One of the first things that an amateur radio operator is likely to do once receiving their license is grab a dual-band handheld and try to make contacts with a local repeater. After the initial contacts, though, many hams move on to more technically challenging aspects of the hobby. One of those being activating space-based repeaters instead of their terrestrial counterparts. [saveitforparts] takes a look at some more esoteric uses of these radio systems in his latest video.
There are plenty of satellite repeaters flying around the world that are actually legal for hams to use, with most being in low-Earth orbit and making quick passes at predictable times. But there are others, generally operated by the world’s militaries, that are in higher geostationary orbits which allows them to serve a specific area continually. With a specialized three-dimensional Yagi-Uda antenna on loan, [saveitforparts] listens in on some of these signals. Some of it is presumably encrypted military activity, but there’s also some pirate radio and state propaganda stations.
There are a few other types of radio repeaters operating out in space as well, and not all of them are in geostationary orbit. Turning the antenna to the north, [saveitforparts] finds a few Russian satellites in an orbit specifically designed to provide polar regions with a similar radio service. These sometimes will overlap with terrestrial radio like TV or air traffic control and happily repeat them at brief intervals.
Smart glasses are a complicated technology to work with. The smart part is usually straightforward enough—microprocessors and software are perfectly well understood and easy to integrate into even very compact packages. It’s the glasses part that often proves challenging—figuring out the right optics to create a workable visual interface that sits mere millimeters from the eye.
Dev’s talk begins with an apology. He notes that it’s not possible to convey an entire photonics and optics syllabus in a short presentation, which is understandable enough. His warning, regardless, is that his talk is as dense as possible to maximise the insight into the technical information he has to offer.
Things get heavy fast, as Dev dives into a breakdown of all the different basic technologies out there that can be used for building smart glasses. On one slide, he lays them all out with pros and cons across the board. There are a wide range of different illumination and projection technologies, everything from micro-OLED displays to fancy liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) devices that are used to create an image with the aid of laser illumination. When you’re building smart glasses, though, that’s only half the story. Dev explains the various optical technologies involved in AR and their strengths and weaknesses. Once you’ve got something to make an image, you then need something to put it on in front of the eye. Dev goes on to talk about different techniques for doing this, from reflective waveguides to the amusingly-named birdbath combiners. Ultimately, you’re hunting for something that provides a clear and visible image to the user in all conditions, while still providing a great view of the world around them, too. This can be particularly challenging in high-brightness conditions, like walking around outdoors in daylight.
The talk also focuses on a particular bugbear for Dev—the fact that AR and VR aren’t treated as differently as they should be. “VR is a stack of pancakes,” says Dev. “Why is it a stack of pancakes? It’s because all of the PCBs, the optics, the emissions source for the light—is in front of the user’s nose.” Because VR is just about beaming images into the eye, with no regard for the outside world, it’s a little more straightforward. “It’s basically a stack of technology outward from the eye relief point to the back of the device.” Dev explains.
When it comes to AR, though, the solutions must be more complicated. “What’s different is AR is actually an archer,” says Dev, referring to the way such devices must fling light around. “What an archer does is it shoots light around the side of the arm, and it might have to bend it one way or another, up on the crossbar and spread it out through a waveguide, and at the very exist point… at the coupling out portion… the light has to make one more right turn… towards your eye.” Ultimately, the optics and display hardware involved tend to diverge a long way from what can be used in VR displays. “These technologies are fundamentally different,” says Dev. “It strains me to great extent that people kind of batch them into the same category.” Snapchat’s fifth-generation Spectacles have some interesting optics, but they’re perhaps not quite market ready in Dev’s opinion. The talk also steps away from raw hardware chat, and covers some of the devices on the market, and those that left it years ago. Dev makes casual mention of Google Glass, spawned all the way back in 2013, before also noting developments Microsoft made with Hololens over the year. As for the current state of play, Dev namechecks Project Orion from Meta, as well as the fifth-generation of Snapchat Spectacles.
