@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Cresce il bilancio della rivolta in Nepal. Dietro le proteste la disillusione per le riforme mancate e l'indignazione per la corruzione e il nepotismo. Ma sul paese pesano anche nostalgie monarchiche e la competizione tra Pechino e New Delhi
è successo anche in ucraina. si inizia sempre dalle esercitazioni al confine. credo serve mostrare polso. mai avuto dubbi che putin intendesse allargarsi in europa.
@Privacy Pride Il post completo di Christian Bernieri è sul suo blog: garantepiracy.it/blog/espropri… Il Garante Privacy, con il nobile intento di salvare i minori dai mali del mondo, annuncia di volersi sostituire alle famiglie, privandole della responsabilità
Éric Chevillard – Santo cielo freezonemagazine.com/news/eric… In libreria dal 19 Settembre 2025 Éric Chevillard torna in Italia con il romanzo Santo cielo arricchito dalla prefazione inedita di Paolo Di Paolo. Proprio così: l’ora dei verdetti, il romanzo delle grandi rivelazioni è arrivato. Albert Moindre si trova nell’aldilà, dopo essere stato travolto da un camioncino carico di datteri e olive […] L'articolo Éric Chevillard – Santo cielo proviene da FR
When Will They Ever Learn? – A Story of U.S. Folk Music 1963-1969 freezonemagazine.com/articoli/… Ci sono raccolte che assolvono alla funzione di catalogo, preziose ma in fondo statiche. E poi ci sono operazioni come When Will They Ever Learn?, poderoso cofanetto di quattro CD pubblicato dalla Strawberry (ramo della Cherry Red Records), che non si limitano a mettere ordine tra canzoni celebri e brani dimenticati, ma
Venerdì 12, Sabato 13 e domenica 14 torniamo nelle piazze di Albano Laziale e Pavona con la raccolta firme per cancellare i poteri speciali grazie ai quali Gualtieri gioca la partita con un mazzo di carte truccato. Contro l'abuso di potere legalizzato puoi metterci la firma. Nelle locandine trovi dove e quando firmare. Massima diffusione 💪🏼
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Prende finalmente corpo la jv tra il gruppo Vw e l'americana Rivian: la tecnologia della startup dei furgoni elettrici (scaricata da Ford e Amazon) sarà sfruttata inizialmente nella city car da 20mila euro ID.1 e per due modelli
Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper in Nature are arguing that inference – essential for LLMs – can be done significantly more efficiently using an analog optical computer (AOC).
As the authors describe it, the function of this AOC is to perform a fixed-point search using only optical and analog electronic components. The optics handle the matrix-vector multiplications, while the analog components handle the non-linear operations, subtractions and annealing. This is performed in 20 ns cycles until noise has been reduced to an acceptable level, considering the analog nature of the computer. A big advantage here is that no analog-digital conversions are required as with other (digital) hybrid systems.
So far a small-scale AOC has been constructed for tasks like image classification and non-linear regression tasks, with the authors claiming the AOC being over a hundred times more efficient than current GPU-derived vector processors.
Does Silksong Seem Unreasonably Hard? You Probably Took a Wrong Turn
There is an aggrieved cry reverberating through the places on the internet where gamers gather. To hear them tell it, Hollow Knight: Silksong, the sequel to the stone-cold classic 2017 platformer, is too damned hard. There’s a particular jumping puzzle involving spikes and red flowers that many are struggling with and they’re filming their frustration and putting it up on the internet, showing their ass for everyone to see. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… Even 404 Media’s own Joseph Cox hit these red flowers and had the temerity to declare Silksong a “bad game” that he was “disappointed” in given his love for the original Hollow Knight. youtube.com/embed/3yxR6H_Zh0M?…youtube.com/embed/GD8ZyYE1K7k?…youtube.com/embed/ZsmxOMijLtE?… Couldn't be me.
I, too, got to the area just outside Hunter’s March in Silksong where the horrible red flowers bloom. Unlike others, however, my gamer instincts kicked in. I knew what to do. “This is the Dark Souls Catacombs situation all over again,” I said to myself. Then I turned around and came back later.
