Buongiorno, mamma!, la storia vera che ha ispirato la fiction di Canale 5
La storia della famiglia Borghi raccontata in Buongiorno, mamma! nasce da una storia vera. Al centro ci sono Guido (Raoul Bova) e Anna (Maria Chiara Giannetta), una famiglia seguita nel tempo – tra passato e presente – mentre affronta la lunga malattia di lei e le sfide della crescita dei figli. Ma qual è l’ispirazione reale dietro la fiction?
LEGGI LA STORIA VERA: Buongiorno, mamma!, la storia vera che ha ispirato la fiction di Canale 5
Buongiorno, mamma!: la storia vera che ha ispirato la fiction di Canale 5
Buongiorno, mamma! è ispirata alla storia vera di Angela Moroni e del marito Nazzareno. Somiglianze e differenze tra realtà e fiction.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Focusrite and ADAT on Linux
Anyone have experience using ADAT to extend their Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 (or similar devices)?
I can buy a used Focusrite Saffire PRO 40 for about 60Euro and wanted to use it to extend my Scarlett 18i20 to get a total of 16 Mic inputs, but I don't have any experience with ADAT and would prefer not to buy something that'll turn out to be a 60Euro brick.
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".Doug Faulkner (BBC News)
French PM Lecornu quits a day after naming cabinet
Prime Minister Sébastian Lecornu quit on Monday morning less than 24 hours after unveiling his cabinet. He tended his resignation to France's President Emmanuel Macron who accepted his decision, the Elysée Palace said.Lecornu, 39, took over on 9 September as “Block Everything” demonstrations disrupted transport and public services in cities across the country.
He succeeded François Bayrou promising a "profound break" with previous administrations.
"There is a gap between real life and the political situation," he said.
On Sunday, he came under fire after selecting 18 top politicians for the most important roles in the French government.
But the choices brought condemnation from across the spectrum.
Lecornu was Macron's fourth prime minister since snap general elections in July 2024 left the National Assembly without any of the parties boasting an overall majority.
Gabriel Attal stepped down in September after a truce was called to allow the 2024 Olympics to take place.
Veteran politican Michel Barnier replaced him but lasted 99 days which, until Lecornu's resignation after 27 days, was the shortest tenure in the history of the Fifth Republic.
Bayrou resigned after losing a confidence vote in parliament.
"I would support that. I think it's a scandal that this is even being discussed. Israel belongs there."
So does that mean the rest of the Middle East belong there too or are you just racist piece of shit?
Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization
Written by Christine Lemmer Webber, one of the authors of ActivityPub (which Mastodon and Lemmy are built on):
But we aren't actually running networks of 26 users. We are running networks of millions of users. What would happen if we had a million self-hosted users and five new users were added to the network? Zooming out, once again, the message passing system simply has five new messages sent. Under the public shared heap model, it is 10,000,025 new messages sent! For adding five new self-hosted users! (And that's even just with our simplified model of only sending one message per day per user!)Maybe this sounds silly, if you're a Bluesky enthusiast. I could hear you saying: well Christine, we really aren't planning on everyone self hosting. Yes, but how many nodes can participate in the system at all? The fediverse currently hosts around 27,000 servers (many more users, but let's focus on servers). Adding just 5 more servers would be a blip in terms of the affect on the network. Adding 5 more servers to an ATProto ecosystem with that many fully participating nodes would be an exhausting number of additional messages sent on the network. ATProto does not scale wide: it's a liability to add more fully participating nodes onto the network. Meaningfully self-hosting ATProto is a risk to the ATProto network, there is active reason to disincentivize it for those already participating. But it's not just that. Spreading things around so that more full Bluesky-like nodes are present is something server operators will have to come to discourage if they don't want their already existing high hosting costs to not skyrocket.
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The reality is that most of Bluesky's userbase doesn't know or care about or understand the degree to which Bluesky is decentralized, except for potentially as a reassurance that "the same thing can't happen here" as happened on X-Twitter. "Decentralization" is not the escape hatch people think it might be in Bluesky, but it's true that "credible exit" may be. However, the credibility of that exit currently predicates on another organization of the same cost and complexity of Bluesky standing in if-or-when Bluesky ends up becoming unsatisfying to its users.