He gives particular credit to Meta for their work on refining input modalities that work with the smart glasses interrface paradigm. Meanwhile, he notes Snapchat needs work on “comfort, weight, and looks,” given how bulky their current product is. Overall, with these products, there are problems to be overcome before they can really become mainstream tools for every day use. “The important part is the relatability of these devices,” Dev goes on to explain. “We don’t see that just yet, as a $25,000 device from Meta and something that is too thick to be socially acceptable from Snapchat.
Fundamentally, as Dev’s talk highlights, AR remains a technology still at a nascent stage of development. It’s worth remembering—it took decades to develop computers that could fit in our pockets (smartphones) or on our wrists (smartwatches). Expect smart glasses to actually go mainstream as soon as the technical and optical issues are worked out, and the software and interface solutions actually help people in day to day life.
Il caso dei numeri di telefono online delle più alte cariche dello Stato
a cura del Prof. Marco Bacini, Direttore Master Intelligence per la Sicurezza Nazionale e Internazionale —
I recenti articoli che riportano la presunta “disponibilità online” di numeri di telefono e mail appartenenti a rappresentanti istituzionali, inclusi quelli del Presidente del Consiglio, del Presidente della Repubblica e di vari ministri, hanno suscitato reazioni pubbliche e interrogativi legittimi sull’integrità e la sicurezza del sistema-Paese. Reputo però necessario distinguere con precisione tra ciò che è tecnicamente una minaccia cyber e ciò che invece, si configura come la conseguenza di una dinamica commerciale ben nota: la raccolta e rivendita di informazioni già di dominio pubblico tramite piattaforme B2B.
As the Common Business Oriented Language, COBOL has a long and storied history. To this day it’s quite literally the financial bedrock for banks, businesses and financial institutions, running largely unnoticed by the world on mainframes and similar high-reliability computer systems. That said, as a domain-specific language targeting boring business things it doesn’t quite get the attention or hype as general purpose programming or scripting languages. Its main characteristic in the public eye appears be that it’s ‘boring’.
Despite this, COBOL is a very effective language for writing data transactions, report generating and related tasks. Due to its narrow focus on business applications, it gets one started with very little fuss, is highly self-documenting, while providing native support for decimal calculations, and a range of I/O access and database types, even with mere files. Since version 2002 COBOL underwent a number of modernizations, such as free-form code, object-oriented programming and more.
Without further ado, let’s fetch an open-source COBOL toolchain and run it through its paces with a light COBOL tutorial.
Spoiled For Choice
It used to be that if you wanted to tinker with COBOL, you pretty much had to either have a mainframe system with OS/360 or similar kicking around, or, starting in 1999, hurl yourself at setting up a mainframe system using the Hercules mainframe emulator. Things got a lot more hobbyist & student friendly in 2002 with the release of GnuCOBOL, formerly OpenCOBOL, which translates COBOL into C code before compiling it into a binary.
While serviceable, GnuCOBOL is not a compiler, and does not claim any level of standard adherence despite scoring quite high against the NIST test suite. Fortunately, The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) just got updated with a brand-new COBOL frontend (gcobol) in the 15.1 release. The only negative is that for now it is Linux-only, but if your distribution of choice already has it in the repository, you can fetch it there easily. Same for Windows folk who have WSL set up, or who can use GnuCOBOL with MSYS2.
With either compiler installed, you are now ready to start writing COBOL. The best part of this is that we can completely skip talking about the Job Control Language (JCL), which is an eldritch horror that one would normally be exposed to on IBM OS/360 systems and kin. Instead we can just use GCC (or GnuCOBOL) any way we like, including calling it directly on the CLI, via a Makefile or integrated in an IDE if that’s your thing.
Hello COBOL
As is typical, we start with the ‘Hello World’ example as a first look at a COBOL application: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. hello-world. PROCEDURE DIVISION. DISPLAY "Hello, world!". STOP RUN. Assuming we put this in a file called hello_world.cob, this can then be compiled with e.g. GnuCOBOL: cobc -x -free hello_world.cob.
