La cattiva notizia è che sono andato in black-out. La buona notizia è che il caminetto non si è spento. Se percaso ho scritto qualcosa di sconveniente nelle ultime... hummm... circa otto ore, per cortesia ignoratele.
Reading how marco rubio is trying to walk back the whole "We're running Venezuela" thing on TV tonight.
AND seriously wondering if every clown in this clown car of a country is drunk.
WHAT the fuck is going on? Do they know? does anyone know? #uspol
DID we just perform a coup but left the current administration in place? AND are expecting them to just hand over control over their nation's chief export and largest wealth generator for free? forever? For no compensation ? #uspol
@trashHeap The “democratic transition” is an excuse for the coup, in order to hand over the country to someone sympathetic to privatizing oil extraction in Venezuela, in the person of the most recent “Nobel Peace Prize” recipient.
Trump said the quiet part out loud in that she is supposed to be a puppet for US interests. It is also possible the oil blockade and the coup weren’t coordinated, but even then, hijacking an oil tanker going from Venezuela to Cuba is a great opportunity to vex both countries and get a favor with a US oil baron.
This is the little sense I’ve been able to make of all this in the past 24 hours I’ve known about it.
The Washington Post reports: Trump had effectively dismissed the prospects of Venezuela’s democratic opposition, including Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, whose stand-in candidate, Edmu
In the small fantasy game ive been working on it has a style to it, as if it was drawn on paper. To make item and character sprites look the way I want I make line art then trace bitmap in inkscape with maximum smoothing. Unfortunately I worry people will think it's AI. It has that look about it.
@Aaron DeVries Oof, yeah, maybe with a no AI disclaimer it would assuage concerns, but you definitely are in the same predicament as other visual artists who have seen their personal work been branded AI art seemingly overnight. 😞
@hypolite I have process images and files showing how they are all made just in case. Like with character sprites I make 3D models and use those as tracing dummies before making the line art look like ink drawings. So I have blender files as well as the line art progression. So if anyone asks I can prove the art is not gen AI at least
@Aaron DeVries That's good, but I expect some people will be turned away from "AI vibes" only without trying to figure out whether it is AI art or not. That's how badly the well has been poisoned, as it isn't your fault, and it isn't their fault either. The zone has been thoroughly flooded with shit.
i still want to write a year in review for 2025 also. i was hoping to finish that also before going back to work, but alas. also, oof, what a difficult year to review... for a lot of reasons.
@paloma kop ⁂ Physical manifestations of abstract concepts and ideas sounds like a great way to stop worrying about forgetting about any of them! And then if one doesn’t spark joy anymore, you can physically trash it which is also a powerful gesture.
Perché i siti pubblici promuovono gratuitamente le Big Tech?
Ogni icona di Facebook, Instagram o X sui siti istituzionali è pubblicità gratuita per giganti privati che: Rafforzano monopoli, Tracciano i cittadini, Costringono all'uso di piattaforme proprietarie
Le alternative esistono: Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Matrix
Le istituzioni pubbliche devono garantire neutralità tecnologica e proteggere la #privacy dei cittadini, non regalare visibilità alle big.
L’inserimento di icone e riferimenti a piattaforme private come Facebook, Instagram, X e altre su siti istituzionali o di servizio pubblico solleva importanti questioni riguardanti la neutralità tecnologica, la dipendenza da piattaforme proprietarie …
Oggi, quando un Ministero, un Comune o una Protezione Civile pubblicano un avviso su Facebook o X (Twitter), lo fanno convinti di utilizzare uno strumento "gratuito" per raggiungere il massimo numero di persone.
L'intelligenza artificiale incontra l'archeologia a Pompei
Il progetto #RePAIR finanziato dall'UE utilizza l'intelligenza artificiale e la robotica per ricostruire affreschi frammentati come un gigantesco puzzle. Testato su affreschi della Casa dei Pittori al Lavoro e della Schola Armaturarum, dimostra come la tecnologia possa aiutare gli archeologi a ricostruire il patrimonio culturale.
Il progetto di ricerca RePAIR”, acronimo di Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Meet Cultural Heritage è finanziato dall’Unione Europea
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Mentre i titoli dei giornali di tutto il mondo raccontano del blitz militare statunitense in Venezuela e della cattura del presidente Nicolás Maduro, un’altra battaglia, più silenziosa ma non meno significativa, si sta combattendo nel
#Latvia to transfer 21 cars confiscated from drunk drivers and other criminal cases to #Ukraine.
The vehicles are intended for military units of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, the Kharkov Clinical Multidisciplinary Railway Hospital and the military administration of Novovorontsovka.
С начала полномасштабной войны России против Украины Латвия регулярно передает Украине автомобили, конфискованные у пьяных водителей и в рамках других уголовных дел.
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2026/01/venezue… I lettori che, negli anni appena trascorsi, hanno seguito le osservazioni più acute riguardo le dinamiche internazionali non saranno stupiti dell’attacco americano al Venezuela, scatenato dall’impellente necessità di arraffare risorse.
I put our Christmas tree into the backyard to provide a bit of extra shelter to the birds over winter. The fact that the birds are huddled inside the tree on this snowy day has not escaped the notice of one #lordpercival #tuxedocat #cats #catsofMastodon #catsofFediverse #winter
If anyone needs a timeline cleanse, here's my friends' cat Winter, OUTRAGED that we're too busy (inside) at the Friends of Edna Staebler Christmas Bash to let her back inside. This is a few minutes after she was OUTRAGED that she was inside when there was all that snow to play in.
Einen Tag vor dem Urlaubsende habe ich mich zur Sicherheit mit meinem Arbeitsrechner angemeldet. Mal davon abgesehen, dass er jetzt haufenweise Updates zieht, gab es in der Zwischenzeit augenscheinlich keine Katastrophen. Und ich hab auch gleich meinen Urlaub beantragt.
