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Cartel del certamen

LE MASQUE VIDE (THE EMPTY MASK)

First, we agreed to leave him there; we were no one to decide on what the sea had decreed. But soon we understood that rotting under the sun and becoming food for the seagulls was not a fair ending to what probably had been a life of bravery and courage, so we moved him among the rocks and covered his head with a shelter made of planks and ropes.

My sister thought that he needed some eyes and she filled the scary holes that led to his long gone brain with branches of lilies, small blots of blue and violet.

Our life went on and we forgot about the seaman. There were long days of light, rain and storm. My sister grew up and became a woman; me, I don't know very well what I ended up being.

One day I returned to that beach and found it very different. I visited the rocks where he rested: he didn't look like a fisherman anymore. A sense of apathy and ennui filled by heart. Upon my head, a flock of birds flew in circles chasing each other.

#ShortFiction

IF I COULD BLOW AWAY THE TEARS RUNNING DOWN

The traveler no longer knows where he goes nor where he comes from. He has brief glimpses, yes he does, but they are more and more blurry every time; all is like a mesh of milky lines, pale lights, paths to destinations that have no meaning to him. Sometimes a kid asks him what does he do: "I travel", he says, faking a smile while his eyes try to fix a point and fail.

His life is a hollow pit of departures; here, there, anywhere. He tries to recall his past but a curtain of headache lies in front of it: he barely remembers a loving mother, a cozy blanket, a puppy gone too early.

But soon the traveler is back again in endless corridors, all similar, all white, all convergent to a hub that links to another. He only hopes for one trip more, the one that finally erases him from existence, because he is starting to feel like he's slowly disappearing, mirrors not bothering to reflect his wasted image anymore. "Only one trip more", says to himself while trying to breathe an air thick as mud, blinded by light, almost defeated.

#ShortFiction

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

Accurate.

#MSWord #memes #humour

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Elle was a mistake posted: gotta respect the longevity of microsoft word. nothing about it works and it's still the standard. want to move an image? go to hell. edit a pdf? edit your expectations. ignore a spelling mistake? how about suck my dick. that'll be $150.

#memes #humour #God #miracles #religion #christianity

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https://comam.es/snac-doc/snac.8.html#EXAMPLES

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TRAMOYISTA

    1. 1. m. y f. Persona que inventa, construye o dirige tramoyas de teatro.
    2. 2. m. y f. Persona que las coloca, las hace funcionar o trabaja en las mutaciones escénicas.
    3. 3. m. y f. Persona que utiliza ficciones o engaños. U. t. c. adj.
       Sin.:
          + tramposo, embustero, tramoyón.

Magnífica explicación. Hay que darle cariño y leer hasta el final que es cuando todo tiene sentido. Yo también era de los que pensaba que a los ricos no haya que darles ayuda, hay que darles una eutanasia rápida, pero al convertirlo en derecho todo cambia.

You don't have to put on the red light.

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The rear of a truck designed to carry minerals. It's marked "ROCK-SAND"

BLAHBYLON'S MUSIC SELECTIONS

#BlahbylonsMusicSelections

I'm sure I've posted this before, but . . .

Dead Can Dance - Anywhere Out of the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfVT_uk6j4

https://culturacientifica.com/2025/06/13/mejor-aprender-a-escribir-con-lapiz-y-papel/

A mí siempre me ha parecido que el aprendizaje tiene un coste. Que el remedio fantabuloso que te da todo sin esfuerzo era una estafa, y yo no soy un ejemplo, que tomo atajos siempre que no me interesa algo, pero aún así hay algo más en usar cerebro y cuerpo al mismo tiempo que lo mejora todo.

https://beige.party/users/rooster/statuses/114603792799576429

Escribí uno de los nombres de Dios en un pedazo de papel, se lo metí en la boca y vivió. Durante 35 años caminó ocupando mi lugar, viviendo una existencia falsa, usando mi aliento.

Cierto día ya no pude soportar la asfixia y necesité morir o recuperar mi respiración. En un momento de fuerza, borre el aleph de su cabeza, y este se desplomó. No murió tal y como mandaba la frase en su frente, porque en realidad nunca estuvo vivo.

No me había dado cuenta de cuánto barro había acumulado a lo largo de los años. Qué profunda era la vergüenza, qué pesados eran los trozos de lodo seco. Mis manos, ahora heridas y sangrantes tras desmenuzar mi golem, finalmente encontraron el pedazo de papel, largamente olvidado.