The -x indicates that an executable binary is to be generated, and -free that the provided source uses free format code, meaning that we aren’t bound to specific column use or sequence numbers. We’re also free to use lowercase for all the verbs, but having it as uppercase can be easier to read.
From this small example we can see the most important elements, starting with the identification division with the program ID and optionally elements like the author name, etc. The program code is found in the procedure division, which here contains a single display verb that outputs the example string. Of note is the use of the period (.) as a statement terminator.
At the end of the application we indicate this with stop run., which terminates the application, even if called from a sub program.
Hello Data
As fun as a ‘hello world’ example is, it doesn’t give a lot of details about COBOL, other than that it’s quite succinct and uses plain English words rather than symbols. Things get more interesting when we start looking at the aspects which define this domain specific language, and which make it so relevant today.
Few languages support decimal (fixed point) calculations, for example. In this COBOL Basics project I captured a number of examples of this and related features. The main change is the addition of the data division following the identification division: DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 A PIC 99V99 VALUE 10.11. 01 B PIC 99V99 VALUE 20.22. 01 C PIC 99V99 VALUE 00.00. 01 D PIC $ZZZZV99 VALUE 00.00. 01 ST PIC $*(5).99 VALUE 00.00. 01 CMP PIC S9(5)V99 USAGE COMP VALUE 04199.04. 01 NOW PIC 99/99/9(4) VALUE 04102034. The data division is unsurprisingly where you define the data used by the program. All variables used are defined within this division, contained within the working-storage section. While seemingly overwhelming, it’s fairly easily explained, starting with the two digits in front of each variable name. This is the data level and is how COBOL structures data, with 01 being the highest (root) level, with up to 49 levels available to create hierarchical data.
This is followed by the variable name, up to 30 characters, and then the PICTURE(or PIC) clause. This specifies the type and size of an elementary data item. If we wish to define a decimal value, we can do so as two numeric characters (represented by 9) followed by an implied decimal point V, with two decimal numbers (99). As shorthand we can use e.g. S9(5) to indicate a signed value with 5 numeric characters. There a few more special characters, such as an asterisk which replaces leading zeroes and Z for zero suppressing.
The value clause does what it says on the tin: it assigns the value defined following it to the variable. There is however a gotcha here, as can be seen with the NOW variable that gets a value assigned, but due to the PIC format is turned into a formatted date (04/10/2034).
Within the procedure division these variables are subjected to addition (ADD A TO B GIVING C.), subtraction with rounding (SUBTRACT A FROM B GIVING C ROUNDED.), multiplication (MULTIPLY A BY CMP.) and division (DIVIDE CMP BY 20 GIVING ST.).
Finally, there are a few different internal formats, as defined by USAGE: these are computational (COMP) and display (the default). Here COMP stores the data as binary, with a variable number of bytes occupied, somewhat similar to char, short and int types in C. These internal formats are mostly useful to save space and to speed up calculations.
Hello Business
In a previous article I went over the reasons why a domain specific language like COBOL cannot be realistically replaced by a general language. In that same article I discussed the Hello Business project that I had written in COBOL as a way to gain some familiarity with the language. That particular project should be somewhat easy to follow with the information provided so far. New are mostly file I/O, loops, the use of perform and of course the Report Writer, which is probably best understood by reading the IBM Report Writer Programmer’s Manual (PDF).
Going over the entire code line by line would take a whole article by itself, so I will leave it as an exercise for the reader unless there is somehow a strong demand by our esteemed readers for additional COBOL tutorial articles.
Suffice it to say that there is a lot more functionality in COBOL beyond these basics. The IBM ILE COBOL reference (PDF), the IBM Mainframer COBOL tutorial, the Wikipedia entry and others give a pretty good overview of many of these features, which includes object-oriented COBOL, database access, heap allocation, interaction with other languages and so on.