Ormai ho deciso che abbandono #writefreely per il mio blog sto già lavorando al nuovo sito. Riguardo all'integrazione con il #fediverso ci ho pensato un po', ma credo che l'opzione migliore sia di condividere direttamente dal mio profilo i nuovi articoli. Se si vuol seguire solo il sito in modo automatico ci sarà il feed.
in effetti writefreely pare un pochino in stallo da qualche anno a sta parte. Per la federazione del blog non saprei, in effetti Mastodon è molto più diffuso e si riesce a far girare l’articolo molto più velocemente rispetto agli account del blog federati. Però ci potrebbero essere persone interessate solo al blog e meno alle che chiacchiere da social che fai su mastodon.
Hello, world!
Lawnchair is now officially on Mastodon! We'll be posting release announcements, blog posts, while bringing the same casual vibe (and occasional shitposts) over from our X account.
It became the new standard for developers not to explain what their apps do ? Even after taking a look at their website, I have no idea what it does 😅 I guess everyone knows what Pixel Launcher is 🤷♂️
Come accedere ai servi della Pubblica Amministrazione senza pagare lo Spid di Poste Italiane: dagli operatori privati alla Carta d’Identità Elettronica.
Stanford ha bloccato una proteina dell'invecchiamento nei topi anziani: la cartilagine del ginocchio è ricresciuta senza staminali, solo riprogrammando le cellule già presenti. Stesso risultato su tessuto umano prelevato durante operazioni. Trial clinici su un inibitore simile mostrano già sicurezza nell'uomo.
Se funziona, addio protesi: basterà un'iniezione locale o una pillola per rigenerare dall'interno. I ricercatori sperano in trial specifici entro 2-3 anni. futuroprossimo.it/2026/01/unin…
Prima del 1960 i cartoni erano "cose da piccoli". Poi arrivarono The Flintstonesa Bedrock e nulla fu più lo stesso. La storia di come un budget ridotto ha creato un mito immortale
Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you’d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alaska. If you were to spend a night camping out in the Alaskan winter, your first choice of shelter almost certainly wouldn’t be a USPS electric cargo trike, but over on YouTube [Matt Spears] shows that it’s not that hard to make a lovely little camper out of the mail bike.
We’re not sure how much use these sorts of cargo trikes get in Alaska, but [Matt] seems to have acquired this one surplus after an entirely-predictable crash took one of the mirrors off. A delta configuration trike — single wheel in front — is tippy at the best of times, but the high center of gravity you’d get from a loading the rear with
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Sleeping Rough in Alaska with a USPS Cargo Bike
Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you’d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alaska. If you were to spend a night camping out in the Alaskan winter, your first choice of shelter almost certainly wouldn’t be a USPS electric cargo trike, but over on YouTube [Matt Spears] shows that it’s not that hard to make a lovely little camper out of the mail bike.
We’re not sure how much use these sorts of cargo trikes get in Alaska, but [Matt] seems to have acquired this one surplus after an entirely-predictable crash took one of the mirrors off. A delta configuration trike — single wheel in front — is tippy at the best of times, but the high center of gravity you’d get from a loading the rear with mail just makes it worse. That evidently did not deter the United States Postal Service, and it didn’t deter [Matt] either.
His conversion is rather minimal: to turn the cargo compartment into a camper, he only adds a few lights, a latch on the inside of the rear door, and a wood-burning stove for heat. Rather than have heavy insulation shrink the already-small cargo compartment, [Matt] opts to insulate himself with a pile of warm sleeping bags. Some zip-tie tire chains even let him get the bike moving (slowly) in a winter storm that he claims got his truck stuck.
While it might not be a practical winter vehicle, at least on un-plowed mountain roads, starting with an electric-assist cargo trike Uncle Sam already paid for represented a huge cost and time savings vs starting from scratch like this teardrop bike camper we featured a while back. While not as luxurious, it seems more practical for off-roading than another electric RV we’ve seen.
A person wearing a dark suit jacket, white dress shirt, and red tie is visible, with light brown hair styled upward. A black earpiece with a black wire is attached to their right ear. In the background, to the left, part of a blue flag with white stars is present, and to the right, part of a green flag is visible. The person’s face shows prominent wrinkled skin creating a radial pattern of creases across the center.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Qwen3-Vl:30b
The biggest change in my lifetime which I have seen and experienced was going from a society where most people had a base level of trust. We have gone from that to *everything* being a scam by default and nothing you see or read is real.
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2026/01/ranucci… “Il senatore Gasparri con le sue agenzie sta cercando di fermare l’inchiesta di questa sera sulle stragi di mafia. Ma Report andrà in onda regolarmente e manderà in onda gli audio rimasti per circa 20 segreti dove Alberto Lo Cicero, autista del
Kaja Kalla's (EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the European Commission) statement supported by 26 EU Member States on the aftermath of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela
3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel to do it for you!
Ray marching is a form of ray tracing, where a ray is stepped along based on how close it is to the nearest surface. By taking advantage of signed distance functions, such an algorithm can be quite effective, and in some instances much more efficient then traditional ray marching algorithms. But the fact that ray marching is so mathematically well defined is probably why [ExcelTABLE] used it to make a ray traced game in Excel.
Under the hood, the ray marching works by casting a ray out from the camera and measuring its distance from a set of three dimensional functions. If that distance is below a
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Ray Marching in Excel
3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel to do it for you!
Ray marching is a form of ray tracing, where a ray is stepped along based on how close it is to the nearest surface. By taking advantage of signed distance functions, such an algorithm can be quite effective, and in some instances much more efficient then traditional ray marching algorithms. But the fact that ray marching is so mathematically well defined is probably why [ExcelTABLE] used it to make a ray traced game in Excel.
