Every day there are more and more news articles about how the Royals are travelling the world doing good work for charities and whatnot, without a shred of irony of 'look what we can do because we don't have to worry about working thanks to all of your money'. Peverse to me that more people don't see it that way and instead line the streets cheering for them, like they are benevolent heroes.
The deliberate conscious effort that we humans require to do anything, like make art or write an academic paper, has been belittled and glossed over.
Instead results are glamorously prized as the product of success, and the amount of effort that it took to get there is hidden away in shame.
AI is the obscene extreme to that mentality: not more thinking, effort, work, anything— get the result now. While it was that exact effort that made us human in the first place.
4 February 1925 | A French Jewish woman, Ginette Kolinka (née Cherkasky), was born in Paris.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy in April 1944. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen and then to #Theresienstadt. She survived. Today she turns 101.
Adoriamo la destra: tuonano contro la piccola criminalità poi si mettono in tasca in maniera furtiva l'equivalente di 3 anni di borseggi su tutte le metropolitane e gli autobus di Parigi
I procuratori dello Stato francesi hanno chiesto ai giudici della corte d’appello di confermare l’interdizione di cinque anni dalle competizioni elettorali inflitta alla leader dell’estrema destra Marine Le Pen, condannata per l’appropriazione indebi…
German NGOs sue Elon Musk’s X again over election research data access
X (formerly Twitter) is being taken to court by non-profits in Germany, for a second time, over the platform’s obligation under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) to provide researchers access to its data.
X (formerly Twitter) is being sued in Germany by NGOs over Digital Services Act obligations, for a second time. Researchers want access to platform data before the key Hungarian parliamentary election in April.
EU rejects 'nonsense' censorship charge from Trump allies
In response to a scathing US congressional report that accused the European Commission of trying to 'censor the global internet,' EU digital affairs spokesman Thomas Regnier issued a strong rebuke: 'Pure nonsense.'
🇺🇸 Raytheon, a unit of RTX, has reached a seven-year agreement with the Pentagon to boost production of Tomahawks, air-to-air missiles and ballistic missile interceptors, the company said on Wednesday.
The Pentagon's push to expand production comes as Washington races to rebuild depleted weapons stockpiles.
🇷🇺 🇺🇦 At least seven people were killed and eight more hurt in Russian attacks in the town of Druzhkivka in the Ukraine-controlled frontline region of Donetsk in the east. Russia shelled the town with cluster munitions, targeting the market, and dropped two aerial bombs.
A district court in #Yekaterinburg ordered the seizure of assets worth 1 billion rubles from ex-State Duma deputy Malik Gaisin. The state took over two firms owning 300+ land plots after prosecutors said he illegally ran businesses while in office.
Кировский районный суд Екатеринбурга постановил изъять активы бывшего депутата Госдумы Малика Гайсина на 1 млрд рублей по антикоррупционному иску прокуратуры.
Первый Западный окружной военный суд приговорил врача-онколога Егора Вощинина к пяти с половиной годам колонии общего режима по обвинению в призывах к терроризму (часть 2 статьи 205.2 УК).... mostra di più
Первый Западный окружной военный суд приговорил врача-онколога Егора Вощинина к пяти с половиной годам колонии общего режима по обвинению в призывах к терроризму (часть 2 статьи 205.2 УК). Об этом сообщает пресс-служба петербургских судов. Вощинина задержали второго июля 2025 года. В его деле четыре эпизода. По версии следствия, в сообщениях и комментариях мужчины в телеграме от 20 и 23 октября 2023 года и 7 и 13 декабря 2024 года содержатся "признаки побуждения к осуществлению смертной...
