Making Actually Useful Schematics in KiCad
[Andrew Greenberg] has some specific ideas for how open-source hardware hackers could do a better job with their KiCad schematics.
In his work with students at Portland State University, [Andrew] finds his students both reading and creating KiCad schematics, and often these schematics leave a little to be desired.
To help improve the situation he’s compiling a checklist of things to be cognisant of when developing schematics in KiCad, particularly if those schematics are going to be read by others, as is the hope with open-source hardware projects.
In the video and in his checklist he runs us through some of the considerations, covering: visual design best practices; using schematic symbols rather than packages; nominating part values; specific types of circuit gotchas; Design for Test; Design for Fail; electric rule checks (ERC); manufacturer (MFR), part number (MPN), and datasheet annotations for Bill of Materials (BOM); and things to check at the end of a design iteration, including updating the date and version number.
(Side note: in the video he refers to the book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information which we have definitely added to our reading list.)
Have some best practices of your own you would like to see on the checklist? Feel free to add your suggestions!
If you’re interested in KiCad you might like to read about what’s new in version 9 and how to customize your KiCad shortcut keys for productivity.
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Wiring Up The Railway, All The Live-Long Day
For those of you who haven’t spent time in North America around this time of year, you may be unaware of two things: one, the obligatory non-stop loop of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” retail workers are subjected to starting November first, and two: there is a strong cultural association between Christmastime and model railroading that may not exist elsewhere. That may down to childhood memories of when we got our first trainsets, or an excellent postwar marketing campaign by Lionel. Either way, now that Mariah Carey is blaring, we’re thinking about our holiday track layouts. Which makes this long presentation on Wiring for Small Layouts by [Chicago Crossing Model Railroad] quite timely.
There are actually three videos in this little course; the first focuses mostly on the tools and hardware used for DCC wiring (that’s Digital Command Control), which will be of less interest to our readers– most of you are well aware how to perform a lineman’s splice, crimp connectors onto a wire, and use terminal blocks.
The second two videos are actually about wiring, in the sense of routing all the wires needed for a modern layout– which is a lot more than “plug the rheostat into the tracks in one spot” that our first Lionel boxed set needed. No, for the different accessories there are multiple busses at 5V, 12V and 24V along with DCC that need to be considered. Unsurprisingly enough given those voltages, he starts with an ATX power supply and breaks out from there.
Even if you’re not into model railroading, you might learn something from these videos if you haven’t done many projects with multiple busses and wire runs before. It’s far, far too easy to end up with a rats nest of wires, be they DCC, I2C or otherwise. A little planning can save some big headaches down the line, and if this is a new skill for you [Chicago Crossing Model Railroad] provides a good starting point for that planning. Just skip ahead a couple minutes for him to actually start talking if you don’t want the musical cliff notes montage at the start of the videos.
If you don’t have any model trains, don’t worry, you can 3D print them. Lack of room isn’t really an excuse.
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Arms supplier to press murderers welcomes press murderer to DC
Dear Friend of Press Freedom,
Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 241 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like. Read on for more about the federal government targeting noncitizen journalists for what they write, say and think.
Journalist-hating president kisses up to journalist-killing crown prince
President Donald Trump shamefully welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House this week. He brushed aside questions about Crown Prince Mohammed’s role in the gruesome 2018 murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, commenting that “things happen” and “You don’t have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that.”
Freedom of the Press foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern remarked:
“Somehow calling a female reporter ‘piggy’ was only the second-most offensive anti-press utterance to come out of the president’s mouth in recent days. And somehow Biden’s infamous fist bump is now only the second-most disgusting public display of flattery by a U.S. president to journalist-murderer Mohammed bin Salman.”
DHS targets journalists for speaking out about Gaza
Texas journalist Ya’akub Ira Vijandre and British journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi are the two latest examples of the Department of Homeland Security targeting journalists.
Hamdi self-deported to England after 18 days enduring inhumane conditions in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Vijandre, a Filipino American Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient who has lived in the U.S. since 2021, remains in custody as he awaits deportation proceedings.
