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

Incluye enlaces a Internet Archive con los contenidos de los libros. De niño para mí eran mágicos, podía pasarme horas leyendo y mirando y soñando sus páginas.

Es una lástima, porque era un sitio muy necesario y deja un hueco importante.

https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/

She's an specialist in Ancient Greek culture, but the posts cover many other old history topics.

@tedu, using the old trick of “This is why Linux sucks!”, I see. Well, it's working!

If you use bash,

```bash
export EXECIGNORE='*/sqf*'
```

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

USA's #Maxar isn't just cutting off classified satellite imagery to #Ukraine, but commercial unclassified services. How long until Starlink follows?

I'm not sure if the White House has thought thru the signal this is sending the world:

If you use American tech, cloud or telecoms, it can be turned off on a whim *while you're being invaded & bombed* to strongarm your country to sign a deal you don't want.

Imagine how many govts are currently frantically trying to migrate away from US services.

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Oliver Alexander - @oalexanderdk.bsky.social - Maxar has cut off satellite imagery access to Ukraine, undoubtedly due to pressure from the U.S. government. This means that not just classified, but commercially available unclassified intelligence products are being cut off. I now fully expect Starlink to be next. 7 March 2025 at 07:56

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

"Abolish the Canadian laws that protect US Big Tech companies from Canadian competition. Make it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak and modify American technology products and services. Don't ask Facebook to pay a link tax to Canadian newspapers, make it legal to jailbreak all of Meta's apps and block all the ads in them, so Mark Zuckerberg doesn't make a dime off of us."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/#

#tariffs #IP #CdnPoli

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe @credativde@mastodon.social

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

#Fediverse #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #NoteHUB #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #Web

Rogatons Rediffusions - 31/01/2023 - "Aux Petits Soins"

Source: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2023/01/31

(Ce strip est en fait beaucoup plus tardif, mais ayant le même nom de fichier que la note précédente, il s'est glissé à sa suite par erreur.)

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Case 1: Natalie et Boulet sont au lit. Boulet est en train de lire, tandis que Natalie est en train de regarder son planning sur son téléphone. Natalie: "Urgh. Je dois encore me lever à 7h demain matin !" Boulet: "Je peux me lever et préparer le petit déj, comme ça tu dors plus longtemps !" Case 2: Natalie a posé son téléphone et ferme les yeux, la tête sur l'oreiller, tandis que Boulet continue à lire. Natalie: "Non, tu plaisantes ? Tu n'as pas besoin de te lever, toi ! Tu peux te reposer ! Boulet: "Haha ! Tu verras ! Demain tu seras réveillée par la douce odeur de ton café sur la table de nuit !

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Case 3: Boulet en gros plan, profondément endormi sur son oreiller. On entend l'alarme du téléphone de Natalie qui fait "Beep-beep-clic" Boulet (dans son sommeil): "Ah ! Voilà le réveil ! Il s'est coupé tout de suite, elle n'a pas dû l'entendre !" Case 4: Boulet dort profondément. On voit Natalie quitter le lit de dos. Au dessus de la scène, on voit le rêve de Boulet, qui se voit discrètement quitter le lit. Boulet (dans son rêve): "Il faut juste que je fasse attention à ne pas la réveiller en me levant ! Doucement... Voilà !"

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Case 5: On voit Boulet qui dort toujours tandis que les mains de Natalie lui remontent délicatement les couvertures sur les épaules. Dans son rêve, il flotte au dessus du sol Boulet (dans le rêve): "Je sais ! Pour ne pas faire de bruit, je vais flotter jusqu'à la cuisine !" Case 6: Boulet dort toujours profondément. On voit des petites lignes de vapeurs lui caresser le visage. Dans son rêve, il respire une bonne tasse de café. Boulet (dans le rêve): "Mmh! La bonne odeur du café ! Plus qu'à lui apporter ça au lit pour la réveiller en douceur !"

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Boulet en train de dormir. Sur la table de nuit, Natalie a posé une tasse de café. Il semble sourire dans son sommeil Boulet (dans son rêve): "Hi hi hi ! J'ai hâte de voir sa tête quand elle va se réveiller ♥"

Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/

Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's nothing dodgy in them.

Left is upper-case HTTPS://EDENT.TEL/ and right is lower-case https://edent.tel/

You can clearly see that the one on the left is a "smaller" QR as it has fewer bits of data in it. Both go to the same URl, the only difference is the casing.

