but that would be a crime! instead, we'll just ask the companies to do the right thing, surely the only reason they're not already doing that is because they're unaware
I assume game studios are currently extremely well secured on par with film production considering how much money goes into it. Back in the day, maybe not so much. But then you might also be limited by the capabilities of portable data storage. Kind of harder to smuggle out a dozen floppy disks than one thumb drive. Plus, they literally get the FBI to investigate if they notice something gets stolen, so it's really not a simple thing to just walk out of work one day with the source code of the game you've been working on for years.
2 guys looking out at hell and one says 'it is even worse than I imagined' there are people all over the place saying things like "must be nice staying home all day", "yoga cured my cousin", "you don't look sick", "just be positive", "we are all tired" Artist is Glenn McCoy
Divulgazione e social: quando la competenza diventa un bersaglio
Non sono un frequentatore abituale di X (ex Twitter), non è il mio habitat naturale. Preferisco di gran lunga il fediverso, e in particolare Mastodon, dove il dialogo è più disteso, senza algoritmi e più rispettoso delle competenze. Continuo però a mantenere un account su X, principalmente per seguire voci che considero autorevoli e preziose.
Tra queste c’è un geologo, divulgatore scientifico e saggista italiano, noto anche per la sua presenza televisiva, che non si limita a spiegare: provoca, stimola, prende posizione. Lo seguo da anni, e apprezzo il suo coraggio nel dire cose scomode, specie quando si tratta di ambiente, pseudoscienza o gestione del territorio.
È proprio questa chiarezza che divide: c’è chi lo apprezza per la capacità di semplificare temi complessi e chi, al contrario, lo accusa di essere arrogante o ideologico.
Sui social tradizionali non esiste più un ambito di competenza: tutto si riduce a opinioni. Un geologo e divulgatore scientifico con trent’anni di esperienza viene contestato da profili “qualunque” che, senza alcuna preparazione, si sentono legittimati a correggerlo o ridicolizzarlo.
Sotto ogni suo post si accumulano commenti sprezzanti, battute, meme e accuse. C’è chi nega il cambiamento climatico, chi lo accusa di essere al servizio di qualche lobby o di voler fare solo propaganda. Il punto non è confutare con dati certi, ma sminuire, ironizzare, creare rumore. Sarebbe interessante vedere quegli stessi, così baldanzosi dietro la tastiera, trovarsi davanti alla lavagna a confutare i loro commenti, a voce alta, penna in mano.
Le piattaforme come X premiano la viralità, non l’autorevolezza. Più un contenuto genera reazioni, anche negative, più viene spinto in alto nei feed.
Il risvolto della medaglia? L’esperto, suo malgrado, può diventare una figura popolare proprio grazie alle polemiche. L’algoritmo trasforma il conflitto in visibilità, e in certi casi fa conoscere il divulgatore anche a chi altrimenti non l’avrebbe mai incontrato. Ma si tratta di una notorietà probabilmente distorta, basata più sull’arroganza e la cattiveria gratuita di chi attacca che sull’interesse reale per i contenuti.
La visibilità diventa così un’arma a doppio taglio: porta l’informazione a un pubblico maggiore, ma lo fa in un contesto saturo di ostilità.
Negli ultimi anni si è diffusa una retorica secondo cui ogni opinione ha lo stesso valore, a prescindere da chi la esprime. L’idea che “uno vale uno” si è trasformata, sui social, in un attacco sistematico verso chi possiede conoscenze reali, lavora con dati verificati o applica il metodo scientifico. L’idea che “uno vale uno” sui social tradizionali si è trasformata. L’espressione “uno vale uno” è spesso usata per affermare che ogni persona ha lo stesso diritto di parola. Questo è sacrosanto in una democrazia. Il problema nasce quando questo principio viene frainteso e usato per sostenere che tutte le opinioni si equivalgano, anche quando una è supportata da anni di studio e dati verificati e l’altra è solo un’impressione personale o una teoria campata in aria.
