https://youtu.be/EuUyROUN-Bg?si=YboaUH-iSE_8mPTo&t=573

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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

"Do not worry, this is a free service"

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https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/

has a page with all her posts concatenated together

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ERRABUNDO

   Del lat. errabundus.
    1. 1. adj. Que va de una parte a otra sin tener asiento fijo.
       Sin.:
          + errante, errático, vagabundo.

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#FediMeteo

Have a nice weekend!

PERMANENTE

   Del lat. permănens, -entis.
    1. 1. adj. Que permanece.
       Sin.:
          + constante, continuo, duradero, estable, perenne, incesante, fijo, ininterrumpido, persistente.
       Ant.:
          + pasajero.
    2. 2. adj. Sin limitación de tiempo. Se reunieron en sesión permanente.
    3. 3. adj. Dicho de una comisión: Que en el seno de una institución u organización asegura la continuidad de sus funciones. U. t. c. s. f.
    4. 4. f. Rizado artificial del cabello, que se mantiene mucho tiempo.
       Sin.:
          + rizado, moldeado, moldeador, peinado, tocado.

You own more than 75,000 books. Yes, they are yours! Come get them!

https://www.gutenberg.org/

#Ebooks #PublicDomain

Improbably Compatible #oldknees
This is one of ~140 comic strips that are in my new book 'Ew, It's Beautiful', available for preorder now! https://site.andrewsmcmeel.com/ew-its-beautiful-incentive

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Two crows are flying in front of a gray-blue sky. One says to the other "Do you think we're best friends in other universes too?" The second panel splits into a three by three grid of different reactions of "Um"s and "Well"s from the second crow, in a multiverse sort of way. The third panel is further split again by three, so there are nine by nine squares of the same two crows flying together, the only distinction between the squares is a different sky colour. In the fourth panel, the square are again divided by three so there are now 27 by 27 filling the panel. We can see now that there is a greater pattern emerging from the colours of each square, a pixelated form is starting to emerge. In the fifth panel, the many many squares of different universes is reminiscent of a painting using pointillism, which each dot of colour represent one of many thousands of realities. We can see now very clearly that the pixelated forms are the two crows, flying in front of a gray-blue sky. We return to the visual resolution as we saw in the first panel, as if no time has passed at all. The second crow responds "It doesn't seem likely".

I owe my career to the movie The Big Lebowski.

When I watched it as a young teenager, I wanted to find other people enjoying it so I did my best to setup a PHP forum hosted at home, there were not many choice early 2000 and I struggled a lot to figure how to make apache work with PHP, how to enable port forwarding on my router, how to make mysql work, how to get a domain name (from services like no-ip or dyndns ).

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Tweet by PackyM: "pro tip: You can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you"

http://www.dpde.es/

Es raro y a más de une puede venirle bien.

‘Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad’ (my cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books)

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Title: Useful phrases for the murder mystery writer abroad An eight-panel cartoon showing a writer in a series of situations in a foreign country. Panel 1: looking at historic buildings saying "Kia bela vilaĝo!" which is translated below as "What a lovely village!" Panel 2: in a pretty garden asking the gardener "Ĉu ĉi tiuj estas venenaj" meaning "Are any of these plants poisonous? Panel 3: in a bar asking the server “Kie oni povas aĉeti pafilon?" meaning " Can one purchase a firearm nearby?" Panel 4: on a beach asking a fisherman "Ĉu la tajdo povus forporti kadavron?" meaning "Could the tide carry a dead body away?" Panel 5: approached by a police officer and saying "Saluton, oficiro." which is translated below as "Hello officer." Panel 6: being marched to the police station protesting "Okazis miskompreno!" meaning "There has been a misunderstanding!" Panel 7: in the interrogation room the officer holds up a moleskine notebook, the writer explains "La murdo en mia notlibro estas fikcia." meaning "The murder planned in my notebook is fictional." Panel 8: locked in a cell asking "Mi ŝatus telefoni al la Brita konsulejo." which means "I would like to telephone the British consulate." Note: The foreign language used by the writer in the cartoon is Esperanto. It has not been proofread by an Esperanto speaker so there may be errors.

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What's that white shape under her elbow there?