What's going on?

Your first thought might be that there's a different level of error-correction. QR codes can have increasing levels of redundancy in order to make sure they can be scanned when damaged. But, in this case, they both have Low error correction.

The smaller code is "Type 1" - it is 21px * 21px. The larger is "Type 2" with 25px * 25px.

The official specification describes the versions in more details. The smaller code should be able to hold 25 alphanumeric character. But https://edent.tel/ is only 18 characters long. So why is it bumped into a larger code?

Using a decoder like ZXING it is possible to see the raw bytes of each code.

UPPER

20 93 1a a6 54 63 dd 28   
35 1b 50 e9 3b dc 00 ec
11 ec 11

lower:

41 26 87 47 47 07 33 a2   
f2 f6 56 46 56 e7 42 e7
46 56 c2 f0 ec 11 ec 11   
ec 11 ec 11 ec 11 ec 11
ec 11

You might have noticed that they both end with the same sequence: ec 11 Those are "padding bytes" because the data needs to completely fill the QR code. But - hang on! - not only does the UPPER one safely contain the text, it also has some spare padding?

The answer lies in the first couple of bytes.

Once the raw bytes have been read, a QR scanner needs to know exactly what sort of code it is dealing with. The first four bits tell it the mode. Let's convert the hex to binary and then split after the first four bits:

Type

HEX

BIN

Split

UPPER

20 93

00100000 10010011

0010 000010010011

lower

41 26

01000001 00100110

0100 000100100110

The UPPER code is 0010 which indicates it is Alphanumeric - the standard says the next 9 bits show the length of data.

The lower code is 0100 which indicates it is Byte mode - the standard says the next 8 bits show the length of data.

Type

HEX

BIN

Split

UPPER

20 93

00100000 10010011

0010 0000 10010

lower

41 26

01000001 00100110

0100 000 10010

Look at that! They both have a length of 10010 which, converted to binary, is 18 - the exact length of the text.

Alphanumeric users 11 bits for every two characters, Byte mode uses (you guessed it!) 8 bits per single character.

But why is the lower-case code pushed into Byte mode? Isn't it using letters and number?

Well, yes. But in order to store data efficiently, Alphanumeric mode only has a limited subset of characters available. Upper-case letters, and a handful of punctuation symbols: space $ % * + - . / :

Luckily, that's enough for a protocol, domain, and path. Sadly, no GET parameters.

So, there you have it. If you want the smallest possible physical size for a QR code which contains a URl, make sure the text is all in capital letters.

#qr #QRCodes

CC: @reginasbread@homo.promo

At the time it's an unfair comparison as my old instance is two years old and its discovery is way wider, dozens of instances chime in every minute. I have subscribed to relays with snac2 and so far it fares very well.

If you use "AI" generated illustrations on your blog, I immediately suspect you also use "AI" like ChatGPT or DeepSeek to write your blog entries and I will close the browser tab. Ain't nobody got time for slop :)

CC: @rl_dane@polymaths.social

Asteroid name: 2024 YR4
Probability: 3.07%
Impact date: 2032-12-22.59

Asteroid name: 2010 RF12
Probability: 10.24%
Impact date: 2095-09-05.99

Asteroid name: 2017 WT28
Probability: 1.10%
Impact date: 2104-11-24.69

Source: NASA/JPL Sentry Data API

University professor, circa 2010 : You can’t trust Wikipedia. You cannot use it for your essay.

University professor, circa 2025 : Here are powerpoint sildes on how to use ChatGPT to do your essay.

Personal conclusion: the only problem with Wikipedia was that it was not corporately owned and that it had no marketing budget.

Asteroid name: 2024 YR4
Probability: 2.21%
Impact date: 2032-12-22.59

Asteroid name: 2017 WT28
Probability: 1.10%
Impact date: 2104-11-24.69

Asteroid name: 2010 RF12
Probability: 10.24%
Impact date: 2095-09-05.99

Source: NASA/JPL Sentry Data API

«Troquelar es crear el vínculo entre el mastín y el rebaño».

all of David Lynch's feature length works are now available at the internet archive

https://archive.org/details/filmography-david-lynch/

i'm especially noticing that the unsold pilot for the TV series version of Mulholland Drive is in that batch. 👀

It gives a daily report of those asteroids with a reasonable probability of crashing into Earth, in case you are not already afraid enough of the future. Of course, using #snac, what else.

