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

Yo, como mucho, sueño que me toca hacer la mili otra vez.

I had to learn the hard way.

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Barbie didn't give me a poor body image. Barbie taught me you can't reattach a head once it's removed from the body.

CC: @Alice@beige.party

Es verdad que la dialéctica del poder funciona y manipula, pero la enésima vez que un sargento gabacho se presenta en tu tienda y se lleva dos hogazas de pan pour le patille te entran ganas de colgarle por los huevos a él y a todo su puto país.

CC: @espanabizarra@mastodon.social

In the Mastodon case, thousands of servers will hammer your site almost at the same exact time. Not people interested in what you may say at slightly different paces. Just automatic, powerful machines from all over the world. This is very similar to a DDoS.

You will not only suffer when you post a very remarkable or clickbaity link. You'll suffer everytime, even if no real human reach your site.

CC: @wimpy@fosstodon.org @ThirstyGayGeek@gaygeek.social @maikel@vmst.io

CC: @wimpy@fosstodon.org @maikel@vmst.io

**BSD Mail Project Update!**

Hello everyone! I wanted to share some exciting updates about the development of BSD Mail, our privacy-focused email service designed with robustness, security, and transparency in mind. Here’s a deep dive into the technical choices I've made, focusing on my use of open source solutions and open protocols:

🌍 **Servers & Location**

- We're running on two physical servers:
- One hosted by OVH in France
- Another by Hetzner in Germany
- Both servers operate on FreeBSD with NVMe drives in a ZFS mirror configuration for speed and data integrity.

🔒 **Virtualization & Security**

- We utilize jails on both servers to ensure isolated environments for different services, managed via BastilleBSD. On one server, jails are set up directly on the hardware, whereas the other server employs nested jails.
- Each server hosts a bhyve VM running OpenBSD with OpenSMTPD for handling SMTP duties securely.

🔗 **Networking**

- A Wireguard setup connects the two servers, facilitating routing capabilities so that jails and VMs can communicate seamlessly, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6.

📧 **Email Services**

- **Dovecot** is configured for maildir replication across the servers using Dovecot sync, ensuring email availability and redundancy.
- **Rspamd** instances are tied to local KeyDB jails, set up in master-master replication for consistent and reliable spam detection and greylisting.
- **ClamAV** runs in corresponding jails for virus scanning, maintaining a high level of security.
- **SOGo** provides a web interface for email management, connected to MySQL databases in master-master replication to handle sessions and authentication smoothly.

💾 **Data Management**

- Email data is stored on separate, encrypted ZFS datasets to secure emails at rest.
- MySQL databases are used for storing credentials and managing sessions for SOGo, also in a master-master replication setup. Importantly, all passwords are securely hashed using bcrypt, ensuring they are salted and safe.

🔎 **Monitoring & Reliability**

- Our DNS is managed through BunnyNet, which continuously monitors our server status. Should one server—or a specific service—become unavailable, DNS configurations are dynamically adjusted to avoid directing users to the affected IP until full service is restored.

🌐 **Commitment to Open Source and Open Protocols**

- Every component of BSD Mail is built exclusively using open source software and open protocols. This commitment is crucial for ensuring data freedom and the reliability of the solutions we use.

This setup not only emphasizes our commitment to privacy and security but also our dedication to maintaining an open and transparent platform.
We're excited to bring you a service where your privacy, data integrity, and freedom are prioritized. Stay tuned for more updates!

#BSDMail #OpenSource #Privacy #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #EmailHosting #Email

TIL: When you use #codeberg and/or #forgejo, you can pimp your profile page by creating a repository called .profile (the dot is important) with a single file called README.md in it. Once done, the Markdown in said file will be shown as default content on your profile page. This is going to be fun! https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer

God Does Not Play Dice

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4 panel comic by War and Peas. 1. Panel: A child prays to God, "Dear God, it's me. Kelly." 2. Panel: God, up in the clouds, is playing online poker and is disturbed by a ping behind him. He goes, "Argh, what is it?" 3. Panel: He leans over to the screen that the ping came from and just clicks "accept". he says, "Yeah, sweety, whatever, here you go." 4. Panel: Kelly is riding a giant cat that is destroying an entire city"

logging into things has become such a nightmare, why oh why did we popularize the notion that you need 2 computers to login to something? this is the extent that the capitalist mind worm has burrowed deep enough into programmers subconscious

🤬Vengo a cabrearos con un dato: 26 multinacionales españolas pagaron un 2,9% de media sobre sus beneficios globales en 2021.