And that has made all the difference.
In the original Dark Souls, once players clear the opening area they come to Firelink Shrine. From there they can go into Undead Burg, the preferred starting path, or descend into The Catacombs where horrifying undying skeletons block the entrance to a cave. One will open the game up before you, the other will kill new players dead. A lot of Dark Souls players have raged and quit the game over the years because they went into The Catacombs instead of the Undead Burg.
Like Dark Souls, Silksong has an open-ish world where portions of the map are hardlocked by items and soft locked by player skill checks. One of the entrances into the flower laden Hunter’s March is in an early game area blocked by a mini-boss fight with a burly ant. The first time I fought the ant, it killed me over and over again and I took that as a sign I should go elsewhere.
High skilled players can kill the ant, but it’s much easier after you’ve gotten some basic items and abilities. I had several other paths I could take to progress the game, so I marked the ant’s location and moved on.
As I explored more of Silksong, I acquired several powerups that trivialized the fight with the ant and made it easy to navigate the flower jumping puzzles behind him. The first is Swift Step, a dash ability, which is in Deep Docks in the south-eastern portion of the map. The second is the Wanderer’s Crest, which is near the start of the game behind a locked door you get the key for in Silksong’s first town.
The dash allowed me to adjust my horizontal position in the air, but it’s the Wanderer’s Crest that made the flowers easy to navigate. The red flowers are littered throughout Hunter’s March and players have to hit them with a down attack to get a boosted jump and cross pits of spikes. By default, Hornet—the player character—down attacks at a 45 degree angle. The Wanderer’s Crest allows you to attack directly below you and makes the puzzles much easier to navigate.
Cox, bless his heart, hit the burly red ant miniboss and brute forced his way past. Then, like so many other desperate gamers, he proceeded to attempt to navigate the red flower jumping puzzles without the right power ups. He had no Swift Step. He had no Wanderer’s Crest. And thus, he raged.
He’s not alone. Watching the videos of jumping puzzles online I noticed that a lot of the players didn’t seem to have the dash or the downward attack.
Games communicate to players in different ways and gamers often complain about annoying an obvious signposting like big splashes of yellow paint. But when a truly amazing game comes along that tries to gently steer the player with burly ants and difficult puzzles, they don’t appreciate it and they don’t listen. If you’re really stuck in Silksong, try going somewhere else.
The PhaseLoom is built around an Si5351 clock generator chip, which is configurable over I2C. This chip is what creates the phase-locked loop (PLL) for the radio. The rest of the components, including antenna connectors and various filters, are in an Arduino-compatible form factor that let it work as a shield or hat for the 65uino platform, an Arduino-form-factor 6502 board. The current version [Anders] has been working on is dialed in to the 40-meter ham band, with some buttons on the PCB that allow the user to tune around within that band. He reports that it’s a little bit rough around the edges and somewhat noisy, but the fact that the 6502 is working as an SDR at all is impressive on its own.
For those looking to build their own, all of the schematics and code are available on the project’s GitHub page. [Anders] has some future improvements in the pipe for this project as well, noting that with slightly better filters and improved software even more SDR goodness can be squeezed out of this microprocessor. If you’re looking to experiment with SDR using something a little bit more modern, though, this 10-band multi-mode SDR based on the Teensy microcontroller gets a lot done without breaking the bank.
One of the biggest downsides of installing solar panels on a rooftop is that maintenance of the actual roof structure becomes much more difficult with solar panels in the way. But for many people who don’t have huge tracts of land, a roof is wasted space where something useful could otherwise go. [Mihai] had the idea of simply eliminating traditional roofing materials altogether and made half of this roof out of solar panels directly, with the other half being put to use as a garden.
Normally solar panels are installed on top of a roof, whether it’s metal or asphalt shingles or some other material, allowing the roof to perform its normal job of keeping weather out of the house while the solar panels can focus on energy generation. In this roof [Mihai] skips this step, having the solar panels pull double duty as roof material and energy generation. In a way this simplifies things; there’s less to maintain and presumably any problems with the roof can be solved by swapping out panels. But we would also presume that waterproofing it might be marginally more difficult.
