La asociación está sirviendo (y debería servir en el futuro) para llevar el teatro a sitios como prisiones o residencias de ancianos y tener una finalidad social. Muy pocos recursos pero bastantes ganas. Y entre esos pocos recursos está la falta de una dirección teatral. Claro, cinco eurazos al mes de cuota no dan para casi nada y menos para pagar a un profesional ... Hasta ahora.

Ahora algunos han visto la oportunidad de contratar unas horas al mes a uno de los antiguos profesores de teatro municipal y plantearon primero aprobar que queríamos dirección teatral y luego subir la cuota para poder pagarle. Muy bien todo. ¿O no?

No, porque hay algunos que no queremos pagar esa cuota. Tampoco es que podamos hacerlo pero sobre todo no queremos. ¿Qué ocurre con nosotros? Y ahí estuvimos encallados las últimas dos horas de la junta y el motivo por el que hemos tenido que aplazarlo.

Si se aprobase todo eso, y se va a aprobar, significa que para ser socio de Bóvalo, la asociación, se tendrá que pagar una cuota de cuarenta o cuarenta y cinco eurazos o si no ... No se podrá ser socio, ¿no? Si no pagas no puedes pertenecer. Al menos yo lo veo así. Hacer teatro juntos en ese caso no tiene sentido. Unos podrán estar dirigidos y otros no; será estupendo organizar funciones con esa disposición.

RATE YOUR DEATH

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4 panel comic by War and Peas: 1st Panel: The Grim Reaper is standing in front of a ghost that hovers over a dead body. He says, "Thank you for using our soul-reaping services." 2nd Panel: He continues, "Would you say your death-experience was Good, Great, Not Sure?" 3rd Panel: The ghost just angrily stares at the Grim Reaper. 4th Panel: The Grim Reaper says, "I'm gonna put down great."

Lo cierto es que hay algunos a los que se les sale la sonda y no saben mear.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/decir-adios-instituto-dictadura-reproducen-falsos-mitos-franco-vivia-mejor_1_11952493.html

La derecha y demás morralla llevan tiempo intentando (y consiguiendo) que cuestionar ese pasado en concreto sea molesto o incluso peligroso en algunos sitios y eso nos va a llevar otra vez a tiempos tenebrosos, ya no creo que haya vuelta atrás por desgracia.

Y mira que en los chavales pobres (la mayoría) puedo entender que anhelen la vuelta de ese pasado "mejor" porque futuro no les hemos dejado mucho; ¿pero los ricos? ¿Los hijos y familiares de familias pudentes -ricas- quieren ese pasado mejor porque éste les parece malo? ¿En qué?

Bueno, quizás sea porque como decía Miles Vorkosigan en Barrayar tenían bonitos uniformes y botas de caballería, y eso siempre tira siempre que no exista riesgo como hemos podido ver hace unos días en Carabanchel o en el Garibaldi.

#LAfires #Slavery #EnforcedLabor

What is this? I've seen it on Tumblr.

I had not seen anyone make the obvious thing, so I made the obvious thing.

https://jwz.org/b/ykgK

lamp✨

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

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A venn diagram. The three circles are labelled: The Archaeologist The Pirate The Dog The area where all threel overlap is labelled: Loves digging things up Dog/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Gets excited by bones Pirate/Archaeologist overlap is labelled: Good with maps Dog/Pirate overlap is labelled: Buries things for later

https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/bash-hashmap/

Software engineers: CAPITAL IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. You are not a billionaire; you are a worker. Rich investors are trying to take your livelihood away any way they can to keep more money in their pockets. Don’t be smug because you make more money than the median; your worth is smaller than a rounding error on any given billionaire’s spreadsheet.

I repeat: YOU ARE A WORKER. Stand with your fellow workers AGAINST capital. Capitalists and billionaires make life worse for others. They’ve been coming after other workers; and now they’re coming after YOU.

#workers #softwareEngineering #solidarity #unionize

@MostlyHarmless as seen right here:

UPDATE: I haven't seen Recall in action there. I was just asking the doctor how they'll deal with it.