Despite being only a novice COBOL programmer at this point, I have found this DSL to be very easy to pick up once I understood some of the oddities about the syntax, such as the use of data levels and the PIC formats. It is my hope that with this article I was able to share some of the knowledge and experiences I gained over the past weeks during my COBOL crash course, and maybe inspire others to also give it a shot. Let us know if you do!
Da qualche settimana si parla della presunta fuga di dati legata a personalità di spicco italiane. Ma è una bufala, partita dall’allarme di un sedicente “esperto” sui social
Other official government domains included DinnerForAmerica.gov and TheTrillion.Gov, and signal that there may have been plans to incorporate official government internet infrastructure with the meme coin investment dinner.#News
Il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara si è recato ieri in Liguria per una visita istituzionale sul territorio e per incontrare studenti, docenti e amministratori locali.
Si può raccontarla usando il vocabolario della finanza, correndo però il rischio di non aiutare a capire quel che sta succedendo. Perché l’intrecciarsi delle offerte pubbliche di scambio è naturalmente guidato dalle convenienze e compatibilità finanziarie, ma indirizzate a una risistemazione degli equilibri di potere. Tanto che il governo ha
NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan
On Friday, thousands of NFTs that had once sold collectively for millions of dollars vanished from the internet and were replaced with the phrase “This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service.” The pictures eventually returned but their brief loss, as a result of one of the services that served the NFTs being migrated to a free account, is a reminder of the ephemeral nature of digital goods as well as the craze for crypto-backed pictures that dominated the internet for a few years.
The pictures were part of a CloneX RTFKT (pronounced “artifact”) collection, a Nike-backed NFT project done in collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi Murakami. They disappeared because the corporate overlord that acquired them was no longer investing the time or capital into the project it once had. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… At around 5 a.m. EST on the morning of April 24, more than 19,000 NFTs in the CloneX RTFKT (pronounced “artifact”) collection vanished. In their place was white text on a black background that said: “This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in this manner is a violation of the Terms of Service.”
The pictures linked to a URL on Cloudflare’s site that explained a bit more about what was going on. “If you are on a Free, Pro, or Business Plan and your application appears to be serving videos or a disproportionate amount of large files without using the appropriate paid service as described below, Cloudflare may redirect your content or take other actions to protect quality of service,” it said.
One of the original pitches of NFTs is that they would live forever on the internet. The idea is that they were a digital asset, as good as a real world asset like gold or silver, and could never be destroyed or erased. The flicking out of some 19,000 NFTs and the erasure of tens of millions of dollars in Etherium called that into question.
NFTs are non-fungible tokens, which use the blockchain to “prove” the ownership of digital assets. In the speculative frenzy that followed, a lot of people got rich minting grotesque pictures and selling them online. The trend peaked around the start of 2022 when Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton talked about the then-popular Bored Ape Yacht Club on the Tonight Show.
Nike bought RTFKT in 2021 when corporations and investors thought NFTs would be the next big thing. No one knows what Nike paid for the company, but earlier that year Andreeseen Horowitz had valued RTFKT at $33 million and RTFKT used that number to raise $8 million in capital.
Three years later, Nike decided to pull the plug and sunset the project. At the time, Samuel Cardillo was RTFKT’s CTO and the man in charge of keeping things running. At its height, Cardillo had a team of 12 people helping him run the project. Now it’s just him. He stayed on as a consultant after Nike said it wouldn’t support the project anymore.
He’s currently in the process of migrating Nike’s NFTs off of a DigitalOcean cloud server and onto AWS. “I, personally, wanted to decentralize the assets instead of moving them just to yet another centralized hosting which would be under someone else’s will,” he said.
But Nike gets the final say, even now.
He was using Cloudflare as a third-party service to secure inbound and outbound connections from the user to DigitalOcean. The plan was and is to use this as a bridge while he decentralized the pictures on ArWeave—a blockchain for data storage.
