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

6 Por tanto, he aquí vienen días, dice Jehová, que este lugar no se llamará más Tofet, ni valle del hijo de Hinom, sino Valle de la Matanza.
7 Y desvaneceré el consejo de Judá y de Jerusalén en este lugar, y les haré caer a espada delante de sus enemigos, y en las manos de los que buscan sus vidas; y daré sus cuerpos para comida a las aves del cielo y a las bestias de la tierra.
8 Pondré a esta ciudad por espanto y burla; todo aquel que pasare por ella se asombrará, y se burlará sobre toda su destrucción.
9 Y les haré comer la carne de sus hijos y la carne de sus hijas, y cada uno comerá la carne de su amigo, en el asedio y en el apuro con que los estrecharán sus enemigos y los que buscan sus vidas.

Secret Panel HERE 🙂 https://tapas.io/episode/363848

Mergesort takes the input list and treats it as a collection of small sorted lists. It makes log N passes along the list, and in each pass it combines each adjacent pair of small sorted lists into one larger sorted list. When a pass only needs to do this once, the whole output list must be sorted.

#c #programming

I think it’s difficult for us in North America to appreciate how contrary, rebellious, and frankly prophetic Sinéad O’Connor was in an Irish context. I lived there briefly in 1985, and so saw a bit of the place and time she was from.

It was a bit of a culture shock. I was 19 and not in school. I got a work permit and flew over to Dublin. I only spoke English at the time so it was kind of a toss up between London and Dublin. I didn’t think there’d be much of a difference it was all “Western Europe” as far as I was concerned — Denmark, France, Ireland, … all pretty similar right? Hahahaha.

Unlike today, Ireland in 1985 was a poor country. Deprivation had forced generations of people to emigrate to seek a better life. There were 4 million people in the Republic, but in 1845 there had been 8 million. The only country in Europe whose population declined over that period. 1995 was the first time in 300 years Ireland did not have negative net migration.

And it was pious. Sinéad called it “a theocracy”. There were no state schools. All education was in the hands of religious schools — overwhelmingly Catholic. Two years before, in 1983, the Republic had put a ban on abortion into their constitution. Condoms were illegal when I got there. In 1980 Bob Geldof had summed up his home town as “police and priests”.

It seemed a bit more patriarchal than the US in the Reagan years. But I didn’t know the half of it. It wasn’t until years later that I learned about the Magdalene Laundries where “troubled” girls were imprisoned in workhouses operated by orders of nuns, the Mother and Baby homes where women who were pregnant out of wedlock were kept out of sight to have their babies in secret, who were then taken from them and sold to American Catholic couples — and underneath it all the decades-long, quietly suppressed crime of the clergy sexually abusing boys and girls.

This stuff was not talked about in 1980s Ireland. But Sinéad did. She would not shut up. She would not stay in her place. She made original, passionate music. But if you think she caused an uproar in the US when she tore up a photo of the Pope on SNL in 1992 … well, in Ireland it was more of what she already was known for.

It was only later, in the late 1990 and 2000s that the scandals broke, and everyone could see that the crazy woman who would not shut up was right. She had been right all along.

The 2022 biographical film Nothing Compares is good. If you want to get the flavor of what she means to people in Ireland, go scroll through the expressions of grief pouring out on mastodon.ie

The woman was a giant.

#Sinead #SineadOConnor

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Absolutely the funniest shit is the #wikipedia article 'List of cetaceans' putting [cetacean needed] for the ones they don't have a picture of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans

🏴‍☠️ stolen from someone who didn't add alt text

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A table listing whales in the genus Mesoplodon, with conservation status, range, size, and photos. There is no photo for Deraniyagala's beaked whale (Mesoplodon hotaula) and in the cell it just says "[cetacean needed]", a pun on the common Wikipedia annotation "[citation needed]".

