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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria
There is a different telling of this story that says that, when everybody met, nobody had chosen the same verses; because of this, after deletion, the poem was left with only three lines, the ones chosen by Ovid. He was not upset, though, because he saw it coming: the slaughtered text showed Latin words for "My friends are a bunch of hateful motherfuckers".
I'm in a very old house with a wardrobe in each bedroom and I'm checking every single one of them for Narnia access because magic is everywhere and also I really need to get the hell away from these people
No hay respuestas mágicas: si sigues creyendo en esa historia, reescribe el principio. Si ya no, pues al cajón, y a por otra.
DUFF v KORN 2
prev: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115508225024561937
#unix_surrealism #plan9 #9front #korn #ksh #rc #comic #linux #lo0 #technomage #openblade #openbsd
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Daemon: "I think that looks pretty good! Don't you?"
Kshboy: "Haha, yeah! You made it in troff?"
Daemon: "Yeah!"
Kshboy: "Cool!"
DEAR MISTER DUFF, MY BEST FRIEND AND I WERE WONDERING, IF YOU COULD BEAT KORN IN A FIGHT. WE KNOW OF A GREAT PLACE WHERE YOU COULD DO BATTLE.
Daemon: "We can just swap the names with sed for the other letter!"
Kshboy: "But how do we get it to them? We don't even know where they live..."
Daemon: "I have an idea. Let's rewrite it!"
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Random penguins hand a leaflet to Techno-Mage.
DUFF V KORN
DUEL OF THE AGES
WHEN: NEXT FULL MOON
WHERE: THE BIG HILL OUTSIDE FOSSTOWN
WHOEVER DOESN'T SHOW AUTOMATICALLY LOSES!
PLACE YOUR BEST AT THE DRUNKEN BIRD BARD
OpenBlade: "Oh yeah, I heard about this."
Mage: "You heard about this?"
OpenBlade: "You have a lot of money riding on Korn btw."
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Lo0: "YOU AND I WERE MEANT TO BE!"
Lo0 KORN TRIBUTE practice
Korn: "STOP! That's not what they sounded like..."
Mec: "Sorry, Mister K."
Korn: "Are you? The gig is in a week. Do better!"
Bot_Manager: "YO! CASH MONEY K! Why didn't you tell me about the fight?!"
Korn: "What fight?"
Bot_Manager: "I could get the band to play there!"
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Penguin Postman walks up a mountain.
Penguin: "Mister Duff? Mail!"
Duff: "Vincent! Is it next year already?"
Penguin: "No sir, just some admin stuff regarding your fight."
Duff: "Fight?"
Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.
One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.
They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.
This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.
About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies
"Stop that Frenchie shit, Skips. What do you want me to tell you?"
"Tell me that I will be able to forget about this."
The room was dark and humid. A bare lightbulb over their heads, brownish stains on the floor. Skips was young and blond and had a gun in his hand; he trembled like a cold lump of lard. Jean-Loup Lamarc, older and unfazed, was nearby. The traitor was tied to a chair, watery eyes, mouth silenced by a dirty cloth. Lamarc was no moron and knew that time was not on their side, but sighed and started talking to confort the younger man because what must be done must be done and the time is now.
"I won't tell you such thing."
"Oh, please, Frenchie. I... I will feel this sorrow for the rest of my life."
"Oh, you won't do that, either."
"I can't..." He really seemed to mean it.
"I will not lie to you and say it will be easy, man. Not even remotely easy. You will wake up in the middle of the night, Skips. You'll swim in a sea of sweat. Many times. You will feel a ghost whispering into one of your funny little ears. Whispering ugly things to you, Skips. You will cry a river, like Julie London sang. But one day, I cannot say if it will be next week or next month or in your sister's wedding, as I say, one day, you will wake up, you will start having your eggs or your cereal or whatever the fuck you use to have for breakfast, and you will realize that you had not remembered this mess for a couple of days. And then you'll be over it. And the next time it won't be a couple days, but four days, or four weeks, or whatever measure of time you can name. Putain, one day you won't even remember the details, or your father's writing, or the fucking dirty money, or the visage of any of these pieces of shit. So just do it. Do it fucking now."
Skips shot the poor scumbag in the head. His face exploded like in a seedy B movie.
"Oh, Skips, sure you've made a pretty cute dish of Chicken Vindaloo here. Now let's run as fast as we can."
Tires screeched nearby.
Say what you will about Debian, but I still have about 2½ years left before I even have to think about Firefox getting AI features.