Hamdi and his wife, Soumaya, joined us for an online event this week alongside attorneys and friends of both Hamdi and Vijandre. As Hamdi said, “If the American public finds out the realities of what’s happening, ICE will be dismantled in an instant.”
A $50 lesson in press freedom
Prosecutors in Kentucky have finally dropped charges against journalist Madeline Fening, who was arrested while covering a July protest on the Roebling Bridge for CityBeat.
But, as Stern wrote in an op-ed for CityBeat, the damage is already done. Kenton County drew condemnation from civil liberties advocates across the country and sacrificed any credibility it had when it came respecting First Amendment rights — and all to recover a combined grand total of $50 from Fening and her colleague, Lucas Griffith.
Journalists targeted at Oregon protests
You’ve probably seen the inflatable frogs, the dance parties, the naked bike ride. Maybe you’ve also seen the darker images: a federal officer aiming a weapon at protesters, or federal agents hurling tear gas and flash bangs into peaceful demonstrations at a Portland, Oregon, immigration facility.
FPF Senior Adviser Caitlin Vogus writes about how journalists in Portland have been attacked for bringing images like these to the world.
Court suspends journalist injunction in Chicago
A judicial order won by Chicago area journalists that limited protest policing tactics by federal law enforcement was put on hold this week, with a federal appellate court calling the order overbroad.
As Stern told FPF’s U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, “It is difficult to understand how it is overbroad to ‘enjoin all law enforcement officers within the Executive Branch’ when the president, who last I checked runs the executive branch, expressly demands that those under him brutalize, censor and arrest activists and journalists who interfere with their narrative — the exact conduct restricted by the injunction.”
Immigration agents claim routine reporting violates federal law
Independent news outlet Status Coup reported Wednesday that federal immigration agents threatened its reporter, Jon Farina, with arrest for following and filming them, despite well-established First Amendment protections.
Stern said in a statement, “It looks like these officers believe transparency itself is obstructive to their operations, which is a pretty good indicator that their operations are in need of obstruction. The First Amendment is intended to obstruct government abuses. … If they’re too thin-skinned for the public scrutiny that comes with being a part of that, they can go find a job that doesn’t involve abducting people for an authoritarian regime.”
What we’re reading
The secrecy surrounding the Trump’s immigration agenda (NPR). FPF’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy joined NPR’s “1A” to talk about the shroud of secrecy at virtually every level of the immigration system.
Vindman demands release of Trump-Mohammed bin Salman call after Khashoggi murder: ‘You will be shocked’ (The Hill). This is exhibit “A” for why the National Security Council should be subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Larry Ellison discussed axing CNN hosts with White House in takeover bid talks (The Guardian). So the president went from feigning outrage about allegedly biased public media to making deals with centibillionaire friends to make corporate media more biased. Got it.
After Donald Trump’s attack on correspondent Mary Bruce, White House goes after ABC again with ‘fake news’ press release (Deadline). It looks like $16 million – the amount ABC paid to settle Trump’s frivolous lawsuit last year – only buys you so much protection these days.
Will Trump destroy the BBC? (Unherd). “So I presume by the name of your organization that you’re not very keen on sitting presidents suing news organizations.” That’s correct! Listen to our interview with Unherd about Trump’s lawsuit threat against BBC.
The SLAPP Back Initiative (First Amendment Watch). Congratulations to First Amendment Watch at New York University for launching the first database in the U.S. documenting alleged strategic lawsuits against public participation.
This week, we discuss how data is accessed, AI in games, and more.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: A Risograph Journey and Data Musings
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss how data is accessed, AI in games, and more.JOSEPH: This was a pretty big week for impact at 404 Media. Sam’s piece on an exposed AI porn platform ended up with the company closing off those exposed images. Our months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers led to the closure of the Travel Intelligence Program (TIP), in which a company owned by the U.S.’s major airlines sold flyers data to the government for warrantless surveillance.