Chi rappresenta competenza viene spesso percepito come arrogante o distante, e non di rado diventa bersaglio di sfiducia o rabbia. Non serve argomentare, basta insinuare dubbi, sbeffeggiare, trasformare ogni affermazione in un’occasione per una battuta a effetto.
Esiste un’alternativa?
In ambienti come il Fediverso, ad esempio Mastodon, dove la conversazione si sviluppa senza intervento degli algoritmi i toni sono meno tossici, la comunicazione meno aggressiva, il rispetto per la competenza più presente e la visibilità non dipende da quanto rumore si riesce a fare.
Questo non significa che tutti siano d’accordo, ma il dissenso tende a manifestarsi in modo più civile e costruttivo. Per chi, come l’esperto che seguo, cerca un dialogo autentico potrebbe valere la pena esplorare questi spazi nel Fediverso.
I social tradizionali ormai non sono più solo luoghi di conversazione ma ambienti tossici dove il dibattito diventa scontro.
Forse è il momento di chiederci: vogliamo davvero continuare ad affidare la qualità del dibattito pubblico a piattaforme che premiano il rumore anziché il merito?
Three years [ago], the governor of St. Petersburg signed a sister-city agreement with the occupying authorities of Mariupol, the Ukrainian port city that was razed to the ground in a devastating Russian siege just weeks beforehand.
“Since then, St. Petersburg has hosted children from Mariupol for every camp session — both in summer and winter,” said Governor Alexander Beglov.
This summer, Russian authorities are organizing five three-week camp sessions for children from the occupied city. Each session is led by child psychologists, St. Petersburg schoolteachers and camp counselors who recently graduated from teacher training college.
More than 2,000 schoolchildren from Mariupol in total are expected to attend camps in St. Petersburg this year.
Initially, Russian authorities billed these summer programs as health and wellness retreats for children who had lived under Russian shelling.
But from the very first sessions, children were also taught to develop respect and love for the country that seized their home city.
[...]
Today Ukraine has confirmed the deportation of 19,546 children from occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia, though experts say the real number is likely much higher.
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova in connection with these deportations.
Ukrainian experts say Russia is deliberately stripping these children of their Ukrainian identity and raising them to become Russians, turning minors into a new generation loyal to the Kremlin.
The educational program at Camp Druzhnykh lists goals that include fostering a national — that is, Russian — identity among the children.
[...]
The camp also organizes a career fair where children can learn about the job market in Russia. In June, it featured a police college that accepts students as early as ninth grade. Students from the college spoke to the children about the ceremonial police oath and showed them how to take fingerprints.
[...]
Now in high school, Masha [a girl form Mariupol, not her real name] quietly dreams of moving to St. Petersburg for university. But when she talks about the future, there is a sadness in her voice [...] “I used to think living in Russia was easy. But then my mom tried to get a job at Pyaterochka [a discount supermarket chain], and the salary was under 20,000 rubles (less than $253) — while the country’s minimum subsistence level is 17,000 ($215). That’s when I realized life in Russia is hard. You don’t live — you survive.”
RSS feeds are the way to go to keep in touch with events, but only when you want to and in a not addictive manner. Also, my philosophy is that some news is really really important only if somebody from my inner circle personally tells me something about it. Otherwise is just noise from media
Giugno 2025 si è chiuso con temperature eccezionalmente elevate in Toscana: oltre 40 gradi a Larciano e Massa, 38.4 a Cascina, dove per ben 20 giorni la colonnina di mercurio ha superato i 32 gradi. Nessuna pioggia, e un deficit di 38 millimetri rispetto alla media. Ma il dato più preoccupante non è solo il caldo in sé, bensì la frequenza con cui questi eventi si ripetono. È il segnale del cambiamento climatico in corso, e il rischio è quello dell’assuefazione: abituarci a condizioni che un tempo erano eccezionali. Scopri l’analisi completa su [nome del sito] e approfondisci cosa sta davvero cambiando nel nostro clima.
Il mese di giugno 2025 si è chiuso con un’ondata di calore intensa e persistente che ha investito gran parte della Toscana, registrando temperature decisamente sopra la media. I dati
Myself and some other users have been getting confused why we couldn't crosspost text posts.