Under the hood, the ray marching works by casting a ray out from the camera and measuring its distance from a set of three dimensional functions. If that distance is below a certain value, this is considered a surface hit. On surface hits, a simple normal shader computes pixel brightness. This is then rendered out by variable formatting in the cells of the spreadsheet.
For those of you following along at home, the tutorial should work just fine in any modern spreadsheet software including Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc. It also provides a great explanation of the math and concepts of ray marching, so is worth a read regardless your opinions on Excel’s status as a so-called “programming language.”
This is not the first time we have come across a ray tracing tutorial. If computer graphics are your thing, make sure to check out this ray tracing in a weekend tutorial next!
The primary target in Yelets, Russia, seems to be the "Energiya" factory. Fires in those workshops and across the city can be seen. The city is around 300 km (180 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
The factory is involved in the development and production of autonomous power sources for general industrial purposes, but also in special equipment, such as for aviation, for radio equipment and electrical devices.
The city of Yelets, Lipetsk region, in Russia is under drone attack. Explosions and fires can be seen. The city hosts factories of Russia‘s military industrial complex.
🇱🇻 An optical cable belonging to a private company has been damaged in the Baltic Sea, #Latvia's Prime Minister Evika Silina said in a statement on Sunday, adding that the circumstances of the incident were under investigation.
FPV drones of Ukraine's 105th Territorial Defense Brigade struck a group of Russian soldiers. Both vehicles had electronic warfare systems active but that could not prevent them from getting hit.
Zelensky: Ukraine is preparing for key meetings in Europe next week to strengthen defense and push for peace. While diplomacy remains the goal, Ukraine will be ready to defend itself if pressure on Russia falls short. “We seek peace, but we will not give up our strength to anyone.”
Venezuela’s military has declared support for Delcy Rodríguez as interim leader following the capture of Nicolás Maduro by US forces. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino confirmed Maduro’s security team suffered heavy losses during the operation. Armed forces across the country have been placed on high alert to defend national sovereignty.
Trump in an interview with The Atlantic: “If Delcy Rodríguez -Acting President of Venezuela- doesn’t do what needs to be done, she’ll pay a very high price, probably higher than Maduro.”
Latvia's Prime Minister, Evika Siliņa, reports that a undersea cable was damaged:
A damage to an optical cable belonging to a private company has been detected in the Baltic Sea near Liepāja. The incident has not affected Latvian communications users. I am in contact with the Crisis Management Center and the responsible services, while the State Police has initiated an inspection and the circumstances continue to be clarified.
UPD. Rescuers have recovered fragments of the body of a sixth victim from the rubble of a residential building in Kharkiv, destroyed by a russian missile strike on 2 January.
In an NBC interview, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed opposition leader María Corina Machado despite her broad support. “We’re dealing with short-term realities,” he said, stressing urgency over idealism.
Rubio downplayed the prospect of elections soon, calling it premature, and reframed U.S. involvement as guiding policy, not governing directly. He emphasized that Venezuela must not serve as a foothold for U.S. adversaries like Iran, Russia, or China.
Meanwhile, Colombia has deployed troops and armored vehicles to its border with Venezuela following Washington’s announcement of temporary control over Venezuela and its oil infrastructure.
It is increasingly questionable to speak of "regime change" in Venezuela, when Vice President Delcy Rodríguez is still in office. If you say that Maduro is illegitimate, then she is just as illegitimate. Same goes with the rest of the Chavistas, which are still untouched and very much in charge.
The people in Venezuela rightfully deserve change and freedom. Only a power transfer to Edmundo González or María Corina Machado can achieve that outcome.
Я просто не понимаю, а как этот шиз в принципе себе представлял последовательность событий? Да, человека они выкрали. А дальше то что? Раз уж захотелось силушкой похвастаться - так надо бы... mostra di più
Я просто не понимаю, а как этот шиз в принципе себе представлял последовательность событий? Да, человека они выкрали. А дальше то что? Раз уж захотелось силушкой похвастаться - так надо было это делать не в полунищей деревушке
mention of bodies being bodies and minds being minds, and not in the perfectly working sense.
A lot of the youtube channels I follow tend to involve somebody makingthings, so of course one of the videos my SO and I watched a few days ago was about walking around San Francisco Bay, and that recalled my desire to go to places by foot. Now, f
mention of bodies being bodies and minds being minds, and not in the perfectly working sense.
A lot of the youtube channels I follow tend to involve somebody makingthings, so of course one of the videos my SO and I watched a few days ago was about walking around San Francisco Bay, and that recalled my desire to go to places by foot. Now, for health-related reasons doing it properly would be problematic, and thus I’ve never trained for that, but during this Christmas holiday-heavy time I suggested my very patient SO the next best thing: instead of our usual 1.5 hours uphill walk in the woods, a 2 hours and a bit mostly flat walk on paved streets, plus some train, to a nearby town: Porto Ceresio, on the Italian side of Lake Lugano.
I started to prepare for it on the day before, by deciding it was a good time to upgrade my PinePhone, and wait, I’m still on Trixie? I could try Forky, what could possibly go wrong? And well, the phone was no longer able to boot, and reinstalling from the latest weekly had a system where the on-screen keyboard didn’t appear, and I didn’t want to bother finding out why, so re-installed another time from the 13.0 image, and between that, and distracting myself with widelands while waiting for the downloads and uploads and reboots etc., well, all of the afternoon and the best part of the evening disappeared.
