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Design and the Golden Rule


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You often learn the golden rule or some variation of it as early as kindergarten. There are several ways to phrase it, but you most often hear: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” While that’s catchy, it is really an aphorism that encourages us to consider the viewpoints of others. As people who design things, this can be tricky. Sometimes, what you want isn’t necessarily what most people want, and — conversely — you might not appreciate what most people want or need.

EDIT/1000


20430553HP/1000 CC-BY-SA-3.0 by [Autopilot]I learned this lesson many years ago when I used to babysit a few HP/1000 minicomputers. Minicomputer sounds grand, but, honestly, a Raspberry Pi of any sort would put the old HP to shame. Like a lot of computers in those days, it had a text editor that was arcane even by the standards of vi or emacs. EDIT/1000 couldn’t be sure you weren’t using a printing terminal, and the commands reflect that.

For example, printing a few lines around the current line requires the command: “/-2,L,5” which isn’t that hard, I suppose. To delete all lines that contain a percent sign, “1$ D/%/A/” assuming you don’t want to be asked about each deletion.

Sure, sure. As a Hackaday reader, you don’t find this hard to puzzle out or remember. But back in the 1980s, a bunch of physicists and chemical engineers had little patience for stuff like that. However, the editor had a trick up its sleeve.

Old Terminal Basics


Old HP terminals didn’t work like you think of a terminal today. The computer would send a whole screen to the terminal along with some instructions. This was common on several brands of computers, even though it is rare today. For example, the computer might send a form with some data. The user can then use the terminal to modify the data or add new data. Then, with a single keystroke, the entire screen goes back to the computer for processing.

In the case of EDIT/1000, you could invoke screen mode, which would load a page of text into your terminal. Then you could use the arrow keys, insert, delete and the experience wasn’t too far from using a text editor today. Until you wanted to change pages, that is.

You’d use /S to start the screen mode from the current location in a file. But to move forward you needed to use Control+F. Well, that’s if you wanted to send your changes to the computer. You could also move forward and discard your changes by pressing Control+F twice. There were a handful of other commands you could use in screen mode. To do things like search and replace, you still needed the oddball commands along with the Control+X incantation to execute a command while in screen mode.

Complaint Department


We heard no end of complaints about EDIT/1000 and spent a lot of time helping people fix their mistakes made while editing. Training didn’t really seem to help. There didn’t seem to be any other reasonable options as far as buying a different editor.

The problem is, we were split into two camps. People who knew how to use EDIT/1000 well and people who needed to use it, but didn’t really know anything about it.

One More Puzzle Piece


HP terminals of the day all had an interesting feature. The keyboards had nine keys along the top row — what you’d think of as function keys today. The monitors always had eight little spots at the bottom that had labels for what the keys did. The ninth key let you page through a couple of sets of function keys. You can see that in the HP terminal teardown video below.

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So F1 might have “Help” on the screen above it, unless you set the next page where it might say “Clear” or something. The effect was best on the terminals where the keyboard and screen were one piece so the labels lined up.

Then One Day…


I was thinking, probably uncharitably, about how stupid people were that couldn’t learn how to use the editor. I happened to be setting up custom function keys at the time. I wrote a quick program to put a few editor-specific keys on the terminal like “next page” and “previous page” and mapped them to the correct commands.

That worked fine, and then I wrote a short program to launch the editor on a file and put it into screen mode. I grabbed someone passing by and had them try it. By the end of the day, everyone was using “my” editor.

No Genius


I can’t overstate how simple this was. I later reduced it to just a batch file that copied a text file to the terminal to set the function keys, and then launched the editor. And everyone loved it. The people who knew how to use the editor didn’t need all this, of course. And they knew how easy it was. But they loved that it saved people asking dumb questions or messing up their files. The other users just loved it because it made the editor easy.

This predates easy access to the Internet, and a common thing in those days was to trade tapes with other sites. You’d get a magnetic tape in the mail, mount it, look at what was on it, copying anything you found interesting. Then you’d add anything you had to the end, and send it to the next place. In a year or so, the tape would make its way back around to you and the process would repeat. I put my editor on the outbound tape.

Within a year or so, people were literally finding me — hard to do in those days — and sending me real letters thanking me for my editor solution.

The Moral


The script to do this was extremely trivial. It probably took 10 minutes to write and once you knew how to do it, maybe less. But the point was, the people who knew how to write the script didn’t need it. The people who needed it were those who had no more idea how to program function keys than I know how to perform open heart surgery.

It doesn’t matter if it is hardware or software. Getting into the heads of users can really pay off.


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L’ex ministro della Cultura Gennaro Sangiuliano ha denunciato l’imprenditrice Maria Rosaria Boccia


@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
L’avvocato Silverio Sica, legale dell’ex ministro della Cultura Gennaro Sangiuliano, ha presentato alla Procura di Roma una denuncia a carico dell’imprenditrice Maria Rosaria Boccia. L’esposto, secondo quanto riporta l’agenzia di




Renzi, Calenda, Tajani e gli altri: le regionali in Liguria spaccano (ancora di più) il centro


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Al circo della politica italiana gli acrobati eseguono il numero più spettacolare, applaudito più dei pagliacci. Tra sussulti, retromarce, intoppi e piroette senza rete, prosegue il tentativo dei centristi di intrufolarsi nel campo largo ligure del centrosinistra,



Embossing Graphics By 3D Printing On Wood


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Embossing (making raised shapes) and debossing (making sunken shapes) on 3D-printed surfaces is not a new idea; we do it all the time. [Cory] from Vancouver Hack Space was playing around with the 3D printing wood, and came up with the idea of creating raised tactile surfaces using a simple transfer process.

We don’t often try to print directly onto a wooden surface for various reasons, but [Cory] wanted to give it a go. They hoped to get some grain patterns to transfer to the surface, but as they say in the blog entry, the beauty of wood patterns is in the colouration, which doesn’t transfer. Next, they laser etched a logo into the wood surface to see how well that would transfer. It did create a discernable raised impression, but they forgot to mirror the image (oops!) and relevel the bed, so the results are less impressive than they could be. Still, it’s another useful technique to consider.

