Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
Location: 40.4235492,-3.6617828
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El microrrelato:
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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria
#snac por otra parte fue más simple y rápido, no tiene una gran estética pero siempre me ha funcionado bien
https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage
Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/
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A fresh start for LibreOffice Online
Finally a #snac first FediClient! @mastoblaster
Too bad I already moved to #GoToSocial due to lack of snac supported apps at that time :(
#MastoBlaster has its own #Fediverse account - powered by #snac
Follow @mastoblaster to receive all the updates, insights, etc.
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Two women sitting together at a table. The woman on the left is dressed as a medical professional and has her hand on the hand of the woman sitting next to her who is dressed in a red shirt with her opposite hand holding her forehead looking down at the table.
In the top panel, the medical professional says "does it hurt?"The woman in red says "yes"
In the bottom panel the medical professional says, "go vaccinate your kid or I'll punch you again."
Week in Fediverse 2026-02-20
Servers
- snac v2.90
- Castopod v1.15.0
- Ktistec v3.3.0
- tootik v0.21.1
- Badgefed v0.1.1
- Gush! v0.0.30
- Wanderer v0.18.5
- PieFed v1.6.6
- Our technical direction (Mastodon)
Clients
- Sengi v1.8.0
- tooi v0.21.2
- Summit v1.77.0
- Aria v1.4.3
- Pixelix v4.3.2
Tools and Plugins
- feed2fedi v3.5.0
- PeerTube Browser: A video discovery project for the federated PeerTube network
Protocol
- FEP-34c1: Collection Filtering using TREE Hypermedia Vocabulary
Articles
- Where Does Community Live?
- Why MAEPs? What should they look like?
- how to not regret c2s
- Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
- FR#154 – Search and Community
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c5906-05c0-87bf-8302-8226a8513c00
El perro Paco tiene ya su escultura en Madrid
Muy merecido homenaje al que fue el can más famoso de la Villa y Corte madrileña. Callejero, «gato» a pesar de ser un perro, y gourmet, a juzgar por los manjares que pudo degustar en su azarosa vida. Cayó en gracia a la nobleza madrileña y se hizo muy popular en el Madrid castizo. Hasta que su mala fortuna hizo que un torero le clavara su estoque, por haberle arruinado su faena (repugnante […]
https://nutriguia.com/gastronomia/el-perro-paco-tiene-ya-su-escultura-en-madrid.html
the full thing (in Spanish / en español)
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Ilustration by Ángel Ortega of the unnamed protagonist of EXISTIR, in three panels, walking through the ruins of a subterranean city, surrounded by columns and giant skeletons
Who could have imagined this. Also, water is wet, or so it seems.
I’ll probably release the first alpha of #MastoBlaster later next week.
There are bugs. There are missing parts. But it works!
the great cyber war
#unix_surrealism #computer #ai
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vt100 on a stack of boxes, wearing a helmet with an m16 by its side
YOUR
PC
NEXT?
Next up in a new #FediMerch store is #snac merchandise! I had to grab my own set of stickers for this one, the artwork is so cool!
You've got Susie, snac's default icon embedded in a QR code. And then this ridiculously amazing artwork from @prahou that is just a must have for your sticker collection - or on a shirt - or mug. Just get it!
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An alien with a wig and makeup on, with the words "SINCE YOU LEFT ME, I'VE BEEN SNACPILLED" with a website address for the snac platform. The client is holding a small Susie avatar.
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The default snac user avatar, Susie, black and white, embedded in a QR code sticker.
I think it's interesting how software engineers are (among?) the most eager working class group to replace themselves with LLMs.
It's interesting because LLMs do a worse job than us, we lose ability/skill to do our job the more we use it, lose our jobs, produce worse software, are less satisfied with our work, etc.
Yet so many of my peers seem to be super excited about and advocate for it, while other working class groups at least detest LLMs if not even consider organising themselves to protect their trade/jobs from LLMs.
Are we becoming the cops (read as: class traitors) of this techno-fascist dystopia?
Del lat. umbella 'quitasol'.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. f. guardapolvo (‖ tejadillo voladizo sobre un balcón o ventana).
