El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

#relatos

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

Very valuable information for watching a "the very best of..."

#TheSimpsons

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A heat chart of user ratings on every The Simpsons episode

Y es una pena, porque técnicamente el protocolo está muchísimo mejor diseñado que el ActivityPub.

#AssholeCorporations #AwfulParenting

Estoy interesado en tu piso
Teléfono █████████

Lo único que te queda es coger todo lo que puedas ahora mismo y salir del piso lo antes posible.

#microrrelato

https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/index.html

https://imgur.com/t/the_more_you_know/vX3zm

https://boston.conman.org/2023/02/24.1

STOP DOING THREADS

• POSTS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SPLIT INTO 25 PARTS
• YEARS of POSTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for a low character limit
• Wanted a low character limit anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called “SMS”
• “My post got so long that I had to split it into 10 parts. Stay tuned for the 20 part sequel” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Mastodon Users have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the Fediverse and protocols WE built for them:
(This is REAL Posting, done by REAL Mastodon Users)

• Why communism will win, a 🧵 (1/255)
• Why I should be allowed to index all your posts for profit, a thread (1/X)
• The rise and fall of Twitter (283/185,781)

“Hello, I would like a 500 character limit please”
They have played us for absolute fools

CC: @aberron@mstdn.social

https://youtu.be/mVzZLPXJKB8

Because of ChatGPT generated spam, SF magazines are having to close submissions.

Stop defending or making excuses for ChatGPT and other LLMs. They are corrosive bullshit enriching a handful of rich bastards, enabling grift, and poisoning the commons.

https://wandering.shop/@terrymatz/109898643047635931

It is obscene that governments effectively require people to have internet connectivity to be able to function in society but abdicate responsibility for ensuring that people actually have that and delegate it to for-profit enterprises instead

Does issuing an eject command to a USB flash drive make it spontaneously fly across the room?

https://torbsd.github.io/obsd-relays.html

Also applicable to other server software that need a lot of file descriptors for network connections or whatever.

Summary: increase the openfiles value in /etc/login.conf and the global kernel number with something like sysctl kern.maxfiles=20000.

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

I enter the Library of Books You Read As A Child.
"Do you have... er. It was green, and there was a girl and a dog, and..."
The librarian nods.
"Of course. Which version do you want?"
"Version?"
"The one you read, with all flaws you didn't notice, or the one you remember loving?"
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

I didn't know that Livejournal still exists, by the way.

CC: @shoofle@elekk.xyz

I'm from Spain and knew about the song in German, didn't remember there was an English version.

https://youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY

#caturday

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Harry the cat, sleeping with his tail over his head

https://youtu.be/10z6-vQm23w

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hello-png.html

CC: @est@emily.news

QUÉ BIEN 😠

Generating Platonic Solids in C++ (2021)

https://www.danielsieger.com/blog/2021/01/03/generating-platonic-solids.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.danielsieger.com/blog/2021/01/03/generating-platonic-solids.html

#cpp #programming

Brick road printer 🖨️

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Put in the bricks on top and the machine will sort and put them into shape rolling out a new brick road Easy peasy

TONIGHT at 7:30pm PST! Tune in to the LIVE-STREAM for The ROAST of Bruce Campbell at SF Sketchfest! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://www.moment.co/sfsketchfest?ref=artistsocial

From time to time, it's worth to remember that, more or less, all planets from the Solar System fit between the Earth and the Moon.

https://www.cantabria24horas.com/noticias/se-suspende-el-xxix-concurso-de-cmic-de-torrelavega-porque-el-nico-trabajador-que-puede-abrir-el-email-con-la-informacin-del-evento-est-de-baja/92256

😆 😆 😆

You can edit your own posts from now on.

Fixed the breakage of Emojis I introduced when implementing HashTags because I am a moron.

Added adaptative timeouts when sending messages to other instances.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

sysctl kern.allowkmem=1

This is probably common knowledge for OpenBSD superusers, but I'm still a bit of a newbie here.

Thanks for the clues!

In this very same machine, I get the error

procmap: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted

angel@lucifer:~$ sysctl hw | grep mem
hw.physmem=8453619712
hw.usermem=8453464064
angel@lucifer:~$ top | grep Memory
Memory: Real: 98M/4030M act/tot Free: 3779M Cache: 3116M Swap: 0K/4088K

CC: @Hetzner_Online@social.cologne

Also Mastodon: insert <span> tags into the fucking middle of everything just for shits and giggles.

https://blogs.publico.es/lapizarradeyuri/2023/01/23/no-el-nucleo-de-la-tierra-no-se-ha-detenido-y-no-pasa-nada/

Jodidos medios.

