"Scoperta la più antica evidenza della modalità di crescita dall’interno verso l’esterno ("inside-out growth") in una galassia settecento milioni di anni dopo il Big Bang. A differenza delle zone centrali, caratterizzate da stelle più antiche, le regioni esterne della galassia sono ricche di stelle giovani e ospitano un’intensa attività di formazione stellare. La scoperta è stata realizzata con Webb dall’Università di Cambridge."
Fundamentally, an artificial intelligence (AI) is nothing more than a system that takes a series of inputs, makes some prediction, and then outputs that information. Of course, the types of AI in the news right now can handle a huge number of inputs and need server farms’ worth of compute to generate outputs of various forms, but at a basic level, there’s no reason a purpose-built AI can’t run on much less powerful hardware. As a demonstration, and to win a bet with a friend, [mondal3011] got an artificial intelligence up and running on an Arduino.
This AI isn’t going to do anything as complex as generate images or write clunky preambles to every recipe on the Internet, but it is still a functional and useful piece of software. This one specifically handles the brightness of a single lamp, taking user input on acceptable brightness ranges in the room and outputting what it thinks the brightness of the lamp should be to match the user’s preferences. [mondal3011] also builds a set of training data for the AI to learn from, taking the lamp to various places around the house and letting it figure out where to set the brightness on its own. The training data is run through a linear regression model in Python which generates the function that the Arduino needs to automatically operate the lamp.
Although this isn’t the most complex model, it does go a long way to demonstrating the basic principles of using artificial intelligence to build a useful and working model, and then taking that model into the real world. Note also that the model is generated on a more powerful computer before being ported over to the microcontroller platform. But that’s all par for the course in AI and machine learning. If you’re looking to take a step up from here, we’d recommend this robot that uses neural networks to learn how to walk.
[quote]Un salto generazionale, letteralmente, attende l’industria della Difesa italiana. È quello che vedrà il nostro Paese contribuire, con Regno Unito e Giappone, allo sviluppo del caccia di sesta generazione Global combat air programme (Gcap). Un sistema di sistemi all’avanguardia
The Vectrex was a unique console from the early 1980s. Developed by a company you’ve probably never heard of—Smith Engineering—it was put into production by General Consumer Electronics, and later sold by Milton Bradley. It was an outright commercial failure, but it’s remembered for its sharp vector display and oddball form factor.
The Vectrex was intended for tabletop use in a home environment. However, [Jeroen Domburg], also known as [Sprite_tm], decided to set about building a portable version. This wasn’t easy, but that just makes the development process a more interesting story. Thankfully for us, [Sprite_tm] was kind enough to tell the tale at the 2023 Hackaday Supercon.
Vectorlicious
youtube.com/embed/zBVmCFS2sYs?… Vector graphics were the thing that set the Vectrex apart. [Sprite] starts by introducing the audience to the Vectrex, just to make sure everyone understands what was special about this thing. For comaprison’s sake, he lines it up against its contemporaries. Back in the early 1980s, the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision had incredibly low resolution video output with big ugly pixels. In contrast, the Vectrex could draw clean, sharp lines with its inbuilt vector-style display.
Basically, instead of coloring in individual pixels, the Vectrex instead drew lines from point to point on the screen. It was an entirely different way of doing graphics—fast, tidy, and effective—and it was popular in early video arcade games, too. Some Vectrex games even came with plastic overlays to create the impression of color on the screen. Unlike pixel displays, though, this technology didn’t really scale well to prettier, more lifelike graphics. Thus after the Vectrex, no other mainstream consoles adopted this technique. The talk cites the awesome Scopetrex project, which lets you play Vectrex games on an oscilloscope. From there, [Sprite_tm] walks the audience through the hardware of the Vectrex. The architecture is fairly simple, based around a 68A09 CPU, which is a Motorola CPU with some improvements over the earlier 6502. It’s paired with some ROM, RAM, and I/O glue logic, and it loads its games off cartridges. Then there’s the audio hardware, a digital-to-analog converter for video output, and all the subsequent analog electronics for driving the vector CRT display.
Unlike a modern console, what’s inside the box is no secret. Datasheets and full schematics are publicly available that lay out exactly how the whole thing works. This is hugely valuable for anyone looking to repair a Vectrex—or make a portable one. You don’t need to reverse engineer much, since it’s all laid out for you. Indeed, as [Sprite_tm] notes, a replica motherboard already exists that lets you play Vectrex games on an oscilloscope’s XY input.