Embossing is the process by which braille sheets. This DIY braille encoder is pretty sweet. Of course the process can be simply decorative. Here’s how to use a laser cutter to create your own embossing seals. The traditional way to emboss paper for a fancy effect was to use embossing powder to selectively change the properties of drying paper. But how can you make the stuff for cheap?


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Stella Alpina 24. Così l’Esercito si prepara alle operazioni multi-dominio

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[quote]La conclusione dell’esercitazione Stella Alpina 24, che ha coinvolto oltre seicento unità provenienti da corpi diversi dell’Esercito ed è durata due settimane, costituisce un importante momento di confronto con le esigenze tattiche e operative dei nuovi scenari di



In seguito all’emergenza maltempo in #EmiliaRomagna, con evacuazioni in numerosi comuni a causa di piogge intense e allagamenti, il #MIM, in collaborazione con la Protezione Civile e le autorità locali, ha messo a disposizione alcune strutture scolas…


Il TPI Fest 2024 torna domani, venerdì 20 settembre, in solidarietà con la popolazione dell’Emilia-Romagna colpita dalle alluvioni


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Il TPI Fest 2024 torna domani, venerdì 20 settembre, in solidarietà con la popolazione dell’Emilia-Romagna colpita dalle alluvioni In solidarietà e rispetto nei confronti della popolazione dell’Emilia-Romagna colpita dalle alluvioni, è



L’alluvione in Emilia-Romagna diventa un caso politico: scontro tra Governo e Regione


@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
Alluvione Emilia-Romagna: polemica tra Governo e Regione L’alluvione che sta colpendo la parte orientale dell’Emilia-Romagna diventa terreno di scontro politico tra il Governo di centrodestra e la Regione guidata dal centrosinistra. Il ministro per la



La Marina Usa si prepara al confronto con la Cina. Più navi entro il 2027

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

[quote]Diversamente da come accade in Europa, dove le discussioni intorno alla Difesa hanno iniziato solo recentemente a registrare il profondo mutamento dei contesti securitari odierni, negli Stati Uniti ci si interroga costantemente su cosa dovesse accadere in caso di conflitto, specialmente con la Cina. Dopo





Switching Regulators: Mistake Fixing For Dummies


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Some time ago, while designing the PCB for the Sony Vaio replacement motherboard, I went on a quest to find a perfect 5 V boost regulator. Requirements are simple – output 5 V at about 2A , with input ranging from 3 V to 5 V, and when the input is 5 V, go into “100% duty” (“pass-through”/”bypass”) mode where the output is directly powered from the input, saving me from any conversion inefficiencies for USB port power when a charger is connected. Plus, a single EN pin, no digital configuration, small footprint, no BGA, no unsolicited services or offers – what more could one ask for.

As usual, I go to an online shop, set the parameters: single channel, all topologies that say “boost” in the name, output range, sort by price, download datasheets one by one and see what kind of nice chips I can find. Eventually, I found the holy grail chip for me, the MIC2876, originally from Micrel, now made by Microchip.

MIC2876 is a 5 V regulator with the exact features I describe above – to a T! It also comes with cool features, like a PG “Power good” output, bidirectional load disconnect (voltage applied to output won’t leak into input), EMI reduction and efficiency modes, and it’s decently cheap. I put it on the Sony Vaio board among five other regulators, ordered the board, assembled it, powered it up, and applied a positive logic level onto the regulator’s EN pin.

Immediately, I saw the regulator producing 3 V output accompanied by loud buzzing noise – as opposed to producing 5 V output without any audible noise. Here’s how the regulator ended up failing, how exactly I screwed up the design, and how I’m creating a mod board to fix it – so that the boards I meticulously assembled, don’t go to waste.

Some Background… Noise

This regulator is one angry chip – with a 2 MHz switching speed, it’s relatively high as far as regulators go. More common is to see 1 MHz and below. Higher switching speed means it can use a smaller inductor, which is great for routability. It also might not handle some layout or component mistakes that a lower-frequency regulator might do.

Still, I made a number of good choices. With boost regulators, remember – you have to pick an inductor according to the input current, not output current; recalculate accordingly, and check the efficiency graphs. That, I achieved – while I was limited by the size of the inductor I could fit onto the board, I did find a 3.8 A inductor that let me achieve a little under 2 A output. Iin theory – good enough. All places where 5 V could go on the board are current-limited, and there are just two USB ports I need to power, so even 1.5 A of 5 V output is plenty. I also picked proper footprints for both inductors and capacitors – it can be tricky to find 22 uF 10 V capacitors in 0603, but it’s a breeze if you pick 0805. A regulator can fail if you don’t provide it with the kind of capacitance that the datasheet asks for, but I put two footprints on both input and output, and it let me experiment with output caps.
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On the other hand, you might have already noticed at least one problem if you’ve read the layout article thoroughly. For one, see that feedback divider? It’s supposed to be connected after the capacitors, measuring the output – not directly between the inductor and the capacitors, which is a point where a lot of current flows back and forth. I’m not sure how I didn’t catch myself doing this, given that I thoroughly described in an article in the same timeframe that I was routing this board; it’s the kind of mistake you can’t help but write off to general human fallibility. There are a good few problems, though – I should have reconsidered this layout severely before ordering.

Example Layout As Checklist Item

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A contributing factor, I’m sure, is that the datasheet doesn’t have a layout example – you only have the evaluation board documentation to go off of, and I didn’t get that far. It’s not always that the datasheet recommendation will be reasonable, or look reasonable. For instance, in the last article, where I reviewed switching regulator layouts, I’ve shown the TI’s puzzling proposed layout for a buck regulator chip of theirs – with intentions hard to decypher both for me and for fellow hackers in the comment section.

However, it helps way more often than it might puzzle you, and if you never even see the layout example because you have to hunt down extra documents for it, you might not notice fundamental differences, just like I did not notice them. The bottom line is I should have noticed the missing layout example and hunted down the evaluation board datasheet.

