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🤖 Middle manager, l'IA è alle porte! Riservate un caloroso benvenuto alla nuova era della digitalizzazione. Potrebbe essere spietata. #AIRevolution #FutureOfWork.

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Pin Point (1986) – Commodore 16 / Plus/4.

Think Marble Madness—only swap the marble for a jittery spinning top and drop it onto the humble C16/+4. That’s Pin Point. You’re nudging and coaxing that little top across ramps, ledges, and drop-offs, fighting gravity, inertia, and your own twitchy joystick hand, all to plant your tip at the finish flag before the bonus counter bleeds away.

For a 16K cassette game, the presentation is shockingly ambitious. They pulled off full isometric playfields with clean tile shading and smooth slopes, and the color palette gives it a crisp toy-like feel. No background music (the machine couldn’t spare the memory), but the sound effects are enough to keep the ball rolling.

The joystick learning curve is brutal. Getting your top to obey feels like steering on ice. Stick with it and there’s fun to be had, but casual players won’t last long. And if you bought the retail tape back in ’86, you’d have been in for a nasty surprise—level 8 was literally broken, and on some stock 16K machines the game could crash at level 2. That bug earned it a reputation as much as the gameplay.

Still, as a Marble Madness clone on a system that rarely saw arcade-style polish, Pin Point is worth a spin—flawed, tough, but undeniably stylish.

@videogames




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Terremoto 4.0 ai Campi Flegrei, scosse nella notte a Napoli liberoreporter.it/2025/09/flas…


RFK Jr.’s ‘Scary’ And ‘Deluded’ Rant About Experts Resurfaces Amid CDC Turmoil
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-comments-backlash_n_68b53fc3e4b0bdebd5aa5308?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Bulgarian nationalists attack car believing von der Leyen was inside
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/01/bulgarian-nationalists-attack-car-believing-von-der-leyen-was-inside?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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I'm launching a little #fundraiser to boost my confidence in switching to this hybrid tech-and-creative career path.

And honestly, I urgently need money for my ADHD/thyroid/HRT medicines, too. I'm currently out! 😵‍💫

Here's my info:
PayPal (working again!): paypal.me/tmvshek
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/erosdiscordia
Venmo: @onychamaze

My needs total about $300, to cover a doctor visit, meds, groceries, cat litter and food, and a bit of guesthouse rent.

50/300
Edit: Thanks!! I have bought groceries and cat food/litter! 🙌

Literally any amount is appreciated. And I'd be honoured if you'd boost this toot as well.

I'm working really hard on the new writing path already -- nervous and hopeful and determined. Anything you could personally contribute to ease this transition would make SO much difference. But please only share if you're doing okay yourself.

#mutualAid #mutualAidRequest #writing #writingcommmunity #crowdfund #transMutualAid #LGBTQ
@mutualaid



💀 EEUU anuncia el plan de limpieza étnica y desplazamiento de 2 millones de palestinos de Gaza para construir resorts.

Ejecutará la propuesta diseñada por Israel en su plan de genocidio del pueblo palestino.

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@storiespettinate il link di ko-fi che appare sul vostro profilo non sembra valido…
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cielo che brutta figura!

Abbiamo abbandonato ko-FI e tutti i simili a favore di liberapay... ma abbiamo dimenticato di scriverlo! Grazie per la segnalazione. Siamo proprio spettinat* 🙁

Andiamo ad aggiornare subito.




Qui c'è un'intervista a Kazunori Sawano, che ha passato svariati decenni in Namco lavorando su robetta tipo Galaxian, Pit Stop e, che ne so, la pleistescion. Io ho curato i sottotitoli e i testi della voce narrante. #videogiochi #retrogaming vgpplay.com/video?w=57161

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Giovane 18enne trascinata in area verde e abusata nel Milanese - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa



Marktbericht: Nervosität an den Börsen - nicht nur wegen Trump

Der DAX dürfte verhalten in den neuen Monat starten. Für Unsicherheit an den Börsen sorgt dabei ein neues Gerichtsurteil zu Trumps-Zollpolitik - aber auch ein Blick auf Statistik und Charttechnik.

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#Marktbericht #DAX #Börse #Trump #Zölle #Gericht #Gold #Rekordhoch #Öl #VW #Aktien #WallStreet



Rarement les discours sur la grandeur de l’Europe, phare démocratique battu par la déferlante « populiste », ont été aussi exaltés. Et rarement l’Union européenne a essuyé autant de revers en matière de diplomatie, de stratégie et de commerce. ↓
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Plus attachés au lien transatlantique qu’à l’intérêt des populations, les dirigeants du Vieux Continent multiplient les génuflexions devant M. Donald Trump.