For the quick bit of context I have typed many, many times this year: that company is Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), and is owned by United, American, Delta, Southwest, JetBlue, Alaska, Lufthansa, Air France, and Air Canada. ARC gets data, including a traveler’s name, credit card used, where they’re flying to and from, whenever someone books a flight with one of more than 10,000 travel agencies. Think Expedia, especially. ARC then sells access to that data to a slew of government agencies, including ICE, the FBI, the SEC, the State Department, ATF, and more.
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Campania, Puglia, Veneto. Si vota: portiamo le nostre battaglie in consiglio regionale!
Il 23 e il 24 di novembre i cittadini e le cittadine di Campania, Puglia e Veneto andranno a votare per il rinnovo del Consiglio Regionale e del Presidente di Regione.
Se puoi votare o conosci qualcuno che può votare in queste Regioni, puoi sostenere le candidature espresse o appoggiate da Possibile. Aiutaci a portare nei consigli regionali le persone che portano avanti le battaglie in cui crediamo! Passaparola: il tuo sostegno è fondamentale!
CAMPANIA
Per una Campania più giusta e più verde, in cui nessuno sia lasciato indietro, in cui nessuno sia costretto a emigrare, barra il simbolo della lista Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra con Roberto Fico Presidente. A Napoli e provincia scrivi il nome di Andrea Davide e Souzan Fatayer (detta Susan). Ti basta scrivere “Davide” e “Susan” nell’apposito spazio per le preferenze.
PUGLIA
In Puglia, barra il simbolo della lista Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra con Antonio Decaro Presidente. A Taranto e provincia scrivi il nome di Rosa d’Amato. A Bari e provincia scrivi il nome di Francesca Sbiroli.
VENETO
In Veneto, per cambiare passo alla Regione, barra il simbolo della lista Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra con Giovanni Manildo Presidente. A Padova e provincia scrivi il nome di Elena Ostanel. A Vicenza e provincia scrivi il nome di Carlo Cunegato.
Puoi esprimere fino a due preferenze purché siano in alternanza di genere.
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#Scuola, il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara ha firmato il decreto da 223,7 milioni per il Piano antincendio e per interventi urgenti di messa in sicurezza.
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Commodore’s Most Popular Computer gets DOOM-style Shooter
When people talk about the lack of a DOOM being the doom Commodore home computers, they aren’t talking about the C64, which was deep into obsolescence when demon-slaying suddenly became the minimal requirement for all computing devices. That didn’t stop [Kamil Wolnikowski] and [Piotr Kózka] from hacking together Grey a ray-cast first-person shooter for the Commodore 64.
Grey bares more than a passing resemblance to id-software’s most-ported project. It apparently runs at 16 frames per second on a vanilla C64 — no super CPU required. The secret to the speedy game play is the engine’s clever use of the system’s color mapping functionality: updating color maps is faster than redrawing the screen. Yeah, that makes for rather “blockier” graphics than DOOM, but this is running on a Commodore 64, not a 386 with 4 MB of RAM. Allowances must be made. Come to think of it, we don’t recall DOOM running this smooth on the minimum required hardware — check out the demo video below and let us know what you think.
The four-level demo currently available is about 175 kB, which certainly seems within the realms of possibility for disk games using the trusty 1541. Of course nowadays we do have easier ways to get games onto our vintage computers.
If you’re thinking about Commodore’s other home computer, it did eventually get a DOOM-clone.
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Thanks to [Stephen Walters] for the tip.
Hackaday Podcast Episode 346: Melting Metal in the Microwave, Unlocking Car Brakes and Washing Machines, and a Series of Tubes
Wait, what? Is it time for the podcast again? Seems like only yesterday that Dan joined Elliot for the weekly rundown of the choicest hacks for the last 1/52 of a year. but here we are. We had quite a bit of news to talk about, including the winners of the Component Abuse Challenge — warning, some components were actually abused for this challenge. They’re also a trillion pages deep over at the Internet Archive, a milestone that seems worth celebrating.