Comparing mine with the example layout, you might notice another problem. My ground routing differs a fair bit, and it sure seems that my routing is inferior – my ground is more isolated islands, with a fair bit of ground return current forced to go through vias, and the example layout has a fairly straightforward ground path, no underside layers strictly required. What’s more – you might notice ground return current flowing between output capacitors and the regulator center pad, which will go by the pin 4 – AGND. AGND is specifically a pin supposed to stay away from the switching loop pins, and I do remember noticing this at some point, thinking I should revisit the layout and see if I have fulfilled this obligation. It stayed as a low-level mental TODO in my brain, one that I never actually revisited.

One last thing is placing components under the regulator. I can’t quite afford to free up the under-regulator space on the opposite layer of the board – the board is tightly packed by necessity. My defense is that this is a 4-layer board, with two inner layers dedicated to ground, but I’m not sure whether that negates the concerns of the engineers who wrote this recommendation. This is the only thing I’m leaving in when it comes to v2 board design – otherwise, let’s take a look!
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Out of interest and wanting to finally get to the bringup, I re-wired the FB connection using magnet wire, and even added a more direct GND connection for the output capacitors along the way. The regulator’s behaviour didn’t change one bit, however. Either the GND layout is seriously critical (likely), or the chip got damaged after being booted up with a miswired feedback network; whichever option it is, looks like things won’t be as quick as that. In general, I spent four-five hours on this particular issue, slowly realizing that it’s screwed up beyond fixing.

No matter – let’s just design a mod board that works around all of my mistakes. This helps me bring up the v1 PCB fully – wouldn’t want to have $300 worth of components and days of assembly going to waste. Also, after just a few modifications, we will have a cool switching regulator breakout that we can all use as a building block!

Quick, Simple, Powerful


To make a modification like this, I start by marking an outline of the mod on one of the User layers, then open the file in a text editor, Ctrl-F for the User layer name I used, copy all the lines and circles – and paste them into a footprint .kicad_mod file that’s also open in a text editor. There are a few caveats – first one, the User.Eco2 layer in KiCad UI is called Eco2.User in the actual file. Then, as you copy-paste graphics you’ve drawn, you will also want to replace all “gr_” with “fp_”. Remember to close your kicad_mod while pasting contents into it in the text editor – otherwise, it can be overwritten by accident. Finally, open your .kicad_mod in the footprint viewer, box-select your new lines, and move them so that the (0,0) center point is somewhere near the outline, because it’s going to be a bother to handle this footprint otherwise.
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20413527Then, open a new PCB project, copy-paste the 5 V boost schematic block into the schematic, open the footprint association view and bring over any footprints missing, sync the PCB file, then duplicate the evaluation board layout. Thanks to this workflow, I quickly created a 5 V boost mod board I can solder on top of the board I currently have. This board is about to be ordered, with proper layout, and I’ll soon be soldering it onto the motherboard then testing it – expect an update in the comment section.

There are five (or, four and a half) other switching regulators on the same board, and, as I’m bringing them up and testing them, I’ll write one more article where I will be sharing lessons, whatever they turn out, showing you examples of how to pick parts for a switching regulator, plus, most certainly, demonstrating a couple more more little ways you might get things wrong and how to avoid them. So, till next time!



When a Starship employee talked to the police, the report says, he asked for the employee’s information “so he could contact her and offer their insurance information for her injuries and ‘promo codes.’”#Starship #DeliveryRobots #FOIA


Infostealer malware is often hidden in pirated or cracked software, and hackers then post the harvested credentials and other data online. Criminals have been infected too.#News #Hacking


Ha già lucidato gli stivali, la Benita, per andare a fare passerella nel fango in Romagna?
Chiedo per un amico 🤬
#faenza #alluvioneemiliaromagna


Ora bisognerebbe prendere un negazionista del cambiamento climatico e portarlo a #Faenza, così magari ci può dire se è sempre stato così...(1diot4!)🤬
#alluvioni #negazionisti #noClimateChange


Il Giallo dell’esplosione dei Cercapersone. Handala pubblica i primi 10GB di documenti “Top Secret”


Il gruppo di hacker noto come Handala è emerso lo scorso anno come una nuova e preoccupante minaccia nel panorama della cybercriminalità. Prendendo il nome dal famoso personaggio simbolo della resistenza palestinese, Handala ha acquisito notorietà per aver condotto attacchi mirati e operazioni di cyber intelligence complesse.

Nel loro ultimo attacco, descritto come una combinazione tra operazioni di hackeraggio e sabotaggio fisico, Handala ha rivelato dettagli su come i servizi segreti israeliani, in collaborazione con aziende di facciata come Vidisco, avrebbero alterato i cercapersone usati da Hezbollah, inserendo esplosivi all’interno delle batterie. Questo attacco fa parte di una catena più ampia di sabotaggi contro le infrastrutture di Hezbollah.

Il gruppo ha anche dichiarato di aver hackerato massicciamente le aziende coinvolte, come IIB e Vidisco, estraendo 14TB di dati sensibili, che intendono pubblicare. Questo rivela una capacità impressionante sia sul fronte della cyber intelligence che dell’esfiltrazione di dati.
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Vidisco è un'azienda israeliana che sviluppa e produce sistemi di ispezione digitale a raggi X portatili. Questa azienda è affiliata all'unità 8200 del regime e attualmente l'84% degli aeroporti del mondo utilizza i prodotti di questa azienda nei propri varchi di sicurezza. In pratica, il Mossad passa attraverso i varchi di sicurezza di qualsiasi carico in qualsiasi aeroporto che considera utilizzando la backdoor incorporata nel software di questa azienda.

Molti servizi di sicurezza e militari di diversi Paesi del mondo utilizzano i prodotti di questa azienda. Il mondo è a conoscenza del legame tra questa azienda e il Mossad? Grandi sorprese sono in arrivo nelle prossime ore. 8 TB di dati top-secret di questa azienda, compresi i nomi di tutti gli agenti, i clienti, le e-mail, le fonti delle backdoor, le fonti del software, i documenti finanziari e amministrativi, ecc. sono ora in possesso di Handala e saranno presto divulgati!