On the antisolar side of the roof, however, [Mihai] foregoes the solar panels in favor of a system that can hold soil for small garden plants. Putting solar panels on this side of the roof wouldn’t generate as much energy but the area can still be useful as a garden. Of course we’d advise caution when working on a garden at height, but at least for the solar panels you can save some trips up a ladder for maintenance by using something like this robotic solar panel scrubber.
Over the years we’ve been entertained by an array of musical projects from [Look Mum No Computer], and his latest is no exception. It’s a tape delay, loop generator, and synth all in one. Confused? That’s what you get if you position a load of tape heads around a rotating disk with magnetic tape on its perimeter.
Taking a circular piece of inch-thick Perspex, he wraps a length of one inch tape round its perimeter. This is placed as though it were a turntable on a stepper motor with variable speed, and the tape heads are positioned around its edge. Each read head feeds its own preamp which in turn drives a mixer array, and there’s also a record head and an erase head. If you’ve ever played with tape loops you’ll immediately understand the potential for feedback and sequence generation to make interesting sounds. There’s a lot of nuance to the build, in designing the mount for the motor to stop the enclosure flexing, in using a gearbox for increased torque, and in balancing the disk.
The result is as much an effect as it is an instrument in its own right, particularly in its prototype phase when the read head was movable. We’re treated to a demo/performance, and we look forward to perhaps seeing this in person at some point. There’s a future video promised in which a fix should come for a click caused by the erase circuitry, and he’ll male a more compact enclosure for it.
Ma se c'è Friendica che ti permette di scrivere post lunghi, perché c'è tanta gente che apre un account su Mastodon e poi per scrivere un post lungo deve commentarsi 3-4 volte da sola per farcelo entrare tutto?
Voglio dire... hai fatto 30 andandotene da Facebook, a quel punto puoi fare 31 e scegliere un'istanza più adatta a te.
può anche darsi che non sappiano dell'esistenza di Friendica. Il mio primo account federato aveva il limite di 500 caratteri (che poi per quello che scrivo sono fin troppi... Per il resto ho il blog)
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
Thursday morning, Ezra Klein at the New York Timespublished a column titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way.” Klein’s general thesis is that Kirk was willing to talk to anyone, regardless of their beliefs, as evidenced by what he was doing while he was shot, which was debating people on college campuses. Klein is not alone in this take; the overwhelming sentiment from America’s largest media institutions in the immediate aftermath of his death has been to paint Kirk as a mainstream political commentator, someone whose politics liberals and leftists may not agree with but someone who was open to dialogue and who espoused the virtues of free speech.
“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him,” Klein wrote. “He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it.”
“I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness,” Klein continued.
Kirk is being posthumously celebrated by much of the mainstream press as a noble sparring partner for center-left politicians and pundits. Meanwhile, the very real, very negative, and sometimes violent impacts of his rhetoric and his political projects are being glossed over or ignored entirely. In the New York Times, Kirk was an “energetic” voice who was “critical of gay and transgender rights,” but few of the national pundits have encouraged people to actually go read what Kirk tweeted or listen to what he said on his podcast to millions and millions of people. “Whatever you think of Kirk (I had many disagreements with him, and he with me), when he died he was doing exactly what we ask people to do on campus: Show up. Debate. Talk. Engage peacefully, even when emotions run high,” David French wrote in the Times. “In fact, that’s how he made his name, in debate after debate on campus after campus.”
This does not mean Kirk deserved to die or that political violence is ever justified. What happened to Kirk is horrifying, and we fear deeply for whatever will happen next. But it is undeniable that Kirk was not just a part of the extremely tense, very dangerous national dialogue, he was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members around the country has directly put the livelihoods and physical safety of many people in danger. We do no one any favors by ignoring this, even in the immediate aftermath of an assassination like this.
Kirk claimed that his Turning Point USA sent “80+ buses full of patriots” to the January 6 insurrection. Turning Point USA has also run a “Professor Watchlist,” “School Board Watchlist,” and “Campus Reform” for nearly a decade.
