Month: June 2025

Ourense is synonymous with heat and 40ºC in summer

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The ourensans are more accustomed to the heat of what we would commonly think for one of the Galician provinces. The municipality has broken the record Several times in the last decades of the highest temperatures marked in Europe. It is not that it has exceeded the absolute figure, but has exceeded other typically torrid cities on the same dates, and for a notable difference. The Coasts of the Atlantic Ocean have always been famous for being cold and wet. Even in summer, Galicia enjoys softer temperatures than the rest of the peninsula due to pure oceanic climate. Well, at least in almost all its territory, because if we take into account Ourense this premise may not be fulfilled. Embedded between green mountains and bathed by the Miño, Ourense is, without a doubt, somewhat peculiar. And, although it is of a very Galician character, and it has nothing to envy landscapes and atmosphere to its sister provinces, instead of having a purely oceanic climate sometimes There are more typical episodes of subtropical areas. This has led to the records of maximum temperatures several times over the last decades. Galician, but hot The previous occasion was in 2017, when Ourense beat the maxim during the month of May. At that time, the city reached 37.6 ºC (together with Ribadavia), which meant the breakdown of the European record for those dates. At that time, the entire peninsula lived a very hot climate for spring, but especially the Ourensana capital, which recorded throughout the month sustained temperatures above 30 ºCusually reaching 36 ºC. In 2013, in full heat wave of Julio, Ourense reached 45 ° Cwith a thermal sensation of up to 51 ºC, while in Seville, a typically hot city, the 45 ° C were reached, and that in Europe The maximums were around 40 ºC. In 2012, this city was also among the hottest spring, reaching temperatures comparable to those of the southern peninsular. In July 1990, the extreme figure of 42.2 ºC was reached in Ourense a record number, again, for those dates. And so the account becomes long, with numerous similar episodes. How do you explain that Ourense is one of the hottest cities being so north? However, we do not need to go back back in time to identify the peculiar warmth that the climate of this Galician province entails. According to the weather file prepared by Meteoblue During the last days of the current month of June the maximum temperature has risen until touching the 35 ° Cwhich, once again, consolidates it as one of the European regions with the warmest climate. A subtropical climate in Galicia In 1900, Wladimir Peter Köppen designed a Climate Classification System. This consists of a global natural climate classification that identifies each type of climate with a series of letters that indicate the behavior of temperatures and rainfall that characterizes this type of climate. According to this classification, Galicia is in a pure or subocean oceanic climate, identified with CWB and CWC figures. However, Ourense does not enter into this classification, but corresponds to a CSA climate, that is, a typical Mediterranean climate. The typical Mediterranean is characterized by dry and hot summers, with average temperatures above 22 ° C and wet and rainy winters, with soft temperatures. The colder the month, according to this system, the rainiest results; Already the reverse, the hotter the month, the drier results, although they do not have to coincide exactly. In an oceanic climate, such as the rest of Galicia, however, summers are much cooler than in areas with subtropical or Mediterranean humid climate. Why does it depart so much from the rest of the region? The answer is undoubtedly in the orography. The Valles del Miño and Sil They produce a geographical barrier that directs the weather. Thus, there is a kind of thermal well promoted by a thermal investment effect. This phenomenon occurs when the coldest layers and close to the ground cannot ascend since they are blocked by a still cold layer. This generates a layer of clouds and calima over Ourense, which causes an increase in temperatures in the area due to a local greenhouse effect, where radiation from the bouncing surface. Thus, although the morning dawns fresh, as the day takes place, solar radiation heats the air that remains imperturbable in the same area. This orographic configuration, in fact, would have been responsible for THE EXPLOSION OF LIFE that the region has lived In the last 120,000 yearsafter glaciation. As indicated by the geographers of the Department of Xeography of the University of Santiago de Compostela, the diversity of temperatures responds to the existing contrasts between the different areas of Galician geography. These contrasts, in turn, must, as we said, to the so particular geographical configuration of Galicia in combination with the distances that are even the Atlantic Ocean. Thus, both in the interior valleys of Miño and Sil, and in the interior depressions of Verín and Monforte, there are very high temperatures compared to northern Galicia, where you can register up to twenty degrees less for being subjected to fresher winds, from the ocean. In Xataka | At the end of May we reached 40ºC: it is only the appetizer of the decimer summer a consecutive warmer than normal according to aemet In Xataka | The Mediterranean is more than two degrees above normal: and it is something that has serious consequences in Spain

