El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

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

😮 !!! 😂

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.

English has two different terms for words that come into English from other languages. A 'calque' is translated from the source language. (E.g., flea market, beer garden, paper tiger) A 'loanword' is ported in its original form. (E.g., cafe, bazaar, kindergarten) Perhaps ironically, the word 'calque' is a loanword, while 'loanword' is a calque (from Ger. 'lehnwort').

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?

CC: @bagder@mastodon.social

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"

@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.

CC: @tac0shell@hackers.town

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

CC: @Perl@chirp.social

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.

"Replace capitalism with a good nap"
Stencil seen in Marseille, France

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Red and blue stencil on a wall that says "Replace capitalism with a good nap" in French

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?

CC: @nick@norden.social

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

Cuando yo era joven se llamaba "hacer puente" cuando caía un laboral/lectivo entre fiestas (como una especie de metáfora cutre de las patas y los ojos de un puente).

"Authenticator apps are convenient, but some of us still use real computers and often want to access sites that way. Your editor, unlike his offspring, does not have a phone surgically implanted, so logging into a site can lead to a scramble to figure out where the damn phone is so that the code can be produced. [...]"

https://lwn.net/Articles/925870/

TIL: lace cards

It’s a computer punch card with every possible spot punched out, so what remains is a flimsy filamentous net of paper that instantly tears and jams up the card reader.

Old-school denial of service attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card

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A computer punch card with closely spaced rows of holes punched out, covering nearly the entire surface.

https://blog.brixit.nl/nitrokey-dissapoints-me/

Además, me ha parecido que estás mencionando a Apple y a Google como ejemplos de empresas que no espían a sus clientes y seguro que lo he entendido mal.

3D model viewer in ASCII for the terminal

https://github.com/autopawn/3d-ascii-viewer-c

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/autopawn/3d-ascii-viewer-c

#cprogramming #programming

In the #ActivityPub protocol, it's called 'Announce'.

In the #Mastodon web interface (and here in #snac too), it's called 'boost'.

In the Mastodon API, it's called 'reblog'.

Mastodon users say, informally, 'retoot'.

In the #Pleroma web interface (AFAIK), it's called 'repeat'.

In #honk it's called 'bonk' (because, why not).

Outside there, in other crappy social networks, Facebook names the action 'share' (IIRC), Twitter users names it 'retweet'. I don't know about others, but they probably use a different verb.

Todos esos sitios tienen ya una página web: es ahí donde tienen que publicar lo que tengan que decir.

Y si el ayuntamiento es tan pequeño que no tiene una página web, siempre tendrán un tablero de corcho donde clavar el mensaje con una chincheta.

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green @maxxcan@mastodon.social

Plano de la Villa de Madrid (1623) https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-urbanos/plano-de-la-villa-de-madrid-1623/

This is (also by design) different to what Mastodon does, so it may seem confusing until you get used to it.

CC: @fanta@mastodon.green

Y sí, yo también odio a Facebook y a todo lo que trae consigo.

Some notes on usage: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=168171382927798&w=2

For anyone who wants to try out time-limited sessions, pam-session-timelimit is now in Debian unstable and Ubuntu lunar:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/pam-session-timelimit

I've also finished a patch to make pam_time integrate with pam_systemd, which after 20+ years makes it possible for pam_time to enforce the end of sessions and not just their start times:

https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/pull/562

Started Mastodon API support, so you can use Mastodon-compatible apps to access #snac accounts. What works so far: login, private and public timelines, full post information (replies and ancestors), liking and boosting posts. Things that don't work yet but eventually will: following accounts, posting and replying to messages (I still have to figure out how some things work, like posting images), notifications (needs some internal support), the instance timeline (snac does not have one, but it can be simulated with not much effort) and probably many other things. Things that will never work: bookmarks, pinning, a federated timeline, many other things that I don't remember right now. Please note that if you want to use this API in your instance, you must add some lines to your HTTP proxy configuration, see the snac(8) (administrator documentation) manual page. I'm doing my tests using the #Tusky (which sometimes crashes, surely my fault), #AndStatus, #Fedilab and #Husky Android apps. Success or failure reports will be appreciated.

