A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, effective, and inexpensive devices. But [Paulo Marques] observed that when it comes to reading motor speeds with them, what works best at high speeds doesn’t work at low speeds, and vice versa. His solution? PicoEncoder is a library providing a lightweight and robust method of using the Programmable I/O (PIO) hardware on the RP2040 to get better results, even (or especially) from cheap encoders, and do it efficiently. The results of the sub-step method (blue) resemble a low-pass filter, but is delivered with no delay or CPU burden. The output of a quadrature encoder is typically two square waves that are out of phase with one another. This data says whether a shaft is moving, and in what direction. When used to measure something like a motor shaft, one can also estimate rotation speed. Count how many steps come from the encoder over a period of time, and use that as the basis to calculate something like revolutions per minute.
[Paulo] points out that one issue with this basic method is that the quality depends a lot on how much data one has to work with. But the slower a motor turns, the less data one gets. To work around this, one can use a different calculation optimized for low speeds, but there’s really no single solution that handles high and low speeds well.
Another issue is that readings at the “edges” of step transitions can have a lot of noise. This can be ignored and assumed to average out, but it’s a source of inaccuracy that gets worse at slower speeds. Finally, while an ideal encoder has individual phases that are exactly 50% duty cycle and exactly 90 degrees out of phase with one another. This is almost never actually the case with cheaper encoders. Again, a source of inaccuracy.
[Paulo]’s solution was to roll his own method with the RP2040’s PIO, using a hybrid approach to effect a “sub-step” quadrature encoder. Compared to simple step counting, PicoEncoder more carefully tracks transitions to avoid problems with noise, and even accounts for phase size differences present in a particular encoder. The result is a much more accurate calculation of motor speed and position without any delays. Most of the work is done by the PIO of the RP2040, which does the low-level work of counting steps and tracking transitions without any CPU time involved. Try it out the next time you need to read a quadrature encoder for a motor!
The PIO is one of the more interesting pieces of functionality in the RP2040 and it’s great to see it used in a such a clever way. As our own Elliot Williams put it when he evaluated the RP2040, the PIO promises never having to bit-bang a solution again.
It’s not unusual for redundant satellites, rocket stages, or other spacecraft to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere. Usually they pass unnoticed or generate a spectacular light show, and very rarely a few pieces make it to the surface of the planet. Coming up though is something entirely different, a re-entry of a redundant craft in which the object in question might make it to the ground intact. To find out more about the story we have to travel back to the early 1970s, and Kosmos-482. It was a failed Soviet Venera mission, and since its lander was heavily over-engineered to survive entry into the Venusian atmosphere there’s a fascinating prospect that it might survive Earth re-entry. This model of the earlier Venera 7 probe shows the heavy protection to survive entry into the Venusian atmosphere. Emerezhko, CC BY-SA 4.0. At the time of writing the re-entry is expected to happen on the 10th of May, but as yet due to its shallow re-entry angle it is difficult to predict where it might land. It is thought to be about a metre across and to weigh just under 500 kilograms, and its speed upon landing is projected to be between 60 and 80 metres per second. Should it hit land rather than water then, its remains are thought to present an immediate hazard only in its direct path.
Were it to be recovered it would be a fascinating artifact of the Space Race, and once the inevitable question of its ownership was resolved — do marine salvage laws apply in space? –we’d expect it to become a world class museum exhibit. If that happens, we look forward to bringing you our report if possible.
If you’ve only been around for the Internet age, you may not realize that Hackaday is the successor of electronics magazines. In their heyday, magazines like Popular Electronics, Radio Electronics, and Elementary Electronics brought us projects to build. Hacks, if you will. Just like Hackaday, not all readers are at the same skill level. So you’d see some hat with a blinking light on it, followed by some super-advanced project like a TV typewriter or a computer. Or a picture phone.
In 1982, Radio Electronics, a major magazine of the day, showed plans for building a picture phone. All you needed was a closed-circuit TV camera, a TV, a telephone, and about two shoeboxes crammed full of parts.