So, in a hurry, between the evening and the next morning I prepared a nice healthy lunch, full of all the important nutrients such as sugar, salt, mercury and arsenic. Tuna (mercury) soboro (sugar and salt) on rice and since I was in a hurry I didn’t prepare any vegetables, but used pickles (more salt) and shio kombu (arsenic and various heavy metals, sugar and salt). Plus a green tea mochi for dessert, in case we felt low on sugar. :D
Then on the day of the walk we woke up a bit later than usual, and then my body decided it was a good day for my belly to not exactly hurt, but not not-hurt either, and there I took an executive decision to wear a corset, because if something feels like it wants to burst open, wrapping it in a steel reinforced cage will make it stop. (I’m not joking. It does. At least in those specific circumstances.)
This was followed by hurrying through the things I had to do before leaving the house, having a brief anxiety attack and feeling feverish (it wasn’t fever), and finally being able to leave the house just half an hour late.
And then, 10 minutes after we had left, realizing that I had written down the password for the train website, since it was no longer saved on the phone, but i had forgotten the bit of paper at home. We could have gone back to take it, but decided not to bother, as we could also hopefully buy paper-ish tickets at the train station (we could).
Later on, I also realized I had also forgotten my GPS tracker, so I have no record of where we went exactly (but it’s not hard to recognize it on a map) nor on what the temperature was. It’s a shame, but by that point it was way too late to go back.
Anyway, that probably was when Murphy felt we had paid our respects, and from then on everything went lovingly well!
Routing had been done on the OpenStreetMap website, with OSRM, and it looked pretty easy to follow, but we also had access to an Android phone, so we used OSMAnd to check that we were still on track. It tried to lead us to the Statale (i.e. most important and most trafficked road) a few times, but we ignored it, and after a few turns and a few changes of the precise destination point we managed to get it to cooperate.
At one point a helpful person asked us if we needed help, having seen us looking at the phone, and gave us indication for the next fork (that way to Cuasso al Piano, that way to Porto Ceresio), but it was pretty easy, since the way was clearly marked also for cars.
Then we started to notice red and white markings on poles and other places, and on the next fork there was a signpost for hiking routes with our destination and we decided to follow it instead of the sign for cars. I knew that from our starting point to or destination there was also a hiking route, uphill both ways :) , through the hills, about 5 or 6 hours instead of two, but the sign was pointing downhill and we were past the point where we would expect too long of a detour.
And indeed, after a short while the paved road ended, but the path continued on a wide and flat track, and was a welcome detour through what looked like water works to prevent flood damage from a stream. In a warmer season, with longer grass and ticks maybe the fact that I was wearing a long skirt may have been an issue, but in winter it was just fine.
And soon afterwards, we were in Porto Ceresio. I think I have been there as a child, but I had no memory of it. On the other hand, it was about as I expected: a tiny town with a lakeside street full of houses built in the early 1900s when the area was an important tourism destination, with older buildings a bit higher up on the hills (because streams in this area will flood). And of course, getting there by foot rather than by train we also saw the parts where real people live (but not work: that’s cross-border commuters country).
Soon after arriving in Porto Ceresio we stopped to eat our lunch on a bench at the lakeside; up to then we had been pretty comfortable in the clothing we had decided to wear: there was plenty of frost on the ground, in the shade, but the sun was warm and the temperatures were cleanly above freezing. Removing the gloves to eat, however, resulted in quite cold hands, and we didn’t want to stay still for longer than strictly necessary.
So we spent another hour and a bit walking around Porto Ceresio like proper tourists and taking pictures. There was an exhibition of nativity scenes all around the streets, but to get a map one had to go to either facebook or instagram, or wait for the opening hours of an office that were later than the train we planned to get to go back home, so we only saw maybe half of them, as we walked around: some were quite nice, some were nativity scenes, and some showed that the school children must have had some fun making them.
Another Christmas decoration were groups of creatures made of evergreen branches that dotted the sidewalks around the lake: I took pictures of the first couple of groups, and then after seeing a few more something clicked in my brain, and I noticed that they were wrapped in green LED strings, like chains, and they had a red ball that was supposed to be the nose, but could just be around the mouth area, and suddenly I felt the need to play a certain chord to release them, but sadly I didn’t have a weaponized guitar on me :D
Another thing that we noticed were some benches in the shape of books, with book quotations on them; most were on reading-related topics, but the one with the Constitution felt worth taking a picture of, especially these days.
And then, our train was waiting at the station, and we had to go back home for the afternoon; it was a nice outing, if a bit brief, and we agreed to do it again, possibly with a bit of a detour to make the walk a bit longer. And then maybe one day we’ll train to do the whole 5-6 hour thing through the hills.
There Will Be Meetings in Europe That Must Become Yet Another Contribution to Our Defense and to Hastening the End of the War – Address by President #Zelenskyy 04.01.2026
Extract #Ukraine will be prepared for both possible paths ahead – diplomacy, which we are pursuing, or continued active defense if the pressure from our partners on russia proves insufficient.
Since invading another country is the "ultimate crime" under international law, I trust the US will be banned from all sporting competitions like Russia was, or do the rules not work like that?
Johannes BrahmsSymphony No 1 in C minor, Op.681. Un poco sostenuto — Allegro – Meno allegro (00:04)2. Andante sostenuto (12:07)3. Un poco allegretto e grazio...
Hey, It’s super cold inside my appartment so I’m taking the opportunity to get my Christmas cards out and getting ready for the week! Lots to do! Staying warm, trying to stay healthy. Supposed to warm up Tuesday. 🥶 That reminds me I wanted to a survey for the best thermals. I’m supposed to order three pair of thermals ultralight ultra warm.
@AAKL it is perhaps a little known fact about me that when I was much younger, I was a gym rat. I was spending about five hours per day six or seven days a week in the gym split between early morning and afternoon sessions. I really miss that feeling.
I dont have a gym that is both close enough -and- affordable enough, that I could actually make it work. Inevitably the distance or the cost gets to me.
today was a little better than yesterday. Also, the gym didn’t feel nearly as crowded. I don’t know if that’s because today is a workday and it’s only us unemployed bums hanging out during the day.