Украинский политолог-международник Игорь Рейтерович в эфире Настоящего Времени рассуждает, пойдет ли Украина на ключевое требование России – вывести войска с Донбасса – в обмен на... mostra di più
Украинский политолог-международник Игорь Рейтерович в эфире Настоящего Времени рассуждает, пойдет ли Украина на ключевое требование России – вывести войска с Донбасса – в обмен на гарантии безопасности
Несколько человек пострадали после того, как в школе №153 города Красноярска ученица восьмого класса устроила пожар, а также напала на школьников с молотком. О нападении сообщают росси... mostra di più
Несколько человек пострадали после того, как в школе №153 города Красноярска ученица восьмого класса устроила пожар, а также напала на школьников с молотком. О нападении сообщают российские телеграм-каналы, в частности, Mash и Baza, а также СМИ, в том числе государственное агентство ТАСС со ссылкой на источники. По данным ТАСС, пострадали пять школьников и учитель. Сообщается, что три ученика были доставлены в больницу с ожогами, еще двое с травмами после ударов. Телеграм-каналы публикуют...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the door to a peaceful settlement on Ukraine is open, but claimed Kyiv has not taken the necessary decisions. He said Russia will therefore continue its military operation and that Russian forces strike targets they consider linked to Ukraine’s military complex. #Ukraine
Ukraine’s delegation has arrived in Abu Dhabi, media reported. Trilateral negotiations between Ukraine, the United States and Russia are expected to begin shortly. #Ukraine
Президент США Дональд Трамп заявил, что президент России Владимир Путин сдержал данное ему обещание не наносить удары по энергетике Украины в течение недели. "Это было с воскресенья... mostra di più
Президент США Дональд Трамп заявил, что президент России Владимир Путин сдержал данное ему обещание не наносить удары по энергетике Украины в течение недели. "Это было с воскресенья по воскресенье. Она [пауза] закончилась, после чего Путин нанес сильный удар. Путин сдержал свое слово. Это много. Одна неделя – это много, мы готовы принять что угодно, потому что там действительно очень, очень холодно", – сказал Трамп, отвечая на вопрос одного из журналистов в Белом доме. На вопрос о том,...
Мосгорсуд по представлению прокуратуры отменил заочный приговор телеведущей Татьяне Лазаревой по делу о нарушении порядка деятельности "иностранного агента" (часть 2 статьи 330.1 УК) и н... mostra di più
Мосгорсуд по представлению прокуратуры отменил заочный приговор телеведущей Татьяне Лазаревой по делу о нарушении порядка деятельности "иностранного агента" (часть 2 статьи 330.1 УК) и направил его на новое рассмотрение мировому судье. В октябре 2025 года Пресненский суд Москвы назначил Лазаревой по этому делу 1 год и 9 месяцев исправительных работ. Поводом для преследования телеведущей стали два поста в ее телеграм-канале, опубликованные без маркировки "иностранного агента". Это был ее...
В ночь на четвертое февраля российские войска нанесли удары по Одессе, пострадали две женщины – им оказали медицинскую помощь на месте, сообщил глава городской военной администраци... mostra di più
В ночь на четвертое февраля российские войска нанесли удары по Одессе, пострадали две женщины – им оказали медицинскую помощь на месте, сообщил глава городской военной администрации Сергей Лысак. По его словам, в трех районах города повреждена гражданская и промышленная инфраструктура: повреждены более 20 жилых домов, два детских сада, школа и административное здание промышленного объекта. В Днепропетровской области ночью российские беспилотники атаковали Синельниковский район. Погибли два...
russia ‘arrests’ Crimean mother of two 15 months after abducting and hiding her
News of the charges against Sakha Manhubi coincided with yet another massive sentence against Yevhen Hudenkov who was held incommunicado and probably tortured for almost the same amount of time
Estonia detained a container ship with a Russian crew on suspicion of smuggling cargo from Ecuador, Estonian outlet ERR reported. The vessel was sailing under a Bahamian flag and heading to Saint Petersburg. Police said the ship is not part of Russia’s shadow fleet. #Estonia
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Russia is carrying out barbaric strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during freezing temperatures. In a call with Donald Trump, he said the attacks were especially vile as temperatures fell below minus 20 C. #Ukraine
US President Donald Trump said a pause lasted from Sunday to Sunday and has now ended, with Russia launching heavy strikes. He said Putin kept his word and added that even a week mattered, as conditions are extremely cold and Ukraine will take any relief it can get. #Ukraine
On 3–4 Feb 2026 (19:00–08:00), #Ukraine repelled a 105-UAV attack (70+ Shaheds) from orel, bryansk, primorsko-akhtarsk (russian Federation) and Donetsk, Crimea.
Военно-морские силы Эстонии совместно с сотрудниками Налогово-таможенного департамента и Департамента полиции и погранохраны задержали у острова Найссаар контейнеровоз Baltic Spirit под ф... mostra di più
Военно-морские силы Эстонии совместно с сотрудниками Налогово-таможенного департамента и Департамента полиции и погранохраны задержали у острова Найссаар контейнеровоз Baltic Spirit под флагом Багамских островов. Об этом сообщает ERR. 188-метровое грузовое судно следовало из Эквадора в Санкт-Петербург, в Эстонии была сделана остановка для заправки. По данным ВМС Эстонии, контейнеровоз не входит в состав теневого флота России и не находится под санкциями Евросоюза. Его подозревают в...
Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to February 04, 2026 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of #Ukraine
Ukraine’s 425th assault regiment Skelya held large scale training focused on assault unit coordination. Drills practiced interaction between motorized groups, armored units with infantry, and strike and reconnaissance drones, using live ammunition and simulated combat conditions. #Ukraine
Ukraine said Russia launched 105 attack drones overnight from multiple directions. By 08:00, air defenses shot down or jammed 88 drones across the north, south and east. Seventeen drones hit 14 locations, with debris falling at five sites. The attack is ongoing. #Ukraine
@NOELreports: SitRep - 03/02/26 - Rutte visited Kyiv An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. NATO boss Rutte visited Ukraine, and saw destruction at one of the Thermal Power Plants. Meanwhil...…
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov said a new stage of negotiations has begun in Abu Dhabi. Talks started in a trilateral format with Ukraine, the US and Russia, followed by work in separate groups and a planned joint coordination of positions. #Ukraine
📣 N'oubliez pas: ce mercredi dès 13h30, test des sirènes! 🇨🇭
Chaque année, le premier mercredi du mois de février, on procède dans toute la Suisse à un test des sirènes qui sert à vérifier leur bon fonctionnement.
Chaque année, le premier mercredi du mois de février, on procède dans toute la Suisse à un test des sirènes qui sert à vérifier le bon fonctionnement du système d’alarme.
Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so far as to produce a new ROM for the daddy of Symbian phones, the Nokia N8, and [Janus Cycle] is giving it a spin.
For many people, the smartphone era began when the first Apple iPhones and Android devices reached the market, but the smartphone itself can be traced back almost two decades earlier to an IBM device. In the few years before the birth of today’s platforms many people even had smartphones without quite realizing what they had, because Nokia, the market leader in the 2000s, failed to make their Symbian platform user friendly in the way that
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Symbian On Nokia Lives Again, In 2026
Do you remember Nokia phones, with their Symbian OS? Dead and gone, you might think, but even they have dedicated enthusiasts here in 2026. Some of them have gone so far as to produce a new ROM for the daddy of Symbian phones, the Nokia N8, and [Janus Cycle] is giving it a spin.
For many people, the smartphone era began when the first Apple iPhones and Android devices reached the market, but the smartphone itself can be traced back almost two decades earlier to an IBM device. In the few years before the birth of today’s platforms many people even had smartphones without quite realizing what they had, because Nokia, the market leader in the 2000s, failed to make their Symbian platform user friendly in the way that Apple did. The N8 was their attempt to produce an iPhone competitor, but its lack of an on-device app store and that horrific Windows-based installation system meant it would be their last mass-market flagship before falling down the Microsoft Windows Phone rabbit hole.
In the video below the break he takes a pair of N8s and assembles one with that beautiful camera fully working, before installing the new ROM and giving it a spin. We get to see at last what the N8 could have been but wasn’t, as it gains the last Symbian release from Nokia, and the crucial missing app store. Even fifteen years later it’s a very slick device, enough to make us sorry that this ROM won’t be made for the earlier N-series sitting in a drawer where this is being written. We salute its developers for keeping the N8 alive.
Seit vielen Jahren gibt es die ARD/ZDF-Onlinestudie, die nun Medienstudie heißt. Ich habe mir die Studie 2025 mal im Hinblick auf soziale Medien angeschaut mit besonderem Fokus auf das #Fediverse. Erhoben wird dabei allerdings nur der Dienst #Mastodon. Wir schauen uns näher an, wer es wie nutzt!
Ein Thread. 🧵
Kurz noch vorab zur Studie selbst: die Grundgesamtheit ist die deutschsprechende Wohnbevölkerung ab 14 Jahren in Deutschland, Feldzeit war im Frühjahr 2025, n= 2.512, Dual Frame-Stichprobe (d.h. es wurde per Telefon und Online befragt).
