tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
🇪🇸 #Spain #España
La #BibliotecaNacional libera «más de 30 millones de imágenes para todo uso: El Cantar del #MíoCid, el #Quijote o los manuscritos de #DaVinci, a solo tres clics. Se convierten así en recursos gratuitos para ser utilizados por las industrias creativas y culturales, por editoriales, investigadores, centros educativos… pero también por el público general para cualquier uso, incluido el comercial.»
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http://www.bne.es/es/AreaPrensa/noticias2020/1027-bne-libera-mas-de-30-millones-de-imagenes-para-todo-uso.html
“Do you have to remind people, on some intermittent basis, of what can happen? And the answer, historically, seems ‘yes’. […] Discover, lo and behold, that, you know, without a police force a man can rape a woman and just walk away. Who knew! …other than all humans in History. Without a police force, the business doesn't have any protection when the mob comes and decides to burn the whole damn thing down. Who knew! — apart from everyone in History. […] The question really is: can they learn the lesson privately or do they have to do it and pull everyone else into their remedial lesson?”
#DouglasMurray, on #EricWeinstein's #ThePortal #podcast. A very inspiring, if also long and at times inscrutable, episode.
https://art19.com/shows/the-portal/episodes/1b4a34fc-8ee2-489a-af6a-0a996b89d27b
The government of #Spain 🇪🇸 is pushing a six-month-long #StateOfEmergency — because, #Covid. Contradictio in terminis. It reminds me of the constant “state of high alarm” under which I lived all my years in the UK and in Japan, a state announced obsessively in the underground, both in London and in Tokyo.
Now that we have smart contracts, we need #SmartLaws: legislation that is passed with programmable checks attached that are objectively evaluated to alter or revoke those laws. eg, a state of emergency ends after one month, or as soon as certain predetermined thresholds are met — whichever happens first.
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The irony of this is that I solved the puzzle several times without ever bothering to read the security notice above.
We badly need a captive portal login app that knows how to agree to legal bullshit, give a fake email and also bypass these stupid capchas.
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@tripu Beware that NYT is also a very large *tech* giant. Google is NYT's competitor for eyeballs in the attention economy. Take everything they say with a grain of salt.
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To put #Alphabet's size in perspective:
Its market cap (~$1T) is roughly the same as the GDP of the Netherlands, Mexico, or Indonesia.
It has as much in cash (~$120B) as the whole government budgets of Finland or the United Arab Emirates.
#BigTech #Google
QT: https://qoto.org/@tripu/105073533095839302
“‘The #Google of today is a #monopoly gatekeeper for the internet.’ […] Conservatives like President Trump and liberals like Senator Elizabeth Warr...
To put #Alphabet's size in perspective:
Its market cap (~$1T) is roughly the same as the GDP of the Netherlands, Mexico, or Indonesia.
It has as much in cash (~$120B) as the whole government budgets of Finland or the United Arab Emirates.
#BigTech #Google
QT: https://qoto.org/@tripu/105073533095839302
“‘The #Google of today is a #monopoly gatekeeper for the internet.’ […] Conservatives like President Trump and liberals like Senator Elizabeth Warr...
“‘The #Google of today is a #monopoly gatekeeper for the internet.’ […] Conservatives like President Trump and liberals like Senator Elizabeth Warren have called for more restraints over #BigTech. […] #Alphabet, valued at $1.04 trillion and with cash reserves of $120 billion, has fought similar #antitrust lawsuits in Europe. The company spent $12.7 million lobbying in the United States in 2019, making it one of the top corporate spenders in Washington.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/technology/google-antitrust.html
#AltruismoEficaz 🇪🇸 #España + Juan García (Allfed):
«Alternativas alimentarias en caso de catástrofe global»
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twml1x1jXFI
#EffectiveAltruism
“A novel metallic compound of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur exhibited superconductivity at a balmy 59 degrees Fahrenheit when pressurized between a pair of diamond anvils. […] That’s a chilly room, maybe a British Victorian cottage.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-first-room-temperature-superconductor-20201014/
#physics #science
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Honestly 11 is such a good phone that I don't know how they could top that. More performance? But I don't suffer any performance limitations anyway, what am I gonna do, sequence proteins on this thing? #AppleEvent
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"Anemoia" is the feeling of nostalgia for a time you haven't experienced
I don't know if there's an equivalent term for places, but I've never been to Japan and yet this quiet street gives me the same vibe
#Photography by Ryo
https://www.flickr.com/photos/moojie/14950084067/in/photostream/
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After a week of working on re architecting the QOTO servers I'm mostly there. I had to write a whole new load-balancer from the ground up. The old one didnt work with docker-swarm.
The load balancer is now automated like before AND distributed. So basically I never need to worry about obtaining or configuring ssl certs or even fussing with nginx configuration. When i bring a new service up into the swarm I simply add some labels to the service and the load balancer I wrote will automatically detect it and rewrite its own nginx configuration, obtain new certs (or renew existing ones) and automatically route itself to the new service.
This was the bulk of the work, I put the source code up for it (its three containers) here for anyone who might want to steal it, I'll be documenting it and cleaning it up tomorrow:
https://git.qoto.org/modjular/swarm-proxy
I also automated the process of bringing up new nodes in the swarm so I wrote a whole bunch of scripts for that in a separate repo (I'll share that tomorrow). So at this point its just a matter of actually bringing the services up in the new framework. So far I've tested it with two services and works great.
So starting tomorrow I can start migrating QOTO services to the new framework hopefully. Its amazing how easy this is going to make my life.
What the bloody fuck, #apple https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/8/21506995/apple-forced-in-app-purchase-protonmail-ceo-wordpress-iap Forcing Protonm...
I had been very suspicious of #JohnMcAfee's flamboyant bullish assertions about #crypto in the short term. Now it all makes sense.
https://www.whoismcafee.com/u-s-securities-and-exchange-commission-sec-sues-mcafee-for-pumping-initial-coin-offerings-icos/
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Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