As for projects, both of us kicked things off with “Right to repair”-adjacent topics, first with a washing machine that gave up its secrets with IR and then with a car that refused to let its owner fix the brakes. We heated things up with a microwave foundry capable of melting cast iron — watch your toes! — and looked at a tiny ESP32 dev board with ludicrously small components. We saw surveyors go to war, watched a Lego sorting machine go through its paces, and learned about radar by spinning up a sonar set from first principles.
Finally, we wrapped things up with another Al Williams signature “Can’t Miss Articles” section, with his deep dive into the fun hackers can have with the now-deprecated US penny, and his nostalgic look at pneumatic tube systems.
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Episode 346 Show Notes:
News:
- Congratulations To The 2025 Component Abuse Challenge Winners
- Meet The Shape That Cannot Pass Through Itself
- Internet Archive Hits One Trillion Web Pages
What’s that Sound?
- [Andy Geppert] knew that was the annoying sound of the elevator at the Courtyard by Marriot hotel in Pasadena.
Interesting Hacks of the Week:
- Reverse Engineering The Miele Diagnostic Interface
- Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes
- The Simplest Ultrasound Sensor Module, Minus The Module
- Good Vibrations: Giving The HC-SR04 A Brain Transplant
- Bend It Like (Sonar) Beacon With A Phased Array
- Fundamentals Of FMCW Radar Help You Understand Your Car’s Point Of View
- Casting Metal Tools With Kitchen Appliances
- Possibly-Smallest ESP32 Board Uses Smallest-Footprint Parts
- WWII Secret Agents For Science
Quick Hacks:
- Elliot’s Picks
- Damn Fine (Solar Powered) Coffee
- Humane Mousetrap Lets You Know It’s Caught Something
- In Praise Of Plasma TVs
- Exploring The Performance Gains Of Four-Pin MOSFETs
- Dan’s Picks:
- Making A Machine To Sort One Million Pounds Of LEGO
- The King Of Rocket Photography
- Cheap VHF Antenna? Can Do!
Can’t-Miss Articles:
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Sweet Sound Sculpture Helps You Sleep Soundly
Have trouble sleeping, or getting to sleep in the first place? You’ve no doubt heard of white noise machines, but know it would be much cooler to make your own. Enter Noise Maker, a DIY sound sculpture by [optimus103733], who wanted to learn something in the process of creating.
The best thing about this sound sculpture aside from the looks is that you can not only play five different sounds (e.g. birds, traffic, water, frog, white noise), you can mix them together into a rich but relaxing cacophony.
As you can probably see from the picture, Noise Maker is based on the ESP32 and uses an SD card module, an amplifier, and five pots. Be sure to check out the pictures, because there are three layers of copper connections and a lot of careful bending to make it all come together. In the video after the break, you can hear it in action.
It seems [optimus103733] isn’t completely satisfied and wants to make a few improvements in the future, such as a voltage regulator, a power switch, and a timer to automatically stop playback once (we assume) sleep has come. Evidently the ESP32 struggles a little with mixing six audio sources, but hey, lesson learned.
Wait, why do we sleep in the first place?
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Ma fuggire dall'AI come se fosse il demonio non è un errore uguale (a meno del segno) al buttarsi tra le sue braccia come se fosse una panacea?
Perché alla fine c'è pur sempre la possibilità di usarla con il caro vecchio "grano salis".
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Quando in platea ci sono gli studenti
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Centinaia di ragazzi di varie età. Delle scuole medie inferiori e superiori. Di istituti diversi. Questo ho avuto di fronte a me il 21 novembre mattina a Gualdo Tadino alla Festa Nazionale di Articolo21. Ogni volta incontrare i ragazzi è sfidante. È un momento
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European Business Wallet: EU-Kommission plant digitale Identität für Unternehmen
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Why Chat Scanning Is a Problem Hiding in Your Phone
Across Europe, a new concept known as chat scanning has entered the public debate. Supporters claim it will protect children from online harm. Chat control is formally part of the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), aimed at combating CSAM (child sexual abuse material). However, many experts, privacy groups, and digital rights advocates warn that it poses a greater risk for everyone who uses a phone, especially young people who message daily.
