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The Billionth Repository On GitHub is Really Shitty
What’s the GitHub repository you have created that you think is of most note? Which one do you think of as your magnum opus, the one that you will be remembered by? Was it the CAD files and schematics of a device for ending world hunger, or perhaps it was software designed to end poverty? Spare a thought for [AasishPokhrel] then, for his latest repository is one that he’ll be remembered by for all the wrong reasons. The poor guy created a repository with a scatalogical name, no doubt to store random things, but had the misfortune to inadvertently create the billionth repository on GitHub.
At the time of writing, the 
We think everyone will at some time or another have let loose some code into the wild perhaps with a comment they later regret, or a silly name that later comes back to haunt them. We know we have. So enjoy a giggle at his expense, but don’t give him a hard time. After all, this much entertainment should be rewarded.
End of an Era: NOAA’s Polar Sats Wind Down Operations
Since October 1978, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has operated its fleet of Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) — the data from which has been used for a wide array of environmental monitoring applications, from weather forecasting to the detection of forest fires and volcanic eruptions. But technology marches on, and considering that even the youngest member of the fleet has been in orbit for 16 years, NOAA has decided to retire the remaining operational POES satellites on June 16th.
Under normal circumstances, the retirement of weather satellites wouldn’t have a great impact on our community. But in this case, the satellites in question utilize the Automatic Picture Transmission (APT), Low-Rate Picture Transmission (LRPT), and High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT) protocols, all of which can be received by affordable software defined radios (SDRs) such as the RTL-SDR and easily decoded using free and open source software.
As such, many a radio hobbyist has pointed their DIY antennas at these particular satellites and pulled down stunning pictures of the Earth. It’s the kind of thing that’s impressive enough to get new folks interested in experimenting with radio, and losing it would be a big blow to the hobby.
Luckily, it’s not all bad news. While one of the NOAA satellites slated for retirement is already down for good, at least two remaining birds should be broadcasting publicly accessible imagery for the foreseeable future.
Not For Operational Use
The story starts in January, when NOAA announced that it would soon stop actively maintaining the three remaining operational POES satellites: NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19. At the time, the agency said there were currently no plans to decommission the spacecraft, and that anything they transmitted back down to Earth should be considered “data of opportunity” rather than a reliable source of information.
However, things appeared to have changed by April when NOAA sent out an update with what seemed like conflicting information. The update said that delivery of all data from the satellites would be terminated on June 16th, and that any users should switch over to other sources. Taken at face value, this certainly sounded like the end of amateurs being able to receive images from these particular satellites.
This was enough of a concern for radio hobbyists that Carl Reinemann, who operates the SDR-focused website USRadioguy.com, reached out to NOAA’s Office of Satellite and Product Operations for clarification. It was explained that the intent of the notice was to inform the public that NOAA would no longer be using or disseminating any of the data collected by the POES satellites, not that they would stop transmitting data entirely.
Further, the APT, LRPT, and HRPT services were to remain active and operate as before. The only difference now would be that the agency couldn’t guarantee how long the data would be available. Should there be any errors or failures on the spacecraft, NOAA won’t address them. In official government parlance, from June 16th, the feeds from the satellites would be considered unsuitable for “operational use.”
In other words, NOAA-15, NOAA-18, and NOAA-19 are free to beam Earth images down to anyone who cares to listen, but when they stop working, they will very likely stop working for good.
NOAA-18’s Early Retirement
As it turns out, it wouldn’t take long before this new arrangement was put to the test. At the end of May, NOAA-15’s S-band radio suffered some sort of failure, causing its output power to drop from its normal 7 watts down to approximately 0.8 watts. This significantly degraded both the downlinked images and the telemetry coming from the spacecraft. This didn’t just make reception by hobbyists more difficult. Even NOAA’s ground stations were having trouble sifting through the noise to get any useful data. To make matters even worse, the failing radio was also the only one left onboard the spacecraft that could actually receive commands from the ground.
While the transmission power issue seemed intermittent, there was clearly something very wrong with the radio, and there was no backup unit to switch over to. Concerned that they might lose control of the satellite entirely, ground controllers quickly made the decision to decommission NOAA-18 on June 6th.
Due to their limited propulsion systems, the POES satellites are unable to de-orbit themselves. So the decommissioning process instead tries to render the spacecraft as inert as possible. This includes turning off all transmitters, venting any remaining propellant into space, and finally, disconnecting all of the batteries from their chargers so they will eventually go flat.