This morning, I went to the doctor for a scheduled appointment. While she was looking at the results of blood tests from two years ago on the screen (and suggested repeating them for a follow-up), I realized she was using Windows 11. A detail came to mind. The doctor is extremely polite and friendly, so I asked her, "How do you handle the feature called Recall?" The doctor was taken aback and had no idea what I was talking about. I was about to drop the conversation, but she, being a serious professional, immediately called the technicians who manage their PCs to ask for clarification. They downplayed it, saying it's not an issue and that it's a feature "on all PCs, so we can't do anything about it." She started to express that she didn’t like it and wanted it deactivated. No luck: they won’t proceed because, according to them, even deactivating it is "a hack that could compromise future updates." She’s furious and will talk to her colleagues and the decision-makers. She wants secure systems because "there’s patient data involved."

In reality, patient data is stored on servers (which I haven't investigated), but everything that appears on the screen is, in my opinion, at risk.

I’ve offered to help them find a solution—because, if I'm right, all they need is LibreOffice and a browser. In that case, I’ll suggest one of the *BSD or Linux systems and do it for free.

I don’t want to make money off my doctor. I just want patient data to be (sufficiently) secure.

#IT #Recall #Windows #OwnYourData #Security #Privacy #RunBSD #Linux

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #ViernesDeVentanas

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Ceiling window

I’d like to send a special “fuck you buddy” to all the boomers that told me “oh you’ll get more conservative as you get older, once you get some money”

I don’t know what world those people live in, but every day since probably 1989 everything I have seen in the world has only convinced me more and more that capitalism is a disease that is destroying lives and the planet.

Here’s the brutal truth about mainstream success: You either need to be famous already, or you need to be willing to light yourself on fire for attention.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/want-to-make-it-as-a-creator-be-famous-go-viral-or-go-fuck-yourself/

Durante 60 años el estado ha reparado, mantenido y promocionado el castillo. El parque adyacente que sufrió la misma suerte hace poco también. ¿Vamos a recuperar de alguna manera esas inversiones o como siempre además de puta ponemos la cama y el condón?

O mejor aún, ¿cobraremos IBI o cualquier otro impuesto a la duquesa de marras y su casa nobiliaria o seguiremos igual, intentando negociar cualquier acuerdo porque la propiedad privada es intocable?

Lo mismo tres millones de euros anuales de IBI la convencen de hacer una donación al estado español, que tanto quieren y por el que tanta sangre derramarían, y así todos ganamos.

Hoy no tengo el día para pensar con equidad, lo reconozco. No obstante estoy harto de que ciertos lugares estén protegidos por el estado pero éste no tenga la más mínima potestad sobre ellos.

No, Elon Musk no es un simple loco. Todo lo que ha hecho y todos sus apoyos a la extrema derecha le han reportado beneficios directos. Y lo de Groenlandia, Panamá, Alemania, UK, etc., también...

Os hago un resumen en @elsaltodiario.com con arte de Byron Maher https://www.elsaltodiario.com/estados-unidos/elon-musk-sa-asi-gana-dinero-apoyando-trump-extrema-derecha

¿Qué tienen en común Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Fernando Savater o el rapero el Jincho?

Pues que todos se han dado cuenta de que se gana más dinero siendo un buen trozo de mierda.

Me quedo agusto en esta opinión en El Salto.
https://buff.ly/3BLChzK

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

#snac #ThankYou

Social media’s golden rule: if you see someone having fun, shame them for not taking the world’s problems seriously enough. Rinse, repeat.

Aerc (TUI) is also fine. It supports multiple accounts natively, but you can't move messages from one account to another (that I know of). I find the interface a little kludgy.

But everybody and their dog is sending HTML mail these days, and though both programs do their best to convert to text / use the alternative plain text format, you always have the sinking feeling that you are missing something (and sometimes you really are missing something).

Thunderbird is OK. It has its annoyances, but it's solid, multi-account, and supports everything. Sometimes it starts burning all my CPU cores at 100% and I don't know why, it's probably doing some garbage collection or whatever.

Evolution (GUI) is also kinda fine, but it's GNOME, and you may not like that. It's heavy.

Claws Mail (GUI) is also OK. It's lighter than Evolution or Thunderbird, but in the past it did something wrong that annoyed me and that I cannot remember and I stopped using it.

