Meta says it won’t sign the European Union’s artificial intelligence code of practice agreement, warning that “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI.”
On one hand, requiring calls to be done on the native app but not on the web one because "muh encryption" was always stupid.
On the other hand, the Native app was really well done. A well made app using the native OS ui toolkit is so rare. Now it's turning into yet another stupid web wrapper. I'm so sick of everything being a web page.
I've been using Librewolf for more than an year now, and Im using Mullvad Browser (MB) only for log into my e-mail and stuff more personal like that. Since Mullvad gives some very good filters about privacy, i'm using MB for these purposes.
However, i been thinking if i should use Mullvad Browser as my main daily driver browser. However, i need to use a dark mode/reader, since i like to have eyes and for me is super uncomfortable not using a dark mode.
I'm using the dark reader on librewolf, and i know this is make me more finger printable , but i cannot use a browser without a dark mode.
My question is if, either with a dark mode/reader on mullvad browser, this is better than librewolf in terms of privacy and security. Mullvad is more quick than librewolf in update terms , for which i search it. And other thing i know i can do, is create multiple profiles on mullvad and librewolf, to compartmentalize the things i visit / search... (for example, one profile only to check my emails, one for normal browsing, and so on.... )
and btw , on ubuntu, which is the better way in terms of security and privacy, to install the mullvad browser? via .deb ? snap? flatpak?
University libraries have long been the intellectual cornerstone of academic institutions. But as campuses expand digitally, the tools that manage these vital resources must evolve too. No longer are physical shelves and handwritten ledgers sufficient. In today’s academic environment, a robust library software system is not a luxury—it’s a necessity. This transformation impacts everything from student learning to research innovation, making library software a central pillar in the modern educational experience.
The Digital Transformation of Academic Libraries
Over the past two decades, libraries have undergone a sweeping digital transformation. This shift isn't just about eBooks and online journals; it encompasses how resources are cataloged, accessed, and managed. Library software systems enable institutions to streamline operations, enhance accessibility, and meet the demands of tech-savvy students and faculty. With automation and centralized control, library staff can focus more on academic support rather than mundane administrative tasks.
Streamlining Library Operations
A robust library software solution can revolutionize how academic libraries operate. From cataloging and circulation to user account management and acquisition, everything becomes more efficient. For instance, automated check-in and check-out systems minimize queues and errors, while real-time tracking ensures that materials are always available when needed. Not only does this improve service delivery, but it also optimizes resource utilization, making the library more cost-effective in the long run.
Enhancing Accessibility and User Experience
Today’s students expect seamless, on-demand access to information. A sophisticated library software ensures that users can search for, locate, and access resources—whether physical or digital—from anywhere. Mobile compatibility, intuitive search interfaces, and personalized dashboards are just a few features that elevate the user experience. Moreover, these platforms often include assistive technologies that support students with disabilities, ensuring inclusive education for all.
Supporting Academic Research and Collaboration
Beyond routine library functions, modern library software plays a vital role in supporting academic research. Integrated search tools, citation managers, and collaborative spaces facilitate deeper inquiry and knowledge sharing. When students and faculty can easily find and organize relevant materials, the quality and efficiency of their work improve. The library management system also promotes inter-institutional collaboration by enabling shared cataloging and resource-sharing networks.
Customization and Scalability for Diverse Needs
No two universities are alike, and their library needs can differ significantly. A robust library software offers customizable modules and scalable architecture that adapts to institutions of all sizes. Whether it’s a small liberal arts college or a sprawling research university, the system can be tailored to meet specific goals. This flexibility ensures longevity and adaptability as institutional needs evolve.
Data-Driven Decision Making
One of the often-overlooked benefits of a powerful library system is its capacity for data analytics. Administrators can gain insights into usage patterns, popular resources, and user behavior. This data can inform collection development, budgeting, and even curriculum planning. The ability to make evidence-based decisions ensures that the library remains aligned with academic priorities.
Integration with Educational Ecosystems
Modern universities use a variety of digital platforms—from learning management systems (LMS) to research databases. Robust library software is designed to integrate seamlessly with these tools, creating a unified educational ecosystem. This interoperability enhances workflow efficiency and allows students and faculty to transition smoothly between platforms, improving overall productivity.
Future-Proofing the Academic Library
Technology evolves rapidly, and educational institutions must stay ahead of the curve. A forward-thinking library software solution incorporates regular updates, cloud-based infrastructure, and advanced security protocols. This ensures that the system remains functional and secure, regardless of emerging challenges or technological shifts.
Elevating Student Outcomes Through Resource Optimization
Ultimately, the goal of any university is to enhance student success. A well-implemented library software system contributes directly to this objective by ensuring that students have timely access to the resources they need. It eliminates barriers to information, fosters independent learning, and supports academic achievement.
Case in Point: The Role of a List Management System
Consider the function of a dedicated list management system. By allowing faculty to curate and share course materials effortlessly, it ensures that students always know what to read, when, and where to find it. This not only improves student preparedness but also aligns course content with library holdings, reducing redundant purchases and streamlining access.
Reducing Administrative Burden and Operational Costs
Managing a library involves countless tasks—acquisitions, renewals, budgeting, and reporting, to name a few. A centralized software solution can automate much of this workload, freeing up staff to focus on value-added services like user support and educational programming. This operational efficiency can also translate into financial savings, allowing for reinvestment in critical academic initiatives.
Ensuring Compliance and Security
Academic institutions handle sensitive data and are often subject to strict regulatory requirements. A robust library system ensures compliance with data protection laws and institutional policies. Features like user authentication, encrypted data storage, and access logs help safeguard information, maintaining trust and integrity.
Empowering Library Staff with Modern Tools
The benefits of advanced library software aren't limited to users alone. Library professionals gain access to powerful administrative tools that simplify their tasks. Dashboards for real-time monitoring, automation for routine processes, and tools for content curation empower staff to provide better service and focus on strategic goals.
Building a Stronger Academic Community
At its core, the university library is a hub for intellectual exchange. Robust library software strengthens this role by making information more accessible, collaboration more seamless, and service delivery more efficient. This fosters a more connected, informed, and empowered academic community.
Conclusion
Investing in a robust library software system is not merely a technological upgrade—it is a strategic decision that can transform the academic experience. From supporting research and instruction to improving accessibility and operational efficiency, the right system underpins every facet of university life. In an era where knowledge is power and speed is essential, no university can afford to fall behind. A comprehensive, forward-thinking library solution ensures that institutions remain competitive, relevant, and truly committed to academic excellence.