Tradotto con DeepL.com (versione gratuita) 20406118
Come abbiamo riportato in precedenza il threat actors Handala ha riportato come l’attacco alla supply chain che ha colpito Hezbollah in Libano sia avvenuto. Handala ha affermato che il Mossad israeliano e l’Unità 8200 sono stati coinvolti nell’operazione, in cui sono stati compromessi dei cercapersone e successivamente radio appartenenti al gruppo libanese.

Secondo Handala, le batterie dei dispositivi sono state modificate con esplosivi sensibili al calore dalla compagnia IIB (Israeli Industrial Batteries). Questi dispositivi sono stati trasportati con l’aiuto di una società di facciata chiamata Vidisco, nota per la fornitura di sistemi a raggi X a porti e aeroporti di tutto il mondo, grazie ai quali i sabotatori sono riusciti a eludere i controlli di sicurezza.

Handala ha dichiarato di aver hackerato i sistemi di Vidisco e IIB, raccogliendo 14TB di dati che verranno rilasciati a breve, insieme al codice sorgente del progetto di backdoor utilizzato per compromettere le spedizioni​.
Handala ha hackerato la IIB ( Israeli Industrial Batteries )

IIB è una delle aziende affiliate al Ministero della Difesa del regime, responsabile della progettazione e della produzione di molte infrastrutture vitali per l'immagazzinamento dell'energia per le industrie militari e della difesa del regime sionista, come radar, apparecchiature di telecomunicazione, apparecchiature di spionaggio, ecc. Questa azienda ha anche contaminato con esplosivi le batterie dei dispositivi elettronici di Hezbollah.

6 TB di informazioni sensibili di questa azienda, compresi tutti i messaggi di posta elettronica, i documenti finanziari e amministrativi, i documenti di progettazione e produzione, i clienti, le risorse umane, ecc.

Tradotto con DeepL.com (versione gratuita) 20406122 10 GB di dati riservati sulla cooperazione tra Mossad e Vidisco

Secondo i dati trapelati da Handala, attualmente i servizi di sicurezza e militari di 91 paesi del mondo utilizzano i prodotti Vidisco nei loro varchi di sicurezza. Il Mossad, in collaborazione con Vidisco, ha la possibilità di impedire l'identificazione di spedizioni contaminate in questi Paesi!

Negli ultimi dieci anni, secondo il log estratto dal server di vidisco, il Mossad ha utilizzato la backdoor di questa azienda in 2780 casi in 37 Paesi. Paesi come il Libano, la Siria, l'India, la Turchia, Taiwan, la Tailandia, gli Emirati Arabi Uniti, l'America, la Germania, l'Iraq, ecc. sono in cima alla lista dei Paesi inquinati.

Stiamo rilasciando 10 GB di documenti sensibili di progettazione e sviluppo! Aspettate che la fonte backdoor venga divulgata!
L'articolo Il Giallo dell’esplosione dei Cercapersone. Handala pubblica i primi 10GB di documenti “Top Secret” proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



Adult-content creators call for inclusion in AI policy talks


Adult industry stakeholders are looking to influence artificial intelligence (AI) regulations to protect content creators' rights amid emerging issues like AI-generated pornography, deepfakes, and age verification challenges.


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Informative fantastiche e dove trovarle Non so perchè ma le leggo sempre. Gli amici mi prendono in giro per questo ma non posso farci niente...


Così il governo ha posto le basi per l’affermazione della marittimità italiana. Scrive Caffio

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

[quote]Il ruolo della blue economy nello sviluppo del Paese, la programmazione di impianti eolici offshore, le istanze dello shipping per una semplificazione amministrativa che favorisca il trasporto via mare, l’attenzione per gli aspetti strategici e produttivi della dimensione



Cos’è Hashomer Yosh, l’ultimo gruppo di coloni colpito dalle sanzioni statunitensi?


@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
L'organizzazione sostenuta dal governo, che porta volontari negli avamposti agricoli israeliani, è uno dei principali motori del furto violento di terra in Cisgiordania
L'articolo Cos’è Hashomer Yosh, l’ultimo gruppo di coloni colpito dalle



Ho già un blog: a cosa potrebbe servirmi Friendica?

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Friendica è un social molto particolare che consente di scrivere post lunghi, formattati, con immagini in linea e dotati di un vero titolo; inoltre presenta alcune primitive funzionalità di pubblicazione programmata che ricordano quelle delle piattaforme di blogging più utilizzate.

Ecco perché chi usa Friendica è spesso un utente proveniente da Mastodon, un sistema che con le sue limitazioni permette una fruizione passiva del Fediverso piuttosto completa, ma una capacità di pubblicazione attiva decisamente limitata.

Oggi cerchiamo di capire perché Friendica potrebbe essere una soluzione utile anche per chi possiede già un blog e che quindi dispone già di sistemi di pubblicazione avanzati o, addirittura, sta utilizzando piattaforme già federate, come Writefreely o come Wordpress con il fantastico plugin Activitypub for Wordpress.
1) Impostare il proprio account Friendica per fare in modo che ricondivida automaticamente i post pubblicati dal proprio blog

Per attivare questa funzionalità (che funzionerà solo se il blog dispone di un feed RSS o se è federato con il Fediverso), è sufficiente inserire l'indirizzo del blog nella casella di ricerca di Friendica e premere il pulsante "Cerca". A quel punto bisognerà seguire il blog, che comparirà come un qualsiasi altro contatto, e selezionare tra le opzioni del contatto "Duplica come miei messaggi" (per i blog non federati) o "Ricondivisione nativa" (per i blog federati).

2) Sopperire alle mancanze di un blog Writefreely.

