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

UPDATE: I haven't seen Recall in action there. I was just asking the doctor how they'll deal with it.

This morning, I went to the doctor for a scheduled appointment. While she was looking at the results of blood tests from two years ago on the screen (and suggested repeating them for a follow-up), I realized she was using Windows 11. A detail came to mind. The doctor is extremely polite and friendly, so I asked her, "How do you handle the feature called Recall?" The doctor was taken aback and had no idea what I was talking about. I was about to drop the conversation, but she, being a serious professional, immediately called the technicians who manage their PCs to ask for clarification. They downplayed it, saying it's not an issue and that it's a feature "on all PCs, so we can't do anything about it." She started to express that she didn’t like it and wanted it deactivated. No luck: they won’t proceed because, according to them, even deactivating it is "a hack that could compromise future updates." She’s furious and will talk to her colleagues and the decision-makers. She wants secure systems because "there’s patient data involved."

In reality, patient data is stored on servers (which I haven't investigated), but everything that appears on the screen is, in my opinion, at risk.

I’ve offered to help them find a solution—because, if I'm right, all they need is LibreOffice and a browser. In that case, I’ll suggest one of the *BSD or Linux systems and do it for free.

I don’t want to make money off my doctor. I just want patient data to be (sufficiently) secure.

#IT #Recall #Windows #OwnYourData #Security #Privacy #RunBSD #Linux

#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #ViernesDeVentanas

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Ceiling window

CC: @michel@bsd.cafe

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my profile picture in a colorful, empty void

Durante 60 años el estado ha reparado, mantenido y promocionado el castillo. El parque adyacente que sufrió la misma suerte hace poco también. ¿Vamos a recuperar de alguna manera esas inversiones o como siempre además de puta ponemos la cama y el condón?

O mejor aún, ¿cobraremos IBI o cualquier otro impuesto a la duquesa de marras y su casa nobiliaria o seguiremos igual, intentando negociar cualquier acuerdo porque la propiedad privada es intocable?

Lo mismo tres millones de euros anuales de IBI la convencen de hacer una donación al estado español, que tanto quieren y por el que tanta sangre derramarían, y así todos ganamos.

Hoy no tengo el día para pensar con equidad, lo reconozco. No obstante estoy harto de que ciertos lugares estén protegidos por el estado pero éste no tenga la más mínima potestad sobre ellos.

No, Elon Musk no es un simple loco. Todo lo que ha hecho y todos sus apoyos a la extrema derecha le han reportado beneficios directos. Y lo de Groenlandia, Panamá, Alemania, UK, etc., también...

Os hago un resumen en @elsaltodiario.com con arte de Byron Maher https://www.elsaltodiario.com/estados-unidos/elon-musk-sa-asi-gana-dinero-apoyando-trump-extrema-derecha

This is the FediMeteo VPS's LibreNMS CPU graph.

A significant spike occurs in the early afternoon, where the activity level reaches nearly 100, marking a sharp increase in activity. This spike coincides with the announcement by @FediFollows of new cities. Throughout most of the day, activity levels fluctuate between 10 and 40, with some peaks reaching up to 50 at different times. Notably, some of these levels coincide with backup operations. Early morning and late evening hours show lower activity levels, generally ranging between 10 and 20. The graph clearly highlights the midday burst of activity, followed by a return to more moderate levels throughout the rest of the day.

#FediMeteo #IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #LibreNMS #Monitoring

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The screenshot displays a time-series graph from the FediMeteo VPS (by LibreNMS), tracking activity levels over a 24-hour period. The x-axis represents time, and the y-axis shows the CPU level, ranging from 0 to 100. The graph consists of orange bars indicating the intensity of the activity. A significant spike occurs in the early afternoon, where the activity level reaches nearly 100, marking a sharp increase in activity. This spike coincides with the announcement by FediFollows of new cities. Throughout most of the day, activity levels fluctuate between 10 and 40, with some peaks reaching up to 50 at different times. Notably, some of these peaks coincide with backup operations. Early morning and late evening hours show lower activity levels, generally ranging between 10 and 20. The graph clearly highlights the midday burst of activity, followed by a return to more moderate levels throughout the rest of the day.

¿Qué tienen en común Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Fernando Savater o el rapero el Jincho?

Pues que todos se han dado cuenta de que se gana más dinero siendo un buen trozo de mierda.

Me quedo agusto en esta opinión en El Salto.
https://buff.ly/3BLChzK

https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/DEhgYx4JbEG

A big, huge thank you to the Open-Meteo team.
Patrick told me that they appreciate the project, that we can continue, and he provided me with tools to go beyond the allowed calls.
At this point, I’m fixing a few things to improve the addition of countries and cities, and... we’re moving forward!

@openmeteo

#FediMeteo #OpenMeteo #ThankYou

Aerc (TUI) is also fine. It supports multiple accounts natively, but you can't move messages from one account to another (that I know of). I find the interface a little kludgy.

But everybody and their dog is sending HTML mail these days, and though both programs do their best to convert to text / use the alternative plain text format, you always have the sinking feeling that you are missing something (and sometimes you really are missing something).

