#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendos_en_Espa%C3%B1a#Resultados_de_los_referendos_nacionales

Hoy cuento cómo se financia el pseudomedio donde trabaja el Bertrand Ndongo.

Además he comparado lo que se lleva Periodista Digital con lo que se llevan El Salto y elDiario.es.

También he mirado cuánto supone esa inyección en su facturación.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/comunidad-madrid/ayuso-almeida-inyectado-400000-euros-periodista-digital-bertrand-ndongo-cuatro-anos

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“I fight for the Right to Repair. Which is why the system wants to torture me to death. It’s about control, kid, and if we can fix what they break, the whole system collapses.”

—Harry Tuttle, rogue heating engineer

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A white man with moustache speaks to another white man who has his back to us.

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In other words, a stopped clock is always wrong.

It doesn't matter that it will coincidentally display the correct time twice per day. That coincidence doesn't have any connection to a clock's function as a tool. It's not doing the thing you think clocks do. It's not right about the time any more than a photo of a clock is. Or a description of a clock in a book. A stopped clock isn't a time keeping device. It's something else, that's merely shaped like a time keeping device.

LLMs aren't thinking. They aren't learning, understanding, or remembering. They're doing something else, that is merely shaped like thinking. They are a stopped clock, and they are always wrong.

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#oldknees

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A group of crows are gathered and chatting. "Thanks for comic everyone! Who'd like to start? Alessandro?" "Sure!" says Alessandro "For this week's flower share I brought an apple blossom! Delicate, simple in form, modest and subtly charming". They are all admiring the flower at Alessandro's feet. "Pretty" says one. "Beautiful specimen!" continues the first crow, "One of my favourites. Thank you for sharing! Who'd like to go nex–" they are interrupted by a loud clearing of a throat. "AHEM". The group of crows looks up to see another crow, perched on a branch nearby. It swoops down, something in its talons. It lands the the middle of the group in a dramatic way, to reveal the most perfect example of a magnolia flower. The group stares in an entranced silence. The strange crow declares "I didn't prepare a speech".

@pkw copy the url of the post, put it in the search bar in your snac, it will load and you can interact with it.

Bane of the javascriptless:

Getting around anubis'd websites in (not just) links2.

If you enable the "Fake Firefox (improves privacy)" option in links2 (Setup - Network Options - HTTP options - Header options), links2 then pretends to be the tor browser, imitating the same headers and user-agent - this results in websites that use anubis to bully you and expecting the completion of some javascript challenge. If you do not enable this option, you can get around the annoying anime girl.

Presumably you could use the links2 user-agent in any other browser. I suppose this is true for lynx as well.

> Links (2.28; NetBSD 9.3 amd64; GNU C 7.5; text)

You can also use wget's user-agent, which currently lets you get past anubis as well.

> Wget/1.25.0

You can check what headers your browser is sending at https://wtfismyip.com/headers .

...

To try this in firefox - go to about:config, add `general.useragent.override' and paste in the links2 user-agent string.

#anubis #links2gang #serpico

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silly skeleton girl who bullies ai and internet users.

Odio, detesto, me asquea recordar estas cosas. Y no puedo evitarlo. Qué rabia.

And today? The internet seems like a modern evolution of "The Game of Life." [...] The internet is now in everyone's hands, yet it belongs to no one. We no longer possess the tool; the tool (and those who control it) possesses us.

The waitress at this restaurant keeps asking “Are you happy with your choices” and I think she means the food but I damn that’s a deep question

https://relay.fedi.buzz/

https://www.elespanol.com/ciencia/medio-ambiente/20181004/accidente-nuclear-madrid-franco-oculto-contamina-toledo/342966217_0.html

Even though I eventually edited the article to clarify that there was no organized crime involved, many comments keep insisting that, since it happened in Italy, there must be organized crime or the mafia behind it.

My workflow matches yours totally, though.

And of course, I’ve left out the worst parts of the story.

I no longer work professionally on IT, so my opinion is irrelevant here.

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I even had a (known unreliable and crash-prone) RAID 6 configuration using 4 USB thumb drives that had a long life of continuous mp3 transcoding. Finally, the USB hub died, and then I decomissioned the ugly monster (it was mostly for testing).

