Nikolai Kardashev was a Soviet radio astronomer and astrophysicist who wanted to know how one could even detect extraterrestrial civilizations at all, the “SETI problem”. He concluded: by energy consumption. The Kardashev scale is therefore not an ISO standard (ISO = Interstellar Standards […]

The time is probably right. Back in 2022, when I was still using iOS, I wasn’t completely happy with the Fediverse apps that were available. I was mostly using Akkoma, and the interface I liked the most was actually its web UI, even on mobile. So I started playing with Xcode and put together […]

acquired - tome of pf (this is not sponsored content, I just like the book) thank you @pitrh https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition #unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openbsd #pf #BookOfPF

LA VERDAD SOBRE LAS SIRENAS / THE TRUTH ABOUT MERMAIDS (2015) #artwork

LA VERDAD SOBRE LAS SIRENAS / THE TRUTH ABOUT MERMAIDS (2015) #artwork

#unix_surrealism #dataswamp #technomage #art #comic #openbsd

Get snac'd up (not just) for #fossdem ! You can now purchase #snac propaganda stickers and apparel to show your allegiance or to wage war with […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

https://subversive.pics is now aggregating 11 subversive galleries with @occult being the latest addition. Instagram is starting to foam at its machine mouth! #art #theStudio

this front cannot fall #plan9 #9front #cirno #glenda #catv #unix_surrealism

EL NUEVO DEMIURGO / THE NEW DEMIURGE (1993) #artwork

strlcpy(3) #unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #analognowhere #fish #penguin #mata #linux #comic #art

last of the fish #unix_surrealism #technomage #gameoftree #9front no #thinkpad #openbsd

EL NUEVO DEMIURGO / THE NEW DEMIURGE (1993) #artwork

## CASTING NO SHADOW He felt bored one day and decided to go see a movie, no matter which one. So he walked down Martín de los Heros street, entered a cinema and chose a random French film. This was the most important decision in his life: almost instantly, he fell in love with the actress. She […]

A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G. I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]

## DON PASQUALE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VAMPIRES My taxi crawled through a winding road. There were cypresses around, dark and quiet. Light was warm orange. What a beautiful country. I was left by a big house, made of pale stone. The car disappeared behind a dust cloud. By the door there […]

MONSTER BRAINS. Pen on paper. #artwork

Here is the CPU usage graph for the last 24 hours of the FediMeteo VM. A full 24 hours, during which a huge number of people are connecting, helped by the traction gained from being among the top stories on Hacker News and Lobsters, as well as the many […] [Original post on mastodon.bsd.cafe]

Two Fediverse clients I like are Elk and Phanpy, but both had the same issue: the inability to filter "replies" and "boosts" from the timeline. For me this is essential. I can't keep up with my timeline, and if I also see replies to posts unrelated to what I follow, it just becomes chaos. So I […]

@angel we definitely do. I'm lucky enough to be able to go and see it from time to time (even if last time has been in August). So the next time I'll watch the sea, I'll dedicate it to you. Meanwhile, I'm sending you this photo, from November 2024

I'm in love with The Sea. It's a bit strange, as I'm from Madrid; it's a dry and stubborn land as far from the sea as can be. Or, who knows, maybe that's the reason of my love, the love of the dispossesed, the love of the forsaken, the love of the abandoned; a loved one, a desired one, as far as […]

they are idiots... you can copy and paste the text from some of the epstein files to unredact it... absolute idiots...

The Gray Teacher On a gray winter morning, memory drifts back to an old classroom, a stern teacher, and the thin line between mist and humidity. https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/23/the-gray-teacher/ #mynotes #blogging #memories #life

THE HOUSE IS SLAUGHTERED. Pen on paper, 1988.

## WOMEN OF LEMNOS When the Argonauts arrived on a humid and sunny day to the island of Λημνος (Lemnos), they found it a desolate place: no males were to be found. Jason and his companions were informed that the women of Lemnos had killed all of them; fathers, husbands, sons. Some time ago, a […]

Opened the window to check a noise. Saw nothing but the void - a wall of fog. Closed it. I now have zero answers and new fears. #mondayevening #fog

## WOMEN OF LEMNOS When the Argonauts arrived on a humid and sunny day to the island of Λημνος (Lemnos), they found it a desolate place: no males were to be found. Jason and his companions were informed that the women of Lemnos had killed all of them; fathers, husbands, sons. Some time ago, a […]

The Masks of Hypocrisy https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/10/the-masks-of-hypocrisy/ #mynotes #world #people #life #reflections

## THERE IS NO KILL LIKE OVERKILL The Saint Boniface Maximum Security Prison. What a shithole. "Hello, I would like to meet warden Titus Riccitelli", I said. The guard was a thin, old man that looked very bored. I gave him my business card. "Miroslav...", he read it, paused, and said "Like […]

EMAIL WRAPPED 2025 This year, you received too fucking much email! Number of emails that found you well: zero Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]

This morning, as the zfs-send/receive had finished its job during the night, I performed the last sync and moved FediMeteo from the previous 4 euros/month VPS - netcup - to a 4 euros/month VPS - OVH, Milano, Italy. Thanks to #bastillebsd and the jail setup, it was easy peasy. So, the weather […]

#fensterfreitag #windowfriday #viernesdeventanas Madrid, Spain

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters. Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters. The result (or maybe […]

## SEMIBOVEMQUE VIRUM SEMIVIRUMQUE BOVEM Classical poet Ovid once asked each one of his friends to choose, from a poem of him, three verses they considered the worst and that were to be deleted; also, he told them that he also had chosen three verses himself that were not to be deleted, no […]

Salvatore Sanfilippo (creator of Redis, and more) published a beautiful video inspired by my latest blog post. I was really pleased! It's in Italian, but auto-generated English captions are available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNqbKEx2mBM #itnotes #linux #opensource #oss #OpenSource

The Chair A familiar road, a moment of pause. I found myself looking at a place that once meant purpose and community. It’s a quiet reflection on what remains when people move on and what stays behind in silence. https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24/the-chair/ #mynotes #people #life […]

## THE WRITING ON HIS FATHER'S HAND "Tell me...", babbled Skips, "tell me one thing, Frenchie." "Stop that Frenchie shit, Skips. What do you want me to tell you?" "Tell me that I will be able to forget about this." The room was dark and humid. A bare lightbulb over their heads, brownish […]

> It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable Earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. > Rainer Maria Rilke, on literature

#fensterfreitag #windowfriday #viernesdeventanas Madrid, Spain

**Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared** https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/ #itnotes #notehub #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server […]

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/ #itnotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin […]

The Lady of the Clock The search for an antique clock turns into an encounter with its elderly owner and a promise to become the custodian of a century of memories. A personal reflection on legacy, loss, and the stories objects carry […]

> "I’d never ask AI to write for me any more than I’d ask a robot to go for a walk in the woods for me. I love writing, why would I want to have a tool do it for me?" > Linda Caroll, What human writers must learn from AI

## NIGHT BECOMES HIM I refused to take the elevator. Personal preferences. A pale, thin woman opened the door. She was in his forties. Long, dark hair. Watery eyes. "Hello, I have an appointment with Mr. Brown", I said, showing my business card. She took a look at the small cardboard piece […]

Plot twist: The stranger on the coach says: "What are you doing here again, Stefano? You died in that fog many decades ago. This is my house now."

If a street musician makes you stop, you owe them some money