Building the Portable
Some people have built small Vectrexes before, by going the emulator route with a Raspberry Pi and a small LCD display. [Sprite] wasn’t a fan of this route, as modern pixel LCDs make for jagged diagonal lines because they’re not proper vector displays like the original Vectrex CRT. Thus, to build a more authentic portable Vectrex, [Sprite_tm]’s build needed certain parts. On top of replicating the CPU and logic of the Vectrex, he needed to find a small CRT that operate as a proper vector display. Plus, he wanted to build something properly portable—”I wanna sit on the bus and then whip it out and play it,” he explains. Obviously, finding a suitable CRT was the first big hurdle to clear. [Sprite_tm] mused over using a tube from a Sony Watchman handheld portable TV, but decided against it. He notes that these are fairly rare and valuable, and he didn’t want to destroy one for his project. But he still needed a small CRT in a practical form factor, and he found the perfect donor. In the 90s, LCDs were pretty crap and expensive, so apartment video intercoms relied on CRTs instead. Now, these systems are all largely defunct, and he notes you can find old examples of these answerphones for a few dollars online. Pretty tidy. Of course, these answerphone CRTs weren’t designed for vector operation. However, [Sprite_tm] teaches us how you can convert one to draw straight lines on command instead of scanning like a TV. You can get legit vector operation just by squirting the right voltages into the deflection coils. Of course, getting it to work in practice is a lot harder than you might think, but perseverance got the job done in the end. Understanding the physics involved is useful, too, and [Sprite_tm] explains the theory with an apt comparison between coils and a pig.
From there, the talk explains how the rest of the hardware came together. [Sprite_tm] elected to stuff all the Vectrex magic into an FPGA, which felt cooler than software emulation but was more compact than using all-original chips on a replica mainboard. It lives on a custom PCB that also carries all the necessary electronics to drive the CRT in the desired vector mode.
The build also has a cartridge port for playing original Vectrex games. However, for ease of use, [Sprite] also fitted a RISC V CPU, some RAM, and a microSD card for loading ROMs for games that he doesn’t own in physical format. Everything was then wrapped up in a custom 3D-printed case that’s roughly twice as large as the Nintendo Game Boy Color in length and width—and about four times thicker.
[Jeroen] built two examples. They’re very fully featured—they can play both real carts and ROMs off a microSD card.The final result? It’s a retrogaming triumph. The display isn’t perfect—it’s flickery, it’s a little skewed—but that’s not so different from the original Vectrex anyway. This thing is portable, it’s playable, and the vector CRT looks absolutely glorious, as does the case design. These things don’t make sense to make, as [Sprite] notes, but we agree with his ultimate assessment—this is art.
Firma su: pnri.firmereferendum.giustizia.it/referendum/dettaglio/1500004 L'articolo Conferenza stampa “Energia Nucleare? Si, grazie!” proviene da Fondazione Luigi Einaudi.
@RaccoonForFriendica I am planning to add more translations for the app UI, apart from English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish and Portuguese.
Do you have any recommendations based on your preferences? Even auxiliary languages like Esperanto are viable... I would try to cover as many as possible Friendica users, because those are the main target.
Do you also have any suggestion for the app fonts? Especially something that could make the app more readable, e.g. Atkinson Hyperlegible.
Next release will contain experimental support for notifications, as you requested, be ready to test it!
Bamboccio europeista, atlantista, dovrebbero mandarlo al fronte... Borrell: “Putin non si siederà al tavolo delle trattative finché l'Ucraina non prevarrà” • Imola Oggi imolaoggi.it/2024/10/23/borrel…
The company is selling Kamala Harris and Donald Trump merch, and falsely promising to donate proceeds from the sales to the campaigns and other political causes.#Facebook #Meta #election
[Sam Battle] is no stranger to these pages, nor is his Museum is not Obsolete. The museum was recently gifted an enormous Nixie tube created by Dalibor Farný, a B-grade (well, faulty) unit that could not be used in any of their commissioned works but was perfectly fine for displaying in the museum’s retro display display. This thing is likely the largest Nixie tube still being manufactured; although we read that it’s probably not the largest ever made, it’s still awesome. Every hacker should have their own museum. It is fairly simple to use, like all Nixie tubes, provided you’re comfortable with relatively high DC voltages, albeit at a low current. They need a DC voltage because if you drive the thing with AC, both the selected cathode digit plate and the anode grid will glow, which is not what you need.