According to Cardillo, the images vanished because Cloudflare moved RTFKT onto a free plan earlier than he expected. “The reason we're moving to the free plan is that, RTFKT is sunset, there are no plans to do any drops or anything like that so having a paid plan with Cloudflare makes absolutely no sense anymore,” he told 404 Media.
Cardillo posted about the issues on RTFKT’s Discord and fielded questions on X while he got the pictures back online. “I understand the panic,” he said. “It’s my duty to ensure that those people can be reassured, it’s part of my responsibility being in charge of all of this.”
Around the same time that the NFTs vanished, some of the people left holding the RTFKT bag filed a lawsuit against Nike. An Australian resident filed the class action lawsuit in Brooklyn, New York federal court. It said that the shoe company ending support for the NFT company led to significant losses for people who had bought them.
Cardillo declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said he still believed in the technology underlying NFTs. “I hope people see the point of this technology itself and stop using it to fuel the casino that crypto became,” he said.
Sono stati firmati dal Ministro Giuseppe Valditara due decreti finalizzati all’attivazione dei percorsi di specializzazione sul sostegno previsti dal decreto legge 71 del 2024.
Il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara ha inviato alle scuole una circolare relativa alla programmazione delle verifiche in classe e all’assegnazione dei compiti da svolgere a casa.
Il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara ha inviato alle scuole una circolare relativa alla programmazione delle verifiche in classe e all’assegnazione dei compiti da svolgere a casa.
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Il fondatore di WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, ha reso un sentito omaggio a Papa Francesco in occasione delle sue esequie, manifestando rispetto e gratitudine per il Pontefice che, nel corso degli anni, si è interessato alla sua vicenda.
Posts made by a Fosstodon server moderator on Reddit has caused some drama, leading to both Fosstodon admins to call it quits, a number of servers (threatening to) defederate from the Fosstodon server, leading to an uncertain future for the Fosstodon server.
Fosstodon drama
A few days ago someone published a post on Mastodon, with screenshots and links to posts made on Reddit by one of the Fosstodon moderators. In the linked posts, the Reddit account in question, which seemingly belongs to the Fosstodon moderator, holds various right-wing beliefs, ranging from defending the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil to claiming Democrat supporters are in a cult. Backlash to the Fosstodon server was swift and strong, with various calls and plans from other servers to defederate from Fosstodon, members of the Fosstodon server looking for other servers to move their account to, and a general condemnation from the wider community. Both Fosstodon admins have postedarticles declaring they are stepping down, citing not only the current drama as a reason, but that they see the work of being server admins as frustrating with little pay-off. One Fosstodon community member is considering to take over the administration of the server, though as of writing, that process is still ongoing and the outcome unclear.
Some thoughts and takeaways about what this drama says about the social side of federation on the network, and how different communities interact:
When a server moderators holds opinions other people view as problematic, the social cost of these views is partially extended to server users as well. See for example the account for fediverse streaming platform Owncast, which has an account on the Fosstodon server. Owncast says that they are getting messages that say they need to move servers, otherwise people will see them as Nazis. This blog post about another Fosstodon user explains a similar thought process, where it is rational for them to move to a different server, because they will be associated with the politics of the server moderator in question otherwise.
This behaviour has an impact on how people on the fediverse should find an instance they want to join. It turns out that knowing the political affiliations of server moderators is important, and that this is something that people should know about before joining a server. People will be judged for being on a server that has a moderator with toxic political views. As such, it becomes important for people to know this information beforehand: both that they will get judged for the politics of server moderators, as well as knowing what those political views actually are.
This is another indication of why the process of selecting a server when someone joins the fediverse is actually a challenge: important information that should impact server choice is not made available to users, nor is it made clear that this information is important in the first place.
