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The Automattic Creed

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will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague, and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. I am more motivated by impact than money, and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable.

The Five Layers of Sharing Thoughts and Ideas

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1. Layer one is your internal thoughts.
2. Layer two is triggered as soon as you put something into a medium, like writing it down. It’s everything that leaves your head, but is just reserved for you.
3. Layer three is you and someone else. This is everything you share with one other person, which is an incredibly sacred act.
4. Layer four is sharing within a finite group. N+1. It’s a space of collaboration and brainstorming with families, tribes, and teams.
5. Finally, we have the fifth layer. This is the public layer.

Automattic Twenty

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In 2005, being a remote-first company was anathema to investors and business leaders* at the time…

I can’t predict everything that will change over the coming decades, especially with AI making the next few years particularly hard to predict. Still, I do know a few things that won’t change: everything flows from our people, open source is still the most powerful idea of our generation, growth is the best feedback loop, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. People will always want fast, bug-free software; instant, omniscient customer service when they need it; and experiences so intuitive that they usually don’t. And once they’ve had a taste of freedom, it’s hard to return to their previous state. (For more, see our creed.)

Usando palabrotas para evitar la IA en Google

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El tema es que anoche con mi pareja charlando salió el tema de que ahora ya google te mete IA si o si, quieras o no quieras. Hicimos un par de pruebas y efectivamente: Si añades ciertas palabrotas se desactivan los resultados generados con IA.

…si quieres sentirte como un hacker has de vestir con capucha, teclear muy rápido (con un teclado mecánico gamer que haga mucho ruido) y sobre todo usar palabrotas al buscar en google.

The Right Not to Use the Internet

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This pioneering collection addresses the prospective fundamental/human right not to use the Internet and the challenges that the non- use of the Internet poses for democracy.

As the Internet has increasingly ceased to be a mere option and rather turned into a de facto obligation for anyone who exercises their rights or fulfils duties, these developments bring about profound ramifications for the very existence and the functioning of democracy, and therefore merit a critical reflection. With contributors from academia and legal practice from all over Europe, this edited volume offers timely critical analysis of the right not to use of the Internet, at times supplemented with policy advice and postulates for law reform.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of – predominantly – law, political science and philosophy as well as to policymakers, judges and nongovernmental organisations at national, supranational and international levels.

Vibe coding

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Vibe coding (or vibecoding) is an approach to producing software by using artificial intelligence (AI), where a person describes a problem in a few natural language sentences as a prompt to a large language model (LLM) tuned for coding. The LLM generates software based on the description, shifting the programmer’s role from manual coding to guiding, testing, and refining the AI-generated source code.

The Booze of Monkey Island

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The Booze of Monkey Island is an unofficial fan game created by enthusiasts of the famous series. Guybrush finds himself stranded on Booty Island, and the only one who can help him fix his ship is his bartender friend. But there’s a catch: he’ll only agree to help if Guybrush manages to bring him new customers! Will our hero be able to convince the local pirates to drown their joys and sorrows with a few drinks?

A mini pirate adventure featuring:

-A point-and-click interface with three actions to choose from!
-A whole island to explore!
-Fully animated 2D graphics!
-Clever puzzles for true adventurers!
-Music, atmosphere, and dialogues inspired by Ron Gilbert’s classic Monkey Island series.

Internet for the people

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Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it?

In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn’t always like this—it had to be remade for the purposes of profit maximization, through a years-long process of privatization that turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.

The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned and organized. Not with an eye towards making markets work better, but towards making them less dominant. Not in order to create a more competitive or more rule-bound version of privatization, but to overturn it. Otherwise, a small number of executives and investors will continue to make choices on everyone’s behalf, and these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It’s time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.