Tredici anni di fuga, un centinaio di milioni di dollari sottratti, e una scia di aziende devastate. La storia di Jabber Zeus, un cartello cybercriminale
Allora questo è il momento, compila il modulo e unisciti a #FediMedia Italia, l’Associazione di Promozione Sociale che sostiene e difende il @fediverso, ogni giorno: cloud.mastodon.uno/apps/forms/…
Perché un altro web non è uno slogan, è una scelta collettiva. Un web libero, etico, decentralizzato, che non dipende dalle #BigTech e dai loro interessi. Costruiamolo insieme: cloud.mastodon.uno/apps/forms/…
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Tredici anni di fuga, un centinaio di milioni di dollari sottratti, e una scia di aziende devastate. La storia di Jabber Zeus, un cartello cybercriminale che ha scritto un capitolo oscuro nella storia del cybercrime finanziario, si arricchisce di un nuovo, significativo epilogo. Dopo un
-Plone CMS stops supply-chain attack -France raids Twitter's offices -OpenClaw malicious skills explode -Notepad++ incident linked to Chinese APT -Moltbook leaks 1.5m tokens -Open VSX will finally scan extensions for malware -Hackers extort school kids' parents in Belgium -Step Finance hacked for $30m -CrossCurve threatens hacker with lawsuits -NationStates game reports breach caused by player
Modelli linguistici opachi e modelli didattici trasparenti
I servizi basati su grandi modelli linguistici stanno già avendo impatti sociali enormi, a partire da come vengono prodotti i Grandi Modelli Linguistici (LLM) fino a quali competenze riescono a ottimizzare e sottrarre alle persone. Mentre gli ottimisti si limitano a chiosare che «occorre però adottare un approccio critico», questa tecnica in… pillole.graffio.org/pillole/mo…
I servizi basati su grandi modelli linguistici stanno già avendo impatti sociali enormi, a partire da come vengono prodotti i Grandi Modelli Linguistici...
Oggi mi sono imbattuto in questo sito: protectstar.com/it/blog/appclo… e mi è venuto uno spaghetto, perché ho trovato tra le applicazioni installate sul mio smartphone AppCloud. Ho quindi installato la app Anti Spy e ho fatto la scansione del mio smartphone, pensando a quanti spyware mi avrebbe trovato. Invece non ha trovato niente e ho così disinstallato l'applicazione.
Some advice please: I'm looking for a smart watch for my ageing father, which constantly tracks heart rate and heart rhythm. Needs to be easy to use and not mechanically fiddly, and I can help him with associated apps etc. I know absolutely nothing about smart watches and reviews on the web are a quagmire of slop, does anyone have any experience and recommendations? Thank you! 💕 Boosts for reach welcome!
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Il 2 febbraio 2026 l’Università Sapienza di Roma è stata oggetto di un data breach. Cosa è successo In un primo momento la violazione è stata affrontata attraverso la disconnessione […] L'articolo Uniroma1 Sapienza: data breach proviene da Edoardo Limone.
“Recent reporting suggests Israeli officials have conveyed to the United States that Israel could absorb even a worst-case Iranian retaliation of around 700 ballistic missiles if it led to regime collapse in Tehran. Let that sentence sit for a moment”
Law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges faces accusations that it helped to conceal Mikhael Mirilashvili's ownership in Romanian gambling company MaxBet, acquired in 2021 by Novalpina, a former - 4/17/2025
Another reason to not use #Google - they'll readily share your data with the government and give you minimal opportunities to respond. It's not worth it.
Just a short description, how to find interesting people in Fedi:
You will only very seldom find them by browsing federated timeline (Live channels - Other servers). The hashtags are better strategy, but only few nerds (like me) really use hashtags. I consider hashtags at least as important, as image ALT tags, but there is no "please add hashtags" movement in Fedi, because nerds are notoriously unable to self-organize (just like cats ).
The trick, which works most of the time, is to look who boosted the popular statuses, which you really agree with. It of course creates "echo chamber", closed bubble... but you sure don't follow everyone in this bubble. Personal preferences would apply.
By following people with too many followers, you are almost sure to receive zero interest in your interactions, and in some cases - negative, angry response, because replies may be considered annoying or abusive, for va
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Just a short description, how to find interesting people in Fedi:
You will only very seldom find them by browsing federated timeline (Live channels - Other servers). The hashtags are better strategy, but only few nerds (like me) really use hashtags. I consider hashtags at least as important, as image ALT tags, but there is no "please add hashtags" movement in Fedi, because nerds are notoriously unable to self-organize (just like cats ).
