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La posizione dell’Unione Europea e del gruppo di paesi asserviti all’imperialismo yankee era prevedibile. In 25 anni di lotta, abbiamo dimostrato che esiste un altro modo di fare politica, basato sul consenso, e sulla ricerca di una maggiore equità e giustizia sociale. Per questi governi colonialisti, ciò sarà sempre una spina nel fianco, un ostacolo agli interessi di dominio globale. Le loro posizioni fanno parte della stessa agenda diretta da Washington contro la rivoluzione bolivariana. lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-v…
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While some byproducts recall an idyllic piece of Americana, others remind us that the past is not always so bright and cheerful. Trinitite, created unintentionally during the development of the first atomic bomb, is arguably one of these byproducts. A Trinitite pendant. Image via Galactic Stone Whereas Fordite kept growing back for decades, all Trinitite comes from a single event — the Trinity nuclear bomb test near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Also called ‘atomsite’ and ‘Alamogordo glass’, ‘Trinitite’ is the name that stuck.
There wasn’t much interest in the man-made mineral initially, but people began to take notice (and souvenirs) after the war ended. And yes, they made jewelry out of it.
Although there is still Trinitite at the site today, most of it was bulldozed over by the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1953, who weren’t too keen on the public sniffing around.
There was also a law passed that made it illegal to collect samples from the area, although it is still legal to trade Trinitite that was already on the market. As you might expect, Trinitite is rare, but it’s still out there today, and can even be bought from reputable sources such as United Nuclear.
It’s estimated that the glass was formed by 4,300 gigajoules of heat energy, and the sand was exposed to a minimum temperature of 1,470 °C (2,680 °F) and super-heated for two or three seconds before solidifying into Trinitite.
In September 1945, Time magazine reported that the site looked like “a lake of green jade”, with the glass taking strange shapes, like those of “lopsided marbles… broken, thin-walled bubbles, green, worm-like forms.” The marbles suggest that some material solidified in the air on the way down.
Not all Trinitite is bottle-green, although most of it is. Some red Trinitite was discovered in one part of the site, and there are rare black pieces that are thought to contain iron. It’s been theorized that green Trinitite gets its color from the material in the support tower, while red specimens include copper from the electrical wiring.
A Unique Composition
A stack of Trinitite. Image via the University of New Mexico Geologically speaking, Trinitite is made up of a chaotic mixture that varies both its structure and composition. A typical sample has been described as 1 to 3 cm thick, with a smooth side and a rough side from landing in a molten state on the desert floor. The upper surface is usually sprinkled with dust, while the bottom is thicker and grades into the soil it came from. Far from completely solid, it is estimated that around 30% of Trinitite is void space, and usually has cracks.
Optically, there are two forms of Trinitite with different refraction indices — the lower-index type is mostly silicon dioxide, while the higher-index glass has mixed components. Although deemed safe to handle, Trinitite is measurably radioactive. The level of radioactivity fluctuates based on the size of the specimen and its distance from ground zero.
The First of Many Atomsites, Unfortunately
As you might imagine, glassy residues remain wherever nuclear weapons detonate at or near ground level. Some scientists prefer to call all other glasses ‘atomsite’, although plenty of site- and creator-specific names have been given to the byproducts of other detonations. It was discovered in 2016 that, following the bombing of Hiroshima, between 0.6% and 2.5% of the sand on local beaches consisted of fused glass spheres that had formed. It has been called Hiroshimaite.
Trinitite is known as a melt glass or glass melt, which basically means that the silica from the ground bonded with surrounding minerals originating from both the tower and the bomb itself. While this formation process is a man-made one, there are similar natural processes that produce glassy byproducts. Stay tuned!
Resistance to the Hungarian presidency's approach to the EU's draft law to combat online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) was still palpable during a member states' meeting on Wednesday (4 September).
Il 2 settembre il ricercatore di sicurezza Sergei Kornienko di PixiePoint ha pubblicato un’analisi e una dimostrazione dello sfruttamento di una vulnerabilità critica zero-day nel kernel di Windows , nota come CVE-2024-38106. Questa vulnerabilità legata all’escalation dei privilegi viene già sfruttata attivamente dagli aggressori, richiedendo un intervento urgente da parte dei professionisti e degli utenti della sicurezza.
Il CVE-2024-38106 (punteggio CVSS: 7.0) si trova nel kernel del sistema operativo Windows, in particolare nel processo “ntoskrnl.exe“. Questo processo è un componente chiave di Windows che consente la comunicazione tra hardware e software e supporta molti importanti servizi di sistema.
La vulnerabilità è legata ad una Race Condition , una situazione in cui il risultato dipende dalla sequenza o dalla tempistica degli eventi. Un utente malintenzionato che sfruttasse con successo questa vulnerabilità potrebbe aumentare i propri privilegi al livello SYSTEM, dandogli di fatto il pieno controllo sul dispositivo interessato.
La vulnerabilità è stata segnalata in modo responsabile a Microsoft ed è già stato rilasciato un aggiornamento che risolve CVE-2024-38106. Kornienko ha anche analizzato l’aggiornamento che corregge la vulnerabilità e ha notato importanti cambiamenti in due funzioni chiave: VslGetSetSecureContext() e NtSetInformationWorkerFactory(). Queste modifiche erano necessarie per eliminare la Race Condition e migliorare la sicurezza del sistema.
In particolare, sono stati introdotti meccanismi di blocco delle operazioni legate alla modalità provvisoria del kernel Virtualization-Based Security (VBS), ed è stato aggiunto il controllo dei flag nel processo NtShutdownWorkerFactory(), che ha ridotto la probabilità di sfruttamento della vulnerabilità.