Like many picture phones of its day, it was stretching the definition a little. It actually used ham radio-style slow scan TV (SSTV) to send a frame of video about once every eight seconds. That’s not backwards. The frame rate was 0.125 Hz. And while the resulting 128 x 256 image would seem crude today, this was amazing high tech for 1982.
Slow Scan for the Win
Hams had been playing with SSTV for a long time. Early experiments used high-persistence CRTs, so you’d see the image for as long as the phosphor kept glowing. You also had to sit still for the entire eight seconds to send the picture.
It didn’t take long for hams to take advantage of modern circuits to capture the slow input and convert it to a normal TV signal for as long as you wanted, and that’s what this box does as well. Early “scan converters” used video storage tubes that were rejects (because a perfect new one might have cost $50,000). However, cheap digital memory quickly replaced these storage tubes, making SSTV more practical and affordable. One of Mitsubishi’s Picture Phones Still, it never really caught on for telephone networks. A few years later, a few commercial products offered similar tech. Atari made a phone that was bought up by Mitsubishi and sold as the Luna, for example, around 1986. Mitsubishi, Sony, and others tried, unsuccessfully, to get the market to accept these slow picture phones. Between the cost of making a call and a minimum of $400 to buy one, though, it was a hard sell.
You might think this sounds like a weekend project with a Pi-Cam, and you are probably right if you did it now. But in 1982, the amount of work it took to make this work was significant. It helped that it used MM5280 dynamic RAM chips, which held a whopping 4,096 bits (not bytes) of memory. The project needed 16 of the chips, which, at the time, were about $5 each. Remember that $80 in those days was a lot more than $80 today, and you had to buy the rest of the parts, the camera (the article estimates that’s $150, alone), and so on. This wasn’t a poor high school student project.
Robot Kits
You could buy entire kits or just key parts, which was a common thing for magazines to do in those days. The kits came from Robot Research, which was known for making SSTV equipment for hams, so it makes sense that they knew how to do this. The author mentions that “this project is not for beginners.” He explains there are nearly 100 ICs on a “tightly-packed double-sided PC board.”
The device had two primary inputs: fast scan from the camera and slow scan from the phone line. Both could be digitized and stored in the memory array. The memory can also output fast scan TV for the monitor or slow scan for the phone line. Obviously, the system was half duplex. If you were sending a picture, you wouldn’t expect to receive a picture at the same time. This is just the main board! The input conversion is done with comparators for speed. Luckily, the conversion is only four bits of monochrome, so you only need 16 (IC73-80) to get the job done. The memory speed was also a concern. Each memory chip’s enable line activated while the previous chip’s was half way through with a cycle.
Since there is no microcontroller, the design includes plenty of gates, op amps, bipolar transistors, and the like. The adjacent picture shows just the device’s main board!
Lots of Parts
If you want to dig into the details, you’ll also want to look at part 2. There’s more theory of operation there and the parts list. The article notes that you could record the tones to a cassette tape for later playback, but that you’d “probably need a device from your local phone company to couple the Picture Phone to their lines.” Ah, the days of the DAA.
They even noted in part 2 that connecting a home-built Picture Phone directly to the phone lines was illegal, which was true at the time. Part 3 talks even more about the phone interface (and, that same issue has a very cool roundup of all the computers you could buy in 1982, ranging from $100 to $6,000). Part 4 was all about alignment and yet more about the phone interface.
Alignment shouldn’t have been too hard. The highest tone on the phone line was 2,300 Hz. While there are many SSTV standards today for color images, this old-fashioned scheme was simple: 2,300 Hz for white and 1,500 Hz for black. A 1,200 Hz tone provided sync signals. Interestingly, sharp jumps in color could create artifacts, so the converters use a gray code to minimize unnecessary sharp jumps in value.
The Phone Book
It wouldn’t make sense to make only one of these, so we wonder how many pairs were built. The magazine did ask people to report if they had one and intended to publish a picture phone directory. We don’t know if that ever happened, but given what a long-distance phone call cost in 1982, we imagine that idea didn’t catch on.
The video phone was long a dream, and we still don’t have exactly what people imagined. We would really like to replicate this picture phone on a PC using GNU Radio, for example.