The trick, which works most of the time, is to look who boosted the popular statuses, which you really agree with. It of course creates "echo chamber", closed bubble... but you sure don't follow everyone in this bubble. Personal preferences would apply.
By following people with too many followers, you are almost sure to receive zero interest in your interactions, and in some cases - negative, angry response, because replies may be considered annoying or abusive, for various reasons.
People with too many followers may sometimes be glad to interact (like me) but more often they receive too many replies and they are already tired, bored and uninterested, eg. because it is not work for which they are paid for (among other reasons). Their sense of humor may just be incompatible with yours.
By following people with few followers, you can get very random results. Most of them are inactive... because they have too few followers, too few interactions, too little interest in their content. You may help some of them by following them, but the most likely the result will be big, safe, harmless Nothing.
So choosing the people with just right number of followers and posts, coming from interesting instances, may be the best choice. I don't want attack or insult the mastodon.social crowd, but they are likely to be normies, staying in their safe zone, put there by their default app setting.
Choose wisely, because you are now forming the bubble, which is likely to form you future Fedi experience! This is the "algorithm", here.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Dal 6 al 22 febbraio 2026 si tiene la XXV edizione dei Giochi olimpici e paralimpici invernali e, per la prima volta, le città assegnatarie sono due, Milano e Cortina d’Ampezzo. Si tratta della terza edizione dei Giochi invernali ospitata in
:: Il caso Epstein è qualcosa di ENORME! Prostituzione, pedofilia, miliardari americani, politici americani, russi, Putin, servizi segreti, omicidi, ragazzine/i, milioni di dollari, finanziamenti occulti, crypto valute, aggiramento di sanzioni e piani sovversivi.
Ma perché cazz di motivo in Italia non si sta parlando degli Epstein files? Capre infami
Il filo che unisce gli Epstein files è che son tutti ricchi, maschi, bianchi, falsi filantropi tutti insieme a stuprare bambine. Sono gli stessi proguerra contro i salari degni, e che il woke, le femministe, i migranti siano un pericolo. Domandatevi perché i media relativizzino.
BC billionaire owner of SaveOn Foods Jimmy Pattison backs out of warehouse sale to ICE after BC Green Party leader Emily Lowan called for a boycott of Pattison's businesses and a big advertiser published a letter saying it would suspend business with him. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Downtempo blends slow grooves with rich textures and deep bass to create a **relaxing yet emotionally engaging sound** — perfect for introspection, relaxation, and creative focus. #Downtempo #Chillout #ElectronicMusic #MusicHistory #TripHop
【Downtempo: The Aesthetics of Chillout and Deep Rhythm】Explore the world of **downtempo music** — a genre defined by relaxed grooves, deep rhythms, and immer...
45 year-old man, Chad Michael Watts, attacked a group of children protesting ICE in #Texas while wearing a read MAGA hat. The youth bravely fought back and defended themselves.
The far-Right carries out violence in support of Trump and threatens our freedom, our children and working-class communities everywhere.
Questa settimana con #FUTURO24 vi portiamo a Venezia per scoprire dei progetti sui nuovi materiali nati all'Università Ca' Foscari: potenziali sostituti delle terre rare, sensori per il monitoraggio ambientale e della salute e molto altro ancora rainews.it/video/2026/02/futur…
Aus Sicherheitsgründen migrieren wir unsere Matrix-Räume auf Version 12. Für alle Raumbewohner bedeutet das einen minimalen Aufwand bei höherer Sicherheit.
@GNU/Linux.ch ich bin gespannt darauf, wie viele Accounts aus den Räumen entfernt werden nach dem Update, weil deren Server die Raumversion 12 immer noch nicht unterstützen
Gli attacchi mirati non iniziano con una mail, ma con l’osservazione. OSINT come postura mentale per riconoscere esposizioni, automatismi e vulnerabilità.
Attenzione a Openclaw! Pensateci bene prima di installarlo Openclaw è ovunque nelle ultime ore: screenshot, setup, analisi tecniche e discussioni tra addetti ai lavori.
Hai presente quando a proposito di violenze e femminicidi dicono "Pensa se si trattasse di tua sorella" ? Ecco! Se non è l'ex marito è l'ex fidanzato, oppure è il vicino respinto o ancora il padre o, come sembra in questo caso, il fratello. Come ti giri ti giri questa pletora di maschi malati di misoginia si placa soltanto al culmine della vergogna patriarcale: uccidere la donna.