What is chat scanning?
In simple terms, it is a system that checks your private messages before or as soon as you send them. The app you use would need to scan your texts, photos, or videos and determine whether they seem suspicious. If the scanner thinks something is “unsafe,” it can report the sender, even if the message was completely innocent.
This means the scanning occurs within your phone, not on a server elsewhere. Every typed or uploaded message is checked before it reaches a friend or family member. It is like having a digital security guard watching over your shoulder every time you write something personal.
For digital rights advocates, including the Pirate Party, this raises a serious concern: privacy is not something that can be switched on and off. Once a system is built to monitor everyone’s conversations, it becomes a permanent gateway to surveillance. It does not take much for such tools to be expanded, misused, or accessed by actors who do not have the public’s interest at heart.
Why Chat Control Is a Real Threat
Chat control systems are not theoretical risks. Automated scanners genuinely make mistakes. They often cannot understand teenage slang, humour, or personal images. A tool meant to protect vulnerable users can easily turn into one that falsely accuses innocent people. Meanwhile, determined bad actors can simply switch to apps that do not follow these rules, while ordinary citizens remain under constant monitoring.
This approach also weakens secure communication. End-to-end encryption is designed to protect everyone from hackers, identity theft, and even misuse of state power. Scanning messages before they are encrypted breaks that protection. Instead of keeping society safe, it exposes activists, families, journalists, and children to new dangers.
The Ripple Effect on Democracy
If chat controls become law with a full majority, the long-term consequences could spread slowly but deeply. The ripple effect would impact multiple pillars of democracy.
Privacy Erosion
What begins as limited scanning to target harmful content can gradually expand to include most users. When every message is subject to scrutiny, personal privacy is the first casualty.
Overwhelmed Law Enforcement
A flood of false positives would strain police resources. German experts who reviewed the proposal warned that law enforcement would be unable to handle the volume of inaccurate reports. This waste of time and energy increases the risk of people being wrongly investigated or prosecuted, ultimately making the public less safe.
Chilling of Free Expression
Journalists, activists, and vulnerable groups may start to self-censor because they no longer trust their communication channels. When private conversations feel monitored, open dialogue becomes rare.
Decline in Civic Participation
As trust in institutions weakens, people may disengage from democratic processes. Press freedom declines, and political debate becomes less open.
Shift in Social Norms
Over time, society may begin to accept the idea that monitoring private digital spaces is normal. Such a shift can alter the social contract itself, making surveillance an everyday expectation rather than an exception.
This is how a policy introduced in the name of protection can gradually erode the foundations of democracy.
Are there safer alternatives?
There are better ways to keep communities safe. Targeted investigations, stronger reporting channels, improved child protection services, and investment in digital literacy can genuinely support vulnerable groups without breaking the fundamental right to private communication.
Europe should not accept a future where every phone becomes a checkpoint. Safety should be built on rights, not surveillance. Protecting children and protecting privacy are not opposing goals. With smart policy and responsible technology, the EU can and must do both.
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Il 23 e il 24 di novembre i cittadini e le cittadine di Campania, Puglia e Veneto andranno a votare per il rinnovo del Consiglio Regionale e del Presidente di Regione.