Os cuento algún dato más en @ElSaltoDiario https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fraude-fiscal/26-multinacionales-espanolas-pagaron-un-29percent-media-beneficios-globales-2021

El 25 de abril de 1974, en Portugal sucede la Revolución de los Claveles. El movimiento militar pone fin al régimen político dictatorial, autoritario, autocrático y corporativista implantado por António de Oliveira Salazar en los años veinte y continuado por Marcelo Caetano.

CC: @luisgarciareal@social.politicaconciencia.org

«Debatir con la ultraderecha es como jugar al ajedrez contra una paloma: la paloma derribará todas las piezas, se cagará en el tablero, y luego saldrá volando, atribuyéndose orgullosa la victoria y dejándote a ti la tarea de tener que limpiar la mierda.»
— Ece Temelkuran

This is the most true thing I've ever read:

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Every time I have a programming question and I rly need help, I post it on Reddit and then log into an- other account and reply to it with an obscenely in- correct answer. Ppl don't care about helping others but they LOVE correcting others. Works 100% of the time

Of the 58,000+ books published per year:

- 90% will sell less than 2,000 copies
- 50% will sell LESS THAN A DOZEN COPIES

Great, very readable piece on book publishing and how it's very much like being a VC...

https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
#Books #Writing #Publishing

https://distrito93.com/catalogo/yo-no-soy-pavel/

CC: @estela@frikiverse.zone @qpocooriginal@masto.es @IzaskunGraciaQuintana@mastodon.world

Otro prodigio, este de ahora, es el Proba-3: dos satélites volando en formación hacia el sol, uno haciéndole sombra al otro, para estudiar la corona solar.

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

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ESA satellite Proba-3 brochure

Woo Hoo! Check out Baby's first FEP...

If you're a #Fedidev developer, please check out FEP-3b86 at https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/3b86/fep-3b86.md

I'm working on "Remote Likes" and "Remote Shares" that help you jump back to your own home server to post when you find something cool on another website.

Imagine those "Share on Facebook" buttons, without all the ick.

I know it needs some work (that's what FEPs are for, yea?) so please read, comment, and help me get this over the finish line.

CC: @durru@archaeo.social

CC: @manu@paquita.masto.host

- El agua con gas. Con limón es refrescante y está buena. Igual cuesta acostumbrarse.
- La tónica. Es verdad que tiene mucho azúcar, pero si cambias el ritmo y la bebes muy despacio, te toman solo una mientras los colegas se zampan tres birras.
- El bitter sin alcohol. También tiene mucho azúcar, en lo demás, como lo que te he dicho de la tónica.
- Un zumo de tomate. Está muy bueno y se deja tomar despacio. Además, es mucho más saciante que ninguna otra cosa, así que te anima a tomártelo con calma y a comer menos papas alioli.
- Un café solo con hielo. Nunca llegué a acostumbrarme, pero hay quien se apaña bien tomando eso. Lo puedes pedir descafeinado si te acelera demasiado.

Yo odio las cocacolas y las fantas y toda esa mierda que sabe a medicina, aún sin azúcar, así que para mí nunca han sido una opción.

not open as in open source but open as in pandora's box

Intentarlo, también. Es el primer paso hacia el fracaso.

CC: @Shine_McShine@paquita.masto.host

LA POSIBILIDAD DE UNA ISLA

Mi vida, vida mía, mi antiquísima vida,
mi primer deseo mal curado,
mi primer amor disminuido,
has tenido que volver.

He tenido que conocer
lo mejor que hay en la vida,
dos cuerpos que disfrutan de su felicidad
uniéndose y renaciendo sin fin.

En completa dependencia
comparto el temblor del ser,
la vacilación de desaparecer,
el sol que azota el lindero.

