"The Ch’orti are an intelligent people, a hardworking people, and we are driven by justice. We are a people in resistance who lend our time and sacrifice our lives and bodies to defend our common home from mining’, said Ovidio Alonzo, Indigenous and Ancestral Authority.” pbicanada.org/2025/08/30/pbi-g…
We will soon be mining a Mount Everest every year to feed our devouring civilization. It's not sustainable. Collapse is inevitable.
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Das Bild zeigt eine dichte Ansammlung von schwarzen Insekten mit weißen Punkten auf einer grünen Blattfläche. Die Insekten scheinen eine Art Schmetterlingskäfer zu sein, die sich auf einer Blattgruppe versammelt haben. Die Blätter sind grün und weisen einige leichte Flecken auf, was auf mögliche Pflanzenkrankheiten oder Schädlinge hinweisen könnte. Einige der Insekten sind auf anderen Blättern zu sehen, was auf eine hohe Konzentration dieser Tiere in der Umgebung hinweist. Die Blätter sind mit deutlichen Venen versehen und haben eine scharfe Kante, was auf eine bestimmte Pflanzenart hinweisen könnte.
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September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide join together to remind parents, caregivers and students that signing up for a library card is the first step towards academic achiev…
Proseguono nel rispetto dei tempi i lavori dell'autostrada Asti-Cuneo: come previsto dal cronoprogramma, sarà interamente percorribile entro la fine dell'anno. (ANSA)
Ho letto il comunicato (perentorio? minaccioso?) dei portuali di Genova. Mi ha ricordato quella volta che al tiggì, prima del G8, ho visto Casarini dire: Dichiariamo guerra allo stato. Getteremo i nostri corpi oltre la zona rossa.
Secondo me, con un governo di destra, non bisognerebbe anticipare l'intenzione di fare cose illegali.
Scioperare è legale certo. Altre cose no.
Significa che se Israele farà qualcosa alla Global Sumud Flotilla il governo manderà un sacco di polizia a Genova.
"Trump’s attempts to lure companies away from China are backfiring. U.S. firms wrestling with Trump’s unpredictable trade policy are calculating it's better to stay put in China than reshore": politico.com/news/2025/08/31/w… #Trump #incompetence #economy #politics
Suspected Russian interference forced European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's plane to land in Bulgaria using paper maps, the Financial Times reported on Sept. 1, citing three undisclosed officials.
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Caro @matz, quando sarebbe il tuo concerto a Dronero?
Così pianifico… visto che a un tiro di sputo (di lama!) c'è un negozio di forniture professionali per falegnami definito da Google Maps "LGBTQ+ friendly" e non tropo distante c'è il mio spacciatore di formaggio.
Noi volevamo farci qualche giorno di pseudo-ferie (comprendono le visite a vari ferramenta e caseifici da quelle parti), ma a fine ottobre è un tantinello avanti con la stagione 🥶
Water-guzzling OpenAI plans India data center with at least 1 gigawatt capacity, Bloomberg News reports reuters.com/world/india/openai…
"India is grappling with a water crisis that threatens its economic stability, food security, and public health. With 18 per cent of the world’s population but only 4 per cent of its freshwater." indianexpress.com/article/opin…
Op 27 september komen @yourlocalpirates 🪗 optreden met onder andere dit protestnummer voor #Amelisweerd! Het zou geweldig zijn als het hele Domplein uit volle borst meezingt 🫶, dus ga vast lekker oefenen met deze video. 🎼
🎤 Voor Amelisweerd! Klim de boom in 🌳, de boom in🌳! 🎼🪗
Heb je ‘t al gehoord? Ze willen asfalteren Daar gaan we wat aan doen, net als vorige keren Blijf af van het bos, en stop met die wegen Dit gaat mooi niet door! We houden ze tegen!
Voor Amelisweerd Klim de boom in, de boom in Voor Amelisweerd Tegen de stroom in, de stroom in
Wat gaan we doen als de graafmachines komen? Gaan we weer wonen in de toppen van de bomen? Wat gaan we doen als ze komen met hun zagen? Dit gaat mooi niet door! We zullen ze verjagen!