It takes its data from a very cool NASA site, so (again) in these days of uncertanty, I'm not sure how long will it work.

Everyone, take care, and have a great week.

Asteroid name: 2024 YR4
Probability: 2.21%
Impact date: 2032-12-22.59

Asteroid name: 2017 WT28
Probability: 1.10%
Impact date: 2104-11-24.69

Asteroid name: 2010 RF12
Probability: 10.24%
Impact date: 2095-09-05.99

Source: NASA/JPL Sentry Data API

In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national security are profound.

The person who signed me up for all these parent-teacher conferences is not the same person who has to go to them today. PAST ME IS ALWAYS FUCKING UP SHIT FOR FUTURE ME

Asteroid name: 2024 YR4
Probability: 2.21%
Impact date: 2032-12-22.59

Asteroid name: 2017 WT28
Probability: 1.10%
Impact date: 2104-11-24.69

Asteroid name: 2010 RF12
Probability: 10.24%
Impact date: 2095-09-05.99

Source: NASA/JPL Sentry Data API

Codeberg - We stay strong against hate and hatred

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

#linux #opensource #unix

Everyone, have a great Friday!

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

All the bad things have won the war.

CC: @nuintari@bsd.cafe

Being an open source software developer is like:

[Writes a new feature]
“Omg you never fix bugs! Clearly not a serious project.”

[Fixes bugs]
“Omg dead project. No new features boring”

[Tries to raise funds]
“Wow greedy! If you wanted to make money get a job”

And you just do this forever because there’s probably something wrong with you

difficult questions

Enjoy this Wednesday, Stefano, everyone!

Seguire il meteo direttamente sul proprio account del Fediverso

FediMeteo è un interessante progetto che permette di seguire il meteo di diverse città sul proprio profilo federato (come Mastodon).

https://www.lealternative.net/2025/02/12/seguire-il-meteo-direttamente-sul-proprio-account-del-fediverso/

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Seguire il meteo direttamente sul proprio account del Fediverso

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/775097401542426624
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

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A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, two cars are passing, a brown and a red car. The red comes to a screeching halt, braking hard to avoid hitting the brown one. Green, inside the brown car: Watch out!! Inside the brown car, Blue is driving, angry, as Green sits on the passenger seat, startled. Green: That other car almost hit us! Blue: They should be more careful. We had the right of way. Now Green also frowns. Green: They don't write it on your tombstone that you were right in the crash, you know. Blue: They should. Green: "Here lies Blue fox, who was righteous in traffic." Blue: Sounds excellent.

CC: @jana@social.jsteuernagel.de

CC: @EricAlper@mastodon.social

CC: @jwz@mastodon.social

Ok, so i've been reading the wikipedia entry on nazi economy for... obvious reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nazi_Germany

It's quite fascinating, actually. I got three main takes out of it:

(1) The so-called "nazi economic miracle" of 1933-1939 was a complete fabrication. It was a ponzi scheme. They were fudging the numbers, hard. And even the looting of jewish properties, the slave labor, the looting of conquered land, they couldn't make it.

By September 1939, they *had* to be at war with Britain and France because their bonds were coming due and they had no money to pay them back.

Or in other words, don't invest in fascist shit. They lie all the time, why do you think they'd stop lying in their economic reports?

(2) So, 1933 was pretty much the bottom of the barrel of the Great Depression, right? Working condition in 1933 must have been terrible, but thing would be going better (well for the white non-jewish, non-queer males, anyway), right?

Wrong. The average salary of the workers went *down* 25% from 1933 to 1939, mostly due to the elimination of unions. That so-called "miracle" never reached down to the actual people.

Or in short, you think things are bad? They'll get a lot worse.

(3) We can't blame the factory owners at the time, they had to follow orders, right? It was obey or be shot, right?

Turns out that wasn't the case. The nazis didn't put pressure on factory owners because they didn't have to. The great capitalists were quite happy with the new regime, and almost to a T they supported what they did. They didn't even flinch when slave labor was introduced, heck most of them complained that they didn't get enough of them slaves!

Or in other words, eat the rich, because they sure have no qualms about eating you.

So, this is a wikipedia reading, don't quote me on this stuff. But it's worth doing your own reading i think, given where we're headed.