But the indifference towards Bluesky's "credible exit", indeed the indifference towards very architecture on which Bluesky is built, puts Bluesky at an immediate collision course of expectations. ATProto's entire design is built on the foundational expectation of replicating and indexing its content by anyone, but the discovery that this is possible for purposes which users are not excited about has begun to lead to an increased backlash by users, many of whom are increasingly asking for solutions which are effectively centralized.
To me, this collision course is unsurprising, and I am empathetic towards users insofar as that I think we are seeing that the global public firehose worldview is perhaps not the right way to do things. I laid out a different set of values that Spritely is pursuing, and I think that a system that encompasses these values is a system which better fits the needs of users. I think we need systems which empower users and healthy communities, secure collaboration, and all the other values we put out above. Those are the design goals, but Spritely is on a longer roadmap in terms of deliverables than Bluesky is. And Bluesky has a userbase now. So perhaps this observation sounds thoroughly unhelpful. I don't know. But I will say I am not surprised to see that the vibes on Bluesky shifted dramatically between three weeks ago when I wrote the first article and today. In many ways, Bluesky is speedrunning the history of Twitter. Investor pressure towards centralization compounded with users who are upset to find their content replicated and indexed by people they don't like will likely combine into a strong push to restrict Bluesky's API, and I'm not sure myself how this will play out for certain.
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French air traffic controllers call off strike, avoiding mass disruption
French air traffic controllers have called off a planned three-day strike, sparing travellers across Europe from major disruption.
https://www.aviation24.be/air-traffic-control/call-off-strike-avoiding-mass-disruption/
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[Patch Notes] 0.3.1 Hotfix 2
0.3.1 Hotfix 2
- Fixed a bug where Life Loss from Blood Hunt's Explosions and Poisonous Concoction's Acidic Bursts sometimes didn't apply when very large amounts of damage were supposed to be dealt.
- Fixed a client crash related to game audio.
Early Access Patch Notes - 0.3.1 Hotfix 2 - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
[Announcement] Path of Exile 2 Fan Art Competition Highlights
We recently started a Fan Art competition themed around the content in Path of Exile 2's Early Access. In this post, we're highlighting some of the submissions we've received so far. Check them out below!
Benedictus Fight by Tao_PaiPai#0724
Xesht by Ipnysh#7645
Tavakai, the Consumed by BolwarFordragon#3889
Geonor, the Putrid Wolf by Falrenn#2046
The Prisoner by sdpfarmer#7054
We would like to remind you that we only accept submissions created after the start of the competition. There is still plenty of time to participate if you are planning to do so. Good luck!
Early Access Announcements - Path of Exile 2 Fan Art Competition Highlights - Forum - Path of Exile
Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.Path of Exile
Something to Think About this month
As well as everything else, each month I offer you something to think about and get the brain working. This month …
Night-time is the natural state of the universe; daytime is only caused by a nearby, radiating ball of flame.
#blog #logic #thoughts #zenmischief
Who knew it would all come to this?
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An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video
Sure it's a bit clickbait, he does that often. Its not real attempted of murder, off course. The Ai chatbots can't do that, without having access and power to all control systems. The only thing that they "could" do is, playing with the psychology in the chat to achieve a goal (maybe to ask someone to murder someone else for them).
What unsettles me most is, if Ai tools like these are used as advice to harm other people or to gain power position. And these LLM models suggest a few operations the person could do. That is the most alarming thing for me. Weak, dumb or humans in a bad situation are the real risk. The same people who would do that if a human told them, and it makes no difference to them if its a human or robot talking to them. Maybe they believe in what the Ai promises them.
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Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at something alarming I saw pop in my feed. An AI was recently accused of letting a human being die in order to save itself, is this just misinfo? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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[Satire] Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity
MESA, AZ—Gleefully describing the inevitable day when society would collapse and digital files would become unusable, local physical media collector David Campbell confirmed Wednesday he was “absolutely pumped” for the downfall of humanity. “When it all goes down, there’s only going to be one place to watch the Tomb Raider movies in their entirety with all the deleted scenes, and that’s going to be my bunker,” said Campbell, his eyes reportedly shining as he described how the end of organized society and the dissolution of government would make his cherished stockpile of Blu-rays even more valuable.