China dominates the hardware market for cryptocurrency. Now you will do it from the US

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The US is a critical market for Chinese criptodiviss mining hardware manufacturers. In fact, it is The most important on the planet. And it is for several reasons. The most obvious is that the country led by Donald Trump brings together a good part of the operators that They are dedicated to cryptocurrency because it offers them the ideal conditions to carry out this activity. Many of them have been installed in Texas, North Dakota, Georgia and other states of this country because electricity in them has a very competitive price. In addition, some investment funds and American venture capital companies finance operators that are dedicated to mining. In fact, its support has acquired such size that companies such as Riot Platforms or Digital Marathon, which buy a large amount of hardware for mine, traded in the stock market. And we cannot ignore that in 2021 the Chinese government prohibited mining and transactions With cryptocurrencies, which forced Chinese operators to move to a country that offered them more favorable conditions. Tariffs are restructuring the mining hardware market The prohibition of the Chinese mining government and transactions with cryptocurrency in mid -2021 triggered an exodus of the operators. Many of them moved to the US, but this does not mean that no one is undermining in China. In fact, this last country still represents approximately 20% of Hashrate Bitcoin Global, so it only exceeds the US. What happens is that currently in China this activity is carried out in a clandestine way. Chinese companies Bitmain, Canaan and Microbt produce more than 90% of the mining equipment sold on the planet An important note before moving forward: the Hashrate or the rate of hash It measures the calculation power used to undermine cryptocurrencies. The higher this value, the greater the calculation capacity of a system or an infrastructure. Whatever it is important that we keep in mind that China is not only the place of origin of many operators that are dedicated to cryptodivine mining; A good part of the companies that are dedicated to the manufacture of mining hardware are Chinese. In fact, The three that sell the most come from China. Bitmain, Canaan and Microbt produce more than 90% of mining equipment sold on the planet. And all three are making new facilities in the US with one purpose: dodge tariffs that the government led by Donald Trump has deployed so as not to lose competitiveness in the US market. These are the three most relevant Chinese companies, but, According to Reutersmany more companies from this Asian country are being installed in the US with the aim of continuing to compete with guarantees in this market. However, this does not mean that Chinese hardware manufacturers for mining are abandoning China. They are not doing it. Its plan is to supply the US market thanks to its factories installed in the US and compete in the other markets on the planet with the production of its plants in China. “Although more than 30% of Bitcoin’s global mining occurs in North America, More than 90% of the hardware comes from Chinawhich represents a great imbalance between demand and supply “, SANJAY GUPTA holdsStrategy Director of the American Hardware manufacturer for Auradine Mining. This is the heart of this matter. All probability this imbalance will be corrected, but mining hardware will continue to be mostly in the hands of Chinese companies. Although they reside in the US. Image | David McBee More information | Reuters In Xataka | Bitcoin was supposed to save us from decentralization. A third is already in the hands of a few great actors