Kornienko ha anche pubblicato un exploit PoC che mostra come gli aggressori possono utilizzare CVE-2024-38106 per aumentare i privilegi. La pubblicazione dell’exploit evidenzia i potenziali rischi per gli utenti domestici e aziendali se la vulnerabilità non viene affrontata in modo tempestivo.securitylab.ru/glossary/eksplo…
Secondo PixiePoint, la vulnerabilità è stata attivamente sfruttata da un gruppo di hacker nordcoreano noto come Citrine Sleet. Gli attacchi registrati sono iniziati reindirizzando le vittime al sito web dannoso “voyagorclub[.]space”. Si presume che a questo scopo siano stati utilizzati metodi di ingegneria sociale.
Una volta colpito il sito, è stata sfruttata la vulnerabilità legata all’esecuzione di codice in modalità remota CVE-2024-7971, che ha consentito agli aggressori di accedere al sistema preso di mira. Successivamente, hanno scaricato ed eseguito codice per sfruttare la vulnerabilità CVE-2024-38106 per aggirare la sandbox e aumentare i privilegi. Ciò ha reso possibile l’introduzione del malware: il rootkitFudModule.
Un pericolo particolare del rootkit FudModule è l’utilizzo della tecnica Direct Kernel Object Manipulation (DKOM), che consente agli aggressori di modificare i meccanismi di sicurezza del kernel di Windows. Ciò rende estremamente difficile rilevarlo e rimuoverlo.
Microsoft ha rilasciato rapidamente una patch per la vulnerabilità CVE-2024-38106 come parte dell’aggiornamento di agosto 2024. Tuttavia, il fatto che la vulnerabilità fosse già stata sfruttata in attacchi prima del rilascio dell’aggiornamento evidenzia l’importanza di patch tempestive e di una continua vigilanza sulla sicurezza informatica.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Secondo l’agenzia di stampa Adnkronos, il ministro della Cultura Gennaro Sangiuliano dice il vero quando afferma che il Ministero non ha mai sborsato soldi pubblici per rimborsare le spese di viaggio di Maria Rosaria Boccia. L’agenzia ha
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale “Noi siamo facendo la storia, e dobbiamo esserne tutti consapevoli. E questo non prevede né pause né soste, ma tanto meno può consentire errori e passi falsi”. Lo dice la presidente del Consiglio, Giorgia Meloni, aprendo i lavori dell’Esecutivo nazionale di Fratelli d’Italia. Un chiaro
Questo esercizio di previsione riflette sulle conseguenze dell'approvazione da parte dell'Unione Europea di una proposta volta a scansionare tutte le foto e i video inviati dalle persone per individuare possibili abusi sui minori.
L'articolo di @Jeremiah Lee è pura finzione, ma la proposta è reale.
Le citazioni si basano su affermazioni reali fatte dalle persone cui sono attribuite, ma presentate fuori dai loro contesti originali. I loro contesti originali sono citati.
What happens if the proposed EU chat control regulation passes?
This series of news reports and press releases imagines the first year of cascading consequences.
It illustrates how the well-intentioned-but-flawed proposal will make detecting child abuse imagery more difficult while harming innocent people, national security, and the EU’s digital sovereignty.
Please share. The EU resumes discussions of the proposal today.
Last time I tried to convince you that, if you haven’t already, you should try running your 3D printer with Klipper. There are several ways to actually make it work.
The first thing you need is something to run the Klipper host. Most people use a Raspberry Pi and if you already have one that runs OctoPrint, for example, you might well use it. Just tuck your SD card away in case you give up and install a fresh Linux system on a new card. The Creality Sonic Pad has issues, but it does work. However, a Pi isn’t your only option. You should be able to make it work on nearly anything that runs Linux. We’ve even seen it running on Windows under WSL. If you have an old laptop that can run Linux, that would work, too. We’ve even heard it works on a Chromebook.
The other option is to get a “pad.” Several vendors make touchscreens with some Linux single-board computer bundled together with Klipper preinstalled. For example, there is the Creality Sonic Pad, along with similar devices from other 3D printing companies.
If you decide to go that route, you might want to make sure it is easy to install your own software easily. Some pads, like the Creality unit, are notorious for having so much customization that they don’t lend themselves to upgrades unless they come from the manufacturer. In some cases, you can wipe out the stock firmware and install a normal operating system, but at that point, you could probably just buy a Pi and a touchscreen, right?
Installation
If you use something like a pad, it probably has a menu option to provide prebuilt firmware for your printer. Typically, you let it save the code to an SD card or a USB stick and then you are expected to flash it to your printer which, of course, depends on what kind of printer you have.
If you are rolling your own, you use a menu configuration program something like building a Linux kernel. If you have a pre-built configuration file, it will probably tell you in its comments what things you should pick. You need to know, for example, the type of CPU your board has, the bootloader offset, and if you are connecting via USB or serial. You can find details on the Klipper project pages. KIAUH makes installing Klipper and supporting programs painless. Installing the Linux side is easy because there is a nice script called KIHUH. The easiest thing to do is clone the Git repository and run it. From there, you can install Klipper, Moonraker, Fluidd, Mainsail, and some other things, too.
The real trick isn’t installing the software. The challenge is creating a proper configuration file for your printer. If you have a totally stock and popular printer, you’ll probably be in luck. But, how many of us can say that?
Start with the GitHub list to see if your printer or board is there. Even if it isn’t an exact match for your hardware, it will give you a start. For example, my custom printer is a Fysetc Spider, but the canned configuration is for a core XY machine, which means I have to make changes.
