El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

#relatos

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

Don't forget to read the guide before upgrading:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade74.html

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I accidentally dropped it on a client's facilities and cracked a marble floor. No kidding.

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So, if the instruments are the hardware and the toolkit, and the interpreter is the compiler, then it's more or less true that music is the object and the sheets are the source.

Similarly, one may consider a MIDI file source code for music.

CC: @s@post.lurk.org @zant@types.pl

I just realized. The more you comment your code and make it understandable, the easier it is for other people to takeover and rewrite your code. This means that when you retire/pass-away, your code will likely be quickly overwritten and your legacy gone from the active code base.

So, if you write complex clever code with little to no documentation, your code is more likely to be immortalized in the code base as everyone will be too afraid to touch it and possibly break it.

I thought of this when looking into the Linux TTY code base

#RecomendacionesDeHumocefalo
Hace poco descubrí que con el carnet de la biblioteca (España) se puede acceder a una plataforma de streaming muy guay. Se basa en tickets gratuitos (3 a la semana) y hay un montón de títulos que también están, por ejemplo, en #Filmin
La web es https://efilm.online/ y si tienes cuenta en cualquier biblioteca de España puedes acceder con los mismos credenciales. CORRIJO: aún faltan algunas zonas de España, aunque la idea es estar finalmente disponible en todas. En la propia página podéis consultar qué servidores hay.
La plataforma, aparte del contenido, tiene un inicio atractivo con buenas listas de recomendaciones. Es una web muy atractiva y se agradece el cuidado en este tipo de servicio público.

This exactly.

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@LaComtesseJamie writes: I'm amazed by people who lose weight w exercise. When | exercise nothing happens bc my DNA still thinks I'm a European peasant. So it's like "Oh! Are we running from the English again, lass? Dinnae ye worry: we'll keep ye plump as a partridge to outlast the murderous bastards!"

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“Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.”

~ David Benatar

#antinatalism #pessimism #quotestoliveby #quotes

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CC: @solene@bsd.network

This is Ángel Ortega, crime and horror fiction writer and former systems programmer (on space, avionics and cryptography environments).

My first contact with a #UNIX system was on 1989 on a Sun Sparcstation 2 running #SunOS. I discovered #Linux on 1993 with the SLS distribution. I ditched all Microsoft software on 1999 and moved all my computers to Linux and never looked back.

My first encounter with #OpenBSD (inside a VM) was circa 2015. I was debugging a ground station software that was complicated as hell and had some memory leaks and was driving me mad; a friend of mine recommended compiling my beast on OpenBSD because the memory management is very different and it immediately crashed on a place I never expected. That filled my heart with bliss.

My first experience with OpenBSD in real hardware was on a laptop in 2020. Everything worked (except Bluetooth because, you know, there is no Bluetooth support on OpenBSD). I finally had to install Linux on that laptop because of reasons and my heart was a bit broken.

I now have OpenBSD on a tiny Toshiba NB 200. It's 32 bit, so no Firefox for poor old Ángel, but I don't really care because I used it mostly for fiction writing and remote server maintenance while on coffee shops, libraries or parks. Battery usage is great. Everything works like a charm.

I love OpenBSD because it's compact. It makes me feel like on a vintage UNIX system, simple and solid. Native tools and servers share lookalike configuration files. Man pages are awesome af. It includes a C compiler in its base system and that means "I am a real Operating System" to me. I love security is one of its main goals. OpenBSD hackers are brilliant, stubborn, unique people.

I don't love the filesystem.

I don't care that it's a bit slower than other OSes.

If you haven't tried OpenBSD, do it this October.

CC: @solene@bsd.network

MYSTERY PERSON QUIZ FOR 2023.10.06

Do you know who this person is?

Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search or peeking at other responses.)

His name will be revealed tomorrow. This one may be tough since he is so young and not a celebrity in the traditional sense.

Please boost for more responses.

#MysteryPersonQuiz

MOVIE QUIZ FOR 2023.10.06

Do you know which movie this picture is from?

Give your honest answer below, even if you’re not sure.

Please boost for more responses.

The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

#BlahbylonsMovieQuiz

(Of course not)

Out of these four movies directed by Quentin Tarantino, which is your favorite, and why?

Please boost if you can for a greater response.

#BlahbylonsFilmPoll

One of my favourite (and oh so simple) hacker tricks is to abuse JSON support in APIs and pass TRUE instead of the actual API key. If the code does loose comparison, you don't need the key! 😎 😈 🍿
https://securinglaravel.com/p/security-tip-type-juggling #PHP #Laravel

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API Request showing api_key=true bypassing the token checks and gaining a "SUCCESS".

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Va a quedar una edición de mi libro TAN guay que ya le gustaría a cualquier editorial tenerla. Es que estoy segura xD

Great movie and great book.

https://www.thisman.org/oldsite/

Creo que las he visto todas, pero sí, un maratón no estaría mal. Aunque algunas no serán fáciles de encontrar.

Here's hoping someone creates a Karikó Prize, to be awarded annually to someone that academia kicked to the curb and who went on to change the world anyway. Of course, there should also be a UPenn prize every year for the most egregious example of an academic institution failing to support someone when it would have mattered but later taking credit for their work anyway.

The University of Pennsylvania is acting proud of Katalin Karikó now that she's won a Nobel. But they kicked her out of her research assistant professor job when she insisted on doing the work that won her that prize:

"She recalls spending one Christmas and New Year’s Eve conducting experiments and writing grant applications. But many other scientists were turning away from the field, and her bosses at UPenn felt mRNA had shown itself to be impractical and she was wasting her time. They issued an ultimatum: if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, and face a substantial pay cut.