Image by [BFB_Workshop] via redditIf you use a true split, even if you never leave the house, you know the pain of losing the good angle and/or separation you had going on for whatever reason. Not only does this monoblock split solve that simply by being a monoblock split, you can always find the right angle you had via the built-in angle finder.
[BFB_Workshop] used a nice!nano v2, but you could use any ZMK-supported board with the same dimensions. This 5 x 12 has 60 Gateron KS-33 switches, which it was made for, and has custom keycaps. You can, of course, see all the nice, neat ribbon cable wiring through the clear PLA, which is a really great touch.
This bad boy is flat enough that you can use the table as your palm rest. To me, that doesn’t sound so comfortable, but then again, I like key wells and such. I’d still love to try a Protractor, because it looks quite interesting to type on. If you want to build one, the files and instructions are available on Printables.
Present Arms: the AR-60%
Image by [Sli22ard] via redditYes I stole that joke, sort of. Don’t shoot! Anyway, as [Sli22ard] asks, does your keyboard have a mil-spec stock? I’m guessing no, although you might have a knife nearby. I myself have a fancy-handled butter knife for opening mail.
This is [Sli22ard]’s latest “abomination”, and the best part is that the MOE fixed carbine stock folds up so that the whole thing fits on the ever-important keyboard display. (Click to the second picture and be sure to admire the Dreamcast that was in storage for however long.)
The case is a Keysme Pic60, custom Cerakoted, with a 4pplet waffling60 PCB within its walls. That case is meant to have things hanging off the upper left corner, so that must have been a great place to start as far as connecting up the stock.
[Sli22ard] used Gateron Type R switches and a NovelKeys Cream Arc switch for the Spacebar. Most of the keycaps are GMK Striker, with the 10u Spacebar from Awekeys.
I particularly like the midnight-y keycaps along with that monster gold Spacebar. [Sli22ard] says it thocks like nobody’s business, and I believe it.
The Centerfold: the Quiet Type
Image by [Pleasant_Dot_189] via reddit[Pleasant_Dot_189] sure has a pleasant research-only battlestation, don’t they? Sure, there are four screens, but there’s no RGB, and the only plant can safely be ignored for weeks at a time. Why four screens? This way, [Pleasant_Dot_189] doesn’t have to switch between tasks or tabs and can just write as they work on their fifth book.
Do you rock a sweet set of peripherals on a screamin’ desk pad? Send me a picture along with your handle and all the gory details, and you could be featured here!
Historical Clackers: the Malling-Hansen Takygraf
The astute among you will remember that we’ve covered the Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, the more well-known offering from M-H. Well, this here is the Malling-Hansen Takygraf (or Takygraph, depending upon where you are in the world), and it was quite the writing machine. Only one was created, and its whereabouts are unknown. Image via The Malling-Hansen Society Rasmus Malling-Hansen’s intention was to create a typewriter that could type at the speed of human speech. And he succeeded — the Takygraf could reach speeds of 1200 characters per minute. He hoped the Takygraf would be used for stenography.
The VP of the Malling-Hansen Society describes the function of the Takygraf as follows: “The first Takygraf from 1872 was combined with a writing ball but the bottom of each piston forms a blunt point and so it forms only impressions in the paper. The paper band was prepared to conduct electricity. Under the paper band there were metal points which were connected to electromagnets. The form impressions in the paper band are brought in contact with the fixed metal points under the paper as the paper moves along and so the corresponding electromagnets are brought into action. When the electromagnets attracted the keepers, then the types made their impressions on the paper band (through the invention of a colored or carbonized strip of paper).
In the year 1874 follows a modified Takygraf combined with a writing ball but instead of the prepared paper (to conduct electricity) and the form impressions in the paper Rasmus Malling-Hansen developed a mechanical memory-unit, which contacts the electromagnets in the right time to make the needed type impressions on the paper band. It was possible to write with this brilliant invention as fast as we talk.”