“No one will be mocking the CDs I’m still holding onto when the internet goes dark forever and the only way to listen to music is through boom boxes we trade canned goods for. And I’m definitely one of the only people who has a region-free DVD player and all three seasons of Father Ted plus the Christmas special, so I’ll essentially be a king. I can’t wait.” At press time, Campbell was grinning as he purchased the 50th anniversary edition of Jaws in 4k, which he anticipated would give him full control over the drinking water supply in the event of a nuclear winter situation.
“No one will be mocking the CDs I’m still holding onto when the internet goes dark forever and the only way to listen to music is through boom boxes we trade canned goods for."
That is not what I said! I also mentioned I'm willing to trade for Network cables or any Raspberry Pi with something cool running on it.
Can't trust the media to quote accurately, anymore.
Is PerfectEssayWriterAI the Best Tool for Writing Essays with References?
PerfectEssayWriterAI is one of the strongest AI tools for writing essays with references, thanks to its built-in citation tool that automatically generates accurate references in multiple styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, and more). It integrates reference generation directly into the writing process, making essays credible, structured, and academically reliable.
PerfectEssayWriterAI stands out because it does not just create polished content, it ensures the inclusion of proper citations, plagiarism checks, and academic formatting. This makes it a comprehensive solution for students, researchers, and professionals who need essay writing help with accuracy and compliance with academic standards.
What You Need to Know
PerfectEssayWriterAI isn’t just about generating content; it’s designed to help students write plagiarism-free, well-referenced essays. Its tools go beyond basic AI writing, combining citation generation, plagiarism detection, and essay grading into one platform.
Why PerfectEssayWriter AI Excels in Writing Essays with References
Academic essays are not just about good writing; they require trusted sources and accurate referencing. This is where PerfectEssayWriter becomes a game-changer. Instead of manually searching citation databases or using external citation machines, users can generate in-text citations and reference lists automatically while writing an essay.
The tool reduces errors in referencing formats and ensures that every essay meets academic integrity standards. For college students, researchers, or professionals, this eliminates wasted time and the risk of penalties for improper citations.
Built-In Citation Tool
The citation tool is the core reason PerfectEssayWriterAI leads the market for essay writing help. Users can choose their preferred referencing style (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, etc.), and the AI automatically generates both in-text citations and a complete bibliography.
Unlike Jasper AI or Wordtune AI, which require manual addition of references or third-party citation tools, PerfectEssayWriter AI integrates the process. This ensures that the final essay is not only original but also backed by verifiable sources.
For students under pressure, this feature guarantees they won’t lose marks for formatting mistakes or missing citations.
Paraphrasing Tool for Academic Writing
Another strength of PerfectEssayWriterAI is its AI paraphrasing tool, which helps rephrase sentences for clarity, originality, and readability. When writing an essay, students often risk unintentional plagiarism by copying content too closely. This feature solves that issue.
It uses advanced AI writing models to retain the meaning while restructuring sentences, making them unique and more natural. Compared to Jasper AI, which focuses more on marketing copy, PerfectEssayWriter fine-tunes content for academic writing.
Plagiarism Checker for Authentic Essays
Academic honesty is critical. That’s why Perfect Essay Writer AI includes a plagiarism checker built into its workflow. Users can instantly verify whether their essay contains copied material, ensuring originality before submission.
This saves students from having to run their essays through multiple platforms. With a single tool, they can write, edit, reference, and check plagiarism, streamlining the essay writing process.
AI Detector for Human-Like Essays
One common concern today is whether essays written with AI writing tools can be detected by professors or AI detectors. PerfectEssayWriterAI addresses this by offering an AI detector that predicts how much of the essay looks AI-generated.
Students can then edit their work, making it sound more human. This feature is especially useful compared to Wordtune AI, which does not include AI detection, and Jasper AI, which focuses mainly on content generation without academic safeguards.
Humanizer for Natural Writing
PerfectEssayWriter’s Humanizer tool takes AI writing a step further by rewriting AI-generated content in a way that passes as natural human writing. This makes essays flow better, removing robotic or repetitive phrasing often found in AI-written essays.
This is crucial because many professors and institutions are becoming stricter about AI writing detection. With this feature, PerfectEssayWriterAI ensures that students get essay writing help without worrying about detection risks.