I also remember using Kmail (KDE) more 15 years ago and it was also OK, but a bit sluggy.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

My Absolute Favorite Conspiracy Theory is that they hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing, but he was such a perfectionist and demanded such a high level of authenticity that he forced them to shoot it on the moon.

SQLite is a remarkable piece of software and I've always been curious about the system and the project. Here are several little known facts about SQLite.

https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-facts

#SQLite #database

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1003059/41b1d2ea281b6779/

Merry Christmas, Stefano.

5 years is a lot of time for a feral cat, but they are hard as fucking stones, and they know how to play their cards well, so it's probably taking a nap now in a warm house as a proud home cat.

antifascist + zionist = fascist

(just a little fyi to #38C3)

El protocolo de Nostr es técnicamente un buen diseño, pero la gente que hay detrás son criptobros de la peor calaña con las intenciones más rastreras.

No quiero emponzoñar tu hilo con detalles técnicos cuando lo que importa es denunciar la chusma que hay detrás.

CC: @alejandroamartin@laplaza.cafe

el protocolo Nostr (El de threads).

(respecto a lo demás, estoy totalmente de acuerdo).

CC: @alejandroamartin@laplaza.cafe

And Casablanca, of course.

Boss: we will be trialling the use of AI as a replacement for some of our developer roles in the coming months.

Seniors: ok, bye.

Boss: where are you going? We still have all these features to build!

Seniors: why should we hang around waiting to be replaced? You want to use AI, then go ahead - but we are gone. Best of luck.

Boss: but it’s not ready to replace senior devs yet! We just want to replace some junior positions!

Seniors: not our problem. Ciao.

And….scene.

This is a far too common occurrence in the U.S.

And people wonder why Luigi is so popular?

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Photo of a young man in a baseball cap. Reads: This is Alec Smith. He died on June 28,2017, at age 26, because he couldn't afford his insulin. He made $35,000/year as a restaurant manager, and couldn't afford his $450/month health insurance with a $7,600 out-of-pocked deductible. The insulin he needed for diabetes was $1,300/month. When he turned 26 and was kicked off his mom's insurance, he started rationing his life-saving insulin. He died a month later. All this in the richest country in the world, the United States.

long overdue attempt to cleanup/update a bit the relevant projects page on the pmc wiki.

email us if you work on something and want to be listed!

https://permacomputing.net/projects

#permacomputing

Si el Estado recauda más IRPF con un millón de personas trabajando es porque "el Gobierno se forra", pero si lo hace un gobierno del PP con 35.000 declarantes más entonces es "el milagro Laffer"...

Escriben para ignorantes.

#Memes #Christmas #Humour

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

Remember that the true meaning of Christmas is using money you don't have to buy things they don't need to people you don't like.
#consumerism #Christmas #Memes #TheyLive

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A six panel montage inspired by They Live, with Santa as the alien, and the words "WORK" "CONSUME" "OBEY"

Learning Javascript is hard and and it's stupid.

Learning to make pastry - even a simple pie crust - is hard and it's glorious.

Choose carefully.

in switzerland you aren't allowed to have a train with exactly 256 axles because of an integer overflow in the axle counting machine

i wish i could fix my software bugs by making it illegal to cause them

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to avoid falsely signalling a section of track as clear by resetting the axle counter to zero, and thus to avoid collisions, the total number of axles in a train must not equal 256

Well that was an easy festive family tech support ticket:

Problem: USB flash drive was not working.

Diagnosis: that's not a USB flash drive. That is the dongle for your mouse.

Solution: here's a USB flash drive.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

Stephanie recalled riding home with her sister in one of Waymo’s driverless Jaguar SUVs around 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday night
-- when a car holding several young men began following them.

They drove close to the robotaxi honking and yelling,
“Hey, ladies — you guys are hot.”

If she or another human had been driving, it would have been easy to reroute the car to avoid leading the pursuers to her home.

But she was scared and didn’t know how to change the robot’s path.

She called 911, but a dispatcher said they couldn’t send a police car to a moving vehicle, Stephanie recalled.


“All the safety things then become unsafe if someone is following you,”
she said of the incident,
which Waymo confirmed and has not been previously reported.

