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@angel@triptico.com
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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria
EnshittifAIcation
Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.
Great article!
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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria
Bluesky Reveals Massive Hidden Investment
Today #Bluesky revealed that in April 2025 they received a whopping $100M venture capital investment lead by Bain Capital Crypto and that they KEPT IT A SECRET.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
So the answer to the big mystery Who Owns Bluesky? (https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116025246450023071) is finally out. Crypto VCs.
Now, we should be asking why did this company that prides itself on transparency and "decentralization" decide they needed to hide who owned the company?
Who owns Bluesky?
The curious mystery of the Bluesky Series B funding round.
Did it happen?
If you look at pitchbook (https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/484831-81) it seems Bluesky closed a whopping $97 million funding round resulting in a $700M valuation in January 2025. VCpedia lists Greylock, alumni ventures and Skyseed as participants (https://vcpedia.com/rounds/5195).
The interesting thing is there are no press releases or other media coverage confirming this financing.
Read on...
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"And some people say 'These people, they're not even trying to be British. They come here, they bring their own culture, their food, speak their own language, and try to take over the whole bloody place.'
Dunno. Sounds pretty British to me."
~Trevor Noah
😂
Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
Yet some people keep saying that it is impossible that “with 64 GB of RAM you cannot use mutt while compiling” and they start with the insults.What the fuck is wrong with these people
Y no por cómo termina, es por cómo te sitúa en situación y lo terrible que es lo que tienen que hacer y lo que les hacen si incumplen reglas. Algunos de los diálogos son muy buenos y los protagonistas también a excepción (un poco) del principal, que no me termina de encajar por edad. Al menos no en todos los planos, ojo, pero es un detalle sin importancia.
On the plus side, at least future generations won't have the cognitive skills to judge us harshly.
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A photo of my development laptop computer with a "Are we human yet?" sticker, and a notebook with the Magnetic Nymph in its cover
PRs must not incorporate any material generated by or with the assistance of any so-called "generative AI" tool or LLM.
"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
https://www.mieres.es/mieres-pone-en-marcha-caja-de-resistencia-contra-la-censura-en-la-cultura/
Y por cierto, si empezáis a buscar "teatro censura PP" el año "top" fue 2023. No han parado pero ese año se vinieron arriba.
Sabiendo como sabía eso lo único que demuestra es un acto de prepotencia más, de los que vemos en los pueblos de la sierra en cuanto pillan poder. Aquí en Cerceda hemos tenido a otra mujer de bien que destrozó la parte cultural que ofrecía el pueblo a bajo precio (y se lo colocó a una empresa que subió la cuota, claro) y se encargó de que no quedase un santo, beato o espíritu afín sin celebración alguna. Ah, y tuvimos escuela de tauromaquia junto con Moralzarzal.
Inciso: entiendo que hablo para conversos pero si Vox pilla poder a nivel de ministerio irá justamente a por minorías, mujeres (no de bien, esas no se tocan), educación y asuntos culturales varios. El resto no le interesa todavía porque no tiene programa político para ello.
usage: ksh random.kitto.sh (probably works with bash)
img_viewer needs to be able to read urls.
you can add more emotions too!
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it works
Entropy 2
#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #linux #foss #comic #art #mastoart #privacy
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Girl: "Master?"
Fish and Penguin are playing chess. Fish: "Yes?"
Girl: "It should compile by morning. I'm off to bed."
Fish: "Fine, fine"
Girl goes to bed, reads hagakure and falls asleep.
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analognowhere presents techno-mage in entropy 2
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Girl awakens in the Realm of the Spirit of The Machine. She notices Fossangel in the distance.
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Girl: "Fossangel!"
Fossangel: "SHHH. Fill this in first."
It's a clipboard: Before you dream, we must verify your identity. Name, DOB, Address, MATA_ID.
Girl: "I have to do this in my own dream now?!"
Fossangel: "Girl.. You have no idea how deep this thing goes."
Sorprende que puedan llegar a ser tan estúpidos. Necesitan estados funcionando para seguir siendo ricos por lo que estas noticias me parecen poco creíbles.
Dear friends of #BSDCafe - the BSD Cafe Journal needs some attention.
This isn't the best time for me to revive it myself, and that's exactly why I'm counting on you!
I'm sure you have great ideas, thoughts, projects, and articles that would fit perfectly in that space.
So don’t be shy 🙂
The BSD Cafe Journal is waiting for you!
#BSDCafeJournal #Blogging #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD
in case you ever wondered why bluesky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3meomclcfss2w
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Why
@why.bsky.team
Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff.
In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
one of the nice things about working for yourself is, you can simply choose not to use any microsoft products
#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.
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