Y entonces vi que el nombre que había escrito era el mío propio.

bedtime

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

My current conspiracy theory: Now that #letsencrypt has more or less destroyed the market for domain certificates and people are more interested in using client/user certificate, Google throws the market a lifeline by removing clientAuth from acceptable certificates in the browser context with some vague "it's about security" arm waving. #NerdTalk

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Estas últimas semanas, al hablar de artistas como Suzi Quatro o Siouxsie Sioux, me he acordado un dato curioso sobre pioneras olvidadas.

Y es que nadie recuerda que el primer grupo 100% femenino de España fueron de Granada.

Así que hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, Las Amazonas.

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Foto promocional de las Amazonas donde las cinco integrantes con vestidos y ropajes propios de finales de los 60 juntan sus manos en un perfil escalonado.

Secret Panel HERE 👏 https://tapas.io/episode/1727474

teapot

#unix_surrealism #fediart #mastoart #fuck_art #ai

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a person hushes a sentient computer

Okay, I didn't want to go on about this, but...

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/05/when-we-become-cheerleaders-for-our-own-demise/

#MyNotes #VibeCoding #IT #Blogging #Life

Because the first step toward freedom is always the same: admitting you might be wearing chains.

Ever heard of vibe coding?
It’s when the code looks fine, tests pass, vibes are good - so it goes to production. Even if it’s wide open to SQL injection.

I’ve seen it happen.
AI wrote it. Devs trusted it. Management loved it.
Nobody understood it.

We’re trading skill for speed.
And that’s how we lose our freedom.

Vibe Coding Will Rob Us of Our Freedom: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/05/vibe-coding-will-rob-us-of-our-freedom/

EDIT: Given the trends and the comments, I wrote something off the cuff about it: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/05/when-we-become-cheerleaders-for-our-own-demise/

#ITNotes #ai #coding #data #ownyourdata #programming #IT #SysAdmin

Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.

cat cafe

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Chunda chunda. Felices matemáticas para todos.

BULO. Otra vez el BULO del ahorro fiscal "a cada madrileño".

Es mentira. Para sacar esa cifra hacen la MEDIA, sumando los 1.259 millones que se ahorran 22.185 altos patrimonios en una año (53.000€ en un solo año) y lo suman al 0,5% del IRPF que se ahorra un currito y sacan la media.

Publicidad de Ayuso a OkDiario solo en 2023: 416.602€

Buon giorno!

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

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Higher wages

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Lefty cartoon by B Deutsch and F Young patreon.com/barry  CEO walking down the street talking on his cell phone: i’ve tried everything to find new workers. I’ve gone to job fairs. offered them T-shirts for applying. Guy on the street: did you offer higher wages? CEO continuing his phone call: I can’t fill these jobs. I even got the government to throw people off unemployment. nothing works. Woman on Bike: have you tried offering higher wages? CEO: i’m offering unpredictable schedules, minimal benefits, and nine dollars an hour and they still don’t want my jobs? Little girl playing hopscotch: you should offer higher wages  CEO as he passes two people on the street, holding signs that say higher wages:  i’ve tried everything they just don’t want to work. hello governor, can we arrest people for being unemployed? down at the very bottom of the comic the CEO says: i’d love to pay higher wages, but we don’t have the money. I had to get by on only a $38 million salary this year! 

Error code: MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_OCSP_RESPONSE_FOR_CERT_MISSING

I just learned, via a mutual, that cron, the job-scheduling command-line utility, is celebrating 50 years this month.

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

(In case anyone cares for this sort of thing on here.)

#cron #anniversary

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I used to think ChatGPT was a threat to lawyers. So far, it's been great.

I'm dealing with an opposing party who's clearly using it to answer pre-litigation emails. They're very arrogantly giving me 100% wrong legal takes to justify their actions - and all in writing!

Easiest case ever. And fun!

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendos_en_Espa%C3%B1a#Resultados_de_los_referendos_nacionales

Hoy cuento cómo se financia el pseudomedio donde trabaja el Bertrand Ndongo.

Además he comparado lo que se lleva Periodista Digital con lo que se llevan El Salto y elDiario.es.