Quelqu’un à qui parler

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Samuel broie du noir. Et il y a de quoi ! Il est célibataire, vit dans un petit appartement sous un toit de Paris et se morfond dans un travail qui ne le passionne pas… Seul chez lui le soir de son anniversaire, Samuel s’amuse à appeler le seul numéro qu’il connait par coeur, celui de sa maison d’enfance. À sa grande surprise, quelqu’un décroche : lui-même. Le petit Samuel, 10 ans, qui rêve d’être footballeur, de voyager et d’écrire des romans pour impressionner les filles… Comment garder la tête haute quand on doit avouer à l’enfant qu’on était qu’on n’a réalisé aucun de ses rêves ?
Il est temps pour Samuel de reprendre sa vie en main…

How to Fine-Tune Llama-3.2 on your own data: A detailed guide

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Autoregressive text generation word by word

Let’s start by briefly describing what fine-tuning is. It is all about adjusting a model to fit your specific needs by tweaking its weights. Imagine you’re dealing with legal documents where words like ‘consideration’ take on a whole new meaning compared to everyday speech or what the model has been trained on. Fine-tuning steps in to make sure the model gets these specialized terms right. It’s not just about words either — you can also set up the model to follow specific rules, like keeping answers short and to the point, or understanding your business needs to a deeper level. So, if you’re planning to deploy it in production, this process transforms a general-purpose model into something custom-built for your data.

The lightweight models, specifically the 1B and 3B ({N}B = N billion parameters, for positive integer N), are among the most interesting for a variety of reasons. They are relatively easy to run locally, unlike the larger versions of LLMs and Meta claims they can be smoothly deployed on hardware found in mobile devices. This opens the door to many applications, as language processing can be done locally, without data leaving the device. As a result, these models are not reliant on a stable internet connection and offer a more private handling of sensitive information. With these advantages, we can expect to see more tools like personal assistants running on our smartphones.

Catálogo de ayudas técnicas caseras

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En este catálogo puede encontrar un conjunto de adaptaciones o ayudas técnicas caseras elaboradas por las propias personas mayores, las personas con discapacidad o sus redes de apoyo. Están organizadas por su función para que sea más fácil el poder localizarlas. Estas ayudas o adaptaciones han sido recogidas de las ideas aportadas en las distintas ediciones de nuestro Concurso de ideas sobre ayudas técnicas. Son recursos de bajo coste y la mayoría de ellos están concebidos y diseñados desde el enfoque denominado « hazlo tú mismo ». Si en la búsqueda tiene algún problema contacte con nosotros.

Windows 7 tardaba 30 segundos más en cargar si el fondo de pantalla era sólido en vez de una imagen

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Ahora que Windows 7 (2009-2015) duerme el sueño de los justos (o debería) se ha desvelado un curioso bug que habrá hecho perder millones de horas a gente de todo el mundo hasta que se corrigió: el proceso de arranque era 30 segundos más lento si se elegía un color de fondo sólido en vez de una imagen.

Según cuentan, el fallo estaba en que para construir la imagen del escritorio (barra da tareas, iconos, etcétera) se esperaba al OK de la imagen cargada, lo cual era en realidad muy rápido… Pero alguien olvidó incluir ese OK si no se elegía ninguna imagen, de modo que el proceso se quedaba esperando y esperando hasta los 30 segundos límites que tenía estipulados como máximo.

DUM DUM

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Detalle de la portada del cómic Dum Dum

Javier Marquina, guionista fertil y parra fecunda del tebeo independiente. Jaime Infante, sombras y luces para dibujar, masas de negro y composiciones cuidadísimas. Toman como base el “Mear Sangre” de Dum Dum Pacheco –autobiografía que el boxeador comenzó a escribir en la cárcel a los 19 años cuando llevaba ya tres preso en Carabanchel– y algunos otros documentos y testimonios del boxeador, para construir este DUM DUM. Si el relato original de Pacheco ya es de una violencia bestial descarnada, ponerle imágenes a todo esto lo aterriza como la barbaridad escalofriante que es. Pacheco es criado a hostias, curtido por ese mismo sistema pedagógico, delincuencia y talego. Hostias abundantes para poder salir más o menos indemne de su paso por la cárcel. Y el carácter siempre presente, que no ayuda. La legión, el boxeo y la vida cotidiana, donde, totalmente interiorizada, tampoco puede faltar la violencia.

Infante y Marquina, emulando en cierta medida el estilo caótico de Mear Sangre –donde los recuerdos acuden como borbotones a la cabeza de Pacheco– arman una historia en la que la voluntad, el destino y el carácter son los guionistas en la sombra de la vida de Dum Dum, pionero de la delincuencia juvenil, uno de los presos más jóvenes que ostentó el récord de periodo en celda de castigo (un año aislado) y campeón de España de los pesos wélter en seis ocasiones.

