 76 CPL - The CPU field says Human-Operated machine - The memory is Paper-Based

America is now at the stage of the game of Monopoly where it's obvious who has won because they own everything, but you have to keep going round and round the board while they drain the last of your money from you.

This is the point where some people choose to flip the board.

Y los del grupo de teatro en el que estoy, que le quedan dos telediarios conmigo a este paso, me dicen que me relaje, que me tranquilice, que siempre puede ser peor.

Me cago en todo.

Claro que puede ser peor. ¿Y qué? ¿Dejamos de lado cualquier queja porque siempre puede ser peor? ¿Qué chorrada es esa?

En fin, que luego, cuando me vaya, se preguntarán qué ha pasado; me lo preguntarán a mí, se lo explicaré y, ¿sabéis qué? Que terminarán diciéndome que estas cosas "hay que hablarlas".

When I die please mix my ashes with concrete, then turn me into a brick and throw me at an Amazon Warehouse

I've been disappointed to see journalists I respect sticking with Twitter, but the more dangerous Musk gets, the less I can maintain that respect.

Non-Americans watching the US struggle to decide between electing a professional career politician or a racist serial sex offender with 34 felony convictions and the IQ of a spoon

No offense, but the more I hear of what has been done in the name of being “socially conservative” in the US, the more it seems to be bigotry with a bow on it. Racism, misogyny, homophobia and now transphobia.

And it feels infuriatingly disingenuous to call clinging to hate and subjugation as “trying to conserve” anything.

If all you want to “conserve” is your systemically enforced supremacy, then you’re just an oppressive asshole.

Ok, fine, I’ll take back the “no offense”.

Pro tip: if you cover the display on your appliances with a piece of tape, you never have to reset the clock.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

#Spain

#snac #fediverse

I have to stop posting active links to our content on Mastodon.

Every time I do so now, it brings down our website for up to 5 minutes.

We've tried pretty much every claimed fix, including third party caching (which in turn breaks other elements of our website's dynamic display abilities), code changes and such on our back end code, and more stuff I don't understand at all (but have spent money paying our WP developer to implement). None of it has worked.

The #fediverse powers that be need to fix this growing problem of the #MastoDDos effect on websites. The more followers and more servers your followers are from, the more impact this has on literally bringing a website to its knees with all the DB calls.

For instance, this morning, I posted the lovely article our creative writer Ethan wrote, which ended up only getting 2 boosts and one "favourite" here, but it brought down our website for 4 minutes and 12 seconds.

That's not sustainable.

If you've noticed that the Mastodon stampede DDoS is back, hammering your servers even though you have applied countermeasures -- that's because they CHANGED THEIR FUCKING USER AGENT for no good reason and without telling anybody.

Ok, yes, technically the plans were on display in a toilet with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".

Prepend "^Mastodon\/|" to your regexps.

Sigh.

https://jwz.org/b/ykb4

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"[...] cada vez se investiga más cómo este agotamiento afecta a quienes cuidan de otros, ya sean personas o animales no humanos"

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

CC: @ricardo@bsd.cafe

CC: @nikathesiren@tkz.one

the beauty of crypto is that instead of getting robbed by a bank, you can get robbed by a 15 year old in latvia who named his smart contract “SafeMoonCumRocket”

Accurate

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Venn diagram. Left circle reads "dumbest times" and right circle reads "darkest times." The overlapping center reads "you are here."

@NadCee @fraying No. Nazis are, in fact, black and white. You tolerate them or you do not. "I wouldn't be a Nazi sympathizer except for the money" is perhaps not the slam dunk you think it is.

Actually, Twitter isn't just a room full of nazis. It's a room full of nazis in a building owned by a nazi who is currently working to get a nazi dictator elected, where your participation helps the nazi cause.

So, yeah. Gonna remember that.

When someone says that they just can't quit Twitter, what I hear is, "I am comfortable in a room full of nazis," and I will remember that about them.

him: you should try to get out of your comfort zone

me: people are comfortable?!!

Way to go!

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Angry Bird tweets: Today I made my first money as a photographer. I sold my camera.

The worst AI scraper that doesn't even identify itself as such is still this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

It's not even listed on darkvisitors(.)com

I see 5120 requests in the last 24 hrs alone, all for JPEG & WEBP files. I don't want to know how much bandwidth & energy it consumes, globally.

Easy to block via Cloudflare or .htaccess: Firefox/72 is ages old and no human visitor would use it.

Spread the word.

#AI #Webmaster

Comprar esqueletos de plástico por Halloween:
-Caro
-Made in China
-Contaminante
-Cutre
-De normie básico

Ir a tu cementerio más cercano a desenterrar tu propio esqueleto:
-Gratis
-De proximidad
-Biodegradable
-Elegante
-Un toque de distinción

When I want to give visibility to an awful post, I just link to it in my own one, prefixed by a bitter and awry comment.

I also wish social networks were designed differently, but it's too late.

It’s a nice time not to be built on Wordpress.

Right so my personal #snac instance seems to be working ok and I have managed to import all of the accounts I follow here on bsd.cafe . I'll still be using this account but will try and see how I get on with snac. You may notice that it always shows that I have no followers and that I'm not following anyone. This is intentional by the author of #snac as they feel numbers should not matter which is quite true. Feel free to follow me over there if you haven't already and hello to any new followers.
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
All of this is hosted in my #HomeLab on a #FreeBSd server jail running over my home FTTP connection. I'm impressed I've gotten this far. Next I'll be doing some html and css customisation's to theme it a little.

“Downfall”