Heute war ja der erste #diday und Teil der Idee ist es ja Leute ins #Fediverse zu bekommen. Wir wissen alle, dass das Fediverse groß, unübersichtlich und einschüchternd seit kann.
Eine hervorragende Reihe von Veranstaltungen auf denen man mal "dumme Fragen" stellen kann (keine Bange, die gibt es nicht) firmieren under dem Hashtag #FediTreff - gibt es über ganz Deutschland und die Welt verteilt. Dezentrale Stammtische um über das Fediverse zu schnacken.
Morgen ist es in #Berlin wieder so weit. Da treffen wir uns jeden 1. Montag im Monat auf der @c-base e.V. ab 19 Uhr. Kommt gerne vorbei wenn ihr #NeuHier seit oder jemanden kennt der noch Fragen zum Fediverse klären will, bevor der DiDay im Social Media Bereich angegangen wird.
Pediatric healthcare workers: "We can't wear masks because it's so, so, so important babies see our faces, even if it exposes them to dangerous viruses."
STUDY: "Findings suggest that masked and unmasked static faces equally attract newborns' attention and that surgical masks do not disrupt their face configuration processing."
Medical professionals need to start admitting they're just being selfish, not altruistic, by not masking around at-risk patients.
"We help communities improve urban spaces by growing pockets of native trees and shrubs. Together we create thriving soil, love of nature, wildlife habitat and climate resilience. A Pocket Forest is our own method of opening spaces for nature in towns and cities around Ireland. We repurpose waste materials to feed the soil life and help people create and care for their Pocket Forests." pocketforests.ie/
Menschen in meiner Umgebung, die mehrmals die Woche ins Fitness-Studio gehen, berichten von den zahlreichen Neujahrsvorsätzlichen, die gerade in die Sportstätten einfallen. Zum Glück ist der Spuk bald wieder vorbei.
I seem to have cornfused many people yesterday, so to clear the air:
Yes, I know that last year was the first time FIFA ever gave out this award
Yes, I am aware that it was invented and awarded by the head of FIFA to curry favor with Trump, who was still in shock that he was passed over for the Nobel Prize
Yes, I’m aware that the main thing this award represents is corruption.
And let's not neglect to mention Jesus's sparkling blue eyes and flowing golden curls, the awe-inspiring effect of which proved instrumental to soccer's original explosive popularity.
Ohio is too hilly for soccer. Soccer was invented by the Church of Latter Day Saints, literally in salt fly in the state of Utah, so LDS missionaries could use soccer to spread the word of Jesus to foreign countries.
Back when Twitter was still a thing there was this account named « Team premier degré » which humorously reacted to various things « at face value » (which is a loose translation of « premier degré »). It’s somehow not as funny when people do it unironically. Still kinda funny though.
В ночь на субботу 3 января американские войска нанесли удары по военным объектам в столице Венесуэлы Каракасе и захватили президента страны Николаса Мадуро и его жену Силию Флорес. В... mostra di più
В ночь на субботу 3 января американские войска нанесли удары по военным объектам в столице Венесуэлы Каракасе и захватили президента страны Николаса Мадуро и его жену Силию Флорес. Власти США не считают Мадуро легитимным президентом Венесуэлы и обвиняют его и его Силию Флорес в сговоре с целью "наркотерроризма", ввоза кокаина, хранении оружия и взрывных устройств с целью использования против США. В субботу вечером они были доставлены в Центр содержания под стражей в Бруклине. По данным NBC...
В Киеве в результате взрыва автомобиля осколочные ранения получил военнослужащий. Как сообщает киевская городская прокуратура, дело расследуется по статье о теракте. Взрыв произо... mostra di più
В Киеве в результате взрыва автомобиля осколочные ранения получил военнослужащий. Как сообщает киевская городская прокуратура, дело расследуется по статье о теракте. Взрыв произошел во дворе дома на улице Героев Днепра в Оболонском районе, когда владелец машины открывал багажник. Он получил осколочные ранения, говорится в сообщении прокуратуры. Рядом с ним находилась женщина, она не пострадала. Имя военнослужащего не называется. 22 декабря 2025 года в Москве на улице Ясеневой в...
Леворадикальная группировка "Вулкан" взяла на себя ответственность за поджог кабелей на электростанции, в результате чего без света остались около 50 тысяч домохозяйств и более 2200 пред... mostra di più
Леворадикальная группировка "Вулкан" взяла на себя ответственность за поджог кабелей на электростанции, в результате чего без света остались около 50 тысяч домохозяйств и более 2200 предприятий на юго-западе Берлина. Письмо анархистов поступило в полицию и было признано подлинным, пишет Tagesspiegel. "Нападение на газовую электростанцию является актом самообороны и международной солидарности со всеми, кто защищает Землю и жизнь", – говорится в письме. Авторы послания утверждают, что целью...
Men are pushed out of economy, women are easier to indoctrinate, "sexual non-conformity" is propagated for a reason, unnatural human behavior propaganda is subsidized and funded...
(Aside from his Christianity all other thoughts are very good!)
#christinegracesmith #news #latestlunacyAnson Belt & Buckle: Step up your belt game — get 2 bonus pieces FREE with the Box Set at http://ansonbelt.com/cgsqui...
The pianist Solomon, was born in London in 1902. His full name was Solomon Cutner. He was the son of working class Jewish parents. Despite his humble backg...
Sorry, I don't know either the pianist nor the conductor. Some people rightly disappear into history. I know why I put a question mark after your name.
But there are also a few who can be compared to Argerich. And Chailly may be anything, but he is certainly not boring. I had already tooted this recording.
Ausnahmepianistin Hélène Grimaud spielt Robert Schumanns Klavierkonzert a-Moll op. 54 zusammen mit dem NDR Sinfonieorchester (heute: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orch...