The second takeaway from the situation is that it shows a need for fediverse servers to have a federation policy. How federation currently works on the fediverse is that servers are connected with each other by default, and the assumption is that servers can disconnect from each other for any reason, but will mostly do so only if one of the servers is misbehaving in some way. Freedom of association is one of the valuable features of the fediv erse. Server operators should be free to defederate from any other server, for any reason. Being able to defederate from another server because you strongly disagree with the politics from one of the server moderators is a good thing. But if this is a consistent policy of the server, it would do well to make this policy public and explicit. Servers defederating from each other can have significant impact on users, who suddenly can lose connections with their friends. A policy of defederating from other servers based on the expressed beliefs of server moderators is something that is not immediately obvious to new people joining the fediverse. There are absolutely valid reasons to do so, but it seems to me that formalising such a policy would be a good step towards making the culture on the fediverse more sustainable.
The third takeaway is that running a fediverse server is challenging, especially over longer periods of time. Both Fosstodon admins have called in quits in response to the most recent drama. Their blog posts explaining their perspectives is that this has been a long time coming, and that the Fosstodon server has been uncompensated work that they do not love doing for years now. Regardless of one’s perspective on how the admins handled the latest situation, it is a further indication that being a fediverse server admin is a challenging job, one that should not be expected that someone can do forever. This means that servers like Fosstodon need governance systems that allow for better and earlier rotation of administrative power. Fediverse software should also be better at dealing with the realities of admin burnout. The users who are transferring from Fosstodon to another server will lose their posts; Mastodon does only transfer the social graph, and not posting history. While ideally the majority of servers would have extensive governance systems in place that can help deal with admin burnout, the reality is that most servers do not. More fediverse software should provide better support for users having to move to different servers, including with their posts.
The Links
NLnet, a fund that contributes to many open-source initiatives with a long track record of support fediverse projects, has published the beneficiaries of their latest funding round. PeerTube has gotten another grant, and publisher Framasoft talked about more how the money will be spend in their 2025 roadmap. The other fediverse beneficiary is an OpenScience flavour of Bonfire. Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform with a broad range of features, but the platform has struggled to get to an actual release. Bonfire published a blog post about their ‘road to Bonfire 1.0’ in September 2023, and an update in October 2024 where they announced a bounty program to get contributions to improve performance of the app.
The Doo the Woo podcast, hosted by WordPress ActivityPub plugin developer Matthias Pfefferle, interviewed André Menrath. Menrath is working on a plugin to bring WordPress events to ActivityPub.
The Bad Space is a project where various fediverse servers share their blocklists to build an aggregate of fediverse servers that are potentially worth blocking. The project is now available for self-hosting.
Some new features for FediAlgo, a customisable timeline algorithm for Mastodon, including a ‘What’s Trending’ feature.
A writeup on how to make a blog site using Lemmy as data storage.
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Recently I had a class (at the school of art-therapy I'm currently attending) in the basics of video editing, and of course they had us use Capcut... (for those of you who don't know, it's TikTok's official app, full of AI stuff, social media optimizations, premium features etc...) I've been doing video editing on Linux since 2020 (using Cinelerra-GG), but after this class I've been looking for some "real" (i.e., as close as possible) FLOSS alternative (but w/o all the AI and the bloat) to introduce my colleagues to. I know about desktop alternatives, but here I want to focus on mobile apps (at least on Android). Initially, I really thought there was none (Open Video Editor is of no use here), and the best option would be something like CuteCut, which isn't open source but at least has 0 trackers according to Exodus. Then I stumbled upon LibreCuts. It really seems to be what I'm looking for... except, then I read that it depends on Android Studio and Android SDK. I'm not totally sure what this actually means - is it still in an early phase of development and it will eventually be available as a "normal" app in the store? And in the meantime, what should I do to try it on my phone? I'm tagging @TOV as I reckon they would have some useful insight for me, but anyone who knows better than me please help. I wonder if this may also interest @Daniel Supernault for a collab/integration for the Loops platform? @Signor Amministratore ⁂ @Devol ⁂
The truth is that editing videos on Android is a challenge because users are limited to small screens. Also, the lack of reliable applications do not help users to adequately edit videos on mobile devices.