The unions are chosen by employees

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After a judicial journey through the National Hearing in which the collective agreement was annulled that Ryanair and CCOO had signed to apply a salary ascent to the cabin crew, the airline sent its employees an unpublished requirement: since the collective agreement had been canceled, they should return to the company the salary rise that had been paid. However, the petition had a striking exception. Employees affiliated with CCOO (or affiliate) would not have to return anything. Now, the Supreme Court has annulled the clause that discriminated against the airline employees allowing some to benefit from salary and other increases not based on Your union affiliation. The origin of the problem. In 2022, Ryanair and CCOO They signed The I Collective Agreement for Cabin Crews that included a salary increase over the next three years (until April 2025). The union use, with a 22.9% representation of the workforce, took that agreement to the National Court for considering that his negotiating table had left out a quarter of the template. The National Court issued a sentence in its favor and the agreement It was canceled. As a consequence, Ryanair demanded that his employees return the salary increases included in that agreement that had been annulled, with amounts that in some cases exceeded 4,000 euros, such and as he collected The confidential. The airline argued that, in compliance with a clause signed with CCOO in that agreement, if the employees were affiliated or joined CCOO, they would not have to return the Salary increase. The new Supreme Judgment. The UGT, ATR and Sitcpla unions, on behalf of the Ryanair staff, filed an appeal before the Supreme Court that now corrects the decision of the National Court. In its sentence, the clause agreed between the airline and CCOO in which it was specified: “(…) will apply to all cabin crew employed by Ryanair and affiliated with CCOO (including CCOO affiliates during the duration of the agreement), being the agreement applicable since the month that are pleased to the union.” The Supreme Judgment of which the union has echoed In a statementrecognizes that the clause introduces a grievance of union discrimination, indicating that Ryanair “cannot establish as a mandatory requirement to benefit from the agreement an discriminatory condition, such as affiliation to a specific union.” In addition, it considers that “such a clause violates the negative dimension of freedom of association by inducing or pressing workers not affiliated to join so as not to be excluded from certain labor advantages.” Ryanair cannot choose union. The judgment issued by the Supreme Court comes to rectify the first pronouncement made by the National Court, which attributed this clause to “a decision of union policy, which may or may not be shared, but which enters within the powers of the union, of its way of conceiving the union action.” From use celebrate The Supreme Decision, ensuring that “the freedom of association has triumphed, when recognizing, already in a final judgment and without the possibility of more resources, the right of working persons to be able to adhere to an extra -state agreement signed with a union, without having to join this. This avoids the temptation of companies to ‘kidnap’ workers through affiliation to a employer of employer choice to built collective bargaining. To critical unions, “reads his statement. Ryanair satisfied, but condemned. Likewise, in the new judgment, the High Court condemns Ryanair to the payment of 7,501 euros for damages to the use and UGT unions for moral damages derived from such violation of freedom of association. For its part, the Michael O’Leary airline ensures in a statement sent to the press that “the Spanish Supreme Court has failed in favor of Ryanair in relation to the limited scope agreements negotiated with CCOO for the period 2022-2024. The Supreme Court has dismissed the allegations of use that the agreement should be annulled and confirms that the salary improvements and conditions applied to the salary of cabin based in Spain for the period 2022-2024 are valid. In addition, the company adds that “we are pleased that this sentence has given guarantees to our cabin crew based on Spain that its salary improvements and conditions will be maintained and will not be reduced by the continuous attempts to use the agreements that improve the working conditions of the cabin crew.” Ambiguous response. Ryanair’s official response does not make clear the impact of the new sentence on the salary increase of his cabin staff. At the time of publishing this article, the airline has not answered our questions about whether the company will stop claiming employees not affiliated with CCOO the salary increase already paid or, on the contrary, it will be claimed to claim all its employees, regardless of the union to which they are affiliated. We will update that information if the company gives us an answer. In Xataka | Ryanair charges extras almost even for breathing. Now he will also charge a supplement to whom he misses during the flight Image | Flickr (Sandor Somkuti)

There is a risk with AI agents and accumulated errors: that they are a "sneaky phone"