« Europe, la capitulation permanente », par Thomas Fazi, dans le numéro de septembre, en kiosques, en ligne et sur notre application mobile.
monde-diplomatique.fr/2025/09/…

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Arthur David Spota (@adaspota.bsky.social)

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> What Does J.G. Ballard Look Like? Mike Halliwell ~ Internal Landscapes Images of Inner Space, Illustrating the work of J.G. Ballard The Realization of Dreams #JGBallard #Ballardian




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small and short still gets the job done 😉
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Ahhhh volevo ordinare dei gadget per il nostro banchetto al #LinuxDay di Bologna ma la lista d'attesa è troppo lunga e non me li lasciano prenotare.... io triste 😑 @ItaLinuxSociety
in reply to Una tantum

Yes! Finalmente sono riuscita a fare richiesta degli sticker per il banchetto del #LinuxDayBologna :ablobfoxbongohyper:
in reply to Una tantum

Ottimo!! Tutto merito della volontaria Luisa Ravelli, nel consiglio direttivo corrente, nonchè nuova volontaria spedizioni 👍👍😸
in reply to Una tantum

Ah ops: ho dimenticato di dire che per organizzare il Linux Day si riceve automaticamente molti piú gadget semplicemente registrandosi su LinuxDay.it - non c'é bisogno di compilare quella richiesta! se per caso sei in tempo, annullala pure, se va bene il pacco che manderemo dal Linux Day 🐧 (la lettera di quel form é piccola... pochi sticker!)
in reply to Valerio Bozz

@boz a proposito: vedo che Pesaro è parte del club (fanolug.org/linux-day-2025.htm…). Ma... quelli del FortunaeLUG hanno chiesto cose?
Perché @wikimediaitalia e @fsfe donano cose, non vorremmo far fare a @ItaLinuxSociety la figura della cenerentola...
in reply to Giacomo Alessandroni

@Galessandroni Lo sa solo il FanoLUG 😁 chi propone il Linux Day su LinuxDay.it ha la casella da poter spuntare per richiesta gadget :white_check_mark:

Sí, é cosí semplice! e la spunta é giá attivata in maniera predefinita 🐧 e la vostra é gia spuntata. Ben fatto :verified:

in reply to Valerio Bozz

non organizzo il Linux Day di Bologna per intero, quindi non posso fare come dici tu, io sono quella che organizza banchetto e conf Wikimedia-OpenStreetMap, ma dato che il liceo non ordina i vostri gadget lo faccio io e li espongo io 😌 a meno che non decidiate che la mia richiesta è illegittima, ma spero di no!
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in reply to Una tantum

Premettendo che il mio obiettivo é riempirvi di gadget, e in tempo 😁 sicuramente non invalidiamo niente! comunque confermo che il liceo ha chiesto il pacco gadget, e quello arriva sicuro per il Linux Day. Quando arriva la busta, magari tenetela eventualmente come vostra scorta. Scroccatene un po' dal pacco Linux Day del liceo, se arriva prima quello 😁
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in reply to Valerio Bozz

mhhh non mi hanno detto niente quindi pensavo non ne avessero richiesti e nel 2023 non ne avevo proprio visti girare. al limite questi li spaccio in mille altri modi, grazie di tutto!
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Veli polverosi attorno a un disco polveroso

@astronomia #astronomia

Per questa nuova immagine, il telescopio spaziale James Webb ha fornito una straordinaria nuova vista di IRAS 04302+2247, un disco in formazione planetaria situato a circa 525 anni luce di distanza, all’interno di una nube oscura nella regione di formazione stellare del Toro.

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Invasione

Ci sono decine e decine di paesi ricchi mussulmani. Molto più vicini, ai loro paesi d'origine, molto più facili da raggiungere dove spesso parlano perfino la stessa lingua. Là i micranti non dovrebbero integrarsi, hanno la stessa "cultura". Perché vengono in Europa, USA ed Australia? Ecco il motivo: l'invasione.

