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HIRCOCERVO

   Del lat. tardío hircocervus 'alce', y este del lat. hircus 'macho cabrío' y cervus 'ciervo'.
    1. 1. m. Animal quimérico, compuesto de macho cabrío y ciervo.
    2. 2. m. quimera (‖ aquello que se propone como posible o verdadero).
       Sin.:
           quimera.

Fuente: Palabra del día del diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)

@aburka there is one for amd64 USB sticks. https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/20261014183245Z/images/NetBSD-11.0_STABLE-amd64-live.img.gz

note that the installer image _is_ an installation of netbsd so it's perfectly acceptable to use it for testing hardware. it has an option to drop into a shell.

A correspondent who has tried it, says he would prefer to die young.

#sephora #mastoart #art #fediart #comic #unix_surrealism #neverslop

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Fuck the computer now. the unlimited power of content funhole

New https://subversive.pics gallery: https://nosign.al/porn/ added!

by @io

#artwork #netbsd

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A doodle by Ángel Ortega with a hideous horned monster with a flag and a toaster surrounded by the text "My toaster runs NetBSD"

La exactitud cegadora con la que Chopin entendió lo que Beethoven quería decir en ese Adagio del Claro de luna y dedujo de él la patria lejana de todos los pianos.

Qué hilera perfecta surca la tierra; qué maravilloso huerto. Qué lejos del libre andar de los cazadores-recolectores, de su idea de cosecha.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then vibe-coded in rust.

"i did literally nothing"

#unix_surrealism #netbsd #comic #fediart #mastoart #runbsd

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That feeling when all of a sudden every girl in school wants to go out with you. "is this a prank?"

kernel maintainers masturbating over excuses for slopware, 2026:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/b4cfe877dea62799/

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PARADE STRUGGLES TO VICTORY DESPITE DISGRACEFUL SCENES

#content_review #netbsd @netbsd #art #comic #runbsd #unix_surrealism

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Funhole Content Review NETBSD 'Just war or immoral rebellion?' a: "I only asked it to rephrase some of the sentences." b: "No." How to convince yourself to use ctwm? "We only did it so you would stop talking about the toaster!" Fact Check: Is it really true that someone drew a picture on a computer without talking to it? ALL BOTS ARE STILL BASTARDS and 3 other short stories VETERANS OF THE BSD WARS: Top 7 ways to start a religious schism 50% OFF POCKET DAEMONS COUPON (valid prescription required) DOUBLE THE DONATIONS TO YOUR PROJECT WITH THIS ONE TRICK!

hackers have also configured the function — which normally runs for just two hours a day — into a continuous, forced defrosting cycle with the temperature set to a toasty 50 degrees Celsius

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snac is a simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2).

I've created an OpenBSD port for it (www/snac) -
https://github.com/ligurio/openbsd-wip/tree/master/www/snac

// CC: @grunfink

Everything I ever made is now mostly accessible from my main website https://triapul.cz

Thank you for your continuous support.

#unix_surrealism #webdev #art #mastoart #inktober #triapul

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looks so different on the other side of the hourglass

#neverslop #noai #fuckai #artwork #MakeUglyThings

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A doodle by Ángel Ortega depicting a clockwork fish named Clockwerk Shue saying FCK LLM surrounded by the text "clockwerk shue says no to ai"

Q: is it 0xfe3da5 pink?
A: Yes.

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@Dtraslerwriting @cstross

Do they make money on the up AND the down?

Yes, many of them. On the way down, shorts and put options make you money. But there’s more to it than that.

A lot of these people think the6 are smarter than all of the other investors in the market. And you can make a lot of money in a bubble as long as you get out before the crash. If you think you are better at predicting the timing of the crash, the best strategy is to keep investing and watching the line go up and get out just before the crash. Part of the problem is that everyone who does this inflates the bubble.