#RepublicansAreNazis #FuckNazis #MakeTheWorldABetterPlacePunchANaziInTheFace #FuckTrump

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/08/caching-snac-proxied-media-with-nginx/

#Data #Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #Nginx #NoteHUB #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Web

CC: @quux@mastodon.social

Thank you very much for sharing.

https://status.mastodon.social/cm6pd181500253mteulhfvsbu

I have long loathed Oracle, mostly for their draconian licensing practices and litigious proclivities. However, occasionally I get tempted by their "hey, we offer a free tier for VPS instances" and think, maybe just maybe it could be fun.

But then I read a thread like this one¹ from @ErikUden and it's a bucket of ice-water to the face, steeling my resolve. No. Never Oracle. Not ever, no matter how tempting "free" may seem.

⸻
¹ https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930010311998246

A few days ago, a client of mine asked me to install an open-source software (which I won’t name for now). The software has only one official installation method: Docker. This is because, as they themselves admit, it has a huge number of dependencies - some quite outdated - that need to be carefully managed and forced into place; otherwise, nothing works.

I tried replicating the same setup on FreeBSD but didn’t succeed, as some dependencies either aren’t compatible or simply refuse to run. I could try finding workarounds, but I can already picture the chaos every time an update is needed.

So, I decided to build it via Docker to get a better sense of what we’re dealing with. The sheer number of dependencies that Node pulls in is impressive, but even more staggering is the number of warnings and errors it spits out: deprecated and unsupported packages, security vulnerabilities, generic warnings- you name it, and there’s plenty of it.

Since my client needs to launch this service but is subject to audits, they want to be fully compliant and ensure security. Given their substantial budget, they offered financial support to the developers (a company, not just a group of hobbyists) to help improve the project either by making it FreeBSD - compatible or, at the very least, by reducing dependencies with critical vulnerabilities. The client was willing to pay a significant sum, and since the improvements would be open-source, everyone would benefit.

The response from the team? A flat-out refusal. They claimed they couldn’t accept any amount of money because many of these dependencies are "necessary and irreplaceable, as parts of the code relying on them were written by people who no longer work on the project, and we can’t rewrite the core of the software.” Then came the part that really got under my skin: they stated they would rather deal directly “with my client, not with me, because in the end, my concerns are just useless and irrational paranoia.”

Translation? Just pay, and you’ll pass compliance checks - never mind the fact that underneath, it’s a tangled mess of outdated and insecure components. And don’t make a fuss about it.

While I can understand some of the challenges the team faces, I might have accepted this response if it had come from a group of volunteers or hobbyists. But if you’re a company whose sole business revolves around a single software product (with no real competition at the moment), this approach is not just short-sighted - it’s outright dangerous for your users’ security and for your own survival as a business.

The result? They lost a paying client who was ready to invest a significant budget into their software. That budget will now go elsewhere. My client is considering hiring developers to build a similar project with better security (they have both the time and the money for it). I’ll do my best to convince them to release it as open-source - at which point, a new “competitor” will emerge in the market.

#IT #SysAdmin #OSS #Security #Infosec

CC: @thedaemon@hj.9fs.net

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian

"OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation."

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

Investigating the possibility of adding a brand-new service to BSD Cafe - potentially replacing an outdated one that's just not cutting it anymore.

Stay tuned for updates!

#BSDCafe

Comunicar el qué, preguntaréis. Pues resulta que éramos los últimos comensales en el local y ella, cuando le pedimos la cuenta, se acercó y nos preguntó -muy seria- si podía preguntarnos algo. Le dijimos que sí, claro, y es cuando nos contó lo que le había pasado a su hijo y qué creíamos que tenía que hacer.

En realidad ella sabía cuáles eran los siguientes pasos, como supimos al final, pero necesitaba contarlo. El por qué nos eligió para eso ya ni me lo pregunto porque con mi aspecto a mí me cuentan su vida y milagros todo quisque. Estoy acostumbrado.

La historia del chaval, aspecto japonés y veinte añitos, es que había ido al supermercado en Majadahonda y al salir se había encontrado el coche con un buen viaje en un lateral. Pero bueno, bueno, de los de taller de chapa y varios repuestos. El chico pregunta primero en el super. No han visto nada y no le pueden decir nada porque no tienen cámaras cubriendo la entrada (los cojones). De ahí se va a la policia local que le dice que ellos no se encargan de esos asuntos y que vaya a la guardia civil. En el cuartel, extrañados, le dicen que para cosas de tráfico es la policia local la que se encarga y el pobre vuelve extrañado a preguntar otra vez a la policia. Y allí, tan panchos, le dicen que no, que eso ha ocurrido en el aparcamiento del supermercado y que no tienen jurisdicción para eso, que pregunte al seguro del super.