Sin.:
+ guardapolvo, tejadillo, voladizo.
2. 2. f. Bot. Grupo de flores o frutos que nacen en un mismo punto del tallo y se elevan a igual o casi igual altura.
Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.
He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.
The scale says:
The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:
The Kardashian scale
So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.
We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.
The time is probably right.
Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together the foundations of an app tailored to my needs.
A lot has changed since then and today we have great alternatives like IceCubes, Mona, Ivory, etc. Each one has strengths and weaknesses though, so I picked up my old project again and kept pushing it forward.
So I’m happy to announce that my app will finally see the light: I’ve been using it for the past few days and, in my spare time, I’m fixing bugs and adding missing features. I’m building it around my own needs, so it doesn’t have to “appeal to everyone”. I wouldn’t call it opinionated, but it’s definitely targeted.
The app will have one key trait: #snac2 support will be a first-class feature, not an incidental one. Many apps, especially on iOS, support snac as a side effect, but the experience is often not optimal. In this case, the choice is deliberate and it strictly follows the Mastodon API support implemented by snac. So snac will work properly (within the limits of the platform, of course).
Among the features already implemented: the app is minimal and lightweight (under 10 MB, including debug code), easy on RAM, and privacy-first (for example it strips EXIF data from media before posting, so the server will never see it). On snac it also cleans up the "Boosted by Aoderelay" messages that appear when using a relay, removes the character limit, and supports posting in Markdown.
I also added support for Apple Intelligence to generate alt text, both for the media I post and for media posted by others that is missing alt text.
Everything is processed locally through Apple APIs and only on supported devices. The results aren't amazing, Apple Intelligence is extremely limited, but in my opinion it's the only privacy-friendly and ethical way to approach it. And of course, you can disable it.
On Mastodon it supports all the main features: lists, quote posts, granular notifications (you can choose what you want for each category), notification grouping, multi-account support, and it works.
It's still missing a few things (block, etc.) and has some bugs, which I’m spotting as I keep using it.
As soon as it's stable enough, I'll invite a few people to test it. I still haven't fully decided how I'll distribute it: an Apple Developer account has a yearly cost, and I hope to reuse it for other projects too. So this app might be paid, with a trial period, but if possible (I still need to check what’s feasible) I'd like it to be free if you connect to one of the BSD Cafe instances, illumos Cafe, or any snac instance, including your own.
I don't know how long it will take before it's ready... but I can already tell you what it will be called.
It already has a name, and it's... MastoBlaster.
This name was chosen for personal reasons, and also because of its similarity to Master Blaster by Stevie Wonder, which even today feels relevant and fitting for the Fediverse.
Stay tuned!
#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #iOS #FediverseApp #Announcement #Apple #snac #snac2 #BSDCafe #illumosCafe
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MastoBlaster, showing my profile on my phone
acquired - tome of pf
(this is not sponsored content, I just like the book)
thank you @pitrh
https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #pf #bookofpf
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girl studies the ancient tome of PF
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8 panel comic
sun girl, black girl,
girl brain bus, girl,
girl finger, laptop,
girl hand, laptop
May's tech-hype predictions for 2026 onwards:
- The month after major public pensions and governments buy huge stakes in the AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), the US AI bubble will start crashing. This will happen in 2026.
- At this point, free access to LLMs will go away. Corporate LLMs will raise their prices by at least 100x to make up for the loss in users and casual revenue.
- Unfortunately, this^ means AI coding /marketing wouldn't go away. It'd just be far, far more expensive and require deeper approvals. Your boss will have AI and you won't be able to summarize it.
- China and the rest of BRICS will take over the free AI market because they can. Perfect opportunity for propaganda and cyber warfare here.
- Many software products that wrap base commercial models will see their operating costs skyrocket. They'll basically need to rip it all out, or embed a cheaper model.
- Essentially, companies who haven't built out a proper data/AI team will fail unless their base non-AI product is still relevant.
- Small companies will die when they fail to transition out of this mess. There will be a wholesale buyout, like the dot com crash. This means deeper consolidation at the FAANG level.