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Stangata da 167 milioni: WhatsApp vince la causa contro NSO e il suo spyware Pegasus

📌 Link all'articolo : redhotcyber.com/post/stangata-…

#redhotcyber #hacking #cti #ai #online #it #cybercrime #cybersecurity #technology #news #cyberthreatintelligence #innovation #privacy



Wie groß wäre Snapchat heute, hätte Instagram nicht brutal kopiert und TikTok innoviert? ▹ eicker.TV » youtube.com/shorts/yqGbuty7ENs #eickerTV #Tech #Community




Einfach-Kochen-und-Mehr: Käsekuchen aus der Heißluft-Fritteuse einfach-kochen-und-mehr.de/kae…

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Chiede solo una macchina competitiva.
Quando riuscirete a progettarne una cara #Ferrari ?
#Leclerc #F1 #drawing
@formula1

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Thomas Bloom and I are launching a crowdsourced project to link up Thomas's erdosproblems.com site with the #OEIS, by systematically calculating the various integer sequences associated with the Erdos problems and crosschecking them against the OEIS database: terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/08… github.com/teorth/erdosproblem…
#oeis


NEW: Kim Jong Un displays portrait of self at event in latest personality cult boost nknews.org/2025/09/kim-jong-un…



Wie groß wäre Snapchat heute, hätte Instagram nicht brutal kopiert und TikTok innoviert? ▹ eicker.TV » youtube.com/shorts/yqGbuty7ENs #eickerTV #Medien #SozialeMedien #SocialMedia


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#music




VERSO IL CORTEO DEL 6 SETTEMBRE DOMANI ASSEMBLEA IN CAMERA DEL LAVORO

Domani alle 20,30 si terrà in Camera del Lavoro l'assemblea verso il corteo nazionale del 6 settembre organizzato dopo lo sgombero del Leoncavallo che partirà alle 14 in Porta Venezia.
Nel manifesto riecheggia un celebre slogan che aveva caratterizzato un corteo, sempre a settembre e sempre a seguito di uno sgombero agostano, nel 1989.
Lo slogan oggi come allora è: "Contro i padroni della citta".

#DifendoilLeoncavallo



Israeli foreign minister tells American counterpart of plans to annex occupied West Bank: Media middleeastmonitor.com/20250831…



The discussions about #HappyCow alternatives over the last couple of days have motivated me to remove the 'under construction' message from a blog I had planned to start a long time ago.

But better late than never! To start with, you can find a summary of my Mastodon thread about finding #vegan / #vegetarian restaurants using #OsmAnd as the first post:

📎 cs137.codeberg.page/posts/2025…

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Братовчед ми ме помоли да му поливам котките и тази проклетия ме събуди преди 7:00. Респективно, вече съм изпил 2 кафеварки и ми се струва, че е ранен следобед.
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A long, slender tabby cat with dark brown and black stripes is stretched out on a bed. The cat lies mostly on a black and white duvet cover with a bold leaf pattern, facing right with its front paws extended. To the right, another lighter sheet with a subtle floral pattern is visible, along with a light wooden stand and a curtain with a blue and grey feather design.
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Добре, че Чарли се е метнал на мен и обича да спи до късно и мрази да го събуждат рано.


russia confirms torture is state policy through withdrawal from vital European Convention

russia’s withdrawal from a Convention against Torture which it stopped complying with even minimally in 2022 will not absolve it from liability for its violations, but it is a telling statement

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Here's another way I boot FreeDOS on Linux with QEMU:

allthingsopen.org/articles/how…

If you want to try FreeDOS, running in a virtual machine is a great way to go! Most of the defaults in QEMU are great for DOS! 👍 (Actually, QEMU is way faster than classic hardware anyway.)

in reply to The FreeDOS Project

Interesting to note:

Since writing this article, I've started running FreeDOS on QEMU without KVM acceleration.

And I've been booting my Pocket'386 more frequently, to run on real hardware.

It makes me want to write 2 more articles: something like “for a retro computing experience, turn off hardware acceleration” and another about the joy of running DOS on real hardware.

But I don't have much free time these days, might have to wait until October.

in reply to The FreeDOS Project

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The outline of that article will be (basically) look at hardware speeds from 1990 .. that's solidly the "DOS" era: 386 or 486 CPU, 8 or 16 (or 32?) MB memory, 80 or 120 MB disk.

And compare that to today's speeds .. QEMU without KVM will still be way faster than 1990 hardware, but it's a closer approximation.

