El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

#relatos

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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria

"I grant you one wish," the magic fish said.

"To eat my mother's pancakes again, just like when I was a child."

"Are you sure?"

"You think it frivolous?"

"No. But to grant it I must send you back to the child you were, with no adult memories."

"Would my life change?"

"You ask that every time."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

Keeping money from going to the Harry Potter franchise isn’t just a symbolic gesture. It’s about preventing real harm to real people.

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

https://analognowhere.com/

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A photo of a canvas picture with a girl wearing puffer fish pyjamas with a laptop in the picture.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

A female uptopia....

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/herland/

"Herland" at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32

#books #literature

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Photograph of Charlote Perkins Gilman. She is in profile.

¡Se abre el censo para poder participar en las diferentes fases de los Ignotus! Hasta el 5 de abril a las 23:59h. Toda la información en http://asociacionportico.com

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Imagen con un cartel que pone Abierto el censo de los ignotus 2026

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Cartel en el que pone: La Inscripción es libre y te permitirá proponer tus obras favoritas. Solo las personas inscritas pueden presentar obras publicadas en 2025 como candidatas para ganar un Ignotus en 2026

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Cartel en el que pone: Si ya eres socio de Pórtico o votaste en alguna de las ediciones anteriores de los premios... ¡Enhorabuena! Ya formas parte del censo de los Premios Ignotus 2026

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Cartel en el que pone: Si no estás en el censo ¡inscríbete! Entra en asociacionportico.com para más información

May you live in interesting times... https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian Three weeks into the Iran war, reality has passed through the looking glass, out the other side, and is now selling tickets to the gift shop. What follows is not satire. Satire requires exaggeration, and you cannot exaggerate something that is already operating at maximum absurdity. This is simply the news, and nothing but the news. Told straight, in a universe that has clearly stopped taking its medication.

Your reader, your couch, your rules.

Starting today, both my-notes.dragas.net and it-notes.dragas.net are changing the way they distribute content - on RSS and on the Fediverse alike.

No more excerpts. No more "read more" links. Full posts, delivered directly to you, wherever you choose to read them.

Here's why:
I don't run ads. I don't have paywalls. I don't sell attention, or measure success in page views. I never have, and I have no intention of starting. My blogs exist because I enjoy writing, and because
some of what I write might be useful - or simply enjoyable - to someone else.
That's the whole business model. There isn't one.

When that's the case, there's no reason to keep content behind a click.
Sending you a teaser and asking you to visit my site would only make sense if I needed you *on my site* - for an impression, for a conversion, for something. I don't. So why would I make you leave your reader, your client, your comfortable corner of the internet, just to come to mine?

What I want instead is simple: that you can read what I write the way you'd read a book on a cold winter evening, wrapped in a warm blanket. Privately.
Quietly. On your own terms, in your own space, without anything tracking your eyes or nudging you toward something else.

Your RSS reader is yours. Your Fediverse instance is yours. The content should be yours too.

If you're on the Fediverse, you can follow both accounts directly:

- my-notes → @mynotes

- it-notes → @itnotes

These are low-traffic accounts. If you don't want them to get lost in your timeline, feel free to hit the notification bell. I promise it won't make much noise.

So from now on, it will be.

#ITNotes #MyNotes #Blogging #Fediverse

Tiramisu - no, but lasagne 🙂

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:59:02 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
To: Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it>
cc: tech@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
In-reply-to: <2c8df0cc-938e-4036-a628-4c7f69874e0a@allard.it>
Renaud Allard <renaud@allard.it> wrote:
> Maybe it should be made clear on the website that OpenBSD will only
> allow new code made by a human. Because I feel there might be more
> requests like this and there is no point in repeating the discussion.
Yes.

@wwahammy @jwz In my life time we went from no computers to computers for everyone to tech lord controlled you don’t own anything but must rent everything way too fast. This is all fucking bullshit

Great article!

El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

#relatos

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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria

Bluesky Reveals Massive Hidden Investment

Today #Bluesky revealed that in April 2025 they received a whopping $100M venture capital investment lead by Bain Capital Crypto and that they KEPT IT A SECRET.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

So the answer to the big mystery Who Owns Bluesky? (https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116025246450023071) is finally out. Crypto VCs.

Now, we should be asking why did this company that prides itself on transparency and "decentralization" decide they needed to hide who owned the company?

Mastodon Migration » 🌐 2026-02-06 / 2026-02-06
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online

Who owns Bluesky?

The curious mystery of the Bluesky Series B funding round.

Did it happen?

If you look at pitchbook (https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/484831-81) it seems Bluesky closed a whopping $97 million funding round resulting in a $700M valuation in January 2025. VCpedia lists Greylock, alumni ventures and Skyseed as participants (https://vcpedia.com/rounds/5195).