La madre nos preguntaba qué podía hacer, que la situación le parecía injusta y que creía que era porque su hijo no es español y no le habían atendido. Mi hija y yo intentamos quitarle hierro al asunto aunque estamos seguros de que si el chaval tampoco se maneja bien en el asunto -tenía aspecto "de chino"- y no sabía cagarse en las muelas de alguien, el racismo que no existe en España había influido en que le toreasen y le mandasen de un sitio a otro. A mí no me lo hacen; a mí hija puede porque es joven pero a mí no. Y a muchos otros que ya ni peinamos canas ni nada -porque no hay qué peinar- tampoco[1].

Le recomendamos que acudiese a su seguro para que si tenía servicio de atención legal le dijesen qué había que hacer en este caso y poco más. Se la notaba muy indignada porque ella pagaba impuestos, tenía derecho a atención policial. Y no salía de ahí la señora. Le dijimos que pagase o no pagase si está aquí tienen que atenderla. Que no se hiciese mala sangre, que le había tocado a su hijo un idiota que no había querido atenderle en ese momento (un idiota racista y vago) y que insistiese porque era su derecho humano.

Nos dio pena; está en un país que no es el suyo, con códigos que no termina de aprehender del todo y no por falta de capacidad -que inteligente es-, y le toca lidiar con alguien así. Nos pidió disculpas por interrumpirnos; necesitaba contarlo decía.

Pues espero que haya conseguido algo y no se le quede la sensación agria de no ser considerada persona.

[1]: Esta es otra de las ocasiones en las que me pregunto para qué cojones queremos policía municipal además de hacer pasarelas de chulería total en las calles y portar material militar y acojonar un poco al débil.

I'm sure all these investors are supper happy about the efficiency of free market capitalism and the innovation from this company they didn't invest in

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A screenshot of a New York Times Article writing: “Stocks Sink as Investors Worry About China's A.I. Advances Stiffer competition for the tech giants at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom prompted investors to reassess the companies' sky-high valuations and aggressive spending plans.” The Nasdaq Composite Index showing a graph with a steep drop on the day of the 27th of January.

You are missing the point. This technology is disruptive because until DeepSeek, creating your own LLM in your own home with your own data was completely impossible. Until DeepSeek, you had to rely on massive US tech corporations like Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to build these LLM models for you if you wanted to use one. This has now changed. This is why the stock valuation of these companies dropped off of a cliff overnight.

If you don’t trust DeepSeek to tell you the truth about Tiananmen Square or the ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs, make your own DeepSeek LLM model. It is still really hard to do, you need expertise, the training datasets are quite large, you need expensive equipment and a lot of computing time to do it. But it is not impossible for an individual to do now. Before DeepSeek, it was impossible without millions of dollars of equipment, now it is possible at a fraction of the cost. China democratized AI, and this has ruined the oligopoly of US tech companies. That is the point.

#tech #AI #DeepSeek

CC: @ElSaltoDiario@mastodon.social

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

Just a reminder to please drink responsibly.

#CrazyFediverseAnalogies

CC: @chris@social.shtrophic.net

CC: @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk

Added support for subscribing to LitePub (Pleroma-style) Fediverse Relays like e.g. https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com to improve federation. See snac(8) (the Administrator Manual) for more information on how to use this feature.

Added support for following hashtags. This is only useful if your instance is subscribed to relays (see above).

Added support for a Mastodon-like /authorize_interaction webpoint entry, that allows following, liking and boosting from another account's Mastodon public web interface. To be able to use it, you must reconfigure your https proxy to redirect /authorize_interaction to snac (see snac(8)).

Some fixes to accept Event objects properly (like those coming from implementations like https://gancio.org/ or https://mobilizon.fr).

Added some caching for local Actor objects.

Hashtags that are not explicitly linked in a post's content are shown below it.

Fixed broken NetBSD build (missing dependency in Makefile.NetBSD).

The user profile can now include longitude and latitude data for your current location.

Mastodon API: implemented limit= on notification fetches (contributed by nowster), implemented faster min_id handling (contributed by nowster), obey the quiet public visibility set for posts, other timeline improvements (contributed by nowster).

Reduced RSA key size for new users from 4096 to 2048. This will be friendlier to smaller machines, and everybody else out there is using 2048.

