Ayer me vi el vídeo de putomikel sobre Puy du Fou o como se escriba. La parte precaria hacia el elenco actoral ya me la conocía porque una amiga trabaja allí, y en resumen, fantasías de ricachos vendiendo el punto de vista que a ellos les gusta y todo lo hacen por el bien de los dineros *pretends to be shocked*
Iran’s Energy Ministry is completing a massive project to transfer water from a dam located more than 140 kilometers to the northwest of Tehran to the capital
Tickets for the popular and diverse Orkney International Science Festival are now on sale. The Festival has a wide range of events and talks taking place from 4 to 10 September. Islands from near and far are featured in the 35th Orkney International Science Festival programme. Amongst a glittering range of activities – including travelling robots, a planetarium, and topics spanning 13 billion years – there are speakers from Faroe…
Tickets for the popular and diverse Orkney International Science Festival are now on sale. The Festival has a wide range of events and talks taking place from 4 to 10 September. Islands from near a…
📣 Este divendres, concentració d’urgència al Port De València per aturar el COSCO PISCES!!
‼️🚢 El vaixell Cosco Pisces, que forma part de la cadena de subministrament del genocidi, arriba a València.
✊🏼🔥Després d'haver sigut bloquejat a Grècia i Itàlia, ara ens toca a França i a nosaltres.
❌ Govern de l'estat espanyol, ni un vaixell de la mort més pels nostres ports!! Exigim que es denegue l'assistència al Cosco Pisces. I l'embargament integral a Israel per Decret Llei ja!!!
‼️ Davant un estat genocida i colonial les paraules compromeses serveixen de ben poc, calen accions. Per això exigim al govern espanyol la Fi al Comerç d'armes i a les relacions amb Israel.
🫀⛵️A banda, ens trobarem al port per mostrar suport a la Flotilla de la Llibertat i per exigir les accions necessàries per alliberar als nostres companys Santi González i Sergio Toribio.
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📣 Este divendres, concentració d’urgència al Port De València per aturar el COSCO PISCES!!
‼️🚢 El vaixell Cosco Pisces, que forma part de la cadena de subministrament del genocidi, arriba a València.
✊🏼🔥Després d'haver sigut bloquejat a Grècia i Itàlia, ara ens toca a França i a nosaltres.
❌ Govern de l'estat espanyol, ni un vaixell de la mort més pels nostres ports!! Exigim que es denegue l'assistència al Cosco Pisces. I l'embargament integral a Israel per Decret Llei ja!!!
‼️ Davant un estat genocida i colonial les paraules compromeses serveixen de ben poc, calen accions. Per això exigim al govern espanyol la Fi al Comerç d'armes i a les relacions amb Israel.
🫀⛵️A banda, ens trobarem al port per mostrar suport a la Flotilla de la Llibertat i per exigir les accions necessàries per alliberar als nostres companys Santi González i Sergio Toribio.
Ce kit solaire 2 panneaux souples est destiné à l'autoconsommation. Il produira de l'ordre de 400 à 600kWh par an et réduira votre facture d'électricité. Les panneaux sont montés en mode paysage et (...)
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I wished I could disagree with this post but sadly I cannot. I had high hopes for Matrix and still use it but boy is it not fixing the core and conceptual issues. shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-ne…
I wished I could disagree with this post but sadly I cannot. I had high hopes for Matrix and still use it but boy is it not fixing the core and conceptual issues. shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-ne…
I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future!
The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not just on a protocol level, but on an organisational level as well.
I joined Matrix at FOSDEM - the largest gathering of open source nerds in Europe. We were all encouraged to use it - every talk had its own channel, all the official comms came from there, I was even invited to a top-secret private channel for speaker. This was going to be epic! Viva la rèvölūçïón, right? Wrong.
It was dead. Even among the most seasoned geeks on the planet, most people preferred to use other services like Signal, Telegram, and Slack. Why? Because those other tools actually work.
Matrix has two official Android apps - one of which is old and unsupported, the other is new and doesn't work with many of the basic chat features.
I want to be absolutely clear about this - the company behind Matrix have put out an app which doesn't work with their own product! Lest you think I'm exaggerating, here's a typical view of the official FOSDEM speaker room, using the official Matrix app:
It was embarrassing. People would pipe up in channels and say "this doesn't work" only to be told they were using the wrong app and should go back to the one marked unsupported. So they left, never to return. Even in the large talks, where people were encouraged to use the official Matrix chat, most of the conversation happened on other platforms. It was just too hard to use Matrix.