I love Charger8232's idea of a Privacy Flag. However, I don't love the design they proposed. In their post, I explain my disagreements.
As a form of vexillographical discussion, I would like to propose another design as the flag under which we anonymously toil in secret (I wish).
First off, nods to Charger8232's design - 1400x900 dimensions, and use of EU's Dark Power Blue (#003399) color. Love it.
Where we differ:
Designs
A shield, representing how we must actively guard our privacy. A lock, obviously, to show we want security with our privacy, and a dove showing that we just want to be left the F alone and peacefully not be subject to a mass surveillance state. We're not trying to be sketchy or do illegal stuff, we just want to be peacefully left the F alone.
Colors
Again, same use of Dark Power Blue, representing freedom and a nod to the GDPR. White representing peace. Black representing how I don't want people to see me. Color of field: Redacted.
Extras
Stripes to make it a bit more visually interesting. A lack of EXIF and meta data as the subtle fait accompli.
The color scheme is similar to that of Estonia. While Estonia is a leader in the EU's digital governance space, this is unintentional. As much as I liked Espresso Macchiato in EuroVision this year, there's no direct nod to Estonia.
I didn't want to just say "uh, I don't like it" and complain without doing something. So here you go.
It has always bothered me that privacy has no unified symbol. Every community has their own take on how privacy should be visualized. I want to unify the privacy community across the internet. It is my belief that, with a universal symbol for privacy, we will grow stronger. We will have a symbol to represent us. We will have a flag to fly.
Icon
The icon is a clipart created by librarian Gordon Dylan Johnson which can be found here. The size of the icon is large enough to still fit if the flag is cropped to a square/circular aspect ratio.
Dimensions
The size of the flag is 140 by 90 centimeters. These dimensions are chosen because of the dimensions of a Tor Browser window (1400x900 pixels).
Use this flag for group chats, communities, profiles, stickers, patches, articles, wallpapers, real flags, anything you want to! Spread it around so it becomes a global icon for privacy. Even put it on the Wikipedia page for privacy if you can!
Hey, I saw your comment in the other thread. Thank you for your engagement, this really shows that people care about their digital presence. However, in my opinion, your proposal is more related to data security than data privacy. I see how the two are interlinked but I really like the symbol of active resistance, symbolized by the hand, towards the big surveillance apparatus, depicted by the eye for a flag that represents privacy.
From a practical perspective, the other flag is also a bit simpler, if we replace the high-res hand with a simpler vector drawing.
I do like this version better than the other one with the detailed hand. That being said, to your point about data security, it's more so that we're sort of splitting a finite set of motifs. Even the icon for this community is a shield and an eye. The eye being the threat, not the community represented by the flag, IMO means minimizing the eye, though I can see how you would feel the "stop" hand in the eye does the same thing. I just don't agree with that.
Also, just me personally, the all-blue just seems boring to me. This blue is slightly bluer, so it doesn't give me the BSOD vibe at least, but this just seem closer to a logo for a data removal subscription service than a flag. Not that mine isn't exactly far from that either, but still.
The simpler hand design in this one is definitely better. I did have one thought that I wanted to pose, however. Would the fingers being together instead of apart make much of a difference? I can almost see this design being symbolic of a 'high five' instead of a 'halt!'
I agree. It was just addressing this one feedback, which pointed out the mismatch between the detailed style of the hand and the vector style of the eye. Besides that maybe we should completely overthink the choice of symbols and focus on something positive like other commenters have already mentioned.
So far I like this version the best. However, someone put up the human rights logo and I think it would do quite well here, since it’s a dove (as requested), but also looks a bit like a hand. Another request was the color black. Maybe make the pupil black? Pretty sure that covers the commitee’s requests.
Okay well as a random dumbass, I would see the logo with and eye and a and and my smooth brain instantly gets it..the bird logo, with out a text description...I got nothing
I'd like to commend your attempt here, and not sound discouraging or anything like that. Personally though, I like the other design a little bit better. Like another commenter suggested, this design seems to evoke security more than privacy. The shield and lock seem to be pretty commonly associated with those other meanings already. The dove being inside the lock definitely seems to overcomplicate things a bit too.
That being said, I do think your coloration and black undertones look better though and overall there's a bit more visual interest.
I appreciate it, and I threw this together in about 10 minutes, so it's just a spitball idea. Rather than seeming purely disparaging to the other person and their design by saying I don't like it and not offering anything else constructive.
Is this because you like the color or you think using an EU color is appropriate here? Cause if its the latter, EU is a privacy nightmare so hard disagree.
While that is true, EU is leading the world in some privacy invasions. Be it age verification or various initiatives to try and break E2EE. Those kind of efforts do not yet exist at even countries we would all agree are oppressive.
It was because that was mentioned by the original post as why they picked all blue. Which was largely about the GDPR specifically. So I went for it on that one item.
I personally associate freedom with white because its like a piece of unpainted paper. I associate peace with green because it is the color of plants which symbolizes nature.
If I understand security, it is a contrast to the active defence in that it is passive defence. If so, you could possibly play around with how these symbolically relate to each other. For deem looking at them as a two sided unity.
The Gaza Freedom flotilla coalition is sailing its next ship to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.
The Handala departed for Gaza on Sunday from the Italian port of Gallipoli after stops in Augusta and Siracusa in Sicily. The journey to Gaza may take around 7 days.
Twenty-one persons from 10 countries are onboard the Handala, including seven U.S. citizens, representing the hundreds of millions of Americans who are strongly opposed to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
The following nationalities are represented on the Handala: U.S. 7, France 4, Australia 2, Italy 2, Spain 2, Norway 1, Morocco 1, Tunisia 1, U.K. 1; Israel -2 U.S. citizens have dual citizenship with Israel.
Twenty-one persons from 10 countries are onboard the Handala, including Americans strongly opposed to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Israel foreign ministry will spend $86,000 to finance a tour of Israel for 16 Americans to get them to use their vast online influence to craft more positive images of a nation openly engaged in genocide.
The effort is being made as Israel reacts to a significant turn in public opinion against it, especially by Western youth. Tel Aviv realizes its usual methods of propaganda — and apparently its own inhouse troll army — are no longer working as they once did.
It is paying an organization called Israel365 to organize the first American tour because it is in a “unique position to convey a pro-Israel stance that aligns entirely with the MAGA and America First agenda.”