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Berlino stacca gli europei e insegue Cina e Usa nello spazio. Ecco la strategia spaziale tedesca
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Il riarmo tedesco è pronto a procedere anche in verticale. Berlino ha svelato in questi giorni la sua prima strategia nazionale per la sicurezza spaziale. La “Space safety and security strategy”, approvata dai ministeri della
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Con la corsa al riarmo Meloni rischia di sacrificare l’economia reale sull’altare della sicurezza
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
L’Italia si trova in una posizione paradossale sul fronte economico-militare. Con un rapporto debito/Pl pari al 144% – tra i più alti del mondo sviluppato – dovrebbe concentrare le proprie risorse sulla riduzione del debito e sul rilancio dell’economia reale. Eppure,
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Stanno facendo anche cose buone 😁
In Italia non si vota più coi registri elettorali divisi per genere
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In Italia non si vota più coi registri elettorali divisi per genere
Ora ci sono solo due scaglioni alfabetici, che eviteranno disagi per le persone trans e non binarieIl Post
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Elt, Leonardo e Aiad. Tutte le aziende italiane presenti negli Emirati
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Il Dubai Airshow ha confermato la sua natura di crocevia dove diplomazia, tecnologia e ambizioni industriali si intrecciano in un equilibrio sempre più strategico. Nell’edizione di quest’anno la presenza italiana ha assunto un profilo distinto, sospinta dall’attivismo politico e
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Borrowed Brilliance. When Rivals Use Our Liberal Policies. Il volume del 2025 realizzato dallo European Liberal Forum e dalla Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
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Questa analisi illustra come le riforme liberali in Italia, Spagna, Germania e Francia siano spesso
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𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐇𝐈 𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐈: presentazione del volume 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞 𝙁𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞 di 𝐏𝐚𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐨
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La 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝟐𝟗 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐞 a partire dalle ore 𝟭𝟔:𝟑𝟬 ospiterà l’incontro 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐇𝐈 𝐓𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐈, durante il quale avverrà la presentazione del volume 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙞 𝙁𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞 di 𝐏𝐚𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐨.
Dialogheranno con l’𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 il Direttore della Biblioteca 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐅𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐨 e 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐚, bibliotecaria.
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Ottawa è alle prese con un’invasione di pesci rossi
È una delle specie più infestanti al mondo e spesso chi libera i propri animali domestici negli stagni non lo saIl Post
Media Freedom Act, Rai, leggi bavaglio. Verso una grande manifestazione unitaria
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Il ministro Nordio ci ha ricordato le tante “buone cose” pensate da Licio Gelli. Una nuova maggioranza di centro destra ha bloccato
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Pensare, imparare, crescere nell’era digitale
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20 novembre 2025, ore 11:00 presso il Salone Nazionale dello Studente di Roma Intervento del Segretario Generale della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi e Direttore dell’Osservatorio Carta, Penna & Digitale, Andrea Cangini
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BNI Musica – Primo semestre 2025
È stato appena pubblicato il fascicolo gennaio-giugno 2025 della serie Musica a stampa della Bibliografia nazionale italiana.
Per i fascicoli precedenti e per le altre serie rimandiamo alla pagina BNI dedicata.
L'articolo BNI Musica – Primo semestre 2025 proviene da Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze.
VENEZUELA. Trump: “Ho già deciso, ma non ve lo dico”. Caracas è pronta
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La tensione continua a salire e con essa il pericolo di un attacco militare al paese da parte degli Usa
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In libreria dal 28 Novembre 2025 La fantasia distruggerà il potere e una risata vi seppellirà. Nella Londra del 1895 Errico Malatesta, il più ricercato anarchico d’Europa, sfugge alla polizia con l’astuzia di sempre. Più di un secolo dopo, Franck, intellettuale nomade, segue le sue tracce e quelle dell’amico spagnolo del celebre rivoluzionario, […]
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Spritz è tornato, ed è incavolato come una bestia... del resto, gli viene naturale. La notizia del gigantesco data breach deve far tremare i polsi a tutti, animali compresi, perché a bordo di questo treno ci siamo tutti. Vi lascio alle sue parole che, nonostante…
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Giustizia, sicurezza e giornalismo. Due giorni di eventi del Centro Balducci. E poi il ricordo di Siani
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Venerdì 21.11.2025, ore 18 Incontro “Conoscere per superare i
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Al via le giornate del Premio Luchetta
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Dal 21 al 23 novembre prossimi Trieste ospita professioniste e professionisti del giornalismo nazionale e internazionale, testimoni di drammi e di storie provenienti da tutto il mondo. Il giornalismo d’inchiesta torna protagonista sul palco del Teatro Miela
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A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.#Flock #borderpatrol #FOIA
Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country
Police departments and officials from Border Patrol used Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to monitor protests hundreds of times around the country during the last year, including No Kings protests in June and October, according to data obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).The data provides the clearest picture yet of how cops widely use Flock to monitor protesters. In June, 404 Media reported cops in California used Flock to track what it described as an “immigration protest.” The new data shows more than 50 federal, state, and local law enforcement ran hundreds of searches in connection with protest activity, according to the EFF.