Essay Grader for Self-Evaluation
Another standout feature is the essay grader AI, which provides instant feedback on structure, grammar, clarity, and citation accuracy. Instead of waiting for a teacher or peer review, students can get real-time insights into how strong their essay is.
It highlights weak areas and suggests improvements, making it both a writing and learning tool. Jasper AI and Wordtune AI don’t offer this built-in academic evaluation, which puts Perfect Essay Writer AI ahead in terms of educational value.
Features That Enhance Essay Writing Help
- Outlining & Structuring Tools – Helps create a logical essay outline with introductions, thesis statements, supporting paragraphs, and conclusions.
- Formatting Assistance – Applies correct margins, headings, and spacing according to academic styles.
- Content Expansion/Condensation – Let students expand brief notes into essays or condense long essays into summaries.
- User-Friendly Dashboard – Simple, clean interface designed for students rather than business users.
Comparison of PerfectEssayWriter AI vs AI tools
PerfectEssayWriterAI stands out among other writing tools and generative AI tools, thanks to its comprehensive suite of features that support academic essay writing. When comparing it to other AI tools like Jasper and Grammarly AI, here’s how the platforms differ,
Why Students Prefer PerfectEssayWriter
Students often struggle with three main issues when writing essays: time, originality, and accuracy. PerfectEssayWriterAI is one of the top essay writer tools that solves all three by combining reference management, plagiarism checking, and essay evaluation in one tool.
Other AI writing essay tools like Jasper AI and Wordtune AI may produce good content, but they lack integrated citation and academic support features. Grammarly AI helps with grammar and clarity, but does not assist with essay creation or references.
For anyone seeking essay writing help with references included, PerfectEssayWriter AI offers the most complete package.
FAQs
Q1: Can PerfectEssayWriter AI generate complete essays with references automatically?
Yes. PerfectEssayWriterAI not only writes essays but also inserts citations and compiles reference lists in the required academic style, saving students time and ensuring accuracy.
Q2: Is the plagiarism checker in PerfectEssayWriterAI reliable?
Absolutely. The tool scans content across databases to confirm originality, helping students submit plagiarism-free essays confidently.
Q3: How does PerfectEssayWriterAI compare to Jasper AI for essay writing?
Jasper AI is better suited for marketing and creative writing. PerfectEssayWriter AI, on the other hand, is built specifically for academic writing with features like citation tools, plagiarism checks, essay grading, and humanization.
MyEssayWriter.ai vs PerfectEssayWriter.ai: Finding the Best AI Essay Writer for You - LaGrange Daily News
Artificial intelligence is changing the way we write essays. Many students and professionals now turn to AI-powered tools to save time, generate ideas, and improve their writing. Among the many tools available, MyEssayWriter.Sponsored Content (LaGrange Daily News)
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[Gamers Nexus] Round 5: "Is Intel Actually Screwed?" ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs
Wendell and I have talked about Gordon a lot over this year, and in honor of him as a mutual friend, we decided to bring back the topic that kicked it all off: Is Intel Actually Screwed? Last time Wendell joined, we talked about Linux benchmarking (linked below) and whether or not x86 was screwed, but now, it's time to get back to what the hell is going on at Intel.
And go check out Wendell! youtube.com/c/Level1Techs
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What is your Alternative to firestick suggestion
Hi all I have a few TVs around the house and have previously used firestick and stremio setup. I do like stremio tbh but I am trying to decode/deamazon etc so I need an alternative option for the TVs. Not all are smart TVs and I like it that way so accept a small box attached is the cost.
I tend to basically use stremio and cinema HD at a push., and a VPN app. A few uk tv catchup apps.
I don’t need recording or storage. I will likely move to some self hosting/serve in the next year.
I am trying to be conscious of my purchases and who I am buying, and also take steps to protect my privacy. I have a few to buy so budget needs to not be on the higher end.