Israel365’s website says the group “stands unapologetically for the Jewish people’s God-given right to the entire Land of Israel,” calls the two-state solution a “delusion,” and says it’s defending “Western civilization against threats from both Progressive Left extremism and global jihad.”
The Israeli government is paying to have 16 MAGA social media influencers with millions of followers brought to Israel to learn how to stop American youth from turning against it over Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election on Sunday, gaining support with warnings of a "silent invasion" of immigrants, and pledges for tax cuts and welfare spending.
Birthed on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party broke into mainstream politics with its "Japanese First" campaign.
The party won 14 seats adding to the single lawmaker it secured in the 248-seat chamber three years ago. It has only three seats in the more powerful lower house.
"The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people's livelihoods by resisting globalism. I am not saying that we should completely ban foreigners or that every foreigner should get out of Japan," Sohei Kamiya, the party's 47-year-old leader, said in an interview with local broadcaster Nippon Television after the election.
Obviously I don't agree with any far right party but I can at least why a "Japan First" party would be popular, they've been in a pretty crazy decline since the 90s. And especially with the rice shortages, I can see why the average citizen would feel abandoned by their government
Western countries fixed their working age shortages by importing immigrants. Japan's population is rapidly aging and there's nobody to replace the workers. By going full DINK-mode Japan has no real option left besides tonnes of immigration to keep their economy afloat.
genuine question: why would you say we are xenophobic? im a hāfu trans girl myself and have never experienced xenophobia in Japan, so im curious (no offense or bait intended)
From what I remember from college, Japan's ultranationalism in the 30s and 40s never really went away. I went to verify that and found a wiki page
And then anecdotally: my friend taught in Japan for 5 years and I experienced a bit of it myself. I also have a (white) friend who has lived there for 15+ years and has had plenty of unfriendly interactions - especially when he's with his Japanese wife or son.
I don't think it's unsafe to be a foreigner in Japan but I think it's fair to say Japan is more on the xenophobic side
I social media, pur non influenzando direttamente il posizionamento SEO, giocano un ruolo cruciale nel migliorare la visibilità online di un sito. Condividere contenuti di qualità sui canali social aumenta il traffico al sito, rafforza il brand e favorisce la creazione di backlink naturali, tutti fattori che incidono positivamente sulla SEO. Inoltre, l'interazione con il pubblico e la condivisione frequente migliorano la fiducia e l'autorevolezza del marchio. Una strategia integrata tra social media e ottimizzazione SEO contribuisce quindi a una presenza online più solida ed efficace.
Russia launched a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine in an overnight attack on Monday, killing at least one person in Kyiv and hitting a metro station where hundreds of people were sheltering.
There were fires across the capital and at least six people were wounded. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said rescuers and medics were working on sites in four districts.
Smoke engulfed Lukianivska metro station, in an area that Moscow has repeatedly targeted. The Kremlin has dramatically stepped up its aerial bombardment of Ukrainian towns and cities in recent months, with Kyiv frequently bombed.
Video shows people standing on an underground platform filled with swirling dust. One woman can be heard sobbing.
Max, a 32-year-old resident, told the Guardian: “My friend ran to the underground. He called me during the night and said he heard the strike. Part of the building and even the roof tumbled down the escalator. There was smoke billowing on the platform.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Sweida had been experiencing “a cautious calm since the early hours of Sunday morning”, but warned of “the deterioration of the humanitarian situation” including a severe shortage of basic medical supplies.
The SOHR reported on Sunday that more than 1,000 people had been killed in armed clashes, bombardment, extrajudicial executions and Israeli airstrikes since the violence in Sweida province began a week ago. The United Nations migration agency said the number of people displaced by the violence had risen to more than 128,000.
One local resident, dentist Kenan Azzam, told Reuters on Sunday morning the situation was one of “a tense calm” but people were still struggling with a lack of water and electricity. “The hospitals are a disaster and out of service, and there are still so many dead and wounded,” he said.
Jihadist Alkaida government thugs come, do massacres, withdraw. Rinse and repeat. In west they call those in-between-massacres “tense calm” bcs we spend billions to get this thugs into power in the first place.
Ever since a nasty concussion stopped me playing rugby when I was 18, I struggled to exercise regularly. I tried plenty of workouts, dabbling in everything from CrossFit to Zumba. While some were more enjoyable than others, I hadn’t found a way to keep a consistent, disciplined regime without it feeling like a chore. I’m 28 now and work from home. My commute from bed to desk is 15 steps. Given the health risks of sedentary lifestyles, I had tried just about everything to break my lazy rut, and then something worked: watching television.
Well, OK, not just watching television like a modern Jim Royle, who reached Olympic levels in The Royle Family, but I imposed a rule: if I want to watch TV, I have to do so while sitting on my exercise bike (the one cardio exercise I can tolerate). The result? I’ve been cycling roughly six hours a week for months now. Generally, I watch a lot of sports: if there’s football, rugby, tennis, boxing, NFL or cricket on, I’ll watch it. So invariably through the year I find there’s roughly two hours of sport on three times a week I want to watch. By combining this with exercise, I find I am able to do so without feeling guilty.
Most of the sports I watch have intervals, so I tend to cycle moderately during the action and then start to pedal my way quickly through another Jamie Carragher tirade or some inane ad breaks. I usually burn about 500 calories during a two-hour session. Sometimes my drink of choice while I cycle might even be a non-alcoholic beer. Bliss.
The rule is: no telly unless I’m working out. So I pedal moderately while the football is on, and sprint during the ad breaks. I’ve never had more energy
Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza and the “indiscriminate use of force” as Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 93 Palestinians had been killed queueing for food and Israel issued fresh evacuation orders for areas packed with displaced people.
Gaza’s health ministry said scores were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for UN aid trucks entering through the northern Zikim crossing with Israel. It was one of the highest reported death tolls among repeated recent cases in which aid seekers have been killed by Israeli fire.
Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “barbarity” of the war in Gaza and the “indiscriminate use of force” as Gaza’s civil defence agency said at least 93 Palestinians had been killed queueing for food and Israel issued fresh evacuation orders for areas packed with displaced people.
Gaza’s health ministry said scores were killed by Israeli fire while waiting for UN aid trucks entering through the northern Zikim crossing with Israel. It was one of the highest reported death tolls among repeated recent cases in which aid seekers have been killed by Israeli fire.
