El microrrelato:

LA NOCHE ABANDONADA, REVISITADA

#relatos

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Portada del libro Microterrores XIII, publicado por la editorial Diversidad Literaria

activitypub: fucking exists, cheap, clunky but works

atproto: what if we redesign the whole thing from first principles and it's super complicated and costs a bundle to run and it's been two years and it still doesn't fucking work and also we keep a centralised kill switch, but here's our white papers on how it's superior to the solution that fucking exists

@grunfink #snac

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SINCE YOU LEFT ME I'VE BEEN SNACPILLED comam.es/what-is-snac

Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, Madrid, Spain

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Thin window in the external wall

CC: @victor@taquiones.net

Sign that you're getting old: People are nostalgic about the thing you think of as the crappy new thing that replaced a much better old thing.

LE MASQUE VIDE (THE EMPTY MASK)

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

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

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

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

#ShortFiction

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

Iglesia evangélica de habla alemana (Deutschsprachige Evangelische Gemeinde), Madrid, Spain

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A window in the Deutschsprachige Evangelische Gemeinde, Madrid, Spain

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

The Man of MATA pt1

next: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/115271822786360293

pls consider supporting my work: https://analognowhere.com/support

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #linux #penguin #mata

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Somewhere in a desert... Girl and Penguin are eating breakfast. Penguin: "Morning, slept well?" Girl: "mhmhmhm" Penguin: "What's today?" Girl checks her school schedule. It's Monday, morning class - history. Girl: "History. Penguin, unenthusiased: "Sounds exciting."

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Classroom. Fish begins the lesson. Fish: "I wanted to call this class mythology, but Purple said history suggests that some of it might actually be true. Nobody remembers how long ago, but as you know, the world ended. While the inheritors of the ravaged land learned to adapt to their predicament, three brothers, successors of those who brought about the end, set out into the destroyed world to ruin it some more." LAST REMAINING MATACORPBUNKER B_73; three brothers "Well, gentlemen, we ate all the women, children and uly. The water purifier is busted and the only person who could fix it was Parkinson." "We ate her last week." "We ate her last week." "Nothing to eat, nothing to drink. So now what?" "I think it's time to do what our great great great grandparents spoke of - Go outside and restart civilization." "Ugh..."

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Penguin and Fish are dressed as the MATA brothers. Penguin: "I have the best ideas." Fish: "You're going to have to help us play the third brother." Girl, ecstatic: "School trip!" analognowhere presents: techno-mage in: Girl, Fish and Penguin stand outside their cave home. Fish: "... they gathered a bunch of thumbdrives with ancient CORPO tech and went on a journey to find people and machines they could poison." Penguin: "It's a good day to fuck shit up. Come on, bros!" Girl: "He's really into it!"

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The three brothers cross the ancient desolate land. "This suuuuuuuuuuuucks." "Shut up."

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON

CC: @chebra@mstdn.io

CC: @pkotrcka@toot.community

Secret Panel HERE 😶 https://tapas.io/episode/1922792

CC: @victor@taquiones.net

Esta chica, salida de la nada, se erige en una especie de "justiciera" y decide que se salta lo que los autores han decidido que es su (equivocado o no) medio de subsistencia.

Pero bueno, allá cada cual.

CC: @victor@taquiones.net

Pero así, sin saber más, solo son conjeturas.

CC: @philspectrum@mastodon.social

CC: @cmconseils@mastodon.social

Ahora también en los idiomas euskera, gallego y castellano, entre otros, más los que están en preparación.

HIPÓNIMO

   De hipo- y -ónimo.
    1. 1. m. Ling. Palabra cuyo significado incluye el de otra. Gorrión es hipónimo de pájaro.

npm was a mistake. the concept of pulling live dependencies that are not collectively managed by a QA team but each individually managed by many thousands of people with wildly varying skill and availability is inherently doomed to constant incidents.

Ken Thompson, 1984: Whenever you use other people's software, you should think about why you trust it.

npm, 2010: LEEEEROY JENKINNNNNSSSSSSS!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/self-replicating-worm-hits-180-software-packages/

IF I COULD BLOW AWAY THE TEARS RUNNING DOWN

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

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

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

#ShortFiction

"If you don't like it, then leave" is the subtext of the response from Jay Graber.

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A reply on Bluesky by its CEO Jay Graber on September 13th, 2025 stating "We knew from the start we can't get everything right. Moderation is a hard problem, and it's impossible to please everyone. So we built a protocol where you always have the right to leave. If you don't trust us, or don't like our decisions, you deserve the right to choose an alternative."

CC: @pkotrcka@toot.community

I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.
#Linux #FreeBSD

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Screenshot of a Reddit comment saying this: Time for my OS opinion that's guaranteed to be unpopular with someone... Sun Solaris used to be the OS that required overpriced proprietary hardware and still couldn't compete with Linux. That OS is now MacOS. MacOS used to be the colorful and friendly walled garden OS that your non-techie parents would enjoy but was completely useless to you as a power user. That OS is now Windows. Windows used to be the OS that could run a lot of apps, but was a headache to setup and maintain correctly and would sometimes blow up for no reason. That OS is now Linux. Linux used to be the techie and developer oriented command-line OS that was lacking in desktop apps and might not support your hardware, but once you got it going, was rock solid and had no limits. That OS is now FreeBSD.

Girls, don't cry over Louie,
He wouldn't waste a tear on you

Plaza de Manuel Becerra, Madrid, Spain

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Plaza de Manuel Becerra, Madrid, Spain

Y una vez que lo tengas en el dispositivo intenta abrirlo desde el administrador de archivos o desde los ajustes.