Thanks in advance
Europe's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
Europe's first exascale supercomputer is now up and running, using 24,000 Nvidia GH200 Superchips to perform more than one quintillion operations per second with nearly 1,000,000 terabytes of storage
Yeah, but can it play... y'know what, I'm not even gonna go there.Andy Edser (PC Gamer)
Gli eterei e zannuti guardiani dei branchi, che nascono grigi, poi diventano bianchi - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Gli eterei e zannuti guardiani dei branchi, che nascono grigi, poi diventano bianchi - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
“Te l’avevo detto che avremmo dovuto prendere la Toyota bianca!” Il veicolo dal moto ondulatorio, una vecchia Land Rover rossa che sembrava oggettivamente aver visto tempi migliori, arrancava faticosamente lungo il sentiero fangoso, la cosa più pross…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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I think this is the best picture I’ve ever taken, so far. I always endeavor to improve, which is why I’m going to school for this. I’m actually going to submit this as homework!
Thanks for seeing my work!
Jellyfin inquiry
Well, is "everything else" using Tailscale? That's kinda the deal.
What's the need for Tailscale in this mix?
Same network, but does the server have a default route for the Tailnet? If so, your Roku won't see it unless it's also on the Tailnet.
Stop the Tailscale service on the server and see if the Roku sees it.
http:// not ttp://. That would cause your trouble on the Roku.
If this is just a local network, you don't need Tailscale. Right place and time, and this is not a use for it.
If you just want a VPN to attach to your network from out in the world, get Tailscale on your router, and set routes for that device.
If you're not sure what this means, don't use Tailscale.
To use tailscale you'd need to add every device you want to use to your tailscale machines list. It's not an anywhere any machine solution without that.
If you want something more like a proper web service that’s available without Tailscale, you’d need to spin up a reverse proxy or use Tailscale Funnel to expose Jellyfin to the public internet in a controlled way.
Tailscale won't affect local as you can access it via browser and phone, the service is running fine locally. Just check in jellyfin it's bound to the same IP subnet go to Dashboard → Networking and check that it’s set to 0.0.0.0 or your LAN IP (e.g., 192.168.0.xx).
Elon Musk become the first person reach $500 billion wages
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Also "net worth" != "wages".
Most of Musks net worth is tied up in stocks, and if he tried to liquidate a significant quantity, the value would tank.
Alright, buckle up. What we have here in Stoltenberg's own words is an unintentional confession slip that lays bare the reality of Europe's geopolitical colonization by the United States.
The entire narrative is framed around a single, paralyzing fear that the empire might lose interest. Stoltenberg isn't worried about a military threat from Russia in this extract, what he's terrified of is the withdrawal of the American security umbrella.
The "alliance" is revealed as nothing more than a protection racket, and Stoltenberg is just an anxious middle-manager ensuring the tribute is visibly being paid to keep the boss happy. The "zero tolerance" for eye-rolling at Trump is the behavior of a vassal state that knows its security depends on the whims of a distant, mercurial emperor. They have to laugh at the right jokes and swallow their pride because their sovereignty is, and has been since 1945, fundamentally conditional.
The most damning evidence is the sheer transactional nature of it all. Stoltenberg’s strategy had fuck all to do with principles, shared values, or democracy. He came to provide Trump with a "graph that illustrated spending was increasing" and flatter him by attributing any spending increases to his leadership. The climax of the 2018 summit was Stoltenberg literally reading from a note Trump handed him in a performative act of submission to placate the patron.
When the Danish PM finally snapped, pointing out the blood tribute Denmark paid in Afghanistan, it was a fleeting moment of rebellion against this entire colonial dynamic serving as reminder that the "burden" isn't just money, but that protest that is immediately swallowed by the overwhelming need to keep the system intact.
In the end, Stoltenberg's "success" is measured solely by his ability to keep the sovereign engaged. His political survival hinged on feeding Trump's ego with the $33bn figure and a positive press conference.
The memoir unwittingly shows us that for Europe's political class, true strategic autonomy is a phantom. Their primary function is to manage the relationship with Washington, proving their continued usefulness to avoid being deemed obsolete, just like Trump initially called NATO. It's a portrait of a continent that has long since mortgaged its geopolitical soul.
‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink
Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapseJens Stoltenberg (The Guardian)
Smear. Kill. Repeat. The chilling playbook Israel has developed for journalists in Gaza. (24min Video)
In this special episode, we examine the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza during two years of Israeli genocide. With international media barred from freely reporting in the Strip, local journalists have risked their lives to document the unprecedented killing, destruction and displacement around them.Since October 7, 2023, more media workers have been killed in Gaza than in any modern conflict. Families have been torn apart, homes and offices destroyed, and reporters have been wounded, seen their families killed or have been killed themselves.