Israeli forces on Saturday opened fire on Palestinians seeking food aid in the besieged Gaza Strip, killing more than 30 people as the manufactured hunger emergency in the enclave intensifies.
The Associated Press reported that the massacre "occurred near hubs operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," which the United Nations and aid organizations have described as death traps.
GHF, a private entity backed by the U.S. and Israel, attempted to distance itself from Saturday's killings, saying in a statement that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shooting took place "hours before our sites opened." But CNN noted that Gazans have said they "have to travel to distribution points several hours before they open to have a chance of receiving aid."
One witness said Israeli forces opened fire indiscriminately at Palestinians seeking food aid near a hub operated by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
In a gut punch to the base, National Education Association leaders lickety-split dismissed a motion passed by a majority of the NEA’s 7,000 delegates not to partner with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for curriculum or professional development.
In a possible violation of the union’s Standing Rules, evidence suggests the leadership failed to solicit written rebuttals and oral presentations from dissenting state and local affiliate presidents. Instead, the Board of Directors seemingly rubber-stamped the NEA Executive Committee recommendation to not implement New Business Motion (NBI) (39), passed by the Representative Assembly (RA) on July 5th in Portland, Oregon.
All it took were a few hundred emails from the Israel lobby and an announcement from ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt—the guy who compared a keffiyeh to a Swastika—that he personally spoke to union President Becky Pringle to urge abandonment of the motion.
Those who wonder whether the Board’s decision will backfire need only read the full ADL statement, which suggests there will be more demands coming down the pike. In a finger-waving scold, the ADL statement adds that the NEA “must redouble efforts to ensure that Jewish educators are not isolated and subjected to antisemitism in their unions and that students are not subjected to it in the classroom.”
Buongiorno cari lettori! Oggi voglio parlavi di questa nuova collaborazione con Aboca editore. Mi sono avvicinata ai libri di Aboca da qualche anno e ora ho avuto il piacere di approfondire i loro testi grazie a questo libro che mi hanno gentilmente mandato dopo il salone del libro. Prima di tutto ringrazio la casa editrice e la responsabile ufficio stampa Elisa per la fiducia che hanno avuto nei miei confronti e in secondo luogo il blog che mi ha permesso di raggiungere notevoli risultati ed avere l’accredito. Iniziamo però questo racconto attraverso il libro Medichesse e di che cos’è per l’autrice e per me il dono della cura!
Titolo: Medichesse: la vocazione femminile alla cura
OGNI ERBA DOTATA DI SPECIALI POTERI, QUALUNQUE RADICE UTILE A GUARIRE NASCA IN TUTTO IL MONDO, È MIA.
Erika Maderna: scopriamo l’autrice!
Erika Maderna, laureata in Etruscologia e Archeologia Italica presso l’Università degli Studi di Pavia, si è stabilita anni fa nella Maremma toscana, spinta dal richiamo della terra degli Etruschi. Vive a Grosseto, dove insegna, scrive articoli, traduzioni e saggi di cultura e archeologia classica. Per Aboca Edizioni ha scritto: Aromi sacri, fragranze profane. Simboli, mitologie e passioni profumatorie nel mondo antico (2009), Le mani degli dèi. Mitologie e simboli delle piante officinali nel mito greco (2016), Con grazia di tocco e di parola. La medicina delle sante (2019), Medichesse. La vocazione femminile alla cura (2021), Per virtù d’erbe e d’incanti. La medicina delle streghe (2023) e La memoria nelle mani. Storie, tradizioni e rituali delle levatrici (2024).
Donne per le donne: quando la cura diventa dono
Donne, questo il grande tema del libro! Attraverso le pagine del saggio riusciamo ad accogliere ed apprezzare ruoli particolari del mondo femminile. L’autrice ripercorre il mondo della medicina e della cura come dono negli anni della storia dell’esistenza umana partendo dall’antichità fino al XVII secolo.
Un elemento che mi ha colpita particolarmente è la prefazione della Dottoressa Rita Pagiotti docente di botanica della prestigiosa Università di Perugia. Ho trovato interessante l’apertura mentale della dottoressa che anzichè additare come “pazze” queste donne le ammirava. Non è facile trovare qualcuno che possa avere questa opinione dal mondo accademico e ne sono rimasta piacevolmente stupita!
Altro aspetto molto interessante, dal mio punto di vista, è la bibliografia particolareggiata e che permette al lettore di approfondire ogni aspetto del libro tramite altri saggi altrettanto accattivanti. E’ visibile fin dalle prime pagine la profonda ricerca della Dottoressa Maderna e della sua passione per questi temi.
L’impalcatura e l’estetica del libro
Dal punto di vista della struttura del libro, troviamo sicuramente un font e interlinea agevole che permette al lettore di immergersi senza difficoltà nel testo.
Il libro è arricchito da elementi estetici come foto e tavole di botanica che rendono il testo ancora più interessante da osservare. Un elemento che apprezzo molto è quando il libro diventa oggetto estetico e in questo caso la casa editrice è riuscita a farlo nel modo migliore. Tra queste foto troviamo anche ricette antiche di Metrodora e Trotula, due delle più importanti medichesse di qiesto saggio.
La copertina è notevolmente curata, di buona fattura e che vale tutti i soldi del testo.
Il dono della cura: dentro e fuori!
Affrontare questo libro è sicuramente un momento di cura, di accettazione e di riflessione. Già dalle mie parole iniziali avrete capito che in generale ho amato questo testo ma approfondiamo meglio il perchè.
La lettura è molto rapida ad avvincente nonostante si tratti di un saggio e a prima vista possa risultare “pesante” o un ostacolo per chi non è avvezzo a questo mondo.
Ad esempio nel primo capitolo si narra di come le dee guaritrici e taumaturghe sono state declassate a maghe, streghe e fattucchiere e nel migliore dei casi diventate erboriste. Viene raccontato di come la loro conoscenza antica sia stata portata avanti dalle donne per via oracolare e nascosta, tramandata di madre in figlia e di come la medicina degli uomini sia sempre stata vista come “migliore” a discapito di quella delle donne che erano relegate a professioni come ostetriche o cosmetologhe. Nello stesso capitolo vengono citate a esempio Igiea e Panacea, figlie di Esculapio, che curavano e guarivano.