It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable Earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible.Rainer Maria Rilke, on literature
Madrid, Spain
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A square window and street letters in Madrid
Fair warning.
(From: https://lemmy.ml/post/39269468 )
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A screenshot from the movie Terminator, with the hero explaining:
"Listen and understand. Mariah Carey is out there. She can't be reasoned with, she can't be bargained with. She doesn't feel pity or remorse and she absolutely will not stop, ever. Because all she wants for Christmas is YOU!"
I have a crappy, broken, 7/8 years old Android phone. It doesn't allow the instalation of GrapheneOS or any other Google-free software. When it eventually breaks, I will buy another crappy, cheap Android one, because the only real alternative is Apple, which is also an asshole corporation and their products are ridiculously expensive for no reason. Anyway, I try to minimize mobile phone usage to the minimum.
I don't use Google Search. But, given that what I usually search for are computing algorithms or popular culture info about movies, music, painters or books, I always search the Wikipedia first. For the other cases, I search with DuckDuckGo (yes, I know, it's really Bing behind, and Microsoft is another asshole corporation which I hate with especial passion).
I don't use Chrome. I use Firefox, both on my Linux/BSD desktops and on mobile. I don't like it, but it's good enough. Yes, Mozilla is another asshole corporation that is working in making Firefox a worse product day by day.
The only Google product I use voluntarily is Youtube. I feel sorry and innerly contradictory, but I like it.
Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared
Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.
#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting
"I’d never ask AI to write for me any more than I’d ask a robot to go for a walk in the woods for me. I love writing, why would I want to have a tool do it for me?"Linda Caroll, What human writers must learn from AI
they killed god and replaced her with an autocomplete and a subscription model and the devil does not haunt this world anymore because our souls are no longer worth taking
@pkw I get the same feeling with things like Rust and Bluesky as well. Yes, they are probably better than mainstream alternatives, but they are also massively complicated and still run by all the same kinds of people with the same kinds of agendas
Simplicity should be the objective, so that we never end up in a situation where a small group holds a monopoly on important software
I.e., Dillo and Links are far more revolutionary than Servo, because they are trying to actually change the web
A pale, thin woman opened the door. She was in his forties. Long, dark hair. Watery eyes.
"Hello, I have an appointment with Mr. Brown", I said, showing my business card.
She took a look at the small cardboard piece and read: "Miroslav Corbett — Documentalist". She seemed sleepy and out of focus. "I... I thought it was Corbet with only one T."
"It's a common mistake", I said. "Are you Mrs. Brown?".
"Yes. Oh, please, come in."
She invited me to a wooden chair by a table. On it there were some cups, a coffee jar and a small dish with cookies. An old record turntable was playing some awful trumpet jazz tune.
A man in a worn sweater entered the room. He also looked tired, a red stubble, his skin like old paper.
"Mr. Brown, I suppose", I said. "This is Miroslav Corbett. I came to speak about your son."
"Oh", he said, "which one? Are they in trouble?". His face looked sincerely concerned.
"Not yet as far as I know", I said, "Are they at home?"
"Oh yes. Do you want me to... eh... bring them here?"
"If you please", I said while taking a cookie. It tasted like dust.
"Mr. Corbett,", she said, "in your card says that you are a documentalist. What are the matters you usually document?".
"I document... oddities. You know, during the Great Anomaly, many fissures happened in the reality fabric. Some of them were not totally fixed and sometimes creatures and inaccuracies still permeate to our world. My work is to write about them."
"Oh", she said, "do you suspect that...?"
The man entered back into the room surrounded by two boys. I immediately saw the problem.
One of the boys was unclean, brunette and sleepy like his parents. The other one looked very different: milky-skinned, the black and deep eyes of a hunter, quiet but alert, definitely an otherworldly look.
"These are Cletus Jr. and Tusk", said Mr. Brown, "say hello to Mr. Corbett."
They did.
"So your name is Tusk, eh?", I said to the out-of-place kid, "What things do you like?"
"I like human activities,", he said, "for I am an ordinary boy."
Ordinary boy my ass, I thought.
"What kind of activities?"
"Like, listening to jazz and going to the school and breathing."
"Oh, that really sounded like what an ordinary boy would say.", I said.
The woman, who seemed to realize that something odd was happening, asked me: "What is the problem?"
"The problem is", I said, "that you don't have two children, but one."
"What?", said the man.
"I have the papers here. Cletus Zebulon and Brandine Sue Brown, respectable suburban hillbillies. One kid, Cletus Jr., 7 years old, mediocre student, awful football player."