Quando si racconta l’omicidio di una donna esiste un confine che non dovrebbe mai essere superato. Eppure, ancora una volta, una parte della stampa lo ha oltrepassato senza esitazione. Dopo l’omicidio di Ilenia Musella, la 22enne accoltellata alla schiena sotto casa, alcuni media locali hanno scelto di pubblicare fotografie prese dai profili social della vittima, decontestualizzate, che ritraggono la vittima con abiti succinti o tute attillate, usandole come esca per attirare clic. 1/2
Quelle immagini non aggiungono nulla alla comprensione dei fatti, non aiutano a ricostruire la dinamica dell’omicidio, non servono alla verità ma solo a spettacolarizzare la morte, trasformando una vittima in un oggetto e il dolore in un contenuto da monetizzare. Non è informazione: è sensazionalismo. Ed è culturalmente pericoloso, perché sposta l’attenzione dalla violenza subita al corpo della donna, insinuando giudizi e alimentando una narrazione tossica
@omo_salvadego Una immensa mancanza di rispetto. Provo disgusto verso questo modo di presentare le vittime. La misoginia all'ennesima potenza. Stramaledizione 😠
è molto più che "sensazionalismo", è la narrativa del "se l'è cercata" che sposta il focus sulla vittima trasformandola in attore principale dell'aggressione mentre costruisce l'innocenza del carnefice.
@G3rt realizzi che c'è gente che ovviamente non attacca il fratello, no, attacca lei, attacca le sue foto, commenta dicendo "Ma come andava vestita? Ma non ci si veste con abiti così provocanti, forse bisognerebbe chiedersi che vita faceva questa ragazza!" Per l'ennesima volta, il problema è COME SI VESTIVA una ragazza di 22 anni, giusto? Il problema è che indossava vestitini giusto? Non è mica il fatto che UN FRATELLO l'ha uccisa, quello viene in secondo piano,
per come la vedo io va proprio delegittimato il fatto di mettere in relazione una scelta personale, qualunque scelta, con l'aggressione subita. Va proprio scavalcato il tema del vestirsi. IMHO
@G3rt ecco il fratello, si atteggia a boss della malavita. Fa finta di impugnare una pistola, chiudere un occhio, prendere la mira e sparare. Un demente! I suoi modelli di vita sono criminali incalliti.
è sempre così, molti giornali ma anche tg non hanno alcun rispetto delle storie che raccontano, anzi da anni vedo un certo voyeurismo, la gente ama parlare di omicidi, la morbosità, sapere i dettagli etc.. fa tutto abbastanza schifo.
@FrankDmt90 Il diritto di cronaca non è diritto di umiliare la vittima. Esiste un dovere etico, prima ancora che professionale: rispettare la dignità delle vittime, soprattutto quando la morte è violenta e il dolore è ancora vivo. Raccontare la cronaca significa dare voce ai fatti, non svestire una persona della sua dignità. Significa ricordare chi era la vittima, non come appariva. Ma evidentemente il morboso attrae di più
è una violenza mediatica sia per la persona che non c'è più ma anche per la sua famiglia etc, terribile. Non basta che perdi una persona importante ma i media cercano pure di buttarci merda addosso, quasi a legittimare la sua morte..
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Good video though - looks like some patience and care has gone into it ;)
I have a very good friend who absolutely LOVES to prepare personal suno tracks for us when we are invited over, and I appreciate him for the thought, for sure. But it is always akward, and definetely not as fun and "meaningful" as suno might think it is 😐
Just watched the beginning of the video. Pitching generative AI as a video game analogy to make music, talking about "multiplayer mode" is the most depressing thing I've heard this week. I love music, I applied for a job at a concert hall. Seriously, no AI model can replace the feeling of inviting friends over, jamming, trying to cover a song and just having fun.
I am so opposed to AI in all its forms. The first 2 minutes were already depressing enough, for again it's someone's (the Suno man's) power, overwhelming everybody, way before anyone can intervene saying it's not such a good idea. It's like a big muscle guy imposing his force on a young woman without her consent. I hate that very much.
A YouTuber asked for feedback on their use of AI (Suno, it turns out) to create a custom song for their video.