Riassumendo, ed andando alle conclusioni, ritengo che sia un testo che tutti gli appassionati delle erbe e della storia della medicina femminile e alternativa debbano leggerlo. La scrittrice permette di rendere di facile lettura argomenti storici, magari anche ostici, ed innamorarsi di ogni singolo personaggio citato.
Non vedo l’ora di leggere altro di questa autrice, il mio voto complessivo del libro non può che essere di 5 stelle su 5!
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Twenty-one months into its brutal campaign against the Gaza Strip, Israel is again mulling a temporary ceasefire with the Palestinian resistance. Two brief truces have already collapsed into renewed bloodshed.
But is the genocidal war really coming to a close? This question looms over the proposed truce, raising doubts about whether Israel seeks an end, or simply a pause before its next assault.
Netanyahu’s real goal is to secure strategic gains for the post-war phase. During his visit to Washington earlier this month, he sought a written US assurance that would allow Israel to resume its war, even under a formal ceasefire.
He plans to wield this assurance as political cover at home, particularly to placate extremist coalition partners like Itamar Ben Gvir (Jewish Power) and Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism), who demand total war and Hamas’ annihilation.
The proposed truce cannot be viewed in isolation from Israel’s broader strategy. Far from signaling the war’s end, it is a calculated intermission. Tel Aviv seeks to redraw Gaza’s demographic and security map, while Hamas focuses on regrouping and fortifying its battlefield presence.
Behind the talk of calm, Tel Aviv is redrawing Gaza’s borders, displacing its population, and laying the groundwork for permanent control, one truce at a time.
Twenty-one months into its brutal campaign against the Gaza Strip, Israel is again mulling a temporary ceasefire with the Palestinian resistance. Two brief truces have already collapsed into renewed bloodshed.
But is the genocidal war really coming to a close? This question looms over the proposed truce, raising doubts about whether Israel seeks an end, or simply a pause before its next assault.
Netanyahu’s real goal is to secure strategic gains for the post-war phase. During his visit to Washington earlier this month, he sought a written US assurance that would allow Israel to resume its war, even under a formal ceasefire.
He plans to wield this assurance as political cover at home, particularly to placate extremist coalition partners like Itamar Ben Gvir (Jewish Power) and Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism), who demand total war and Hamas’ annihilation.
The proposed truce cannot be viewed in isolation from Israel’s broader strategy. Far from signaling the war’s end, it is a calculated intermission. Tel Aviv seeks to redraw Gaza’s demographic and security map, while Hamas focuses on regrouping and fortifying its battlefield presence.
Behind the talk of calm, Tel Aviv is redrawing Gaza’s borders, displacing its population, and laying the groundwork for permanent control, one truce at a time.
Scegliere gli infissi giusti a Monza è essenziale per migliorare il comfort abitativo e l’efficienza energetica, considerando il clima subcontinentale e l’umidità elevata. Infissi moderni con vetrocamera o triplo vetro garantiscono isolamento termico e acustico, riducendo costi e rumori esterni. La scelta va fatta in base al contesto abitativo, alla sicurezza, all’estetica e agli incentivi fiscali disponibili. Tra le opzioni: infissi a battente, scorrevoli o vasistas, in materiali come PVC, legno, alluminio o compositi. Rivolgersi a esperti del settore assicura qualità, durata e un investimento sicuro.
La Rocca Maggiore di Assisi torna a ospitare il Riverock Festival, giunto alla 14ª edizione, dal 23 al 27 luglio. Cinque giorni di musica, cultura e incontri con artisti di rilievo: Fabri Fibra, Venerus, La Niña, Ginevra, Luzai, Joan Thiele, Dardust, Emma Nolde e Rip.
Novità 2025 è "Sotto palco", podcast dal vivo in collaborazione con Radio Glox: tre incontri nel Giardino degli Incanti (ore 19, ingresso libero) con showcase finali. Il 23 si parla di accessibilità nella musica live, con Tara. Il 24 si riflette sull’indipendenza artistica, ospite Lodo Guenzi (che si esibirà anche live). Il 25 si affronta il tema della sostenibilità del mestiere dell’artista, con Maurizio Carucci (showcase incluso).
Ogni sera spazio ai concerti: il 23 luglio torna Fabri Fibra con il nuovo album “Mentre Los Angeles brucia”; il 24 live Venerus, La Niña, Luzai e Ginevra; il 25 Joan Thiele, Dardust, Emma Nolde e Rip.
Il festival si chiude il 26 e 27 luglio con la seconda edizione di “Evanland – il festival internazionale del mondo interiore”: talk, workshop, letture e concerti. In scena Gio Evan con ospiti, Giulia Mei, Daddy G (Massive Attack), Quantic (dj set) e Roberto Cacciapaglia in concerto all’alba. Tra gli ospiti anche Vito Mancuso ed Erri De Luca.
Riverock Festival è organizzato dall’associazione omonima con il Comune di Assisi, il sostegno di Fondazione Perugia e i fondi PR-FESR 2021-2027 (Bando Spettacolo dal vivo – Anno 2024, Sviluppumbria).
Rocca Maggiore pronta ad aprirsi alla 14esima edizione del Riverock Festival. Ad Assisi arrivano Fabri Fibra, La Niña, Venerus, Ginevra, Luzai, Joan Thiele, Dardust, Emma Nolde e Rip Il cartellone anche il nuovo format “Sotto palco”, podcast dal viv…
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Cosa significa davvero quando un brand di moda usa e getta ottiene un sigillo di sostenibilità?
Il paradosso
Che relazione c’è tra B Corp e ultra-fast fashion? Cosa succede quando la certificazione etica incontra un modello di business basato sull'iperconsumo?
Quando BusinessWire annuncia "Princess Polly diventa una Certified B Corporation™" e BOF la definisce "la concorrente USA-australiana di Shein con un bollino di responsabilità sociale", viene da chiedersi: è progresso o greenwashing ben confezionato?
Spoiler: la domanda è retorica.
Cos’è una B Corp?
«La certificazione B Corp valuta standard di responsabilità sociale e ambientale, ma non copre tutte le operazioni aziendali.» — This is Greenwashing
La co-CEO di Princess Polly, Eirin Bryett, presenta il certificato come prova del loro "impegno per pratiche guidate da uno scopo". Ma un brand costruito su sovrapproduzione e tendenze usa-e-getta può davvero essere "sostenibile in ogni aspetto"?