"What do you mean?", said the woman, visibly disturbed. "We have two boys... Cletus and... Tusk."
"Oh, come on. Tusk is not even a name for a boy", I said.
"I am a real boy", said the odd child. His face already looked somewhat bizarre and his voice sounded like filtered through a reverb effect from a cheap movie.
"Look at him,", I said to her, "he looks, like, six or seven? That is not possible. He wasn't even here last week. He's an anomaly, a creature from another plane. He is manipulating your minds into thinking he is your son. But it's not."
And then to the kid: "Are you listening to me? This is not your family. You should go. You don't belong here."
The kid, or should I say the thing, was having difficulties to look even human, as his contour started to look diffuse. His putative parents were utterly confused and in horror.
"Ok,", I said, "it has been a pleasure. I have to go. Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown, thank you very much for your attention."
"What?", said the woman, "Are you leaving now? Are you leaving us like this?"
The boy didn't look like a boy anymore: I know better not looking directly at abominations while they are transforming into their real shape, but for sure he was pretty hideous.
"I'm afraid I'll do.", I said, "I don't fix anomalies or oddities, nor kill runaway creatures, soul sickers nor mind hunters. I only document the facts. Goodbye."
I left and closed the apartment door, leaving horrid sounds and awful smells behind me.
the list
#unix_surrealism #comic #poster #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #cirno #girl #daemon #puffy #rabbit #mata #openblade #penguin #linux #foss
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MATACORP'S MOST WANTED HACKERS
Fish Daemon Cirno OpenBlade Rabbit Frederick "the Hammer" Glenda II Sphence Purple "Penguin" Pentium-M Man Girl
get inspired
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black box says "no ai"
person is orgasmis
girl : "the bar is really low"
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Electronic Sound Magazine, "Cold War Electronica" issue
The stranger on the coach says: "What are you doing here again, Stefano? You died in that fog many decades ago. This is my house now."
I have just read this sentence: "Usually I pick up Starbucks for my morning coffee because it's closer than my local coffee shop and I don't have to put on real clothes to drive through it..."
And I'm just. Staring into the distance in European. You DRIVE to get COFFEE before putting on your CLOTHES? You can't be bothered to put on clothes because you haven't had your morning coffee but you will DRIVE to a fully another location that isn't YOUR FUCKING HOUSE to get it??? You will operate. The machinery! On the roads, that you share with other people! To drive to a location?? When you could just make it at home??
I try not to judge but, dear reader, I am fucking judging 😶
Mary Wollstonecraft, The Woman Who Laid the Foundation for Feminism
"Think 18th-century feminism must be outdated? Think again—there is still so much to learn from the life and writing of Mary Wollstonecraft."
https://www.thecollector.com/mary-wollstonecraft-woman-laid-foundation-feminism/
Wollstonecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84
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Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie
Since the 1990s every tech wave has been a pump and dump bubble laying the groundwork for the next pump and dump bubble. The staggering inefficiency of such a Ponzi economy, channelling capital into mega-billionaires pockets instead of productive growth is why China is rolling out 400 kph mag lev trains while we are shoveling brain dead software into toasters.
This Isn't a Battle
After reading a post describing the FreeBSD community as 'toxic', I share a different perspective. This isn't a battle. It's a reflection on coexistence, the original Open Source spirit, and the quiet richness of taking a different path.
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/14/this-isnt-a-battle/
#MyNotes #IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #OpenSource
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
https://www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/tech/ai-bubble-burst-popping-explained-collapse-or-not-chatgpt
The AI industry’s most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself
#taxes #welfare #snap #FoodInsecurity #hunger
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monica_artang 20h What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?" My brother in Christ, the government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and traffic children through proxy states. If a junkie eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have ever done. You're worried about a Twinkie. I'm worried about a drone strike.
bathing
I use @OpenBSDAms btw
#unix_surrealism #openbsd #vmm #vmd #poster #comic #linux #plan9 #glenda
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Girl and Penguin visit the fish vats.
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate
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Dr Manhattan's circulatory system walking through a kitchen, from Watchmen
This week's comic is about how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.
#health #science #food #consumers #media #disinformation
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Lead and Circuses
A RECENT CONSUMER REPORTS STUDY FOUND HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD IN SEVERAL PROTEIN DRINK MIXES. HOW MIGHT THIS PLAY OUT?
INITIAL ALARM
Guy drinking Alpha Boar Plus Protein Blast drink: GLUG GLUG GLUG!