Anyway, [Sam] did what he does best, clamped the delicate tube in some 3D printed mounts and hooked up a driver made from stuff he scraped out of a bin in the workshop. Obviously, for someone deeply invested in ancient electromagnetic telephone equipment, a GPO (British General Post Office, now BT) uniselector was selected, manually advanced with an arcade-style push button via a relay. This relay also supplies the ~140 V for the common anode connection on the Nixie tube. The individual digit cathodes are grounded via the uniselector contacts. A typically ancient GPO-branded snubber capacitor prevents the relay contacts from arcing over and ruining the display unit. There isn’t much more to it, so if you’re in the Ramsgate, UK, area anytime soon, you can pop in and play with it for yourself.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale La legge di Bilancio 2025 approvata il 15 ottobre scorso dal Consiglio dei ministri e firmata ieri, mercoledì 23 ottobre, dal presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella non prevede alcuno stanziamento per prorogare il taglio del canone Rai, che con la
Gli specialisti della sicurezza informatica hanno scoperto una nuova famiglia di malware per macOS in grado di crittografare i file. Il nome NotLockBitderiva dal fatto che tenta di impersonare il ransomwareLockBit.
Il malware è scritto in Go e prende di mira i sistemi che eseguono Windows e macOS. Come altre minacce simili, NotLockBit utilizza tattiche di doppia estorsione, ovvero prima ruba i dati della vittima, quindi crittografa i file ed elimina le copie shadow. Pertanto, gli aggressori possono richiedere un riscatto sia per decrittografare i dati sia per non “far trapelare” le informazioni rubate nel pubblico dominio (o per non venderle ad altri criminali).
Come accennato in precedenza, la caratteristica distintiva di NotLockBit è che il malware tenta di impersonare il noto ransomware LockBit, con il quale in realtà non ha nulla a che fare. Secondo gli analisti di SentinelOne, il malware è distribuito sotto forma di file binari x86_64, il che suggerisce che funzioni solo su dispositivi macOS basati su processori Intel e Apple su cui è installato un emultare.
Durante l’attacco, NotLockBit raccoglie informazioni sul sistema e utilizza la chiave pubblica per crittografare una chiave master generata casualmente, che viene utilizzata durante la crittografia dei file. L’uso della crittografia RSA asimmetrica garantisce che la chiave principale non venga decrittografata senza la chiave privata degli aggressori. NotLockBit aggiunge un’estensione .abcd ai file crittografati, inserisce una richiesta di riscatto in ogni cartella crittografata e quindi tenta di sostituire lo sfondo del desktop con un banner LockBit 2.0. In un rapporto pubblicato la scorsa settimana , i ricercatori di Trend Micro che hanno studiato anche NotLockBit hanno notato che prima che inizi il processo di crittografia, il ransomware trasferisce i dati delle sue vittime in un bucket Amazon S3 controllato dagli aggressori utilizzando credenziali hardcoded di AWS.
“Crediamo che l’autore del ransomware stia utilizzando il proprio account AWS o un account compromesso. Abbiamo trovato più di trenta campioni, probabilmente creati dallo stesso autore, che indicano lo sviluppo e il test attivi di questo ransomware”, aveva avvertito Trend Micro.
Gli esperti hanno affermato di aver informato di questa attività dannosa i rappresentanti di AWS, che hanno già bloccato le chiavi di accesso AWS rilevate e l’account ad esse associato. Secondo SentinelOne, NotLockBit è la prima famiglia di ransomware veramente funzionale destinata a macOS. In precedenza, gli specialisti della sicurezza informatica si imbattevano solo in prototipi e vari proof-of-concept.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Il caso di Francesco Spano occupa solo “una piccola parte” nell’inchiesta di Report sul Ministero della Cultura che andrà in onda domenica 27 ottobre: “C’è un altro caso, simile al caso Boccia, che riguarda anche il ministro
The software and hardware worlds have overlaps, and it’s worth looking over the fence to see if there’s anything you missed. You might’ve already noticed that we hackers use PCB modules and devboards in the same way that programmers might use libraries and frameworks. You’ll find way more parallels if you think about it.
Building blocks are about belonging to a community, being able to draw from it. Sometimes it’s a community of one, but you might just find that building blocks help you reach other people easily, touching upon common elements between projects that both you and some other hacker might be planning out. With every building block, you make your or someone else’s next project quicker, and maybe you make it possible.