At first glance, this might seem like a rash decision. After all, it was just a glitchy transmitter. What does it matter if NOAA wasn’t planning on using any more data from the satellite in a week or two anyway? But the decision makes more sense when you consider the fate of earlier NOAA POES satellites.
Curse of the Big Four
When one satellite breaks up in orbit, it’s an anomaly. When a second one goes to pieces, it’s time to start looking for commonality between the events. But when four similar spacecraft all explode in the same way…it’s clear you’ve got a serious problem.
That’s precisely what happened with NOAA-16, NOAA-17, and two of their counterparts from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), DMSP F11, and DMSP F13, between 2015 and 2021. While it’s nearly impossible to come to a definitive conclusion about what happened to the vehicles, collectively referred to as the “Big Four” in the NOAA-17 Break-up Engineering Investigation’s 2023 report, the most likely cause is a violent rupture of the craft’s Ni-Cd battery pack due to extreme overcharging.
What’s interesting is that NOAA-16 and 17, as well as DMSP F11, had gone through the decommissioning process before their respective breakups. As mentioned earlier, the final phase of the deactivation process is the disconnection of all batteries from the charging system. The NOAA-17 investigation was unable to fully explain how the batteries on these spacecraft could have become overcharged in this state, but speculated it may be possible that some fault in the electrical system inadvertently allowed the batteries to be charged through what normally would have been a discharge path.
As such, there’s no guarantee that the now decommissioned NOAA-18 is actually safe from a design flaw that destroyed its two immediate predecessors. But considering the risk of not disconnecting the charge circuits on a spacecraft design that’s known to be prone to overcharging its batteries, it’s not hard to see why NOAA went ahead with the shutdown process while they still had the chance.
The Future of Satellite Sniffing
While there are no immediate plans to decommission NOAA-15 and 19, it’s clear that the writing is on the wall. Especially considering the issues NOAA-15 has had in the past. These birds aren’t getting any younger, and eventually they’ll go dark, especially now that they’re no longer being actively managed.
So does that mean the end of DIY satellite imagery? Thankfully, no. While it’s true that NOAA-15 and 19 are the only two satellites still transmitting the analog APT protocol, the digital LRPT and HRPT protocols are currently in use by the latest Russian weather satellites. Meteor-M 2-3 was launched in June 2023, and Meteor-M 2-4 went up in February 2024, so both should be around for quite some time. In addition, at least four more satellites in the Meteor-M family are slated for launch by 2042.
So, between Russia’s Meteor fleet and the NOAA GOES satellites in geosynchronous orbit, hobbyists should still have plenty to point their antennas at in the coming years.
Want to grab your own images? There are tutorials. You can even learn how to listen to the Russian birds.
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Cat at the Door
This Pet Hacks Contest entry from [Andrea] opens the door to a great collaboration of sensors to solve a problem. The Cat At The Door project’s name is a bit of a giveaway to its purpose, but this project has something for everyone, from radar to e-ink, LoRa to 3D printing. He wanted a sensor to watch the door his cats frequent and when one of his cats were detected have an alert sent to where he is in the house
There are several ways you can detect a cat, in this project [Andrea] went with mmWave radar, and this is ideal for sensing a cat as it allows the sensor to sit protected inside, it works day or night, and it doesn’t stop working should the cat stand still. In his project log he has a chapter going into what he did to dial in the settings on the LD2410C radar board.
How do you know if you’re detecting your cat, some other cat, a large squirrel, or a small child? It helps if you first give your cats a MAC address, in the form of a BLE tag. Once the radar detects presence of a suspected cat, the ESP32-S3 starts looking over Bluetooth, and if a known tag is found it will identify which cat or cats are outside waiting.
Once the known cat has been identified, it’s time to notify [Andrea] that his cat is waiting for his door opening abilities. To do this he selected an ESP32 board that includes a SX1262 LoRa module for communicating with the portable notification device. This battery powered device has a low power e-paper display showing you which cat, as well as an audio buzzer to help alert you.
To read more details about this project head over to the GitHub page to check out all the details. Including a very impressive 80 page step-by-step guide showing you step by step how to make your own. Also, be sure to check out the other entries into the 2025 Pet Hacks Contest.
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Learning the Basics of Astrophotography Editing
Astrophotography isn’t easy. Even with good equipment, simply snapping a picture of the night sky won’t produce anything particularly impressive. You’ll likely just get a black void with a few pinpricks of light for your troubles. It takes some editing magic to create stunning images of the cosmos, and luckily [Karl Perera] has a guide to help get you started.