Digo lo mismo todos los años, así que volveré a hacerlo: vería con buenos ojos que le dieran el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (perdón, Princesa) a Stephen King, sería un reconocimiento justo a su carrera y aunque causara sorpresa de inicio (como cuando se lo dieron a Leonard Cohen) creo que pasada la sorpresa inicial se reconocería que es una elección buena y justificada.

Los motivos por los que creo que podría ser merecedor de este premio:

1. Se reconoce el género literario del #terror, incomprensiblemente ignorado. Y dentro de este género, Stephen King es el rey absoluto, rey mundial y quizá de todos los tiempos junto a Lovecraft y Poe. Ya es difícil ser el rey absoluto de un género literario, Stephen King lo es.

2. Por su impacto e influencia en la sociedad, habiendo popularizado el género del terror e intregrándolo en la cultura de masas, con multitud de adaptaciones cinematográficas y televisivas.

3. Por su larga, prolífica y dilatada carrera, en la que ha plasmado como pocos la naturaleza, idiosincrasia, aristas y contrastes de la sociedad y la cultura estadounidenses, siendo un completo espejo en el que mirarse.

4. Por la profundidad psicológica de sus personajes, indagando en su historia, sus circunstancias, sus anhelos, sus miedos, que eleva la novela de terror al nivel literario.

5. Porque ya tiene 77 años, está en la edad en la que los escritores reciben los premios importantes si no se han muerto antes; ya no le queda mucho de caminar entre nosotros.

Además de todo esto, es un hombre sencillo y humilde y buena persona. A ver si este año me lee alguien y le conceden el premio antes de que se muera, porque creo que se lo merece.

#libros #literaverso #bookstodon #StephenKing #PrincesaDeAsturiasLetras

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People who should: fill your list or scumbags here

Everyone, have a great weekend!

I love it!

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A photo of the Fellowship of the Ring from the Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings" film. Every person is labelled: Boromir: Quasi-Royalty Legolas: Literal-Royalty Gandalf: Literal Angel Aragorn: Literal Royalty Gimli: High-ranking Aritocrat: Pippin Quasi-Royalty Merry: High-ranking Aristocrat Frodo: Low-Ranking Aristocrat Sam: Works for a living Caption: Really, the most surprising part is that it takes three whole months before Sam has to start physically carrying people

This city is made of light 🎵🎹

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And here's another issue with passkeys. Many of us have had the experience of having to help a less technically inclined friend or relative, often remotely, who has had access problems with an account. This can mean resorting to the undesirable but in some situations necessary practice of using their login credentials to get into their account and straighten things out for them. How is one going to do this with passkeys, that may be on a device thousands of miles away? Passkeys will inevitably mean more users locked out of their accounts and at the mercy of the terrible account recovery procedures of firms such as #Google.

BTW, when the Big Tech bros wax poetic about eliminating passwords by requiring passkeys, you can bet they probably don't deal with anyone who doesn't have a phone and whose only access to the Internet is public computers like in libraries. And please don't suggest that someone who may have all their possessions in a shopping cart carry and use a Yubikey (even if USB ports weren't blocked on public computers, as they often are). The Bros often don't have a clue about the real world.

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It's a 15th century wall

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Es tal el desconocimiento de ese mundo, que puede aplastarte sin esfuerzo ni remordimiento, que ando pasmado de la desvergüenza que muestran. ¿Sufres, mi niño? ¿Qué te falta?

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

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Panel 1: A robot stands before a tech CEO’s desk “Sir, I can't thank you enough for the opportunity to read so many wonderful books! In fact, I've written a poem to express-“ The CEO cuts him off “You're here to generate content, not express yourself.” Panel 2: Robot, enthusiastically “I'm just proud to be working to pay back all those great writers who taught me so much! “ CEO “The only people we're paying back are the investors.” Panel 3: Robot “Well, at least with all this money we can try to make the world a better place! (No reply ) “Sir?” CEO “Can someone take this thing away, please Panel 4: The robot wanders alone and mutters tearfully “Creating shareholder value is a kind of creativity, isn't it? … Sob!”

Some random rambling about a Windows / AMD software bug:

Ever since I built my new PC, I always had the issue that sometimes at midnight, a blank "AMDAutoUpdate.exe" cmd window would open and do absolutely nothing. (See picture 1)

Googling it, I found a lot of people complaining about it. The exe is part of AMDs "Ryzen Master" utility that my motherboards "GCC" tool installed for me. The commonly accepted solution is to just disable the auto update service through the windows task scheduler. But that sounded too easy for me, tonight I actually went through the efforts of finding the root cause.