A few thousands geeks, all used to recompiling their own kernels and participating in the Fediverse, and most thought that Matrix was too much of a faff.
After FOSDEM, I kept the Matrix app on my phone. Occasionally receiving a ping from some long-forgotten channel.
And then, one day, I got hit with the most vile spam. A dozen notifications suddenly appeared on my phone with abuse, torture, and transphobic slurs in them.
This shouldn't be possible. It doesn't take an expensive team of moderators to add some keyword monitoring. It doesn't take a massive AI model to work out that a stranger shouldn't be able to bombard users with multiple notifications. You don't have to sacrifice your dream of a decentralised future - you just need to care about your users.
This stuff is basic.
I moaned about it on Mastdon and was surprised to receive a private reply from the official Matrix account.
Please do not encourage the spammer by giving them a platform and propagating their spam; you may want to consider deleting your post.
This is classic victim blaming. It is my fault for giving the spammer attention. I am the one who needs to take responsibility and delete the evidence. I shouldn't warn people that Matrix is actively dangerous to use.
Bullshit.
Here's what I expected them to say:
"We're sorry you had such a bad experience on Matrix. Rest assured we're working hard to block these spammers - here's a link to show what we're doing. You can protect your account further by doing x, y and z. Once again, sorry and we hope we can win back your trust."
I'm not saying scrappy open source projects have to hire anodyne corporate communications specialists; they just need to have a little empathy.
But, no, just constant whining about how it isn't their fault and how I am the one who needs to change my behaviour.
This is pretty typical behaviour from the team. Find any post complaining about some aspect of Matrix and you'll see their instant woe-is-me replies.
Between the slow performance, the increasing amount of spam, the miserable web client, and the unfinished state of Element X, the Matrix.org network is not something I am willing to continue to recommend, especially to non-technical users. Normal people are simply tolerating it to communicate with idealistic nerds like myself who insist(ed) on using it.
Matrix just isn't focussed on users. I'm not talking about user-experience tweaks like which shade of cornflower blue to use - I mean basic user needs like apps that work and a way to combat spam.
While the protocol may be conceptually interesting and their intentions noble, I'm not prepared to suffer abuse in the name of technical purity.
Open Source and Open Standards nerds like me ought to know by now that the protocol is the least compelling thing about a service. Who cares if your home is built using only Stallman-blessed tools, when the walls are full of rats?
I've looked over the matrix spec and unfortunately /account/deactivate only requires for any future login to become impossible. Synapse fulfils the spec, but does not actually delete the account, w...
You make several good points. The protocol is complicated, there is, as yet no, app for phones that does everything you want/need and you will run into problems every now and then.
But... No new technology is without its problems and growing pains. If you have followed the discussions of the past few years, you know why development may not go as quick as we'd want, and why some issues aren't Element.io's highest priority.
The servers I've created and used in the past 7 years, including my own private server that's been online for those 7 years and in daily use, work. It takes some effort to configure the whole kit-n-kaboodle, but I think it's worth it.
Non-techies may want to wait a while before venturing into the world of Matrix, although they could do really well if someone with a decent level of knowledge helps them. I try to fulfill that role, both private and professionally.
With skype dying I moved to Matrix. It was the only non US service I could find with Win, Mac, Android and IOS support, audio and video calls, where you can be open and logged in on multiple devices, and supports file transfer with drag and drop. Yes, there's an issue with compatibility with android app and windows app, but there's work arounds. Signal is great but if you want to use desktop and not phone you can't do it.
Australia's high immigration has been likened to a Ponzi scheme as a new report reveals record international student numbers are worsening the housing crisis.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Nick Brown released the following statement today on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) move to gut climate regulations:
Today I took a bus down to Cruden Bay. I got dropped off the bus at a stop in town right opposite the Kilmarnock Arms. Bram Stoker stayed at this establishment a number of times and they've got his signature in the guest register to prove it.
Stoker worked much of his professional life in theater, working as a theater critic, as an assistant to the actor Henry Irving and as the business manager for the Lyceum Theatre in London, which still exists today and has been doing pretty much nothing but The Lion King for the last 25 years.
Stoker was only a part time writer and he did some of his most productive writing when he was away from London and other obligations. From 1892 to 1910, Stoker and his family would holiday at Cruden Bay. The Kilmarnock Arms played host to his family on at least three occasions. Later he switched to renting cottages nearby.