Eg. I can't crosspost this https://piefed.social/post/993050 to https://piefed.
David Seymour is an evil individual and we as a society should be ashamed that we have given him this much power and that the media treat him with any degree of respect.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
TrueBlue Exhibits offers comprehensive solutions for trade show exhibits, branded environments, and corporate events, as well as LED video wall rentals and union labor services, all in one convenient location.
Palestinian officials say Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 people, including at a cafe in northern Gaza and outside a food distribution site in southern Gaza. The violence comes as President Trump is making a push this week for a ceasefire.
Martedì 8 luglio torniamo con il Logout di TWC Roma, il ritrovo per tech workers che vogliono incontrarsi dopo lavoro: un'occasione per socializzare, conoscersi, parlare del nostro lavoro e come organizzarci nei prossimi mesi!
Ci vediamo martedì 8 luglio, alle 18.30, alla casa del parco della Caffarella
Somehow I had been stuck on Darktable 3.8 for a while, so I finally uninstalled the system package of it, and bumped up to the 5.2 flatpak, and it's amazing! A bit of adjustment, and there we go! King says hi. I hope eventually rhinos can multiply and be less critically endangered.
Quante volte ci si chiede se un musicista ormai datato della scena artistica mondiale, con decine e decine di album pubblicati, abbia ancora qualcosa di nuovo da farci sentire? ... Leggi e ascolta...
Quante volte ci si chiede se un musicista ormai datato della scena artistica mondiale, con decine e decine di album pubblicati, abbia ancora qualcosa di nuovo da farci sentire? E' molto probabile che, se il musicista non appartiene alla nostra sfera di preferenza, lo si liquidi subito, a volte ancor prima di ascoltarlo, con un bel “niente di nuovo”, “album inutile”, “ormai finito” ecc. ecc.; se invece è un nostro beniamino o ancor meglio apparteniamo alla sfera dei suoi fans incalliti, è molto probabile che il nostro giudizio sia “oscurato” dal classico velo affettivo che, per carità non è “pietoso”, ma senz'altro poco obbiettivo. Ecco, tutta questa premessa per arrivare a dire che, personalmente, pur appartenendo alla seconda sfera, quella dei fan incalliti e non da tempi recenti, serenamente affermo che Wrecking Ball è un buon album e il nostro sessantatreenne “The Boss” riesce a dirci ancora molto!... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/07…
We are ecstatic to announce that we have released the third experimental version of Pidgin 3.0!!! This is a pre alpha release with an official version number of 2.92.1. We will continue releasing in this fashion until we are ready for 3.0.0 which will be the release we consider ready for end users.
If you don't want to use the Flathub Beta method, there are build instructions in the README for building a flatpak locally or installing into a meson devenv. Both methods avoid installing directly to your OS installation which is preferred as there is no easy way to uninstall.
About
Just like Experimental 1 and 2, this is a milestone release. It is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but it is not meant for end users.
Most things are not implemented, the user interface has not been polished at all, and there are so many bugs. As such we are asking that packagers please do not package this for your users yet as the potential support requests will be too much for us to handle at this time.
This release isn’t quite what we wanted as things just didn't align well this cycle, but there’s still a lot of good progress.
Looking forward, Experimental 4 is scheduled for 2025-09-30 and will have a version number of 2.93.0.
We have a bunch of tickets entered for Experimental 4, and you can keep an eye on the Burndown Chart for Experimental 4 to stay informed. As always, priorities and possibilities can and will change, so even if something is listed for this release that doesn't mean it will be in the release until it's actually completed.
Highlights
The main highlights for this release are preferences! We've finally added some much need new sections named Appearance, Privacy, and Development. There's not a whole lot in these three yet, but there's a bunch we want to drop in here in the future.
Appearance Preferences
Right now the appearance preference just lets you toggle formatting of message which affects all messages and can be easily restored. We have a number of things to add here in the future, but if there's something you'd like to see, let us know in the comments below!
