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In its obsessive effort to be Spain within Spain, Madrid now has a new festival: the April Fair

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It’s been a while since the April Fair It took flight to expand beyond (much beyond) Seville. Today they organize their own fairs with a profusion of flamenco and polka dots in Galicia, Catalonia, Castile and León either Cantabriaas well as in other countries, including other side of the ocean. The reason is very simple. Its mix of dance, gastronomy and culture is popular. So much so, in fact, that in Madrid they have decided to launch your own fair in a big way, with a multi-week event. Its objective is to expand by 200,000 m2 and attract 800,000 visitors. One word: Madrilucía. The name is a declaration of intentions. The objective of Madrilucia is to bring the spirit of the April Fair to the capital. In fact, its organizers they present it as “the first great Andalusian fair in Madrid”, with hundreds of booths, spaces dedicated to fashion, horse parades, gastronomy, music, culture… A little piece of the south spread throughout the capital. The event aspires to take up the witness of the fairs held between 1986 and 1995 at the initiative of Francisco de Paula López and which filled the Puerta de Alcalá or Gran Vía with horses, with carriages like those seen in Seville. López, a Sevillian who emigrated to Madrid in the early 70s, decided to promote a fair in the city to “unite the Andalusians” and overthrow clichés. The initiative even gave rise to a documentary broadcast by Canal Sur, ‘Operation Madrilucía’. One figure: 200,000. The Madrid fair will be organized in the Iberdrola Music (Villaverde, Madrid) and will occupy in total, according to those responsible, more than 200,000 square meters“an ephemeral town” made up of more than 400 booths. The offer is completed with “horses, tapas, concerts and flamenco fashion.” The space will in fact be divided into a “festive” area dedicated to live music, with booths and catering; another cultural one, in which stands dedicated to art, fashion and saddlery will be concentrated; and others focused on equestrian culture, gastronomy, leisure and music. Of course, reserve one of their booths it doesn’t come cheap: the Madrilucía website provides information on options that they range from 55,000 to 59,000 euros (plus VAT) per week, depending on the level of decoration. Go for 800,000. The Madrid fair will not overlap with that of Seville, scheduled for the week from April 21 to 26. Madrilucía will start almost immediately afterwards: on May 9. Those in charge already warn that it will be prolonged 20 days and the objective is to attract some 800,000 people until the first days of June. For now, it already has the support of popular figures, such as the bullfighter Sebastián Castella, who has dedicated a video to promote the event. Heads and tails. Although the organizers point out that they hope that the fair “coexist with the local environment”the neighboring Getafe City Council has already expressed its concern about the noise and overcrowding that the fair may generate. “If for a weekend like the Mad Cool or Regaetton Beach Festival the M45 and streets of the Marconi industrial estate in Villaverde are closed, affecting companies and workers, and access is prevented for residents of Getafe and Villaverde to get to their homes, what will be the device that the Madrid City Council and the Community intend to deploy for a fair that will last 20 days?” they pointed out recently to News for Municipalities from the Executive of Getafe, governed by the PSOE. Why is it important? Because beyond the event, its scope or impact on the environment, Madrilucía confirms the expansion (and popularity) of the April Fair beyond Seville and Andalusia. two years ago in fact we told you how a debate had spread on networks about the appropriate dress code to attend the fair or how virality of the hashtag #papagorda to show people who had overindulged in drinks at the fair led the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia (CAA) to warn of the risks to record without consent. Images |Madrilucia In Xataka | Seville wanted more security on its streets at night. To achieve this, he has recovered an old figure: the night watchman.