**Il punto cieco della B Corp: la sovrapproduzione ** Nel libro This is Greenwashing evidenziamo:
"La certificazione non affronta esplicitamente la sovrapproduzione, concentrandosi invece su materiali 'sostenibili' o compensazioni di CO₂."
L'ultra-fast fashion sfrutta l'obsolescenza programmata – eppure, alcuni brand ottengono il bollino B Corp grazie a iniziative marginali (packaging riciclato, donazioni), ignorando il cuore del problema: produrre meno.
Conclusioni
Non dubitiamo delle intenzioni di Princess Polly, ma i modelli di business parlano chiaro:
• Se il profitto deriva dalla sovrapproduzione, non è sostenibilità.
• Se incoraggi a comprare di più con un "bollino verde", è PR, non progresso.
B Corp + ultra-fast fashion = greenwashing in versione 'purpose-washed'.
❓Voi credete sia possibile un’ultra-fast fashion sostenibile?
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Tired of the Linux/Docker “monoculture” for WordPress? This article guides you step-by-step through the secure installation of WordPress on FreeBSD using BastilleBSD. Discover how jail separation, performance, and the versatility of ZFS offer a more robus
Many people host WordPress on Linux, often using Docker. While this is a valid approach, there are excellent alternatives – sometimes even better ones – for getting your WordPress site online in a secure, reliable, and updatable manner. The goal is to make the web a safer place and avoid the computing monoculture that increasingly pushes toward uniformity of solutions and setups – an attitude that I believe is harmful even when the solutions are open source.
For this type of setup, therefore, I’ll describe how to accomplish everything using FreeBSD. The jail separation, performance, and ZFS versatility – all reasons that support this choice. This guide will serve as a foundation – everything will work at the end, but it won’t cover all possible combinations or configurations.
We’ll be using BastilleBSD, which supports both ZFS and UFS. While FreeBSD’s base system has everything needed to create and run jails, BastilleBSD is incredibly useful for managing them. Since it’s written in shell script and has no database dependencies, management and backups are straightforward. Furthermore, moving jails becomes extremely simple – either by using the bastille command directly or by copying the files (or datasets, if you’re using ZFS).
BastilleBSD also supports templates, but for this tutorial, we’ll perform the operations manually to understand each step.
First, install Bastille: pkg install bastille Next, run the setup process: bastille setup Now, bootstrap the desired FreeBSD release: bastille bootstrap 14.3-RELEASE update With that, BastilleBSD is ready to go.
Creating the Jails
Now, let’s create the jail that will contain Apache, PHP, and WordPress: bastille create apache 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.0.254 bastille0 Note: This command will only create and assign an IPv4 loopback address. For IPv6, the simplest solution is to assign an address for the jail directly to the host’s interface. To do this, note an available IPv6 address and assign it to the jail. For example, if the host’s network interface is vtnet0: bastille edit apache Add the following lines to the configuration file: ip6 = new;ip6.addr = "vtnet0|2001:0DB8:1::443/64"; Restart the jail: bastille restart apache Next, let’s ensure that connections to the host’s ports 80 and 443 are redirected to the apache jail: bastille rdr apache tcp 80 80bastille rdr apache tcp 443 443 Now, if using ZFS, let’s create a dedicated dataset for WordPress and mount it in the jail. The reason is simple: decoupling the Apache jail from the WordPress directory will allow for updates, rollbacks, etc. of the Apache jail without touching the WordPress files. I assure you that, in the long run, this approach will save many headaches. zfs create zroot/wordpressbastille mount apache /zroot/wordpress/ /usr/local/www/wordpress nullfs rw 0 0 Now, let’s create the jail that will contain MariaDB: bastille create mariadb 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.0.253 bastille0
Configuring the MariaDB Jail
Access the MariaDB jail’s console: bastille console mariadb Once inside, install the MariaDB server: pkg install mariadb118-server Enable and start the mysql-server service: service mysql-server enableservice mysql-server start Now, access the MySQL command line to set up the WordPress database: mysql Execute the following SQL commands (you should use more secure user, password, etc.): CREATE USER wp@10.0.0.254 IDENTIFIED BY 'password';CREATE DATABASE wordpress;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wp@10.0.0.254;FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Exit the MariaDB jail console to return to the host.
Configuring the Apache & PHP Jail
Now, let’s configure the apache jail. First, access its console: bastille console apache Inside the jail, install PHP and all the necessary extensions. We won’t install WordPress from the FreeBSD package – while it’s updated and maintained, I prefer to manage dependencies manually. It will be easier to manage updates in the long term, such as changing PHP versions, etc. At the time of writing this article, for example, the WordPress package depends on PHP 8.3 while I prefer to use 8.4. pkg install php84 php84-bcmath php84-bz2 php84-calendar php84-ctype php84-curl php84-dom php84-exif php84-fileinfo php84-filter php84-ftp php84-gd php84-gettext php84-iconv php84-intl php84-mbstring php84-mysqli php84-opcache php84-pcntl php84-pdo php84-pdo_mysql php84-pecl-imagick php84-phar php84-posix php84-readline php84-session php84-shmop php84-simplexml php84-soap php84-sockets php84-sodium php84-tokenizer php84-xml php84-xmlreader php84-xmlwriter php84-xsl php84-zip php84-zlib Next, install Apache: pkg install apache24 Modify /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf to enable the required modules. Uncomment or add the following lines: LoadModule mpm_event_module libexec/apache24/mod_mpm_event.so#LoadModule mpm_prefork_module libexec/apache24/mod_mpm_prefork.so#LoadModule mpm_worker_module libexec/apache24/mod_mpm_worker.so...LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache24/mod_proxy.so...LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module libexec/apache24/mod_proxy_fcgi.so...LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache24/mod_ssl.so...LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache24/mod_rewrite.so Enable and start the Apache service: service apache24 enableservice apache24 start To optimize performance, enable PHP-FPM to listen on a socket. Modify the /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf file.