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor, Dirigent: Florian Helgath. Johanna Winkel, Sopran; Anke Vondung, Alt; Patrick Grahl, Tenor; Samuel Hasselhorn, Bass. Felix Mendelssohn: Paulus, op....
Un gruppo di hacker chiamato DarkSpectre ha infettato i browser Chrome, Edge e Firefox per 7 anni, rubando dati degli utenti e conducendo spionaggio aziendale.
Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants in Ocarina of Time
What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the premise of the Nintendo 64DD peripheral, and the topic of a recent video by [Skawo] in which an archaeological code dig is performed to see what traces of the abandoned product may remain.
The 64DD slots into the bottom of the console where the peripheral connector is located, following which the console can read and write the magnetic discs of the 64DD. At 64 MB it matched the cartridge in storage capacity, while also being writable unlike
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Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants in Ocarina of Time
What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the premise of the Nintendo 64DD peripheral, and the topic of a recent video by [Skawo] in which an archaeological code dig is performed to see what traces of the abandoned product may remain.
The 64DD slots into the bottom of the console where the peripheral connector is located, following which the console can read and write the magnetic discs of the 64DD. At 64 MB it matched the cartridge in storage capacity, while also being writable unlike cartridges or CDs. It followed on previous formats like the Famicom Disk System.
For 1998’s Game of the Year title The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time such a 64DD-based expansion was worked on for a while before being cancelled along with the 64DD. With this Zelda game now decompiled, its source code has shown to be still full of 64DD-related code that [Skawo] takes us through in the video.
The Nintendo 64DD discs resembled ZIP discs. (Credit: Evan-Amos, Wikimedia) As is typical for CD- and magnetic storage formats like these 64DD discs, their access times and transfer speeds are atrociously slow next to a cartridge’s mask ROM, which clearly left the developers scrambling to find some way to use the 64DD as an actual enhancement. Considering that the 64DD never was released outside of Japan and had a very short life, it would seem apparent that, barring PlayStation-level compromises, disc formats just weren’t a good match for the console.
The interface with the 64DD in the game’s code gives some idea of what the developers had in mind, which mostly consisted out of swapping on-cartridge resources like dungeon maps with different ones. Ultimately this content did make its way into a commercial release, in the form of the Master Quest option on the game’s re-release on the GameCube.
Although this doesn’t enable features once envisioned, such as tracking the player’s entire route and storing permanent map changes during gameplay, it at least gives us a glimpse of what the expansion game on the 64DD could have looked like.
In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready to hang a computer screen on your face?
[Alfred] says that since Google Glass was introduced in 2012, smart glasses haven’t yet found their compelling use-case. Apparently it looks like while virtual reality (VR) might be out, augmented reality (AR) might be in. And of course now we have higher levels of “AI” in the mix, whatever that means.
According to the article in the present day there are two competing visions of what smart glasses might be: we have One Pro from Xreal in Beijing, and
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Are We Ready for AR Smart Glasses Yet?
In a recent article from IEEE Spectrum, [Alfred Poor] asks the question what do consumers really want in smart glasses? And are you finally ready to hang a computer screen on your face?
[Alfred] says that since Google Glass was introduced in 2012, smart glasses haven’t yet found their compelling use-case. Apparently it looks like while virtual reality (VR) might be out, augmented reality (AR) might be in. And of course now we have higher levels of “AI” in the mix, whatever that means.
According to the article in the present day there are two competing visions of what smart glasses might be: we have One Pro from Xreal in Beijing, and AI Glasses from Halliday in Singapore, each representing different design concepts evolving in today’s market. The article goes into further detail. The video below the break is promotional material from Halliday showing people’s reactions to their AI Glasses product.
[Alfred] talks with Louis Rosenberg, CEO and chief scientist of Unanimous AI, who says he believes “that within five years, immersive AI-powered glasses will replace the smartphone as the primary mobile device in our digital lives.” Predicting the future is hard, but what do you think? Sound off in the comments!
Was mich ja fasziniert ist, dass in ERP-Systemen, wie z. B. SAP, undendlich viele statistische Daten erfasst werden (die oft von der Realtität gedisst werden), aber hübsche Auswertungen für die Geschäftsführung ermöglichen. Aber so relevante Bestandstaten wie Zollwerte, unterscheidung von zollrelevanten Materialnummern, Warentarifnummern (von denen wieder Exportkontrollvorschriften aka liefern wir das noch an Russland, oder Zollsätze beim Kunden abhängen? Tumbleweed, Grillenzirpen ... #Logistik
Ich frage mich gerade, ob Du ausreichend Material für einen Talk auf einem C3 haben würdest. Du bist so ein Zoll-Nerd, dass ich mir vorstellen könnte, dass es Spaß machen könnte, Dir da zuzuhören.
Nach kakaohaltiger Fettglasur kommt nun also kakaofreie Schokoladenalternative. Achtet da mal drauf falls euer nächstes Schokomüsli komisch schmecken sollte.
Im Gegensatz zu "Analogkäse" wird ChoViva eigentlich recht aktiv beworben als eine Schokoladenalternative, die einen geringeren CO2-Footprint hat. Dementsprechend denke ich nicht, dass da versucht wird, etwas billigeres unterzuschieben.
Bei Penny gibt es übrigens auch ChoViva-Tafeln, die recht ordentlich schmecken, finde ich.
On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.
Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.
In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.
Jeremie writes
"Jabber is a new
project I recently started to create a complete open-source
platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication
to other IM systems(ICQ, AIM, etc).
La #sicurezza delle password e il comportamento umano sono più legati di quanto immaginiamo. Nelle puntate precedenti abbiamo provato a spostare lo sguardo: le password non proteggono solo i #sistemi, raccontano le #persone.Le scelte che facciamo davanti a una casella di login parlano di #memoria, fretta, abitudine, fiducia.