The World Fruit Fair

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Above and below the ground. It doesn’t matter. Madrid is collapsed. Every morning, going to work is a headache. It doesn’t matter taking the car, the subway or vicinity. The city has divered in gigantic improvement works That they will bear fruit to their neighbors but the city has taken the calendar leaves, has wrinkled them and threw them with all their forces in the trash. A funnel The capital is reforming the entrance to the same for the A-5, the north of the Paseo de la Castellana (one of its main arteries), covering the sales passage on the M-30. All while public transport faces a Remodeling in Chamartín which seems to always be about to end, the complete remodeling of the Count of Casal exchanger and the Modernization of Metro Line 6another of the great paths for those who take this means of transport. In order not to put more pressure on the express pot in which Madrid has become, the City Council has decided delay the works in the surrounding area to the door of Alcalá. And the result is a funnel with a public transport that It fails to absorb the cuts for their own remodeling And, of course, he has problems to serve those who have chosen to park the car and take transport underground. Videos and Collapsed Metro photosthe company Deriving workers to manage entry to the vehicles and stations in which access to waves is controlled to avoid massifications at the foot of the way. The Madrid subway has said enough. And the lace to this unsustainable situation has not been put by a macroconcierto reahíla. Nor football. The last event that has ended up filling the subway and that has caused waiting times to at least reach the platform of the Metro lines of the Nuevos Ministries Station (exchanger with five nearby lines and three subway lines of which one of them is cut) has been the World Fruit Fair. And it is that those who aspire to reach IFEMA by subway from the city have to pass yes or yes by this station, which connects line 8 with access to the fairgrounds with line 10, one of the most used in the suburban because it crosses from north to south the city. They explain in The confidential that Fruit Attraction, as this fair is called, has attracted 2,200 companies from 150 countries different between September 30 and October 2, days in which the Metro has been especially collapsed and when those videos that demonstrate the problems to manage the accesses have been recorded It will not be so much, you can think. Well, in total the fair has occupied 10 of the 12 pavilions that IFEMA has available and accumulating 120,000 visitors. In total, those who went to IFEMA had 70 km2 of exhibitions. The event organization itself Explain in this video that special accesses had been enabled for the entry of visitors. The event, although punctual, demonstrates that the city is having important problems to absorb the demand for trains in its hours and that continuing to add pressure to the system even if it is promptly ends up overwhelming it. Beyond the circumstances 715 million travelers. That was the figure that moved the Madrid subway in 2024. Absolute passenger record with a growth in demand of 8% compared to the previous year. According to Metro data, four out of 10 displacements in the Community of Madrid add their company. The figure is slightly higher than 2007 when the previous record had been registered, when 100,000 passengers were added. Since before the 2008 crisis, the Madrid Metro had not added so many Displacements. They were years in which the trips multiplied. In 2000, 525 million passengers had registered according to the Madrid City Council. But the figure exploded in the later years. In 2000, the Madrid subway had 201 stations and in 2007 it added a total of 285 stations. It was those years in which line 12 was opened, known as Metro Sur, which serves all the southern belt peoples of the capital, adding 28 stations and more than 40 kilometers of travel. Of course, those inaugurated between 2006 and 2007 (42 stations) corresponded mostly with the Three light subway lines They move a very low passenger figure. And shortly after line 7b, which also adds stops and kilometers but its performance has been very low by the constant closures and reopening motivated by structural problems that, in fact, He has forced some neighbors to leave their homes. Once it was done That huge investment (Of which part were peripheral lines that have not added a large number of travelers) The infrastructure of the Madrid Metro has stagnated. Public transport It has not grown at the same pace than the city. Since then adds 17 new stations and 10 kilometers more of tracks but there are a lower number of cars available 2,083 in 2024 facing 2,157 in 2005. Nor does the same number of people live in the city. Last year the capital exceeded the barrier of 3.53 million people, which is also an absolute record. In 2006, the figure was 3.12 million inhabitants. And the population of the metropolitan area He has shot in a million inhabitantsmoving from the six million almost 20 years ago to the more than seven million. And to this we must add that Madrid lives a tourist explosion. 2024 has also been the year in which the city has received the most visitors, accumulating 11.19 million visitors. To get an idea of ​​the explosion, There are almost 800,000 people more than in 2019 and the 7.3 million that were recorded in 2007the year in which the last works of the Madrid Metro were completed. The problem is that the last part of the expansion of the 2000s focused on lines that have fattened the infrastructure but It has not served to absorb the number of travelers. In fact, the company is undertaking … Read more

Thousands of people recorded a B-52 at a fair. Shortly after, a commercial flight had to maneuver sharply to avoid it