Maybe I'm lucky (I'm not).

ZFS [...] on one hand, I saw it as a "betrayal" of the Unix philosophy, something foreign within the base system

Happy Mother's Day

Secret Panel HERE ♥ https://tapas.io/episode/3175205

Hot Cenobites in your area...

#memes #humour

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Ad with Pinhead cenobite with the words "Hot cenobites in you area have such sights to show you."

It is well documented that for every minute that you exercise, you add one minute to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.

#memes #humour

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Daily Mirror posts a photo of Princess Charlotte and the text: Princess Charlotte already speaks two languages at just two-years-old. Cole Allen responds: So do most children of immigrants but | guess it's less impressive when they're poor.

@ConspiracyOfCartographers Well, sure, Blue Sky is a billionaire-owned Nazi bar, but at least you also don't get any engagement there. At least there's that.

I just had to replace the battery. I bought a rather bulky one, but it lasts like a million years of mostly text-only work.

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🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱#goVegan 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🔊 It's Official. Mexico City just banned bullfighting - ending a 500 year tradition 🙌👏

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Text: It's Official. Mexico City just banned bullfighting - ending a 500 year tradition. Photo: bullfighting

"#RobertDeNiro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as #trans

I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is … I love all my children"

What is that sound?

A father who respects his child

Airyn, born to Robert and model/ actress #ToukieSmith in 1995: "There’s a difference between being visible and being seen. I’ve been visible. I don’t think I’ve been seen yet"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/01/robert-de-niro-daughter-airyn-trans

#transgender #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

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Robert De Niro supports daughter Airyn as she comes out as trans: ‘I don’t know what the big deal is’ After her announcement of her transition, the actor said: ‘I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter’ ‘I love all my children’ … Robert De Niro and his daughter Airyn. Composite: Getty Images/Instagram/@voiceofairyn

Two new books have been announced that, embarrassingly for the authors and publishers, fail spectacularly to understand what the term "vibe coding" means.

In Spanish these insectivorous geckos are called Salamanquesas or Saltarrostros (which means "jump to the face", which is an activity they are famous for not doing). It's said that they bring good luck.

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Maybe hell is just entering your email and password over and over with a TV remote.

A few days ago my Mom and sis started getting email bounces for me. They are both on iCloud. I got a look at one of the bounce messages today - Apple is interpreting my graylist 421 temp fail status code as a permanent failure.

The problem showed up now because Apple started using a new netblock. I had the old block whitelisted so graylisting didn't get invoked. Whitelisting the new block fixes it for now, until they change addresses again.

But really, Apple should OBEY THE FUCKING RFC.

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email bounce message showing Apple's iCloud interpreting a temporary failure status code as a permanent failure

Las autonomías peperas pidiendo el ejército en las calles para garantizar el orden, ayuso saliendo de uniforme en teleespe, paranoias con que si mochilas de 48/72h

Las calles: las terracitas llenas de gente festejando el día libre, vecinos preguntando puerta por puerta si hace falta algo, poniendo la radio alta en la terraza pa que quien no tenga se entere de lo que pasa xD

I'm here right now. Around me are rioting kids with tired-looking parents, a youngster wireless-speaking cheerly while eating, lonely men rougly of my age dressed with worn-out suits and ties munching silently, a woman that looks like she's homeless (even holding a rusty supermarket cart full of bags and unrecognizable things), two well-dressed boys shouting about the problem with immigrants (probably from an expensive private school nearby) and a stunningly beautiful girl drinking a soda that looks otherwordly out of place here (like Helen when discovered on top of Troy's battlements by the greek soldier).

A Burger King is a sample of this uncertain and undescribable world we live in these days.

Me: huh, I don't remember logging out of my session on the kids' #OpenBSD laptop…oh, right, I did a `doas sysupgrade`, it did the upgrade, rebooted into 7.7, and returned uneventfully to the login screen without requiring any additional intervention or thought.

There's something wonderful about an upgrade-process so boring that you can accidentally forget you did it.

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

I don't think this piece of cake was even sold in Spain, or I'm sure I would remember.

Stefano and everyone, have a great day!