I tried to discover a workflow for editing videos on Android a long time ago and had no success. Most video editors on mobile devices are limited. Perhaps this limitation is due to the limited processing power mobile devices offer. Because desktop processors have higher clock speeds and fewer power restrictions than mobile devices, applications like 2D and 3D animation, photo editing and video editing are better done on desktop computers.
@TOV Thank you for the reply! Well, this is my opinion, too, but what I'm saying here is that the average users wanting to make a simple, quick edit for whatever reason (from reels to post on social networks, to therapeutical activity, like in my case), really don't care about power or screen size, they just need some app on their phone to edit on the go. This is why I was looking for an alternative, because many people really appreciate CapCut for this reason, so I think it would be nice to have something else to offer them.
@TOV Well, I really wonder whether @Daniel Supernault has any ideas or plans about this (I know he's very busy with all of his projects at the moment, but maybe for the future...). I think this would be much appreciated by #pixelfed and #loops users (CapCut was created for TikTok users after all) 😉
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Venerdì 2 maggio, l'istanza Pixelfed.uno verrà spostata su un server più veloce e capiente per sostenere la sua recente crescita(sono stati superati i 500GB di immagini condivise!).
[b]⚠️ Cosa aspettarsi: - Interruzioni durante i lavori (il sito sarà offline alcune ore). - Nessun dato perso: tutte le foto e i profili saranno al sicuro!
Perché la migrazione? 🚀 Pixelfed.uno è la prima istanza italiana pixelfed e la prima consigliata dopo quella ufficiale: pixelfed.org/servers e c'è l'intenzione di mantenerla veloce, gratuita e senza pubblicità
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo L'ex presidente dell’Associazione degli Avvocati Progressisti (ÇHD) è stato scarcerato dopo otto anni di prigione. Ma solo un giorno dopo, lo stesso tribunale che aveva approvato la sua liberazione ha emesso un nuovo mandato di arresto. La sua
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Putin offre una tregua ma martella le linee e le città ucraine, confermando le rivendicazioni territoriali e il no all'ingresso di Kiev nella Nato. La strategia di Trump mostra i suoi limiti L'articolo Ucraina. Il bastone e la carota di Mosca spazientiscono Trump pagineesteri.it/2025/04/30/mon…
Bisogna avere la faccia come il sedere per dire determinate cose. Io non so che posizione abbiano tutti gli altri cittadini europei, ma quelli italiani in larga maggioranza sono contrari ai piani di riarmo guerrafondai di Ursula Von der Leyen. Questa naista dei giorni nostri continua a mentire spudoratamente. Il discorso che ha fatto oggi al congresso del Partito Popolare Europeo sembrava scopiazzato dagli appunti di Hitler a cavallo tra la prima e la seconda guerra mondiale: dobbiamo riarmarci, dobbiamo difenderci, ci vogliono invadere, non bisogna cedere alla diplomazia. Servono armi e guerra per fare la pace. Non sto scherzando! Questa naista del nuovo secolo, sappiatelo, è a capo dell'Unione Europea grazie a personaggi come Giorgia Meloni ed Elly Schlein.
Questa na*ista del nuovo secolo parla di diritto di difendersi ma non dice una sola parola sulla difesa dei Palestinesi contro i terroristi isrl.
Un esperimento “non autorizzato”, condotto dall'Università di Zurigo, ha riempito un subreddit di commenti generati dall'AI
Aspre polemiche sul fatto che i ricercatori dell'Università di Zurigo lo abbiano condotto di nascosto, senza informare i moderatori del subreddit: "L'abbiamo fatto a fin di bene!". Ma Reddit valuta azioni legali.
Ecco quanto è complicato il nostro lavoro. mi riferisco agli informatici.
Ed ecco perché metterci sotto pressione, sottopagati, con carenze di organico strutturali non è mai una buona idea.