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Skywest flight passengers, operated as Delta Connection between Minneapolis and Minot (North Dakota), starred in an unprecedented incident on Friday. The captain of Embraer 175 turned sharply The plane during the approximation by distinguishing a B -52 bomber from the American Air Force too close to its trajectory, which caused surprise and alarm on board. In a video recorded by the passenger Monica Green and Posted on Instagramthe pilot excuses the passengers: “Given their speed – they were military, I don’t know at what speed they were going, but they were much faster than us – I thought it was sure to turn around. They greatly apologize for the aggressive maneuver. It took me by surprise. This is not normal.” An unexpected event that is being investigated The FAA opened an investigation into the event on Monday. Skywest clarified thatdespite having permission to land, the flight made a frustrated approach maneuver By sighting another aircraft in its trajectory. The company is also evaluating the incident from its side. If you wonder what a B -52 was doing in that area, I was fulfilling a scheduled overflow for the North Dakota State Fair, As confirmed by the Air Force. That event is held in Minot, where a civil airport and an air base coexist. The military statement specifies that “The tower did not report the commercial plane”And, after exceeding the fairgrounds, he was ordered at the bomber to move three kilometers west. Tiktok @Theruralrose user recorded the two aircraft in the air from the North Dakota State Fair Platform monitoring data Flightradar24 reveal that he Embraer 175 He made an abrupt turn to the right, recovered altitude and remained waiting before restarting the approach. FAA added that air traffic control in Minot is managed by an external companywhose operators have “the same training and qualification requirements as those of FAA.” Green told CNN: “It was a very right turn and then he went quite to the sides. I looked out the window and all I saw was the grass.” The Embraer 175 belongs to the E -Jet family, a range of regional aircraft manufactured by the Brazilian Embraer. It is a narrow fuselage design thought for short and medium radio routes. Normally it transports between 76 and 88 passengers according to single or double class configurations, with turbofan engines GE CF34-8E and a vCruise elocity near 890 km/h (Mach 0.82). Its typical reach exceeds 3,300 km. Images | Embraer | @Theruralrose (Tiktok) | US Air Force In Xataka | Ryanair workers have a good reason for passing passengers with too big suitcases: collect more

The April Fair has served for years for people to record drunken people. There is a problem: fines

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The April Fair from Seville it is usually synonymous with party, music, dance, rebujito, costumes and fun, but also of another trend that It has been worrying time to the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia (Fall): The #Papagorda. That said hashtag may not tell you much (or yes), but if you usually move by X, Instagram, YouTube or especially Tiktok it is likely that its content is familiar to you. Basically it consists of the publication of photos and videos of people in more or less pregnant situations after having passed with the glasses. What has been a good #Papagorda. The trend arose in 2019, during the Seville Fair, and since then it has generated a huge amount of material that circulates through the networks. The problem, like It has just recoded the caais that that can have legal consequences. Who is not going to like a good #Papagorda? The trend is not new. Your hashtag neither. Before even pandemic, during The 2019 Seville Fairbegan to circulate on Twitter (now x) a label that accompanied photos and videos that show people with one (or several) more glasses. Which? #Papagorda. The concept and the trend triumphed and since then they have been replicating year after years. During the April 2022 fair the hashtag #Papagorda22 was popular, the following year was #Papagorda23 and so on until reaching the current #Papagorda25. And what is the problem? That as the CAA remembered A report Published in 2024 the intention of these videos and images is to “mock” its protagonists, which is often recorded without their consent. And that is a problem. So much that the CAA already launched in July 2024 A warning On the legal implications of sharing that kind of material in networks and has done it again Now taking advantage The beginning of the Seville Fair. In A statement Rotundo The organism warns that moving funny and sharing certain content can leave expensive to its authors, carrying legal responsibilities and fines. Why’s that? Because one thing is that the involved is recorded and then upload the video to Tiktok (or allow others to do) and another very different is to act behind them. “The use of networks for the distribution of videos of anonymous people recorded in a drunkenness or similar without their consent, on the occasion of different celebrations, can constitute an illegitimate interference in their rights to honor, intimacy and the image itself with the legal consequences that it can entail,” argues. Is it just a warning? No. The Audiovisual Council goes further and remembers a pair of key data. First, that these rights are recognized and covered by the Article 18.1 of the Constitution and regulate in the Organic Law 1/1982which details when you can speak of “illegitimate interference” in the honor and intimacy of a person. Second, that in Spain there is already at least one precedent, a sentence that gave the reason to the affected and derived a considerable fine. “There is already the precedent of a sanction of 10,000 eurosimposed by the Spain data protection agency (AEPD), for the mass dissemination on social networks of a recorded video without consent where a person who was on public roads appears in a state of drunkenness ” remember. On that occasion the video was recorded by a stranger who was in his car and he can identify the protagonist, who was supported by a paper to maintain balance. But is it so serious? Yes. Or at least so suggest The report Published last year by the CAA, dedicated precisely to “the dissemination of videos of drunk people at the Seville Fair or other mass holidays.” Perhaps who records (and shares) the images seems an innocent joke, but The Council warns than the Hashatg #Papagorda has ended up gaining amazing public relevance. After sweeping by Google and several social networks focus especially on terms related to drunkenness and fairs, CAA has achieved figures that reveal its scope. How relevant? “Searches have been made on Google and in the internal search engines of Tiktok, X, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Tiktok has been one of the most used platforms for the dissemination of content with #Papagorda24 during the Seville 2024 In total. This hashtag was the 16th with more traffic in Spain as of April 2024 “, Add the CAAwhich notes that its impact on X or Tiktok has come accompanied by a “growing disapproval” by users. That’s all? No. The CAA slides also an important reflection. The problem is not just that images of drunk people are recorded and disseminated without their consent to make fun of it. The fact of sharing that material in networks also makes the final impact and the route of the videos uncontrollable. In fact, the Council recalls that the hashtag have become “viral” and have ended up attracting even media attention. “It is evident that, with the distribution of these short videos without consent, the fundamental rights of the people who appear can be violated. In addition, this risk is increased since they are distributed by platforms, with the multiplier effect of these,” ditch. Images | Channel South Media (Flickr) 1 and 2 In Xataka | In Tiktok there are men shaving the eyelashes to look more masculine. Science has bad news for them