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In the game of the “sneaky phone” (or broken, or broken) a group of people transmits a message from one to a secret one. What usually happens is that the original message does not have much to do with what the last recipient receives. And the problem we are seeing is that something similar can happen with the promising agents of AI. Accumulated errors. Toby Ord, a researcher at the University of Oxford, recently published A study On AI agents. In it I talked about how these types of systems have the problem of accumulated or compound error. An AI agent chains several stages autonomously to try to solve a problem that we propose – for example, create code for a certain task – but if you make an error in one stage, that error accumulates and becomes more worrying in the next stage, and more in the following, and even more so in the next. The precision of the solution is thus compromised and may not have much (or nothing) to do with the one that would really solve the problem we wanted to solve. AI can program, but not for a long time in a row. What this expert raised was the introduction of the so -called “half -life” of the AI ​​agent, which would help estimate the success rate according to the length of the task that an AI agent wants to solve. For example, an agent with a half -hour life would have a 50% success in two -hour tasks. The message is overwhelming: the longer an AI agent works, the more likely the success rate declines. Benjamin Todd, another expert in AI, I expressed it differently: an AI can schedule for an hour without (barely) errors, but not for 10 hours. They are not real or definitive figures, but express the same problem: AI agents cannot – at least for the moment – function indefinitely, because accumulated errors condemn the success rate. Humans either are saved. But be careful, because Something very similar happens With human performance in prolonged tasks. In the ORB study, it was pointed out how the empirical success rate is falling remarkably: after 15 minutes it is already approximately 75%, after an hour and a half is 50%and after 16 hours of just 20%. We can all make mistakes when performing certain chained tasks, and if we make a mistake in one of them, in the next task of the chain that error condemns all subsequent development even more. Lecun already warned. Yann Lecun, who directs the research efforts of AI in the finish line, has been notaring the problems with the LLMs for a long time. In June 2023 Indian how the autregressive LLMs cannot be factual and avoid toxic responses. He explained that there is a high probability that the token that generates a model takes us outside the correct answers group, and the longer the answer, the more difficult it is correct. {“Videid”: “X8HJ0VY”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Chatgpt: What you did not know what you could do | tricks”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “790”} That is why is the correction of errors. To avoid the problem, we need to reduce the error rate of AI models. It is something well known In Software Ingenería, where an early code review is always recommended following a “Shift Left” strategy for the software development cycle: the sooner an error is detected, easier and cheaper is to correct it. And just the opposite does not happen if we do not: the cost of correcting an error grows exponentially the later it is detected in the life cycle. Other experts They point to the Reinforcement learning (Reinforcement Learning, RL) could solve the problem, and here Lecun responded that would do it if we had infinite data to polish the behavior of the model, which we do not have. More than agents, multi -agents. In Anthropic They recently demonstrated How there is a way of mitigating even more mistakes (and subsequent accumulated errors): Use multi -legal systems. This is: that multiple agents of AI work in parallel and then confront their results and determine the optimal path or solution. The graph shows the length of the tasks that AI agents can completely complete over the last years. The study reveals that the time that an AI agent can operate to complete tasks with a 50%success rate can be folded every seven months. Or what is the same: agents are improving in a sustained (and notable) way over time. But models and agents do not stop improving (or not?). Todd himself He pointed something important and that allows to be optimistic about that problem. “The error rate of AI models is being reduced by half approximately every five months,” he explained. And at that rate it is possible that AI agents can successfully complete dozens of tasks chained in a year and a half and hundreds in another year and a half later. In The New York Times They did not agree, and recently pointed out that although the models are increasingly powerful, they also “hallucinate” rather than previous generations. The “system card“O3 and O4-MINI precisely points to the fact that there is a real problem with the error rate and” hallucinations “in both models. In Xataka | The hallucinations are still the Achilles heel of the AI: the latest OpenAI models invent more of the account (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news There is a risk with AI agents and accumulated errors: that they are a “squeezed phone” It was originally posted in Xataka by Javier Pastor .

Iran has found the antidote to the Israeli iron dome. Is called Fattah and overcomes the speed of sound