Spain map with D3

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Mapa de España con Islas Canarias hecho con D3

Since we will manage files and dependencies we choose Flask for a quick example. Any other framework could be used, it only consist on importing correctly all libraries.

The libraries used are the following:

Jquery: Common library used almost for anything. (Desc)

Jquery UI: Visual extension for Jquery (Desc, in this case used to create the time slider. We also add another extension (Ui slider pips) to this slider to customize even more.

D3: D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. In this case we use to create a map of Spain. More examples of D3 here.

D3 composite: Extension of D3 that allow to create proyections of maps. For example, in the case of Spain since the canary islands are far away from the peninsula, only using D3 we have a really off center map. This library also provides Spain provinces limits . Important: This library only works with the current set of Jquery and D3 version, if you want to use other versions, check the docs page.

Your ultimate VIM setup for Python

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Here you have many plugins listed as part of my configuration, we can highlight Jedi-Vim for autocompletion, Vim-Polyglot a collection of language packs for Vim, or NerdTree, a file manager for VIM, among others, as well as settings for auto-indent, line numbers, and additional configurations that will make your life easier.

Chemins de faire

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L’association Chemins de Faire a pour objet de sensibiliser le public varié aux enjeux du réemploi, de l’écologie et de la fabrication, afin de transformer la perception de l’impact écologique. Nous encourageons le faire soi-même, la réparation, la mise en oeuvre de solutions énergétiques autonomes, ainsi qu’un regard renouvelé sur les déchets, considérés comme des ressources à valoriser.
Au cours de ses activités itinérantes, l’association propose des formations sur l’utilisation d’outils manuels, en particulier pour le travail du bois. Ces ateliers visent à fabriquer collectivement des éléments de mobilier, des jeux collectifs, des dispositifs pour végétaliser les espaces publics ou encore des systèmes autonomes. Cette approche itinérante permet de rencontrer des publics divers et de susciter l’envie de créer et de construire soi-même.
Dans notre atelier fixe situé en Ariège, nous proposons des formations dédiées à la conception de systèmes autonomes pour l’habitat. Ces sessions offrent à ceux qui le souhaitent l’opportunité d’apprendre à utiliser les outils de base pour le travail du bois et du métal, tout en développant des compétences pratiques et utiles pour l’autonomie.
En favorisant les rencontres avec des artisans, l’association valorise savoir-faire et techniques traditionnels, contribuant ainsi à la préservation du patrimoine artisanal. Ces échanges peuvent également inspirer et encourager une orientation professionnelle vers les métiers manuels.

[Question] Build clusters depending on some geographical entity

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Example of clustering markers depending on a given geographical entities

Clusters are built purely with an algorithm. In many cases clustering markers depending on a given geographical entity is better (country, administrative region, zipcode, city, whatever).
People are familiar with such entities, and it avoids putting clusters in locations that don’t feel ‘natural’.

We developed a map where both algorithmical and ‘geographical’ approaches are used (depending on the zoom level) : https://thefoodassembly.com/

So we are both using Leaflet.markercluster and our own cluster logic. They are totally separated, which is a disadvantage because our own clusters don’t benefit from Leaflet.markercluster animations, automatically created clickable polygons, and so on.

Simple Redirects with .htaccess

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Redirect Syntax

This is the basic syntax for redirects written using the mod_alias redirect directive in Apache:

Redirect [status] URL-path URL
  • Make sure you capitalize the R in Redirect or it won’t work. Everything is case sensitive.
  • The status is optional and is usually a number indicating the HTTP status code you want to deliver to the browser. You can use the word permanent in the place of 301, or temp in the place of 302. If not provided, then 302 will be used as the default.
  • The URL-path is required and is always a path relative to the site root, not the location of the .htaccess file.
  • The URL is required and is either a path relative to the site root, assuming the redirect is within the same site, or an absolute URL if the redirect points to another site.