Sometimes, however, building blocks are about being lazy.
Just Throw Pin Headers
Back when I was giving design review on a LVDS driver board for a Sony Vaio display, there was a snag – the display used, doesn’t generate its own backlight voltage, so you have to bring your own backlight driver. Well, I didn’t want to bother designing the backlight driver portion of the circuit.
The way I justified it, adding that circuit to the board didn’t make much sense – the entire board was an experimental circuit, and adding one more experiment onto it would result in extra board revisions and reassemblies. Honestly, though, I just really didn’t want to design the LED driver circuit at the time – it didn’t feel as interesting.
So, I had an easy-to-follow proposal – let’s put all backlight-driver-related signals onto three pin headers, forming a “module” footprint of sorts, and then develop the module separately! The hacker agreed, and in the meantime, used a spare panel’s LED backlight to test the display in the meantime – way more accessible of a solution. The pin headers remained, at the time, bound to be unpopulated for, at least, until the next PCB order.
New revisions of the module came and went, now bearing a HDMI port and a whole new ASIC – easy to design, because, again, the hacker didn’t have to worry about the backlight circuit, and just kept the module footprint from the previous design. Was the backlight driver module PCB designed yet? Well, simply put, no.
A friend of mine, just a month later, was designing a motherboard replacement for a tablet computer, and she asked me for advice on how to power the backlight. I thought for a second, and, I had an easy answer for her – use the module footprint. At that point, I still haven’t designed the module, but I didn’t have to mention that. She rejoiced, put the module footprint onto the board, even designed her own neat symbol for it, and then promptly went on to lay out diffpairs and reverse-engineer pinouts, both significantly more fun activities than designing a backlight driver with zero experience in design of backlight drivers.
Some time later, I started getting insistent messages from the original hacker, about needing a backlight driver. The funny part is that by that point, I have already had designed a backlight driver circuit for my own Vaio motherboard, but I never felt engaged enough to turn it into a module. A different friend of mine was looking for small projects, however. I gave her the task: here’s a footprint for a module, here’s a circuit that goes onto the module, and we need a module. Indeed, she has delivered a module – by that point, a module we could put onto three different PCBs.
Building Blocks
The entire occasion definitely helped cement my reputation as someone who delivers, eventually – with big emphasis on eventually. It also brought four people and three projects together, and it let us order the first revision PCB way sooner than otherwise, all because we set out to eventually add the backlight circuit as a module. Now, this module is a building block in our projects – whenever one of us, or maybe one of you, needs a backlight driver, we know that we have an option handy.
I have some unique experiences with PCB modules as building blocks – at one point, I’ve built an entire phone out of them, and I still build devices heavily based on modules. Whenever I’d have the occasion, I’d throw a TP4056 module footprint onto a board instead of reimplementing the whole circuit from scratch. In 2022, I designed a module with a RP2040 and the FUSB302 USB-PD PHY – it was the building block that led to my USB-C series on Hackaday, and eventually helped me, my friends, and other hackers develop a whole lineup of unique USB-C devices. Building block use and design is the fun way, and it’s the lazy way, and it’s the friendly way – would you believe me if I told you it’s also the safe way? Say, does your circuit need a custom DC-DC, or can you slap a few pads onto the board to connect a commonplace generic module? If you can afford the increased space, might as well make your board as simple as it goes – if there’s less to test and bringup, you’ll get to your project’s finish line earlier, and have less hurdles to jump over.
The Practical Aspects
There are a few techniques you can use if you want to make a building block – pin headers are the simple obvious one. Castellations is a fun one, and here’s a trick – you don’t have to pay JLCPCB for castellated holes, as long as you are fine getting dirty ones, which are still wonderful for prototyping. If you’re using Aisler, you can get perfect castellated holes, though – good for scaling up a module of yours after you’ve verified the design. Don’t be scared of turning through-holes into castellations – it works, and it’s super easy if your board is thin enough. Oh, and you might just be able to get castellations through V-Cuts!
Got an Eastern or Western module, and it doesn’t quite use pin headers? Get out the calipers, measure its pads, and create a footprint for it – you will thank yourself later. I’ve done just once for a 5 V boost module, stocking up on them and putting them onto a bunch of boards. It’s not like I’d feel comfortable designing 5 V boost regulators at the time, so the module has bought me a couple years of worrying about something else instead. The modules have since vanished from the market, but, today I’ve got a few 5 V boost designs I can easily make modules out of. Now, it looks like I can even upgrade my own old boards that are still in use!