También he mirado cuánto supone esa inyección en su facturación.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/comunidad-madrid/ayuso-almeida-inyectado-400000-euros-periodista-digital-bertrand-ndongo-cuatro-anos

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In other words, a stopped clock is always wrong.

It doesn't matter that it will coincidentally display the correct time twice per day. That coincidence doesn't have any connection to a clock's function as a tool. It's not doing the thing you think clocks do. It's not right about the time any more than a photo of a clock is. Or a description of a clock in a book. A stopped clock isn't a time keeping device. It's something else, that's merely shaped like a time keeping device.

LLMs aren't thinking. They aren't learning, understanding, or remembering. They're doing something else, that is merely shaped like thinking. They are a stopped clock, and they are always wrong.

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#oldknees

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A group of crows are gathered and chatting. "Thanks for comic everyone! Who'd like to start? Alessandro?" "Sure!" says Alessandro "For this week's flower share I brought an apple blossom! Delicate, simple in form, modest and subtly charming". They are all admiring the flower at Alessandro's feet. "Pretty" says one. "Beautiful specimen!" continues the first crow, "One of my favourites. Thank you for sharing! Who'd like to go nex–" they are interrupted by a loud clearing of a throat. "AHEM". The group of crows looks up to see another crow, perched on a branch nearby. It swoops down, something in its talons. It lands the the middle of the group in a dramatic way, to reveal the most perfect example of a magnolia flower. The group stares in an entranced silence. The strange crow declares "I didn't prepare a speech".

@pkw copy the url of the post, put it in the search bar in your snac, it will load and you can interact with it.

Bane of the javascriptless:

Getting around anubis'd websites in (not just) links2.

If you enable the "Fake Firefox (improves privacy)" option in links2 (Setup - Network Options - HTTP options - Header options), links2 then pretends to be the tor browser, imitating the same headers and user-agent - this results in websites that use anubis to bully you and expecting the completion of some javascript challenge. If you do not enable this option, you can get around the annoying anime girl.

Presumably you could use the links2 user-agent in any other browser. I suppose this is true for lynx as well.

> Links (2.28; NetBSD 9.3 amd64; GNU C 7.5; text)

You can also use wget's user-agent, which currently lets you get past anubis as well.

> Wget/1.25.0

You can check what headers your browser is sending at https://wtfismyip.com/headers .

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To try this in firefox - go to about:config, add `general.useragent.override' and paste in the links2 user-agent string.

#anubis #links2gang #serpico

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silly skeleton girl who bullies ai and internet users.

Odio, detesto, me asquea recordar estas cosas. Y no puedo evitarlo. Qué rabia.

And today? The internet seems like a modern evolution of "The Game of Life." [...] The internet is now in everyone's hands, yet it belongs to no one. We no longer possess the tool; the tool (and those who control it) possesses us.

The waitress at this restaurant keeps asking “Are you happy with your choices” and I think she means the food but I damn that’s a deep question

https://relay.fedi.buzz/

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

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Page 1 of comic. The uppermost caption states: "I like realistic Solarpunk. I think it's the best kind, actually!" Under it is a horizontal space filled with doodles: someone exiting a tool library, a girl holding a mended sock, a chama group is pooling donations, a woman browses Wikipedia, a volunteer is filling a bowl with free soup. "By realistic I mean grounded. Something that we could imagine happening in our real world. No magic (a drawing of a girl with fire powers), no supernatural elements unless you know what you're doing (a talking cat), no cure-all tech (a man is claiming a tiny piece of tech is going to solve everything). The artist appears. "I feel that way because of my answer to this question: what is Solarpunk for?"

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Page 2. "Well, let's see...Solarpunk isn't just an aesthetic, it's an emerging genre and artistic movement." The statement is accompanied by mandala-like drawing of several hands drawing the Solarpunk symbol. Then there's a dualistic drawing: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk next to each other. In the Cyberpunk drawing, a man is holding a gun, and in the other he is unloading soil from a big bag into a garden bed. Three tiny people are floating next to the Solarpunk man, imagining what tasty stuff can grow from that soil. The caption reads: "Solarpunk is also sort of CyberPunk's counterpart. While Cyberpunk concerns itself with wrecking bad old systems, Solarpunk is about building new, better ones. SolarPunk's creation was very intentional - it's for letting us imagine a tomorrow that's not a fucking shitshow." In the corner, the artist points at a box labeled "future" and asks "If it's alive, what do you reckon it looks like?"