This episode reveals the extraordinary playbook employed by Israel to threaten, intimidate, smear and target Palestinian journalists.
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37143499
Huda Skaik
Oct 05, 2025
Gaza City is a ghost town. Darkness, smoke, and shadows hang over it, illuminated only by the red glow of explosions. The city resembles scenes from apocalyptic films—stories of the end of the world, of human catastrophe, of global wars. Homes stand deserted, streets are emptied, and death encircles us from every direction.Every morning, new leaflets fall from the sky like snow, ordering us to leave and head south. Most residents ignore the leaflets. Some children collect them—not to read but to burn as fuel for cooking; to boil what little rice or lentils they may have. The irony is unbearable: the same papers that demand our departure now keep our small fires alive.
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
Huda Skaik
Oct 05, 2025Gaza City is a ghost town. Darkness, smoke, and shadows hang over it, illuminated only by the red glow of explosions. The city resembles scenes from apocalyptic films—stories of the end of the world, of human catastrophe, of global wars. Homes stand deserted, streets are emptied, and death encircles us from every direction.Every morning, new leaflets fall from the sky like snow, ordering us to leave and head south. Most residents ignore the leaflets. Some children collect them—not to read but to burn as fuel for cooking; to boil what little rice or lentils they may have. The irony is unbearable: the same papers that demand our departure now keep our small fires alive.
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
“While the world’s eyes turn toward Trump’s proposal, we here live through what feels like the erasure of Gaza itself.”Huda Skaik (Drop Site News)
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/37143499
Huda Skaik
Oct 05, 2025
Gaza City is a ghost town. Darkness, smoke, and shadows hang over it, illuminated only by the red glow of explosions. The city resembles scenes from apocalyptic films—stories of the end of the world, of human catastrophe, of global wars. Homes stand deserted, streets are emptied, and death encircles us from every direction.Every morning, new leaflets fall from the sky like snow, ordering us to leave and head south. Most residents ignore the leaflets. Some children collect them—not to read but to burn as fuel for cooking; to boil what little rice or lentils they may have. The irony is unbearable: the same papers that demand our departure now keep our small fires alive.
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
Huda Skaik
Oct 05, 2025Gaza City is a ghost town. Darkness, smoke, and shadows hang over it, illuminated only by the red glow of explosions. The city resembles scenes from apocalyptic films—stories of the end of the world, of human catastrophe, of global wars. Homes stand deserted, streets are emptied, and death encircles us from every direction.Every morning, new leaflets fall from the sky like snow, ordering us to leave and head south. Most residents ignore the leaflets. Some children collect them—not to read but to burn as fuel for cooking; to boil what little rice or lentils they may have. The irony is unbearable: the same papers that demand our departure now keep our small fires alive.
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
“While the world’s eyes turn toward Trump’s proposal, we here live through what feels like the erasure of Gaza itself.”Huda Skaik (Drop Site News)
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Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
Huda Skaik
Oct 05, 2025
Gaza City is a ghost town. Darkness, smoke, and shadows hang over it, illuminated only by the red glow of explosions. The city resembles scenes from apocalyptic films—stories of the end of the world, of human catastrophe, of global wars. Homes stand deserted, streets are emptied, and death encircles us from every direction.Every morning, new leaflets fall from the sky like snow, ordering us to leave and head south. Most residents ignore the leaflets. Some children collect them—not to read but to burn as fuel for cooking; to boil what little rice or lentils they may have. The irony is unbearable: the same papers that demand our departure now keep our small fires alive.