As Waymo expands its service in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin,
some passengers like Stephanie have found that traveling by robotaxi can make riders into sitting ducks for a new form of public harassment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/22/waymo-robotaxi-passengers-harassment/

Estos son los 175 contratos de la Xunta con la empresa donde la hermana de Feijóo es directiva
https://buff.ly/4gO6Raq

#Amazon and #Starbucks workers are on strike.

Please don't cross the picket line 🙏

#Unions #Workers #Police

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B&W image shows police on horseback. One of them is wielding a baton and is about to strike a woman standing on the ground, who has an arm up in self defense. Text at the top of the image reads: REMEMBER: IT IS A HISTORICAL FACT Text at the bottom of the image reads: THAT DURING A LABOR STRIKE POLICE WILL ALWAYS PROTECT THE INTERESTS OF THE BUSINESS

Is it just me or does buying a Tesla in 2024/25 feel like buying a Mercedes in 1936?

WIRED article forecasting the generative AI bubble will burst in 2025. This is more optimistic than my own expectations, but if WIRED are printing it, it's the direction sentiment in Silicon Valley is running in.

(Hint: there's gold in AI, but it's in *analytical* AI, aka big data, not stochastic parrot bullshit.)

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-will-need-to-prove-its-usefulness/

It's always nice when my random shuffle picks Ann Hell. Prince Prospero Meets the Red Death is solid coding music. Thanks, @angel !

https://archive.org/details/the_mask

#FLAC (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639) and #MKV (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9559) are now #IETF proposed standards!!

Kudos to the CELLAR working group and to authors (for MKV: @robux4 , @mosu and Dave Rice)!!

#digipres

Tanto Milei en Argentina como Bukele en El Salvador dijeron que si la deuda es aberrante, que si recortando no haría falta más deuda, que si sus políticas iban a ir muy bien, que si los Bonos Volcán y que si no se iban a endeudarse con el FMI...

Los dos han pedido dinero al FMI y van a endeudar más a sus países...

"...a power outage at #SpaceX’s California facility caused a loss of #GroundControl, meaning that the mission control team was briefly unable to command the #spacecraft."

Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failover₂, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.

🧵 1/3

While I was mucking about with an #openbsd port, I got an email from github offering me access to their ai code writing uselessness.

No! Bad website!

*spritzes with water bottle*

My code doesn't work at the moment. Broken is still better than this offer.

Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism.

Luigi Mangione killed 1 CEO with the motivation to rebuke healthcare injustice—charged with terrorism.

Class warfare is when wealthy CEOs are a protected class but working Black people are not.

Nonprofit work is hard. It takes a lot of time, dedication and, more often than not, you see volunteers taking in multiple different tasks and responsibilities to keep everything running. Thankfully, we occasionally get external contributors that help us out!

For instance, I would post something serious so as to promote our nonprofit, but it seems like #GitHub decided to help us with the marketing for the day by sending a bunch of its users (multiple) emails about GitHub Copilot. 😅

Mastodon #research 🚀

I’m working on my master’s thesis at the University of Vienna, and I’d love your input! My research focuses on sustaining long-term user activity on Mastodon, contributing to a more active Fediverse. If you have a few minutes, please take my short survey:
👉 https://sosci.univie.ac.at/MastodonActivity/

Your thoughts will contribute to meaningful research. Feel free to boost this post so we can reach as many users as possible. Thank you so much! 🙌

#Mastodon #Survey #FediverseResearch

https://mastodon.social/@kiwix/113622081750449356

I'm not following the thread, so things may have changed.

Más tarde me he dado cuenta de que empleando el correo electrónico las discusiones no tienen sentido y que más allá del duelo al amanecer no merece la pena discutir con gente que se ha construido un personaje público y saca sus garbanzos de ahí. Entre eso y los palmeros, a los que el tuitstar SÍ responde por que necesita tenerles en cuenta, es difícil estar a gusto; de hecho el término "pocosfollower" es el indicativo de una época.