Fixed some buffer overflows (contributed by Saagar Jha).

Fixed overzealous rejection of some local boosts.

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

https://openbsd.org/73.html

Thanks again to the great people that makes this unique piece of software possible.

https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/economia/2023/04/07/francia-impone-tarifa-3-euros-recibir-libros-amazon/00031680866726399185915.htm

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linked-programs-run-on-linux

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-away-in-macoss-system-folders-for-some-reason/

The OpenSSL code has been refactored to avoid using deprecated functions.

Added more aggressive filtering on unwanted Announce (boost) messages.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-age-of-average

CC: @__nate__@mstdn.social

What's Ruby?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Rust to build it.

What's Rust?

A compiled, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language. You need Python to build it.

What's Python?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

Do I need, uhm, Perl to build it?

No, but you need Perl to build Rust.

I knew it. What's Perl?

An interpreted, multi-paradigm, high-level, general-

It's expensive to be poor. It's ironic but true. You get charges and fees for everything. Higher interest rates. Overdraft fees. Late fees. Having only enough to buy what you need right now instead of buying in bulk. Losing your job because you can't afford to get your car fixed. Losing your car because you don't have a job. Even your mental faculties are drained, as you are forced to continually eat low-nutrition foods, "sleep" in miserable conditions, and be exposed to toxins and lack of medical treatment. The lack of liquidity wipes you out. Life really does kick you while you're down.

You can't tell someone trapped in that vicious cycle to "just" get a job or "just" make responsible decisions. Sometimes, no amount of good decision-making can stop the vortex sucking them down. So the next time you are tempted to place moral judgment on someone who lives in poverty, think twice.

Signed, someone who has been both a Have and a Have-Not.

Wir alle, Zug. Wir alle.

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Anzeige am Zug, der am Gleis steht: Ich bin kaputt

[1] https://www.andechs.de/en/monastery-brewery/product-range/bergbock-hell.html

If these gems were not available for me, I would also be happy drowned in belgian Kaiser Karel, american Spencer Trappist Ale or german Hofbräuhaus.

Does #honk support the C2S ActivityPub protocol?

CC: @virtuosew@mathstodon.xyz @stitchsprout@socel.net @inkstitch@diode.zone @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services

I miss the days when new tech was like, “Oh, hey, the ‘Host’ header in HTTP 1.1 means we can run more than one site per IP!” and not, “Oh, hey, this LLM is going to literally destroy lives while wildly enriching the worst people in the world.”

@miah I think one of the many things I dig about @grunfink 's snac is this: "No database needed" ;)

I also sincerely appreciate the "Totally JavaScript-free" aspect too!

The entire compiled implementation on macOS for version 2.24? 230737 bytes (approx 231KiB). Also has minimal dependencies, the biggest challenge with maintaining the MacPort so far has been due to my own ineptitude with MacPorts, not snac's code.

I wish more followed grunfink's excellent example on contemporary software dev.

Your listener supported dystopian drone station http://echo.lurk.org:999/ef1j.mp3

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint".

Spent a few hours setting up #snac [0] on my server [1] today. Really cool (and *very* opinionated) ActivityPub implementation.

[0] https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
[1] https://social.nihil.ws/samuel

last night i stumbled across Joe vs. The Elan School, an ongoing autobiographical webcomic about one man's experience with a synanon-inspired "troubled teen" program, the ways it shaped his life, and his long battle to destroy it afterwards.

CW for just about everything but this is one of the wildest, most immediately gripping pieces of art i've encountered in a long time:

https://elan.school/

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a drawing of a man stares blankly next to the text "welcome to the elan 8 house. this will be your home for the next 30-40 months. your stay here is going to entirely depend on how you decide to react to our program. the amount of privileges that you earn during your stay is also going to be completely dependent on..."

https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

piensan que las IA son la panacea que les ayudará a conseguirlo sin esforzarse lo más mínimo

¿Algún SysAdmin en la sala? Por aquí hay curro del bueno (palabrita que es bueno, que yo lo disfruto)

https://www.transparentedge.eu/empleo/administrador-de-sistemas/

Un Retoot por caridad, para que llegue a más gente.