Even if you get a pad that claims to be “plug and play,” don’t count on it. For example, a Creality Sonic Pad’s instructions for installing with a Creality Ender 3 first asks you to take the printer apart to determine the type of motherboard you have. That’s not really plug and play! Any deviation from the stock machine is likely to require you to change the default profile.
Ch…Ch…Ch…Changes
In addition to just setting things up to match my exact hardware, I also needed to adjust the extruder step count. That has to be simple, right? Most firmware requires you to plug in the number of steps per millimeter of filament.
Klipper, on the other hand, wants to know how many millimeters extrude from a full rotation of the stepper. If you know how many steps (and microsteps) your printer uses, you can easily calculate either number from the other. For example, if you have 200 steps per rotation and 16 microsteps, that’s 3200 steps total. If your current steps per millimeter is 100, then your Klipper “rotation distance” is 3200/100=32.
Configuration Example
I had another major change to make. My printers have a non-standard filament sensor that detects the filament moving. That way, it can detect not only broken filaments but jammed filaments, too.
To install it, I had to add a few lines to my printer.cfg file and restart Klipper. Since I have more than one printer with the same sensor, I put all the lines in a single file and then included it in each printer. So the printer.cfg change was very simple: [include sfs.cfg]
Then the real work is in sfs.cfg: [filament_motion_sensor SFS_T0] detection_length: 10.00 extruder: extruder switch_pin: ^PA4 pause_on_runout: True event_delay: 3.0 pause_delay: 0.5 runout_gcode: M117 Runout Detected!
[gcode_macro SFS_ENABLE] ; Add this to PRINT_START description: Enable smart filament sensor gcode: M117 ENABLING the Smart Filament Sensor G92 E0 SET_FILAMENT_SENSOR SENSOR=SFS_T0 ENABLE=1
[gcode_macro SFS_DISABLE] ; Add this to PRINT_END and PRINT_CANCEL description: Disable smart filament sensor gcode: M117 DISABLING the Smart Filament Sensor G92 E0 SET_FILAMENT_SENSOR SENSOR=SFS_T0 ENABLE=0
This defines a few macros you can use elsewhere. Like Python, the indentation matters. You can organize your files using [include], and that’s especially useful if you have multiple printers that can share files.
Reference
So, how do you know what’s available? The Klipper reference. It will show you all the configuration sections you can use and what can possibly go in them. Don’t forget that some features — like print status notifications — will be in the Moonraker configuration which is a separate document.
Since the system is in Python, you can hack on it to your heart’s content. Just back up first. For example, you can add some custom Python scripts in the klipper/extras directory, like the one that can run arbitrary system commands from G-code.
Tinkering is what most of us like the best, and there’s plenty of opportunity to tinker with here. Klipper is also a good way to put new life in a very old printer since what runs on the printer is very simple, and all the heavy lifting is done elsewhere.
Klipper can easily do adaptive bed leveling, for example. If you can work in Python, it is also easy to experiment with things like exotic sensors.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Il ministro della Cultura Gennaro Sangiuliano ammette di aver avuto una relazione privata con Maria Rosaria Boccia. Sarebbe questo il motivo per cui la nomina della donna a consigliera del ministro per i grandi eventi non è stata formalizzata. A riportare le
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Maria Rosaria Boccia rende pubblico di aver avuto nelle ultime ore una telefonata con il ministro della Cultura Gennaro Sangiuliano e lo accusa pubblicamente di “storpiare la realtà per coprire” qualcuno. “Te l’ho detto ieri pomeriggio
🎥 Oggi dalle ore 15 in occasione della #BiennaleCinema2024, si terrà la cerimonia di premiazione del #concorso scolastico nazionale promosso dal #MIM “Da uno sguardo – film di studentesse e studenti sulla violenza maschile contro le donne”.
🎥 Oggi dalle ore 15 in occasione della #BiennaleCinema2024, si terrà la cerimonia di premiazione del #concorso scolastico nazionale promosso dal #MIM “Da uno sguardo – film di studentesse e studenti sulla violenza maschile contro le donne”.
"Marty, presto, dobbiamo tornare indietro nell'anno in cui é stato inventato Facebook e impedire così a orde di boomer di iscriversi e smarronare su quanto stavano bene negli anni 70 , presto! " #ritornoalfuturo
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Terza parte dell'articolo sull'artista, attivista per i diritti umani, femminista e accademica che vive a Londra. Rafeef Ziadah ha scritto poesie che si potrebbero definire profetiche. L'articolo CULTURA. La diaspora
@Kagi HQ è l'interessantissimo progetto per un motore di ricerca a pagamento, senza traccianti e con un'accuratezza nell'individuazione dei risultati tale da escludere tutto lo spam di Google.
Chi crede che i costi di #Kagi siano troppo elevati, dovrebbe riflettere su un piccolo dettaglio: se Google lascia fare "gratis" tutte quelle ricerche, chi paga quei costi? La risposta potrebbe sembrare semplice: "gli inserzionisti".
Eppure questa sarebbe una risposta incompleta: come dire che la pioggia è causata dalle nuvole!
In realtà quei costi li pagano gli utenti, facendosi mungere e lasciando che Google estragga il loro "valore", un po' come nella human farm di Matrix...
In ogni caso siamo davvero contenti che un servizio come quello di Kagi, efficace e rispettoso della privacy degli utenti, sia approdato qui nel #Fediverso
Hello, Fediverse! We're Kagi, and we're on a mission to create a friendlier, more human-centric internet that has the users' best interest in mind.