Actually, the Cleaver is another aluminium keyboard, not the Icebreaker from a couple Keebins ago. But they’re from the same company, and the idea is basically the same. Aluminium wherever possible, and tiny, laser-cut holes that make up the legends. At least these are more legible. Image by Serene Industries via Yanko Design And, whereas the Icebreaker definitely doubled as bludgeoning device, the Cleaver is much slimmer and more streamlined. Both are machined from a single block of aluminium.
Much like its predecessor, the Cleaver is a Hall-effect keyboard, which I would really like to type on someday while I consider how they can never really wear out in the traditional switch sense.
Inside the metal block, the electronics are huddled away from its raw power inside of a silicone core. This is meant to enhance the typing acoustics, protect against dust, sweat, and coffee, and has the added effect of popping out the underside to be a nice, non-slip foot.
Unlike the Icebreaker, which started at $2100, the pre-order price for the Cleaver is a mere $850. And to get this one in black? Still just $850. I’m curious to know how much it weighs, since it’s much more portable-looking. The Cleaver would be an icebreaker for sure.
Continuous glucose meters (CGMs) aren’t just widgets for the wellness crowd. For many, CGMs are real-time feedback machines for the body, offering glucose trendlines that help people rethink how they eat. They allow diabetics to continue their daily life without stabbing their fingertips several times a day, in the most inconvenient places. This video by [Becky Stern] is all about comparing two of the most popular continuous glucose monitors (CGMs): the Abbott Libre 3 and the Dexcom G7.
Both the Libre 3 and the G7 come with spring-loaded applicators and stick to the upper arm. At first glance they seem similar, but the differences run deep. The Libre 3 is the minimalist of both: two plastic discs sandwiching the electronics. The G7, in contrast, features an over-molded shell that suggests a higher production cost, and perhaps, greater robustness. The G7 needs a button push to engage, which users describe as slightly clumsy compared to the Libre’s simpler poke-and-go design. The nuance: G7’s ten-day lifespan means more waste than the fourteen-day Libre, yet the former allows for longer submersion in water, if that’s your passion.
While these devices are primarily intended for people with diabetes, they’ve quietly been adopted by a growing tribe of biohackers and curious minds who are eager to explore their own metabolic quirks. In February, we featured a dissection of the Stelo CGM, cracking open its secrets layer by layer.
Posts made by a Fosstodon server moderator on Reddit has caused some drama, leading to both Fosstodon admins to call it quits, a number of servers (threatening to) defederate from the Fosstodon server, leading to an uncertain future for the Fosstodon server.
Fosstodon drama
A few days ago someone published a post on Mastodon, with screenshots and links to posts made on Reddit by one of the Fosstodon moderators. In the linked posts, the Reddit account in question, which seemingly belongs to the Fosstodon moderator, holds various right-wing beliefs, ranging from defending the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil to claiming Democrat supporters are in a cult. Backlash to the Fosstodon server was swift and strong, with various calls and plans from other servers to defederate from Fosstodon, members of the Fosstodon server looking for other servers to move their account to, and a general condemnation from the wider community. Both Fosstodon admins have postedarticles declaring they are stepping down, citing not only the current drama as a reason, but that they see the work of being server admins as frustrating with little pay-off. One Fosstodon community member is considering to take over the administration of the server, though as of writing, that process is still ongoing and the outcome unclear.
Some thoughts and takeaways about what this drama says about the social side of federation on the network, and how different communities interact:
When a server moderators holds opinions other people view as problematic, the social cost of these views is partially extended to server users as well. See for example the account for fediverse streaming platform Owncast, which has an account on the Fosstodon server. Owncast says that they are getting messages that say they need to move servers, otherwise people will see them as Nazis. This blog post about another Fosstodon user explains a similar thought process, where it is rational for them to move to a different server, because they will be associated with the politics of the server moderator in question otherwise.
This behaviour has an impact on how people on the fediverse should find an instance they want to join. It turns out that knowing the political affiliations of server moderators is important, and that this is something that people should know about before joining a server. People will be judged for being on a server that has a moderator with toxic political views. As such, it becomes important for people to know this information beforehand: both that they will get judged for the politics of server moderators, as well as knowing what those political views actually are.