My first thought was: What is so broken about my hardware / setup that this random tool is just broken, it surely can't just be broken for everyone... right?

Right?....

Well... The tool in question is written in .net, this is very good because

A) .net is easy to decompile / reverse

B) I have written .net code a few years ago

So I went ahead and reversed what the tool does (or at least, what it is supposed to do).

The tool will attempt to download the file "VersionInfo.xml" from some URL that's stored within it's .exe.config file. Looking into that, hilariously enough there are two URLs, one being labeled "Production", the other being labeled "Develpment" (not a typo on my end), you can guess which of the two is commented out :P. However, this does not appear to be the issue, since both files appear to be the same in practice, let's dig deeper.

I noticed the downloaded file ends up being 0kb, so obviously something went wrong.

For downloading they use the "WebClient" class, they set a completion callback in which they call a different method to parse the file and display update option based on it's content. They also wrap the whole "WebClient" invocation into a try/except block, but since no error is being logged, it doesn't seem there is an exception happening. (See picture 2)

However, I noticed the callback is being fired with an object of the type "AsyncCompletedEventArgs" and looking at the documentation, this object has an "error" property that they unfortunately do not check for, nor log it. Instead, if there is an error, the program will simply try to open the 0kb xml, fail and deadlock forever, with absolutely nothing being done in the background.

Using a .NET debugger, I was able to retrieve the error:

ERROR: The request was cancelled: A protected SSL/TLS channel could not be created

Long story short, it turns out that WebClient by default sends a TLS 1.0 request to the server and the server at some point was updated to only support TLS 1.2 and 1.3.

This also means, it is in fact, BROKEN FOR EVERYONE. IN PRODUCTION. FOR POSSIBLY YEARS...

Using a .net recompiler (man .net really has some fancy tooling...), I was able to add the line
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = (SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls12);
which fixes the issue and I'm probably the first person in probably years to see the proper "update available" dialog (see picture 3), lmao.

So who's to blame here?
AMD? Microsoft?

I really don't know why this .net API doesn't try newer TLS versions if the older fail and instead requires an explicit flag to be set. On the other hand, AMDs tool is really shitty, doesn't do proper error checking and I would argue this cmd window should never open to begin with, which it wouldn't if they configured the task correctly.

"But they'll take the jobs with them"

A) No they won't. It's expensive as shit to uproot your entire operation, rehire, retrain, and reorganize entire production lines from the ground up, not to mention a gigantic pain in the ass.

B) Even if they do, that will leave a hole in the economy which can be filled by small business and entrepreneurs.

C) Even if it doesn't, trickle down economics is a filthy lie sold to you to keep you complacent. You can do better than a below minimum wage gig economy sidehustle. Demand better from employers.

Illustrations of the “utsuro-bune” (hollow ship), complete with inhabitant, reported to have washed up on the coast of Japan in 1803. Was this a castaway from the West? An embellished folktale? Or even, as some suppose, an extraterrestrial visit? https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/utsuro-bune #ufo

INMARCESIBLE

   Del fr. immarcessible o immarcescible, estos del lat. tardío immarcescibĭlis, de in- 'in-' y marcescibĭlis 'marchitable', y este der. del lat. marcescĕre 'marchitarse'.
    1. 1. adj. Que no se puede marchitar.
       Sin.:
          + inmarchitable, imperecedero, eterno, perenne, perpetuo.
       Ant.:
          + marchitable.

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

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A screenshot of a post previously from Greenpeace. It’s a photo of a blue fence with black writing on top. The writing says: ‘If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction. Remember that’s trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you. ‘

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

Happy (?) birthday Ambrose Bierce! The American journalist, born #onthisday in 1842, is best known for his satirical dictionary The Cynic’s Word Book also known as The Devil’s Dictionary. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-cynic-s-word-book-1906 #otd

They asked us (in Spanish – they didn't speak English, but Italians and Spaniards tend to understand each other)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110901215837/http://www.mrxswebpage.com/spanish.htm

PALAFITO

   Del fr. palafitte, este del it. palafitta, y este del lat. pala ficta 'palos clavados'.
    1. 1. m. Construcción que se alza en la orilla del mar, dentro de un lago o en terrenos anegables, sobre estacas o pies derechos.