Y el amor, en el que todo es fácil,
donde todo se da al instante:
existe en mitad del tiempo
la posibilidad de una isla.

La RAE acaba de desclasificar 5,000 libros digitales en su nueva biblioteca digital ¡Son GRATIS! – Enséñame de Ciencia https://ensedeciencia.com/2024/04/15/la-rae-acaba-de-desclasificar-5000-libros-digitales-en-su-nueva-biblioteca-digital-son-gratis/

You can change the colors in the :root block.

CC: @ElleGray@mstdn.social

A ver, yo siempre he tenido muy claro que la «solución» del coche eléctrico no es un solución para el pueblo. Es una solución para los ricos.

Después, con el móvil conectado vía kde-connect, controlo la reproducción, el volumen y demás.

Mola.

No quiero decir que estos no sean unos cabrones, pero no solo Tesla financia esas cosas.

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green

My friend Evan Henshaw-Plath wrote recently about some concerns with ActivityPub. I want to go over his concerns one by one and give some assessment of how accurate and important I think they are. Rabble’s words in italics; my responses in just normal text.

• User identities are tied to a server. This is only partially true; your user identity is tied to a domain, not a server. But most servers only handle one domain, and most people don’t move their domains between servers. We have a section on domain portability between servers on the ActivityPub Data Portability report.
  Using domains is also how much of the Internet works. Email addresses are tied to a domain; Web sites are tied to a domain. You can move the domain between different implementations transparently. It’s a really robust architecture that has stood the test of time for almost 50 years.
• Users can’t migrate between servers. Partially true. Rabble covers the essentials; you can move followers and not much else. It’s also possible to move your “stuff” between identities; that’s most of what our Data Portability task force is working on.
• On a single server, it is impossible to change your username! Somewhat true. ActivityPub identities are URLs like https://social.example/user/vtles1XgZkPUEulBsFmRX . That identity URL is immutable; you can’t change it. Some implementations include a username in that url, like https://other.example/user/evanp. With that kind of server software, it’s true, you can’t change the username.
  Also, we use a standard called Webfinger that maps an identity string like username@domain to an URL. You can read about it in the ActivityPub Webfinger report. Some servers use that string, instead of the ActivityPub ID, as the unique ID for a remote user. That’s discouraged, but if someone does that, changing your user ID will make you no longer findable for those other servers. I think as we stabilize our use of WebFinger, some of these usages are going to get better.
• Fediverse servers have total control over your account and data. True. This is the “federation” part of the fediverse. It’s how Web sites and email work. Don’t use a fediverse server without a good trust relationship with your server admin; ideally someone you have a business relationship with, or your employer, or your university. Same goes for email!
  It also means that if you control your own server, you have total control over your account and data. That’s a feature, not a bug.
  Another option is using a cooperative server, like cosocial.ca or social.coop. A cooperative is a legal structure in which members pay for and manage their own service. I think cooperatives are awesome.
• The fediverse is a network of fiefdoms, each server admin having total control over their users. This seems about the same as the previous statement, but OK. I think the key strength of the fediverse here is that we can have dozens of different models for server governance — coops, enterprises, city libraries, family servers, individual servers. That level of experimentation is a feature, not a bug. Governance is not baked into the protocol.
• Each kind of fediverse server is isolated. This one is just plain wrong. ActivityPub is based on an open data standard called Activity Streams 2.0 (AS2) which models social data. There is an extensive standard vocabulary that can represent Web content like text, images, video and audio, and the social graph, but also well-known social interactions like check-ins, events, and groups. More importantly, Activity Streams 2.0 is extensible, meaning you can add properties to existing types, or whole new types of objects or interactions. And every ActivityPub server is built to handle AS2.
  What is true is that we have had a lot of servers that only handle a subset of the AS2 vocabulary, and reject content they don’t know how to handle. This is mostly due to mimicking the siloed social networks; we’ve gotten used to thinking of different social networks for different kinds of content. I think this is changing, especially as new kinds of content hit the network. Developers are just learning how to effectively handle extension content with fallback representations. I look forward to this improving over time.
• The fediverse has no privacy; there is no system of end-to-end encrypted messaging. The first part is false; you can mark your posts as followers-only, or directed to a single person, or a group of people. Servers enforce this privacy. You can also mark that you don’t want your public posts to be indexable or your public account to be discoverable.
  However, the second part is true; we don’t have end-to-end encryption. So, if you send a private message to someone on another server, you message can be read by both your admin and their admin. It’s stored in the clear on both servers. This is also how email works, as well as most direct messages on commercial social networks. However, it’s something worth working on. I’ve sketched out an architecture for end-to-end encryption over ActivityPub, and I’ve got a proposal out to work on it for Summer of Protocols. I think it will be good to level this up!
• The fediverse has no system for micropayments. This is true. The fediverse is also first and foremost for social networking — connecting to friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. Most of these interactions are not mediated by payment; in fact, payment cheapens those interactions.
  However, there are other relationship types on the fediverse — supporting creators, journalists, or publishers. The main way to do this today is with paid subscriptions; for example, you can subscribe to evanplus@prodromou.pub to get access to premium content I publish. You have to send me US$5 out-of-band or I won’t approve the follow; that’s the state of play right now on the fediverse.
  I think in-band payments are kind of cool for this kind of work, as well as for marketplaces — buying and selling services or goods over the fediverse. I think the easiest structure is adding payment URLs like a PayPal account, or blockchain wallets like a Bitcoin Lightning address.
• Lastly, and most importantly for me, the culture of fediverse server admins and developers is vindictive. I don’t think this is the case; I love the culture of the fediverse, which is playful, conversational, and collaborative.