This is another indication of why the process of selecting a server when someone joins the fediverse is actually a challenge: important information that should impact server choice is not made available to users, nor is it made clear that this information is important in the first place.
The second takeaway from the situation is that it shows a need for fediverse servers to have a federation policy. How federation currently works on the fediverse is that servers are connected with each other by default, and the assumption is that servers can disconnect from each other for any reason, but will mostly do so only if one of the servers is misbehaving in some way. Freedom of association is one of the valuable features of the fediv erse. Server operators should be free to defederate from any other server, for any reason. Being able to defederate from another server because you strongly disagree with the politics from one of the server moderators is a good thing. But if this is a consistent policy of the server, it would do well to make this policy public and explicit. Servers defederating from each other can have significant impact on users, who suddenly can lose connections with their friends. A policy of defederating from other servers based on the expressed beliefs of server moderators is something that is not immediately obvious to new people joining the fediverse. There are absolutely valid reasons to do so, but it seems to me that formalising such a policy would be a good step towards making the culture on the fediverse more sustainable.
The third takeaway is that running a fediverse server is challenging, especially over longer periods of time. Both Fosstodon admins have called in quits in response to the most recent drama. Their blog posts explaining their perspectives is that this has been a long time coming, and that the Fosstodon server has been uncompensated work that they do not love doing for years now. Regardless of one’s perspective on how the admins handled the latest situation, it is a further indication that being a fediverse server admin is a challenging job, one that should not be expected that someone can do forever. This means that servers like Fosstodon need governance systems that allow for better and earlier rotation of administrative power. Fediverse software should also be better at dealing with the realities of admin burnout. The users who are transferring from Fosstodon to another server will lose their posts; Mastodon does only transfer the social graph, and not posting history. While ideally the majority of servers would have extensive governance systems in place that can help deal with admin burnout, the reality is that most servers do not. More fediverse software should provide better support for users having to move to different servers, including with their posts.
The Links
NLnet, a fund that contributes to many open-source initiatives with a long track record of support fediverse projects, has published the beneficiaries of their latest funding round. PeerTube has gotten another grant, and publisher Framasoft talked about more how the money will be spend in their 2025 roadmap. The other fediverse beneficiary is an OpenScience flavour of Bonfire. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform with a broad range of features, but the platform has struggled to get to an actual release. Bonfire published a blog post about their ‘road to Bonfire 1.0’ in September 2023, and an update in October 2024 where they announced a bounty program to get contributions to improve performance of the app.
The Doo the Woo podcast, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin developer Matthias Pfefferle, interviewed André Menrath. Menrath is working on a plugin to bring WordPress events to ActivityPub.
The Bad Space is a project where various fediverse servers share their blocklists to build an aggregate of fediverse servers that are potentially worth blocking. The project is now available for self-hosting.
Some new features for FediAlgo, a customisable timeline algorithm for Mastodon, including a ‘What’s Trending’ feature.
A writeup on how to make a blog site using Lemmy as data storage.
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Bonfire is inching ever closer towards a 1.0 release of its social offering, which is a landmark development for the project. But beneath the surface, there's a bigger story going on: rather than simp
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Recently I had a class (at the school of art-therapy I'm currently attending) in the basics of video editing, and of course they had us use Capcut... (for those of you who don't know, it's TikTok's official app, full of AI stuff, social media optimizations, premium features etc...) I've been doing video editing on Linux since 2020 (using Cinelerra-GG), but after this class I've been looking for some "real" (i.e., as close as possible) FLOSS alternative (but w/o all the AI and the bloat) to introduce my colleagues to. I know about desktop alternatives, but here I want to focus on mobile apps (at least on Android). Initially, I really thought there was none (Open Video Editor is of no use here), and the best option would be something like CuteCut, which isn't open source but at least has 0 trackers according to Exodus. Then I stumbled upon LibreCuts. It really seems to be what I'm looking for... except, then I read that it depends on Android Studio and Android SDK. I'm not totally sure what this actually means - is it still in an early phase of development and it will eventually be available as a "normal" app in the store? And in the meantime, what should I do to try it on my phone? I'm tagging @TOV as I reckon they would have some useful insight for me, but anyone who knows better than me please help. I wonder if this may also interest @Daniel Supernault for a collab/integration for the Loops platform? @Signor Amministratore ⁂ @Devol ⁂
The truth is that editing videos on Android is a challenge because users are limited to small screens. Also, the lack of reliable applications do not help users to adequately edit videos on mobile devices.