Poi, magari le cause del problema non sono state queste ma voglio puntare il dito sul fatto che ormai tutto è informatizzato, anche in sistemi critici. È in questo contesto che va inserito il mio discorso; l'articolo è solo uno spunto.
Le prime conseguenze elettorali del secondo mandato presidenziale di Donald Trump si sono potute osservare nella giornata di lunedì, anche se non negli Stati Uniti e con risultati che hanno evidenziato un’influenza indiscutibilmente negativa.
Nel cuore del Mediterraneo, Italia e Turchia stanno ridefinendo il panorama della cooperazione industriale nel settore della difesa. A margine degli incontri a Roma, che hanno visto la firma di accordi strategici tra i
È ufficiale: la Germania sarà il primo Paese europeo a richiedere formalmente lo scorporo delle spese per la Difesa dai parametri sul debito previsti dal Patto di stabilità. Dopo ottant’anni di politiche in senso opposto, Berlino intende
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale “La dichiarazione congiunta che adottiamo conferma la solidità dei nostri rapporti e oggi getta le basi per rafforzare ancora di più il nostro partenariato”. Per Meloni Erdogan è un
La Germania è il primo Paese europeo ad avvalersi della possibilità di escludere dal calcolo del Patto di Stabilità le spese militari, nell’ambito del programma ReArm Europe lanciato per rafforzare le capacità di difesa
I carabinieri sono accusati a vario titolo di lesioni, violenza sessuale, abuso d’ufficio, falso in atto pubblico, porto abusivo d’armi e rifiuto di denuncia: la pena più grave, di 9 anni e 8 mesi, è stata inflitta al maresciallo Alessandro Fiorentino.
I magistrati hanno anche fatto delle intercettazioni telefoniche.
In una di queste intercettazioni, uno dei carabinieri raccomandava a un collega di non parlare a nessuno di quello che accadeva in caserma: «Da questa caserma non deve uscire niente, dobbiamo essere come la mafia», diceva.
La storia di una straordinaria stamperia: il 9 e il 10 maggio, al Centro Culturale LA CAMERA VERDE (Ostiense, via G. Miani 20), si proietta il documentario "IL LABORATORIO", di Pasquale Napolitano (scrittura del regista e di Daniela Allocca).
>>> Vittorio Avella, maestro incisore, e Antonio Sgambati nel 1978 a Nola, fondano Il Laboratorio di Nola. 45 anni di attività segnano questo luogo come tra gli ultimi avamposti dove il libro non è mai stato una questione di codici a barre. Il libro nel laboratorio diventa un’esperienza umana. Il film di Napolitano racconta l’idea, la gioia del fare, del saper aspettare, cosa accade quando il torchio si mette in movimento, cosa vuol dire tirare su una stamperia ... <<<
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in reply to Tiziano :friendica: • • •Re: LibreCuts – it does not seem to be available from Google Play (the official app store) nor F-Droid (an alternative app store).
The references in the repo to the SDK etc. mean you would have to build the app on your computer/laptop and then load onto your phone.
This is all doable, but not a very user-friendly process, I'm afraid. Maybe you want to message the developer and ask for a release.
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in reply to TOV • •Thank you for the reply! Well, this is my opinion, too, but what I'm saying here is that the average users wanting to make a simple, quick edit for whatever reason (from reels to post on social networks, to therapeutical activity, like in my case), really don't care about power or screen size, they just need some app on their phone to edit on the go.
This is why I was looking for an alternative, because many people really appreciate CapCut for this reason, so I think it would be nice to have something else to offer them.
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in reply to TOV • •Well, I really wonder whether @Daniel Supernault has any ideas or plans about this (I know he's very busy with all of his projects at the moment, but maybe for the future...). I think this would be much appreciated by #pixelfed and #loops users (CapCut was created for TikTok users after all) 😉
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Create a basic video editing app using Media3 Transformer
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