Our core product is a search engine that is ad-free, tracking-free, and fully supported by our users. We've worked hard to deliver a high-quality, fast, and reliable search experience without compromising user privacy: kagi.com/
@MuhammaPy perché non a tutti piace il fatto che DuckDuckGo utilizza, principalmente, i risultati di Bing. Ultimamente sto usando la ricerca di Brave (che pare essere indipendente) e in italiano è migliorata moltissimo.
@MuhammadPython perché onestamente con duckduck go non si riesce a trovare mai una mazza... 😅
Ci sono diversi servizi che integrano motori di ricerca esistenti e in alcuni casi aggiungono un proprio sistema, ma un aspetto importante di Kagi è che le ricerche mostrano davvero quello che hai chiesto. Sembra banale, ma oggi non lo è più tanto perché quando fai una ricerca su un qualsiasi motore di ricerca o carichi una vagonata di letame da cui spulciare quello che ti serve, oppure trovi pochi risultati rilevanti.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Maria Rosaria Boccia continua a pubblicare sui social documenti che mettono in imbarazzo il ministro della Cultura Gennaro Sangiuliano. Gli ultimi in ordine di tempo sono un file audio e alcuni screenshot dai quali si
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Il nuovo articolo di @valori@poliversity.it In caso di successo, la causa potrebbe obbligare l’Unione a rivedere i suoi obiettivi climatici al 2030: dal 55 al 65% di emissioni in meno L'articolo Gli obiettivi climatici europei? «Inadeguati». E le ong sfidano la Commissione in tribunale proviene da Valori.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Alternativa per la Germania vince le elezioni in due importanti Land orientali e minaccia la stabilità politica del paese dove la crisi economica continua a mordere L'articolo Onda nera sulla Germania in crisi proviene da Pagine Esteri.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Il nuovo articolo di @valori@poliversity.it I numeri del calciomercato ci dicono che la bolla è gonfiata dai fondi della City londinese, non certo dai campionati arabi L'articolo Calciomercato: Londra da sola ha speso il triplo dell’Arabia Saudita proviene da Valori.
"1.5 Le case religiose di ospitalità no-profit sono soggette all’obbligo di CIN? No, qualora l’attività di ospitalità sia svolta a titolo meramente gratuito. Le libere donazioni corrisposte dagli ospiti non fanno venir meno la gratuità della prestazione offerta. " ministeroturismo.gov.it/faq-ba… E vabbè
!Programmer Humor Hi, this is a question that popped into my mind when i saw an article about some AWS engineer talking about ai assistants taking over the job of programmers, this reminded me that it's not the first time that something like this was said.
My software engineering teacher once told me that a few years ago people believed graphical tools like enterprise architect would make it so that a single engineer could just draw a pretty UML diagram and generate 90% of the project without touching any code, And further back COBOL was supposed to replace programmers by letting accountants write their own programs.
Now i'm curious, were there many other technologies that were supposedly going to replace programmers that you remember?
i hope someone that's been around much more than me knows something more or has some funny stories to share
It's happened a few times in my career where people tell me I'll be obsolete, but it's always been some company hyping their new product and suits frothing at the prospect of not having to pay me anymore.
So far they're like 0 for 8 or so.
Now I will say the goalposts move. What I'm doing now is for sure not what I was doing 10 years ago. I'm definitely heavier in devops and infra than where I was before (ironic because they said we'd never have to worry about that stuff again if we moved to the cloud). AI is still basically machine learning, just in a while loop, so I've spent time learning that. So, in a way, yes we're obsolete in the sense that if I was the same engineer I was 10 years ago I wouldn't be worth nearly this much, I had to grow and evolve with technology.
some aspects of programming have really been made obsolete
I'd agree that some specifics have been made obsolete. Some habits and routines are currently being ignored or skipped, but the amount of skill that's gone away is very small.
As mentioned before, we downsized brutally after Y2K. The people most affected were the highest-paid who weren't the best code-grinders, and these were the documenters, the programme people, and the mentor types. We lost our guides, our structure, and our historians. We've been growing again like feral children rebuilding society from the wasteland like it's Mad Max, and there's a LOT of the Why that we either don't know, that we ignore, or that we skip in the interests of (insert manufactured urgency here).
We are re-learning some of the whys, but we haven't yet seen the half-assedry chickens come home to roost on that. The symptoms are there: Boeing's Gilligan's Island in Space, supply-chain sploits in waves, personal information lost weekly, all these things that are clipboard hassles we stopped doing that pelrevent massively expensive things later.
Crowdstrike may die now, mainly because they were marauding leopards we allowed to eat our face. Solarwinds before that, same issue but they seem to be okay. There are dozens of ohShit moments that could lead to similarly preventable problems, that we knew not to do ... once.
Well get there again but we'll be rediscovering a lot of what some techbro will claim is obsolete, old-practice, too-cautious, hand-wringing in our neu and moderne go-hard/break-lives paradigm.
I know this is c/programmerhumor but I'll take a stab at the question. If I may broaden the question to include collectively the set of software engineers, programmers, and (from a mainframe era) operators -- but will still use "programmers" for brevity -- then we can find examples of all sorts of other roles being taken over by computers or subsumed as part of a different worker's job description. So it shouldn't really be surprising that the job of programmer would also be partially offloaded.
The classic example of computer-induced obsolescence is the job of typist, where a large organization would employ staff to operate typewriters to convert hand-written memos into typed documents. Helped by the availability of word processors -- no, not the software but a standalone appliance -- and then the personal computer, the expectation moved to where knowledge workers have to type their own documents.
If we look to some of the earliest analog computers, built to compute differential equations such as for weather and flow analysis, a small team of people would be needed to operate and interpret the results for the research staff. But nowadays, researchers are expected to crunch their own numbers, possibly aided by a statistics or data analyst expert, but they're still working in R or Python, as opposed to a dedicated person or team that sets up the analysis program.