If the SNAC_BASEDIR environment variable is defined and set to the base directory of your installation, you don't have to include the base directory in the command line.

Fixed a bug in the generation of the top page (contributed by an-im-dugud).

Added support for Markdown headers and underlining (contributed by an-im-dugud).

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

If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song Nine Hundred Miles by #BarbaraDane.

Some technical details for those interested:
The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.

#FreeBSD #FediMeteo #snac #Fediverse #Efficiency #RunBSD

Every time I see someone bring up "IQ scores" I feel the need to repeat: IQ scores were literally invented by eugenicists and they've always been biased towards privilege

Also if you haven't noticed, once someone starts to believe they're a genius, they start to think a lot less clearly.

There is no "genius", only learning to love learning and doing, and having access to do so. The problem is that we teach children to loathe education and self-embetterment in all sorts of ways. And for adults, few are given opportunities or encouragement to be able to explore thoughtfully and contribute. Few people can grow into themselves.

We don't teach people to "learn to learn" enough, or to feel that they can love learning, or to give people a chance to *do things*.

"I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.

There are people out there apparently seriously proposing to spend over *thirty million dollars* and an uncountable amount of labor, to adversarially interoperate with Blue Sky...
https://jwz.org/b/ykgp

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CC: @troed@sangberg.se

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

BlueSky. For when you didn’t learn your lesson from what happened with Twitter.

#BadAdvertisements
#HashtagGames

ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

- i deserve to spend time doing things that make me feel good and whole.

- i am capable of listening to my body and responding to what it needs.

- it's okay if i no longer have ambitions for a career.

- i am worth so much more than what i produce for the consumption of others.

- it's okay to redefine what a successful life looks like for me.

- i am allowed to enjoy things simply because they bring me joy.

- spending time doing something I love is enough

Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration rally. Did it twice, actually.

Don’t waste time arguing with the people telling us that’s not what happened. They’re not mistaken, they are engaged in propaganda.

Faced with authoritarianism in power, it is crucial we trust our own eyes.
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DFD2ArHA080

Musk: Does a Nazi salute, twice

Neo-Nazis: Those were Nazi salutes!
Holocaust Scholars: Those were definitely Nazi salutes!
Literally Everyone Who Saw It: WTF those were Nazi salutes!

ADL: What awkward gestures.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyways the real antisemitism is believing Palestinians should have a State

In this release:

New file system gefs(4) now enabled in the installer.

CVE-2024-8158 fixed.

ip/ipconfig now support dhcpv6 dynaic allocations and handles prefix expirations.

honeycomb kernel

git fixes

custom sam b2 menu items

AND MORE

https://9front.org/releases/2025/01/19/0/

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9front release THIS TIME, DEFINITELY cover art: the text 'THIS TIME, DEFINITELY' hand drawn over a hand drawn over a Thinkpad X60 Tablet

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

For those who are attending #FOSDEM this year, this link to the lyrics of Bella Ciao might come in handy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao#Partisan_version

@CdnCurmudgeon Are you being silly?

Fascism wasn't a phenomenon tied to the geography of DE

In fact, Hitler openly stated he was modeling the US

Hitler really dug prison slave labor exemption, especially when disproportional amount of ppl in prison being black, who are then forced with violence to work

Also, Churchill was an open fascist, unaware of his work in Palestine? Or anything beyond some radio speeches?

Oh yea, the genocide rn, are we rly to pretend you avoided all news about it?

Resigning in the age of LLMs.

2023: you type a polite resignation letter into your email client and click send.

2024: you type “polite resignation letter” into an LLM. Paste the output into your email client and click send.

2025: you type “resignation letter” into your email client. Click “polite”, click send. Recipient’s email client summaries the letter back to “polite resignation letter.”

2026: you type “polite resignation letter” into your email client. Click send. Your sentiment is sent directly without first being inflated by, or recompressed by an LLM. We simply communicate in prompts.

“Goodbye, jovial, dystopian.”

R.I.P. David Lynch

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Dozens of sheep blocking the road and staring at the camera.

La compra de Twitter (X) de Elon Musk tuvo sus trampas. Se saltó la ley y ahora la SEC (CNMV) lo quiere sentar en el banquillo antes de que Trump y el propio Musk despidan al presidente de la SEC.

Resumo el caso en El Salto. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/elon-musk/regulador-estadounidense-sec-lleva-tribunales-compra-x-twitter