I tried to discover a workflow for editing videos on Android a long time ago and had no success. Most video editors on mobile devices are limited. Perhaps this limitation is due to the limited processing power mobile devices offer. Because desktop processors have higher clock speeds and fewer power restrictions than mobile devices, applications like 2D and 3D animation, photo editing and video editing are better done on desktop computers.
@TOV Thank you for the reply! Well, this is my opinion, too, but what I'm saying here is that the average users wanting to make a simple, quick edit for whatever reason (from reels to post on social networks, to therapeutical activity, like in my case), really don't care about power or screen size, they just need some app on their phone to edit on the go. This is why I was looking for an alternative, because many people really appreciate CapCut for this reason, so I think it would be nice to have something else to offer them.
@TOV Well, I really wonder whether @Daniel Supernault has any ideas or plans about this (I know he's very busy with all of his projects at the moment, but maybe for the future...). I think this would be much appreciated by #pixelfed and #loops users (CapCut was created for TikTok users after all) 😉
This page is very interesting. According to Google, a video editing application can be implemented using Kotlin or Java. developer.android.com/media/im…
🚩ATTENZIONE🚩: il 2 maggio è prevista la migrazione di Pixelfed.uno su un nuovo server dedicato![i]
Venerdì 2 maggio, l'istanza Pixelfed.uno verrà spostata su un server più veloce e capiente per sostenere la sua recente crescita(sono stati superati i 500GB di immagini condivise!).
[b]⚠️ Cosa aspettarsi: - Interruzioni durante i lavori (il sito sarà offline alcune ore). - Nessun dato perso: tutte le foto e i profili saranno al sicuro!
Perché la migrazione? 🚀 Pixelfed.uno è la prima istanza italiana pixelfed e la prima consigliata dopo quella ufficiale: pixelfed.org/servers e c'è l'intenzione di mantenerla veloce, gratuita e senza pubblicità
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Bisogna avere la faccia come il sedere per dire determinate cose. Io non so che posizione abbiano tutti gli altri cittadini europei, ma quelli italiani in larga maggioranza sono contrari ai piani di riarmo guerrafondai di Ursula Von der Leyen. Questa naista dei giorni nostri continua a mentire spudoratamente. Il discorso che ha fatto oggi al congresso del Partito Popolare Europeo sembrava scopiazzato dagli appunti di Hitler a cavallo tra la prima e la seconda guerra mondiale: dobbiamo riarmarci, dobbiamo difenderci, ci vogliono invadere, non bisogna cedere alla diplomazia. Servono armi e guerra per fare la pace. Non sto scherzando! Questa naista del nuovo secolo, sappiatelo, è a capo dell'Unione Europea grazie a personaggi come Giorgia Meloni ed Elly Schlein.
Questa na*ista del nuovo secolo parla di diritto di difendersi ma non dice una sola parola sulla difesa dei Palestinesi contro i terroristi isrl.
Ecco quanto è complicato il nostro lavoro. mi riferisco agli informatici.
Ed ecco perché metterci sotto pressione, sottopagati, con carenze di organico strutturali non è mai una buona idea.
Poi, magari le cause del problema non sono state queste ma voglio puntare il dito sul fatto che ormai tutto è informatizzato, anche in sistemi critici. È in questo contesto che va inserito il mio discorso; l'articolo è solo uno spunto.
Le prime conseguenze elettorali del secondo mandato presidenziale di Donald Trump si sono potute osservare nella giornata di lunedì, anche se non negli Stati Uniti e con risultati che hanno evidenziato un’influenza indiscutibilmente negativa.