As much as I love the variety of packages we provide to make FreeDOS a modern DOS, it's good to remember what "DOS hardware" was really like, and why DOS had certain design decisions.

in reply to The FreeDOS Project

You have your numbers wrong for the time period. In 1990 I was working with a lot of 286 kit with occasional 386sx machines, often with 1 or 2 MB of RAM. 4 MB was a lot. 8 MB was a seriously rich power user. The 486 didn't exist yet. I think the first 486 I ever saw was a gigantic tower server in 1991 that cost as much as a high end new car.
in reply to Liam Proven

@lproven I was writing those numbers by memory, but the 486 did exist in 1990. (Introduced in April 10, 1989)

timeline.intel.com/1989/meet-t…

in reply to The FreeDOS Project

Those speeds were fine then because you didn't have everything running GUI's. They're the speed killers. I worked on a mainframe supporting hundreds of dumb terminals and speedy overnight processing for billing hundreds of people. The processor speed was 28MIPS. i.e. 28MHz. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_4300…
in reply to The FreeDOS Project

I did similarly, running Minix1 and Minix2 on unaccelerated QEMU. It was completely usable because it originally ran on super old hardware (Minix1 could run on 8088 and I ran Minix2 on 286 hardware in the 90s). 🥰


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Sketch, re-create, or find inspiration for some # SmallPoems MicroFiction PixelArt GlitchArt Music etc. or try a 2MinuteSketch / 5MinuteSketch

Join in from any instance!

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Rina: currently watching – Upload flashtaig.wordpress.com/2025/0…

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🌍📚 Excited to welcome Crossref as a sponsor of the Munin Conference at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway! 🙌 Supporting global research & open science together. ❄️📖

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"La Flotilla que anava cap a la Franja de Gaza torna a Barcelona per mal temps"
"Entre els vaixells que han hagut de tornar a la capital catalana, hi ha el d'Ada Colau i l'activista Greta Thunberg, i també el del regidor d'Esquerra Republicana a Barcelona, Jordi Coronas, que van arribar cap a les nou de la nit."
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The Challenges of Digitizing Paper Films


In the center of the picture is a colored drawing of a man wearing a kimono, climbing out of a window. To the left and right the sides of two other pictures are just visible.

In the 1930s, as an alternative to celluloid, some Japanese companies printed films on paper (kami firumu), often in color and with synchronized 78 rpm record soundtracks. Unfortunately, between the small number produced, varying paper quality, and the destruction of World War II, few of these still survive. To keep more of these from being lost forever, a team at Bucknell University has been working on a digitization project, overcoming several technical challenges in the process.

The biggest challenge was the varying physical layout of the film. These films were printed in short strips, then glued together by hand, creating minor irregularities every few feet; the width of the film varied enough to throw off most film scanners; even the indexing holes were in inconsistent places, sometimes at the top or bottom of the fame, and above or below the frame border. The team’s solution was the Kyōrinrin scanner, named for a Japanese guardian spirit of lost papers. It uses two spools to run the lightly-tensioned film in front of a Blackmagic cinematic camera, taking a video of the continuously-moving film. To avoid damaging the film, the scanner contacts it in as few places as possible.

After taking the video, the team used a program they had written to recognize and extract still images of the individual frames, then aligned the frames and combined them into a watchable film. The team’s presented the digitized films at a number of locations, but if you’d like to see a quick sample, several of them are available on YouTube (one of which is embedded below).

This piece’s tipster pointed out some similarities to another recent article on another form of paper-based image encoding. If you don’t need to work with paper, we’ve also seen ways to scan film more accurately.

youtube.com/embed/V06ELUmtOM0?…

Thanks to [Yet Another Robert Smith] for the tip!


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Why “caffè” may not be “caffè”


Every time I think I finally understand Unicode, it surprises me again. This time, it was a file full of coffee orders that wouldn’t grep for “caffè” - even though the word was clearly there. The culprit? Unicode normalization. Characters like “è” can be

Every time when I think I finally “got” Unicode, I get kicked in the back by this rabbit hole. 😆 However, IMHO it is important to recognise that when moving data and files between operating systems and programs that you’re better off knowing some of the pitfalls. So I’m sharing something I experienced when I transferred a file to my FreeBSD Play-Around notebook. So let’s assume a little story…

It’s late afternoon and you and some friends sit together playing around with BSD. A friend using another operating system collects coffee orders in a little text file to not forget anyone when going to the barista on the other side of the street. He sends the file to you, so at the next meeting you already know the preferences of your friends. You take a look at who wants a caffè:
armin@freebsd:/tmp $ cat orders2.txtMauro: cappuccinoArmin: caffè doppioAnna: caffè shakeratoStefano: caffèFranz: latte macchiatoFrancesca: cappuccinoCarla: latte macchiato
So you do a quick grep just to be very surprised!
armin@freebsd:/tmp $ grep -i caffè orders2.txtarmin@freebsd:/tmp $
Wait, WAT? Why is there no output? We have more than one line with caffè in the file? Well, you just met one of the many aspects of Unicode. This time it’s called “normalization”. 😎

Many characters can be represented by more than one form. Take the innocent “à” from the example above. There is an accented character in the Unicode characters called LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE. But you could also just use a regular LATIN SMALL LETTER A and combine it with the character COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT from the Unicode characters. Both result in the same character and “look” identical, but aren’t.