Writefreely è infatti la piattaforma di pubblicazione federata più semplice ma, nel suo obiettivo "distrazioni zero", l'utente che pubblica un post su Writefreely, in caso di risposta da parte di un qualsiasi utente del Fediverso, non solo non riceverà alcuna notifica ma addirittura non potrà vedere le risposte a meno che non disponga di un'utenza social. Per questo motivo consigliamo a tutti coloro che abbiano un'utenza social di inserire in fondo al post a mo' di firma il proprio identificativo social nella forma @nomeutente@istanza: in tal modo, chi risponderà al post Writefreely, risponderà anche a quell'indirizzo del fediverso. Purtroppo però l'utente, nella propria risposta, potrebbe anche cancellare il secondo indirizzo, per cui non ci sarebbe più alcuna possibilità di venire allertati su quella risposta! Proprio qui ci viene in aiuto Friendica: infatti, utilizzando il sistema spiegato nel punto 1), ossia la ricondivisione automatica, Friendica ci farà avere anche una notifica ogni volta che qualcuno risponde al post che il sistema ha ricondiviso! Questa limitazione di Writefreely può essere estesa a tutti i blog federati che hanno deliberatamente disattivato le risposte degli utenti: in quei casi, le risposte ci saranno lo stesso e saranno visibili dal Fediverso, solo che non verranno "viste" dal blogger.

3) Creare o usare un gruppo Friendica tematico

Un gruppo Friendica tematico (una sorta a metà tra una lista di distribuzione e un gruppo Facebook) che possa essere "menzionato" da tutti i blog Wordpress federati (il blog dovrà "seguire" il gruppo Friendica, una funzionalità prevista nei plugin di Wordpress). In tal modo, quando un post menziona il gruppo Friendica, il gruppo Friendica ricondividerà il post a favore di tutti coloro che già seguono il gruppo.

PS: approfittiamo per far sapere a tutti i nostri follower che esistono due account dedicati a chi è interessato ai blog federati

1) Il primo è @Il blogverso italiano di Wordpress dedicato a tutti i blog italiani wordpress che si sono federati attraverso il fantastico plugin sviluppato da @Matthias Pfefferle
Chiunque sia interessato a essere aggiunto tra i blog ricondivisi o a segnalare un nuovo blog Wordpress federato, può farci sapere direttamente a questo account

2) Il secondo è @I blog di Writefreely dedicato ai blog italiani basati su Writefreely. L'account al momento non ricondivide i post degli account, ma rispecchia i loro feed RSS. Ah, l'account è anche un gruppo Friendica e quindi se volete segnalare nuovi blog Writefreely, potete farlo menzionando quell'account

in reply to djpanini

@djpanini probabilmente stai sbagliando qualcosa.
Per trovare il tuo contatto, Devi incollare il nickname completo o il link del profilo nella casella di ricerca Friendica.
Poi è fondamentale seguire quel profilo, perché se non lo segui non puoi attivare le funzionalità di repost automatico.
Infine, dovrei andare nella seconda sezione disponibile sulla pagina Friendica del tuo profilo remoto, ossia impostazioni contatto, e selezionare ricondivisione nativa

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Scoperti due getti lunghi 23 milioni di anni luce l MEDIA INAF

"Scoperta la più grande coppia di getti emessi da un buco nero mai osservata: si estende per 23 milioni di anni luce, una distanza equivalente a 140 galassie come la Via Lattea, allineate una dopo l’altra. A individuarle è stato il radiotelescopio europeo Lofar. Nel team che ha scoperto queste megastrutture e che ha firmato un articolo apparso oggi sulla rivista Nature ci sono due ricercatori Inaf."

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L’organo consultivo di alto livello dell’ONU vuole un gruppo scientifico internazionale sull’IA

L'articolo proviene da #Euractiv Italia ed è stato ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Intelligenza Artificiale
Le Nazioni Unite dovrebbero assumere un ruolo attivo nella comprensione dei rischi e nella condivisione dei benefici dell’Intelligenza



Difesa aerea e missilistica, l’Europa è pronta? Gli interrogativi di Crosetto e Lecornu

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[quote]Quale Paese europeo sarebbe stato in grado di rispondere all’attacco missilistico subito ad aprile da Israele? E se gli attacchi fossero stati più di uno? Sono queste le domande che il ministro della Difesa, Guido Crosetto, si è posto intervenendo alla terza edizione dell’European air and



PAKISTAN. Rimpatri e abusi per i migranti afgani in fuga dai talebani


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Spasil Zazai, attivista per i diritti delle donne, è fuggita dall'Afghanistan in Pakistan. Dopo tre anni lei e le sue figlie sono ancora in attesa di ottenere il visto.
L'articolo PAKISTAN. Rimpatri e abusi per i migranti afgani in fuga dai talebani proviene da



Per il Pentagono la sicurezza nazionale passa dai chip. Ecco Secure Enclave

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[quote]Il Pentagono ha annunciato il suo coinvolgimento in una nuova iniziativa del Dipartimento del Commercio degli Stati Uniti del valore di tre miliardi di dollari, atta a garantire alle forze armate statunitensi una supply chain affidabile per la microelettronica



Da qualche giorno il mio canale "Italiano" è mutilato, nel senso che rimane troncato dopo una manciata di post (numero variabile, ieri ne ho contati 23, stamani solo 12). Troncato proprio, nemmeno fermo in un caricamento di altri post.

Questo mi infastidisce abbastanza, il feed di quel canale è quello che consulto maggiormente.

Sono l'unica su @Poliverso :friendica: ad avere questo problema? @Signor Amministratore è cambiato qualcosa dopo l'upgrade di Friendica? Non sono certa che il problema abbia cominciato a manifestarsi subito dopo, ma sono sicura di non averlo avuto prima.

Tra le impostazioni non ho trovato niente di utile.

#friendica #Friendica-Aiuto #poliverso.org #Poliverso

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@floreana @Signor Amministratore ⁂ @Poliverso :friendica:
Bump per dire che adesso secondo @raccoon il problema sembra essere un caricamento infinito (no, il problema non è mai rientrato, nonostante un iniziale barlume di speranza).
Intanto mi sono scoraggiata. 😭
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L'immagine mostra una testa di procione stilizzata su uno sfondo nero. Sopra il procione ci sono cinque icone: una freccia curva, un razzo, un cuore, un segnalibro e una freccia rivolta a destra. Sotto il procione ci sono tre icone: un cerchio, un triangolo e un quadrato.