Nel cuore del Mediterraneo, Italia e Turchia stanno ridefinendo il panorama della cooperazione industriale nel settore della difesa. A margine degli incontri a Roma, che hanno visto la firma di accordi strategici tra i
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@Politica interna, europea e internazionale “La dichiarazione congiunta che adottiamo conferma la solidità dei nostri rapporti e oggi getta le basi per rafforzare ancora di più il nostro partenariato”. Per Meloni Erdogan è un
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I carabinieri sono accusati a vario titolo di lesioni, violenza sessuale, abuso d’ufficio, falso in atto pubblico, porto abusivo d’armi e rifiuto di denuncia: la pena più grave, di 9 anni e 8 mesi, è stata inflitta al maresciallo Alessandro Fiorentino.
I magistrati hanno anche fatto delle intercettazioni telefoniche.
In una di queste intercettazioni, uno dei carabinieri raccomandava a un collega di non parlare a nessuno di quello che accadeva in caserma: «Da questa caserma non deve uscire niente, dobbiamo essere come la mafia», diceva.
Gli eurodeputati italiani di FI e FdI si sono schierati contro la vulgata che vorrebbe i fondi della difesa dedicati solo ad aziende che hanno una catena di fornitura made in Eu, decisione che di fatto discriminerebbe tutte quelle realtà industriali che hanno relazioni con Usa,
La storia di una straordinaria stamperia: il 9 e il 10 maggio, al Centro Culturale LA CAMERA VERDE (Ostiense, via G. Miani 20), si proietta il documentario "IL LABORATORIO", di Pasquale Napolitano (scrittura del regista e di Daniela Allocca).
>>> Vittorio Avella, maestro incisore, e Antonio Sgambati nel 1978 a Nola, fondano Il Laboratorio di Nola. 45 anni di attività segnano questo luogo come tra gli ultimi avamposti dove il libro non è mai stato una questione di codici a barre. Il libro nel laboratorio diventa un’esperienza umana. Il film di Napolitano racconta l’idea, la gioia del fare, del saper aspettare, cosa accade quando il torchio si mette in movimento, cosa vuol dire tirare su una stamperia ... <<<
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Proseguono gli scontri in Kashmir tra i militari dell'India e del Pakistan dopo la strage che ha ucciso 26 turisti nella regione occupata da Nuova Delhi L'articolo Kashmir: quinta notte di scontri al confine tra Pakistan e India pagineesteri.it/2025/04/29/asi…
domani, mercoledì 30 aprile, a San Giovanni, Teatro Basilica: lettura collettiva delle poesie del libro (recentemente ristampato in ebook gratuitamente scaricabile) “Strana categoria”, di Carlo Bordini. slowforward.net/2025/04/24/30-…
@Privacy Pride Il post completo di Christian Bernieri è sul suo blog: garantepiracy.it/blog/lo-scamm… Un gustoso articolo di Signorina37 (AKA Claudia), da leggere nel tempo di una canzone, per l'occasione, consiglio questa. Attenzione agli unicorni, sono strani. CB Comincia tutto con un messaggio, uno come tanti.
a me sembra che il modo di ragionare di putin è ottocentesco. ma nel tempo ho verificato di essere l'unica a pensarlo. ottocentesco nel senso che in passato gli stati abitualmente invadevano i vicini per allargare i territorio. la mentalità era quella da risko. in epoca moderna le "colonie" sono scomparse, e non per generosità o altruismo ma per motivi economici. e questo perché oggigiorno servono mercati dove vendere e non territori. e un mercato dove vendi può essere legato economicamente a te ma più essere anche formalmente libero. eppure putin (e trump a quanto pare) ragionano sempre con la logica del mi allargo, sono felice, conquisto nuovi territori, e questo dovrebbe risolvere chissà quale problema interno (forse la fame). pure l'idea di influenza geo-politica non prevede l'invasione di terra, ma al massimo il colpo di stato.
diciamo che secondo un'idea disdicevole ma moderna se fallisci un colpo di stato ne provi un altro... l'invasione di terra è quasi universalmente considerata troppo costosa.
lo scenario più positivo e meno tragico esistente è quello in cui quando si muore finisce tutto e non c'è niente. questo è quando va meglio. mi vengono i brividi a pensare a vari scenari in cui l'universo è costantemente bullizzato da un dio, più o meno sadico, ma mai benevolo o buono.