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Iran found A weakness In systems of Israeli defense. His offensive was focusing on the use of unconventional threats marked by Shahed drone swarms whose combat loss was very small compared to the missile cost to tear them down. Israel’s response was swift: fronts to unmanned devices He launched the Sarafcombat helicopters. Now the conflict has entered a new “hypersonic” phase. A hypersonic missile. On June 18, Iran marked a milestone in his confrontation with Israel to launch Your ballistic missile Hypersonic Fattahcapable of reaching at least match 5 speeds (and estimated, According to Iranbetween Mach 13 and Mach 15). This projectile, solid fuel, guided with precision and equipped with a mobile nozzle in its second stage, He managed to cross Israeli antimisile defense systems in what was defined by the body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (CGRI) as a “turning point” in the Operation “True Promise III”already in its eleventh phase. Not just that. Iran He presented the Fattah As a symbol of the end of Israeli aerial invulnerability, stressing that its deployment represents a direct blow to the dissuasive capacity of Tel Aviv. The initial reports indicated FIRE AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGES in areas of the center of Israel as a direct consequence of the impact. Characteristics and innovation. The Fattaah missile represents one of the most ambitious bets of the Iranian Aerospace Program. It was presented officially in 2023 as a national technological revolution. With a scope 1,400 kilometers And a maneuvering capacity both inside and outside the atmosphere, this missile was designed to effectively avoid conventional defensive systems. In that sense, its design is key, which incorporates A re -entry vehicle maneuverable (Marv), which allows you to change direction in the final phases of your trajectory to evade aerial defenses. Your solid fuel engine gives you an immediate response to the launch and your advanced guide system, as we said, next to an orientable thrust nozzle, allows you to execute unpredictable maneuvers that hinder your interception. Unlike traditional missiles, its trajectory can vary dynamically during the flight, which makes it a practically unattainable goal for air defenses that depend on predictable trajectories. A fattah missile National symbol. The missile is much more in National Key. In fact, he was baptized by the leader himself, Ayatolá Ali Jameneí, who also made him a propaganda symbol With the phrase “400 seconds to Tel Aviv” printed In Hebrew on a banner hanging in Tehran. During the Mass attack of October 1, 2024, several fattah-1 missiles already They had been thrown Against Jerusalem, but its recent use in the current context marks the first time that on the current conflict is incorporated tactically. The weapon also It is described by the body of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) as the “Israel’s beating.” The “hypersonic” club. The news has other readings. With the deployment of fattaah, Iran becomes In the fourth country in having and using hypersonic technology, adding to Russia, China and India. Each of these powers has developed Your own models with different characteristics in terms of launch platform, autonomy, type of propulsion and guidance mechanisms. The Iranian variant stands out for its Structural simplicity (solid propulsion in two stages) and its apparent tactical effectiveness. Plus: The ability to overcome multiple layers of Israeli defense during this phase of attacks positions Iran as an increasingly sophisticated actor in the field of ballistic deterrence. The Israeli answer. If the response to the Shahed were the Saraf, the Israeli reaction to the attack with hypersonic missiles has not been waiting. In the following hours, Tel Aviv launched a new OLADA DE BOMBARDEOS on military objectives in Iranian territory, intensifying a dynamic of cross retaliation that already adds seven consecutive days. Among the whites attacked They were included Five military helicopters at a base in Kermanshah, a land-land missile production installation, a war manufacturing center and a centrifuged plantwhich shows that Israel seeks to weaken both conventional capacity and Iranian nuclear infrastructure. The explosions felt even In the Iranian capitalevidencing that the Israeli campaign has expanded its spectrum of action and now points to nerve centers of Persian military power. Strategic implications. The last of the legs to analyze has to do with how the board changes in regional dynamics. The Fattah irruption In the battlefield it introduces a new destabilization factor in a complex conflict already. Beyond military symbolism, its effective use undermines confidence in Israeli defensive systemsconsidered among the most advanced in the world. This vulnerability could force Israel to reassess its air defense architecture and, at the regional level, it could alter the strategic calculations of other actors that until now considered unfeasible to directly challenge the aerial power of Tel Aviv. In addition, the fact that Iran can deploy missiles of this class from within its own territory gives it a significant operational advantage, reducing the need to depend on regional allies to execute long -range attacks. More technological and asymmetric. As In Ukrainethe crossing of attacks between Iran and Israel, more and more sophisticated, illustrates the evolution of modern conflicts towards scenarios where technological deterrence is A determining weight. While Israel maintains the Air Supreme Thanks to its fleet of F-35I and F-15 fightersas well as its operational experience, the appearance of weapons Like fattah Reduces its strategic advantage margin. Iran, limited in its conventional Air Force, has opted to compensate for its inferiority with the development of ballistic missiles and Advanced dronesin a wear war in which each new system can redefine the momentary balance. The Operation “True Promise III”therefore, it is not only a reprisal campaign, but an essay for a new Iranian doctrine based on speed, precision and unforeseen penetration. Image | HeuteHossein Zohrevand, Amin Ahoui In Xataka | Ukraine was the anticipation of what Israel has done: war is no longer a thing of fighters or missiles, but something much cheaper In Xataka | If the question is how much the iron dome of Israel can endure, the answer is simple: much more … Read more