La Linea Adriatica della Snam. Un’opera inutile che devasta l’ambiente


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Il nuovo articolo di @valori@poliversity.it
I racconti di resistenza degli attivisti contro il mega gasdotto della Linea Adriatica su cui punta il Governo Meloni
L'articolo La Linea Adriatica della Snam. Un’opera inutile che devasta l’ambiente proviene da Valori.

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Quali sono le vere ragioni del prezzo record dell’oro


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Il nuovo articolo di @valori@poliversity.it
Il prezzo dell'oro ha raggiunto un nuovo record, superando i 2.600 dollari l'oncia. Potrebbe essere l'ennesima speculazione ben costruita
L'articolo Quali sono le vere ragioni del prezzo record dell’oro proviene da Valori.

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@RaccoonForFriendica rilasciata nuova versione 0.1.0-alpha28 con:

  • possibilità di impostare la visibilità predefinita per i nuovi post e le risposte,
  • possibilità di segnalare utenti e post,
  • fix selezione immagini da galleria su versioni di Android < 11,
  • fix compatibilità Mastodon per il caricamento degli allegati,
  • miglioramento rendering dei post (liste, allegati, anteprime, contatori),
  • propagazione eventi di cancellazione post nella paginazione dei feed,
  • ottimizzazione uso della memoria per il caricamento delle anteprime immagini,
  • aggiunta localizzazione in tedesco.

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #kmp #compose #multiplatform #opensource #foss #buildinpublic #livefasteattrash

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PODCAST GARAGEPUNK


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Fediforum happened this week, mozilla.social shuts down, and Mastodon announces the Fediverse Discovery Project.


Last Week in Fediverse – ep 84

Welcome back to another update. Some short housekeeping notes: Last Week in Fediverse will now release every Wednesday. Furthermore, I’ve split all news about Bluesky and the ATmosphere into it’s own separate newsletter, Last Week in the ATmosphere. I originally wanted to keep them together, but the newsletters were simply getting too big, so it was time to split them. Lots of news this week with FediForum, a Fediverse Discovery Project, and mozilla.social shutting down, so lets dive in.

The news


The fourth edition of FediForum happened this week, a three-day unconference with speed demos of fediverse projects as well as some 40 open sessions about anything related to the fediverse. There were 14 demos, of which the video recordings should be available soon. Two demos stood out to me, showing products that have not been seen before, with Newsmast with channel.org, and Darius Kazemi’s ActivityPub Data Observatory. While there were lots of other great demos as well (Bandwagon for example), these mainly featured existing products.

Channel.org is the latest project by Newsmast, and is a way for organisations, nonprofits, and news publishers to build their own channel for outreach. It is fully connected to the fediverse with the front-end providing a clear and simplified interface that simply shows the latest posts by a channel. This can be seen with the demo Channel for the Kamala Harris Group, which recently got switched over to use Patchwork, Newsmast other fediverse project. Channel.org is based on Patchwork, which is a plug-in architecture that Mastodon server admins can run on top of their Mastodon server. Patchwork is getting close to being released, and Newsmast is currently looking for admins who are willing participate. Patchwork is free and publicly available, while Channel.org will require a paid membership and targets larger public organisations.

The ActivityPub Data Observatory allows fediverse developers to scan the structure (not the content!) of data that gets send around on the fediverse, allowing developers to easily compare how different sofware structures their ActivityPub data. For example, you can easily compare how Misskey structures the ActivityPub code of a note, versus how Mastodon sends the ActivityPub code for a note. The open-ended nature of ActivityPub allows developers to give their own spin on implementing ActivityPub

As for the sessions, one recurring theme I noted is the need and demand for spaces to discuss the governance and social side of the fediverse and fediverse developments. While there are spaces for the technical aspects of the discussion of the fediverse and the protocol with the SocialCG, the SocialHub and the Fediverse Developer Network, these communities are less accessible to the technical inclined people. This is a conversation that also has come up during previous FediForum sessions. The Fediverse Governance Report also notes a lack of formal channels for Federated Diplomacy. While the need and demand is clearly there, it seems to be hard to figure out a way to establish such communications channels in a way that also establishes them as legitimate places for discussions and diplomacy.

Another aspect that stood out to me is the lack of discussions that I noticed about Bluesky during FediForum, and what lessons can be learned that can be applied to the fediverse. Bluesky has managed to grow significantly bigger than the fediverse at this point, with around 5 times as many monthly active users, as well as onboarding the Brazilian community. It seems to me that it is worth reflecting on why that is, and how the fediverse can better show itself as a good, ethical social network that people would like to join.

Fediverse Discovery Providers


The organisation behind Mastodon (Mastodon gGmbH) has announced a new project, Fediscovery, that explores decentralised search and discovery for the fediverse. The project got funded by NGI Search, and “explores the possibilities for better search and discovery on the Fediverse in the form of an optional, pluggable service. This service should be decentralized, independent of any one specific Fediverse service and respect user choice and privacy.” Mastodon gGmbH is explicitly not building only for Mastodon, they make it clear that they intend Fediscovery to be used by the wider fediverse, not only Mastodon.

What Mastodon gGmbH is building here is what they call a ‘Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers’. These auxiliary service providers can potentially do a variety of different services. The Fediscovery project is about building one of these service providers, a disovery provider, as a minimum proof of concept and as a demonstration what types of services other people can build as well. The plans are currently still in the very early stages, and more information expected at the end of September. For my own understanding I think of a Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider as pretty much a Relay, with some minor yet-to-be-announced differences.

Mastodon gGmbH is also explicit in focusing on opt-in consent for the service, stating that it will “only ingest content from creators who opted in to discovery in the first place. Instances sending content to discovery providers should make sure to only send such content in the first place as well. All other information a discovery provider gathers should be anonymous.”

During a FediForum session about Fediscovery, Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput confirmed that between 8% and 10% of active accounts have opted into Mastodon’s search, a year after it has been released. It indicates one of the fundamental challenges of any design that is opt-in: very few people will change the default settings, irregardless of what the settings are about. As Discovery and Search systems gain value by covering a bigger network, it shows the fundamental tensions that Mastodon gGmbH will have to grapple with while building Fediscovery.

