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Cartel del certamen

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

I'm trying a compositor called Wio, i never used Plan9 but if this is how Rio works on Plan9 then i like it, keeping in mind that Wio doesn't implement all the features that Rio has. The most interesting thing about the design of Wio is that when you make a window by defult opens a terminal and in there you run your graphical program, so i'm thinking, wouldn't be neat that you could switch between the terminal and graphical preview, and and then came to my mind "why not allow to do that on the compositor it self" because sometimes happens that the compositor breaks and you are locked in the sence that you can't change to another tty.
Idk i think that would be neat.
#wayland #unix #plan9

How Gustave Moreau’s Mystical Paintings Defined the Symbolist Movement

Gustave Moreau was the defiant visionary whose mystical paintings shaped a groundbreaking new movement in France and beyond.

by Kelsey Spicuzza

https://www.thecollector.com/gustave-moreau-symbolist-movement/

Symbolism in literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7864

#Books #Literature #Symbolism #Art_criticism

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L'Apparition (1876), watercolor, 105 x 72 cm., Musée d'Orsay by Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau’s L'Apparition is a haunting and richly symbolic watercolor painting that vividly captures a moment from the biblical story of Salome. In this striking scene, Salome stands transfixed before the vision of the severed head of John the Baptist, which hovers, radiant and bleeding, in the air before her. Salome is adorned in elaborate, orientalized robes and jewelry that shimmer with color, light, and texture—an opulent reflection of her allure and the decadent atmosphere of Herod’s court. Her expression is one of awe and dread as she gazes upon the miraculous apparition. The head of John the Baptist floats above a luminous nimbus, glowing with supernatural intensity, contrasting with the dark, richly patterned architectural setting behind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Moreau#/media/File:The_Apparition,_Gustave_Moreau_1876.jpg

Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

"Magic and ideology are both practices of belief."

By Celia Bell

https://lithub.com/escape-from-the-land-of-the-dead-on-leonora-carringtons-the-stone-door/

#Books #Literature #literarycriticism #WomeninArt

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Leonora Carrington This evocative photograph captures Leonora Carrington, the British-born Surrealist artist and writer. Carrington appears poised and enigmatic, her expression calm but intense, often with piercing eyes that suggest her deep inner world. She has semi-long curly hair and wears a lacy midi-length blouse with a skirt (or black pants), her arms wrapped around one of her knees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonora_Carrington#/media/File:Leonora_Carrington.jpg

Welp. All that lovely "AI" derailment aside, we now have an answer:

It is literally impossible for XScreenSaver to lock the screen under Wayland. Cannot be done. None of the extant, spottily-supported "protocols" will allow the screen to be locked while an Xwayland surface is visible.

Great job, everybody. Perfect, no notes.

everything i draw and make here is fediverse-exclusive-in-the-public-domain. If you enjoy my content or have some other use for it, consider supporting my work.

https://analognowhere.com/support

Thank you!

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Generation 7 color palette'd Girl with a laptop.

Mientras Cristóbal Montoro asfixiaba a los ayuntamientos y les exigía recortes, maniobraba para que las empresas de gas de la trama pagaran menos impuestos locales.

Os explico cómo varios ayuntamientos perdieron más de 10 millones de euros. https://www.elsaltodiario.com/cristobal-montoro/varios-ayuntamientos-perdieron-10-millones-euros-impuestos-locales-caso-montoro

I had a small VPS with small filesystem space, and I (temporarily) needed much more. I also had a Wireguard connection from this VPS to a server in my own home under my desk, slow but with plenty of disk space. My home connection was a standard ISP fibre, dynamic IP, but very stable in time. So, I used sshfs from the VPS to mount a folder in my home server. It was not very fast, but got the work done.

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"If you ever touched a computer, chances are you are already my victim"

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Wait... What the freaking effing Fick? It's Friday, my dudes and dudettes!

Wheee! Where did that week go?

Aren't we supposed to slow down during the summer months?

Schrödinger's backups

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Me: Sync is also not backup.

Great article, Stefano, as always.

"Do not worry, this is a free service"

sample time

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!

Seen in a post by @bruces

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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

The conversation:

Cat: meow
Me: Wow, really?
Cat: meow
Me: This is incredible stuff
Cat: meow
Me: First I've ever heard of it
Cat: meow

The conversation from her viewpoint:

Cat: I'm hungry.
Human: hønk
Cat: Feed me, you big dumb kitten.
Human: hønk
Cat: Look here you dumb shit, I'm a regal predator and I deserve your respect!
Human: hønk
Cat: Your curtains will hear about this

#CatsOfMastodon

Y eso me ha vuelto a recordar a mi amigo el psiquiatra y a su teoría de cómo la extrema derecha ha monopolizado de manera total al espectro demográfico de gente que está cucú.

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.

this feels weird to explicitly ask, but if you've had a positive experience with ur #tangara can you get in the comments? it's hard to keep my head in a good place when i'm struggling financially and yet still spending a large chunk of my time assembling units and responding to issues/emails and so much of what i see about it is where it's gone wrong or someone is unhappy. some positivity could really help me rn i think.

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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!”

‪Le trou des halles, 2025

Dessin au crayon inspiré de l'authentique chantier ubuesque qui occupa Paris dans les 70-80.
Voir les fondations en béton en dessous de ces immeubles, quel vertige !

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Un diagramme montre des couches de civilisation qui s'amoncellent les unes sur les autres, inspiré par une photo des célèbre du chantier des halles à Paris.

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Photo du chantier des halles à Paris en 1973. On y voit un immense trou qui révèles fondations en béton d'un pâté de maison, ainsi que la fontaine des Innocents suspendue dans le vide par des poutres;

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.

My #ActivityPub developer guide moved to another repository: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/ap-next/src/branch/main/guide.md

It started as a FEP, but has evolved into something bigger.

About the repository:

As stated in the readme, ActivityPub Next is a project dedicated to evolving the ActivityPub protocol.

Currently it only contains the developer guide, but I think that more content will be added over time.

😎

#comic

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A four-panel comic: Panel 1: An orange, round-headed character with dot eyes and a small dot mouth stands facing a yellow, similar-looking character who is partially obscured, reaching out a hand. The orange character says, "YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME, I'M STUCK IN A TIME LOOP." Panel 2: The two characters are now fully visible, standing opposite each other. The orange character asks, "HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?" The yellow character, looking concerned with a downturned mouth, responds, "ABOUT 4 PANELS." Panel 3: The orange character looks at the yellow character with a slight smile. The yellow character is now shown climbing the brown border of the comic panel, looking back at the orange character. The orange character asks, "HAVE YOU TRIED CLIMBING OUTSIDE OF THE COMIC?" The yellow character, with a determined expression, says, "GOOD IDEA." Panel 4: The yellow character has successfully climbed out of the comic panel and is no longer visible. The orange character stands alone in the bottom right panel, smiling brightly, and says, "GOOD LUCK."

"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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