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

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"Work harder, monkey!"

Everyone, have a nice day!

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

Goths For Kamala!!!

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.

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

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

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I'm quite excited as I'm preparing a new, interesting service for the BSD Cafe 😉

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices

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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.

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.

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.

“Downfall”

Secret Panel HERE 🌳 https://tapas.io/episode/2806870

Me too!

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Cartoon of Christian proselytizing another man. The man says "No thanks, I'm not interested in eternal life. I've seen enough."

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Secret Panel HERE 🐻 https://tapas.io/episode/3308249

You may be entitled to compensation.

If you’re pro AI tools, and also anti-publishers putting content behind a paywall, the technical term for what you are is an utter fucking idiot.

#AI

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Screenshot of a retweet by Reid Southen: Rarely have I seen Al described so succinctly. Post by Church of Jeff says: The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth. #ai #generativeAl

@stutstev I had to perform some slight modifications to the original image, mostly described here: http://www.swonkdog.com/orangepi.html

Unfortunately, all those "exotic" devices need some modifications, except the ones listed on the images page.

NetBSD on Raspberry PI Zero W worked out of the box - I just flashed the correct image and it booted 🙂

The mental gymnastics required to be both 'pro-life' and pro-death penalty are unforgivable Olympic levels of fuckery

Dayum!

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Black female protestor holds sign that reads: Dear Police, we know you are not all bad, but as you love to say to us, "you fit the description."

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And while publishers generally demand Microsoft Word compatible DOCX files so that their production workflow can be standardized [...] nothing much has changed since 2013 when I wrote about why Microsoft Word must Die. (TLDR: it's a terrible tool, and if the only good argument for using it is that everyone else uses it, then you might as well eat shit like all the trillion other houseflies.)

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#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

@sqrtminusone Hi Pavel, the BSD Cafe is a place with a positive mood, PRO and not against. This doesn’t mean you can’t disagree with something. I myself sometimes criticize specific choices, methodologies, or situations. What’s important is that things always stay within the realm of expressing your opinion rather than attacking or discriminating against someone. It is perfectly fine to express your opinion (e.g., “I love systemd and would like to see it on BSDs!”) or your discontent (e.g., “I am extremely opposed to the systemd approach”), but not to discriminate against or attack those who use systemd.

I hope I’ve conveyed my idea clearly. If you have any doubts, feel free to ask!

A small compendium of the Fediverse platforms I use/know well.

In the past few days, I revisited some of my old Fediverse instances since some friends asked me to help them set up a new one. I also took the chance to perform maintenance on some leftover instances. Here's my experience:

Akkoma: My oldest instance still running, opened in 2022. It was offline for a few months (3/4). I updated everything to the latest version and restarted it. I’m not sure why, but it’s extremely slow, with a heavy load on Postgres and many queries just to open the main page. I like Akkoma - I'll investigate further.

GoToSocial: I updated a friend's instance - GoToSocial itself was up-to-date, but the underlying system wasn’t. I noticed that once it exceeds 2000 followings, it becomes a bit slow. The database is PostgreSQL, but that's not the issue. The GoToSocial process becomes somewhat heavy on the VPS. Still, it's very usable and a software with great potential, in my opinion. The Mastodon API is implemented quite well and works with the major software.

Mitra: It seems well-built. The person had around 1000 followers and followings on a Mastodon account, which they moved from a large instance. No speed issues, though sending a message makes the server “heavy” for a bit, but it’s temporary. The Mastodon API is partially implemented, but the software is advancing quickly, and I find its native interface quite pleasant.

Snac2: I've always had a soft spot for Snac2. The lack of a database and some design choices make it an excellent solution for small instances. For example, sending posts to all known instances increases visibility and interaction. Its basic, JavaScript-free interface is very clear, though it might not be the best for those used to Mastodon. But the Mastodon API is improving version by version, and I think the developer is doing an excellent job. It struggles a bit with larger numbers, but that's due to the underlying file system, not the software itself. If "move" support (both in and out) were added, I would recommend it to anyone starting self-hosting for single-user or small community instances because "move" is one of the options that gives the most freedom in Fediverse software.

Mastodon: My “old” personal instance was stuck at version 4.1.x and had been offline for a few months. I updated the FreeBSD Jail and upgraded Mastodon to 4.2.12 and then to 4.3.0-beta1. No issues. I also helped a friend (who had an old Pleroma-based instance they barely used) migrate. This user has around 5000 followers and followings - Mastodon is running on FreeBSD on a VPS (arm64) for just over 3 euros a month, with no significant issues (apart from media storage, but that's not Mastodon’s fault). Mastodon is sometimes said to be heavy, and that's partly true, but its modularity ensures that even in cases of overload, queues may slow down, but navigation and the local timeline remain reasonably fast. I think this is a good thing for any larger-scale use of an instance.

In short, I think things are moving in the right direction, and the software is evolving nicely. Well done, devs!

#Fediverse #Akkoma #GoToSocial #Mitra #Snac2 #Snac #Mastodon #SelfHosting #InstanceManagement #FreeBSD #OpenSource

A great Fediverse software, written in https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

«No obstante, el eurodiputado de ultraderecha Alvise Pérez, líder de la plataforma Se Acabó La Fiesta, ha votado este jueves en el Parlamento Europeo en contra de las subvenciones al toro de lidia por considerarlo un espectáculo de “brutalidad, crueldad y tortura”, en una posición muy diferente a la de PP y Vox.»

the right are obsessed with "owning the libs" because they miss the good old days when their ancestors also owned people

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_PvQ7tRfwvLCeR-jnqdbf6BVayqqC0QW

https://mastodon.social/users/o_simardcasanova/statuses/113053473600003123

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