“America’s radical education system has taken a devastating toll on our children,” Kirk said in an intro video posted on these projects’ websites. “From sexualized material in textbooks to teaching CRT and implementing the 1619 Project doctrine, the radical leftist agenda will not stop … The School Board Watch List exposes school districts that host drag queen story hour, teach courses on transgenderism, and implement unsafe gender neutral bathroom policies. The Professor Watch List uncovers the most radical left-wing professors from universities that are known to suppress conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda.”
These websites have been directly tied to harassment and threats against professors and school board members all over the country. Professor Watchlist lists hundreds of professors around the country, many of them Black or trans, and their perceived radical agendas, which include things like supporting gun control, “socialism,” “Antifa,” “abortion,” and acknowledging that trans people exist and racism exists. Trans professors are misgendered on the website, and numerous people who have been listed on it have publicly spoken about receiving death threats and being harassed after being listed on the site.
One professor on the watchlist who 404 Media is granting anonymity for his safety said once he was added to the list, he started receiving anonymous letters in his campus mailbox. “‘You're everything wrong with colleges,’ ‘watch your step, we're watching you’ kind of stuff,” he said, “One anonymous DM on Twitter had a picture of my house and driveway, which was chilling.” His president and provost also received emails attempting to discredit him with “all the allegedly communist and subversive stuff I was up to,” he said. “It was all certainly concerning, but compared to colleagues who are people of color and/or women, I feel like the volume was smaller for me. But it was certainly not a great feeling to experience that stuff. That watchlist fucked up careers and ruined lives.”
The American Association of University Professors said in an open letter in 2017 that Professor Watchlist “lists names of professors with their institutional affiliations and photographs, thereby making it easy for would-be stalkers and cyberbullies to target them. Individual faculty members who have been included on such lists or singled out elsewhere have been subject to threats of physical violence, including sexual assault, through hundreds of e-mails, calls, and social media postings. Such threatening messages are likely to stifle the free expression of the targeted faculty member; further, the publicity that such cases attract can cause others to self-censor so as to avoid being subjected to similar treatment.” Campus free speech rights group FIRE found that censorship and punishment of professors skyrocketed between 2020 and 2023, in part because of efforts from Professor Watchlist.
Many more professors who Turning Point USA added to their watchlist have spoken out in the past about how being targeted upended their lives, brought years of harassment down on them and their colleagues, and resulted in death threats against them and their loved ones.
At Arizona State University, a professor on the watchlist was assaulted by two people from Turning Point USA in 2023.
“Earlier this year, I wrote to Turning Point USA to request that it remove ASU professors from its Professor Watchlist. I did not receive a response,” university president Michael Crow wrote in a statement. “Instead, the incident we’ve all now witnessed on the video shows Turning Point’s refusal to stop dangerous practices that result in both physical and mental harm to ASU faculty members, which they then apparently exploit for fundraising, social media clicks and financial gain.” Crow said the Professor Watchlist resulted in “antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ+ and misogynistic attacks on ASU faculty with whom Turning Point USA and its followers disagree,” and called the organization’s tactics “anti-democratic, anti-free speech and completely contrary” to the spirit of scholarship.
Kirk’s death is a horrifying moment in our current American nightmare. Kirk’s actions and rhetoric do not justify what happened to him because they cannot be justified. But Kirk was not merely someone who showed up to college campuses and listened. It should not be controversial to plainly state some of the impact of his work.
Arizona State Police released footage of an incident between an ASU English professor, a reporter and cameraman from Turning Point USA that happened on Oct. 11. University president Dr. Michael Crow released a statement calling the men "cowards."
The International Space Station has been in orbit around the Earth, at least in some form, since November of 1998 — but not without help. In the vacuum of space, an object in orbit can generally be counted on to remain zipping around more or less forever, but the Station is low enough to experience a bit of atmospheric drag. It isn’t much, but it saps enough velocity from the Station that without regular “reboosts” to speed it back up , the orbiting complex would eventually come crashing down.