The National Police has arrested Major Cibernarco in Europe in Barcelona. And he has left a video message for cybercriminals

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A 30 -year -old German citizen coordinated from Barcelona the largest drug market in the Dark Web European Archetyp Market has been functioning as an online narcotic supermarket for more than five years. Now has been arrested by the National Police. Why is it important. This platform had achieved what few illegal markets achieve: scale, longevity and reputation. It has reached 612,000 registered users and 3,200 active vendors. It had become a key piece of European drug trafficking. The figures: The business volume has reached 250 million euros in transactions. The store has marketed 17,000 lots of narcotics, from heroin and fentanyl to cannabis and synthetic drugs. Payments were made exclusively in Moneroa cryptocurrency specially valued by its anonymity guarantee. In 2018 we count on Xataka How easy we found to access this type of marketswhere in addition to drugs we could find weapons or guns. In detail. The administrator, known as “Roger” and with multiple digital alias, directed a complex structure. The servers were located in the Netherlands. He operated from Catalonia. His profile fit with the new drug trafficker: technologically sophisticated, businessly efficient, mediately active. Message that appears in the domains intervened in this operation. Image: Eurojust. Between bambalins. Operation Deep Sentinel involved 300 agents from six European countries. The German authorities first identified the suspect, but needed international cooperation to dismantle the entire network. Technical complexity required specialists in Dark Web and cryptocurrency analysis. Archetyp had filled the void left by other dismantled markets such as Dream Market and Silk Road. His longevity contrasted with the typical short life of these platforms, usually closed in months by the authorities. In the video of the operation, published by the National Police, you can see the multiple currencies that the detainee was handled at his home: Deepen. The operation included important seizures: high -end vehicles, luxury watches, 7.8 million euros in cryptocurrencies and several computer devices. The authorities confiscated complete digital infrastructure. Security forces have left A notice and a video message in the intervened domainswarning that the anonymity of the Dark Web It is not impregnable. In Xataka | One week on the Deep Web. This is what I found Outstanding image | National Police

A Valencian politician has decided to celebrate a wedding to marry with himself. There is a word that explains it: Sologamia