When designing your own boards, try to put all pin headers on a grid, 2.54 mm (0.1in) is a must – only use an integer millimeter grid or pin headers if you have no other options. Such a module isn’t just solderable – it’s breadboardable, which helps a ton when you’re trying to figure out an especially daring circuit technique. Castellated modules can be breadboardable, too, if you make sure to concentrate the core necessary signals on two opposite sides! Are you designing a new module for your own use? See if there’s a footprint you can copy, or an unspoken standard you can follow. Boards speak about themselves through their looks, and footprints convey a purpose through their layout. Look at the boards above- it’s pretty easy to notice that they are TP4056 style battery chargers, but all of them upgraded in their own way. If you follow an existing footprint when designing your own board, it’s going to look more familiar for a newcomer hacker, channeling the power of skeuomorphism where you might not have expected to find it.
The Looks Make The Module
Looking for a PCB form-factor? Going with a Dangerous Prototypes-blessed one brings you a ton of benefits, e.g., pre-made lasercut cases. Board formats are underrated when it comes to accidentally creating building blocks. Sparkfun has example layouts for QWIIC devices – follow it, plop a JST-SH connector on, maybe order your PCB in red for a change, and your sensor PCB will shine in a whole new way in your eyes. Dangerous Prototypes, on the other hand, suggests a set of PCB formats known as Sick of Beige that work with existing enclosures and lasercut templates – that’s the surface-level benefit, the real deal is that these footprints also talk the Dangerous Prototypes language. If your programmer board feels like a generic rectangle, putting it into the frame of BusPirate fame will give it the air of hacker-oriented tooling. With both of these formats, you get mounting holes – mark of a hacker who knows what’s good. Looking for a ToF sensor? Looking at this picture, you can instantly tell that this one‘s I2C and 3.3V – chances are, it will fit wonderfully into your project. Interconnect standards go hand in hand with making your building blocks’ features recognizable without reading the silkscreen – it’s why I talk so much about QWIIC, and a JST-SH connector is always a welcome addition on my boards. Adding a well-recognized standard connector makes your board recognizable as a potential building block. Now, the board looks interoperable if you just give it a chance, equipped with a familiar socket, and perhaps, you won’t feel as much need for designing a new one – quite likely, building a new device in a single day instead of two weeks’ time.
Sometimes, your board will be split apart into building blocks without your involvement whatsoever. Publishing a design that goes beyond connecting a button to an LED? Try to fill in the blanks – it’s about helping the hacker that follows in your footsteps. Sometimes it’s a highschool kid trying to put together a design, and sometimes it’ll be you again, just a couple years later. So, note down the part number of that switcher inductor in the schematic, and fill in the values of the resistor divider while you’re at it – and if you’re revisiting a board of yours where you haven’t done that, do it, then git commit and git push.
Beyond The Ordinary
There’s building blocks everywhere for those with the eyes to see. A single-board computer is one, I’d argue – a SoM in a DDR footprint is one without a doubt. An engineer once showed me a technique for creating building blocks out of thin air – taking unpopulated leftover large project PCBs, then sawing out the section with the circuit you need. Sometimes, you really only need a single piece of that one Ethernet transceiver circuit, and you need it now – you might have not planned for it, but the Dremel tool forgives all.
Circuit blocks are an often requested feature in KiCad. At the moment, you can copy-paste portions of a schematic between projects – which is more than good enough for many circuits. It’s not as great for switching regulators or MCUs, however, and we can’t help but hope to see new advancements in the field soon. Perhaps, one day, you’ll be able to click a few buttons and turn your favourite USB hub into a circuit block – and from there, who knows, maybe you can fill the void that the NanoHub’s eternal out-of-stock state has left in our hearts!
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale M5S, Conte licenzia Grillo e non gli rinnova il contratto da 300mila euro Clamoroso scontro in casa M5s: il presidente del partito Giuseppe Conte, infatti, ha annunciato la sua decisione di non rinnovare
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Restano enormi i problemi del Paese, a cominciare dalla stabilità interna e dalla minaccia di Al Shabaab. Senza dimenticare gli interessi di vari attori stranieri che la condizionano. Nonostante ciò la Somalia ha fatto importanti passi avanti. L'analisi di Maurizio Zullo L'articolo SOMALIA.