Mozilla shuts down mozilla.social fediverse server


Mozilla has announced that they will shut down the mozilla.social server in December 2024. The server was announced in December 2022 as a way to ‘explore healthy social media alternative’. The project was originally quite big in scope, with planned integrations to log in with Firefox, and the GitHub repo showed their own mobile clients, and a custom front-end based on Elk. In 2023 Mozilla started to very slowly open up in a private beta, but the number of people getting access has been low. In February 2024 Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox, scaling back their investments in various products, including their mozilla.social fediverse server. In an accompanying memo Mozilla stated at the time: “The actions we’re taking today will make this strategic correction, working through a much smaller team to participate in the Mastodon ecosystem and more rapidly bring smaller experiments to people that choose to live on the mozilla.social instance.”

It seems like these more rapid smaller experiments never came, nor did it seem that Mozilla was particularly interested in growing the server. I honestly cannot find out if the server ever opened up for open registrations after they ran a waitlist for a long time, but it seems like it they have not. At any rate, the experiment stayed small, and mozilla.social currently has just below 300 active users.

The shutdown of Mozilla.social does raise questions about the server-centric model that the fediverse is based around: are there organisations that are willing to run large general-purpose fediverse servers, and have the ability to handle the infrastructure costs and moderation requirements that come with it. Mozilla seemed like it would be a good organisation to potentially do that. With Mozilla now pulling back, focusing on smaller servers might be a more logical direction going forward.

In Other News


  • Threads has figured out how maximise publicity by making minimal incremental updates to their ActivityPub implementation, edition 501.
  • Threaded is a Mastodon client that advertised a ‘Threads-like’ interface. Meta got in touch and threatened legal action, and now the app is renamed to Bubble.
  • Bonfire showcases how with third-party extensions scientists can display ‘relevant data about their work and research topics directly on their profiles.’ Bonfire does not yet know when the platform will launch.
  • The client Kaiteki, which focused on being a client for all the different microblogging platforms in the fediverse, stops development.
  • The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research had stopped using their Mastodon account in October 2023, and after not posting for most of the year they said they’d close the account. After a large pushback from the community they reconsidered the decision and said they’d continue using the account again.
  • Mastodon’s new author byline feature is now available for everyone.
  • Goblin is an Tumblr-like platform for the fediverse, that recently opened up for signups. Someone also made a Cohost user style.
  • The new Trust and Safety Taskforce with the SocialCG has set up an issue tracker for protocol level and/or specification changes to improve trust and safety on the fediverse.
  • mastodon adoptions article link.springer.com/article/10.1…
  • The Fediverse Berlin Day had multiple sessions about, well, the fediverse. Full live stream available here, with the German publisher ARD talking about their fediverse experience and strategy. Evan Prodromou also gave a talk about a ‘bigger, better fediverse’, which you can watch here. I do want to note that I find it very hard to square Prodromou’s estimation of 10 million federated Threads account with the fact that Mastodon.social (which accounts for a quarter of the entire fediverse’ monthly active users) currently knows about 18000 federated Threads accounts.


The Links


That’s all for this week. You can also check out my post with the weekly news on atproto here.

#fediverse

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Bluesky adds video support, announces 10 million accounts, and more!


Last Week in the ATmosphere

Welcome to the weekly update on everything that’s happened on Bluesky and the broader network called the ATmosphere. A short introduction for people who might not know me: I’m Laurens Hof, and the last year I’ve written a monthly update on all the news that’s happened on Bluesky. I’ve written a weekly newsletter about everything that is happening in the fediverse, the other decentralised social network, as well over the last year and a half. And now you can expect even more regular updates on Bluesky and the ATmosphere as well, coming out every Wednesday. It’s been a busy week* with video, 10 million accounts, and more!

The News


Bluesky has added support for video. The feature has been often requested, especially from the Brazilian community. Over the last few weeks the team has made it their top priority to launch the feature as soon as possible. Videos have indeed been very popular on Bluesky, with 169 years of videos being served within 2 days, and half a million videos posted within 4 days. Each video can be one minute long, and people can upload 25 videos per day.

There are two things that stand out to me about Bluesky’s video support: videos have shown to be highly popular on Bluesky, and the openness of the ATmosphere network allows people to build new types of network that are more catered towards watching videos specifically. I’m curious to what extend this will actually happen. Furthermore videos require significantly more resources than text posts, so it is worth watching how this impacts Blueskys thinking about costs and monetization.


Bluesky crossed 10 million accounts this week, of which around 4 million came in the last month or so after the ban in Brazil on X. It now has around 5.5 million monthly active users. User retention after this new signup wave is also notably high, with daily active users peaking at 1.91 million, and staying at 1.57 million some two weeks later. Every signup wave has a significant amount of churn, as it is very difficult to get people to change their habits and start regularly using a new social platform, and Bluesky’s churn seems low to me. Bluesky celebrated this milestone by letting everyone know which number they joined the network with, and how early they were. The amount of people sharing it shows that people on Bluesky definitely like to show off their early-adopter status.


The adoption of Bluesky by the Brazilian community as the default social network after the ban on X has continued. After the dust has settled it looks like the Brazilians now fairly consistently represent three quarters of the total posts on the network. President Lula (‘s social media team) shows that they’re aware of the features that Bluesky offers, and has used a Starter Pack to promote different candidates for elections. Some of the biggest football clubs in Brazil have established an official presence as well, such as Corinthians and Vasco da Gama. When goals get scored during the games, this is now clearly visible in significant spikes in posts, with the number of posts per second doubling temporarily. Another developer made a directory of Brazilian accounts on Bluesky, sorted by various categories, to help people onboard as well. A Brazilian esports organisation now sells handles with their (sub)domain to raise money for the organisation as well as for people to show they support the team.