CC: @linuxzx80@fe.disroot.org @d1cor@mstdn.io

@dangillmor
No.

So much no.

These people are asking us to judge the AT protocol on its own merits, entirely divorced from Blue Sky, the company founded and funded by fascists. These are the "keep politics out of tech" people who wan to believe that any tech can be apolitical.

Blue Sky must be destroyed.

As for the purportedly-apolitical and untainted AT protocol, I must again refer to the sage Jules Winnfield: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know."

Ya está disponible la versión 3.0 (2025) de nuestro libro "Fundamentos de Sistemas Operativos: Una Aproximación Práctica Usando Linux". Novedad: un capítulo dedicado a la seguridad.

Es libre (Creative-Commons) y gratuito, puedes descargar el PDF aquí:

https://honecomp.github.io/librossoo.html

https://thenewstack.io/unix-co-creator-brian-kernighan-on-rust-distros-and-nixos/

I guess Another Man's Woman is also crying now.

https://www.publico.es/politica/tribunales/hallazgo-tumba-criminal-nazi-madrid-reescribe-historia-vivio-bajo-franquismo-identidad-falsa.html

@dexter

IIUC,

$ gcc -fpreprocessed -dD -E -P file.c > no_comments.c

should do the trick. You really need a proper C/C++ aware lexer/parser because while simple substitutions

:%s@\_s*//.*\n/\r

in Vim can get thrown off by "//" or "/*…*/" embedded in string-constants. There are additional complexities with multi-line strings and nested comments. I'm not sure if you also intend to take into consideration ":#if 0" blocks.

CHORREO

    1. 1. m. Acción y efecto de chorrear.
       Sin.:
          + vertido.
          + acobardamiento, acoquinamiento, acojone, acojonamiento.
    2. 2. m. Gasto incesante, innecesario y, a la larga, excesivo.
       Sin.:
          + despilfarro.
    3. 3. m. coloq. Esp. Bronca, reprimenda, rapapolvo.
       Sin.:
          + bronca, regañina, rapapolvo, chaparrón, reprimenda, reprensión, regaño.

"She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations"

CC: @cmconseils@mastodon.social

We're glad you're still with us.

But if you want to watch a computer die,
you tuned in to the right broadcast.

( ) Bredoteau
( ) Bretodeau

Secret Panel HERE 😑 https://tapas.io/episode/2444512

@randahl Perhaps the folks in the EU should meet with Putin (without Trump) and agree to exchange Alaska for complete withdrawal from Ukraine (both are historically parts of the empire that Putin wants to rebuild).

8 Women Composers Who Shaped the Musical World

Discover eight women composers who have shaped the musical world and gave women in music a voice.

by Andrew Olsen

https://www.thecollector.com/women-composers-you-should-know/

Musicians at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/543

#art #music #culture

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Ancient icon of Saint Kassia (or Kassiani/Kassiane), the 9th-century Byzantine poetess, hymnographer, and abbess: The icon typically depicts Saint Kassia in the formal Byzantine style. She is shown in half-length or full figure, clothed in the traditional garments of a Byzantine nun — a dark monastic habit with veil and mantle. Her face is elongated and solemn, with large almond-shaped eyes, a thin nose, and small mouth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassia#/media/File:Kassia.jpg

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Hildegard von Bingen receives a divine inspiration and passes it on to her scribe. The miniature depicts Hildegard of Bingen, the medieval abbess. She is shown seated, her figure slightly larger than the others to emphasize her authority. Tongues or rays of flame descend from heaven onto her head, symbolizing the direct transmission of divine inspiration from God or the Holy Spirit. Hildegard sits with a wax tablet or stylus in hand, sometimes poised as if about to write, but instead she gestures toward her scribe, Volmar, a monk who records her words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen#/media/File:Hildegard_von_Bingen.jpg

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Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach. Portrait by Johann Ernst Heinsius (1769). Anna Amalia is shown seated in a dignified pose, wearing a sumptuous gown of fine silk or satin, richly decorated with lace and delicate embroidery. A lace cap adorns her powdered hair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Anna_Amalia_of_Brunswick-Wolfenb%C3%BCttel#/media/File:Weimar_Anna_Amalia_Bibliothek@Anna_Amalie_von_Sachsen-Weimar_(1).JPG

The problem with the Treaty of Versailles was not that reparations are a fundamentally bad idea, it was that they were paid by people who had no say in the decision to go to war and who had already suffered (losing friend and family) in the war. I suspect the twentieth century would have been very different if the reparations had been made by stripping 95% of the Kaiser’s personal wealth, taking the remainder from the rest of the aristocracy who had the power to intervene and did not, and earmarking 20% of the total to rebuilding the affected parts of Germany. Such an approach was infeasible at the time because the allied delegations were stuffed with aristocrats who didn’t want to set that kind of precedent.

Perhaps that won’t be the case with Ukraine. Putin has an estimated personal wealth of $200bn. Other complicit oligarchs add to this total. That’s enough for a lot of rebuilding, on both sides. And bankrupting a war criminal on the way to his trial would be a good disincentive for other autocrats.

CC: @cmconseils@mastodon.social

😆

-- Franz Kafka, Letter to Max Brod, 1922-07-05

MSRC: Memory safety bugs are the root cause of around 70% of security vulnerabilities.

Normal people: We should deploy things that mitigate those and reduce the percentage by fixing the bugs.

MS senior leadership: Let’s put a thing that introduces entirely new categories of vulnerability into every product and make developers use coding tools that introduce vulnerabilities that experienced developers never would! Then the 30% will get bigger!

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

What Linux terminal-based tools do you use?

#Goodnight