And, after a crash, whoever has spare liquidity wins. 2008 showed a lot of rich people that you can make an absolute killing during a crash because there are loads of undervalued assets available. The same thing happened in the 2020 crash. Pretty much anything you bought in the middle of 2020 went up by at least 50% in the next year or two, a lot of things doubled within a year.

Even the Great Depression was like this. People who bought stocks on the margin (borrowed to invest) lost everything. Richer people who invested their own money weathered it and were fine a few years later. The richest, who had either free cash or assets they could borrow against after the crash bought up a load of undervalued shares and made a big pile of money.

thanks to ai, saying you're "dating a model" is a lot less likely to impress anyone nowadays

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Went through some old notebooks yesterday and found these old sketches I did for what later became a small uxn zine.
#ocular #theGallery
https://ocular.nchrs.xyz/feed.html#261008_DSCF7784.jpg

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An open notebook on a table showing sketches and illustrations explaining how to programin uxn tal

I was given one of these little Xte Ink readers a few months back. I put some books on it and carried it around, and I tried to like it, the way I tried to like my Pinebook. I have something against electronics rotting in drawers, so I kept trying, despite the feeling that the people behind it did not care for it one bit.

Unlike the Pinebook, it's well built; it only needed a not-terrible operating system. I've jumped through these hoops before, and it's no different from working on any other embedded platform, except that this time I only had to write the thinnest Varvara emulator I could get away with, and only ever flash the device for critical changes.

Since the firmware is just a ROM, I wrote and debugged it all in Uxn11. The device emulator only had to pass the tests, and once it did, whatever I ran on my laptop ran on the device. The result is a document viewer that works equally well on everything with an emulator!

I'm not sure exactly where this device fits in my life right now, but it will help with one thing: bringing tickets and QR codes to events, which is always a headache for me without a smartphone or a printer. I might as well have something to read on the way there.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now.html

que ella votaría lo que le saliese del coño

• La publicará Planeta (¡Qué me dices!)
• Tendrá menos de 7291 páginas.

Whooooo, I received a new fax :D

https://datakra.sh/fax

Released a firmware for the XTE INK 4, it displays text and draws pictures, and wait for it, it remembers your page. That's it, there's no other features.

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/xte_ink
#uxn

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The XTE INK 4 with a wallpaper, a few files, the battery status.

How to use dithered brushes (screentones) in GIMP (and have it behave like it would in traditional monochrome drawing programs)

https://triapul.cz/automa/gimp_dither

#gimp #tutorial #monochrome @GIMP #linux #art

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GIMP Dither Brush

Let's make ugly things.

@angel This movement is part of the greater FuckAI Movement I'm already part of.

#FuckAI #FuckOffAIMusic #FuckOffClankers #Clanker #NoAI #AI #KI #IA #GenAI #LLM #BigTech

#FuckAI #NeverSlop

From FB:
Just heard someone call a Cybertruck a “Klanborghini.”
Well, fuck. That’s its name now.

Art by @j-g00da@donotsta.re

🥰

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A photo of Entropy's Rotoscope, issue I

Y digo normal porque si les fuese algo bien económicamente no tendrían necesidad de estas mezquindades. Pero no, no les va bien.

[...] the story of the first bug.

MAN / MACHINE INTERFACES

Back in the days, I worked for a small company that built EGSEs (short for Electric Ground Support Equipment) for civil and military satellites built by Airbus, Thales Alenia, Leonardo and others. The hardware was designed by my boss, a bitter and harsh but incredibly brilliant man, and I was responsible for the software interfaces, networking and remote control systems. Basically, we built human-height racks full to the top with COTS transponders, multimeters, power supplies, RF connectors, etc, and custom-built small Linux systems that coordinated the hardware; on the other side, this monster was commanded from a GUI in a standard laptop or desktop computer, that also provided connections to other Central Checkout / Command Control systems, test procedure scripting, and such. Also, our EGSEs used to have a small touchscreen where you could do very basic things like switching attenuators on / off, switching power supplies on / off, and commanding simple things to them like setting current, voltage, PWM, etc. I designed these small screens with the FLTK (Fast Light Toolkit), which was simple and appropriate for this very small systems.