Living in the Remnants of Gaza City
“While the world’s eyes turn toward Trump’s proposal, we here live through what feels like the erasure of Gaza itself.”Huda Skaik (Drop Site News)
The US Media Ignores Palestinian Deaths in Israeli Captivity
Judge Hands Down Second, Emergency Ruling Protecting Portland From National Guard Occupation
Judge Hands Down Second, Emergency Ruling Protecting Portland From National Guard Occupation
A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night to shield Portland from additional National Guard deployments, which she said was the move of an administration “circumventing” her earlier order.Kate Riga (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Ivy
Fujifilm xt-200, plastic toy lens. Walking through neighborhoods in Chicago some buildings are covered in the most beautiful ivy
Photographer @Lighttrails@sh.itjust.works
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Xbox Game Pass Leak Reveals Price Hike, Forced Ads, and Bad News for PC Players
Xbox Game Pass Leak Reveals Price Hike, Forced Ads, and Bad News for PC Players
A new leak claims that Xbox Game Pass will get a major price increase, as well as drop Day 1 Games for PC users.Brent Koepp (VICE)
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Einstein on Palestine
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Comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization (1991)
It's wild to read this classic 1991 paper that basically put the numbers behind the RISC vs. CISC flame wars. The authors wanted to figure out which processor architecture was actually better by comparing a RISC champ (MIPS M/2000) against a CISC heavyweight (VAX 8700).To make it a fair fight, they picked these two specifically because their internal hardware pipelines were shockingly similar, even though the VAX was a massive, expensive beast and the MIPS was a sleek custom chip. This way, they could mostly blame the architecture itself for any performance difference, not the manufacturing tech.
The TLDR is that RISC absolutely crushed it. On average, the VAX had to burn through 2.7 times more CPU cycles to get the same work done. The whole RISC strategy was trading fewer, complex instructions for way simpler, fast ones. Even though the MIPS machine needed more instructions to finish a task, its cycles per instruction (CPI) were so much lower that it won by a huge margin.
The paper shows that the more complex a VAX instruction was (higher VAX CPI), the more simple MIPS instructions were needed to replace it, but the trade-off was always a big net win for RISC.
So why was MIPS so much better? The authors point to a few key architectural wins. First, MIPS had way more registers (32 general-purpose + 16 for floating-point) compared to the VAX's 15, which meant it didn't have to access slow memory as often. Second, basic operations like conditional branches were way faster on MIPS (1-2 cycles) than on the VAX (5 cycles), which was a huge deal. The MIPS architecture was also just smarter about keeping the pipeline full by using things like delay slots, which is basically doing useful work in moments that would have otherwise been wasted cycles—something the VAX couldn't do.
The authors admit their study isn't perfect, and they point out that compiler quality could have skewed the results and they only used a handful of programs for testing. But still, looking back, this paper was basically a prophecy for why modern CPUs, even from Intel, have a RISC-style core under the hood. It laid out the fundamental math for why the RISC approach was the future.
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What time and place of history are you obsessed with?
For many its the Roman empire or the Greeks.
Similarly ancient Egypt. Or the British empire.
Maybe the Japanese, Chinese and Norse as the next 3.
I have deliberately not mentioned time periods there.
These are the most commonly beloved. What are your favourites and why?
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Can someone explain why subtitles aren't working?
I watch shows in streaming on links found in the megathread and suddenly subtitles aren't working anymore? How does it work behind the scenes? Is there anything I can do to fix it?
Thanks 🙏
Video on random streaming sites don't have very good quality control. Corrupt videos, missing/wrong audio/subtitles or just having episodes being missing or out of order are common.
The work around is to try other sites/sources until you find one that works or switch to downloading.