He wrote a number of stories which were set in the area and mention local landmarks, and directly references the Kilmarnock Arms and it's proprietor in one of these.
He also makes multiple references to Slains Castle in his stories and aspects of its design would be translated very directly into his description of Castle Dracula, in his most enduring work, Dracula, at least part of which were almost certainly written at Cruden Bay.
I found it pretty amusing to learn that Stoker wrote about Dracula, Prince of Darkness, in between ice cream cones and rock candy beach escapades with his wife and son.
You can't actually see the castle from Cruden, but a well marked path near the beach access bridge on the north end of town will lead you up to it. There are other parking lots with paths leading to it off the A road as well.
There is a bit of actual castle in Slains, though, a tower house built in the late 16th century. This was called Bowness and it shows up on Ponts lovely map. He notes that "The bowness fortified sometimes by the danes"
The lower levels of Bowness tower house survive (though modified) as well as some adjacent basements as part of the more modern ruin.
Bowness needed to be built because Francis Hay, the 9th Earl of Erroll got himself wrapped up in the Spanish Banks Plot, it which he signed and applied his seal to a blank document to be conveniently filled in by the Spanish later. Basically, he was involved in some sort of Catholic scheming.
He had to flee to the continent and James VI went and blew up his castle, called Old Slains for his participation. He eventually made nice with James VI, swore off Catholicism, and was able to return to Scotland in 1597, but minus one castle. So, he built himself a new one at Bowness.
You can see the thick walled bits of the old Bowness castle in the bottom right hand corner of this floor plan of the south wing of the new baronial mansion. You can see that it puts the whole thing slightly out of square as well.
I did a quick trace of the perimeter of Slains and get about 330 meters. For reference, Buckingham Palace is about twice that size, but also has a large internal courtyard which subtracts from living space.
The castle was sold by the Hays in 1916 after more than three centuries of occupation and in 1925, it was largely demolished by a company that specialized in buying castles and stripping them of saleable materials. All the interiors went and the roof slates and lead were also sold. Interestingly, there have been off and on plans since the 2000's to restore the castle, which is currently an bare empty shell with no small degree of stone damage.
There are some amusing signs warning of Dangers, but there are also well maintained paths leading to the castle, no fencing or other attempts to bar entry or notice that you're entering any sort of private property. It was actually kind of hard to get pictures without people in them because so many people were crawling over the interiors, which mostly appear well consolidated and unlikely to brain anyone with falling stones.
This was once the grand front stair seen in the photo. You can see straight through a bunch of doorways and arches all the way out the back side of the wing.
Someone found their way into the old tower through climbing and made their way at least partially up the stairwell turret. I could see smoke from them vaping coming out the door. The tower house portion is gated at the ground floor, so I'm not sure how they actually got into the tower.
Most of the round towers about the place never actually held staircases. There were only three turnpike stairs in the whole castle. One is for the old tower and two in the central block of the south wing. They're just little round rooms with windows from which you could admire the view, back when there were floors.
There are plenty of bits of jagged wood sticking out from floor joists all over the place, but I think these might be the only intact cross members in the whole castle.
I think this storage basement was part of the old castle. I think there are niches set up for holding barrels. The stairs are busted in the middle and slanted on either side, and I wasn't confident in being able to get down into it with my camera gear intact, so I passed. My flashlight had also self drained in my pocket.
Probably the most interesting area of the interior visually is the area around an octagonal chamber in the middle of the south wing.
This chamber almost certainly inspired this passage in Dracula:
‘The Count halted, putting down my bags, closed the door, and crossing the room, opened another door which led into a small octagonal room lit by a single lamp, and seemingly without a window of any sort.’
If you walk north from the castle along the informal cliffside paths (which are largely just beaten into the ground by being trod upon), you can get some really great views of the castle set above the jagged cliffs.
I walked them for quite a bit northward to a place called Dunboy Island, which has a hole in it and a whole lot of birds atop it. It genuinely is an island, so the birds there are safe from land predators.
Moved up the coast along the paths to an area called Bullers of Buchan, which was created by the collapse of a huge sea cave, I encounters some birders with big zoom lenses and binoculars.
Those who testified at the state capital against New Jersey’s adoption of the IHRA, arguing that it would criminalize free speech, had our microphones muted and were shouted down, proving our point.
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