They had a long defensive reply, but it included this propaganda they'd imbibed "If it learned the algorithms that creates music it is no different than any human that has learned music from their predecessors. " #FuckAI
AI isn’t making people dumber. It’s amplifying how people already think. Most people were never reflecting on their thinking—they were reacting and signaling. AI was meant to remove monotony and refine understanding, not replace cognition. But when that isn’t how it’s used, it becomes a tool for content and social signaling, just like social media. That dynamic accelerates fragmentation, not insight.
Corso in Live Class di Cyber Offensive Fundamentals: scopri penetration testing, vulnerabilità e strumenti pratici per la sicurezza informatica offensiva.
The Commodore VIC-20 was a solid microcomputer that paved the way for the legendary Commodore 64 to come. If you’re a fan of the machine and want to revisit its glory days, you could hunt one down on an auction site and hope that it’s in working order. Or you could just emulate the VIC-20 in your browser thanks to the work of [Lance Ewing].
The project is called JVic—because it’s a VIC-20 emulator written in Java. It’s primarily intended for playing old VIC-20 games, and is designed with mobile devices front of mind—so it works well on a phone screen. You can enjoy the built-in library of games, or you can even direct JVic to boot up a ROM from a ZIP file hosted on a given URL or attached to a forum post. You can also install it on your own device rather than running it online, if so desired. [La
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A VIC-20 Emulator In Your Browser
The Commodore VIC-20 was a solid microcomputer that paved the way for the legendary Commodore 64 to come. If you’re a fan of the machine and want to revisit its glory days, you could hunt one down on an auction site and hope that it’s in working order. Or you could just emulate the VIC-20 in your browser thanks to the work of [Lance Ewing].
The project is called JVic—because it’s a VIC-20 emulator written in Java. It’s primarily intended for playing old VIC-20 games, and is designed with mobile devices front of mind—so it works well on a phone screen. You can enjoy the built-in library of games, or you can even direct JVic to boot up a ROM from a ZIP file hosted on a given URL or attached to a forum post. You can also install it on your own device rather than running it online, if so desired. [Lance] provides a range of setup options for running it locally or putting it on your own web server if that’s how you like to do things. Files are on Github for those eager to dive in.
We get lots of VIC-20 hacks around these parts. Even if it’s not the most popular machine that Commodore ever built, it’s certainly up there in the rankings. If you want to learn Forth, or even build a VIC-20 from scratch, we’ve explored that before. If you’ve got your own retrocomputer hacks kicking around, don’t hesitate to let us know!
Nella cyber security, spesso ci si concentra sulla ricerca di complessi bug nel codice sorgente, ignorando che la fiducia dell’utente finale passa per un elemento molto più semplice: un link di download.
The #SocialWeb track at #FOSDEM kicked off with a talk by @pfefferle that covered WordPress and a "single click" philosophy to set up an ActivityPub instance. Matthias also talked about how blogs and similar sites can broaden the reach of the open social web - this was one of the themes of the day.
Un grave incidente informatico colpisce l'Università La Sapienza di Roma, mettendo fuori uso l'infrastruttura digitale e generando disagi tra studenti e personale.
La cybersecurity nell'era dell'automazione: come l'eclissi dell'arbitrio umano aumenta le vulnerabilità. Scopri il rischio dell'efficienza algoritmica cieca e la perdita del pensiero critico.
Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radio telescope. For this to work it is however essential to have exact timing and other relevant information to accurately match the signals from each individual radio telescope. As VLBI is used for increasingly higher ranges and bandwidths this makes synchronizing the signals much harder, but an optical frequency comb technique may offer a solution here.
In the paper by [Minji Hyun] et al. it’s detailed ho
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Optical Combs Help Radio Telescopes Work Together
Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radio telescope. For this to work it is however essential to have exact timing and other relevant information to accurately match the signals from each individual radio telescope. As VLBI is used for increasingly higher ranges and bandwidths this makes synchronizing the signals much harder, but an optical frequency comb technique may offer a solution here.
In the paper by [Minji Hyun] et al. it’s detailed how they built the system and used it with the Korean VLBI Network (VLB) Yonsei radio telescope in Seoul as a proof of concept. This still uses the same hydrogen maser atomic clock as timing source, but with the optical transmission of the pulses a higher accuracy can be achieved, limited only by the photodiode on the receiving end.
In the demonstration up to 50 GHz was possible, but commercial 100 GHz photodiodes are available. It’s also possible to send additional signals via the fiber on different wavelengths for further functionality, all with the ultimately goal of better timing and adjustment for e.g. atmospheric fluctuations that can affect radio observations.