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Page 3. "And that tomorrow part is important! When it comes to technology, we can stop climate change and achieve a sustainable world right now." A whole section next to this text is filled with various sustainable technologies: perma- and polyculture, wind turbines, vernacular architecture, reforestation, libraries of everything, trains, trams, bikes, solar panels, habitat restoration, degrowth etc. "We don't need to wait until a fancy piece of tech comes along and fixes everything." There's a rendition of that meme where people are huddling together to discuss something. A contraption called "carbon sucker 9000 appears". The group gives it a thumbs up and continues discussing their own stuff like minimizing plane travel. "What we need is large cultural and societal change. But most people struggle to imagine anything but dystopia." In a frame nearby, a rich guy gleefully puts his foot on a pair of scales, favoring a bag of money over the planet. However, just out of frame is a group of people with tools, ready to take the planet back. "Solarpunk is for filling that blank space! And a grounded, though not unambitious, approach makes it feel more achievable to the average person."

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Page 4. "If we can imagine absolute Cyberpunk dystopia with ease but not the opposite, it's because we don't have enough popular stories yet which would showcase that believable alternative." A lady is reading a Solarpunk book. She exclaims: "So you're telling me people can just do stuff without a monetary incentive or the risk of hunger and homelessness? Movie number 3752 about robots enslaving humanity was much more realistic!" "The hard part for Solarpunks is imagining what the culture and structure of this new society would look like. How would it operate?" Drawing: the author sits gloomily at a desk, mumbling "I wish I could try out this hobby but the tools are so expensive, and I don't even know if it'll be a long-term interest or not...". But then they have an epiphany. "Wait, I could literally just go to the library!" "How does this new world think? And what do we change about ourselves to get closer to it?" The final doodle is of a man stating we must ensure economic growth until the end of time, though the woman next to him retorts: "You and what endless planetary resources?" She then suggests that we instead produce what's necessary and give it to those who need it.

https://www.elespanol.com/ciencia/medio-ambiente/20181004/accidente-nuclear-madrid-franco-oculto-contamina-toledo/342966217_0.html

Even though I eventually edited the article to clarify that there was no organized crime involved, many comments keep insisting that, since it happened in Italy, there must be organized crime or the mafia behind it.

Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a temporary' detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps.
She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn't realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn't handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn't care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State's detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A.
Single. Difference.

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y'all can shut the fuck up with that "stop making concentration camp comparisons, you're diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust" bullshit.

Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.

My workflow matches yours totally, though.

And of course, I’ve left out the worst parts of the story.

I no longer work professionally on IT, so my opinion is irrelevant here.

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I even had a (known unreliable and crash-prone) RAID 6 configuration using 4 USB thumb drives that had a long life of continuous mp3 transcoding. Finally, the USB hub died, and then I decomissioned the ugly monster (it was mostly for testing).

Maybe I'm lucky (I'm not).

ZFS [...] on one hand, I saw it as a "betrayal" of the Unix philosophy, something foreign within the base system

Happy Mother's Day

Secret Panel HERE ♥ https://tapas.io/episode/3175205

I've watched this several times and laughed harder each time.

Have no idea what either is saying but it's hilarious!

I love comic strips that play with the form

Hot Cenobites in your area...

#memes #humour

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Ad with Pinhead cenobite with the words "Hot cenobites in you area have such sights to show you."

13/ We hope you enjoyed our look at the geographic strangeness of Spain 🇪🇸

Thanks for reading (and sharing) 🙏.

We have more threads about specific countries, border disputes, geocoding, etc on our blog. Some are still on twitter, but over time we are moving them to mastodon.

Enjoy: https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

AI guys, everyone

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Article titled “The Journey to Get Llama Running on Vintage Hardware”: The project, led by Andrej Karpathy and his team at EXO Labs, started with a Windows 98 Pentium Il machine they purchased for £118.88 on eBay. The first hurdle was making the machine work with modern peripherals. The machine had no USB ports, so they had to use PS/2 peripherals.

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Even more challenging, the mouse and keyboard had to be connected to specific ports—mouse in port 1 and keyboard in port 2, otherwise the setup wouldn't work. Despite these issues, the team persevered, and the machine began to take shape as a functional unit for their experiment.

It is well documented that for every minute that you exercise, you add one minute to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.