Pero sí que he pasado mucho tiempo allí obteniendo enlaces y enterándome de polémicas para pasar el rato y olvidar cómo estoy y quién soy así que tampoco es que lo haya dejado hasta el sábado. Una vez que tengo mi servidor en el fediverso (con #snac) tengo siempre un lugar que considero mío. Por esa parte estoy cubierto.

Ahora estoy intentando ver qué aparece en BlueSky y de momento están todos con una limpia tremenda de nazis y demás chusma que está funcionando al parecer. También cuentas estupendas que estaban permanentemente candadas en twitter ahora actúan en abierto y son una delicia de seguir. Pero el lugar sigue siendo extraño, como un barrio bajo asedio, y quiero ver dónde terminará cuando los dueños empiecen a monetizar.

If there's not an apparent one, it's easy to find.

I was on the verge of moving to Hetzner when I read this.

CC: @stux@mstdn.social

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

Me corrijo: montar un sistema para enviar correo también es trivial; lo que es difícil es que tus correos lleguen y no queden marcados como SPAM.

Please, keep writing them. Also, your prose is very fresh and entertaining.

In 2021, I sent an email saying that, given the situation, I would not be able to keep your machines running with the current infrastructure. You replied that the funds are allocated "for migration to a cloud-based solution," so the machines must be kept running as they are. I strongly suggest you reconsider: your connections are unstable and slow, it would be impossible to work (via Remote Desktop, Windows servers) in such conditions - from over 30 thin clients. You responded that the budget is now allocated for this, and that the consultant assured you everything would be perfect.

The migration will never happen – after spending tens of thousands of euros – due to "lack of connection quality."

I "forgive" you.

At the beginning of 2023, I wrote to you that there are two critical issues that will soon compromise the security and reliability of the machines. You replied that you are "working on the plan for migration to a centralized solution in one of your locations." I responded that the connectivity is inadequate, that that location has data center flooding issues (it should at least be moved to an upper floor), and that, in case of problems, all your 9 locations would be down because of it. Therefore, given the situation, it would be better to keep a server and a replica at each site, with offsite backups, ensuring they are current and consistent.

Minimal financial investment, maximum uptime.

You replied that "the defined path is now set, so we are proceeding with it" because a "consultant has guaranteed maximum reliability."

I withdrew, predicting disasters and for the same reason: they present themselves elegantly, with glossy catalogs and buzzwords – they sure seem credible and modern!

Go ahead, it’s your money and your data.

This morning at 5:30, you woke up me because your location had electrical issues, and the other branches are facing external connectivity problems due to the (same) Internet provider (and the backup, which uses the same channels as the primary provider, unlike what the vendors had promised).

A downtime of at least 3 days is expected.

Everything is down. You want me to take the backups (made by others, I don't even know how), and restore the old servers in the branches (from 2015), as you believe it would be possible to resume work only this way – as suggested by the "elegant consultant."

I replied that I wish you good luck and went back to sleep with a clear conscience.

#IT #DisasterRecovery #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #KISS #KeepItSimpleAndStupid #NewWeekNewTroubles

This will probably also improve snac behaviour with other apps.

CC: @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk @knapjack@elsewhere.cozysumo.space

I know the etiquette is evolving around this so here's my quick guide to sharing the road with self-driving cars:

If you find yourself in a city whose political leaders are corrupt and vain enough to have allowed this scourge onto their streets, you absolutely do not owe them the basic courtesy you would extend to any driver.

Bearing in mind safety and basic physics, it's perfectly fine to, for instance, not let them proceed at a stop sign; not let them merge in traffic; take the lane and bike super slow in front of them; take your sweet time in a crosswalk; accidentally leave your personal traffic cone on its hood; etc, etc. Just remember that they are recording you, should you choose to escalate your discourtesy beyond the the obnoxious-but-basically-legal.

Self-driving cars do not deserve the right of way, because rights are for sentient beings, not roving death cameras.

If you are worried whether someone is riding in back, just imagine it's Jeff Bezos and he's on his way to a very important meeting. The more inconvenient these things are to hire, the more ordinary people will choose better options, the more swiftly these businesses will fail and disappear.

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Photograph of a white "Waymo" car on a city street at night, outfitted with various cameras and sensors, headlights blazing. It appears to have been immobilized by the presence of an orange traffic cone placed on its hood.