The interesting thing is there are no press releases or other media coverage confirming this financing.

Read on...

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#Bluesky #WhoOwnsBluesky

"And some people say 'These people, they're not even trying to be British. They come here, they bring their own culture, their food, speak their own language, and try to take over the whole bloody place.'

Dunno. Sounds pretty British to me."

~Trevor Noah
😂

Dead Can Dance have released their complete catalogue on Bandcamp

https://deadcandance.bandcamp.com/music

Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”

Web4 will be fought with telnet to port 80

Yet some people keep saying that it is impossible that “with 64 GB of RAM you cannot use mutt while compiling” and they start with the insults.

Y no por cómo termina, es por cómo te sitúa en situación y lo terrible que es lo que tienen que hacer y lo que les hacen si incumplen reglas. Algunos de los diálogos son muy buenos y los protagonistas también a excepción (un poco) del principal, que no me termina de encajar por edad. Al menos no en todos los planos, ojo, pero es un detalle sin importancia.

"If you want to be in the Fediverse without relying on big intances, or if you just want to own your #data & #identity on the network, running your own instance is the way to go.
That is where Mastodon alternatives such as GoToSocial & #snac comes in.
snac (Social Networks Are Crap) is a minimalistic, lightweight #ActivityPub instance…perfect for single user instances or small communities, and it's so light that even a #RaspberryPi can handle it without breaking a sweat."
https://rochacbruno.com/deploy-your-own-fediverse-instance-with-snac.html

Absolute peak late stage capitalism.

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A tweet from Heshmat Alavi's Trenchcoat @UrOrientalist Imagine dying for the Epstein empire and the one time your sacrifice is acknowledged, your name is covered up by the stock ticker Featuring a screenshot from CBS news Showing 6 US service personnel who have been killed in the illegal war on Iran. Killed in Action Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Winter Haven, FL Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Wivite Beer Lake, MN Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20 West Des Moines, IA Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54 Sacramento, CA The details of the 6th person are hidden behind the Dow Jones stock market ticker.

On the plus side, at least future generations won't have the cognitive skills to judge us harshly.

CC: @rostiger@merveilles.town

PRs must not incorporate any material generated by or with the assistance of any so-called "generative AI" tool or LLM.

https://www.mieres.es/mieres-pone-en-marcha-caja-de-resistencia-contra-la-censura-en-la-cultura/

Y por cierto, si empezáis a buscar "teatro censura PP" el año "top" fue 2023. No han parado pero ese año se vinieron arriba.

CC: @ruisan@masto.es @philspectrum@mastodon.social

Sabiendo como sabía eso lo único que demuestra es un acto de prepotencia más, de los que vemos en los pueblos de la sierra en cuanto pillan poder. Aquí en Cerceda hemos tenido a otra mujer de bien que destrozó la parte cultural que ofrecía el pueblo a bajo precio (y se lo colocó a una empresa que subió la cuota, claro) y se encargó de que no quedase un santo, beato o espíritu afín sin celebración alguna. Ah, y tuvimos escuela de tauromaquia junto con Moralzarzal.

Inciso: entiendo que hablo para conversos pero si Vox pilla poder a nivel de ministerio irá justamente a por minorías, mujeres (no de bien, esas no se tocan), educación y asuntos culturales varios. El resto no le interesa todavía porque no tiene programa político para ello.

CC: @ozzelot@mstdn.social

usage: ksh random.kitto.sh (probably works with bash)

img_viewer needs to be able to read urls.
you can add more emotions too!

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it works

Entropy 2

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #linux #foss #comic #art #mastoart #privacy

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Girl: "Master?" Fish and Penguin are playing chess. Fish: "Yes?" Girl: "It should compile by morning. I'm off to bed." Fish: "Fine, fine" Girl goes to bed, reads hagakure and falls asleep.

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analognowhere presents techno-mage in entropy 2

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Girl awakens in the Realm of the Spirit of The Machine. She notices Fossangel in the distance.

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Girl: "Fossangel!" Fossangel: "SHHH. Fill this in first." It's a clipboard: Before you dream, we must verify your identity. Name, DOB, Address, MATA_ID. Girl: "I have to do this in my own dream now?!" Fossangel: "Girl.. You have no idea how deep this thing goes."

Sorprende que puedan llegar a ser tan estúpidos. Necesitan estados funcionando para seguir siendo ricos por lo que estas noticias me parecen poco creíbles.

#jopeta

in case you ever wondered why bluesky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3meomclcfss2w

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Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

White and circled numbers have Unicode codepoints.

