Ángel
@angel@triptico.com
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So, if the instruments are the hardware and the toolkit, and the interpreter is the compiler, then it's more or less true that music is the object and the sheets are the source.
Similarly, one may consider a MIDI file source code for music.
This exactly.
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@LaComtesseJamie writes: I'm amazed by people who lose weight w exercise. When | exercise nothing happens bc my DNA still thinks I'm a European peasant. So it's like "Oh! Are we running from the English again, lass? Dinnae ye worry: we'll keep ye plump as a partridge to outlast the murderous bastards!"
This is Ángel Ortega, crime and horror fiction writer and former systems programmer (on space, avionics and cryptography environments).
My first contact with a #UNIX system was on 1989 on a Sun Sparcstation 2 running #SunOS. I discovered #Linux on 1993 with the SLS distribution. I ditched all Microsoft software on 1999 and moved all my computers to Linux and never looked back.
My first encounter with #OpenBSD (inside a VM) was circa 2015. I was debugging a ground station software that was complicated as hell and had some memory leaks and was driving me mad; a friend of mine recommended compiling my beast on OpenBSD because the memory management is very different and it immediately crashed on a place I never expected. That filled my heart with bliss.
My first experience with OpenBSD in real hardware was on a laptop in 2020. Everything worked (except Bluetooth because, you know, there is no Bluetooth support on OpenBSD). I finally had to install Linux on that laptop because of reasons and my heart was a bit broken.
I now have OpenBSD on a tiny Toshiba NB 200. It's 32 bit, so no Firefox for poor old Ángel, but I don't really care because I used it mostly for fiction writing and remote server maintenance while on coffee shops, libraries or parks. Battery usage is great. Everything works like a charm.
I love OpenBSD because it's compact. It makes me feel like on a vintage UNIX system, simple and solid. Native tools and servers share lookalike configuration files. Man pages are awesome af. It includes a C compiler in its base system and that means "I am a real Operating System" to me. I love security is one of its main goals. OpenBSD hackers are brilliant, stubborn, unique people.
I don't love the filesystem.
I don't care that it's a bit slower than other OSes.
If you haven't tried OpenBSD, do it this October.
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Out of these four movies directed by Quentin Tarantino, which is your favorite, and why?
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| Reservoir Dogs (1992): | 44 |
| Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003): | 49 |
| Inglourious Basterds (2009): | 33 |
| Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): | 10 |
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Va a quedar una edición de mi libro TAN guay que ya le gustaría a cualquier editorial tenerla. Es que estoy segura xD
Great movie and great book.
https://www.thisman.org/oldsite/
Creo que las he visto todas, pero sí, un maratón no estaría mal. Aunque algunas no serán fáciles de encontrar.
Gracias por su interés.
Let's start #OctOpenBSD ! Let use this month to show #OpenBSD is not a niche operating system!
Write stuff, take screenshot, record videos, do what you want using #OpenBSD and share it to the world!
CC: @CortoMunchausen@eldritch.cafe @Fitx0@paquita.masto.host
Fortunately, I don't do any web browsing in this nano-machine (it's mostly unbearable), just have it installed just in case
www-data system group (or whatever your Apache runs as) and set your Notes folder setgid www-data; this way, combined with an umask that sets your files rw-r-----, Apache will have read access to your files while running as a not-you user.Apart from the recent vulnerability, what more thinks I should be afraid of? End of support?
Esto es este viernes ☺️
Venid a hacernos compañía.
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Feria del libro autoeditados con protagonistas lgtbqia
Reunión con autores y exposición de obras
Acceso a narrativa con protagonistas LGTBIAQ para público juvenil
Mesa redonda de vivencias (17h)
15 representantes de la actualidad de la escena.
Biblioteca Vargas Llosa c/Barceló 4 Madrid
También, como dice @VictorMoral@mastodon.social, cualquiera de las de Mad Max menos la de Tina Turner.
Do you have this same content in a less temporary, time-proof format, like a blog post or whatever?
Do you screenwriters want us to believe this shit? Are you even trying?
Qué bien me lo pasé ayer en la presentación de T.Errores: en el bosque ya estás muerto. Qué antología más chula, por favor.
Así da gusto escribir.
Si no vas, más pierdes tú.
~ Panistheman
https://www.deviantart.com/panistheman/art/Comic-Strip-107321958
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Black and white pen drawn cartoon, 8 frames arranged four across, two deep, headed with the title:
Please stop violating causality.
Frame 1: A bully threatens the protagonist.
Frame 2: The protagonist has an idea.
Frame 3: Protagonist breaks fourth wall by reaching down to the seventh frame and pulling a copy of himself out of the comic.
Frame 4: The bully realises he’s outnumbered.
Frame 5: The protagonist and his copy stand up to the bully.
Frame 6: The bully is about to get beaten by the two.
Frame 7: The protagonist is dragged out through the fourth wall.
Frame 8: The situation has returned to a bully threatening the protagonist.
Artist unknown.
Los guionistas que escriben la realidad cada vez se esfuerzan menos.
https://www.europasur.es/gibraltar/Detenido-juez-Pitto-acusado-genitales_0_1829818402.html
I beg to differ.
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Graphic image of salt shaker with the words "low sodium," but the salt shaker inadvertently looks like a penis.
Do you know who this person is? (This is likely to be a tough one.)
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Respecto al color del culo de un camello, pues ahí me has pillao porque no tengo ni idea. Tendría que buscarlo.
A ver si va a ser como cuando la gente llama "color vainilla" a algún tipo de amarillo y luego vas a ver cómo es una vaina de vainilla y es marrón caca-de-oca.
No pasa nada si estos términos se usan en el lenguaje coloquial o en un documento técnico, pero si escribes un artículo sobre el uso correcto del castellano hay que tratar de evitarlo.
Que tampoco es tan grave, claro, pero queda feo.
O igual el/la OP se refiere a que ya no son de carne o algo así.
¿Pero cómo que sabor co-creado con IA, Cocacola? Pero qué dices, pero qué me cuentas 😱
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Lata de Coca-Cola Zero azúcar con colores azules y rosados que me dice que ha sido co-creada por una IA. Venga ya, nos vamos a la mierda