Thunderbird is OK. It has its annoyances, but it's solid, multi-account, and supports everything. Sometimes it starts burning all my CPU cores at 100% and I don't know why, it's probably doing some garbage collection or whatever.

Evolution (GUI) is also kinda fine, but it's GNOME, and you may not like that. It's heavy.

Claws Mail (GUI) is also OK. It's lighter than Evolution or Thunderbird, but in the past it did something wrong that annoyed me and that I cannot remember and I stopped using it.

I also remember using Kmail (KDE) more 15 years ago and it was also OK, but a bit sluggy.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1003059/41b1d2ea281b6779/

Merry Christmas, Stefano.

5 years is a lot of time for a feral cat, but they are hard as fucking stones, and they know how to play their cards well, so it's probably taking a nap now in a warm house as a proud home cat.

antifascist + zionist = fascist

(just a little fyi to #38C3)

El protocolo de Nostr es técnicamente un buen diseño, pero la gente que hay detrás son criptobros de la peor calaña con las intenciones más rastreras.

No quiero emponzoñar tu hilo con detalles técnicos cuando lo que importa es denunciar la chusma que hay detrás.

CC: @alejandroamartin@laplaza.cafe

el protocolo Nostr (El de threads).

(respecto a lo demás, estoy totalmente de acuerdo).

CC: @alejandroamartin@laplaza.cafe

And Casablanca, of course.

Si el Estado recauda más IRPF con un millón de personas trabajando es porque "el Gobierno se forra", pero si lo hace un gobierno del PP con 35.000 declarantes más entonces es "el milagro Laffer"...

Escriben para ignorantes.

#Memes #Christmas #Humour

Well that was an easy festive family tech support ticket:

Problem: USB flash drive was not working.

Diagnosis: that's not a USB flash drive. That is the dongle for your mouse.

Solution: here's a USB flash drive.

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

I want one.

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David AttenBruh @AlHendiify Kinda wild how the natural opposite to the red maga hat just organically popped up Oliya Scootercaster Supporter of Luigi Mangione outside of NYC Court (Picture of a man outdoors in a Luigi (from Marijo Brothers) green cap)

Stephanie recalled riding home with her sister in one of Waymo’s driverless Jaguar SUVs around 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday night
-- when a car holding several young men began following them.

They drove close to the robotaxi honking and yelling,
“Hey, ladies — you guys are hot.”

If she or another human had been driving, it would have been easy to reroute the car to avoid leading the pursuers to her home.

But she was scared and didn’t know how to change the robot’s path.

She called 911, but a dispatcher said they couldn’t send a police car to a moving vehicle, Stephanie recalled.


“All the safety things then become unsafe if someone is following you,”
she said of the incident,
which Waymo confirmed and has not been previously reported.

As Waymo expands its service in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Austin,
some passengers like Stephanie have found that traveling by robotaxi can make riders into sitting ducks for a new form of public harassment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/22/waymo-robotaxi-passengers-harassment/

Estos son los 175 contratos de la Xunta con la empresa donde la hermana de Feijóo es directiva
https://buff.ly/4gO6Raq

div class="ftf-dma-note d-none ad native-ad native-ad-1 ytd-j yxd-j yxd-jd aff-content-col aff-inner-col aff-item-list ark-ad-message inplayer-ad inplayer_banners in_stream_banner trafficjunky-float-right dbanner preroll-blocker happy-inside-player blocker-notice blocker-overlay exo-horizontal ave-pl bottom-hor-block brs-block advboxemb wgAdBlockMessage glx-watermark-container overlay-advertising-new header-menu-bottom-ads rkads mdp-deblocker-wrapper amp-ad-inner imggif bloc-pub bloc-pub2 hor_banner aan_fake aan_fake__video-units rps_player_ads fints-block__row full-ave-pl full-bns-block vertbars video-brs player-bns-block wps-player__happy-inside gallery-bns-bl stream-item-widget adsbyrunactive happy-under-player adde_modal_detector adde_modal-overlay ninja-recommend-block aoa_overlay message"

Is it just me or does buying a Tesla in 2024/25 feel like buying a Mercedes in 1936?

WIRED article forecasting the generative AI bubble will burst in 2025. This is more optimistic than my own expectations, but if WIRED are printing it, it's the direction sentiment in Silicon Valley is running in.

(Hint: there's gold in AI, but it's in *analytical* AI, aka big data, not stochastic parrot bullshit.)

https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-will-need-to-prove-its-usefulness/

It's always nice when my random shuffle picks Ann Hell. Prince Prospero Meets the Red Death is solid coding music. Thanks, @angel !

https://archive.org/details/the_mask

Tanto Milei en Argentina como Bukele en El Salvador dijeron que si la deuda es aberrante, que si recortando no haría falta más deuda, que si sus políticas iban a ir muy bien, que si los Bonos Volcán y que si no se iban a endeudarse con el FMI...

Los dos han pedido dinero al FMI y van a endeudar más a sus países...

While I was mucking about with an #openbsd port, I got an email from github offering me access to their ai code writing uselessness.

No! Bad website!

*spritzes with water bottle*

My code doesn't work at the moment. Broken is still better than this offer.