The guide demonstrates a number of editing techniques specifically geared to bring the extremely dim lights of the stars into view, using Photoshop and additionally a free software tool called Siril specifically designed for astrophotograpy needs. The first step on an image is to “stretch” it, essentially expanding the histogram by increasing the image’s contrast. A second technique called curve adjustment performs a similar procedure for smaller parts of the image. A number of other processes are performed as well, which reduce noise, sharpen details, and make sure the image is polished.
While the guide does show some features of non-free software like Photoshop, it’s not too hard to extrapolate these tasks into free software like Gimp. It’s an excellent primer for bringing out the best of your astrophotography skills once the pictures have been captured, though. And although astrophotography itself might have a reputation as being incredibly expensive just to capture those pictures in the first place, it can be much more accessible by using this Pi-based setup as a starting point.
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Crowdsourcing SIGINT: Ham Radio at War
I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful fishing trip? I get a lot of different answers about bait, equipment, and boats. Some people tell me beer. But the best answer, in my opinion, is fish. Without fish, you are sure to come home empty-handed.
On a recent visit to Bletchley Park, I thought about this and how it relates to World War II codebreaking. All the computers and smart people in the world won’t help you decode messages if you don’t already have the messages. So while Alan Turing and the codebreakers at Bletchley are well-known, at least in our circles, fewer people know about Arkley View.
The problem was apparent to the British. The Axis powers were sending lots of radio traffic. It would take a literal army of radio operators to record it all. Colonel Adrian Simpson sent a report to the director of MI5 in 1938 explaining that the three listening stations were not enough. The proposal was to build a network of volunteers to handle radio traffic interception.
That was the start of the Radio Security Service (RSS), which started operating out of some unused cells at a prison in London. The volunteers? Experienced ham radio operators who used their own equipment, at first, with the particular goal of intercepting transmissions from enemy agents on home soil.
At the start of the war, ham operators had their transmitters impounded. However, they still had their receivers and, of course, could all read Morse code. Further, they were probably accustomed to pulling out Morse code messages under challenging radio conditions.
Over time, this volunteer army of hams would swell to about 1,500 members. The RSS also supplied some radio gear to help in the task. MI5 checked each potential member, and the local police would visit to ensure the applicant was trustworthy. Keep in mind that radio intercepts were also done by servicemen and women (especially women) although many of them were engaged in reporting on voice communication or military communications.
Early Days
The VIs (voluntary interceptors) were asked to record any station they couldn’t identify and submit a log that included the messages to the RSS.
Thanks to a double agent, the RSS was able to decode the messages that were between agents in Europe and their Abwehr handlers back in Germany (the Abwehr was the German Secret Service) as well as Abwehr offices in foreign cities. Later messages contained Enigma-coded groups, as well.
Between the RSS team’s growth and the fear of bombing, the prison was traded for Arkley View, a large house near Barnet, north of London. Encoded messages went to Bletchley and, from there, to others up to Churchill. Soon, the RSS had orders to concentrate on the Abwehr and their SS rivals, the Sicherheitsdienst.
Change in Management
In 1941, MI6 decided that since the RSS was dealing with foreign radio traffic, they should be in charge, and thus RSS became SCU3 (Special Communications Unit 3).
There was fear that some operators might be taken away for normal military service, so some operators were inducted into the Army — sort of. They were put in uniform as part of the Royal Corps of Signals, but not required to do very much you’d expect from an Army recruit.
Those who worked at Arkley View would process logs from VIs and other radio operators to classify them and correlate them in cases where there were multiple logs. One operator might miss a few characters that could be found in a different log, for example.
Going 24/7
Many of the direction finding operators came from VIs. The stations typically had four antennas in a directional array. When one of the central stations (the Y stations) picked up a signal, they would call direction finding stations using dedicated phone lines and send them the signal.
The operator would hear the phone signal in one ear and the radio signal in the other. Then, they would change the antenna pattern electrically until the signal went quiet, indicating the antenna was electrically pointing away from the signals.
The DF operator would hear this signal in one earpiece. They would then tune their radio receiver to the right frequency and match the signal from the main station in one ear to the signal from their receiver in the other ear. This made sure they were measuring the correct signal among the various other noise and interference. The DF operator would then take a bearing by rotating the dial on their radiogoniometer until the signal faded out. That indicated the antenna was pointing the wrong way which means you could deduce which way it should be pointing.