@dvandal @strlcat @davidgerard

Wayland and systemd are both symptoms of the same behaviour, as was PulseAudio:

• Observe that an existing system has flaws.
• Don't engage with users to identify use cases.
  • Throw up some half-finished code (with incomplete or nonexistent backwards compatibility) that solves some of the problems of the old system but doesn't address all of its use cases and introduces more problems for other people.
• Declare that the old thing is deprecated and everyone needs to move to the new thing.
• Create a load of work in the rest of the ecosystem that other people have to do.
• Silence all criticism by pointing out that the old thing was imperfect.

And that's the kind of thing that you can only get away with if you're able to act as a monopoly, by employing maintainers at key points across the ecosystem.

The biggest problem with Microsoft was not that their monopoly allowed them to be evil, it was that it allowed them to be stupid. A lot of things in the MS ecosystem are actually bad for Microsoft, but they're pushed out because no one inside MS cares enough to do the right thing and no one outside is able to fix the problems. I, personally, don't want the F/OSS OS ecosystem to end up like that.

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En sólo unos días Feijóo ha dicho que:

✔️No subiría el Salaría Mínimo Interprofesional

✔️Subiría el gasto en defensa al 5% (subida de impuestos y recortes en gasto social)

✔️No reduciría la jornada máxima a 37,5 horas sin bajar el sueldo

Si eres clase media o baja y votas al PP, deberías pensártelo

Happy midsummer to all of you fantastic people ☀️

The reason Texas is part of the USA is that Mexico made slavery illegal.

Remember the Alamo? A lot of white people don't know is that what the "brave" people in the Alamo were fighting for was slavery.

That's also why it took two years after the civil war ended for enforcement of anti-slavery in Texas. (it wasn't because of slow communication, as is told in revisionist histories, it was because white people willfully defied the law).

Freedom is always worth fighting for.

"Open Source software users are in fact consumers, so they have the right to demand"

"Developers who release open source must take responsibility for satisfying users, otherwise they'd better not release"

And regarding you being new to this thing, well, fine, whatever.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

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I love that cats that aren’t domesticated don’t meow when they grow up, but domesticated cats do because they learned humans don’t understand their natural communication, so they keep meowing beyond the kitten stage just for us. So basically cats made up a language just to talk to us. And that language is essentially baby talk.

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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Never thought I'd be writing official docs for a major open source project begging LLMs to stop fabricating surreal vulnerabilities.

Is this the future??? 😱

Hasta la vista, baby.

https://github.com/django/django/commit/0f60102444d8a2cfb662a7b11b3911b52567ee54

#django #security #opensource

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.

When people talk about "survival of the fittest" or "the crime of empathy," I want clips like this to be pressed into the sides of those people's self-serving dumbfuck heads until they cave in.

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.

Just had one of my beta readers told me, proudly, that they feed one of my novels in progress into a non-local LLM because they didn't understand where a scene came from. Readers, I can't believe I have to say this, but don't do this. I can't speak for every writer out there, but for me, I want my beta readers to actually *connect* with me through the imperfect, pantsy, chaos of my drafts. I'm letting you see the unedited bleeding onto the page. If you can't be bothered to read it, then why are you anyone's beta reader? If you don't understand something, ask! That's what being a beta reader is all about!

They justified it by saying well, giant LLM can spot plot holes in Romance novels better than I can.

If one of my freelance editors does this. I wouldn't know what to do. I don't want to pay someone for just shoving my work into an LLM. What am I even paying you for? But none of my editors have done this, yet. I'm just frustrated and I feel as if I've been betrayed, and like my beta readers don't take me seriously enough to engage in my messy, raw, unedited, texts.

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.

Hey @ThePSF, this sucks and does not reflect the values of the Python community. We can't stop blockchain shitheads from using Python, but we can definitely avoid featuring them as paragons of our community. Delete this and apologize.
https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/114659276227987491

#LiberaForms, an ethical, libre alternative to Gxgle forms.
https://liberaforms.org/en
#LibreSoftware #EthicalSoftware

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English Euskara Català Español LiberaForms, ethical form software LiberaForms is a libre software tool developed as community, free, and ethical infrastructure that makes it easy to create and manage forms that respect the digital rights of the people who use it. With LiberaForms you can browse, edit, and download the answers to your forms; include a checkbox to require Data protection law consent, collaborate with other users by sharing permissions; and much more!

bedtime

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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