#OpenBSD developer @phessler just committed the addition of The Atkinson Hyperlegible font into OpenBSD ports tree

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

It's made to be the most readable possible, there is a nice PDF explaining how they did https://brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BIA_AtkinsonHyerlegible-Specimen_200210.pdf

Will this year give start to the era of "rewrite everything in Zig"?.

Daniel Stenberg, of the #curl tool and library fame, wrote not long ago an article [1] wondering if years in copyright notes are mandatory or not... His conclusion was to delete all year mentions. I'm not sure if he's right; I'm going to keep them by now (updating them, of course).

Thanks for your help.

[1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/

Added support for #HashTags (they are not internally indexed yet, only propagated to other instances).

Added support for OpenBSD enhanced security functions unveil() and pledge() (contributed by alderwick).

The purge ttl for stray global objects has been shortened.

In the HTML interface, don't show the collapse widget for non-existent children.

Added support for HTTP signature pseudo-headers (created) and (expires), that are used by some ActivityPub implementations (e.g. Lemmy).

When replying, the mentioned people inherited from the original post will be clearly labelled with a CC: prefix string instead of just being dropped out there like noise like Mastodon and others do. (I hope) this will help you realise that you are involving other people in the conversation.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

El choque de civilizaciones interplanetarias del Dr. Hawking:

https://blogs.publico.es/lapizarradeyuri/2023/01/14/choque-civilizaciones-extraterrestres-hawking/

Perhaps this flood of content will prove beneficial [...]. But that outcome does not seem highly likely in the near future. Instead, we're likely to see code submissions from "developers" who do not understand what they are posting; this code could contain no end of bugs and, potentially, license violations. Cut-and-paste programming has long been a problem throughout this industry. It is far from clear that automating the cutting and pasting is going to improve the situation.

AI-generated text has its own challenges. Our mailing lists and forum sites do not lack for people trying to appear authoritative on subjects they do not really understand; how many more will show up when it is easy to get a machine-learning system to produce plausible text with little effort? Even the most ardent believers in the "last post wins" approach to mailing-list discussions will get tired and shut up eventually; automated systems have no such limits. How long until we have a discussion on, say, init systems that is sustained entirely by bots?

Your work is impressive. I love it.

CC: @crow@lonely.town

First, add an option to automatically drop all announces (boosts). Unless your affinity with the people you follow is deep, boosts are just (usually) tangentially interesting, probably flooding your timeline and just forcing you to spend more and more time inside the social media space. A variant of this would be to make this option not global, but by actor, so that you can 'boost-mute' only those adorable but annoying fellows that are particularly trigger-happy to the boost button (implementing the option this way is more work for me, but not that much).

Second, add an option to drop all messages that are not public nor mentioning you. That is, filter out those infamous 'follower-only' messages. People use to engage in these follower-only conversations, so you only receive these chat fragments without context (unless you also follow all the people involved) and they are purely noise. In my opinion, follower-only messages are a very bad idea that just pollute the space (and this is why snac doesn't implement them and never will).

Third, add an option to drop all replies to your messages from people that you are not following. This would prove useful for very popular, mostly announce-only accounts. I agree that it's a bit elitist and probably toxic, but also helps in spending less time inside the social networks and more time painting or writing or taking the dog for a walk.

What do you think?

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

    value = user_value ? user_value : default_value;

What you may not know is that, thanks to a gcc (and others) extension, you can abridge that expression to this:

    value = user_value ?: default_value;

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

Me, any time I do something wrong from now on: "PLEASE DO NOT ATTACK ME. An AUTHOR has TOLD a STORY."

(From here: https://upstreamreviews.substack.com/p/not-dead-yet )

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Text (in interview format): MG: What would you say to those who feel they donated under a false pretense and might feel wronged? SM: To those who donated I would again stress this wasn't demanded of them. I'm sorry they feel wronged, but they chose to DONATE. It doesn't magically become a loan because they regret it now. And WHY do they? Because an Author told a Story? The only difference now vs before is I'm alive. They'd rather I be dead? Then they'd be happy about donating? That's what it seems like they're saying, they're cruelly wishing death on me.

https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/mutually-assured-engagement

CC: @mapasmilhaud@mastodon.cloud

https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.html

I find the article interesting not only for C++ "peeps", but for us greybeard C programmers as well, who learnt the language in the eighties. Remarkable sections in the document are:

