josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
@prettygood You don't have to be annoying just because everybody else is. (To make myself clear: I don't think you're annoying, but seeing people with an endless list of pinned posts is. They seem to me like an old band living off their greatest hits.)
@wolf480pl As far as heroes go, I have only read the source code of Don Knuth, and I must say that, while I found it a bit weird in parts, it was definitely quality stuff.
@facua Apoyo que se prohiba fumar en espacios abiertos de donde los no fumadores no podamos salir o alejarnos sin vernos perjudicados de alguna forma, como paradas de autobús, automóviles, polideportivos, plazas de toros o estadios de fútbol. No incluiría las terrazas de los bares en esa categoría, dado que puedo meterme dentro o irme a otra parte.
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If you're an experienced communicator, passionate about #astronomy, and fluent in English and Spanish, there's a great job opportunity as ESO's Head of Communication in #Chile
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I hate businesses who will refuse to meet my demands for more ethical consumption because “how could we compete with Amazon/Google/Microsoft/anything else?” I don't know, dimwit. Maybe by at least _trying_?
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Which are the most plastic polluting corporations?
From https://brandaudit.breakfreefromplastic.org/brand-audit-2023/
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He said this in 2018, but this is exactly what is happening in the UK with the Labour Government and elsewhere
@atareao Ha cambiado radicalmente y para mal, en mi opinión. Si algo ha retrasado el proyecto en el que estoy trabajando en este momento, es el uso de contenedores y, en general, de las nubes de terceros.
Ni punto de comparación, por ejemplo, entre las trazas que saca el framework interno de la empresa (que se pueden buscar y manipular desde la consola con absoluta facilidad) y el montaje que tenemos en OpenSearch (donde encontrar la información que se necesita es, en el mejor de los casos, una pérdida de tiempo, y en el peor un esfuerzo inútil).
Lo mismo con los despliegues: antes teníamos un script en bash que desplegaba la aplicación en segundos y que podíamos revertir si algo salía mal. Ahora un pipeline que dura diez minutos. Dios quiera que nunca tengamos que desplegar algo con prisas.
Odio eterno al software moderno.
@david What's TBS?
@vaartis Sometimes it's better that way.
A lo mejor es porque soy más viejo que el mear, pero una cosa que me llama la atención de los jóvenes es su adanismo, esa idea de que todo se les ha ocurrido a ellos y los demás estábamos aquí de adorno. Sinceramente, yo no recuerdo haber sido así nunca, pero también es cierto que crecí con muchas referencias del pasado, tanto culturales como históricas, que ellos no parecen conocer.
Eso me recuerda a algo que me ocurrió hace unos diez años: tenía un compañero de trabajo más joven y un buen día le puse una canción de Nirvana. El chaval flipó, y yo flipé al descubrir que jamás había oído hablar de ellos. A la semana siguiente se había comprado dos camisetas.
@Biolibere Me fascina pensar que los que se han sacado esta idea de la manga piensen que son unos genios y que no era lo normal hace cuarenta años.
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Folks remembering #AaronSwartz today - remember that he was moving publicly-funded research out from behind a paywall.
Then remember the only reason the case went forward is because federal prosecutors, specifically Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann, wanted to make an example of him.
“Theft is theft, and it doesn’t matter if you use a crowbar or a computer” were Heymann’s words at the time.
Notice how federal prosecutors aren’t bullying Sam Altman for the wholesale theft of content network-wide, to build a machine that spews bullshit and further destroys our ability to determine the truth?
It’s because he’s doing it for private profit, while Aaron worked for the public good.
Never let yourself be tricked into believing the legal system is a justice system.
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Buenos días.
Joni Mitchell -Both Sides Now
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7cBf0olE9Yc&si=AcV8I0u1u9NwlLfS
I've been having trouble with qoto lately, so I've created an alt at @josemanuel@social.sdfeu.org. I don't plan on closing this one, but I will probably start using the other one more. You don't have to follow me there if you don't want to. This is more like a PSI.
Extended metaphore refanatzio review
@vaartis I was going to wait until I finished the game to read the review, but, after twenty hours of it, I decided I had enough. I found it boring and predictable.
In terms of gameplay, I hate that they went back to SMT's types of attack. (Who needs three types of physical attacks?) It's supposed to be (sort of) open world, but then they take you wherever they want because the story demands it. You can't even reach your destination through a different path. So frustrating. Of those 20 hours, at least five consisted of these barely interactive ‘cutscenes’.
The protagonist lacks anything resembling a personality, and neither of the other characters are remotely as lovable or memorable as P5R's.
That said, according to my nephew, we are the only ones on the Internet who hold these opinions, so you're probably right in what you wrote.
@vaartis I do, even though I find them cringey and (I'm sorry to say) not particularly sexy.
@hfaust In Spain we say: “No pasa nada, y si pasa, se le saluda”, which means the same thing.
@PatricioBateman Sigue siendo uno de mis discos favoritos de Iggy y “Beside you” mi canción preferida de él. Las notas ‘manuscritas’ en el CD me humanizaron mucho al artista.
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