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A few days ago Stephane Soriano, Benaguasil Councilor (Pp) and general director of the Diversity area of the Generalitat Valenciana, brought together friends, family and colleagues in a luxurious estate located 25 kilometers from Valencia to share with them Your wedding. And as in every Bodorrio that boasts there were gala costumes, emotional moments, photos, laughs and even launch of the bouquet and alliance. What there was not was a couple to share the famous “Yes, I want.” Soriano He married himself. And in doing so he joined a trend that has been gaining adherents and above all visibility: The Sologamia. “Celebrate family, friends and love”. The announcement has been in charge of doing so Stephane Soriano himself Via Instagramwhere he has also published some photos of the celebration. In them he is seen suit, dancing, hugging friends, family and colleagues, speaking to the guests and even throwing a bouquet of flowers. “There are days in life that are marked and yesterday is. Celebrate family, friends and love is to celebrate life,” wrote. “I fulfilled my word”. Not just that. The politician of the Mazón team has also explained why and at what time he decided to celebrate a wedding with himself. History, Explainstarted in 2023, during a visit to Ballastar Molíthe farmhouse in which a few days ago he celebrated his Self -in. He liked the environment so much that Soriano asked that same day to be reserved for a date for a ceremony. The fact that I had no partner or wedding plans was the least. “I would find it,” he jokes. The fact is that time passed, the appointment agreed with the management of the farm and the leader was found without a couple who promises eternal love. “I didn’t find her, but they called me to remind me that I had the reservation and decided to move on,” He recounts in statements collected by The world. Thus, Soriano asked for two au Soriano promises Deliver tomorrow to your partner, if it arrives. “It was half jokingly, but if one day I find the right person, I will give it to him.” Something more than congratulations. Soriano’s decision did not take long attract attention of the press and generate a cascade of comments. Some positive. Others not so much, as Recognize the leader Valencian in networks. “Narcissism? Performance? Callas? I have read many things these days. Some criticisms have made me smile, others have made me think. But they all confirm something: there are still those who are uncomfortable when someone leaves the script,” Reflect. “It was not a literal wedding. It was a party. An excuse. A symbol. A promise I made two years ago when I reserved a beautiful place to celebrate love, the one that arrives, the one that is already, the one that is built with friends, with family, with oneself,” Soriano claims. “If this gesture serves to open questions, question molds or inspire someone to live with more freedom, it will be worth it. And yes: I will continue to defend that in diversity there is also the game, the joy and the right not to ask permission to be happy.” Media yes, unique no. The Valencian politician is not the first to “yes (me) to himself. Moreover, with its gesture it adds to an increasingly visible current both inside and outside Spain: The Sologamiaa practice that basically consists of claiming the commitment and love that a person feels towards himself. The key is that it is also made in an active, public and visible way, reaching the point of celebrating a symbolic ceremony in which this feeling is celebrated with family and friends. The trend about a year ago It was already news Because three Asturian decided to celebrate similar weddings in Gijón: they surrounded themselves with friends and family and gave themselves a “yes I want.” The person who was in charge of officiating the “wedding” had already done something similar years agowhen he celebrated an act in which he claimed himself as “a complete orange”, not waiting for his other half. “It’s hard to explain”. Vanessa García, 37, one of the women who spent that day through the “altar”, Recognize that feeling “is difficult to explain.” “It’s like being alone, but keep being with yourself. When you travel with your partner or pet you feel that you have someone there with you. This is the same, but that other person is you,” He recounts. On the day of his wedding he “reaffirmed as a person who has self -love”, he loves, respects and cares. “The ceremony is a way of deceiving the brain and making it tangible,” duck. Curiously, neither Vanessa nor her other two companions close to have partners in the future. In fact they have already experienced what life is to share with another person. Its position is different from that of We aged themwho choose to live alone, without boyfriends or spouses, and rule out committing. Neither so new nor so strange. Cases such as Vanessa or Stephane give visibility every so often to Sologamia, but the reality is that the trend is neither new nor is it as uncommon as it may seem. Its origins can be traced to 1993When Linda Baker, a Los Angeles woman, decided to organize a wedding in which “husband and wife.” All this surrounded by friends and family and with a trustworthy person who worked as a officiant. A quick search on Google throws More cases Throughout the following years despite the fact that those who participate in links We sológo They lack some of the practical advantages of traditional weddings. For example, the act does not have a binding character or entitles a 15 -day permission. That has not prevented that over the last years more and more people have decided to emulate Linda or Vanessa. How exactly it is not easy to specify it because there are no official records, but in 2024 The world He slid … Read more

This costs just over two euros per month

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It doesn’t matter if it is in our leisure time or while we work: we usually spend several hours of the day on the Internet. During this time of use it is possible that we use services or platforms where Having good security is importantas at the time of consulting bank data. This becomes even more crucial if we use a network that is not ours, as is the case of a hotel wifi. This security to which we reference can be easily obtained if we use A VPNeither on our phone or on our computer. There are many available, although it is difficult to find one with better value for money than surfshark: It barely costs 2.19 euros a month. Surfshark Starter Subscription – Monthly * Some price may have changed from the last review It is safe, fast and very easy to use As always decism, they exist Free and safe vpn to which we can go according to what circumstances. These can get us out of trouble, although the reality is that they are usually slow and may not even be as sure they should be. This scenario is where payment options like Surfshark enter, that provide a better service. This VPN stands out for the price, although the reality is that it has other strengths. In addition to this, it also stands out because it offers The possibility of using it on all the devices we want. In this way, we can take it installed on the mobile or in the laptop and we can use it identically. All this with an extremely simple interface to use. Surfshark VPN is included in its cheapest subscription, called Starter. This includes, in addition to the VPN, a very interesting tool that is called ALTERNATIVE ID. Thanks to this, we can create fictional data that we can use on web pages where we do not want to provide any personal information. Surfshark Starter Plan has, as we have said at the beginning of this article, a price of 2.19 euros a month. That implies that its two -year modality will be released by a total of 55.56 euros, a discount If we take into account that its price, if the offer is 439 euros. All this also comes with 3 months extra free, so we will actually enjoy 27 months of the service in total. Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Image | Content Pixie in Unspash In Xataka | Why it is dangerous to connect to public wifis and what you should do to protect yourself In Xataka | Better VPN: Guide with the 17 best services to protect your online privacy