- Use struct wrappers for strong typing (I've never done this, but it's interesting; accessing the components inside the structs may become a bit tedious, though).
- Initialization in C99 (I haven't used this to its full potential).
- Don’t be afraid to pass and return structs by value (as an old fart, I always pass pointers to structs, and this section reasons otherwise for small structs).
- Named optional arguments (or, as the author more accurately describes this, the "option bag").

https://www.godbolt.org/

Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

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a heavy cast metal cube with glass-sided pannels, a latches glass door half open and an tiny oxygen bottle on top, with a canary bird inside

Just learned that “stochastic parroting” is the technical term for what ChatGPT does, which makes so much more sense than AI

https://rarefilmm.com/2022/12/swiss-made-2069-1968/

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2021/01/13/gigers-first-alien-swissmade-2069/

@emilymbender There is a demand for low-background steel, steel produced before the nuclear tests mid century, for use in Geiger counters. They produce it from scavenging ships sunk during world war one, as it's the only way they can be sure there is no radiation.

The same is going to happen for internet data, only archives pre-2022 will be usable for sociology research and the like as the rest will be contaminated by AI nonsense. Absolute travesty.

If you have a standard build system, do the following:

make CFLAGS="-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--print-gc-sections"

https://drewdevault.com/2022/11/12/In-praise-of-Plan-9.html

Again, I agree with the message and bet for car-free cities and public transportation and have an active role in my community in these regards. But misleading graphics do not help.

Esto nos recuerda dos cosas: que los EEUU son un país de chichinabo y que el sistema de fianzas es otro castigo para pobres.

La entidad convocante (Pórtico, Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia-Ficción y Terror) ha publicado el ganador y los finalistas en un libro electrónico que se puede descargar desde aquí:

https://lektu.com/l/aefcft/antologia-premio-domingo-santos-2021-22/20900

Espero que os guste.

@sergio @manu

Es laísmo es andaluz, se extendió a Castilla-La Mancha hasta Madrid.

Es gramaticalmente incorrecto.

No es como el leísmo que se considera un cultismo para Objeto Directo de persona masculina.

Los acentos al hablar son todos correctos.

El español castellano más "puro" es el de Valladolid y Burgos. Es como la Received Pronunciation del inglés británico o el Parisino del francés hexagonal.

Los catalanes y gallegos no son laístas. Y los vascos solo algo leístas.

The m68 hand-written assembler version of strcmp() has always been broken: it returns the difference between the first non-matching byte done as a 8-bit subtraction.

That is _almost_ right, but is broken for the overflow case. The strcmp() function should indeed return the sign of the difference between the first byte that differs, but the subtraction needs to be done in a wider type than 'char'. Otherwise the ordering isn't actually stable.

Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python

https://vgel.me/posts/donut/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://vgel.me/posts/donut/

#programming #python

@grunfink: The #Debian package of #snac has been updated to version 2.15. So far @xtaran@c3pio.deuxchevaux.org ran 3 hours without issue. But then again, the previous version hadn't crashed for a while either. Let's see if it survives this mentioning. 😉

./fancy-prg | mpv --no-correct-pts --fps=$FPS -

./fancy-prg | ffmpeg -i - -r $FPS video.mp4

OK, now I understand why I'm seeing all the #JohnMastodon jokes. 😂

A writer misread the Mastodon account that was banned from Twitter as "John Mastodon" instead of "Join Mastodon."

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To what extent is that true? Before this latest wave of suspensions, Twitter had already suspended the account posting the location of Musk’s jet. Then, the platform removed John Mastodon, the founder of a competing social media company named after himself, for posting a link to the jet tracker’s Mastodon account.

Updated Debian 11: 11.6 released https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20221217

Oh, that's so good.

Actual artists on Artstation, fed up with AI generators scraping their work, started posting "no AI" logos (the classic circle with a line through it) in protest.

And since "trending on Artstation" has become a common prompt among AI users, their results are all getting contaminated, as the algorithm just assumes the logos are part of the image. They're all upset about the "attack" now.

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The letters AI in a red circle with a line through it, with "NO TO AI GENERATED IMAGES" underneath.

Fixed bug in message posting that may result in 400 Bad Request errors (contributed by tobyjaffey).

Fixed crash and a deletion error in the unfollow code.

Added configuration files and examples for running snac with docker (contributed by tobyjaffey).

Serve /robots.txt (contributed by kensanata).