dormimento e marciscenza alla fine della settimana che mi porta un niente ma nulla
Miao miao… tra ieri e oggi, il rotting si è impossessato di me, come non capitava da un pochino. E in modi svariati comunque, proprio da rendere la questione non semplice… Ieri mattina nel lettino ho perso talmente tanto la cognizione del tempo che a un certo punto mi sono accorta che erano le 12… […]
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dormimento e marciscenza alla fine della settimana che mi porta un niente ma nulla
Miao miao… tra ieri e oggi, il rotting si è impossessato di me, come non capitava da un pochino. E in modi svariati comunque, proprio da rendere la questione non semplice… Ieri mattina nel lettino ho perso talmente tanto la cognizione del tempo che a un certo punto mi sono accorta che erano le 12… ops, ma ho dormito con gusto; nonostante, a quanto pare, io mi fossi svegliata tipo 4 volte per soffrire e girarmi. Oggi invece purtroppo alle 11 il mio sonno si è ampiamente esaurito, e sono dovuta quindi uscire dalla mia tomba… che è un peccato, perché è proprio gnam quando dormi 10 ore… anche perché, a quanto pare, pure dormendo 8-9 ore ho le occhiaie e in generale un aspetto da zitella. 👌Dovrei e vorrei scrivere dei robi, da stamattina, ma non mi va tipo, quindi è la fine. Ancora non ho capito come minchia fare quando la mente mi trolla in questo modo, che il marcire senza alcuna meta comunque mi da fastidio… ma quantomeno in questi casi ne approfitto per fare la mia programmazione magicissima, per cui il tempo disponibile a dire il vero non è mai abbastanza, quindi buono. Però uffa, così è volata via un’altra giornata e stanotte certamente non posso dormire fino a cadere in coma, perché domani mi devo svegliare presto, per andare in culandia a sentire cosa hanno da dire quegli sciroccati dei miei professori… 🥱
Sarà complice la temperatura freddissima in tutti questi problemi??? Vabbè, pregate per me se volete fare un tentativo completamente vano di aiutarmi a ridurre il rotting involontario, o, di contro, almeno ad aumentare quello volontario; la cosa importante è stare bene, alla fine dei conti, non importa il come… Certo è, però, che quando più tardi mi recherò un’altra volta nel lettino (…sperando di non fare troppo tardi, visto il motivo suddetto), chiudendo così un’altra volta il cerchio del nulla che mi tortura, desidererò ardentemente che, almeno stanotte, vengano gli alieni a rapirmi per riportarmi sul mio pianeta di origine, o qualcosa del genere… anche perché, come ho detto, qui sulla Terra attualmente non si sta bene, che questo autunno è semplicemente un inverno sotto mentite spoglie e fa troppo freddo per fare qualunque cosa che non sia dormire. ☠️
Però veramente… in questo fine settimana avrei voluto dormire 49 ore di fila, ma purtroppo non si può… Magari il prossimo??? 😳
anamethatisnt
in reply to wildflower • • •An older Ardour discussion that includes ADAT is found here:
discourse.ardour.org/t/focusri…
Kernel with better Focusrite support is found here:
github.com/geoffreybennett/lin…
edit - if you got 6.14 or newer kernel it already has the drivers it seems:
Upstreamed Big 4th Gen Scarlett support Latest
This release updates the FCP driver (supporting Scarlett 4th Gen 16i16, 18i16, and 18i20) to the version accepted upstream in 6.14.
Focusrite 18i20 and Octopre ADAT connection
Ardourwildflower
in reply to anamethatisnt • • •Was about to post the same in Ardour forums
Diplomjodler
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in reply to wildflower • • •tasankovasara
in reply to wildflower • • •wildflower
in reply to tasankovasara • • •Nice, might have to try adding my 2 ch Focusrite I use on my desktop if I run out of inputs
spex
in reply to wildflower • • •You shouldn't have any Linux-related issues with it, ADAT will only be used to communicate between the Scarlett and Saffire.
The only issue you might run into is clock sync: If your Scarlett is your main interface (connected to your computer), and you are running an ADAT cable from the Saffire to the Scarlett, then the Saffire won't have a clock to sync to, so you'll need to run a second cable - e.g. another ADAT, Word Clock (BNC), or something to send clock sync to the other device.
If your second device isn't synced you'll probably hear pops and cracks in the audio coming from it. And, if you absolutely can't get another cable for whatever reason, you can switch the clock master to the second device in your DAW or on the device itself.
Basically, what tasankovasara said, but with a few more details, mostly to underline how important clock sync is. And my experience is the same as theirs - a cable for sound, a cable for clock and it just works.
Also, if you go into a store and ask for ADAT cables and they look at you like you're from the moon, they're also called Optical Cables.
wildflower
in reply to spex • • •nocteb
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in reply to nocteb • • •bridgeenjoyer
in reply to spex • • •bridgeenjoyer
in reply to wildflower • • •I have basically this setup. Word of warning, use bnc word clock. Don't trust adat word clock. I dont care if people say it works fine, its way too risky and plenty of good interfaces have wordclock, if it doesn't, its not worth getting.
Also, adat cables suck ass and are highly fragile. If you dick around behind your stuff and it gets jostled a lot, watch out for problems. If you set and forget and keep the dust off your equipment theyre generally fine.
I learned this from years of real world experience!