Sollte jemand behaupten, Tumblr und Bluesky seien nicht im Fediverse, und die Diaspora* funkt weit weg vom Rest des Fediverse, denen kannst du sagen "Stimmt nicht". Du kannst mit deinen Kontakten auf diesen Diensten wie selbstverständlich kommunizieren. Ganz ohne Brücke und Third-Party-Dienste.
Bluesky Zum einen habe ich das Bluesky Add-on aktiviert und die Inhalte in einem eigenen Channel anzeigen lassen.
RSS Die RSS-Abos auch in einen separaten Channel und meine ganzen Channels zu den oben genannten Interessen in einen "Discover"-Channel zusammen gefasst.
Bluesky Zum einen habe ich das Bluesky Add-on aktiviert und die Inhalte in einem eigenen Channel anzeigen lassen.
RSS Die RSS-Abos auch in einen separaten Channel und meine ganzen Channels zu den oben genannten Interessen in einen "Discover"-Channel zusammen gefasst.
Sollte jemand behaupten, Tumblr und Bluesky seien nicht im Fediverse, und die Diaspora* funkt weit weg vom Rest des Fediverse, denen kannst du sagen "Stimmt nicht". Du kannst mit deinen Kontakten auf diesen Diensten wie selbstverständlich kommunizieren. Ganz ohne Brücke und Third-Party-Dienste.
Ich bin übrigens gerade dabei, die Geschwindigkeit der Channels massiv zu erhöhen. Es wird wahrscheinlich im Release landen, muss dann aber seitens der Administration aktiviert werden, da es so kurz vor dem Release ist, dass wir es nicht mehr ausgiebig testen können.
Non abbiamo cambiato quasi nulla, ma abbiamo piuttosto messo un po' di ordine; abbiamo solo aggiunto la regola di convivenza tra istanze:
Federazione: è vietato accusare o attaccare le altre istanze e i loro amministratori; se hai problemi con un'istanza parlane con il tuo amministratore, ma per il bene del Fediverso i rapporti tra le istanze devono essere risolti tra gli amministratori
Questo è dovuto al fatto che troppo spesso le polemiche prodotte dagli ex utenti di un'istanza possono diventare oltre che moleste, un punto di vulnerabilità per tutto il Fediverso.
Poliversity è una comunità dedicata alla ricerca scientifica e al giornalismo, all'università e all'istruzione ed è nata per promuovere il diritto alla conoscenza e la corretta informazione
Gli amministratori possono decidere il bando di un utente in qualsiasi momento e senza esplicitarne le motivazioni perché hanno il diritto e il dovere di tutelare sé stessi, la serenità dell'istanza e la felicità degli utenti.
Rispetto: il confronto tra utenti deve essere rispettoso e non sprezzante né ostile. Ricorda che esistono persone con sensibilità diverse dalla tua e che questa è una bacheca pubblica
Accessibilità: descrivi immagini e video con la funzione di testo alternativo: c'è chi non può vederle
Divieti: sono vietati fascismo, razzismo, sessismo, omofobia, transfobia, abilismo, trolling, body shaming, doxxing, impersonificazione, molestie, risposte criptiche o allusive, spam, vendite, fake news, propaganda di potenze straniere; messaggi disturbanti solo con CW attivato
Federazione: è vietato accusare o attaccare le altre istanze e i loro amministratori; se hai problemi con un'istanza parlane con il tuo amministratore, ma
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Queste sono le nuove regole:
Gli amministratori possono decidere il bando di un utente in qualsiasi momento e senza esplicitarne le motivazioni perché hanno il diritto e il dovere di tutelare sé stessi, la serenità dell'istanza e la felicità degli utenti.
Rispetto: il confronto tra utenti deve essere rispettoso e non sprezzante né ostile. Ricorda che esistono persone con sensibilità diverse dalla tua e che questa è una bacheca pubblica
Accessibilità: descrivi immagini e video con la funzione di testo alternativo: c'è chi non può vederle
Divieti: sono vietati fascismo, razzismo, sessismo, omofobia, transfobia, abilismo, trolling, body shaming, doxxing, impersonificazione, molestie, risposte criptiche o allusive, spam, vendite, fake news, propaganda di potenze straniere; messaggi disturbanti solo con CW attivato
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Civil War Veteran Samuel Decker Posing With Prosthetic Arms He Designed Himself, ca. 1867
Samuel H. Decker (1813–1894) was a Union artilleryman during the American Civil War who became famous for designing his own highly functional prosthetic arms after a devastating combat injury.
4 January 1921 | Dutch Jewish woman Ester Levitus was born in Amsterdam. A clerk.
In 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was killed on 21 August with a phenol heart injection. Her parents Jakob & Sophia and younger sister Lena were also murdered in the camp. ---
The Auschwitz camp was established in June 1940 for male prisoners. The first groups of women were incarcerated by the Germans more than a year and a half la...
"Failures" in radio communication systems in Greece have led to widespread disruption in Greek airspace. Outgoing flights have been canceled for now, while planes already inflight were permitted to land or mainly rerouted around the country.
I'm taking a sick day! 🤢 #GoodMorning #Bonjour During the hectic chain of events yesterday, I was pretty stressed, and when I threw up suddenly, I suspected I reached my limit. Watched movies all afternoon. I've been sick since then, can't even hold down coffee. I'm mostly unavailable. L8R
Wisdom and fortune And winter joy Light this crystal morn Jupiter leads the moon His merry dance To the western horizon And in the east Mercury is rising And leads the blushing sun Into the lilac light Of love, and is lost As she turns to gold. Fieldfares, lit like silver angels Piping in the eleventh day Feasting on berries Bright as blood In the frost below the thorn. #poetry
Today’s maddening encounter with the twisty corners of Italian grammar: getting corrected for saying “Che cosa potrebbe andare storta?” Instead of “Che cosa potrebbe andare storto?”
