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

CC: @The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

Sometimes I even use napkins and buy receipts and pieces of torn newspaper.

Instead of using the group actor, it just picks a random person to announce new posts. Not the author, not anyone related, just apparently anyone on the server.

My best wishes and luck, it' all I can say.

How difficult could be to find another collaborator? You may have one or two different bands simultaneously, apart from the one you already have. You may even give different musical approachings to these different projects.

Just guessing. It's hard when you feel a collaborator is lagging the final work. I wish you luck.

No. I don't feel sorry. Hit. Hit hard.

Can't you both agree on some part of the material to be published right now, and keep working on the rest for, say, a second album, or an extended one?

obsdfreqd moved from tildegit.org to sourcehut

https://git.sr.ht/~solene/obsdfreqd

testing for the version 1.2.0 is welcome

#openbsd

If, on the contrary, it's the usual material from crappy bosses that only want to reaffirm themselves in their bossy bullshit, just tell them that it was "very remarkable and with very enlightening ideas" and move on.

I got nothin'.

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Killer Queen tweets: How do I teach my body that my flight or flight response is supposed to be for life or death situations, no answering an email.

Go #BlahbylonsDailyRetroMusic !

https://www.badspacecomics.com/

Sorry, Grace. DM me and I'll try to explain my treason.

ROUND 6

There's only one woman you can have sex with for the rest of your life. Who is it going to be?

Round 1 thru 4 winner: Gillian Anderson

Round 5 winner: Margot Robbie

Gillian Anderson was finally unseated by Margot Robbie. Will Robbie win again?

What is always superb in his work is the language economy, the to-the-point sentences, the lack of useless words and meaningless descriptions. Hemingway invented the modern prose and all of us readers and writers owe him a drink.

Aunque antiguamente se llamaba torneo «masculino», siempre se han podido presentar mujeres. Fue en 1986 cuando Susan Polgar [1] llegó a semifinales y le tuvieron que cambiar el nombre a la categoría y esta pasó a ser general.

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsuzsa_Polg%C3%A1r

ROUND 7

There's only one man you can have sex with for the rest of your life. Who is it going to be?

Round 1 thru 6 winner: Trent Reznor

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. Can’t anyone unseat Trent Reznor? My choice from Saturday was Bernal.

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If a book has an "absolutely uninteresting storyline", then it's not that "great" to me, so I drop it and get another one.

@lakelady

"And to be understood is to be leveled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one’s fullness"

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58713/defeat-56d23d566b4c3

My choice is Stir of Echoes

Corey Hart - Eurasian Eyes

https://youtu.be/n1QOxms_yvI

Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night #80sMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LTL8KgKv8

It's a hate symbol hon.

One of the hilarious things going on is that the big capital-owned news companies in Canada decided that they wanted some of Facebook's money.

So they bribed the Canadian politicians into writing a copyright law which requires that anyone who links to the big capital-owned news companies pay those big capital-owned media conglomerates money for every link.

😆 🤣

Obviously Facebook then just stopped allowing their users to do that, because they don't even want their users to leave Facebook and go to news company websites anyway. It's the users that wanted to be able to link like that.

😆 🤣 And now.. And now..🤣 😆

For reasons not unrelated to the corporate/capital capture of law and sovereignty, all of Canada is in fire.

People are trying to tell their friends on Facebook about how they have to immediately leave the town because it's going to burn down and they are all going to die.

But they are trying to do so by linking to the local capital-owned news media conglomerate's web-pages.

But doing that isn't allowed any more because, the news media conglomerates demand payment for that sort of thing, backed up by genuinely paid-for "democratic" bribery to the Canadian political parties.

😆 🤣 And now.. And now..🤣 😆

The Canadian government is today demanding that Facebook allow the linking even though it's the Canadian government's laws that tax and so forbid it.

😆

This timeline is so fucking cursed. I really hate it when Facebook is right.

Though I do hate it more when people are all burning.

#facebook #canada #fire

These four movies were all based on books by Richard Matheson. Which do you consider to be the best, and why?

Please boost if you can for a greater response.

The Vincent Price one is probably the most faithful to the book, but it seems like done on a severe budget with no passion. Probably a product of its time, as you say.

The Charlton Heston one is the most different. Basically, the "new people" are mostly proto-goth vampire/zombie mishmash. Mr. Rifle shoots them from a car while driving. Very forgettable.

I may be a little rude on the 2007 one, but all Will Smith movies feel the same to me. This one deserved to be better, but the end is so disappointing.

Aún no parece arreglado...

I Am Legend (the book) has been adapted into films three times: The Last Man on Earth (featuring Vincent Price, 1964), The Omega Man (featuring Charlton Heston, 1971), and this one with Will Smith. All three are crap.

"As a user, you probably don’t want your emails to be non-repudiable. (Other people might want to be able to prove you sent some email, but your email system ought to serve your interests, not theirs.)"

Bien podía decir «Alerta roja - máximas temperaturas - vamos a morir todos - ya enviaremos una notificación nueva cuando afloje»

CC: @VictorMoral@mastodon.social

CC: @el_pais@mastodon.social @VictorMoral@mastodon.social

La confirmación de follow no tiene por qué ser inmediata, el otro lado puede servirlo cuando le parezca (o no servirlo nunca).

CC: @elvector@masto.es

Unlike sex work, my “good” jobs didn’t threaten to overthrow traditional power structures. Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the reason so many people in power work to keep the commercial sex trade marginalized is because they’re threatened by it—by the idea that it’s the only field where women outearn men, that it’s an industry where women get to call the shots, and that women profit off something that men have been told they’re entitled to for free: sex and attention in equal parts. In my experience of the corporate landscape, there was none of this radical power structure, only an upholding of the traditional: men talking and women listening, men in powerful positions getting both credit and profit for the labour of women beneath them. Is this what I worked so hard for? I wondered daily."

Authenticate the SSH servers are you connecting to

In this article, you will learn how to use SSHFP DNS records in order to prevent TOFU when using SSH.

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-08-05-sshfp-dns-entries.html

gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/sshfp-dns-entries.gmi
#ssh #security

@solene

"curl: ‐‐connect‐timeout is weirdly broken"

Using funny unicode letters instead of ascii can give you weird-looking results.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1043309

Don't worry about him. Let's go shit on some cars

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Rear view of two pigeons walking on brick paving. One has a wing thrown across the other's back

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.)

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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