Nonprofit work is hard. It takes a lot of time, dedication and, more often than not, you see volunteers taking in multiple different tasks and responsibilities to keep everything running. Thankfully, we occasionally get external contributors that help us out!

For instance, I would post something serious so as to promote our nonprofit, but it seems like #GitHub decided to help us with the marketing for the day by sending a bunch of its users (multiple) emails about GitHub Copilot. 😅

For today's #ThankYouTuesday, I want to thank the honest people. The ones who don't make noise, who are not unfair to others, positive, and respectful.
Tonight, after the last two emails, I want to thank them more than ever.

#ThankYou

https://mastodon.social/@kiwix/113622081750449356

I'm not following the thread, so things may have changed.

Más tarde me he dado cuenta de que empleando el correo electrónico las discusiones no tienen sentido y que más allá del duelo al amanecer no merece la pena discutir con gente que se ha construido un personaje público y saca sus garbanzos de ahí. Entre eso y los palmeros, a los que el tuitstar SÍ responde por que necesita tenerles en cuenta, es difícil estar a gusto; de hecho el término "pocosfollower" es el indicativo de una época.

Pero sí que he pasado mucho tiempo allí obteniendo enlaces y enterándome de polémicas para pasar el rato y olvidar cómo estoy y quién soy así que tampoco es que lo haya dejado hasta el sábado. Una vez que tengo mi servidor en el fediverso (con #snac) tengo siempre un lugar que considero mío. Por esa parte estoy cubierto.

Ahora estoy intentando ver qué aparece en BlueSky y de momento están todos con una limpia tremenda de nazis y demás chusma que está funcionando al parecer. También cuentas estupendas que estaban permanentemente candadas en twitter ahora actúan en abierto y son una delicia de seguir. Pero el lugar sigue siendo extraño, como un barrio bajo asedio, y quiero ver dónde terminará cuando los dueños empiecen a monetizar.

If there's not an apparent one, it's easy to find.

I was on the verge of moving to Hetzner when I read this.

CC: @stux@mstdn.social

#DanteAlighieri #DivinaComedia

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

Me corrijo: montar un sistema para enviar correo también es trivial; lo que es difícil es que tus correos lleguen y no queden marcados como SPAM.

Please, keep writing them. Also, your prose is very fresh and entertaining.

In 2021, I sent an email saying that, given the situation, I would not be able to keep your machines running with the current infrastructure. You replied that the funds are allocated "for migration to a cloud-based solution," so the machines must be kept running as they are. I strongly suggest you reconsider: your connections are unstable and slow, it would be impossible to work (via Remote Desktop, Windows servers) in such conditions - from over 30 thin clients. You responded that the budget is now allocated for this, and that the consultant assured you everything would be perfect.

The migration will never happen – after spending tens of thousands of euros – due to "lack of connection quality."

I "forgive" you.

At the beginning of 2023, I wrote to you that there are two critical issues that will soon compromise the security and reliability of the machines. You replied that you are "working on the plan for migration to a centralized solution in one of your locations." I responded that the connectivity is inadequate, that that location has data center flooding issues (it should at least be moved to an upper floor), and that, in case of problems, all your 9 locations would be down because of it. Therefore, given the situation, it would be better to keep a server and a replica at each site, with offsite backups, ensuring they are current and consistent.

Minimal financial investment, maximum uptime.

You replied that "the defined path is now set, so we are proceeding with it" because a "consultant has guaranteed maximum reliability."

I withdrew, predicting disasters and for the same reason: they present themselves elegantly, with glossy catalogs and buzzwords – they sure seem credible and modern!

Go ahead, it’s your money and your data.

This morning at 5:30, you woke up me because your location had electrical issues, and the other branches are facing external connectivity problems due to the (same) Internet provider (and the backup, which uses the same channels as the primary provider, unlike what the vendors had promised).

A downtime of at least 3 days is expected.

Everything is down. You want me to take the backups (made by others, I don't even know how), and restore the old servers in the branches (from 2015), as you believe it would be possible to resume work only this way – as suggested by the "elegant consultant."

I replied that I wish you good luck and went back to sleep with a clear conscience.

#IT #DisasterRecovery #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #KISS #KeepItSimpleAndStupid #NewWeekNewTroubles

This will probably also improve snac behaviour with other apps.

CC: @nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk @knapjack@elsewhere.cozysumo.space

(golden ratio)^2 - (golden ratio) - 1 = 0

You don't need to be a futurism savant to notice the connection and extrapolate a certain kind of future from these 2 sentences:

'Thursday afternoon in #SanFrancisco: On one side of Mission Street, hotel workers chanted and banged on a drum outside the Marriott Marquis, part of a monthslong strike for higher wages and more #jobs. On the other, a tech company’s billboard proclaimed, “Stop #hiring humans.”'

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-artisan-billboards-stop-hiring-humans-19969672.php

#AI

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Billboard in San Franciso proclaiming "Stop Hiring Humans, the era of AI employees is here"

"Are you going to take off those headphones so we can discuss this like mature adults, Harry? Or, are you just going to sit there like a petulant child?”

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An old man wearing headphones sits on a park bench with a pelican.