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Hay historias que me gusta contar todos los años. Esta noche es Nochevieja, así que aquí va la de hoy.

in reply to Thiago Ferrer Morini

He ido a mirar y, para mi sorpresa, este año NO se emite 'Ironía del Destino'. En su lugar pondrán 'Moscú no cree en las lágrimas', una de las tres películas soviéticas ganadoras del Oscar y la única que no es de época. Probablemente en homenaje a su protagonista, Vera Alentova, que falleció la semana pasada.
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in reply to Thiago Ferrer Morini

Por cierto, ahora en Rusia 1 están poniendo la versión soviética de 'El perro del hortelano', de la que alguna vez he hablado aquí (y da fe de lo popular que sigue siendo) youtube.com/watch?v=tDt1GbUy00…

Ok, so here is a working 40KB language model for Z80. It mght be a good occasion to put the tech under the microscope and understand it through and through.

github.com/HarryR/z80ai

We've enabled SASL2 and XEP-0474: SASL SCRAM Downgrade Protection on XMPP.is via github.com/unredacted/xmpp.is/…

This solves one of the most important issues mentioned in our blog post unredacted.org/blog/2023/11/wh…

#XMPP #Security #TLS

There's a weird trick that people on X seem to be practicing now, where, when they want to make a reply that they posted in a thread appear to all followers, not just those who follow the thread participants, they repost the post immediately preceding that reply.

Hence the questions:

1) is it allowed to boost our own replies here, and if so, will that show them to everybody, even those who normally wouldn't see the thread? What's the best way to achieve this?

2) Will this cause other instances to fetch the entire thread from the start?

Kirjoitan Hesarin mielipidepalstalla, että sosiaalisen median kieltäminen lapsilta ei ole toimiva ratkaisu.

Käyttäjien sijaan rajoitustoimet tulee kohdistaa palvelujen tuottajiin: käyttäjen heikkouksia hyödyntämään pyrkiviä algoritmeja ja massiivista tiedonkeruuta on säädeltävä samalla tavalla kuin säädellään esimerkiksi elintarvikkeiden turvallisuutta.

Ja myös aikuisilla on oikeus terveelliseen digitaaliseen toimintaympäristöön.

hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000011718…

❤️ 🔁 - Das, WAS Alev Doğan sagt... und WIE sie es sagt.

Quelle: ➡️ instagram.com/reels/DSzEi79jc8…

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#kwanzaaThoughts

Day 5 - Nia (Purpose)

Its been 400 years since the start of the slave trade so people have had a very long time to vilify other people because of their skin color. Antiblackness has spread across the globe, and dark-skinned people are judged by others as soon as they are seen.
Changing that will take a long time.
I've been thinking of writing stories where that isn't the case. #Solarpunk stories. Finding a purpose can be something very small, but every little bit helps.

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#KwanzaaThoughts

Day 6 - Kuumba (Creativity)

New Years Eve is a time to party and forget your troubles before the start of the new year. In Kwanzaa, it is time for Karamu Ya Imani (Feast of Faith). The value, Kuumba, should be demonstrated by crafts, music, and fun with the purpose to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
In the spirit of Kuumba, for Today's affirmation I will tell a Nancy story. Special thanks to @FreakyFwoof who contributed music.

I did something this year that I would like to recommend to everyone for the new year. Call it a Fedi Resolution if you like.

Find someone whose work you like and become their champion. Not in a creepy way, but make a point of boosting them every time they post (or post about) their work. Recommend it to people you think would like it.

The Fediverse works if it works for the people who use it. If you see someone who does something you like, lend your voice to help make it work for them.

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That gpgfail comment about how they could have tanked bitcoin with a Twitter post faking a Satoshi signed message was a bit too optimistic. You're not going to cause panic unless you can move funds from his wallets. The skeptics would have quickly tried to verify with other PGP implementations and discovered the ruse

Honduras pol, elections, U.S. imperialism

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For a while, in my life, even numbered years were less preferable than odd numbered ones in that less bad stuff tended to happen in my life during odd numbered years. At some point, this changed. Now, they all just seem to suck equally, with a couple of exceptions. This year and 2019, so far, have been the two top worst for me in general terms, with 2019 edging out in a few fundamental respects.

I don't even bother being hopeful anymore. Come what may, and all that.

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And while we're pausing from questions, I'd be a bad Executive Director if I didn't mention that we still have $92,680 left in our match challenge! Until 1/15 (or until we've reached the $251,939 challenge amount), donations count twice.

I've been inundated with emails today, saying that there are only hours left to donate in 2025! I won't be so theatrical, but I will say it's a very good time to donate to #SFC. We'll use the funds as wisely as possible towards our mission of software freedom.

#sfc

reshared this

> Even it were possible, changing from a one-hour to a four-hour confirmation would have significant negative impacts on the Bitcoin ecosystem.

how? What negative impact? The Bitcoin blockchain is a payment rails, not a trading platform. On-chain trading does not have to happen; only final settlement. Layers have been built on top of it for a long time now because even 1 hour sucks for some use cases.

It's like pretending that when you trade stocks they're in your name. No they're not, unless you purchase them and they're direct registered. When you're on eTrade, Vanguard, etc trading stocks they're just changing values in a database inside that company. If you want to direct register your MSFT stocks that you're holding on eTrade it's going to take several days (near a week last I saw) for that to "settle" too.

Billionaires with $1 salaries
– and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches

Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting

Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024,
and he made US$1.

But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work.

Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions?

The reason is taxes.

Income from work is the most heavily taxed type of income,
as it is subject to both income and payroll taxes.

A self-employed person who makes a modest income of $60,000 will pay over $13,000 of it in payroll and income taxes.

Meanwhile, high-income earners who earn a $400,000 salary can pay about 30% of their income in payroll and income taxes.

So the first step in avoiding taxes is avoiding salary,
and that is what our richest Americans often do.

salon.com/2025/12/28/billionai…

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