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La posta del FLUG
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Segnalato dal LUG di Firenze e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia
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Ancora una volta dal FLUG principia il nerdare! Infatti martedì 25 novembre 2025 alle 21:00 saremo ospiti dei cari amici del GOLEM per raccontare la storia della resurrezione del nostro server, nome in codice
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Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.#grok
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Elon Musk is a better role model than Jesus, better at conquering Europe than Hitler, the greatest blowjob giver of all time, should have been selected before Peyton Manning in the 1998 NFL draft, is a better pitcher than Randy Johnson, has the “potential to drink piss better than any human in history,” and is a better porn star than Riley Reid, according to Grok, X’s sycophantic AI chatbot that has seemingly been reprogrammed to treat Musk like a god.Grok has been tweaked sometime in the last several days and will now choose Musk as being superior to the entire rest of humanity at any given task. The change is somewhat reminiscent of Grok’s MechaHitler debacle. It is, for the moment, something that is pretty funny and which people on various social media platforms are dunking on Musk and Grok for, but it’s also an example of how big tech companies, like X, are regularly putting their thumbs on the scales of their AI chatbots to distort reality and to obtain their desired outcome.
“Elon’s intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton,” one Grok answer reads. “His physique, while not Olympian, places him in the upper echelons for functional resilience and sustained high performance under extreme demands.”
Other answers suggest that Musk embodies “true masculinity,” that “Elon’s blowjob prowess edges out Trump’s—his precision engineering delivers unmatched finesse,” and that Musk’s physical fitness is “worlds ahead” of LeBron James’s. Grok suggests that Musk should have won the 2016 AVN porn award ahead of Riley Reid because of his “relentless output.”
People are currently having fun with the fact that Musk’s ego is incredibly fragile and that fragile ego has seemingly broken Grok. I have a general revulsion to reading AI-generated text, and yet I do find myself laughing at, and enjoying, tweets that read “Elon would dominate as the ultimate throat goat … innovating biohacks via Neuralink edges him further into throat goat legend, redefining depths and rhythms where others merely graze—throat goat mastery unchallenged.”
And yet, this is of course an extreme example of the broader political project of AI chatbots and LLMs: They are top-down systems controlled by the richest people and richest companies on Earth, and their outputs can be changed to push the preferred narratives aligned with the interests of those people and companies. This is the same underlying AI that powers Grokipedia, which is the antithesis of Wikipedia and yet is being pitched by its creator as being somehow less biased than the collective, well-meaning efforts of human volunteers across the world. This is something that I explored in far more detail in these two pieces.
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
The government also said "we donx27;t have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."#ICE
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The federal government claims that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.People detained at ICE’s Broadview Detention Center in suburban Chicago sued the government on October 30; according to their lawyers and the government, nearly two weeks of footage that could show how they were treated was lost in a “system crash” that happened on October 31.
“The government has said that the data for that period was lost in a system crash apparently on the day after the lawsuit was filed,” Alec Solotorovsky, one of the lawyers representing people detained at the facility, said in a hearing about the footage on Thursday that 404 Media attended via phone. “That period we think is going to be critical […] because that’s the period right before the lawsuit was filed.”
Earlier this week, we reported on the fact that the footage, from October 20 to October 30, had been “irretrievably destroyed.” At a hearing Thursday, we learned more about what was lost and the apparent circumstances of the deletion. According to lawyers representing people detained at the facility, it is unclear whether the government is even trying to recover the footage; government lawyers, meanwhile, said “we don’t have the resources” to continue preserving surveillance footage from the facility and suggested that immigrants detained at the facility (or their lawyers) could provide “endless hard drives where we could save the information, that might be one solution.”