THEY FOUND WHAT?
PODCAST TOPIC
The BIFF and BRAD SHOW
Podcaster 1: LEAD IS STRONG METAL, MAKE MAN MORE STRONG.
Podcaster 2: ROMAN GLADIATORS, LIKE, CHUGGED LEAD.
GOVERNMENT ENDORSEMENT
FDA official: WE ENCOURAGE AMERICANS TO CONSUME AS MUCH LEAD AS POSSIBLE, AND OTHER HEAVY METALS TOO.
In front of him are product containers: PRE- 1978 PAINT CHIPS Smoothie-Ready!
ARSENIC GEL
Cadmium Chews
LEAD-FREE FOOD BANNED
Corporate guy: FINALLY OUR CHILDREN WILL GET THIS DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS METAL IN EVERY BITE!
©2025 Jen Sorensen
This is why developing critical thinking is important instead of cheating in schoolwork. You can stand out from the crowd with creativity and original ideas. You have to decide to work hard now or suffer later unless you're going to inherit a good fortune 🤣 It is your call but there is no doubt AI is disturbing job market for younger graduates.
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A screenshot of tweet by Zara Zhang describing a Harvard student's experience and writes: Students use ChatGPT extensively in the library to complete homework that used to take hours in just minutes. However, the student notes that alumni say entry-level roles are basically gone, making it harder to get the jobs students planned for. AI made homework easier but made proving you deserve a job exponentially harder
sudo laugh
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A screenshot of a text conversation between two people working in the IT industry.
John: Good morning, Im about to destroy the backend and DB (9:40 AM)
(Green bubble): Voice call No answer (9:40 AM)
John: Deploy* (9:40 AM)
John): Applogies (9:41 AM)
(Green bubble): Just pick my call please 🙏 (9:41 AM)
(Green bubble): Please take the day off ! Don't do anything! (9:41 AM)
John: I got this! Dont worry. It was a typo (9:42 AM)
(Green bubble): I know but I insist 🙏 (9:42 AM)
ZING!
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J.G. Rubel posted: Taught my kids how Socialism works. Let them Trick or Treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.
John Rashotte replied: The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
Updated "greek task list":
orphean task: when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.
daedalean task: when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.
medusan task: when your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.
tantaline task: when success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.
pandoran task: when fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.
odyssean task: when the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.
narcissian task: when the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.
promethean task: when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.
orestian task: when the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.
thesean task: when the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.
achillean task: when your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.
penelopean task: when you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.
midasean task: when everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.
gordian task: not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.
No me la había leído entera y aunque hay un par de puntos en los que disiento el resto me parece que si se tendiesen a conseguir y hacer respetar la sociedad sería mucho mejor.
Pero con todo el bagaje de odio y discriminación que arrastramos la tarea se me hace difícil.
Eso sí, no existe el derecho a reproducirse como muchos de los alquila-vientres afirman. Están más orientados a que los vivos vivamos más que a generaciones futuras.
On the other hand, the RE: url is at the top of the post, not at the bottom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shouldn't be the other way? I mean, they are just glorified replies.
Girls passing my table keep dropping their instagram handles scribbled on napkins. They know I can't open instagram.They know you can't but they wish you could
blue hair
https://triapul.cz/_/1762430441
I am writing this on my plan9front computer in a cafe. Behind me is a row of 4 macbooks and they are all like "Oh my god, who is that super hot guy with a plan9 computo!" Followed by a whisper coming from the adjacent room: "lol, he has sigrid's rio patch, cringe." I am unmoved - it is my computer....
#acme #plan9 #9front #cafe #tea
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plan9front cafe
rio-like configuration for base openbsd fvwm2
https://nein.triapul.cz/technology/openbsd/fvwm/
#rio #fvwm #plan9 #openbsd #fishlinux #serpico
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jc leyendecker in acme
Sticker sincerity by @prahou@merveilles.town #unix_surrealism
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A 2007 Acer Aspire One laptop, featuring unix_surrealism and unreliable narrator stickers
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology
Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity
Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity
Saying “be more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.
It enriches the oligarchy.
It aids fascism.
dating culture clash
#9front #openbsd #gnu #linux #plan9 #dating #comic #unix
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plan9bunny-person meets with a fish-daemon-person.
Daemon: "So, how was the date?"
Bunny: "He talked about docker for 35 minutes and then asked, if I have wine."
Daemon: "Did you tell him you're not Unix?"
Bunny: "Yeah, he said: 'oh, like GNU?'"
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