https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573

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Cartel del certamen

Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

Sinopsis:

Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.

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Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

I have to stop posting active links to our content on Mastodon.

Every time I do so now, it brings down our website for up to 5 minutes.

We've tried pretty much every claimed fix, including third party caching (which in turn breaks other elements of our website's dynamic display abilities), code changes and such on our back end code, and more stuff I don't understand at all (but have spent money paying our WP developer to implement). None of it has worked.

The #fediverse powers that be need to fix this growing problem of the #MastoDDos effect on websites. The more followers and more servers your followers are from, the more impact this has on literally bringing a website to its knees with all the DB calls.

For instance, this morning, I posted the lovely article our creative writer Ethan wrote, which ended up only getting 2 boosts and one "favourite" here, but it brought down our website for 4 minutes and 12 seconds.

That's not sustainable.

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

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

CC: @ricardo@bsd.cafe

CC: @nikathesiren@tkz.one

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.

Actually, Twitter isn't just a room full of nazis. It's a room full of nazis in a building owned by a nazi who is currently working to get a nazi dictator elected, where your participation helps the nazi cause.

So, yeah. Gonna remember that.

When someone says that they just can't quit Twitter, what I hear is, "I am comfortable in a room full of nazis," and I will remember that about them.

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.

The worst AI scraper that doesn't even identify itself as such is still this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

It's not even listed on darkvisitors(.)com

I see 5120 requests in the last 24 hrs alone, all for JPEG & WEBP files. I don't want to know how much bandwidth & energy it consumes, globally.

Easy to block via Cloudflare or .htaccess: Firefox/72 is ages old and no human visitor would use it.

Spread the word.

#AI #Webmaster

Comprar esqueletos de plástico por Halloween:
-Caro
-Made in China
-Contaminante
-Cutre
-De normie básico

Ir a tu cementerio más cercano a desenterrar tu propio esqueleto:
-Gratis
-De proximidad
-Biodegradable
-Elegante
-Un toque de distinción

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.

It’s a nice time not to be built on Wordpress.

Right so my personal #snac instance seems to be working ok and I have managed to import all of the accounts I follow here on bsd.cafe . I'll still be using this account but will try and see how I get on with snac. You may notice that it always shows that I have no followers and that I'm not following anyone. This is intentional by the author of #snac as they feel numbers should not matter which is quite true. Feel free to follow me over there if you haven't already and hello to any new followers.
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
All of this is hosted in my #HomeLab on a #FreeBSd server jail running over my home FTTP connection. I'm impressed I've gotten this far. Next I'll be doing some html and css customisation's to theme it a little.

“Downfall”

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

After getting to try the #Snac activity pub server developed by @grunfink on bsd.cafe thanks @stefano , I'm kind of tempted to spin up my own instance. Anyone here other than Stefano that runs their own instance ? Please share you pro's and con's plus any workarounds you have come up with.
Also how are you viewing / posting on mobile ? Are you just sticking with web or using the likes of #Tusky ?
#Fediverse #ActivityPub

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

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."

CC: @pirrata@masto.es @Eriol@owo.cafe

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

Current state of American politics: actual dog killers claiming other people eat dogs and are mean to dogs.

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."

CC: @ElSaltoDiario@mastodon.social

very simply put:

#procrastination is when you put off tasks because your todo list overwhelms you.

#avolition is when you can't even do basic everyday tasks like brushing your teeth or getting out of bed.

#anhedonia is when you can't do any basic tasks and can't even distract yourself with time killers, because absolutely nothing can bring you any pleasure.

#lazyness is what giant assholes call any of the above.

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.)

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

#NoBillionaires #Unionize #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

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UNIONS ARE WHY THERE ARE FIRE EXITS AT YOUR WORK, AND WHY THE DOORS AREN'T PADLOCKED DURING WORK HOURS.

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.»

Sam Altman needs enclosure of the digital commons to make AI slop into money but the Internet Archive can't lend books for free, what an embarrassing timeline

@florian

We USians do not like to be reminded of the Chicago Haymarket Massacre, or our government systematically dismembering labour rights and organizations. Gov’t does not want us to know other countries are different, or to listen when the world talks about labour benefits and issues. So US Labour Day is intensely focused on outdoor family activities, & US Memorial Day outdoors at parades and picnics.

Meanwhile, Arbor, Earth, and National Parks Days are normal school/work days.

Happy Labor day! 🎉

I would like to unironically thank Elon Musk for taking an almost unimaginable amount of wealth from this list of terrible people and vaporizing it.

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Infographic: How much value X investors have lost: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud 2024 value: $529.2M Loss: −1.4B Jack Dorsey 2024 value: 280M Loss: −720M Larry Ellison 2024 value:280M Loss: −720M Sequoia Capital 2024 value: 224M Loss: −576M Vy Capital 2024 value: 196M Loss: −504M Binance Loss:−360M Andreessen Horowitz Loss: −288M Qatar Investment Authority Loss: −270M Source: Analysis using Fidelity Investments data. Fidelity recently valued what was initially a $19.66 million Twitter stake in its Blue Chip Growth Fund at about 72 percent less than when Musk purchased Twitter, a valuation that has remained relatively steady. The Post applied the 72 percent drop to the initial investor stakes reported in filings to the SEC as well as public comments and individual confirmations of entities’ involvement.

"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."