Ndrangheta, amministrazione giudiziaria per una banca d'affari l La Notizia
"È stato accertato come diverse società indirettamente gestite da soggetti contigui ad esponenti della criminalità di matrice ‘ndranghetista, hanno beneficiato negli anni di finanziamenti erogati dal citato istituto di credito con assistenza di garanzie statali previste dal Fondo Centrale di Garanzia a favore delle Piccolo e medie imprese del Mediocredito Centrale."
Roma. Si è aperto a Villa Madama l’annuale Summit dell’Associazione Internazionale delle Gendarmerie e delle Forze di Polizia a Statuto Militare (#FIEP), al termine del quale l’Arma dei Carabinieri, che ne aveva assunto la presidenza nell’ottobre 2023, cede il testimone alla Gendarmeria nazionale francese. All'incontro hanno partecipato i Comandanti/Direttori Generali delle 21 Gendarmerie e Forze di Polizia militari-statutarie, ricevuti dal Presidente della Repubblica durante la loro permanenza in Italia.
Annualmente viene individuato un tema generale come oggetto di studio; durante la presidenza italiana la FIEP si è concentrata sulla lotta ai reati ambientali, con un focus prioritario sulla tutela della biodiversità e degli ecosistemi. La particolare tematica è molto sentita dall'Arma dei Carabinieri, la forza di polizia ambientale più articolata d'Europa, e il confronto con le altre gendarmerie e forze di polizia è stato utile e propositivo per un comune impegno in difesa dell'ambiente, per lo sviluppo di buone pratiche condivise e di protocolli comuni.
Nell'immagine il passaggio di testimone tra Arma dei Carabinieri e Gendarmeria Francese
Nel 2024 la FIEP ha compiuto 30 anni. Infatti, il 12 maggio 1994, venne istituita a Madrid la Commissione Tripartita, composta dall'Arma dei Carabinieri, dalla Gendarmeria Nazionale francese e dalla Guardia Civil spagnola. Nel 1996 si unì la Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana Portoghese, e l'anno successivo l'associazione, che nel frattempo era diventata Commissione Quadripartita, prese il nome definitivo di FIEP, acronimo formato dalle iniziali dei nomi dei Paesi allora membri: Francia, Italia, Spagna e Portogallo. Con successive Dichiarazioni Congiunte e modifiche statutarie, l'organizzazione ha assunto il carattere di “Associazione Internazionale”, e attualmente sono membri della FIEP 21 gendarmerie e forze di polizia con status militare .
Nei trent’anni di storia dell’Associazione, prima dell’appuntamento concluso con l’assemblea di questi giorni, i Carabinieri ne avevano assunto la presidenza nel 1999, 2006 e 2014 in corrispondenza del bicentenario di fondazione dell’istituzione. Esperienze sicuramente positive nell'importante settore della cooperazione internazionale. Nel vertice è stata votata all’unanimità la concessione dello status di membro all’Ispettorato dei Carabinieri della Moldavia. La loro partecipazione alle dinamiche dell'Associazione è stata sostenuta dai Carabinieri italiani, in aderenza alle linee strategiche di indirizzo della politica estera nazionale.
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Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.
Shortform video platform Loops opens a waitlist for signups, Mosaic is a service to help organisations create their custom version of upcoming platform Bonfire, and the new owners of event planning platform Mobilizon release a big new update.
The News
Loops is an upcoming fediverse platform for short form video, build by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. On the loops.video site there has been a countdown over the last month that ended this Monday, and with it, people can now sign up for Loops. Loops is currently still being worked on, with Supernault working on getting the apps out to release. The Android app will be made available as an APK, and the iOS app is waiting approval for TestFlight. Loops is currently developed as a mobile-first platform, and does not have a webUI yet, with Supernault saying that a webUI will come later. He also reports that emails welcoming people after they have signed on are rate-limited by the email provider, resulting in a long delay before people can be onboarded. Moderation services for Loops are currently being worked on as well, and Supernault is looking for moderators to help moderate the platform.
Mosaic is a new service by the Bonfire team, where the Bonfire team will help organisations build and set up their own digital federated spaces. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform that focuses on customisation and extensibility, that people and organisations can customise to meet their needs. Mosaic is a way for the Bonfire team to help onboard organisations and customise the platform to their needs. Extensions and other improvements made with Mosaic are then available for the rest of the community to use as well, as part of their AGPL license, so that everyone benefits from contributions made by others. Bonfire is currently available for testing, but not for official release yet. The main blocker seems to be slow performance of Bonfire, and the developers have put out a bounty for other developers to help them improve performance.