- We've had essentially an entire generation of juniors who had a cheap/free magical crutch for years. How will you train people to read, write and code again across every industry?
- The costs of cloud services will also skyrocket, since they need to pay off their bullshit AI hardware/data centre investments. We may see a return to on-prem/hybrid IT. (This will be REALLY interesting for how software evolves from the current SaaS model.)
- Some people will start hyping quantum, but we're at least 2+ hype cycles away from that.
- (This one's a wild guess.) The next hype cycle is probably going to be in hardware/wearables/physical space, but that's ridiculously expensive to get into. It'll basically just be marketing.
- The techbro doomers will claim to have predicted this the whole time. They'll have more than enough money to start the next hype cycle for the next round of VC/PE hot potato.
- Western governments are still going to try to implement "AI" even after the crash and the prices go up.
Every time I see an interesting or good quote posted online, I run to Wikipedia to make sure the person quoted wasn't some closet Nazi, sexual predator, or religious nutjob, and time and time again I find only disappointment.
Del gr. ἀποτρόπαιος apotrópaios 'que aleja el mal' y -aico.Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
1. 1. adj. p. us. Dicho de un rito, de un sacrificio, de una fórmula, etc.: Que, por su carácter mágico, se cree que aleja el mal o propicia el bien.
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A drawing by Ángel Ortega, showing an underwater giant anglerfish monster with an appendix that looks like a woman outside the sea surface
#unix_surrealism #dataswamp #technomage #art #comic #openbsd
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Do you ever wonder how different thing would be if we had met in the data swamp?
@Migueldeicaza @bigzaphod @jamesthomson "I feel like I get 10x more done" is the new "I think the stripper really likes me".
Get snac'd up (not just) for #fosdem !
You can now purchase #snac propaganda stickers and apparel to show your allegiance or to wage war with.
Blessed be the hacker @grunfink for they can C.
#snac2 #runbsd #linux #unix_surrealism #fediverse
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snac's suzie qr, points to comam.es/what-is-snac
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snac alien
SINCE YOU LEFT ME
IVE BEEN SNACPILLED
comam.es/what-is-snac
https://subversive.pics is now aggregating 11 subversive galleries with @occult being the latest addition.
Instagram is starting to foam at its machine mouth!
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Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?
edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!
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Lucie L. Hartmann, CEO
MNT Research GmbH
https://mntre.com
Did you know? Using AI wastes a lot of energy and contributes to
climate change. I'm happy to just receive your raw bullet points
instead of a formal email if you're short on time.
Lets save some energy!
Coo coo
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We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"
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A comic. Panel 1: a figure with no face standing in empty room, a window behind, text: "I let them in through the window". Panel 2: open hand, text: "they wanted to show me something in the forest. It was my 18th birthday that day... 'I hope it's IBM EM95 4U 256GB memory module' I thought". Panel 3: a figure in the forest pointing at something, text: "I think I knew them well, but I can't recall their name". Panel 4: faceless... face, text: "or their face". Panel 5: A sign "plague, keep out", text: "despite the warnings, we went deep into the woods, where they told me about the book". Panel 6: A giant artery in the forest, liquid flowing out, text: "and showed me the arteries of the earth". Panel 7: giant artery with two figures inside, they are soaked in liquid, text: "we looked for the largest one, and when we found it we climbed in, and we walked and walked for eons, deeper and deeper, to the rhythm of the heart far ahead". An eye looking forward below (still the same panel), text: "it was the best day of my life".
strlcpy(3)
#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #analognowhere #fish #penguin #mata #linux #comic #art
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MATA_Bots descend upon Fish's bunker.
Bots: "CLEAR! KEEP MOVING, THE FISH IS HERE"
Fish: "I'll buy you time. Use the ventilation system. Go wake her up. Get her out."
Bots: "GOT A SEALED DOOR. BREACH IT"
Fish: "And Purple? Thank you."
Bots: "BREACHING! MOVE MOVE!"