Manhattan

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Escena de Manhattan

The film opens with a montage of images of Manhattan and other parts of New York City accompanied by George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with Isaac Davis narrating drafts of an introduction to a book about a man who loves the city. Isaac is a twice-divorced, 42-year-old television comedy writer who quits his boring job. He is dating Tracy, a 17-year-old girl attending the Dalton School. His best friend, college professor Yale Pollack, married to Emily, is having an affair with Mary Wilkie. Mary’s ex-husband and former teacher, Jeremiah, also appears, and Isaac’s ex-wife Jill is writing a confessional book about their marriage. Jill, who before their marriage told Isaac that she was bisexual, has since come out and lives with her lesbian partner, Connie.

La teoría del Madrid muerto

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Comenzamos a buscar rastros humanos en las ventanas nocturnas cuando vivíamos en Miami, donde rascacielos enteros se mantenían casi vacíos durante gran parte del año. Cuanto más lujoso era el edificio, más grande y oscura era la mancha que recortaba sobre el mar nocturno. Imaginábamos a sus dueños, fondos de inversión incorpóreos, o ultrarricos internacionales, calculando que no les merecía la pena alquilar esos apartamentos, abriéndolos solo durante la feria de arte Art Basel para volar después a otra propiedad similar en Nueva York, París o Londres. Ese Miami era una ciudad rica, y muerta. En comparación, Madrid nos parecía la ciudad más viva y divertida del mundo. Pero ahora, años después de nuestra vuelta, algunos barrios de Madrid, y de Barcelona, y de Málaga, y de muchos otros lugares, también están muertos.

Existe una teoría de la conspiración, inventada en un foro más oscuro que los intereses de las grandes fortunas, que dice que internet murió en 2016. Mitad en serio, mitad en broma, en parte locura, en parte verdad, la teoría del internet muerto defiende que los gobiernos y las grandes corporaciones mantienen a la población bajo control gracias a una red de robots e IAs que simulan interaccionar entre sí, pero que son una fachada. Distraídos, dicen sus inventores, no nos damos cuenta de que X está lleno de bots, en YouTube el tráfico falso es una plaga, Google no llega a las profundidades del internet real, en Facebook y LinkedIn se promueve el contenido generado con IA, la mitad del tráfico web está generado por automatismos, los enlaces están rotos, la web se llena de páginas de calidad pésima creadas por inteligencias generativas. Los humanos, según esta teoría, estamos encerrados en las grandes redes y solo nos relacionamos a través de sus algoritmos. Este Madrid muerto es como el internet muerto, un espejismo sin interacción humana…

Milligram. A minimalist CSS framework

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Milligram provides a minimal setup of styles for a fast and clean starting point. Just it! Only 2kb gzipped! It’s not about a UI framework. Specially designed for better performance and higher productivity with fewer properties to reset resulting in cleaner code. Hope you enjoy!

Reality Bites, la película que deben ver los millennials

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“What are we going to do now? How can we repair all the damage we inherited? The answer is simple. The answer is… I don’t know”. Así comienza Reality Bites.

El filme estaba pensado para enfocarse en los problemas que enfrentan un grupo de graduados de la universidad ante una economía de recesión. Stiller fue el que le agregó el aspecto romántico (y desató mi amor por Ethan Hawke). Más allá del triángulo amoroso, las situaciones que enfrenta Lelaina y sus amigos son un retrato de la Generación X que se reflejan completamente en el título de la película.

La escena donde están en una gasolinera comprando cocas con la tarjeta de crédito del papá de Lelaina y de repente empiezan a bailar al ritmo de Mike Sharona, es un clásico. Igual que la escena en la que Ryder y Hawke caminan por la ciudad con un café y cigarro en mano tratando de descifrar lo que les espera profesionalmente.

switch advice: tp-link vs netgear vs aumox (unmanaged)

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Unmanaged switches are pretty much all the same, and you can primarily shop on price alone. I might avoid the completely « no name » knockoff brands, but any switch from TPLink or Netgear is gonna be fine and last decades. Switching technology has pretty much been solved and is very hard to screw up. Just put a switching chipset inside a metal box, and that’s all manufacturers need to do.

Archive Team

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Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions – and done our best to save the history before it’s lost forever. Along the way, we’ve gotten attention, resistance, press and discussion, but most importantly, we’ve gotten the message out: IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction.