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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We're looking forward to watching your talk if it's published.

I've performed some tests, and it's great. #snac and #haproxy are working great together - now with caching of media and json responses, to scale up, and up, and up...and up!
#Varnish is the best tool for caching, but the setup I've tested doesn't require it and it's still good enough.
I think this will be a blog post, as soon as I'll have enough time.

#snac2 #Fediverse #IT #SysAdmin

Recordad, compañeros de armas: si una "editorial" te pide dinero por publicar tu libro, no es una editorial, es UNA ESTAFA.

Pero siempre se pierden porque existe gente que abandona cuentas y se quedan como que te siguen

CC: @jesusmargar@mastodon.social @Shine_McShine@paquita.masto.host @VaryIngweion@neopaquita.es

El hombre que posee un cabello abundante o, como mínimo, peculiar, ya tiene media polla dentro del poder

Kobo tracks your book-reading by default. It does this to do shit like pop up congratulatory notes if you read a lot of books, or give you 'stats' on your reading habits. In order to perform this, it basically encodes your reading habits and sends them to Google Analytics in a not-directly-attributable-to-you manner, via a fake domain called 'devices.kobo.com.'

So, obviously some folks do not want this behavior. What you can do is make a hosts file with a line like 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com ssl.google-analytics.com google-analytics.com in addition to the default localhost entry, then put that in a directory called etc and tar | gzip the thing up into a file called KoboRoot.tgz. Plug in your Kobo device, copy that file to the .kobo directory, and unmount your device. The Kobo will see this file as a firmware update, and apply it -- overwriting the default /etc/hosts file with the one you made. Now it can't reach Google Analytics to report anything.

Congratulations on reducing the functionality of your device!

Here's the file I used: http://sciops.net/downloads/KoboRoot.tgz You can use it for reference or use it directly, but I'm not responsible for your Kobo.

There's a ton of other shit you can do to your device -- add fonts, different reading programs, the list goes on, but this is a good start.

Instead of doing that, plug it into a computer, and when it pops up a little window, click 'Connect.'

On the computer go to the .kobo/Kobo directory on the device, and edit the file Kobo eReader.conf. In the [ApplicationPreferences] section, add a line like

SideLoadedMode=true

and save and exit the editor. Unmount the device from your computer, and hold the Clara BW's power button until the white LED flashes. Then press the power button again.

When it boots back up, you don't need to register or connect shit. Dump books on it and rock on.

I'm posting this because every single internet thing which talks about this leaves out two important facts:

1) If you edit that file before updating, or before you get to the QR code screen, it won't take.

2) Most of the online people access this mode by signing out of an existing account rather than activating it during first-run setup.

¿Habrá soporte para libros de pago en el futuro?

Integrar un sistema de pagos no está en los planes a corto plazo ni es el objetivo principal de esta plataforma.

Waybackify-WP.

I've finally cleaned up and posted something I've been using for a few years: wayback-wp.php is a script that you run from cron to replace any old links in your blog posts and comments with contemporaneous Wayback Machine URLs. I do this on all of my posts older than 5 years...
https://jwz.org/b/ykkS

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One of the things I've been advocating for years - and where I want to raise my voice even louder - is the importance of owning your data. #OwnYourData

Over the past few days, I’ve come across two examples of how misinformation is causing immense damage, leading people to believe that there's no alternative but to hand over their data to big corporations, putting themselves entirely in their hands.

- A well-known lawyer, just before a meeting, warned about using Teams and its new "virtual assistant," which joins conferences before anyone else and transcribes everything. When I pointed out that it would be wise to use alternative tools (like Jitsi, for example, but there are others), he abruptly ended the conversation, saying, "We've lost this war. There's no alternative anymore."
That wasn’t the right moment for a detailed discussion, so I just noted that alternatives do exist - but if no one starts using them, and if we passively accept certain behaviors from certain companies, things will never improve for us.

- Just now, I received another one of those emails that hurt more in the heart than in the wallet: "Our e-commerce is taking off, so we’re moving it to Shopify to better manage our growth."
I replied, trying to explain that handing over a growing e-commerce business to a third-party company (right now, they have full access to their own server - meaning all their databases, data, etc., are under their control) means losing ownership of it. Prices could change at any moment, contract terms could shift negatively, and, worst case scenario, if Shopify itself faced issues (which seems impossible today, but think of giants like Kodak), they could lose everything. Of course, they’ll do what they think is best, but I feel obligated to warn them.

Luckily, others are making the opposite choice. But I keep wondering: since these big platforms aren’t exactly cheap, rather than "selling themselves" to them just for (potentially) fewer headaches, wouldn’t it be worth paying someone (not me, of course, but someone working exclusively for them) to handle these things - ensuring they retain full ownership of their business and their data?

#DataOwnership #Decentralization #BigTech #DataRights #MyDataMyChoice #TakeBackControl

Buenos días! ☀️ Comienzan a llegar los primeros ejemplares, y yo ni siquiera lo he visto todavía! 😍 Hoy termina la preventa!

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No soy yo, libro y marcapáginas

No me parece un proyecto trivial de poner en marcha, pero por aquí hay gente muy válida y estoy seguro de que conseguiréis el talento necesario.

En el buzón de sugerencias mando la idea de que estaría genial que federara via ActivityPub, pero eso ya lo sabes 😉

Mucha suerte.

@angel Todo preparado para leerlo

GRACIAS Y DESGRACIAS DEL OJO DEL CULO por D. FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS

Regresa la Feria del Libro Antiguo y de Ocasión a #Malaga en la Alameda Principal, el paraíso de los clásicos y los facsimiles. Estará hasta el 16 de marzo.

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Casetas de la feria

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Selección de libros

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Libros de esgrima

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Facsímiles variados

@patpro yes, both of them. Mastodon gives a full experience, good for newcomers and feature rich. Snac provides the experience that many of us love: simple, with the right features and lightweight. And I wanted to make people aware of snac, that I'm now using for lots of things (like FediMeteo)

CC: @exemplaire_editions@mastodon.social

Solo hasta el 12 de marzo. ¡Se agradece un impulso! 🥰

➼ https://www.letrareditorial.es/producto/no-soy-yo-2081/

#nosoyyo2081

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Preventa "No soy yo -2081-". una novela de ciencia ficción distópica (cyberpunk) Preventa activa del 6 al 12 de marzo. Tiene un 10% de descuento en web con el código "PREVENTA". Las 5 primeras copias se llevarán un llavero futurista. Enlace de compra: https://www.letrareditorial.es/producto/no-soy-yo-2081/

Del autor de "Yo no soy Pavel" llega por sorpresa este otro librazo. Material de primera.

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.

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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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 ♥"

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».

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.

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

difficult questions

Enjoy this Wednesday, Stefano, everyone!

#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

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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.

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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.