CC: @peterkotrcka@bsd.cafe @stefano@bsd.cafe

one of the nice things about working for yourself is, you can simply choose not to use any microsoft products

#snac por otra parte fue más simple y rápido, no tiene una gran estética pero siempre me ha funcionado bien

https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage

Another update for today: We're planning to revive LibreOffice Online, a web-based version of the suite that users can deploy on their own infrastructure: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/24/libreoffice-online-a-fresh-start/

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A fresh start for LibreOffice Online

Harden My Heart ♥️
#Quarterflash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFSED77-GM

https://analognowhere.com/_/ciluto/

the future is still old news

#unix_surrealism #technomage

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girls and machines

Week in Fediverse 2026-02-20

Servers

- snac v2.90
- Castopod v1.15.0
- Ktistec v3.3.0
- tootik v0.21.1
- Badgefed v0.1.1
- Gush! v0.0.30
- Wanderer v0.18.5
- PieFed v1.6.6
- Our technical direction (Mastodon)

Clients

- Sengi v1.8.0
- tooi v0.21.2
- Summit v1.77.0
- Aria v1.4.3
- Pixelix v4.3.2

Tools and Plugins

- feed2fedi v3.5.0
- PeerTube Browser: A video discovery project for the federated PeerTube network

Protocol

- FEP-34c1: Collection Filtering using TREE Hypermedia Vocabulary

Articles

- Where Does Community Live?
- Why MAEPs? What should they look like?
- how to not regret c2s
- Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
- FR#154 – Search and Community

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c5906-05c0-87bf-8302-8226a8513c00

El perro Paco tiene ya su escultura en Madrid

Muy merecido homenaje al que fue el can más famoso de la Villa y Corte madrileña. Callejero, «gato» a pesar de ser un perro, y gourmet, a juzgar por los manjares que pudo degustar en su azarosa vida. Cayó en gracia a la nobleza madrileña y se hizo muy popular en el Madrid castizo. Hasta que su mala fortuna hizo que un torero le clavara su estoque, por haberle arruinado su faena (repugnante […]

https://nutriguia.com/gastronomia/el-perro-paco-tiene-ya-su-escultura-en-madrid.html

the full thing (in Spanish / en español)

#artwork

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Ilustration by Ángel Ortega of the unnamed protagonist of EXISTIR, in three panels, walking through the ruins of a subterranean city, surrounded by columns and giant skeletons

Hope you won the combat in the watchtower

Who could have imagined this. Also, water is wet, or so it seems.

the great cyber war

#unix_surrealism #computer #ai

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vt100 on a stack of boxes, wearing a helmet with an m16 by its side YOUR PC NEXT?

CC: @bsdcan@bsd.network

Next up in a new #FediMerch store is #snac merchandise! I had to grab my own set of stickers for this one, the artwork is so cool!

You've got Susie, snac's default icon embedded in a QR code. And then this ridiculously amazing artwork from @prahou that is just a must have for your sticker collection - or on a shirt - or mug. Just get it!

https://www.redbubble.com/people/analognowhere/shop?artistUserName=analognowhere&asc=u&collections=4443355

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An alien with a wig and makeup on, with the words "SINCE YOU LEFT ME, I'VE BEEN SNACPILLED" with a website address for the snac platform. The client is holding a small Susie avatar.

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The default snac user avatar, Susie, black and white, embedded in a QR code sticker.

UMBELA

   Del lat. umbella 'quitasol'.
    1. 1. f. guardapolvo (‖ tejadillo voladizo sobre un balcón o ventana).
       Sin.:
          + guardapolvo, tejadillo, voladizo.
    2. 2. f. Bot. Grupo de flores o frutos que nacen en un mismo punto del tallo y se elevan a igual o casi igual altura.

Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”.

He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards Organization?), but a thinking tool devised by one person.

The scale says:

• Type 1: Uses all the energy available to its planet. For example, an albedo-zero world completely covered in solar cells.
• Type 2: Uses all the energy available to its star system. Not a million satellites in orbit, but a Dyson sphere that captures all the light and radiation of a star.
• Type 3: Uses the energy of all stars in a galaxy.

The idea of launching data centers into space, more precisely into LEO, must therefore be evaluated on a different scale:

The Kardashian scale

• A Type 1 civilization on the Kardashian scale has a public discourse that is no longer driven by facts, but by emotion and attention.
• A Type 2 civilization no longer has this discourse under control, and counterfactual emotional discourse begins to control politics, research, and the economy, where unscientific and outright stupid narratives now take over steering.
• A Type 3 civilization has complete epistemic decoupling: visibility has fully replaced truth, reach beats evidence, and consistency is irrelevant as long as the narrative is exciting. Physical limits are dismissed as “bad vibes”, and criticism is read as a moral flaw and subversion.

So we are not measuring energy, but loss of contact with reality. Many tech visions of recent years (everything from and including Bitcoin onward) map directly onto this scale.

We are now already a Kardashian Type 2 civilization.