Theo de Raadt explains how zenbleed affects #OpenBSD and what is the fix.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=169021508718971&w=2

Important sets:
ℂ the complex numbers
ℕ the natural numbers
ℚ the rational numbers
ℝ the real numbers
𝕏 the set of fascists wannabes
ℤ the integers

Elon Musk: “And now, I will literally piss in people’s faces…”

Mainstream media:

- Five health benefits of urine
- How to stay hydrated like Elon
- I was first in line, here’s how it felt
- Jack Dorsey also unzips his pants
- Swallow or spit, readers have their say

I mean, it's been fifteen fucking years. we know what Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are about. they've shown us their whole entire asses. we've seen them radicalize our uncles and put Nazis onto the streets.

but the second they dangle a toy in front of us with the vague scent of FOMO and ground floor clout, that whole history gets thrown away and we're back to repeating everything like it's 2007 all over again.

I wrote a full blog post to read should you care. Covers some more of the background, design and future.

As for the az1 instance, I'm going to leave it up for a little longer, then restart without the subdomain.

If you ran a prerelease version and at any point had to run sqlite3 to fix the database, please discard and start again. There's some other minor damage to the database that will cause chaos later. Moving forward, there will be a database upgrade command. (I was going to increase the dbVersion for release just in case, but forgot.)

See how easy it is to forgive debt?

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A letter from a music school to a mother struggling to make payments on her son's trumpet, just straight up forgiving the rent and giving the kid the trumpet.

Once upon a time -- many, many years ago and late one night -- I entered the ARPANET (the Internet's ancestor) computer room at UCLA to do some work on ARPANET host #1 -- the DEC PDP-11/45 that was UNIX UCLA-ATS.

But something was wrong. The system was behaving very oddly. It was up, and not under heavy load, but ... it was as if it kept starting and stopping. When I'd type there'd be activity -- I could see it on the front panel lights, but when I stopped typing ... everything seemed to stop. I could get keyboard echos, and then a response ... but then everything would stop again.

Normal boot wasn't working either, but it was possible to reboot from the emergency DECtape.

But still clearly failing overall.

When we ultimately found out what the problem was, I was quite amused. The real-time clock hardware had failed, so the process scheduler was not cycling properly. However, whenever someone typed, the keyboard interrupt would push the scheduler so there'd be some action -- but then it would stop again until there was more typing and more interrupts.

Basically, the system was operating as if on a hand crank. Live long enough, and you see almost everything. -L

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It's called azorius. It lets people post links to groups and comment on them. It lets you follow groups you're interested. Does it need explaining? It federates via activitypub.

The primary federation compat target is lemmy, which almost works. You can follow both ways. The representation of posts and groups should be similar. azorius can receive posts from lemmy, but lemmy currently rejects announce activities from azorius because the data did not match any variant of untagged enum SharedInboxActivities. Rustaceans are welcome to start here and embark on a journey of awe and splendor.

Compat with AP microblogging is pretty low priority. I've already got one of those.

There's a test instance at az1.azorius.net. You can't post anything until your account is approved, to control how much mess I need to clean up, but should be able to follow and subscribe if you'd just like a reader. If I know you, probably approved, but don't run to tell all your friends. Again: early access, low expectations.

The azorius source can be checked out and built on sufficiently powerful computers. It's only like 50%, or even 25%, done, but the work that's left should generally slot in to what's there. The major technology choices like javascript framework and build system have been decided.

who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle

just arrived in san francisco and learning about "coning" or "unicorning" - the practice of "placing traffic cones on self-driving cars" 😂🦄🚗🚫

more at
@SafeStreetRebel https://www.safestreetrebel.com/

#coning #unicorning #safestreetrebel #autonomouscars #selfdrivingcars #selfdriving #ai #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #sanfrancisco #sfba #sf #bayarea #california #til

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photograph of a cone placed on top of a self-driving car posted by @SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social

I miss big pockets 😂

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Meme, left side reads "Girls pockets" and has "Half a phone listed", the other side reads "Boys pockets" and has: * A phone * Keys * UTAX CD12445 multi-purpose laser printer with built in scanner * Wallet * A train * Portugal

Una hipoteca inversa es cuando vendes una propiedad y te dejan seguir viviendo en ella mientras vivas, pero cuando te mueres, el bien pasa a los nuevos propietarios (generalmente una empresa, una aseguradora o un fondo buitre).