It should be noted that ICE and Border Patrol agents continued to be paid during the government shutdown, that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” provided $170 billion in funding for immigration enforcement and border protection, which included tens of billions of dollars in funding for detention centers.
People detained at the facility are suing the government over alleged horrific treatment and living conditions at the detention center, which has become a site of mass protest against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Solotorovsky said that the footage the government has offered is from between September 28 and October 19, and from between October 31 and November 7. Government lawyers have said they are prepared to provide footage from five cameras from those time periods; Solotorovsky said the plaintiffs’ attorneys believe there are 63 surveillance cameras total at the facility. He added that over the last few weeks the plaintiffs’ legal team has been trying to work with the government to figure out if the footage can be recovered but that it is unclear who is doing this work on the government’s side. He said they were referred to a company called Five by Five Management, “that appears to be based out of a house,” has supposedly been retained by the government.
“We tried to engage with the government through our IT specialist, and we hired a video forensic specialist,” Solotorovsky said. He added that the government specialist they spoke to “didn’t really know anything beyond the basic specifications of the system. He wasn’t able to answer any questions about preservation or attempts to recover the data.” He said that the government eventually put him in touch with “a person who ostensibly was involved in those events [attempting to recover the data], and it was kind of a no-name LLC called Five by Five Management that appears to be based out of a house in Carol Stream. We were told they were on site and involved with the system when the October 20 to 30 data was lost, but nobody has told us that Five By Five Management or anyone else has been trying to recover the data, and also very importantly things like system logs, administrator logs, event logs, data in the system that may show changes to settings or configurations or deletion events or people accessing the system at important times.”
Five by Five Management could not be reached for comment.
Solotorovsky said those logs are going to be critical for “determining whether the loss was intentional. We’re deeply concerned that nobody is trying to recover the data, and nobody is trying to preserve the data that we’re going to need for this case going forward.”
Jana Brady, an assistant US attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security in the case, did not have much information about what had happened to the footage, and said she was trying to get in touch with contractors the government had hired. She also said the government should not be forced to retain surveillance footage from every camera at the facility and that the “we [the federal government] don’t have the resources to save all of the video footage.”
“We need to keep in mind proportionality. It took a huge effort to download and save and produce the video footage that we are producing and to say that we have to produce and preserve video footage indefinitely for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, indefinitely, which is what they’re asking, we don’t have the resources to do that,” Brady said. “we don't have the resources to save all of the video footage 24/7 for 65 cameras for basically the end of time.”
She added that the government would be amenable to saving all footage if the plaintiffs “have endless hard drives that we could save things to, because again we don’t have the resources to do what the court is ordering us to do. But if they have endless hard drives where we could save the information, that might be one solution.”
Magistrate Judge Laura McNally said they aren’t being “preserved from now until the end of time, they’re being preserved for now,” and said “I’m guessing the federal government has more resources than the plaintiffs here and, I’ll just leave it at that.”
When McNally asked if the footage was gone and not recoverable, Brady said “that’s what I’ve been told.”
“I’ve asked for the name and phone number for the person that is most knowledgeable from the vendor [attempting to recover] the footage, and if I need to depose them to confirm this, I can do this,” she said. “But I have been told that it’s not recoverable, that the system crashed.”
Plaintiffs in the case say they are being held in “inhumane” conditions. The complaint describes a facility where detainees are “confined at Broadview inside overcrowded holding cells containing dozens of people at a time. People are forced to attempt to sleep for days or sometimes weeks on plastic chairs or on the filthy concrete floor. They are denied sufficient food and water […] the temperatures are extreme and uncomfortable […] the physical conditions are filthy, with poor sanitation, clogged toilets, and blood, human fluids, and insects in the sinks and the floor […] federal officers who patrol Broadview under Defendants’ authority are abusive and cruel. Putative class members are routinely degraded, mistreated, and humiliated by these officers.”
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Ma infatti, io leggo quasi solo di gente che fa di tutto per scappare e di altri che te la vendono come se fosse il sol dell'avvenir.
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