”It was particularly horrible as that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer,” said Karikó. “I was facing two operations, and my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card, had got stranded there because of some visa issue, meaning he couldn’t come back for six months. I was really struggling, and then they told me this."

"While undergoing surgery, Karikó assessed her options. She decided to stay, accept the humiliation of being demoted, and continue to doggedly pursue the problem. This led to a chance meeting which would both change the course of her career, and that of science."

Elsewhere she recalled:

“I thought of going somewhere else, or doing something else. I also thought maybe I’m not good enough, not smart enough."

She's now an adjunct in UPenn's neurosurgery department. Will they fast-track her for tenure now that she has a Nobel, or just live with the shame?

Both quotes here come from interesting stories. The first is from here:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

The second is from here:

https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-covid-vaccine-mrna-kariko-demoted-biontech-pfizer/

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“Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are brilliant researchers who represent the epitome of scientific inspiration and determination. Day after day, Dr. Weissman, Dr. Karikó and their teams worked tirelessly to unlock the power of mRNA as a therapeutic platform, not knowing the way in which their work could serve to meet a big challenge the world would one day face,” said Penn President Liz Magill. “With the truest devotion to their field, they’ve already promised they will not stop here, and that is the greatest inspiration of all. Our Penn community is enormously proud of their groundbreaking achievements and this well-deserved recognition.” From https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/katalin-kariko-and-drew-weissman-penns-historic-mrna-vaccine-research-team-win-2023-nobel

Gracias por su interés.

Let's start #OctOpenBSD ! Let use this month to show #OpenBSD is not a niche operating system!

Write stuff, take screenshot, record videos, do what you want using #OpenBSD and share it to the world!

CC: @CortoMunchausen@eldritch.cafe @Fitx0@paquita.masto.host

@angel
Here you go. I've bloggified it and expanded it further:

"How to Compete with Patreon"
https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1824441.html

Fortunately, I don't do any web browsing in this nano-machine (it's mostly unbearable), just have it installed just in case

Apart from the recent vulnerability, what more thinks I should be afraid of? End of support?

https://youtu.be/cHTDkJ-bQqM

Esto es este viernes ☺️
Venid a hacernos compañía.

#Libros #lgbt #lgbtqia #feria

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Feria del libro autoeditados con protagonistas lgtbqia Reunión con autores y exposición de obras Acceso a narrativa con protagonistas LGTBIAQ para público juvenil Mesa redonda de vivencias (17h) 15 representantes de la actualidad de la escena. Biblioteca Vargas Llosa c/Barceló 4 Madrid

También, como dice @VictorMoral@mastodon.social, cualquiera de las de Mad Max menos la de Tina Turner.

Do you have this same content in a less temporary, time-proof format, like a blog post or whatever?

Do you screenwriters want us to believe this shit? Are you even trying?

CC: @Sarcophagus@lemmy.world

Qué bien me lo pasé ayer en la presentación de T.Errores: en el bosque ya estás muerto. Qué antología más chula, por favor.
Así da gusto escribir.

Si no vas, más pierdes tú.

~ Panistheman

https://www.deviantart.com/panistheman/art/Comic-Strip-107321958

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Black and white pen drawn cartoon, 8 frames arranged four across, two deep, headed with the title: Please stop violating causality. Frame 1: A bully threatens the protagonist. Frame 2: The protagonist has an idea. Frame 3: Protagonist breaks fourth wall by reaching down to the seventh frame and pulling a copy of himself out of the comic. Frame 4: The bully realises he’s outnumbered. Frame 5: The protagonist and his copy stand up to the bully. Frame 6: The bully is about to get beaten by the two. Frame 7: The protagonist is dragged out through the fourth wall. Frame 8: The situation has returned to a bully threatening the protagonist. Artist unknown.

Los guionistas que escriben la realidad cada vez se esfuerzan menos.

https://www.europasur.es/gibraltar/Detenido-juez-Pitto-acusado-genitales_0_1829818402.html

Unfriendly reminder:

I beg to differ.

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Graphic image of salt shaker with the words "low sodium," but the salt shaker inadvertently looks like a penis.

Do you know who this person is? (This is likely to be a tough one.)

Give your answer or make your best guess below. (No reverse image search or peeking at other responses.)

Her name will be revealed tomorrow.

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#MysteryPersonQuiz

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Respecto al color del culo de un camello, pues ahí me has pillao porque no tengo ni idea. Tendría que buscarlo.

A ver si va a ser como cuando la gente llama "color vainilla" a algún tipo de amarillo y luego vas a ver cómo es una vaina de vainilla y es marrón caca-de-oca.

No pasa nada si estos términos se usan en el lenguaje coloquial o en un documento técnico, pero si escribes un artículo sobre el uso correcto del castellano hay que tratar de evitarlo.

Que tampoco es tan grave, claro, pero queda feo.

"Lo tomó muy bien, lo de ir allí, con mucho estoicismo. Los niños pequeños son estoicos. Lloran por un simple porrazo, pero las cosas grandes las toman como vienen, no lloriquean como tantos adultos."

-- "Los desposeídos", page 384

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Los desposeídos (Paperback, 2020, Minotauro, MINOTAURO)

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CC: @VictorMoral@mastodon.social

O igual el/la OP se refiere a que ya no son de carne o algo así.

CC: @greenpeeptoes@mastodon.la

¿Pero cómo que sabor co-creado con IA, Cocacola? Pero qué dices, pero qué me cuentas 😱

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Lata de Coca-Cola Zero azúcar con colores azules y rosados que me dice que ha sido co-creada por una IA. Venga ya, nos vamos a la mierda

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