Fran Ontanaya
@franontanaya.bsky.social
(he/his) Senior Technical Operations Manager for Amara.org. 13 years supporting the captioning industry. Love PHP, Linux, all things technical, science and space news. Chronic remote worker, born and based in Spain.
I feel we'd solve a bunch of issues around the internet if everything had a "10 questions before you post" expert system form. We sacrifice a lot of self-organizing capability for the sake of immediacy.
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I feel we'd solve a bunch of issues around the internet if everything had a "10 questions before you post" expert system form. We sacrifice a lot of self-organizing capability for the sake of immediacy.
Reposted by Fran Ontanaya
Fields near Pokrovsk. Everything is covered with fiber optics.
November 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Fields near Pokrovsk. Everything is covered with fiber optics.
This is a local thing but it made my day so I wanna share -- the politician that was in charge during the floods in Spain and was too busy socializing with a journalist on a Thursday to send alerts finally stepped down after a year of protests. The floods happened 2km from my home and killed 237.
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This is a local thing but it made my day so I wanna share -- the politician that was in charge during the floods in Spain and was too busy socializing with a journalist on a Thursday to send alerts finally stepped down after a year of protests. The floods happened 2km from my home and killed 237.
Reposted by Fran Ontanaya
#MediaInvitation: journalists are invited to follow the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-1D on Ariane 6 VA265 live from ESA ESOC Mission Control, Darmstadt, Germany, on Tuesday 4 November 2025. Details and registration 👇
www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...
@euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @transport.esa.int
www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...
@euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @transport.esa.int
October 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
#MediaInvitation: journalists are invited to follow the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-1D on Ariane 6 VA265 live from ESA ESOC Mission Control, Darmstadt, Germany, on Tuesday 4 November 2025. Details and registration 👇
www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...
@euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @transport.esa.int
www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...
@euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @transport.esa.int
Reposted by Fran Ontanaya
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft is ready to aim its instruments at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! 🪐☄️
Here’s what’s happening and why it’s such a rare opportunity 🧵
Here’s what’s happening and why it’s such a rare opportunity 🧵
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft is ready to aim its instruments at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! 🪐☄️
Here’s what’s happening and why it’s such a rare opportunity 🧵
Here’s what’s happening and why it’s such a rare opportunity 🧵
Reposted by Fran Ontanaya
Preliminary findings:
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
October 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Preliminary findings:
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.
🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.
This is a duty, not a choice.
link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
Calling an executable PHP script via Nemo actually populates the $_SERVER variable with useful info, including NEMO_SCRIPT pairs with full path of current selected files and whatnot. $argv alone doesn't have enough data.
September 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Calling an executable PHP script via Nemo actually populates the $_SERVER variable with useful info, including NEMO_SCRIPT pairs with full path of current selected files and whatnot. $argv alone doesn't have enough data.
Reposted by Fran Ontanaya
Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.
sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
April 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited.
sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
sherwood.news/power/shop-t...
I like explicit over implicit but I probably shouldn't have forgotten that 'cd' ↵ is the same as 'cd ~' ↵
July 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I like explicit over implicit but I probably shouldn't have forgotten that 'cd' ↵ is the same as 'cd ~' ↵
Thunderbird has been a CPU hog lately for me, let's see if disabling global indexing helps. Got a few too many mails around, even with curated retention policies.
June 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Thunderbird has been a CPU hog lately for me, let's see if disabling global indexing helps. Got a few too many mails around, even with curated retention policies.
Industry standard for all-human captions was >99.9% accuracy in the 90's, specially when it was part of selling something.
June 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Industry standard for all-human captions was >99.9% accuracy in the 90's, specially when it was part of selling something.
New reddit comment box makes a graphql request on every single key stroke (disgusting). Let's see how much can I break by blocking it.
May 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New reddit comment box makes a graphql request on every single key stroke (disgusting). Let's see how much can I break by blocking it.
Jumped 30 hops to find where to add policies.json on Firefox snap only to find out it won't block secondary URL requests. Back to uBlock custom filters I guess.
May 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Jumped 30 hops to find where to add policies.json on Firefox snap only to find out it won't block secondary URL requests. Back to uBlock custom filters I guess.
380 requests to load a reddit page with uBlock on is nuts. You aren't even doing anything that important.
May 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
380 requests to load a reddit page with uBlock on is nuts. You aren't even doing anything that important.