Use the Fediverse sparingly and wisely.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

From @pluralistic:

"Earlier this year, many people with Argus optical implants – which allow blind people to see – lost their vision when the manufacturer, Second Sight, went bust.

"Nano Precision Medical, the company's new owners, aren't interested in maintaining the implants, so that's the end of the road for everyone with one of Argus's 'bionic' eyes. The $150,000 per eye that those people paid is gone, and they have failing hardware permanently wired into their nervous systems.

"Having a bricked eye implant doesn't just rob you of your sight – many Argus users experience crippling vertigo and other side effects of nonfunctional implants. The company has promised to 'do our best to provide virtual support' to people whose Argus implants fail – but no more parts and no more patches."

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/unsafe-at-any-speed/#this-is-literally-your-brain-on-capitalism

It gathers all the text available to it, grinds it into a fine paste, and makes verbal chicken nuggets.

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

#️⃣CatSalad

Just noticed that @grunfink's #SNAC (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2, Social Networks Are Crap, a simple, #minimalistic #ActivityPub instance written in #C → #Fediverse) is now available in #Debian Experimental: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/snac2

Never heard of it before, but having a Mastodon-compatible instance packaged in Debian is great. So maybe time for my own instance? 😁 Will at least toy around with it. The question is on which host. But I suspect my Raspberry Pi running Debian Unstable will do. 😎

Previous posts in the public and private timelines can be reached by a "More..." post at the end (contributed by kensanata).

Clicking the 'Like' and 'Boost' buttons don't move the full conversation up; after that, the page is reloaded to a more precise position. Still not perfect, but on the way.

New command-line operation, resetpwd, to reset a user's password to a new, random one.

Added a user setup option to toggle if sensitive content is shown or not by default (contributed by kensanata).

All images are loaded in lazy mode for a snappier feel (contributed by kensanata).

Fixed crash in the data storage upgrade process when debug level >= 2 (contributed by kensanata).

Log message improvements for excelence (contributed by kensanata).

The logging of "new 'Delete'..." messages has been moved to debug level 1, because I'm fed up of seeing my logs swamped with needless cruft.

Don't show the 'Boost' button for private messages.

Added (partial) support for /.well-known/nodeinfo site information. This is not mandatory at all, but if you want to serve it, remember that you need to proxy this address from your web server to the snac server.

Some internal structure improvements.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

https://tlakh.xyz/fuzzing-ping.html

Picks of the Day:

➡️ @Hamish - Live streaming about fun topics, serious topics, music, movies, gaming and more

➡️ @ncoca - Freelance journalist covering Asia, especially human rights, sustainability, environment

➡️ @nonamenosocks - Beautiful animated pixel art accompanied by original ambient music

➡️ @catsalad - Computer security, privacy and corny humour

➡️ @veronicaexplains - Videos about retro computing and modern libre software

More follows at https://fedi.directory

I guess there's only one thing better than a banjo, and that's more banjo ...
The Gibson Bass Banjo from 1931: 'The Noblest Instrument of Them All'.
#music #musicalinstrument #banjo #history

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The Gibson Bass Banjo

The algorithms are already feeding themselves on their own data. And, as any graduate student will tell you, training on your own results is usually a bad idea. You end sooner or later with pure overfitted inbred garbage. Eating your own shit is never healthy in the long run.

Whoa!
¡Un servidor de ActivityPub en C !

Pero que cosita tan mas hermosa

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

Whoa!
¡Un servidor de ActivityPub en C !

Pero que cosita tan mas hermosa

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-to-properly-manage-ssh-keys-for-server-access/

gemini://tilde.club/~angel/atom.xml

There are many others.

(Well, it's an ATOM file, but whatever).

6. Concerned Tumblr users get upset and abandon it towards free, ActivityPub-enabled software platforms
7. Other users don't care shit and keep using Tumblr
8. Tumblr screws it with usual bigtech behaviour like of them do and annoy users that move to step 6

ad nauseam

Those were the days.

"With our extremely linear history, the first commit in a repo hash a hash that starts with 0000000, the second commit is 0000001, the third is 0000002, and so on!"
[...]
"There is no way to easily create content with the desired prefix (that would prevent the whole point of checksums). So we only have one option: testing many combinations of junk data until we can find one that passes our criteria."

Thanks. Will the fix be propagated to 7.2? I don't use -current.

https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoi.h

Interesting things: the overall simplicity and the chunk QOI_OP_LUMA, which implements diff compression from previous byte giving more weight to the green channel.