Esto es como decir: «si me votas, la casa de tus viejos se venderá para pagar su jubilación y tú te quedarás sin ella». Y eso como propaganda electoral 😆

Aunque, no sé, Feijoo me parece más perdido que Wally, así que igual lo piensa de verdad.

Esto es de memoria de hace unos años, igual ya no existe.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrimiento_al_rojo

Una 🍺 para usted.

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I think it's my duty to pay for what I love.

Fui perdiendo ese superpoder con el tiempo.

Ahora que soy viejo y tengo acúfenos (o tinnitus) todo el rato, es como si tuviera una pantalla de tubo encendida todo el rato al lado de mi cabeza. De vez en cuando, la busco para apagarla.

#ActivityPub does not provide #RSS feeds; some implementations, like #Mastodon, #snac or #Pleroma provides RSS feeds of an actor's timeline, but as an added value, not as part of the protocol. You can be fully ActivityPub compatible without generating RSS.

https://dotat.at/@/2023-06-23-random-double.html

aaaaaaaand another big tech person does an article about The Pact lol

and it's actually good, wow

https://ianbetteridge.com/2023/06/21/meta-and-mastodon-whats-really-on-peoples-minds/

#FediPact

What kind of history do you write for your world?

#WorldBuilding #Pride #PrideMonth #ttrpg #AmWriting #dnd #writing

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beggars-opera: Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997 do-you-have-a-flag: I fully know what you mean! but! I did also think "Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray 133 years ago as of 2 months from now, and people still act like being gay was invented by the Rocky Horror Show in 1973" and now I cannot stop laughing making more gay history comparisons beggars-opera: But honestly! Renowned French poet Théophile de Viau wrote the poetic ode to King James titled "The Duke of Buckingham,' containing the immortal lines "One man fucks Monsieur le Grand de Bellegarde/ Another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre/And it is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham" exactly 400 years ago and people still act like being gay was invented by Oscar Wilde in 1890 elim-flower: Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were buried together in the 25th century BC and people still act like being gay was invented by renowned French poet Théophile de Viau 400 years ago insufficientdata: Gilgamesh and Enkidu "loved each other like man and wife" in 2700 BC and ppl STILL act like being gay was invented by Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep in the 25th century BC

I know there are people reading this who work for major companies still advertising on Twitter (Apple, Google, and Amazon at least), so: two days before the SF Trans March, Elon is making it even more explicit that Twitter is a transphobic platform. You have the ability to influence the behaviour of your employers. Maybe do that?

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Screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk reading: "Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words “cis” or “cisgender” are considered slurs on this platform."

según una inteligencia artificial que recoge datos de varias fuentes

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@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

Backport OpenBSD 7.3 pkg_add enhancement

In this blog post, you will learn how to backport a huge speedup to pkg_add for OpenBSD 7.3

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-05-30-openbsd-backport-pkg_add.html

gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/openbsd-backport-pkg_add.gmi
#openbsd

@solene

😮 !!! 😂

Me acompañará mi compinche Fernando Cámara, que ha estado a mi lado en tantas cosas.

¡Os espero!

El PP ha perdido 44623 votantes.
Vox ha perdido 88188 votantes.
El PSOE ha ganado 2904 votantes.
Más Madrid ha perdido 4044 votantes.

Los números son los oficiales, sacados de la web del diario El Mundo.

We spend roughly 10x as much time reading code as we do writing it. A tool or technique that makes you twice as "productive" at writing code *at best* makes you 5% more productive over all. Making your code easier to understand will have 10x the impact. But that doesn't sell tools or put developers out of work, so you won't be reading about it in Forbes.