The central station could plot lines from three direction finding stations and tell the source of a transmission. Sort of. It wasn’t incredibly accurate, but it did help differentiate signals from different transmitters. Later, other types of direction-finding gear saw service, but the idea was still the same.
Interesting VIs
Most of the VIs, like most hams at the time, were men. But there were a few women, including Helena Crawley. She was encouraged to marry her husband Leslie, another VI, so they could be relocated to Orkney to copy radio traffic from Norway.
In 1941, a single VI was able to record an important message of 4,429 characters. He was bedridden from a landmine injury during the Great War. He operated from bed using mirrors and special control extensions. For his work, he receive the British Empire Medal and a personal letter of gratitude from Churchill.
Results
Because of the intercepts of the German spy agency’s communications, many potential German agents were known before they arrived in the UK. Of about 120 agents arriving, almost 30 were turned into double agents. Others were arrested and, possibly, executed.
By the end of the war, the RSS had decoded around a quarter of a million intercepts. It was very smart of MI5 to realize that it could leverage a large number of trained radio operators both to cover the country with receivers and to free up military stations for other uses.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, the FCC had a similar plan.
The BBC did a documentary about the work the hams did during the war. You can watch it below.
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La maternità frena l'occupazione femminile - Info Data
Solo il 62,3% delle donne con figli minori è occupata, una percentuale che sale al 68,9% per quante non hanno figliRiccardo Saporiti (Info Data)
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Esattamente lo stesso errore nostro con i fascisti a suo tempo.
Unire i puntini...
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Rutte-Meloni, industria e difesa gettano le basi della Nato di domani
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La Nato è unita, deve rafforzarsi anche con l’aiuto del suo pilastro atlantico, di cui l’Italia è parte strategica. Mark Rutte non ha, nel suo incontro a Palazzo Chigi con Giorgia Meloni, solo messo l’accento sulle priorità strutturali dell’alleanza atlantica ma in “un’era
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L'Italia non è il paese più caro dove caricare un'auto elettrica
Un portale irlandese ha confrontato le tariffe per la ricarica casalinga in Europa, stabilendo dove sono più costose e più economiche.Andrea Spitti (alvolante.it)
Ben(e)detto sul Referendum
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L'articolo Ben(e)detto sul Referendum proviene da Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.
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L’asse Roma-Aia decide la sicurezza euroatlantica
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A meno di un mese dal vertice Nato dell’Aia, la capitale è tornata a ospitare un confronto ad alta densità strategica. La presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni ha ricevuto a Palazzo Chigi il segretario generale dell’Alleanza Atlantica, Mark Rutte, in una tappa significativa del suo primo giro europeo dopo la
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noticilla gorilla sapiens
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È uscito il nuovo numero di The Post Internazionale. Da oggi potete acquistare la copia digitale
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È uscito il nuovo numero di The Post Internazionale. Il magazine, disponibile già da ora nella versione digitale sulla nostra App, e da domani, venerdì 13 giugno, in tutte le edicole, propone ogni due settimane inchieste e approfondimenti sugli affari e il potere in
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Una giungla di fenomeni.
Se non riesci a concentrarti su cose serie per più di mezz'ora, è tempo di un post cazzaro.
Può anche non riuscire.
Tanto, sul #Blog, chi ti scova?
Cultura della Difesa e spesa militare sostenibile. Crosetto e Giorgetti a confronto
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Autorità dello Stato, rappresentanti delle istituzioni e militari, Pmi e colossi della Difesa si sono riuniti nel IV Forum sulla Difesa organizzato del Centro Studi Machiavelli, presso l’università Link di Roma, per discutere sulle priorità strategiche e sulle necessità stringenti per la
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Censura globale: dai palchi europei alle sale di Hollywood
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Lo scenario di libertà cambia e impone nuove regole alla cultura pop internazionale. Quest’anno l’Eurovision ha vietato qualsiasi tema politico o di attualità. Tutti gli artisti in gara hanno dovuto firmare un documento ufficiale in cui si sono impegnati a rispettare una serie di comportamenti,
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Israele-Germania. Più stretta la collaborazione militare, Berlino acquista l’Arrow 3
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Entro la fine del 2025 Berlino riceverà il sistema di “difesa aerea” israeliano di ultima generazione. Costo: 3,5 miliardi di dollari
L'articolo Israele-Germania. Più stretta la collaborazione militare, Berlino acquista l’Arrow 3 proviene
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Con questo articolo Free Zone Magazine continua la serie di interviste a Editori Indipendenti perché riteniamo che il loro ruolo nel campo dell’editoria sia da sempre di vitale importanza. Ciò per il lavoro di accurata ricerca, da loro svolto, nell’individuazione di autori e libri di particolare interesse, oltre che valore letterario, che altrimenti
Le commissioni in Parlamento cambiano stagione, ma poche poltrone | Pagella Politica
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Dal 3 giugno è aperta la piattaforma per le adesioni individuali alla Campagna Stop ReArm Europe.
