Notices by Ricardo Martín (ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe)

While checking an old FreeBSD machine today, I thought to myself, there must already be a tool or script that summarizes all cron jobs by date/time, including those in jails 🤔

Might be fun to write something myself, because having some jails in different timezones is always interesting

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture."
— Neil Postman

#quotes

@CorioPsicologia Eso es sospechoso. Todos los centros de computación deberían tener al menos una certificación ISO 14001, y por ello presentar oficialmente esos datos en sus resúmenes anuales. También se puede intentar a través del Ministerio de Transición Ecológica, y como último recurso a través de una petición al Fondo Europea de Desarrollo Regional que tendría que trabajar bajo la directiva Europea de Eficiencia Energética.
Pero supongo que todo eso ya lo habréis intentado sin éxito, así que me he quedado a cuadros.
@me @tunubesecamirio

@feld Whoops! I missed your reply. I also use it to check if the local ISP is hijacking the DNS requests

https://dnscheck.tools/

#dns

@nixCraft Users.

Fediverse servers could very well benefit from an additional information tab that admins could enable to display the running costs of the instance for transparency and donation purposes 🤔

#fediverse #activitypub #mastodon #pixelfed

Wouldn't it be incredibly ironic if the strongest selling point of EU tech services to the rest of the world turned out to be its privacy and user protection?

#europe #eu #tech #internet #gdpr

2026’s gonna be the year when phone makers stop being dicks and start actually making phones that play nice with open-source operating systems 😭

Disable Auto MDI-X!

#networking

BastilleBSD can now create jails with static MAC addresses, and finally got rid of that pfctl call when NAT wasn't use 🎉

But that's not all, https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/releases/tag/0.12.20250111

#freebsd #jails #bastillebsd

@thanius I wouldn't mind compiling from sources without any AI 🤷♂️

@xenotar This installation is for a family member 😅

@xenotar I've been hunting for a solid guide to turn off all the junk, and it's been exhausting. Especially on a Windows machine, there's no way I'd blindly run some random third-party PowerShell script 😕

@jschwart Wow, Windows 7, connected to the internet?

Apparently, I’ve been procrastinating on installing Windows 11 since last year. I’m out of any reasonable excuses, and honestly, a little terrified.

Et tu, VLC?
AI generated subtitles? ... ffs 🤦

#vlc #vlcmediaplayer

This afternoon, while walking my dog in the park, I bumped into a friendly German couple. We chatted about their experiences in Spain, and they were surprised to admit that they had no idea bullfighting was still taking place here. They mentioned that, had they known, they might have chosen a different destination for their vacation.
This made me wonder: If so many people are opposed to animal cruelty, why do they spend their money traveling to countries that uphold such shitty traditions, specially in Europe?

#AnimalWelfare #Bullfighting #AnimalCruelty #Spain #Europe

Current mood 😑

#CultureOfNoise #firecrackers #fireworks #NewYear

What global issues could we tackle if we allocated the entertainment industry's 2025 budgets? You know, TVs, movies, music, sports... 🤔