Privacy Preferences
Just like appearance the privacy preferences page is meant to help you keep your personal information personal. In the future we'll be adding options for how Pidgin should identify itself when queried and a few other things.
Development Preferences
The development preferences are meant to make the development of Pidgin and plugins easier. Developer mode itself does a number of things right now including showing the Bonjour and XMPP protocols which are not yet functional. This way developers can work on them easily and end users won't get confused by something that's not implemented.
ChangeLog
In the past we've tried to filter the ChangeLog to just the bits that might be interesting, but going forward we're just going to include everything that was done for the release.
General
Add a native file for macos on arm (RR 3956) (Gary Kramlich)
Run scour over all of the svgs (RR 3990) (Gary Kramlich)
Add discrete options for protocol plugins (RR 3994) (Gary Kramlich)
Fix a typo in POTFILES.in for the privacy preferences (RR 3998) (Gary Kramlich)
Add an in-development tag to all protocols that are still early in development (RR 4007) (Gary Kramlich)
Update the flatpak to gnome 48 and to the matching birb version (RR 4038) (Gary Kramlich)
libpurple:
Add GListModel versions of purple_account_manager_get_{disabled,enabled (PIDGIN-18067) (RR 3952) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
Remove GList versions of purple_account_manager_get_{disabled,enabled} (RR 3955) (Elliott Sales de Andrade)
The King in Black comics with Knull as a villain were pretty weak, but a movie arc with Eddie Brock as the King in Black and the whole time-travel stuff would be fun.
La decido pri la venontjara Universala Kongreso estis farita lastmomente, sen ajna publika diskuto aŭ eĉ anticipa informado al la komitato de UEA. Neniam antaŭe du sinsekvaj kongresoj okazis geografie tiel proksime unu al la alia, kaj neniam post Hamburgo 1974 oni tiel malfrue anoncis la kongresurbon.
Can't we just ship Cruz off to Cancun permanently at this point?
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers. The plan would benefit AT&T, which is based in Cruz's home state, along with Verizon and T-Mobile.
Cruz's proposal revives a years-old controversy over whether the entire 6 GHz band should be devoted to Wi-Fi, which can use the large spectrum band for faster speeds than networks that rely solely on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that would require spectrum to be auctioned off for full-power, commercially licensed use, and the question is where that spectrum will come from.
When the House of Representatives passed its so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," it excluded all of the frequencies between 5.925 and 7.125 gigahertz from the planned spectrum auctions. But Cruz's version of the budget reconciliation bill, which is moving quickly toward a final vote, removed the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions. The Cruz bill is also controversial because it would penalize states that regulate artificial intelligence.
Instead of excluding the 6 GHz band from auctions, Cruz's bill would instead exclude the 7.4–8.4 GHz band used by the military. Under conditions set by the bill, it could be hard for the Commerce Department and Federal Communications Commission to fulfill the Congressional mandate without taking some spectrum away from Wi-Fi.
The Justice Department announced today coordinated actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) government’s schemes to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies.
The Justice Department announced today coordinated actions against the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) government’s schemes to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies.
Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.
The article says Mac sales are declining too. Apparently most of the decline is people that are simply ditching their PC because they don't need it anymore.
People ditching their PC because they don't need it anymore doesn't explain that the relative share of Mac and Linux has increased for the past 15 years though. Unless for some reason Windows users are more likely to ditch their PC because they don't need it than Mac or Linux users.
That's according to a U.S. administration official familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly about the visit that hasn't been formally announced.
Ne manquez pas le MastApéro de la canicule à Strasbourg, le 11 juillet prochain ! Il y aura de quoi se rafraîchir, et des gens sympas pour discuter de tout et de rien, comme d'habitude !
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in reply to Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name] • • •I don't understand those kind of scenarios. Isn't it trivial for anyone involved to just anonimously smuggle the code out?
Are those data handled like in a Mission: Impossible offline casino?
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in reply to graymess [he/him] • • •For current production, obviously, but those titles are quite literally close to abandonware range.
But I guess once they have the systems in place they use it for everything...