In that sense, the job of setting up tasks to run on a computer -- that is, the old definition of "programming" the machine -- has moved to the users. But alleviating the burden on programmers isn't always going to be viewed as obsolescence. Otherwise, we'd say that tab-complete is making human-typing obsolete lol
If a tool were created that properly converted an UML diagram into a project without any need for code, all the programmers that lost their job to this tool would then be hired by the company that offered it, in order to give maintenance and support to everything the customers want in their programs.
It would be removing programmers from they payroll of some companies but they would still be working for them, just further down in the chain.
The same is true for AI. If AI could completely replace programmers in some area, it would need a lot of programmers itself to keep dealing with all the edge cases that would show up from being used everywhere that a programmer was needed before.
The earliest I can think of (from personal experience) is 4GL languages; the early low-code platforms that first started to get traction in the early 80s. They wouldn't have replaced programmers but some thought/hoped they would usher in an age of "low skill" programmers that companies could get away with paying minimum wage to.
So far my experience with ai is it cannot evaluate the quality of the data it uses to any significant degree. As such it can summarize which is convenient for searching and give examples but ultimately you have to correct its mistakes and know enough to do so. There is some savings for a programmer in the sense you might be able to get some rough scaffolding and its a bit eaiser to identify relevant search links but I don't see it replacing developers. It definitely allows one to do more though or even increase the quality. One really great thing it can do is auto commenting of the code which does not need as much improvement as actual code and makes it more likely for you to do the task (both because it does it and because it causes you to go. no don't explain it like that). Is similarly helps with documentation. I doubt it could more than double productivity though. At least as how it stands now. Im not sure it can do much better without becoming general ai.
One really great thing it can do is auto commenting of the code
But then it only comments the 'what', it cannot possibly know the 'why'. I know, some devs disagree on that, but personally, I would rather not have what-comments in my code.
Rational Rose etc. could generate code from UML diagrams, then you "only" needed architects.
In reality it only gave a little help during the design phase, as soon as someone touches the generated code, you have to manually merge changes to UML.
Salesforce advertised “No more developers” for awhile in the mid 2010s. It was great fun trying to clean up the mess all the “not programmers” made of those systems. I really hate Salesforce. They must have some of the best sales people on the planet.
Oracle has a product called Oracle Policy Automation (OPA) that it sells as "you can write the rules in plain English in MS Word documents, you don't need developers". I worked for an insurance organization where the business side bought OPA without consulting IT, hoping they wouldn't have to deal with developers. It totally failed because it doesn't matter that they get to write "plain English" in Word documents. They still lack the structured, formal thinking to deal with anything except the happiest of happy paths.
The important difference between a developer and a non-developer isn't the ability to understand the syntax of a programming language. It's the willingness and ability to formalize and crystallize requirements and think about all the edge cases. As an architect/programmer when I talk to the business side, they get bored and lose interest from all my questions about what they actually want.
can AI replace the job of a real programmer, or a team of software engineers? Probably not for a long time.
can manager abuse the fantasy that they could get rid of those pesky engineers that dare telling them something is impossible? Yes totally. If they believe adding an AI tool to a team justifies a 200% increase in productivity. Some managers will fire people against all metrics and evidence. Calling that move a success. Same occurred when they try to outsource code to cheaper teams.
[quote]Quella dell’importanza crescente dei veicoli a pilotaggio remoto (i cosiddetti droni) nelle operazioni di combattimento è una delle principali lezioni apprese dal conflitto russo-ucraino, non solo nelle loro configurazioni aeree, ma anche in versioni terrestri e soprattutto navali. È infatti in
[quote]Quegli americani che argomentano un vantaggio strutturale degli Usa sulla Cina (chiamati nell’ambiente accademico primacists o denialists) si concentrano spesso sulle frontiere dei due Paesi: mentre gli Usa confinano con due Paesi amici e due oceani, Pechino è al centro di una regione
Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they haven't worked with the company.
Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they havenx27;t worked with the company.#LobbyMatic #JacobWohl #AIImages #AI #AILobbying
Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, and Lockheed Martin were all shown as "clients" of LobbyMatic. All of them say they haven't worked with the company.
[quote]L’eco della Strategic defence review (Sdr) annunciata dal nuovo primo ministro britannico Keir Starmer è arrivato anche in Italia, sulle ali del Global combat air programme (Gcap). Se Guido Crosetto, ministro della Difesa, e i vertici di Leonardo hanno espresso sicurezza circa la stabilità del
[quote]L’italiana Leonardo è rimasta l’unica azienda in gara per la commessa, stimata in un miliardo di sterline (1,19 miliardi di euro), per rinnovare la componente ad ala rotante delle Forze armate britanniche. Il ritiro di Airbus e Sikorsky (società del gruppo Lockheed Martin) dalla gara per il programma
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Dopo mesi in attesa del permesso umanitario, l'ong italiana è entrata a Gaza per offrire assistenza sanitaria di base alla popolazione martoriata dalla guerra. Abbiamo intervistato il capomissione Stefano Sozza L'articolo PODCAST. Emergency a Gaza. Stefano Sozza:
@ nuova versione rilasciata 0.1.0-alpha18! Si tratta principalmente di una bugfix release, che contiene miglioramenti di layout, la visualizzazione della versione con blur delle immagini durante il caricamento, la propagazione degli eventi di aggiornamento di post/utenti tra le schermate, la possibilità di aggiungere un nuovo account direttamente dal bottom sheet di gestione, la distinzione tra cerchie modificabili e predefinite, più una nuova schermata con le informazioni sull'istanza corrente (accessibile dal menu laterale). Nei prossimi giorni: gestione dei messaggi diretti (specifica di Friendica). #friendica#friendicadev#androidapp#androiddev#fediverseapp#opensource#kotlin#kmp#compose #livefasteattrash
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Il nuovo articolo di @valori@poliversity.it Negli ultimi anni si sono affermati i litigation funds: anticipano i costi delle class action e, in caso di successo, trattengono parte dei rimborsi L'articolo Litigation funds: i pericolosi rapporti tra finanza e giustizia proviene da Valori.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo La parlamentare del Fronte popolare, detenuta senza processo da otto mesi, verrebbe tenuta in uno stretto isolamento e sottoposta a gravi restrizioni nonostante le sue precarie condizioni di salute L'articolo
“Ogni mio nuovo lavoro rappresenta la summa e la sintesi di tutti quelli realizzati prima, evolvendone nuovamente il significato e la portata artistica. Credo che “Strategia Esoterica” abbia comunque una forza molto superiore perché frutto di una trasmutazione molto potente”- Deca @Musica Agorà
Deca - Strategia esoterica - “Ogni mio nuovo lavoro rappresenta la summa e la sintesi di tutti quelli realizzati prima, evolvendone nuovamente il significato e la portata artistica.