Dai! amici del fediverso, tirate fuori la vostra fantasia e proponete immagini "sacre", dipinte o scolpite, che raffigurano personaggi famosi della nostra triste attualità.
@Bastacosi ignorare, per non dare loro modo di crescere di visibilità, ma denunciare ed evidenziare le loro malefatte. È complicato, perché è tutto intrecciato e connesso.
Live images of me gesturing reverently to the projector screen as if it was some kind of eldritch horror (this did indeed suffice to get it working ) #FOSDEM
Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning your language than people like you are at learning theirs. It’s particularly obvious in the world of programming languages, where English-derived language and syntax rules the roost.
It’s always IF foo THEN bar, and never SI foo ALORS bar. It is now possible to do something akin to OS foo YNA bar though, because [Richard Hainsworth] has created y Ddraig (the Dragon), a programming language using Welsh language as syntax. (The Welsh double D, “Dd” is pronounced something like an English soft “th” as in “their”)
Under the hood it’s not an e
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Ysgrifennu Côd yn Gymraeg (Writing Code in Welsh)
Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning your language than people like you are at learning theirs. It’s particularly obvious in the world of programming languages, where English-derived language and syntax rules the roost.
It’s always IF foo THEN bar, and never SI foo ALORS bar. It is now possible to do something akin to OS foo YNA bar though, because [Richard Hainsworth] has created y Ddraig (the Dragon), a programming language using Welsh language as syntax. (The Welsh double D, “Dd” is pronounced something like an English soft “th” as in “their”)
Under the hood it’s not an entirely new language, instead it’s a Welsh localisation of the Raku language. A localisation file is created, that can as we understand it handle bidirectional transcription between languages. The write-up goes into detail about the process.
There will inevitably be people asking what the point of a programming language for a spoken language with under a million native speakers is, so it’s worth taking a look at that head on. It’s important for Welsh education and the Welsh tech sector because a a geeky kid in a Welsh-medium school Pwllheli deserves to code just as much as an English kid in a school near Oxford, but it goes far beyond Welsh alone. There are many languages and cultures across the world where English is not widely spoken, and every single one of them has those kids like us who pick up a computer and run with it. The more of them that can learn to code, and thrive without having the extra burden of knowing English, the better. Perhaps in a couple of decades we’ll be using code from people who learned this way, without our ever knowing it.
As your scribe, this needs to be added: Mae’n ddrwg gyda fi ffrendiau Cymraeg, mae Cymraeg i yn wael iawn. Dwi’n dôd o’r Rhydychen, ni Pwllheli.
Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful (and somewhat pricey) typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the disappointment of some, it doesn’t actually work—you can’t really write a letter with it. [Koenkun Bricks] decided to rectify this with their own functional design.
Right away, we’ll state that this is not a traditional typewriter. There are no off-the-shelf Lego components with embossed letters on them, so it wasn’t possible to make Lego type bars that could leave an impression on paper with the use of an inked ribbon. Instead, [Koenkun Bricks] decided to build a design that was Lego all the way down, right to the letters themselves. The complicated keyboard-actuated mechanism picks out flat letter tiles and punches th
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Lego Typewriter Writes Plastic Letters
Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful (and somewhat pricey) typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the disappointment of some, it doesn’t actually work—you can’t really write a letter with it. [Koenkun Bricks] decided to rectify this with their own functional design.
Right away, we’ll state that this is not a traditional typewriter. There are no off-the-shelf Lego components with embossed letters on them, so it wasn’t possible to make Lego type bars that could leave an impression on paper with the use of an inked ribbon. Instead, [Koenkun Bricks] decided to build a design that was Lego all the way down, right to the letters themselves. The complicated keyboard-actuated mechanism picks out flat letter tiles and punches them on to a flat Lego plate, creating a plastic document instead of a paper one.
It’s not perfect in operation. It has some issues unique to its mode of operation. Namely, the round letter tiles sometimes rotate the wrong way as they’re feeding through the typewriter’s mechanisms, so you get sideways letters on your finished document. It looks kind of cool, though. Outside of that, sometimes the letter pusher doesn’t quite seat the letter tiles fully on the document plate.
Overall, though, it’s a highly functional and impressive build. We’ve seen some other great DIY typewriters before, too, like this 3D printed build. Video after the break.
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