Voor Amelisweerd Klim de boom in, de boom in Voor Amelisweerd Tegen de stroom in, de stroom in
Verzamel je klimtuig en laat ze niet hakken Bouw boomhutten op en zet ze te kakken Verzamel je moed om bos te behouden Van plaatselijk plataan tot de grootste regenwouden!
Voor Amelisweerd Klim de boom in, de boom in Voor Amelisweerd Tegen de stroom in, de stroom in
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i wanted to understand cat noises a little better, so i pulled up a youtube video on the subject. a highlighted section showed the vocalisation of a cat in heat.
my cat, hearing this through my open-back headphones, just turned 180 to me in disgust like she just caught me watching porn
Die Regeln sollen angepasst werden, um die technologische Entwicklungen zu berücksichtigen und den Übergang zur #emissionsfreien Mobilität wirtschaftlich tragfähig und sozial ausgewogen zu gestalten.
Noch bis 10.10.2025 können Interessierte ihre Meinung dazu äußern. Das Feedback fließt in die Ausarbeitung der Initiative ein und wird veröffentlicht.
Al Jazeera has gathered a great, concise article about flotilla action so far, with reasons behind the action and the history of it. aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/31/t…
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La striscia si è interrotta nel mese di agosto, durante il quale mi sono preso una pausa dalla scrittura per godermi qualche settimana di ferie.
Nel salutare te e gli altri lettori mi ero chiesto se e quando sarei riuscito a riprendere le pubblicazioni ma, soprattutto, se sarei riuscito a tenere la stessa regolarità anche durante la seconda parte dell'anno.
Così, al rientro dalle ferie, ho iniziato a lavorare alla nuova stagione del blog che, al momento, conta già tre post scritti, caricati e programmati e almeno altri due sono in fase di progettazione.
Questo significa che nelle prossime settimane potrò contare su un buffer tale da farmi ben sperare di poter tornare a pubblicare con regolarità un post a settimana.
Come accaduto nel resto dell'anno, i post usciranno ogni domenica sera (a proposito, che ne pensi di questa modalità di uscita? È comoda o fa schifo, fammelo sapere nei commenti) e verranno condivisi sui social nei giorni successivi.
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Prossimamente su questi schermi.
Come detto sopra, tre sono i post già pronti che usciranno nelle prossime settimane.
Quest'ultima riprende, chiarisce e approfondisce le note che avevo pubblicato qualche mese fa. Vista la risposta incoraggiante che sta avendo il format a cui ho lavorato nell'ultimo anno ho deciso di approfondire i temi legati al worldbuilding, quindi aspettati altri contenuti su questo tema.
Il terzo post in scaletta è il quinto episodio di La turbolenza, il diario di lavorazione di un libro sulla politica altoatesina che forse non uscirà mai. È dedicato a uno dei temi che più ha tenuto banco nelle cronache locali durante l'estate: l'overtourism.
Idee ancora da sviluppare
Tra queste ci sono almeno due recensioni: quella di Tecnopolitica, il saggio di Asma Mhalla dedicato alla militarizzazione delle tecnologie digitali e quella di Warfare, il film diretto da Ray Mendoza e Alex Garland.
Inoltre è da qualche tempo che sto pensando a un saggio dedicato al rapporto tra immagini e realtà al tempo delle intelligenze artificiali generative.
Mi piacerebbe scriverlo, ma ho qualche remora perché per farlo potrei dover tirare in balle le immagini provenienti da Gaza e ho qualche remora a mettere un genocidio in mezzo a un pezzo di theory (anche in questo caso, se ti va di dirmi la tua nei commenti mi fa piacere).
Questi, al momento, sono i contenuti che ho in programma o in mente di realizzare per questo blog. Se ti interessano e ancora non lo hai fatto, ti invito a usare il modulo qui sopra per iscriverti alla newsletter e ricevere gli aggiornamenti nella tua casella di posta.