"New" reddit should be renamed to "old" reddit since the UI has the performance of a 2000 Geocities page full of gifs.
May 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"New" reddit should be renamed to "old" reddit since the UI has the performance of a 2000 Geocities page full of gifs.
I run i3 usually without compositor and some UI widgets were insisting on using semi transparent shadows. This comment on Reddit still works for the Firefox UI www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS... I.e. going to about:profile, root folder, create chrome folder, add CSS in userChrome.css
May 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I run i3 usually without compositor and some UI widgets were insisting on using semi transparent shadows. This comment on Reddit still works for the Firefox UI www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS... I.e. going to about:profile, root folder, create chrome folder, add CSS in userChrome.css
Bit of regexp I wrote to make uBlock filters force new Reddit to sort (redirect, actually) by Hot instead of Best. It requires enabling user- filters in advanced dev options, which you shouldn't do if you copy random filters off the internet.
![! Makes Reddit default to Hot instead of Best
||www.reddit.com^$uritransform=/\/r\/([^\/.]+)\/$/\/r\/\$1\/hot\//
||www.reddit.com^$uritransform=/^\/$/\/hot\//
@@||www.reddit.com*/hot/$uritransform](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qpvkhhrkt6ncsjeydsvtyvb3/bafkreib4fprv3kdf7mitjighfbtg2nteejt4upodiadtigtsxsfgzgamlu@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bit of regexp I wrote to make uBlock filters force new Reddit to sort (redirect, actually) by Hot instead of Best. It requires enabling user- filters in advanced dev options, which you shouldn't do if you copy random filters off the internet.
You use uBlock to block ads. I use uBlock regex to force reddit to default to Hot instead of Best. We are [^
April 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
You use uBlock to block ads. I use uBlock regex to force reddit to default to Hot instead of Best. We are [^
I was today years old when I learned dragging a file from a file manager (nemo/nautilus) to a Save dialog showing that same folder selects the file that you dragged.
April 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I was today years old when I learned dragging a file from a file manager (nemo/nautilus) to a Save dialog showing that same folder selects the file that you dragged.
PHP doesn't get so much hate anymore so, hear me out: Linux but it ships with PHP instead of Bash as terminal shell. It'd be funny.
April 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
PHP doesn't get so much hate anymore so, hear me out: Linux but it ships with PHP instead of Bash as terminal shell. It'd be funny.
Still doing tweaks going from Ubuntu 22 to Ubuntu 24, had to add a sleep 0.2 ahead of xte 'mousedown 1' for it to trigger correctly.
April 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Still doing tweaks going from Ubuntu 22 to Ubuntu 24, had to add a sleep 0.2 ahead of xte 'mousedown 1' for it to trigger correctly.
Reposted by Fran Ontanaya
Enjoyed the latest #ESAEuclid images?
Why not exploring them in depth?
Go to sky esa urlzs.com/F6PeAo and choose between the Science or the Explorer mode to access them.
🔭🧪 #astrosci
Why not exploring them in depth?
Go to sky esa urlzs.com/F6PeAo and choose between the Science or the Explorer mode to access them.
🔭🧪 #astrosci
ESASky 7.3.1
ESASky is an application that allows you to visualise and download public astronomical data from space-based missions.
urlzs.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Enjoyed the latest #ESAEuclid images?
Why not exploring them in depth?
Go to sky esa urlzs.com/F6PeAo and choose between the Science or the Explorer mode to access them.
🔭🧪 #astrosci
Why not exploring them in depth?
Go to sky esa urlzs.com/F6PeAo and choose between the Science or the Explorer mode to access them.
🔭🧪 #astrosci
Saw a Tesla driver today here in Spain. He was covering his face with one hand.
March 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Saw a Tesla driver today here in Spain. He was covering his face with one hand.
CSS selectors in PHP 8.4 wiki.php.net/rfc/dom_addi... Maybe I'll finally stop regexping HTML when I need to crawl something.
PHP: rfc:dom_additions_84
wiki.php.net
February 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
CSS selectors in PHP 8.4 wiki.php.net/rfc/dom_addi... Maybe I'll finally stop regexping HTML when I need to crawl something.
Reposted by Fran Ontanaya
I just found out you can repeat flags on the rm command. #frfr #programming #linux #server #development #devops #security #meme
February 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I just found out you can repeat flags on the rm command. #frfr #programming #linux #server #development #devops #security #meme