Barbara Ehrenreich
(08/26/1941 – 09/01/2022)
US writer

@jerry @SunTzuCyber

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A post from “sea shanty stan account” (anarchoshanties.bsky.social) which reads: The Art of War is so funny when you realize it’s basically a very frustrated Sun Tzu writing The Absolute Dipshit Entitled Brat Silver Spoon Nepo Baby’s Guide to Not Immediately Fucking Up A War, which also explains why CEOs like it so much

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

Just a reminder that the "existential risk" from AI is not that somehow we'll make Skynet or the computers from The Matrix.

Nobody is going to give a large language model the nuclear codes.

The existential risk is to marginalized people who will be silently refused jobs or health care or parole, or who will be targeted by law enforcement or military action because of an ML model's inherent bias, and that because these models are black boxes, it will be nearly impossible for victims to appeal.

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

Boost if you're very, very tired of hearing about Oasis

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

CC: @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

This 64-bit integer that stores the byte offset into this file, is a big enough type to store not just an offset into this file and any other particular file, but the entire internet joined together into one file.

casual eldritch horror is my favorite

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a dark, misty road winding through a forest with tall trees on either side. The central focus is a large, ominous red monolith floating in the middle of the road. "God I hate these fucking floating monoliths. They always go, like, 10mph below the speed limit and if you try to pass them they just fucking distort reality around them until you're back behind them again. One of them cut me off on the highway once and when I honked it banished me to a hoary netherworld where I wandered, lost and alone, for untold centuries, trapped in the liminal space between what could have been and what never was, black stars dotting the bright infinity yawning out around me as I drove out of thought and time, through endless ruined cities and blighted lands unmarked by the sun's cold rays, and when I finally got out I was more than 20m late for my dentist appointment and they had to reschedule me."

-- Fernando Pessoa

Death camp
Concentration camp
Genocide
Starvation as weapon

All terms that the AP can use here and chooses not to

#Gaza #Genocide

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Text: AP The Associated Press v @АР Follow Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking 'humanitarian zone' where food is scarce Israeli evacuation orders cram Palestinians into shrinking 'humani... From apnews.com 17:30 • 24/08/2024 From Earth • 1.3M Views 366 Reposts 231 Quotes 781 Likes 127 Bookmarks

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

I think we don’t talk enough about how NASA has stranded astronauts in space and is relying on commercial services to get them back but one of those commercial services can’t manufacture safe equipment and the other is run by a fascist.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

‼️OJO A ESTO: Francia le quita el estatuto de medio online a un esparcidor de bulos: no podrá optar a subvenciones, ni ventajas fiscales (y supongo que tampoco a publi institucional).

Luchar contra la financiación de los pseudomedios ES POSIBLE. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fake-news/medio-frances-france-soir-pierde-estatuto-servicio-prensa-bulos-covid

@ewenmcneill Possibly worth noting that the versions of grub revoked by this are known insecure

I've just witnessed a completely civil and righteous rage against the machine by an elderly man (80s+) at supermarket self-service checkout here in small city Aotearoa #NewZealand and it was a little bit wonderful.

He'd just finished paying for his groceries when the machine started saying "Please take your items" every 15 seconds or so. At first he just says "I'll do it in my own time thank you," while bagging things up.

The machine keeps telling him to take his items. After around the 5th time, he starts really arguing back:
"I don't have to do what you tell me to do."
"I'll take as long as I need thank you."
"I'll thank you to stop harassing me."

On around the seventh or eighth request that he take his items, he stands back, crosses his arms and says loudly snaps, "No! Not until you be quiet!"

The machine keeps going. The man just stands there, crossed arms, chin stuck out. A standoff is on. Staff come over and ask if they can help and he tells them that if they switch the voice off, he will continue bagging his things and go. If they don't, he's retired and can wait all day.

Machine is turned off/down with sympathy from supermarket staff. Moments later the man leaves the supermarket with the air of someone who's just won a war, expression completely stoic.

A motivational message 🫶🏻
#motivation #mindset

When you use Twitter, you ride with Elon and Trump

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Image that says "When you use Twitter, you ride with Elon! Get off that awful garbage fire site today!" It's in the style of the 1940s US government poster "When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler" and has a picture of a person driving their car alone next to an outline of Elon Musk dressed up like Hitler.

Para quien no haya entendido mi post sobre nacionalismos, aquí dejo una explicación más gráfica.

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Una guía para principiantes sobre nacionalismos. Un burgués rico, abrazando un cofre lleno de oro en su castillo, dice «Mirad todas las cosas bonitas que tenemos». Unos campesinos, fuera de los lujos del castillo, le responden «Nosotros no tenemos nada, lo tienes todo tú». El burgués traza una línea en la tierra con un palo, formando un círculo, dejando su castillo y a los campesinos dentro del círculo. Pone un cartelito al lado del círculo dibujado en la tierra «Frontera del país». El burgués rico, abrazando un cofre lleno de oro en su castillo, dice «Mirad todas las cosas bonitas que tenemos». Los campesinos, dentro de la frontera, pero fuera del castillo, responden «Vamooosss, somos los mejores, estoy orgulloso de mi país, oleee».

CC: @hispa@social.hispabot.freemyip.com

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

@brucknerite @RichardJMurphy @25kV

Es que de hecho ocurre que es una balanza presupuestaria muy clara: si el estado se endeuda, las familias no lo hacen; si el estado no se endeuda, lo tienen que hacer las familias. Vivimos en un sistema económico impulsado por el crédito, lo queramos o no; y la relación entre los estados y las familias en cuanto a la deuda es casi de vaso comunicante.