An update by Newsmast on what they are working on with Channels.org. They relate Newsmast’s Channels to Bluesky’s custom feeds (as DYI algorithms) and Farcaster’s channels (‘Cozy corners’). For Newsmast, Channels are a way to onboard public organisations, giving them their own place (the channel) to distribute their content, where the space is clearly their own, but still part of the larger fediverse network. Newsmast also notes that they’ll focus on Channels for now, and that Patchwork, the plugin system for Mastodon servers is postponed to early next year to prevent the team from stretching themselves too thin. Newsmast’s Michael Foster also blogged about how we can build a different web together as well, reiterating my point that the current trend seems for AT Protocol to be used for public and global conversations, and ActivityPub for (semi)-private networked communities.
IFTAS held a 2024 Survey among fediverse moderators, and while they are preparing a full report they give some early highlights on the results. Based on their survey data IFTAS estimates that there are 5500 users per moderator on the fediverse, which is between three and ten times as many moderators compared to other Big Tech platforms.
An article by Techpolicy.press goes into detail on ‘The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media’. It draws attention to pravda.me as an example of the expanding thread landscape on decentralised social networks; a large Mastodon server that bears all the hallmarks of inauthenticity, but is barely blocked on or on the radars of the larger fediverse community. The article also makes a distinction between moderation questions where decentralisation empowers communities (often related to political or sexual content), and issues where centralisation is more beneficial, such as spam and CSAM. Accompanying the article is also a podcast interview with Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi about their fediverse governance report.
Fediverse event planning platform Mobilizon got transferred from developers Framasoft to a new organisation, Kaihuri, who have gotten a grant from NLnet to further expand the platform. They have now released v5 of Mobilizon, with new features such as a homepage redesign, a monthly calendar view, better management of recurring or ongoing events, and more. You can test out the new version of Mobilizon here.
A new signup wave for Bluesky with 2 million new accounts, a way to store arbitrary files on your PDS, the Japanese Bluesky apps continue to build interoperability with each other, and more.
il problema non sono i bambini, ma i genitori di bambini, che hanno abdicato ormai al loro ruolo e sono solo "degli amici". come sul mare.... dove ti riempiono di rena e ti corrono a 4cm
era il commento a un link che parla di un albergo per soli adulti. dove c'è silenzio e pace.
[quote]Un russo e un nordcoreano vanno in Ucraina, mentre un europeo e un americano si chiedono se sia il caso di fare lo stesso. Benché suoni come una barzelletta, il rischio di un allargamento del conflitto in Ucraina continua a rappresentare una possibilità concreta. Durante una conferenza stampa al
i vegani ci dimostrano che il massimo rispetto che si possa pretendere è verso tutto quello che ha un sistema nervoso occhi, bocca. in sostanza solo ciò che è più simile a noi.
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale “Le norme italiane prevalgano rispetto a quelle europee”. Lo prevede un emendamento presentato dalla Lega al disegno di legge costituzionale sulla separazione delle carriere dei magistrati. A confermarlo all’Ansa è il deputato Igor Iezzi, capogruppo della Lega
il fatto che la religione distingua tra umani e resto del creato non dico sia la dimostrazione, ma almeno un indizio che dio è un po' una fantasia solo nostra. perché in natura la distinzione fra uomo e altri animali è tutt'altro che netta e definitiva. in sostanza è il dio che qualcuno immagina e vorrebbe. e dal come viene descritto pure il dio desiderato da persona poco evoluta e poco progredita. la disciplina "religiosa" più matura trovata a giro fino ad adesso è lo yoga classico.
Massa non-massa è il manifesto dei liberali italiani scritto nel 1962 dal loro riconosciuto leader: Giovanni Malagodi . Il libro non era più in circolazione. La Fondazione Luigi Einaudi ha deciso di rieditarlo in questa elegante pubblicazione arricchita dalla presentazione del nostro Presidente Giuseppe Benedetto e dalla prefazione del
[quote]Che i programmi congiunti franco-tedeschi non abbiano vita facile non è una novità. Il binomio che nei decenni ha visto Francia e Germania tentare di sviluppare piattaforme comuni ha sempre risentito dello stesso problema: ottimale sulla carta e disfunzionale nella pratica. Il valzer tra Parigi
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Francesco Spano, capo di gabinetto del ministro della Cultura Alessandro Giuli, si è dimesso. L’annuncio è arrivato nel primo pomeriggio di oggi, mercoledì 23 ottobre. Tra i motivi alla base del passo indietro ci sarebbe il
Il Niger nazionalizza l’estrazione di uranio, petrolio e oro l L'Indipendente
"La volontà di nazionalizzare le risorse naturali sta accomunando negli ultimi anni molti Stati del Sael, tra cui Burkina Faso, Mali e Senegal: tutti, infatti, sono attraversati dal medesimo obiettivo di affermare la sovranità nazionale e affrancarsi dal dominio di potenze straniere, riappropriandosi innanzitutto delle proprie risorse."