Naturally, the United States and Russia were aware of this when they set out to assemble the Station. That’s why early core modules such as Zarya and Zvezda came equipped with thrusters that could be used to not only rotate the complex about all axes, but accelerate it to counteract the impact of drag. Eventually the thrusters on Zarya were disabled, and its propellant tanks were plumbed into Zvezda’s fuel system to provide additional capacity. An early image of ISS, Zarya module in center and Zvezda at far right. Visiting spacecraft attached to the Russian side of the ISS can transfer propellant into these combined tanks, and they’ve been topped off regularly over the years. In fact, the NASA paper A Review of In-Space Propellant Transfer Capabilities and Challenges for Missions Involving Propellant Resupply, notes this as one of the most significant examples of practical propellant transfer between orbital vehicles, with more than 40,000 kgs of propellants pumped into the ISS as of 2019.
But while the thrusters on Zvezda are still available for use, it turns out there’s an easier way to accelerate the Station; visiting spacecraft can literally push the orbital complex with their own maneuvering thrusters. Of course this is somewhat easier said than done, and not all vehicles have been able to accomplish the feat, but over the decades several craft have taken on the burden of lifting the ISS into a higher orbit.
Earlier this month, a specially modified SpaceX Cargo Dragon became the newest addition to the list of spacecraft that can perform a reboost. The craft will boost the Station several times over the rest of the year, which will provide valuable data for when it comes time to reverse the process and de-orbit the ISS in the future.
Reboosting the Russian Way
By far the easiest way for a visiting spacecraft to reboost the ISS is to dock with the rear of the Zvezda module. This not only places the docked spacecraft at what would be considered the “rear” of the Station given its normal flight orientation, but puts the craft as close as possible to the Station’s own thrusters. This makes it relatively easy to compute the necessary parameters for the thruster burn. Progress 72 in 2019 Historically, reboosts from this position have been performed by the Russian Progress spacecraft. Introduced in 1978, Progress is essentially an uncrewed version of the Soyuz spacecraft, and like most of Russia’s space hardware, has received various upgrades and changes over the decades. Progress vehicles are designed specifically for serving long-duration space stations, and were used to bring food, water, propellants, and cargo to the Salyut and Mir stations long before the ISS was even on the drawing board.
Reboosts could also be performed by the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV). Built by the European Space Agency (ESA), the ATV was essentially the European counterpart to Progress, and flew similar resupply missions. The ATV had considerably greater cargo capacity, with the ability to bring approximately 7,500 kg of materials to the ISS compared to 2,400 kg for Progress.
Only five ATVs were flown, from 2008 to 2014. There were several proposals to build more ATVs, including modified versions that could potentially even carry crew. None of these versions ever materialized, although it should be noted that the design of the Orion spacecraft’s Service Module is based on the ATV.
American Muscle
Reboosting the ISS from the American side of the Station is possible, but involves a bit more work. For one thing, the entire Station needs to flip over, as the complex’s normal orientation would have the American docking ports facing fowards. Of course, there’s really no such thing as up or down in space, so this maneuver doesn’t impact the astronauts’ work. There are however various experiments and devices aboard the Station that are designed to point down towards Earth, so this reorientation can still be disruptive.
Depending on the spacecraft, simply flipping the Station over might not be sufficient. In the case of the Space Shuttle, which of the American vehicles performed the most reboost maneuvers by far, the entire complex had to be rotated into just the right position so that the thrusters on the spaceplane would be properly aligned with the Stations’ center of mass.
As described in the “AUTO REBOOST” section of the STS-129 Orbit Operations Checklist, the Shuttle’s computer would actually be given control of the maneuvering systems of the ISS so the entire linked structure can be rotated into the correct position. A diagram in the Checklist even shows the approximate angle the vehicle’s should be at for the Shuttle’s maneuvering thrusters to line up properly.
With the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, maintaining the Station’s orbit became the sole domain of the Russians until 2018, when the Cygnus became the first commercial spacecraft to perform a reboost. The cargo spacecraft had a swiveling engine which helped get the direction of thrust aligned, but the Station did still need to rotate to get into the proper position.