È un modo comodo e facile per non perderti neanche un post e non dover delegare le tue letture agli algoritmi del capitale. Da parte mia posso dirti che tratterò i tuoi dati sempre con il massimo rispetto.
A presto!
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Lecornu affirme qu'il "n'est pas candidat" à Matignon pour succéder à Bayrou: "Je note que dans l’Histoire, à chaque remaniement, les anciens ministres de la Défense, comme Michèle Alliot-Marie et Jean-Yves Le Drian, étaient donnés "premier-ministrable", et ils ne sont jamais allés à Matignon. Cela me va très bien !", assure le chouchou des Macron et RN compatible au Parisien. On n'est pas obligé de le croire
SuperFile adds colour and clarity to terminal file management. If you're looking for a modern alternative to Midnight Commander on Ubuntu, it's worth trying.
Vuoi creare AppImage su Linux in modo semplice e controllato? AppImageTool è il tool ufficiale per generare pacchetti portabili da AppDir. Supporta firma GPG, compressione, aggiornamenti e integrazione CI. #Linux #AppImage
Una manifestazione di popolo che a Genova non vedevo dal G8, quasi 25 anni fa. Una mescolanza di cittadini di tutte le generazioni, con un’età media piuttosto bassa, cosa rara per una città anziana come Genova.
A fine corteo un ex parlamentare del PD ha affermato: «Se questa manifestazione l’avessero indetta Pd e Cgil saremmo stati in 200».
Where will Tarrant County get enough water to serve 3.4M people?
"Growth of that magnitude adds strain to the water supply, leaving local officials concerned about whether the region has enough to sustain more people and big development such as new data centers, golf courses and housing."
"Conservative Democratic President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would [...] strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe. In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative [...]"
Il Dipartimento di pianificazione e ingegneria dei traporti della National Technical University di Atene ha condotto un metastudio sugli effetti dei limiti a 30 in 40 città europee, fra cui Bruxelles, Parigi e Zurigo. Dall’analisi risulta che la riduzione dei limiti di velocità riduce sia le probabilità di scontro stradale, sia le conseguenze degli stessi.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 7.6, IceWM 3.9, QEMU 10.1, Portainer 2.33 LTS, Wine 10.14, COSMIC desktop hits initial setup completion, Bitnami ends free images, and more.
What to read now? I have, right in front of me, a hardback edition of Katabasis by R F Kuang but I’ve only just pulled myself out of a long dark academia fantasy novel and I need something very different for a break. Time to peruse the Kindle library
Various copy tests didn't raise issues. Running a ZFS scrub, just to see what happens... So far: ` pool: usb25 state: ONLINE scan: scrub in progress since Mon Sep 8 02:56:02 2025 36.5G scanned at 692M/s, 4.23G issued at 80.1M/s, 36.5G total 0B repaired, 11.58% done, 0 days 00:06:52 to go config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM usb25 ONLINE 0 0 0 c4t0d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
Follow-up, should you care. Reinstalling the server with #FreeBSD 14.3 and replicating the bhyve VM and ZFS storage, the USB disk also falls asleep and breaks the ZFS pool. According to this and that, it feels like "don´t use ZFS on USB drive, idiot"... 😕
That said, I also learned that FreeBSD can install and run on the sdcard when OmniOS doesn´t even sees it. And power consumption looks like 2W better (less) on FreeBSD.
Hello,
I found myself in a situation where I don't know where to start. I have a 3,5" spinning rust disk placed in an external USB enclosure. I am using this disk for backups (I am learning how...
Hello,
I found myself in a situation where I don't know where to start. I have a 3,5" spinning rust disk placed in an external USB enclosure. I am using this disk for backups (I am learning how...
everybody says that until they realise key files have bitrotted ages ago and all backups diligently stored that corruption. Either stone tablets, vellum, or zfs and tarsnap for me @ricardo
I have in the past looked after multi petabytes of storage for the worlds largest orgs and I can safely tell you it’s just a matter of time. No matter what OS you run, bit rot is coming. Also — how would you know without a checksumned filesystem? @ricardo
hum, ok. I ended up wondering if this wasn´t just a urban legend 😀 I was using cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvs… dans read the daily report each morning.