The organization that runs National Novel Writing Month, a November challenge to write 50,000 words, said "the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones."#News #AI #nanowrimo
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Antony Loeweisten, giornalista investigativo australiano, traccia la linea delle relazioni tra l’industria bellica israeliana e molti paesi del mondo. La vendita di armi emerge come priorità impellente per Tel Aviv a dispetto della natura politica dell’acquirente L'articolo
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Il nuovo articolo di @valori@poliversity.it La Pibiesse è una tipografia, ma anche un progetto di innovazione sociale che vuole diventare modello per la riqualificazione del territorio L'articolo Pibiesse, la tipografia che guarda al futuro proviene da Valori.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Il nuovo articolo di @valori@poliversity.it Bruxelles etichetta come “investimenti verdi” aerei e navi inquinanti: una coalizione di ong la trascina in tribunale L'articolo Aerei e navi nella tassonomia europea: Bruxelles dovrà risponderne in tribunale proviene da Valori.
Bluesky experiences a massive new wave of signups from Brazil, Premium feeds with sub.club, and much more. [share author='Laurens Hof' profile='https://fediversereport.com/author/laurenshof/' avatar='https://poliverso.org/photo/206608119366e42c304ffac007248590-5.jpeg?ts=1734620326' link='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-82/' posted='2024-09-01 18:04:28' guid='08552256-1db60dc7714646e3-cb23b587' message_id='https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-82/']Last Week in Fediverse – ep 82
1 million new accounts on Bluesky as Brazil bans X, and premium feeds with Sub.club, and much much more.
Brazil bans X, and a signup wave to Bluesky
The Brazilian supreme court has banned the use of X in an ongoing legal fight with Elon Musk. The ban follows after a long trajectory of legal issues between the Brazilian government and Musk’s X. In April 2024, the Brazilian court ordered X to block certain X accounts that were allegedly related to the 2023 coup attempt, which Musk refused to do. In that same time period, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened an account on Bluesky, and there was already an inflow of a Brazilian community into Bluesky. Now, the legal fight has further escalated over X’s refusal to appoint a legal representative in the country, and Musk’s continuing refusal to comply with Brazil’s laws and regulation has resulted in the supreme court banning the use of X in the country altogether.
The ban on X has caused a massive signup wave to Bluesky, with over 1 million new accounts created in just three days, of which the large majority are from Brazil. The user statistics shot up even more than that, suggesting that there are a lot of people with an existing account logging back in as well.
The new inflow of people to Bluesky is having some significant effects on the network, as well as on the state of decentralised social networks more broadly:
President Lula is putting actual focus on Bluesky. In one of his final posts on X, Luala listed in non-alphabetical order all other platforms that he is active on, and placed Bluesky at the top of the list. Posts by Lula that are placed on Bluesky (134k followers) as well as on Threads (2.4m followers) get more than 5 times as much likes on Bluesky. Today, Lula explicitly asked people on Bluesky what they thought about the platform, in a post that got over 30k likes and counting. It is hard to imagine that the Brazilian government is not paying attention to this all, and is looking which platform(s) the Brazilian community is moving towards in the wake of the ban on X.
Brazilians are a very active community on the internet (see Orkut), and bring with them their own unique culture to Bluesky. The current decentralised social networks are heavily focused on US politics, judged by top posts on both Mastodon and Bluesky, and beyond shitposts and memes there is surprisingly little space for mainstream pop culture and sports. The Brazilian community does seem to bring a large number of pop culture and sports to Bluesky, significantly diversifying the topics of discussion, and in turn, creating more space for other people who are interested in that in the future. The activity of Brazilians on microblogging can also be seen in the like counts on popular posts of Bluesky: before this week, the most popular posts of any given day usually got around 3k likes, this has sprung up to 30k to 50k likes. Brazilians are so chatty in fact, that currently 81% of the posts on the network are in Portugese, and the amount of accounts of people who post on a given day has gone up from a third to over 50%.
The Bluesky engineers have build a very robust infrastructure system, and the platform has largely cruised along fine without issues, even when faced with a 15x increase in traffic. This all without having to add any new servers. For third party developers, such as the Skyfeed developer, this increase in traffic did came with downtime and more hardware requirements however. It shows the complications of engineering an open system, while the Bluesky team itself was prepared with their core infrastructure, third party infrastructure, on which a large number of custom feeds rely, was significantly less prepared for the massive increase in traffic.
