Every Thursday of the week, Bastian’s Night is broadcast from 21:30 CEST (new time).

Bastian’s Night is a live talk show in German with lots of music, a weekly round-up of news from around the world, and a glimpse into the host’s crazy week in the pirate movement.

If you want to read more about @BastianBB: –> This way

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Web systems are designed to be simple and reliable. Designing for the everyday person is the goal, but if you don’t consider the odd man out, they may encounter some problems. This is the everyday life for some people with names that often have unconsidered features, such as apostrophes or spaces. This is the life of [Luke O’Sullivan], who even had to fly under a different name than his legal one.

[O’Sullivan] is far from a rare surname, but presents an interesting challenge for many computer systems. Systems from the era of penny pinching every bit relied on ASCII. ASCII only included 128 characters, which included a very small set of special characters. Some systems didn’t even include some of these characters to reduce loading times. Throw on the security features put in place to prevent injection attacks, and you have a very unfriendly field for many uncommon names.

Unicode is a newer standard with over 150,000 characters, allowing for nearly any character. However, many older systems are far from easy or cheap to convert to the new standard. This leaves many people to have to adapt to the software rather than the software adapting to the user. While this is simply poor design in general, [O’Sullivan] makes sure to point out how demeaning this can be for many people. Imagine being told that your name isn’t important enough to be included, or told that it’s “invalid”.

One excuse that gets thrown about is the aforementioned injection prompts that can be used to affect these systems. This can cause systems to crash or even change settings; however, it’s not just these older systems that get affected. For modern-day injection prompts, check out how AI models can get affected!

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Thanks to Ken Fallon for the tip!

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Entries keep ticking in for the One Hertz Challenge, some more practical than others. [Pierre-Loup M.]’s One Hertz Sculpture has no pretensions of being anything but pretty, but we can absolutely respect the artistic impulse behind it.

The sculpture is a free-form circuit inside of a picture frame. There are 9 LEDs in a ring with a few other components to produce a reverse-chase effect (one going dark at a time) taking about 1 second to circle the sculpture. As far as free-form circuit art goes, it’s handsomely done, but as this is Hackaday it’s probably the electronics, rather that the aesthetics that are of interest.

The circuit is an example of a ring oscillator: a cascading chain of NOT gates, endlessly feeding into and inverting one
Without timing it, it looks like 1 Hz, even if we know it’s not.
another. The NOT gates are implemented in resistor-transistor logic with 2N3904 NPN transistors, nine in total. Of course the inverter delay of this sort of handmade logic gate is far too fast for an aesthetically pleasing (or visible) chase, so some extra circuitry is needed to slow down the oscillations to something less than the 5 MHz it would naturally do. This is affected by pairing every transistor with an RC oscillator. Ideally the RC oscillator would have a 0.111..s period (1/9th of a second), but a few things got in the way of that. The RC oscillator isn’t oscillating in a vacuum, and interactions with the rest of the circuit have it running just a little bit fast. That’s really of no matter; a simple oscillator circuit like this wasn’t going to be a shoe in for the accuracy-based Time Lords category of this contest. As a sculpture and not a clock, you’re not going to notice it isn’t running at exactly 1Hz. (Though a ring-oscillator based clock would be a sight indeed.)

We’ve seen ring oscillators before, including inside the venerable 8087 coprocessor and this delightfully romantic beating-heart gift, but this is the first one that seems to have entered the One Hertz Challenge.

If you have a hankering for hertz, the contest is still open, but you’d better get ticking! The contest closes August 19th.

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Ho scoperto questo manga di recente e me ne sono innamorato. Affronta tematiche importanti senza banali superficialità, offrendo uno spaccato "chiaramente un po' romanzato" della vita degli studenti delle superiori. Onestamente, non ne ho mai abbastanza!

🌕⭐: Non amo dare voti assoluti, ma questo per me se li merita tutti. Aspetto con impazienza i nuovi capitoli.