One day, on an extremely hot summer (what the fuck, this is Spain, all summers are extremely hot), I went from my remote desktop to where my boss was working near the rack, and then he said:

"Please stop fucking around with the remote control system while I'm calibrating the power supplies".

"What? I did no such thing. I was [...whatever I was doing, I don't remember what]"

"Please. I was working when I heard the CLACK of the power supply switching off. I saw the logs and it was software-triggered."

"Maybe a temperature threshold, it's hot as fuck here."

"No. Software-triggered."

"Oh, sorry, then. Maybe I broke something, I'll go check my code."

Next day, I was already there by the rack with my boss. We were discussing something, and then we both heard the CLACK of the power supply going off again.

"Holy fucking Christ", said by boss.

"The remote control is disabled right now, the desktop is not even running, so I'm not to blame", said I, slightly relieved.

There was much swearing, as we were, as always, over the project deadline.

My boss then said:

"Whatever, our client has requested some more information in the rack's screen. I've sent you an email with the details."

I moved to my desktop, checked my email, and there was no message from my boss. I emailed the client and, yes, they wanted some more telemetries to be shown in the already crammed space. So I rewrote the small touchscreen main dialog (FLTK tools are cumbersome but effective), rebuilt and deployed it.

I moved to the rack. The air conditioning was buzzing like a small hurricane, the room hot as an oven. I checked how the mini-screen looked (sometimes, what was shown in the development machine didn't always match the real one): everything was OK, the new temperature telemetries were correctly shown near the power supply on-screen buttons.

Also, there was a fly over the screen. Then I joked to my boss:

"Oh, you must look at what I have done: I put a pretty, hyperreal bitmap of a fly on the man / machine interface, come look at it".

The fly moved a little, and then stepped over the power supply OFF touch-screen button.

CLACK

#ShortFiction #RealNotFiction

https://theconversation.com/este-ano-gratis-cuando-cesar-intento-resolver-el-problema-de-los-alquileres-293157

Every software project should have a page like this: https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge

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Spam / phishing is getting to levels never seen before. Last week I've received a bunch of emails from fake literary agents trying to contact me (yeah, sure, as if literary agents unsolicitedly contacted authors, and not the reverse). For example, the following one: it's in English, supposedly signed by an existent, real USA-based literary agent, about one my novels, written in Spanish, already published by spanish publisher. It's disquieting, because it gives a shallow analysis of the text, written for sure by an AI (so, yes, somehow my novel has been fed to these infernal machines):

I hope you're doing well.

I wanted to reach out because La atalaya recortada contra el cielo caught my attention for the way it seems to make horror feel deeply connected to memory, loss, and the weight of family history.

What particularly interested me about Bran is that she doesn't simply inherit a house she seems to inherit a history she has spent much of her life trying to distance herself from. The scar, the losses within her family, and her withdrawn nature give the house a significance beyond being a frightening setting. As she moves deeper into it, the physical darkness appears to become intertwined with something much more personal.

I also found the atmosphere of the story intriguing. The decay, isolation, confined spaces, tunnels, and strange imagery create a form of horror that relies as much on unease and anticipation as on the supernatural itself.

There’s also something interesting about setting such a psychologically dark story within a distinctly Spanish environment while exploring experiences that feel much more universal grief, inheritance, family secrets, isolation, and confronting the past.

I'd be interested to hear where your writing is taking you now.

What is the current project you're working on, how is it going so far, and what are you most looking forward to as it develops?

And do you currently have an active literary agent representing you?

There’s no need to send a manuscript or proposal at this stage. I’d simply enjoy hearing about what you're working on and what you're looking forward to next.

Best regards,
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