In contrast, the ban on X in Brazil has made little impact on Mastodon, with 3.5k new signups from Brazil on Mastodon.social. I’d estimate that this week has seen 10k new accounts above average, with 15k new accounts the previous week and 25k in this week. That places Mastodon two orders of magnitude behind Bluesky in signups from Brazil. There are a variety of reasons for this, which deserve their own analysis, this newsletter is long enough as it is. One thing I do want to point out is within fediverse community there are two sub communities that each have their own goals and ideas about the fediverse and growth. Some people responded with the news that most Brazilians went to Bluesky with type of response that indicated that they appreciate the small, quiet and cozy community that the fediverse currently provides, and a distrust of the growth-at-all-costs model for social networks. For other people however, their goal of the fediverse is to build a global network that everyone is a part of and everyone uses (‘Big Fedi’), a view of the fediverse that is also represented in the latest episode of the Waveform podcast (see news below). And if the goal is to build ActivityPub into the default protocol for the social web, it is worth paying attention to what is happening right now in the Brazilian ATmosphere.
The News
Sub.club is a new way to monetise feeds on the fediverse, with the goal of bringing the creator economy to the fediverse. It gives people the ability to create premium feeds that people can only access via a subscription. People can follow this feed from any Mastodon account (work on other fediverse platforms is ongoing). Sub.club handles the payment processes and infrastructure, for which they charge 6% of the subscription fee (compared to 8-12% Patreon charges). Sub.club also makes it possible for other apps to integrate, both IceCubes and Mammoth have this option. Bart Decrem, who is one of the people behind Sub.club, is also the co-founder of the Mastodon app Mammoth. Sub.club also explicitly positions itself as a way for server admins to fund their server. Most server admins rely on donations by their users, often via services like Patreon, Ko-fi, Open Collective or other third party options. By integration payments directly into the fediverse, Sub.club hopes that the barrier for donations will be lower, and more server admins can be financially sustainable.
Newsmast has build a new version of groups software for the fediverse, and the first group is dedicated to the Harris campaign. There are few types of groups available that integrate with Mastodon, such as with Friendica or a.gup.pe. These groups function virtually identical to hashtags, by boosting out posts where the group account is tagged in to everyone who follows the group account. As there is no moderation in these types of group accounts, it allows anyone to hijack the group account. A group account dedicated to a political campaign is especially vulnerable to this. On Mastodon a volunteer Harris Campaign group used a Friendica group for campaign organising, but the limited moderation tools (blocking a user from following the group) that are available are not working, which allowed blocked users to still get their posts boosted by the group account. Newsmast’s version of Groups gives (working) moderation tools, and only boosts top level comments and not replies, to cut down on the noise. For now, the new Group is only available to the Harris Campaign group for testing, but it will come later to Mastodon servers that run the upcoming Patchwork plugin.
Bluesky added quite a number of new anti-toxicity features in their most recent app update. Bluesky has added quote posting controls, allowing people to set on a per-post basis if people can quote the post or not. There is also the option to remove quotes after the fact as well: if you’ve allowed quote posts on a post you’ve made, but someone made a quote post that you do not feel comfortable with, you have the possibility to detach your post. Another update is the possibility to hide replies on your posts. Bluesky already hides comments under a ‘show more’ button if the comment is labeled by a labeler you subscribe to. You now have the option to do so on all comments that are made on your posts, and the hidden comment will be hidden for everyone. Finally, Bluesky has changed how replies are shown in the Following feed, which is an active subject of discussion. I appreciate the comments made by Bluesky engineer Dan Abramov here, who notes there are two different ways of using Bluesky, who each prioritise comments in conflicting ways. As new communities grow on Bluesky, prioritising their (conflicting) needs becomes more difficult, and I’m curious to see how this further plays out.
The WVFRM (Waveform) podcast of popular tech YouTuber MKBHD has a special show about the fediverse, ‘Protocol Wars – The Fediverse Explained!’. It is partially a discussion podcast, partial explainer, and partial interview with many people within the community. They talk with Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko, Bluesky’s Jay Graber, Threads’s Adam Mosseri, and quite some more people. It is worth noting for a variety of reason. The show is quite a good introduction, that talks to many of the most relevant names within the community. MKBHD is one of the biggest names in the tech creator scene, and many people are paying attention to what he and his team is talking about. Furthermore, I found the framing as ‘protocol wars’ interesting, as the popularity of Bluesky in Brazil as an X replacement indicates that there is indeed a race between platforms to be build on top of the new dominant protocol.
Darnell Clayton has a very interesting blog post, in which he discovers that there is a discrepancy in follower count for Threads accounts that have turned on fediverse sharing. Clayton notes that the follower count shown in the Threads app is lower than the one shown in a fediverse client, for both Mastodon and Flipboard. He speculates that this difference is the number of fediverse accounts that follow a Threads account. It should be noted that this is speculation and has not been confirmed, but if this is true, it would give us a helpful indication of how many fediverse accounts are using the connection with Threads. While we’re talking about Threads accounts, Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko confirmed that the mastodon.social server has made a connection with 15.269 Threads accounts who have turned on fediverse sharing.
Ghost’s latest update on their work on implementing ActivityPub: “With this milestone, Ghost is for the first time exceeding the functionality of a basic RSS reader. This is 2-way interaction. You publish, and your readers can respond.”
Dhaaga is a multiplatform fediverse client that adds unique client-side functionalities.
Lotide, a experimental link-aggregator fediverse platform, ceases development.
A custom QR code generator, which some pretty examples of custom QR codes for your fediverse profile.
Custom decentralised badges on atproto with badges.blue, a new work in process by the create of atproto event planner Smoke Signal.