Some substack authors already invoice more than complete writings. The company has found its moment

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Substock is in conversations to lift between 50 and 100 million dollars in a new financing round, with an assessment greater than the 700 million it reached in its last round, according to Eric Newcomerwho quotes his own sources the silence of replacement in this regard. Why is it important. The company has found the perfect moment: Trump’s return has triggered interest in Newsletters policies. Its mobile application is promoting payment subscriptions. With 500,000 creators on the platform, some already generate more income than entire traditional media. Two years ago There were already two doctors generating at least half a million a year. “At least”. It is the symbol of a trend of this decade: the permanent crisis of the media against author’s journalism, focused on a name and not on the brand of a large group. In figures. Substack stays with 10% of payments to writers. The total volume of subscriptions moves around 450 million dollars. 45 million, therefore, are the income of the platform. The context. We are seeing the rise of a new wave of independent journalists who have found an escape route to traditional media. In Spain the phenomenon is being several magnitudes lower than that of the United States, but there are prominent creators: Most are authors who seek independence to tell their stories or parallel projects rather than a replacement for their job. The panoramic. What started as a modern tool for Newsletters It has become a network of independent creators that competes with traditional media. Substack does two things: It offers journalists (and not journalists) with their own audience the opportunity to directly monetize their work leaving their media. Then paquetizes all that network of creators as a network with shared infrastructure. First fragment, then package. Yes, but. The model has its risks. The Newsletter Subtack average loses 50% of payment subscribers each year. To earn 50,000 dollars annually-an American average-moderate salary-charging $ 8 per month, a writer needs 900 payment subscribers. And also, add 31 a month to compensate for those who will leave. That constant pressure to create quality content (the one expected of someone in substitution who charges a subscription), often without more tools than the creator’s own mind, is also a risk to the Burnout. The model. And associated with these risks, there is the long -tailed model that prevails in substack. As in Onlyfansbut for different reasons, the economy of attention is reproduced: A few creators accumulate most income. A few live reasonably well. A huge mass gains symbolic amounts that need to complement to reach the end of the month. The Mehdi Hasan and Bari Weiss of the ecosystem generate hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Or millions. Niche creators with very faithful audiences can get between $ 50,000 and $ 200,000 a year. The vast majority stay with residual income, insufficient to dedicate full time. The backdrop. The migration to substock is no coincidence. Traditional media have cut templates for a decade while advertising income migrated to Google and Facebook. Between 2008 and 2020, United States lost more than 1,800 local newspapers In addition to usual cuts, rounds of layoffs, frozen hiring, etc. At the same time, star journalists discovered that their names had more value than headers. Matt Taibbi left Rolling StoneGlenn Greenwald left The interceptCasey Newton left The Verge. Everyone found in substitute not only more money, but total editorial independence. At stake. Substack is not alone in this race. Beehiiv, Kit and Ghost They compete for the same market, but with SAAS models that charge fixed monthly payments instead of 10% of substitution commission. Substack’s advantage is their discovery network: readers find new authors through recommendations. But if the big names migrate looking for better economic conditions, that network weakens. It is the paradox of all platforms: you need stars to attract talent, but the stars are the first to leave when alternatives appear. In Xataka | On an internet of social networks and fast content, an old forum resists against wind and tide: hacker news Outstanding image | Replaceck

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