Comment out this line: ;listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 And add these lines: listen = /tmp/php-fpm.socklisten.owner = wwwlisten.group = www Now, we need to configure Apache to use PHP-FPM correctly. Create the file /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/php-fpm.conf and add the following: <FilesMatch \.php$> SetHandler proxy:unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock</FilesMatch> Restart Apache for the changes to take effect: service apache24 graceful It’s good practice to copy the production PHP template to the final, modifiable php.ini file, which can be customized with the required options and limits: cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php.ini Make any desired changes now (or later), then enable and start PHP-FPM: service php_fpm enableservice php_fpm start
Installing WordPress
Navigate to the web server’s root directory: cd /usr/local/www Download and extract the latest version of WordPress: fetch wordpress.org/latest.zipunzip latest.zip Set the correct permissions: chown -R www:www wordpress/ Now, create an Apache virtual host configuration file at /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/wordpress.conf – be sure to modify the “example.com” with your own real domain name: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/wordpress <Directory /usr/local/www/wordpress> DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd-example.com-error.log" CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-example.com-access.log" combined</VirtualHost> Finally, restart Apache one more time: service apache24 graceful The server will now respond on port 80 with the specified hostname, but this is absolutely not optimal or recommended. It’s therefore appropriate to generate a certificate to enable HTTPS.
For a simple solution, I recommend installing certbot with the Apache plugin to manage everything through Apache: pkg install py311-certbot py311-certbot-apache In order to automatically renew the certificates, add this line to /etc/periodic.conf: weekly_certbot_enable="YES" And, once installed, generate the certificate: certbot --apache -d example.com -d www.example.com You can now proceed to connect to the specified URL and begin with the WordPress guided installation, remembering the authentication and database details (the host, in this example, is 10.0.0.253 – not localhost, since we installed it in a dedicated jail).
Congratulations, your site is installed and operational. Ready to receive content for publishing. It’s exposed on IPv4 and IPv6, with HTTPS (and automatic certificate renewal, managed directly by FreeBSD) and separated from the database.
Generally, I prefer to add an additional jail with a reverse proxy. This way it will be possible to install different software in different jails, ensuring that the reverse proxy “routes” requests correctly. I’ll explain this procedure in a future article.
While this is my inaugural FreeBSD post for the BSD Cafe Journal, I’ve actually written extensively on the topic for my own blog, it-notes.dragas.net
One of the reasons I’m always so happy to attend conferences and technical events (the real ones – not the flashy, sponsor-driven ones designed just to sell products or services) is because I get to meet amazing people and always come away having learned something new.
I’ve been using WordPress since 2006 and have been managing hundreds of installations from a sysadmin perspective. Over time, I’ve noticed a clear pattern: most hacks and compromises happen through plugins or outdated installations. And often, these installations (and plugins) become outdated because they’ve been patched together so messily that updating them becomes nearly impossible – especially when the PHP version changes.
To mark the launch of the BSD Cafe Journal, I’d like to share the link to a particularly interesting talk by Maciek Palmowski: “How we closed almost 1k plugins in a month — the biggest WordPress bug bounty hunt.”
What struck me right away was how much his analysis of WordPress security aligned with what I’ve seen over the years: WordPress, out of the box, is reasonably secure. It’s the plugins – often old, unmaintained, or poorly written – that make it vulnerable.
I highly recommend watching his talk. It’s definitely worth your time.
certainly this would be massive improvement for many people, if they were open to any change at all. the docker installs are most ridiculous, and it's bad opsec to have millions of carbon copies of the same game.
I think most WP users could and should use flatpress instead. I don't think my instances yet display how effective flatpress can be, but for simpler sites flatpress does the job.
that @stefano is very persuasive! He'll have you running a BSD before you know it. Obviously I'm immune to such subliminal marketing messages and peer pressure.
Unrelated: my current reading material is The FreeBSD Handbook 😂
in that case you should definitely not, under any circumstances, go to docs.freebsd.org/en/books/hand… where it is available as HTML, as well as a downloadable PDF version. 😉
In 2002, I asked my parents to buy a laser printer so I could "print academic material" - but really, I wanted to print the FreeBSD handbook. And it was incredibly helpful.
Ai Sigur Rós, band islandese formatasi nel 1994, va riconosciuto il merito di aver creato un "marchio" sonoro unico e inconfondibile. A quindici anni da Von, il loro album d'esordio, i Sigur Rós hanno mantenuto pressoché unico il modo di fare musica: timbro, lingua inventata e lunghi brani... Leggi e ascolta...
Ai Sigur Rós, band islandese formatasi nel 1994, va riconosciuto il merito di aver creato un “marchio” sonoro unico e inconfondibile. A quindici anni da Von, il loro album d'esordio, i Sigur Rós hanno mantenuto pressoché unico il modo di fare musica: timbro, lingua inventata e lunghi brani. Lentezza è il loro “mood” come anche la loro progressione artistica. Se questa costanza è sicuramente esempio di coerenza artistica può allo stesso tempo risultare abbastanza monotona. Da fan fin dai tempi di Agaetis Byrjun posso tranquillamente esprimerlo... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/10…
I tempi di rifornimento di idrogeno e carburante, più rapidi in confronto alla ricarica delle batterie, non includono mai tutto il tempo necessario per portare idrogeno e carburante alle colonnine.
Stellantis ha annunciato lo stop allo sviluppo dei veicoli a idrogeno, ritenuti non sostenibili nel medio termine per costi elevati e scarse infrastrutture. L'azienda ha interrotto la produzione della gamma Pro One, ma senza impatti occupazionali
Trump on Sunday pushed the Washington Commanders NFL team to return to its previous name, which was scrapped five years ago because it included a word that many view as a slur against Native Americans.
The president also threatened to block a complicated deal for the Commanders to return to a stadium in Washington, D.C., unless they return to the name "Washington Redskins."
"The Washington "Whatever's" should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this," Mr. Trump wrote.
"OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!" wrote President Trump, in calling on the Washington Commanders to revert to the name Redskins, which many view as a slur against Native Americans.
Corning, the US-based manufacturer of Gorilla Glass, has successfully avoided potential European Union antitrust fines of up to $1.25 billion by agreeing to a set of legally binding commitments that address concerns over its exclusive supply agreements for specialty glass used in smartphones and other handheld devices.
On Wednesday, the European Union opened an investigation of U.S. manufacturer Corning over possible anti-competitive practices. Corning may not be a name
"Shiver after shiver went down my spine as I struggled to process the incomprehensible truths hurled at me telepathically by the strange tentacular entity, in which my eyes struggled to identify a beginning or an end, not to mention anything resembling a head or a brain. It spoke of states and markets, simultaneously free of rule or control, yet harsh arbiters of some cosmic, ultimate, infinitely moral law. It rambled of freedoms guaranteed by anonymous authorities and prosperity promised by exploitation. I was uncertain if the words themselves were ineffable or if my feeble human mind was simply not equipped to comprehend them. My mind was spinning, every synapse burning with the implausibility of what I could undeniably see, hear, and feel before me. This was not a nightmare, my brain could never have conjured such a terrible creature of infinite contradiction."