Let’s see a line with the word “caffè” as hex dump using the first approach (LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE):
\u0063\u0061\u0066\u0066\u00E8\u000Ac a f f è (LF)
Now let’s do the same for the same line using the second approach:
\u0063\u0061\u0066\u0066\u0065\u0300\u000Ac a f f è (LF)
And there you have it, the latter is a byte longer and the two lines do not match up even if both lines are encoded as UTF-8 and the character looks the same!

So obviously just using UTF-8 is not enough and you might encounter files using the second approach. Just to make matter more complicated there are actually four forms of Unicode normalization out there. 😆

  • NFD: canonical decomposition
  • NFC: canonical decomposition followed by canonical composition
  • NFKD: compatible decomposition
  • NFKC: compatible decomposition followed by canonical composition.

For the sake of brevity of this post and your nerves we’ll just deal with the first two and I refer you to this Wikipedia article for the rest.

Normal form C (NFC) is the most widely used normal form and is also defined by the W3C for HTML, XML, and JavaScript. Technically speaking, encoding in Latin1 (or Windows Codepage 1252), for example, is in normal form C, since an “à” or the umlaut “Ö” is a single character and is not composed of combining characters. Windows and the .Net framework also store Unicode strings in Normal Form C. This does not mean that NFD can be ignored. For example, the Mac OSX file system works with a variant of NFD data, as the Unicode standard was only finalized when OSX was designed. When two applications share Unicode data, but normalize them differently, errors and data loss can result.

So how do we get from one form to another in one of the BSD operating systems (also in Linux)? Well, the Unicode Consortium provides a toolset called ICU — International Components for Unicode. The Documentation URL is unicode-org.github.io/icu/ and you can install that in FreeBSD using the command
pkg install icu
After completion of the installation you have a new command line tool called uconv (not to be mismatched with iconv which serves a similar purpose). Using uconv you can transcode the normal forms into each other as well do a lot of other encoding stuff (this tool is a rabbit hole in itself 😎).

Similar to iconv you can specify a “from” and a “to” encoding for input. But you can also specify so-called “transliterations” that will be applied to the input. In its simplest form such a transliteration is something in the form SOURCE-TARGET that specifies the operation. The "any" stands for any input character. This is the way I got the hexdump from above by using the transliteration 'any-hex':
armin@freebsd:/tmp$ echo caffè | uconv -x 'any-hex'\u0063\u0061\u0066\u0066\u00E8\u000A
Instead of hex codes you can also output the Unicode code point names to see the difference between the two forms:
armin@freebsd:/tmp$ echo Caffè | uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x 'any-nfd' | uconv -f utf-8 -x 'any-name' \N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER F}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER F}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E}\N{COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT}\N{<control-000A>}
Now let’s try this for the NFC form:
armin@freebsd:/tmp$ echo Caffè | uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x 'any-nfc' | uconv -f utf-8 -x 'any-name'\N{LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER A}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER F}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER F}\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE}\N{<control-000A>}
You can also convert from one normal form to another by using a transliteration like 'any-nfd' to convert the input to the normal form D (for decomposed, e.g. LATIN SMALL CHARACTER A + COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT) or 'any-nfc' for the normal form C.

If you want to learn about building your own transliterations, there’s a tutorial at unicode-org.github.io/icu/user… that shows the enormous capabilities of uconv.

Using the 'name' transliteration you can easily discern the various Sigmas here (I’m using sed to split the output into multiple lines):
armin@freebsd:/tmp $ echo '∑𝛴Σ' | uconv -x 'any-name' | sed -e 's/\\N/\n/g'{N-ARY SUMMATION}{MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL SIGMA}{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA}{<control-000A>}
If you want to get the Unicode character from the name, there are several ways depending on the programming language you prefer. Here is an example using python that shows the German umlaut "Ö":
python -c 'import unicodedata; print(unicodedata.lookup(u"LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS"))'
The uconv utility is a very mighty thing and every modern programming language (see the Python example above) also has libraries and modules to support handling Unicode data. The world gets connected, but not in ASCII. 😎

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