Rabagliati stasera su Rai Storia. Cari amici vicini e lontani di Renzo Arbore
Un filmato sull’Eiar e un omaggio ad Alberto Rabagliati, che negli anni 30 fu il divo canoro della Radio sono l’ouverture della quarta puntata di “Cari amici vicini e lontani”, con RENZO ARBORE , e in onda in prima visione stasera mercoledì 23 ottobre alle 21.10 su Rai Storia. #CariAmici #RenzoArbore #RaiStoria @Storia @Storiaweb
A massive story on how a U.S. government-bought tool can track phones at abortion clinics; a very special guest drops by to talk about The Abstract; and how we found where a Musk-funded PAC is targeting Snapchat ads.#Podcast
La Polizia di Stato colombiana ha arrestato a Medellin l'italiano Gustavo Nocella (sopra in foto), detto "Ermes", ricercato in Italia per traffico di droga e considerato un "boss invisibile".
"Il boss italiano del narcotraffico Gustavo Nocella è stato catturato a Medellín dalla Polizia Nazionale", ha annunciato lunedì il presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro, precisando che si tratta del "principale anello di congiunzione del clan Rinaldi-Formicola, Amato-Pagano e De Micco alleati con la mafia sudamericana, soprattutto colombiana, per il traffico di ingenti carichi di droga. La fase finale dell'Operazione Minerva - ha reso noto il presidente colombiano - ha cominciato a prendere forma sei mesi fa quando la Polizia Nazionale, in coordinamento con #EUROPOL, i #Carabinieri italiani e le autorità del Regno Unito, si sono scambiate informazioni che hanno permesso loro di stabilire che il fuggitivo aveva la sua centrale operativa in Colombia".
L'italiano, considerato dalle autorità il principale fornitore di cocaina ai clan a nord e a est di Napoli, è stato arrestato in un esclusivo appartamento di #Medellín.
“Gli uomini dei servizi segreti sapevano che uno dei suoi passatempi preferiti era il biliardo, un indizio che trovarono in ciascuno degli appartamenti che, trimestralmente, ha affittato fino a 25 milioni di pesos (circa 5.840 dollari), soprattutto nel settore di El Poblado", ha spiegato la Polizia in un comunicato.
Secondo la polizia, Nocella, 58 anni, era incaricato di coordinare la logistica delle spedizioni di cocaina cloridrato via mare dalla Colombia ad Amsterdam, utilizzando navi e barche a vela.
E, da questa città, trasportava le spedizioni fino a Napoli utilizzando camion pesanti, automobili e anche mezzi di servizio pubblico. "Questa operazione è il risultato di una fluida cooperazione internazionale che ci ha permesso di catturare più di 40 trafficanti di droga invisibili", ha affermato il Direttore Generale della Polizia, Generale William René Salamanca Ramírez.
Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual people can all be monitored without a warrant.#Features #Privacy
Il #MIM, tramite il Dottor Jacopo Greco, Capo dipartimento per le risorse, l’organizzazione e l’innovazione digitale, precisa che:
🔹 l’amministrazione sta procedendo con la liquidazione di tutti i ratei autorizzati dalle istituzioni scolastiche per …
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Il documentario "La rivoluzione di Ayten", realizzato da Eliana Riva per Pagine Esteri, racconta la storia di Ayten Öztürk, oppositrice politica turca, una rivoluzionaria che è stata rapita e torturata per sei mesi e che è stata condannata a due ergastoli ed è ora nelle prigioni turche L'articolo DOCUMENTARIO. La rivoluzione di
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo In difficoltà tra le minoranze etniche, Kamala Harris ha impresso una svolta a destra nel suo discorso promettendo una stretta sull'immigrazione e difendendo la libera circolazione delle armi L'articolo STATI UNITI. Kamala Harris rincorre Trump a destra pagineesteri.it/2024/10/23/mon…
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