Gender of adjectives must match the noun or pronoun they modify except what who gives a fuck this is an idiomatic phrase and who the hell do you think you are anyway? 🤬
The Japanese Ministry of Defense reports that two North Korean ballistic missiles were launched last night and landed somewhere what is currently Russia's EEZ. Both projectiles flew in "irregular trajectories", indicating something out of the ordinary, like a malfunction.
Roman mosaic depicts the ancient practice of grape treading, also known as grape stomping or pigeage (200 AD), from the Roman villa known as the House of the Amphitheatre in Mérida, Badajoz Province, Spain.
Grape treading was a traditional winemaking method where people trampled grapes barefoot in vats to release the juice for fermentation. This practice was widespread in the history of winemaking in ancient Greece and Rome, where it was often a communal celebration.
И что, мадурка, помогли тебе твои москали? Схема все та же что была в Сирии и Иране. Истошный визг рабсеянской пропаганды, типа Армения, Сирия, Иран, Венесуэла…надежный союзник и что ему бу
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И что, мадурка, помогли тебе твои москали? Схема все та же что была в Сирии и Иране. Истошный визг рабсеянской пропаганды, типа Армения, Сирия, Иран, Венесуэла…надежный союзник и что ему будет оказана вся необходимая помощь в случае противостояния. Всякие заявления официальных лиц в стиле «мы не допустим», «мы дадим жесткий ответ», «окажем любую помощь, которая понадобится»… По факту, рабсеюшка каждый раз жидко сходила под себя. МИДа хватило на глубокую обеспокоенность и призывы в стиле «верните Колю обратно». Царь сейчас вообще ничего не говорит ртом, а издает рычащие звуки нижней частью фюзеляжа в секретный чемоданчик. Представляя себя на пути в гаагский трибунал. И по факту-же получается, что Трамп устроил рабсеюшке маленькую победоносную прокси-войнушку, да? И тут же выиграл ее, без всяких со стороны рабсеюшки «сюрпризов», да? А кто-кто у нас на планетке еще заинтересован проверить, действительно ли парашка милитарно импотентна настолько, как показала себя в Украине? 😂
Для тех, кто сравнивает события в Венесуэле с Украиной напомню: сравнивать действия Трампа в Венесуэле с действиями хуйла в Украине не совсем корректно потому, что хуйло в 2014 году вторгся и аннексировал суверенные украинские территории. США не аннексируют Венесуэлу, не совершают геноцид, не говорят, что венесуэльцев не существует, не убивают испаноязычных, чтобы «защитить». В 2024 году хуйло ставил цель отстранить от власти легитимного, признанного всем миром президента Зеленского. Мадуро не является легитимным президентом — ни с точки зрения собственного народа, ни признанным президентом со стороны США, ни со стороны ЕС, поскольку Мадуро фальсифицировал выборы.
If our American ‘partners’ get their hands on Venezuela’s oil fields (and they have already got their hands on Guyana’s fields), they will control more than half of the world’s oil reserves. And, apparently, their plans include ensuring that the price of our oil does not rise above $50 per barrel.
This means that it will be difficult for our sacred state capitalism to leave everything as it is: not cutting costs, not getting rid of non-core assets, continuing to engage in grandiose projects without the necessary expertise and without the participation of private business in order to develop competition (and in general, it will become difficult to put pressure on private business, because starting this year, it is becoming the main contributor to the federal budget, and next year it will bear the main burden).
Если наши американские «партнёры» доберутся до нефтяных месторождений Венесуэлы (а до месторождений Гайаны они уже добрались), под их контролем окажется больше половины мировых запасов нефти.
#google has automated the creation of #powerpoint slides with their latest #ai features. That's like 90% #accenture and #ey business. There's like 1 million people out of work.
■ Considerable engagements, but casualties remain below the 7-day average; no reported area changes; cloudy ■ Equipment losses below average; include one air defence system ■ Overnight attacks: double-digit, all drones; interception rate could be better; more than a week since the last major attack ■ Three 🇺🇦 strikes; 30-day strike ratio continues to improve
Tried painting a sloth without it turning into green mush. Layered strange shadow colors and fought for fur texture at this size. Honestly kinda proud of how soft it turned out. #sciart #watercolor
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@hypolite It seems UNUSUAL to both perform a coup, but leave the government intact.
AND; I dont quite grok why an oil blockade until you hand over all your oil to us..... is compelling.
"We wont let anyone make money off your oil; until you hand it over to us to make money off of." IS a stick without a carrot.
Hypolite Petovan
in reply to trashHeap • • •@trashHeap The “democratic transition” is an excuse for the coup, in order to hand over the country to someone sympathetic to privatizing oil extraction in Venezuela, in the person of the most recent “Nobel Peace Prize” recipient.
Trump said the quiet part out loud in that she is supposed to be a puppet for US interests. It is also possible the oil blockade and the coup weren’t coordinated, but even then, hijacking an oil tanker going from Venezuela to Cuba is a great opportunity to vex both countries and get a favor with a US oil baron.
This is the little sense I’ve been able to make of all this in the past 24 hours I’ve known about it.
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@hypolite It's important to note that, they haven't used the words "democratic" when talking about a transition.
They also seem to be signaling they dont want to transition to that Nobel Peace Prize recipient; and dont think she can run the country.
AND appear to be signalizing their open to leaving Maduro's senior leaders in place if they play ball?
I agree theyve sad the quiet part aloud; but the whole thing is a confused contradictory chaotic mess.
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Trump Won’t Consider Nobel Prize Winner To Lead Venezuela Because She Refused To Turn Down Award
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