> If this was a DB that got bitrotted, you wouldn't know.
you might know if you enable pg_checksums
Many years ago I used to use this project github.com/opencoff/rsbep with its freeze.sh and melt.sh scripts to protect backups written to CDs and DVDs so if I had serious read errors I had a chance of recovering the file still.
if one wants to seriously care about their data, use ZFS or btrfs in RAID 1/5/Z and run a monthly scrub, they can repair damaged files using a spare disk
restoring from backups could work, just make sure your backups are working, test their integrity (the files integrity, not only the repo integrity) on a regular basis, don't prune stuff before you run a scrub or the bitrot script as you will need the backup to restore a corrupted file
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. 😎
Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) — Kim Chon Il, director of the Department of Press and Information of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, on August 31 issued the following press statement “Attempt of the U.S.
Neu im #Blog: „Ist etwas brandgefährlich, bin ich raus.“ Beim Lesen eines Texts fiel das Wort „brandgefährlich“ und ich stieg gedanklich mitten im Satz aus. Das wunderte mich, und darum denke ich kurz darüber nach, wieso das so ist. schreiblehrling.de/ist-etwas-b…
Had a look on Google street view, and, as far as I can tell, this all gone - replaced by generic, suburban-mall-posing-as-classical "architecture". Completely scrubbed of any sign of human activity or place.
By contrast, the names of the businesses in this photo tell you El Paso's priorities in the 70s:
CUT RATE drugs ALLRIGHT auto parts PAYLESS (for what? not specified) LIQUOR (can't be much clearer)
Every inch of it touched and trodden by many real people.
::: spoiler Key Findings 1. Geopolitical Events Trigger Unprecedented DDoS Campaigns Expand: Major political events drove increased DDoS activity, evidenced by attack count spikes that coincide with these occurrences. These events saw hacktivist groups launching up to double the normal number of attacks in short timeframes. 2. Botnet-Driven Attacks Dominate with Increased Sophistication Expand: Botnet-driven attacks are getting longer, more frequent, and are employing multiple attack vectors to avoid mitigation. They are targeting known vulnerabilities in IoT devices, servers, routers, and more. 3. NoName057(16) Maintains Dominance Among Familiar Threat Actors: Well-known hacktivist and attack groups, such as NoName057(16), are launching more attacks across the globe while leveraging several attack vectors. 4. New Threat Actors Emerge with DDoS-as-a-Service Capabilities: Emerging attack groups like DieNet and Keymous+ are leveraging DDoS-for-hire infrastructure to launch DDoS-as-a-service campaigns, lowering the barrier to entry and expanding the threat landscape. 5. Global DDOS Attack Volume High with Regional Variations: With more than 8 million recorded attacks globally in the first half of 2025, DDoS attack volume remains massive. The attacks also show sustained intensity, reaching speeds of 3.12 Tbps and 1.5 Gpps. :::
DDoS attacks are no longer just a nuisance, they’re a weapon of geopolitical influence. In the first half of 2025 alone, more than 8 million attacks were recorded globally, with threat actors leveraging AI, botnets, and DDoS-for-hire services to launch increasingly sophisticated and sustained campaigns.
e non tropo distante c'è il mio spacciatore di formaggio.
#OmniOS on MeLE Quieter 4C...
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in reply to meinGemüse • • •Das Bild zeigt eine dichte Ansammlung von schwarzen Insekten mit weißen Punkten auf einer grünen Blattfläche. Die Insekten scheinen eine Art Schmetterlingskäfer zu sein, die sich auf einer Blattgruppe versammelt haben. Die Blätter sind grün und weisen einige leichte Flecken auf, was auf mögliche Pflanzenkrankheiten oder Schädlinge hinweisen könnte. Einige der Insekten sind auf anderen Blättern zu sehen, was auf eine hohe Konzentration dieser Tiere in der Umgebung hinweist. Die Blätter sind mit deutlichen Venen versehen und haben eine scharfe Kante, was auf eine bestimmte Pflanzenart hinweisen könnte.
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