@simona a me, nel caso andasse male, piacerebbe che fosse vera la visione di Dio che hanno in Oriente, in particolare nell'induismo antico.
Il Dio induista è uno, anche se assume mille volti sulla base dei quali noi occidentali abbiamo sviluppato una specie di pregiudizio monoteistico.
Dio sarebbe puro amore, e inscindibile da ogni cosa che esiste, ed essendo l'unica cosa che esisteva avrebbe creato tutto ciò che conosciamo affinché ci fosse qualcuno, qualcosa di esterno da sé che trae nutrimento da lui/lei (perché sarebbe impossibile il contrario), qualcuno da amare e da cui essere amato/a a sua volta.
La sua creazione sarebbe perfetta anche se non ne comprendiamo il funzionamento, ed in quanto perfetta noi siamo dotati di libero arbitrio: possiamo scegliere, cioè, se amare Dio o meno, ma lui/lei non interverrà mai con la sua creazione, cosa che lo/la renderebbe una amorevole madre, ma anche sostanzialmente indifferente.
In questa visione, ogni tanto ci manderebbe sulla Terra qualcuno il cui intelletto riesce a comprendere tutto questo, e che possa ricordare al resto della umanità come stanno le cose.
Non so, fin tutti i mali mi sembrerebbe il meno peggio 😂
@Simon Perry è credo uno scenario poco logico e realizzabile. e forse poco coerente con la realtà. chi "vivrà" nell'oltretomba vedrà. l'idea di un dio di amore è quanto di più irragionevole vedendo il mondo. e non perché le scelte umane non siano sbagliate e sia colpa di dio. ma proprio la sofferenza da sola pervade il mondo. al mondo c'è sofferenza e qualche volta noia. niente altro. questi sono gli ingredienti che ci sono stati versati dentro. a tutte le scale. e di certo nell'universo niente è infinito, neppure l'universo stesso e tutto finisce.
La spesa militare globale nel 2024 ha visto il suo più grande aumento dalla fine della Guerra Fredda, raggiungendo i 2,7 trilioni di dollari a causa di guerre e conflitti mondiali
Per la quarta notte consecutiva dall’attacco terroristico di settimana scorsa in Kashmir, le forze armate di India e Pakistan si sono scambiate colpi di arma da fuoco lungo la linea del confine di fatto che divide i due paesi asiatici.
la Redes Energéticas Nacionais (REN), ha detto che il blackout potrebbe essere stato causato da un fenomeno atmosferico, nello specifico un repentino cambio di temperatura, che avrebbe interferito con la rete elettrica in Spagna.
Non so... boh... mi sembra siamo al livello del chiodo che ha paralizzato la rete ferroviaria qui da noi.
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in reply to Tiziano :friendica: • • •Re: LibreCuts – it does not seem to be available from Google Play (the official app store) nor F-Droid (an alternative app store).
The references in the repo to the SDK etc. mean you would have to build the app on your computer/laptop and then load onto your phone.
This is all doable, but not a very user-friendly process, I'm afraid. Maybe you want to message the developer and ask for a release.
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in reply to TOV • •Thank you for the reply! Well, this is my opinion, too, but what I'm saying here is that the average users wanting to make a simple, quick edit for whatever reason (from reels to post on social networks, to therapeutical activity, like in my case), really don't care about power or screen size, they just need some app on their phone to edit on the go.
This is why I was looking for an alternative, because many people really appreciate CapCut for this reason, so I think it would be nice to have something else to offer them.
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in reply to TOV • •Well, I really wonder whether @Daniel Supernault has any ideas or plans about this (I know he's very busy with all of his projects at the moment, but maybe for the future...). I think this would be much appreciated by #pixelfed and #loops users (CapCut was created for TikTok users after all) 😉
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Create a basic video editing app using Media3 Transformer
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