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Un juego de texto tipo «elige tu propia aventura», pero implementado mediante encuestas #ActivityPub privadas.

Introducing a new object type means a new UI means a new interpretation. Necessary? Not at all. But practically, pushing people to add a new code path sometimes requires a new case for their switch statement.

@revk @foone

And the original poster was you, ten years ago and you'd forgotten all about it.

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html

#cprogramming #programming

https://twitter.com/europapress/status/1660863126005334020

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Perro grande: Cómo se ven a sí mismos los empresarios: "Los empresarios creamos riqueza y prosperidad para todo el mundo con nuestras manos desnudas" Perro chico: Cómo son en realidad: "Ay no encuentro gente k trabaje 16h al día por 350 euros"

What development environment is it, if you can disclose?

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Ok, to install [and build] git-tiny, you need Ruby, tcl, Python, ipython, cython, Lua, Perl, mercurial. gcc (despite clang being part of the system), redis, subversion, and w3m.

A total of 604 ports.

This is f'ing insane for a "tiny" port. (yes, a majority of it is build tools that aren't needed at runtime, but still it shows how bloating modern software packages are.

Happy #worldgothday 🖤🦇🖤

@emilymbender

IMHO, the real concern isn't the technology itself, but the economic pressures from the investor class and capitalism.

(Longer take on that, especially regarding the arts):

https://ideatrash.net/2023/05/whether-ai-can-write-a-story-is-the-wrong-question.html

Liberal arts majors: "A.I. will make science and engineering degrees obsolete"

STEM majors: "A.I. will make liberal arts degrees obsolete"

Plumbers: "First hour is £150, then every hour after that is £90"

RT @cunado_medieval

@doot this you?

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Screenshot of the top of a Wikipedia entry for the North Atlantic garbage patch. It says to not confuse the garbage patch with Great Britain.

https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.1.html - User Manual
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.5.html - Message Formatting and File Format Documentation
https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html - Administrator Manual

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

@mjgardner @icing actually, being liberal in accepting things is not a good idea either. If it violates the protocol, eject, close, kill, abort. At once. That leads to better code and protocols in the longer run.

@petealexharris @cstross It's true. A running joke amongst my peers is that any AI news headline can replace "AI" with "capitalism" and remain 100% true.

https://www.eldiario.es/madrid/80-000-arboles-murieron-filomena_1_7184580.html

No sé si el artículo que enlazas menciona este hecho, no lo he leído.

En parques que conozco bien, como la Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, fue una catástrofe.

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no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

young me: i wonder if this new technical thing is cool

middle-aged me: i wonder if i can avoid knowing about this new technical thing until it goes away

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Al menos puedes "silenciar" el grupo para que no te interrumpa con notificaciones y solo mirarlo de cuando en cuando.

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

Pero dado que Markdown no es una especificación clara ni única (hay un montón de variantes), preferiría que Firefox no se hiciera aún más gordo con otro intérprete + validador + conversor a html.

new twitter encrypted messenger sounds real secure

"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

Are cw links clickable? (Should be.)

“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.

Estaba jugando él solo: subía su pelota a lo alto de la pendiente, esperaba a que cogiera velocidad y cuando casi se le escapaba corría a por ella, la cazaba y la volvía a subir hasta lo alto. No fue casual: lo hizo varias veces. Lo hacía adrede.

He tenido perro y sé lo listos que son pero no dejan de sorprenderme.

The thing is, if you suppress comments like that, then you may think that people like that aren't out there, and that they won't use these systems in that way.

Please, Jon, forget about the goats, we need you.

@LWN@fosstodon.org @delroth@delroth.net

"El capitalismo es una máquina creada para impedir que los mercados se vean afectados por la democracia".

Micro-rant: if you are writing software that asks for a password, please tell me which password you mean. My Mac password? My 1Password password? OneLogin? ssh key?

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https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2