«Va' peazo BUGA s'agenciao el gachó»

[...] copilot [...]. How can something this dumb help you with your job? What is your job?

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/windows-experience-goes-to-11

new plant

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Desde que empecé me han mantenido el precio y me han ido incrementando los servicios. En un momento dado (cuando en mi barrio se pudo) me cambié internamente a su fibra nativa y me bajaron 10 euros.

Mis cifras son: fibra 1Gbps, 2 líneas de móvil con datos "ilimitados", desactivación del CGNAT (1 euro), línea de fijo y DIGI TV por 45 euros/mes.

La multa es menos de lo esperado, pero viene en un momento perfecto: Teresa Ribera multa a Apple y Meta con 500 y 200 millones respectivamente. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/comision-europea/bruselas-multa-apple-meta-500-200-millones-plena-guerra-trump

... https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/170163871

#unix_surrealism

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Puffin's Bluff

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A puffin stands on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. "I always thought I'd get wiser and braver with time... but I'm only becoming more neurotic". We see its perspective, looking down at the rough water below. "Why am I like this? Does it help me?" A close up of the puffin's face, looking momentarily cheerful. "Maybe overthinking IS wisdom! I AM the contemplative figure, gifted with great insight". They look down again "...and nervous bowels".

Son 2 novelas del ciclo de Franz Hauzman, en concreto:

• FRANZ SE ARREPENTIRÁ DE TODO. Novela (88000 palabras). Horror cósmico, fantasía urbana, new weird, bizarro fiction.
• RUIDO EN LA TORMENTA. Novela corta (20000 palabras). Horror cósmico, ciencia-ficción, new weird, bizarro fiction.

Los diseños de portada son de Marisa Ortega.

#HorrorCósmico #FantasíaUrbana #CienciaFicción #NewWeird #BizarroFiction

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Portada de la novela FRANZ SE ARREPENTIRÁ DE TODO

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Portada la novela RUIDO EN LA TORMENTA

[...] if the at daemon will do its job [...]

Did you leave your Wii at the #EMF2024 Swap Shop?

If so, it's now hosting my blog:

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/

Huge credit to @jmcwhatever for the effort porting NetBSD to the Wii!

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Picture of someone holding up a fairly scruffy Nintendo Wii. It's at the EMF 2024 Swap Shop, so the image is taken in a field with a table behind with an assortment of various Swap Shop goodies on it, including tech books, an Oculus dev kit, and what appears to be a venus flytrap.

Chocolate Easter bunnies are hollow to represent God's promises.

#memes #humour #Easter #EasterSunday

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Photo of chocolate bunny with a bite taken out of it showing that it is hollow inside. Text reads: Chocolate Easter bunnies are hollow to represent God's promises.

Be like Dolly.

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A post from M.S. (@MalaakSafa ) on X reads: "Dolly Parton didn’t spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children." Below the text, there is an image of Dolly Parton in a white dress, sitting on a chair and reading to a group of children seated on the floor in a large, ornate room with a crowd of adults standing in the background, some taking photos.

A verified ID is required to access AI models in OpenAI's API to prevent IP theft. 😂 They went from stealing everything from everyone to now claiming it's their original work, despite hundreds of pending copyright cases against them in the courts. Why is this even allowed? That's hypocrisy at best.

#ai

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Con el software de ActivityPub que uso (#snac) es muy fácil montar cosas de estas.

Asking for a little favor.

A few years ago -for obvious reasons- I deleted all my american services. (instagram, facebook etc)

The result was my business plummeting down, no projects came in anymore, making it nearly impossible to come around after 20 years of career.

The favor I'm asking is if you know someone who's working with illustrators, or even just interested, just share my stuff please. Thanks :)

My portfolio
https://www.itchi5.com

#freelanceillustrator #illustration #europe

But have you heard of baklava code? Thousands of fragile sticky layers. Some of them are nuts.

I added some basic #activitypub support to humungus based on the #forgefed vocabulary. Repository, Commit, etc. And of course updated #honk as well. So now you can follow the honk repo from within honk itself and see all the commits fly by. Still a work in progress, but it’s live now. Probably do a longer write up next week.