Fish: "For what it's worth... I wish for unlimited ammo."
last of the fish
#unix_surrealism #technomage #gameoftrees #9front no #thinkpad #openbsd #runbsd
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Girl lounging on a desk. there are 9front no-thinkpad, and game of trees posters behind her. a fish plush toy. and some other computer-speak stuff.
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A drawing by Ángel Ortega, showing a reptilian god nurturing a dead world with its own flesh and blood and bringing it back to life
Let's say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren't covering it.
So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat.
Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, "Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren't selling kitten deli slices?"
Some might say - maybe you aren't an animal shelter any more. Some might say.
https://jwz.org/b/yk2A
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the return of AUTOMA!
automa was the name of my blog in the past. it was abolished for no particular reason and its contents lay spread about in various corners of the internet.
the section now returns, aggregating all the weird articles, stories, guides and posts.
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AUTOMA
He realized he was unable to express that love in words; so big, so overwhelming, so eerie. He had no alternative than to keep living his life: lost some friends, met new others, found a job in number crunching, as he liked to say.
Years passed and he missed no new movie featuring her; he saw great stories, mediocre films and crappy flicks just because she was there. Every time the screen showed her face he felt like a delightful rendez-vous: how is you life, are you doing well, missed you so much. And every time he felt his heart breaking into pieces. Sometimes he even cried, his face covered by his hands, warm tears in the dark theater, always surrounded by strangers. Because love hurts, love is like a sickness, love is a strange and silent death.
One day, on one of those occasions when disappointments pile over each other, he decided to travel to Paris. Once there he felt he also loved the streets, the corners, the chimneys; it was a world that was a bit like her, a bit part her. He also felt the sadness of loving something that is almost not there, a mirage, a trompe-l'oeil. The bittersweet feeling of a life wasted loving a ghost.
And then he saw her. It happened on those tiring stairs in Montmartre, no less; he was sweating and panting while she moved almost like having the wind in her sails. He recognized the crow-black hair, the pale face, the glittering eyes now surrounded by little wrinkles, more beautiful than ever. Twenty-five years ago he saw her playing the grieving spouse of the great composer Patrice de Courcy and that day he started living. He smiled her and she smiled back.
This is another bone-chilling story from the ongoing book "FROM THE DEEPS OF SORROW - Sysadmin nightmares come true" by Stefano Marinelli.
"Out in the deep vastness of space, where traffic is slow and machines are old, the endless crawling of public resources by bots is a blight on our limited resources. If we don’t want our world to burn, we must keep them out, never invite them in. They try to change shapes, blend in, and therefore we must use what crude tools we have to defend ourselves."
Butlerian Jihad
A few days ago, a client’s data center (well, actually a server room) "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G.
I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an alert.
The office was closed for the holidays, but I contacted the IT manager anyway. He was home sick with a serious family issue, but he got moving.
To make a long story short: the company deals in gold and precious metals. They have an underground bunker with two-meter thick walls. They were targeted by a professional gang. They used a tactic seen in similar hits: they identify the main power line, tamper with it at night, and send a massive voltage spike through it.
The goal is to fry all alarm and surveillance systems. Even if battery-backed, they rarely survive a surge like that. Thieves count on the fact that during holidays, owners are away and fried systems can't send alerts. Monitoring companies often have reduced staff and might not notice the "silence" immediately.
That is exactly what happened here. But there is a "but": they didn't account for my Uptime Kuma instance monitoring their MikroTik router, installed just weeks ago. Since it is an external check, it flagged the lack of response from all IPs without needing an internal alert to be triggered from the inside.
The team rushed to the site and found the mess. Luckily, they found an emergency electrical crew to bypass the damage and restore the cameras and alarms. They swapped the fried server UPS with a spare and everything came back up.
The police warned that the chances of the crew returning the next night to "finish" the job were high, though seeing the systems back online would likely make them move on. They also warned that thieves sometimes break in just to destroy servers to wipe any video evidence.
Nothing happened in the end. But in the meantime, I had to sync all their data off-site (thankfully they have dual 1Gbps FTTH), set up an emergency cluster, and ensure everything was redundant.
Never rely only on internal monitoring. Never.
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