If you were at OpenSauce, you may have seen new Youtuber [Sahko] waltzing about with a retrofuturistic peice of jewelery that revealed itself as a very cool watch. If you weren’t, he’s his very first video on YouTube detailing the design and construction of this piece. We’ve embedded it below, and it’s worth a watch. (Pun intended, as always.)

The build was inspired by the delightful amber LED dot-matrix display modules that circle the band of the watch. They go by HCMS2901, but [Sahko] recommends using the HCMS3901 as it’s both more 3.3V-tolerant and easier to find now. A challenge in mounting so many displays was the voltage on the supply rail dropping below the logic level; presumably the newer version does not have this problem to the same degree. Either way we love the look of these little displays and are pondering projects of our own that might include them.

He’s got quite a few wrapped around his wrist, so at full brightness, all these displays draw one amp. That explains why like the LED watches of the 1970s, the default state of the displays is “OFF”. Even with a LiPo pouch salvaged from a disposable vape, the runtime would only be half an hour at full brightness without that periodicity. Luckily [Sahko] included buttons on the band of the watch to activate it and control the brightness so it isn’t always blasting at full. There are also different modes available, including a really cool waterfall effect you can see in the video.

The band is an interesting choice, too: it’s just a flex PCB. There’s nothing backing it, aside from its own stiffeners, which makes us very curious how well this watch would hold up to daily use. There’s no clasp in the traditional sense, either: the band is closed by a 4-pin connector that doubles as both charge and the USB programmer for the stm32u08 microcontroller that runs the displays. Conveniently for a watch, this version of the stm32 has an RTC, so it keeps time as well. We dig the minimalism of this design; it’s a great contrast to the maximalism of wrapping your wrist in displays.

We’ve seen very similar displays on an edge-viewed watch, but a tiny amber LED matrix never gets old. If you wrapping your wrist in all those tiny LEDs is too impractically power-hungry, try using Nixie tubes.

We’re always watching for projects– wrist mounted clocks or otherwise– so if you’ve got the time, please drop us a tip.

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🧭 Quando spiritualità, politica e tradizioni si intrecciano, nascono spazi inaspettati, capaci di superare ogni binarismo.
Slavs and Tatars, collettivo di arte e ricerca, ci ricorda che le identità non sono mai chiuse: sono fatte di passaggi, contaminazioni, transiti fra mondi come i simboli e i rituali che attraversano l’Eurasia.

Nel dialogo con Kathleen Reinhardt e Leah Feldman, il loro lavoro appare come un continuo attraversamento: dalle pratiche spirituali e conviviali (come il samovar o la condivisione del tè) a quelle linguistiche e politiche, sempre alla ricerca di ciò che sfugge alle categorie imposte.
La loro idea di postcoloniale non si rifugia nell’identità da difendere, ma apre possibilità: celebra le mescolanze, crea collettività mai precostituite, né dettate dall’alto.
Penso a certe risonanze con il lavoro di Mona Hatoum: anche lei capace di trasformare simboli domestici e geografici in strumenti di disorientamento critico.

Simboli come il Simurgh, il cetriolo sotto sale o la lingua stessa diventano strumenti per costruire mondi condivisi, lontani da logiche etno-nazionali e imperiali, offrendo “ospitalità” a chi spesso, nei musei o nei discorsi ufficiali, non trova spazio per riconoscersi.

Anche qui nel Poliverso e su Friendica possiamo fare delle nostre interazioni un laboratorio di attraversamento, ascolto e ridefinizione reciproca.

Quali confini sentiamo il bisogno di attraversare?
Come si intrecciano, nelle nostre storie, le radici spirituali e politiche che portiamo dentro?

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@Arte e Cultura @Cultura, Storia, Libri, Arte, Architettura, Scuola, Design, Fumetti e Bookwyrm @arthistory group
#arte #artecomtemporanea #SlavsAndTatars

Slavs and Tatars: Being One with Many, Being One Through Many. Leah Feldman, Kathleen Reinhardt, and Payam

Spanning languages, regions, and disciplines, the art collective Slavs and Tatars—founded by Payam Sharifi and Kasia Korczak—has, since its inception as a

^{Mousse Magazine}

Per quanto riguarda i compiti banali che i robot umanoidi potrebbero presto svolgere per noi, le possibilità sono ampie. Fare il bucato è probabilmente in cima alla lista dei desideri di molte persone. La Figure 02 mostra un assaggio di come potrebbe apparire in un video condiviso su X.