In LaLiga Cloudflare IPS blockages they are paying fair for sinners. The righteous are already proposed legal actions

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This weekend They turned to produce Problems for many Internet users who failed to access the websites they visit normally. The reason in many cases was the Cloudflare IPS blockade that several operators carried out due to LaLiga’s demands. Users reaches. As we explain, the war between these two entities comes from afar, and the worst thing is that is causing them to pay fair for sinners. However, some of those righteous are preparing to take action on the matter. Affected in action. Román Ramírez (@patowc), cybersecurity expert and event organizer Rootedconhe published last Friday a message in X (formerly Twitter) encouraging those affected to contact him. The objective, to ensure that those who had suffered the problems offer evidence of it to be able to collect them and gather enough evidence. Legal actions in sight. Javier A. Master (@Javieramastre), who exercises (among other things) as a lawyer from Rootedcon, recently explained the legal details of these actions and is part of that effort of Ramírez to clarify what is happening. Both are convinced that LaLiga is in a clear illicit, and that the legal arguments of that organism are not valid. Freedom of expression. For Ramírez, fundamental rights such as freedom of expression are being violated, “which should not be above economic interests.” Meanwhile, Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, published a message in x accusing Cloudflare of being “perfect accomplice” of criminals who, for example, publish child pornography on the Internet. In that message, says Ramírez, Thebes himself explicitly admits that he is causing damage to third parties, something that theoretically should not be able to do LaLiga if he complied with the law. Shared IPS. The fundamental problem is, as we have already mentioned, that LaLiga requests IP addresses to avoid illegal broadcasts of IPTV football matches. The problem is that in many cases these IPS belong to Cloudflare, but those IPS are shared and if you tomb the IP, you tomb all web sites and services that depend on said IP. Cloudflare does not collaborate in LaLiga. According to LaLiga, Cloudflare does not collaborate at the closure of the IPTV service of the offenders. However, Ramírez explains that what LaLiga demands is to have “total access to her backend.” Cloudflare knows, of course, the web sites and services that “hang” from the same shared IP, but one of its premises is to hide that information – for that the protcolo ECH is served – as well as protect that information and its customers precisely to avoid cyber attacks and BLOCKS. The ideal solution. Cloudflare could thus leave only the website or server that is committing the alleged infraction, but that should be dictated by a judge. The current laws allow LaLiga to send a weekly IPS list to block, and from there the operators must block them or would be exposed to the breach of the judicial mandate. Ideally, a judge, knowing IP address and domain or even the SNI (Server Name Indication), demanded the closure of that exclusive service. Thus Cloudflare could disable that access at the request of the judge and not of the head of the property rights of the issuance, which is the one who demands that indiscriminate block and that affects legitimate websites and websites. Evidence. Those affected who want to provide evidence can do so by contacting Román Ramírez via X (@patowc), as writing to the email address info@rootedcon.com. The objective is to collect as many evidence as you can in the next few days to see how hundreds and even thousands of legitimate websites are inaccessible during soccer matches. And possible demand. With all those data, Ramírez and Maestre hope to build an expert case and report with which to execute a potential demand to LaLiga. The ultimate goal is to raise a complaint with which to apply precautionary measures and that these IPS blocks are suspended. In Xataka | Backdoors, Security and Privacy: Is there the perfect balance? Experts think