There is a specific aspect of Marx’s theory of capitalism that isn’t sufficiently emphasised. And that is Marx’s view that capital is an actual entity — a being with a mind of its own that op…
I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.
Well then, that settles it, this should never have happened.
I don’t think putting complex technical info in front of non technical people like this is a good idea. When it comes to LLMs, they cannot do any work that you yourself do not understand.
That goes for math, coding, health advice, etc.
If you don’t understand then you don’t know what they’re doing wrong. They’re helpful tools but only in this context.
Vibe coding you do end up spending a lot of time waiting for prompts, so I get the results of that study.
I fall pretty deep in the power user category for LLMs, so I don’t really feel that the study applies well to me, but also I acknowledge I can be biased there.
I have custom proprietary MCPs for semantic search over my code bases that lets AI do repeated graph searches on my code (imagine combining language server, ctags, networkx, and grep+fuzzy search). That is way faster than iteratively grepping and code scanning manually with a low chance of LLM errors. By the time I open GitHub code search or run ripgrep Claude has used already prioritized and listed my modules to investigate.
That tool alone with an LLM can save me half a day of research and debugging on complex tickets, which pays for an AI subscription alone. I have other internal tools to accelerate work too.
I use it to organize my JIRA tickets and plan my daily goals. I actually get Claude to do a lot of triage for me before I even start a task, which cuts the investigation phase to a few minutes on small tasks.
I use it to review all my PRs before I ask a human to look, it catches a lot of small things and can correct them, then the PR avoids the bike shedding nitpicks some reviewers love. Claude can do this, Copilot will only ever point out nitpicks, so the model makes a huge difference here. But regardless, 1 fewer review request cycle helps keep things moving.
It’s a huge boon to debugging — much faster than searching errors manually. Especially helpful on the types of errors you have to rabbit hole GitHub issue content chains to solve.
It’s very fast to get projects to MVP while following common structure/idioms, and can help write unit tests quickly for me. After the MVP stage it sucks and I go back to manually coding.
I use it to generate code snippets where documentation sucks. If you look at the ibis library in Python for example the docs are Byzantine and poorly organized. LLMs are better at finding the relevant docs than I am there. I mostly use LLM search instead of manual for doc search now.
I have a lot of custom scripts and calculators and apps that I made with it which keep me more focused on my actual work and accelerate things.
I regularly have the LLM help me write bash or python or jq scripts when I need to audit codebases for large refactors. That’s low maintenance one off work that can be easily verified but complex to write. I never remember the syntax for bash and jq even after using them for years.
I guess the short version is I tend to build tools for the AI, then let the LLM use those tools to improve and accelerate my workflows. That returns a lot of time back to me.
I do try vibe coding but end up in the same time sink traps as the study found. If the LLM is ever wrong, you save time forking the chat than trying to realign it, but it’s still likely to be slower. Repeat chats result in the same pitfalls for complex issues and bugs, so you have to abandon that state quickly.
Vibe coding small revisions can still be a bit faster and it’s great at helping me with documentation.
Don't you have any security concerns with sending all your code and JIRA tickets to some companies servers? My boss wouldn't be pleased if I send anything that's deemed a company secret over unencrypted channels.
The tool isn’t returning all code, but it is sending code.
I had discussions with my CTO and security team before integrating Claude code.
I have to use Gemini in one specific workflow and Gemini had a lot of landlines for how they use your data. Anthropic was easier to understand.
Anthropic also has some guidance for running Claude Code in a container with firewall and your specified dev tools, it works but that’s not my area of expertise.
The container doesn’t solve all the issues like using remote servers, but it does let you restrict what files and network requests Claude can access (so e.g. Claude can’t read your env vars or ssh key files).
I do try local LLMs but they’re not there yet on my machine for most use cases. Gemma 3n is decent if you need small model performance and tool calls, phi4 works but isn’t thinking (the thinking variants are awful), and I’m exploring dream coder and diffusion models. R1 is still one of the best local models but frequently overthinks, even the new release. Context window is the largest limiting factor I find locally.
Batch process turning unstructured free form text data into structured outputs.
As a crappy example imagine if you wanted to download metadata about your albums but they’re all labelled “Various Artists”. You can use an LLM call to read the album description and fix the track artists for the tracks, now you can properly organize your collection.
I’m using the same idea, different domain and a complex set of inputs.
It can be much more cost effective than manually spending days tagging data and writing custom importers.
You can definitely go lighter than LLMs. You can use gensim to do category matching, you can use sentence transformers and nearest neighbours (this is basically what Semantle does), but LLM performed the best on more complex document input.
“Vibe coding makes software creation accessible to everyone, entirely through natural language,” Replit explains, and on social media promotes its tools as doing things like enabling an operations manager “with 0 coding skills” who used the service to create software that saved his company $145,000
Yeah if you believe that you're part of the problem.
I'm prepared to accept that Vibe coding might work in certain circumstances but I'm not prepared to accept that someone with zero code experience can make use of it. Claude is pretty good for coding but even it makes fairly dumb mistakes, if you point them out it fixes them but you have to be a competent enough programmer to recognise them otherwise it's just going to go full steam ahead.
Vibe coding is like self-driving cars, it works up to a point, but eventually it's going to do something stupid and drive to a tree unless you take hold of the wheel and steer it back onto the road. But these vibe codeing idiots are like Tesla owners who decide that they can go to sleep with self-driving on.
And you are talking about obvious bugs. It likely will make erroneous judgements (because somewhere in its training data someone coded it that way) which will down the line lead to subtle problems that will wreck your system and cost you much more. Sure humans can also make the same mistakes but in the current state of affairs, an experienced software engineer/programmer has a much higher chance of catching such an error. With LLMs it is more hit and miss especially if it is a more niche topic.
Currently, it is an assistant tool (sometimes quite helpful, sometimes frustrating at best) not an autonomous coder. Any company that claims so is either a crook or also does not know much about coding.
The [AI] safety stuff is more visceral to me after a weekend of vibe hacking,” Lemkin said. I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.
This sounds like something straight out of The Onion.
It's because these people don't have a clue how AI actually works. They think it's like a human intelligence and that writing something in all caps is in some way going to give it more emphasis. They're trying to reason with something that has zero self-awareness.
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