That brings us to the present day, and the Cargo Dragon. SpaceX had never designed the spacecraft to perform a reboost, and indeed, it would at first seem uniquely unsuited for the task as its “Draco” maneuvering thrusters are actually located on the front and sides of the capsule. When docked, the primary thrusters used for raising and lowering the Dragon’s own orbit are essentially pressed up against the structure of the ISS, and obviously can’t be activated. Crew Dragon approaching the ISS, note four Draco thrusters around docking port. To make reboosting with the Dragon possible, SpaceX added additional propellant tanks and a pair of rear-firing Draco thrusters within the spacecraft’s un-pressurized “trunk” module. This hollow structure is usually empty, but occasionally will hold large or bulky cargo that can’t fit inside the spacecraft itself. It’s also occasionally been used to deliver components destined to be mounted to the outside of the ISS, such as the for the outside of the ISS, such as the International Docking Adapter (IDA) and the roll-out solar panels. Additional propellant tanks mounted in the trunk of the Cargo Dragon. While the ability to have the Dragon raise the orbit of the International Space Station obviously has value to NASA, the implications of this experiment go a bit farther.
SpaceX has already been awarded the contract to develop and operate the “Deorbit Vehicle” which will ultimately be used to slow down the ISS and put it on a targeted reentry trajectory sometime after 2030. Now that the company has demonstrated the ability to add additional thrusters and propellant to a standard Dragon spacecraft via a module installed in the trunk, it’s likely that the Deorbit Vehicle will take a similar form.
So while the development of this new capability is exciting from an operational standpoint, especially given deteriorating relations with Russia, it’s also a reminder that the orbiting laboratory is entering its final days.
Domani, 12 settembre, si aprirà il Convegno pastorale della diocesi di Nola dedicato quest’anno al tema “Missionari per portare Cristo nelle vene dell’umanità del nostro territorio”. A guidare i partecipanti nella riflessione sarà mons.
Liberi dai veleni di Roma ha ispirato questo pezzo straordinario che accompagnerà la nostra lotta contro l'inceneritore. SantaPalomba sarà il faro contro la tenebra inceneritorista. SantaPalomba sono donne e uomini liberi dai veleni di Roma. SantaPalomba non si piega!
The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes
Freelance developers and entire companies are making a business out of fixing shoddy vibe coded software.
I first noticed this trend in the form of a meme that was circulating on LinkedIn, sharing a screenshot of several profiles who advertised themselves as “vibe coding cleanup specialists.” I couldn’t confirm if the accounts in that screenshot were genuinely making an income by fixing vibe coded software, but the meme gained traction because of the inherent irony in the existence of such a job existing.
The alleged benefit of vibe coding, which refers to the practice of building software with AI-coding tools without much attention to the underlying code, is that it allows anyone to build a piece of software very quickly and easily. As we’ve previously reported, in reality, vibe coded projects could result in security issues or a recipe app that generates recipes for “Cyanide Ice Cream.” If the resulting software is so poor you need to hire a human specialist software engineer to come in and rewrite the vibe coded software, it defeats the entire purpose.
LinkedIn memes aside, people are in fact making money fixing vibe coded messes.
“I've been offering vibe coding fixer services for about two years now, starting in late 2023. Currently, I work with around 15-20 clients regularly, with additional one-off projects throughout the year,” Hamid Siddiqi, who offers to “review, fix your vibe code” on Fiverr, told me in an email. “I started fixing vibe-coded projects because I noticed a growing number of developers and small teams struggling to refine AI-generated code that was functional but lacked the polish or ‘vibe’ needed to align with their vision. I saw an opportunity to bridge that gap, combining my coding expertise with an eye for aesthetic and user experience.”
Siddiqi said common issues he fixes in vibe coded projects include inconsistent UI/UX design in AI-generated frontends, poorly optimized code that impacts performance, misaligned branding elements, and features that function but feel clunky or unintuitive. He said he also often refines color schemes, animations, and layouts to better match the creator’s intended aesthetic.
Siddiqi is one of dozens of people on Fiverr who is now offering services specifically catering to people with shoddy vibe coded projects. Established software development companies like Ulam Labs, now say “we clean up after vibe coding. Literally.”