I think there are a plenty of good points in Rabble’s critique, but there’s one way that I think he’s extremely wrong. There is still a lot to do in the ActivityPub ecosystem, but we have the architecture and extension mechanisms to make them possible. It’s totally not required to go start a whole new social protocol to build those things in from scratch. In fact, it’s a real mistake; it’s far better to work from the existing standard and build on it. Open standards like ActivityPub have a legitimacy that ad hoc systems like Nostr can never have, and it’s the reason that there is so much interesting development going on in the ActivityPub world.

https://evanp.me/2024/04/14/responses-to-rabble-on-activitypub/

#activitypub

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

CC: @espanabizarra@mastodon.social

Luego mucho llorar con que te timaron, cuando a la mayoría de estos sinvergüenzas se los ve venir a la legua:

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Captura de El Confidencial: «Con la 'bendición' de Y Combinator DiCaprio, Altman... Por qué las fortunas de EEUU están invirtiendo en esta 'startup' catalana La 'startup' Solarmente promete revolucionar el mercado energético en nuestro país **con inteligencia artificial y 'blockchain'**. Ahora, grandes inversores de todo el mundo quieren entrar en este proyecto»

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El meme de "It's over 9000!!!" de Vegeta pero arriba pone "its cancamusa level".

Yo he nacido en España en 1968 (tengo ahora mismo 55 años) y soy zurdo. He oído hablar a zurdos incluso más jóvenes que yo que afirman que, en su infancia, adultos y profesores se lo pusieron difícil; no es mi caso, salvo algún que otro comentario supuestamente gracioso.

En mi época no había nada específico para zurdos, no como ahora, que hay tijeras y sillas con brazo-mesa y montones de cosas. Aunque lo hubiera hecho de otro modo, aprendí a cortar con tijeras con la derecha. Toco la guitarra y el bajo, pero como un diestro, porque aprendí tocando con instrumentos de otros (y, cuando pude comprarme los míos propios, ya era tarde). Lo mismo respecto al ratón del ordenador: aprendí en ordenadores que no eran míos, así que uso el ratón con la derecha. Escribo con la izquierda, y eso me impide usar herramientas maravillosas como plumas estilográficas, porque los zocatos las acabamos destrozando.

🖎🖎🖎🖎

Los términos doxing, doxxing y doxeo (adaptación al español) describen el acto de revelar intencional y públicamente información personal sobre un individuo u organización, generalmente a través de Internet.

THIS IS YOUR GOD

DNS Dental: now open your mouth wide and say AAAA

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A storefront with the banner “DNS DENTAL”

⯪☆☆☆☆ disappointing

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green @pacogens@masto.es