I robot umanoidi hanno visto rapidi progressi ultimamente. Video di androidi circolano online, mostrandoli mentre praticano la boxe, giocano a calcio o eseguono mosse acrobatiche di kung fu : impressionanti e divertenti, senza dubbio.

Ma finora, queste dimostrazioni offrono scarso valore pratico. È qui che si distingue il robot Modello 02 di Figure.

Una clip recentemente condivisa su X dal fondatore di Figure, Brett Adcock, mostra l’O2 mentre maneggia il bucato. Sebbene non sia ancora in grado di azionare la macchina da solo, è in grado di caricarla, offrendo un’idea di come i robot umanoidi potrebbero aiutare nelle faccende domestiche in futuro.

Certo, Figure 02 impiega un po’ di tempo a caricare la lavatrice, ma lo fa con una precisione impressionante. Il robot, ad esempio, rileva quando i panni sono stesi fuori dal cestello e si regola di conseguenza. Molti utenti nei commenti sono rimasti colpiti dalle capacità di Figure 02, in particolare dai suoi movimenti fluidi. Tuttavia, molti chiedono contenuti video più dettagliati che mostrino l’intero processo.

Mentre alcuni spettatori hanno messo in dubbio l’autenticità del video a causa dei movimenti insolitamente fluidi del robot, Adcock ha spiegato che ciò è dovuto a Helix, il modello di intelligenza artificiale interno all’azienda. Figure prevede di rendere Helix disponibile ad altri produttori di robot in futuro, il che potrebbe portare a una più ampia diffusione di robot umanoidi per lo svolgimento di lavori domestici. Tuttavia, rimane incerto se questi androidi saranno accessibili anche agli utenti privati.

Sebbene non sia stato ancora annunciato il prezzo, Figure sta posizionando l’O2 per i clienti industriali. Si prevede che il suo costo sarà significativamente superiore a quello dell’R1 di Unitree, che potrebbe attrarre gli utenti privati, sebbene più per l’intrattenimento che per l’uso pratico.

L'articolo Ti piacerebbe avere un Robot che fa la lavatrice? Il robot di Figure la fa proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA230), specifically section 230(c) which reads:
(c)Protection for “Good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material
(1)Treatment of publisher or speaker
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

(2)Civil liability
No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
(A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
(B)any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1)
is the reason we have user shared content on millions of sites around the Internet. It is what protects the comment sections of our site and all others on the Internet.

Efforts to tamper with Section 230 have made people worse off and harmed our 1st Amendment rights. With FOSTA and SESTA, Congress excluded consensual sex work from Section 230 protections. The resulting law has made consensual sex work more difficult and more dangerous for sex workers while not stopping sex-focused human trafficking.

The Massachusetts Pirate Party categorically opposes efforts to exclude any human activity from Section 230 protections or to limit or expire Section 230 protections in whole or in part.

Adopted at our July 13th, 2025 member meeting.

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ma è vera questa cosa?

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il passaggio sarebbe dunque dal colonialismo militare israeliano a quello economico della "World Bank"? i soldati del genocidio si ritirerebbero da Gaza? siamo sicuri?? e i coloni dalla Cisgiordania??? e poi, se capisco bene... quello palestinese dovrebbe essere l'unico stato al mondo a non avere nemmeno una cerbottana. no? e dovrebbe stare allegro e sereno e fidarsi di un confinante genocida che gli ha mutilato 100mila persone e uccise tra le 60mila e le oltre 300mila? e poi dovrebbe affidare il governo ai collaborazionisti di israele?

scusate lo scetticismo. forse sbaglio io. mi sforzo di capire. la notizia è fondata?

in generale, che ne pensate?

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