The Brazilian Bluesky community also had their first major cultural moment this week. During a televised debate between electoral rivals for mayor of Sao Paolo, one of the candidates hit one of the other candidates with a chair. Videos of the event went viral, and over the last two days the majority of the network’s top posts have been memes about the event. One of the most popular posts described it as ‘a really canonical event on this social network’. This is also in contrast with Threads, where the event seems to have not gone viral at all.


Skyware is a new lightweight labeler server. Originally, the labeling system was designed by Bluesky to be a content moderation system. Over time, the labeling system has slowly transformed, away from content moderation, and towards labelers that you can self-apply for silly or more practical use-cases as indicating your pronouns (or to recreate Orkut). Skyware is the next evolution in this, where the software is only for labeling accounts, and the moderation part of the system is stripped away altogether. Still, other organisations are experimenting with using labelers for content moderation: News Detective is a fact checking organisation that now has a labeler on Bluesky as well. How effective a fact-checking system is when people have to opt into receiving the fact checks on a social network remains to be seen however.

In other news


  • The third Tech Talk by the (unaffiliated) atprotocol.dev community is by Ændra Rininsland, who is behind the labeler XBlock and the News feed.
  • A research paper that studies how Bluesky has evolved from invitation-only to being open to the public. One of their findings is that Bluesky is a chatty network, something that was already the case before the arrival of the Brazilians: users tend to create more posts than reshare other posts, in contrast with Twitter/X where the dynamic is the other way around.
  • For the people interested in the nitty-gritty of protocols: NodeInfo is a standardized way of exposing metadata about a server running one of the distributed social networks, and it is currently mainly used for ActivityPub servers. Now there is an effort to expand NodeInfo so it can also be used for a PDS on atproto.
  • Bridgy Fed is a way to connect Bluesky to other decentralised social networks such as Mastodon. The latest update now also bridges video between the network, and you can let the bridge ask an account via a DM if they want to opt-in to the bridge. Bridgy Fed will only send a DM once, even if someone else also asks.
  • Graphtracks allows you to check the statistics of atproto accounts, allowing you to see a graph of your follow and likes over time. It shows the power of a completely open API, where anyone can now have full detailed statistics about their account.

That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! You can subscribe to my newsletter to receive the weekly updates directly in your inbox below, and follow me on Bluesky @laurenshof.online.

* 10 days actually, I switched from publishing on Sunday to publishing on Wednesday this week as well.

#bluesky

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Onu a Israele: stop a presenza illegale nei Territori palestinesi entro 12 mesi


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La risoluzione ha ricevuto 124 voti favorevoli, 43 paesi si sono astenuti, Israele, gli Usa e altri 12 Stati hanno votato contro. L’Italia si è astenuta
L'articolo Onu a Israele: stop a presenza illegale nei Territori palestinesi entro 12 mesi



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🌍 TRE GIORNI PER LA PACE 2024 🌍
"Assange e Guerra al giornalismo"

🎤 Dibattito con i giornalisti:

Germana Leoni

Fabrizio Cassinelli

Giuliano Marrucci

Massimo Alberizzi

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Le 30 nuove iniziative della Commissione per rilanciare il settore tecnologico europeo

L'articolo proviene da #Euractiv Italia ed è stato ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Intelligenza Artificiale
Secondo le lettere d’incarico pubblicate martedì (17 settembre), la nuova Commissione europea sarà chiamata a un compito gravoso in materia di




Oggi il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara ha firmato il decreto a favore di 19 nuove Fondazioni #ITSAcademy, che nel 2023 hanno avviato almeno un percorso formativo. Grazie al provvedimento riceveranno oltre 55 milioni di euro.


OPERAZIONE GLOBALE CONTRO ORGANIZZAZIONE CHE UTILIZZAVA UNA PIATTAFORMA CRITTOGRAFATA


Un'operazione globale che ha coinvolto autorità di tutto il mondo, supportata da #Eurojust ed #Europol, ha portato a oltre 50 arresti e al sequestro di asset finanziari. Una piattaforma di comunicazioni crittografate è stata utilizzata per attività criminali come traffico di droga, omicidio, corruzione e riciclaggio di denaro. La robusta crittografia della piattaforma l'ha resa ideale per le reti criminali, con server situati in Francia, Svezia, Spagna e Paesi Bassi.

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La piattaforma si basava su un servizio completamente anonimizzato che utilizzava tre standard di crittografia, offrendo l'opzione di inviare un messaggio seguito da un codice specifico che comportava l'autodistruzione di tutti i messaggi sul telefono di destinazione. A causa dei numerosi server privati ​​in tutto il mondo, le agenzie governative o di terze parti hanno trovato difficoltà a tracciare tale tipo di comunicazione.

Presso Eurojust è stato istituito un team investigativo congiunto (#JIT #SIC) tra autorità di Francia e Stati Uniti, consentendo loro di scambiare informazioni e prove in tempo reale. Anche le autorità di Paesi Bassi, Svezia, Canada e Australia sono state coinvolte nelle indagini.

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Per facilitare le indagini sulle attività illegali che utilizzavano questa piattaforma di comunicazione, a marzo 2022 è stata istituita anche presso Europol una Taskforce operativa (#OTF) che ha coinvolto le autorità di polizia di Australia, Canada, Francia, Irlanda, Italia, Paesi Bassi, Svezia e Stati Uniti. È stato inoltre istituito un Centro operativo congiunto presso la sede centrale di Europol.

Le indagini sono culminate in giornate di azione congiunta in tutto il mondo con 38 sospettati arrestati in Australia, 11 in Irlanda, uno in Italia e uno in Canada. Finora sono state sequestrate armi, droga e oltre 1 milione di euro in contanti a livello globale. Sono previste ulteriori azioni man mano che le indagini procederanno.

La direttrice esecutiva di EUROPOL, Catherine De Bolle (foto sopra), ha dichiarato: “Abbiamo chiarito che, indipendentemente da quanto nascoste pensino di essere, le reti criminali non possono sfuggire al nostro sforzo collettivo. Le Forze dell’Ordine di 9 Paesi, insieme a EUROPOL hanno smantellato uno strumento che era una rete di salvataggio per il crimine organizzato grave”.


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#cybercrime