MANIFESTAZIONE NAZIONALE CONTRO GUERRA, RIARMO, GENOCIDIO, AUTORITARISMO
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Dal 3 giugno è aperta la piattaforma per le adesioni individuali alla Campagna Stop ReArm Europe. MANIFESTAZIONE NAZIONALE CONTRO GUERRA, RIARMO, GENOCIDIO, AUTORITARISMO FERMIAMO LA GUERRA - STOP REARM EUROPE ROMA 21 GIUGNO 2025 ore 14:00 Porta Sa…Telegram
Anche la Toscana interromperà le relazioni istituzionali con Israele
"L’interruzione delle relazioni istituzionali ha un valore più politico che economico. Di fatto significa che i rappresentanti delle regioni, a partire dai presidenti, non potranno incontrare diplomatici israeliani e che non potranno essere organizzati eventi in collaborazione con istituzioni israeliane".
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The confirmation follows 404 Media's reporting using flight data and air traffic control (ATC) audio that showed the agency was flying Predator drones above Los Angeles.
The confirmation follows 404 Mediax27;s reporting using flight data and air traffic control (ATC) audio that showed the agency was flying Predator drones above Los Angeles.#News
CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE
The confirmation follows 404 Media's reporting using flight data and air traffic control (ATC) audio that showed the agency was flying Predator drones above Los Angeles.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
USA e #Cina, il teatro dei #dazi
USA e Cina, il teatro dei dazi
Al termine di due giorni di discussioni a Londra, le delegazioni di alto livello di Cina e Stati Uniti avrebbero trovato un accordo sul ripristino del meccanismo di “consenso”, sottoscritto a Ginevra lo scorso mese di maggio, per evitare un’escalatio…www.altrenotizie.org
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ma ci rendiamo conto del livello di schifo?
#vomito #sionisti
#Gaza #genocidio #Palestina
#warcrimes #sionismo #zionism
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Grecia, tre deputati neofascisti sospesi per “frode elettorale”
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In Grecia la Corte Suprema ha inabilitato tre deputati del partito di estrema destra "Spartani", guidato dal carcere dall'ex leader di Alba Dorata
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“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.#News
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label.
An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like.
Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
All’Italia serve una strategia per abbassare le bollette (di A. Corrado)
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Mentre sembra sempre che il governo Meloni abbia cose più importanti da fare, in Italia si aggira indisturbato un Robin Hood impazzito che svuota le tasche a cittadine e cittadini e alle piccole e medie imprese, spina dorsale del nostro tessuto economico e produttivo, per gonfiare quelle dei ricchi, che
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Come proteggersi durante le proteste. I dimostranti affrontano gas lacrimogeni, granate stordenti, coronavirus e sorveglianza
Come evitare che le cosiddette armi non letali provochino danni temporanei o permanenti? Come proteggere la propria identità dagli strumenti di identificazione biometrica?
Nota dell'editore (11/06/25): Ripubblichiamo questo articolo del 2020 alla luce delle recenti proteste contro i raid sull'immigrazione a Los Angeles.
Grazie a @Mike Taylor 🦕 che ha condiviso l'articolo
scientificamerican.com/article…
It's astonishing that Scientific American is having to publish an article on How Not To Be Killed By The Police, but here it is: scientificamerican.com/article…(Update: as several people have pointed out to me, this article is from 2020. Not that that makes it any better.)
How to Protect Yourself during Protests
Demonstrators face tear gas, flash bangs, coronavirus and surveillanceKaren Kwon (Scientific American)
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Cosa cambia con la legge sulla space economy. Il confronto con Mascaretti e Valente su Formiche.net
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Con l’approvazione definitiva del Disegno di legge in materia di economia dello Spazio, l’Italia compie un passo strategico verso la definizione di una vera politica industriale del settore spaziale. Una legge attesa, che
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La Siria obbliga le donne a indossare il burkini sulle spiagge pubbliche
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Si tratta di un costume da bagno appositamente studiato per coprire tutto il corpo
L'articolo La Siria obbliga le donne a indossare il pagineesteri.it/2025/06/11/med…
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