Ieri avevo in programma un giro per negozi di biciclette per vedere e provare un po' di bici elettriche. Uno di questi si trova a Spandau, che rispetto a casa mia è inculatissima (un'ora di viaggio minimo) per cui ho unito l'utile al dilettevole e con l'occasione sono stata anche a visitare la Cittadella.
Vista dalla Juiliusturm (1230), dicono il più antico edificio preservato di Berlino.
Questa scelta mi ha innanzitutto regalato la conoscenza degli Heilung, band che pesta tantissimo e che suonava la sera stessa proprio nella Cittadella. I tecnici che ne facevano il soundcheck mentre io gironzolavo me li hanno fatti apprezzare. Se amate la musica che pesta tantissimo date loro un orecchio, secondo me possono messere d'accordo gente dai gusti diversi (purché pestino! L'ho detto che pestanopestanopestano?).
Poi va detto che il biglietto di ingresso a 4,50 € stracciati dà accesso a tutti e sei i musei presenti nel complesso, piccoli, diversi, ma tutti meritevoli. Ho saltato solo il Centro d'Arte Contemporanea perché chiuso per allestimento di una mostra.
Prima fermata: la "finestra archeologica"
Qui sono conservati gli scavi archeologici che hanno portato alla luce le tre fasi costruttive della fortificazione. Dal XIII al XVI secolo si vede l'evoluzione dalla prima palizzata in legno, alle mura in pietra medievali, al castello in stile rinascimentale e mattoni rossi oggi visibile. Vengono spiegati anche dettagli ingegneristici, tipo che per costruire i bastionazzi così come sono oggi hanno "sbrodolato" fuori dai confini dell'isoletta su cui era sorto il nucleo originario. Per costruire in acqua hanno praticamente fatto una fitta base di "denti" di legno su cui poi è stata costruita la struttura attuale. Che non sia sprofondato tutto per me ha del miracoloso.
Seconda fermata: il museo civico di Spandau
Qui sono esposti reperti della storia di Spandau: dalle repliche dei documenti ufficiali, agli oggetti di uso comune, al prodotto dell'industria qui storicamente stanziata, al (ovviamente) nazionalsocialismo, alla divisione.
Questi sono giocattoli, che già di per sé mi fa rabbrividire. Alle stuatuine di Hitler e Göring si può alzare il braccino per fargli fare il saluto nazista. Ha un sapore distopico, invece è successo davvero: dei bambini hanno giocato con 'sta roba.
Gironzolando qui ho scoperto che parte di Metropolis è stata girata a Spandau (pensavo solo ai Babelstudios, e invece) e c'è un memoriale di una persona che ha partecipato alla produzione che vorrò leggere per intero. Amo Metropolis!
Terza fermata: la sala d'armi (o come diavolo vogliamo tradurre Exerzierhalle)
Qui sono conservati cannoni. Decine e decine di cannoni. Il più vecchio è del primo '400, il più giovane risale alla Prima Guerra Mondiale.
Immaginate di stare accovacciati qui dietro a sparare al "nemico".
La sala è chiusa e, con il caldo, dentro ristagna un odore che ricorda un'officina meccanica, ma con un "twist" tutto suo. Il mio cervello lo ha etichettato come "odore di guerra", ma non penso che sul campo la puzza fosse quella (o almeno non soltanto quella). Toccacciando in giro (perché qui è concesso mettere le mani sugli artefatti) ho poi constato come ci sia stata un'epoca, tra '600 e '700, in cui usava mettere motti vari sui cannoni. Questo qua mi ha colpita di più:
Dice:"Saturnus frist (!) die Kind allein ich fress sie aller gros (!) und klein" (grossomodo: "Saturno mangia solo i bambini, io mangio tutti, grandi e piccini". Che detto da un cannone ci sta).
Quarta tappa: il deposito provvigioni
Questo è un edificio del periodo rinascimentale, in parte ricostruito, oggi adibito a galleria che preserva una serie di monumenti scultorei precedentemente sparsi per Berlino dal XVIII al XX secolo. Praticamente un consesso di figure rilevanti per la storia della città (e non solo). Alla fine c'è anche lui: il capoccione di Lenin!
Avete presente il megaprogetto di Hitler per la trasformazione di Berlino nella "Welthauptstadt Germania"? Come doveva diventare una città monumentale, con al centro un ipermega edificio celebrativo? Ecco. Questo plastico rende l'idea di quanto megalomane fosse il progetto di quell'edificio: quella cosina a destra è la porta di Brandeburgo, in scala.
Quinta tappa: la casa del comandante
L'ho vista per ultima, ma, essendo sopra la biglietteria, in realtà si potrebbe vedere anche come prima cosa. Qui sono conservati reperti e documenti della storia della Cittadella, altri dettagli sulle fasi costruttive, ma anche flora e fauna del luogo.
Che dire alla fine di tutto questo? Ma niente, solo che ogni volta che sfioro la storia di questa città il brivido lungo la schiena è assicurato. Qua sono successe cose folli.
(Oh, le bici in tutto questo le ho provate eh. Ho due candidate tra cui decidere).
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •perché non usare DuckDuckGo? Privacy senza compromessi.
In alternativa c'è anche il browser Brave
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Ci sono diversi servizi che integrano motori di ricerca esistenti e in alcuni casi aggiungono un proprio sistema, ma un aspetto importante di Kagi è che le ricerche mostrano davvero quello che hai chiesto. Sembra banale, ma oggi non lo è più tanto perché quando fai una ricerca su un qualsiasi motore di ricerca o carichi una vagonata di letame da cui spulciare quello che ti serve, oppure trovi pochi risultati rilevanti.
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