LaLiga’s crusade with football comes long. And with Movistar and Cloudflare they are paying fair for sinners

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Football is causing real chaos on the Internet. Not directly, but due to LaLiga’s obsession to avoid illegal emissions of the parties. The particular crusade of this body against these emissions comes from afar, but is beginning to cause real problems to users and companies that have nothing to do with the problem of these illegal emissions. War against IPTV Yy El Cardsharing. In December 2021 the Commercial Court No. 6 of Barcelona He issued an order aimed at the immediate blockade of domain names belonging to several IPTV and Cardhsaring suppliers. The court authorized LaLiga and Movistar+ to monitor web pages blocked throughout the season to identify possible changes in their identification, but they could also request the blockade of new domain names weekly. These requests should be executed by Internet access providers. Said blockages had already been executed In February 2020 After a sentence of the Commercial Court No. 7 of Madrid. Weekly locks. In August 2022 LaLiga and Movistar Plus+ They won a lawsuit Joint before the Commercial Court No. 9 of Barcelona that enabled them to “be able to block access to domains that facilitate the piracy of LaLiga content.” The “dynamic block” measure It allows URLs, domains and IP addresses to be identified weekly without communicating them previously to the Court. It was already decided that it would be in force until the current 2024/2025 season. Attempt to pursue user IPS. In March 204 LaLiga made it clear that I wanted to chase those users They see football by IPTV applications not allowed. A judicial order raised the possibility of track the IP addresses of those who profit economically with that activity. He precedent of the Euskaltel case Years before marked a turning point in this type of demand by content suppliers. Telegram lock attempt. That same month the National Court Ask to block Telegram in Spain to operators. The platform has become On the new Deep Weband through it all kinds of content are shared, even those of emissions that violate the copyright of their owners. Finally The blockade did not occur. LaLiga against Freedom on the Internet. In April 2024 the company He loaded against Google, Apple and Huawei As owners of application stores from where the NewPlay app could be downloaded, one of the IPTV apps accused of violating their rights. 450 euros for using the IPTV. LaLiga continued her particular crusade against freedom on the Internet and in June 2024 requested by letter 450 euros To users who had accessed IPTV to see LaLiga content illegally. Tracking UPS IPS. Just a month ago the Commercial Court No. 9 of Barcelona authorized LaLiga to receive Information about IPS connected to Acstream. A preliminary diligence requested by the League was agreed, which consists of: “sending to the operators of the IP addresses identified and ordered based on the ID of the” Ace Stream “channel in which they participate.” Criminal Procedure Law. This law includes in its article 13 the “provisional interruption of the services offered by said contents or in the provisional blockade of each other when they lie abroad.” However, its affectation to a fundamental right such as freedom of expression, and also these measures, which involve IPS blocking, are being carried out in certain cases in a seemingly indiscriminate manner, affecting both legitimate sites as to sites that are not. The reason is that platforms such as Cloudflare use IPS that share all those services. How illegal retransmissions are detected. The way to detect and knock down web domains that broadcast soccer matches illegally has changed a lot in recent years. In LaLiga they make use of Tools like Marauder, Lumière and Blackhole For these tasks, and said software It has generated interest internationally. IPTV as such are legal. NewPlay is one IPTV to use. Base are a completely legal type of application. They are still decoders of M3U lists. For practical purposes a kind of VLC -style player. While LaLiga accuses this type of applications to be used to reproduce content without permission, such as football matches. In addition, the Supreme Court has already established that football has no intellectual property. But the indiscriminate block of IPS is terrible. What is happening is that among the IPS that are blocked there are IPS managed by Cloudflare that are not dedicated to a single service, but are shared between tens, hundreds and even thousands of them. If the Internet supplier does not relate a selective block, when blocking the IP, it not only prevents access to who offers illegal content, but also to the rest of the services that are totally legitimate. Cloudflare does not make it easy. Cloudflare makes use of techniques such as ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) to protect the privacy of websites that share that IP, which makes the filtering of each other and the execution of a selective block. However, some operators like Vodafone They confirmed to Xataka Mobile that these days they applied a block “much more precise and adjusted to LaLiga’s request” although they did not give details about it. Movistar’s clients complained precisely that They were affected by indiscriminate blockages that prevented them from accessing numerous web sites and services. Imaghen | Compare fiber | LaLiga | Fancy Crave In Xataka | The positioning of the judges about LaLiga and the IPTV is clear: you cannot chase the end user

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