“Built something fast? Now it’s time to make it solid,” Ulam Labs says on its site. “We know how it goes. You had to move quickly, get that MVP [minimally viable product] out, and validate the idea. But now the tech debt is holding you back: no tests, shaky architecture, CI/CD [Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment] is a dream, and every change feels like defusing a bomb. That’s where we come in.”
Swatantra Sohni, who started VibeCodeFixers.com, a site for people with vibe coded projects who need help from experienced developers to fix or finish their projects, says that almost 300 experienced developers have posted their profiles to the site. He said so far VibeCodeFixers.com has only connected between 30-40 vibe code projects with fixers, but that he hasn’t done anything to promote the service and at the moment is focused on adding as many software developers to the platform as possible.
Sohni said that he’s been vibe coding himself since before Andrej Karpathy coined the term in February. He bought a bunch of vibe coding related domains, and realized a service like VibeCodeFixers.com was necessary based on how often he had to seek help from experts on his own vibe coding projects. In March, the site got a lot of attention on X and has been slowly adding people to the platform since.
Sohni also wrote a “Vibecoding Community Research Report” based on interviews with non-technical people who are vibe coding their projects that he shared with me. The report identified a lot of the same issues as Siddiqi, mainly that existing features tend to break when new ones are added.
“Most of these vibe coders, either they are product managers or they are sales guys, or they are small business owners, and they think that they can build something,” Sohni told me. “So for them it’s more for prototyping. Vibe coding is, at the moment, kind of like infancy. It's very handy to convey the prototype they want, but I don't think they are really intended to make it like a production grade app.”
Another big issue Sohni identified is “credit burn,” meaning the money vibe coders waste on AI usage fees in the final 10-20 percent stage of developing the app, when adding new features breaks existing features. In theory, it might be cheaper and more efficient for vibe coders to start over at that point, but Sohni said people get attached to their first project.
“What happens is that the first time they build the app, it's like they think that they can build the app with one prompt, and then the app breaks, and they burn the credit. I think they are very emotionally connected to the app, because this act of vibe coding involves you, your creativity.”
In theory it might be cheaper and more efficient for vibe coders to start over if the LLM starts hallucinating and creating problems, but Sohni that’s when people come to VibeCodeFixers.com. They want someone to fix the bugs in their app, not create a new one.
Sohni told me he thinks vibe coding is not going anywhere, but neither are human developers.
“I feel like the role [of human developers] would be slightly limited, but we will still need humans to keep this AI on the leash,” he said.
Viviamo in un’epoca in cui l’oro non luccica, il petrolio non si estrae e i diamanti non brillano: oggi la risorsa più preziosa è la nostra attenzione. Eh già, il bene più scarso del ventunesimo secolo non è una materia prima, ma la capacità di rimanere concentrati su qualcosa senza essere interrotti da notifiche, banner lampeggianti o l’ennesimo video di gattini su TikTok. Il concetto nasce da un’osservazione semplice: l’informazione è infinita, ma l’attenzione umana è limitata. Le piattaforme digitali, i media e le aziende competono tra loro per catturare e trattenere quei preziosi secondi in cui guardiamo uno schermo, leggiamo un titolo o ascoltiamo un contenuto. È come se la nostra mente fosse un’arena di gladiatori: da una parte Netflix, dall’altra Instagram, poi YouTube, Spotify e il notiziario online. Tutti combattono per strapparci anche solo cinque minuti del nostro tempo. Non è un mistero che i giganti del web non vendano soltanto prodotti o servizi: vendono il nostro tempo di attenzione a chi paga per raggiungerci, cioè gli inserzionisti. Più tempo passiamo incollati a una piattaforma, più pubblicità vediamo, più dati regaliamo. Il meccanismo è semplice e spietato. Non a caso i feed dei social non finiscono mai (hai mai provato a raggiungere “la fine di Facebook”? Buona fortuna). È progettato così: scorrere è più facile che fermarsi. Le piattaforme hanno studiato bene la psicologia. Ogni like, notifica o messaggio privato funziona come una piccola scarica di dopamina. Un mini premio che ci spinge a tornare ancora e poi ancora. In pratica, siamo diventati giocatori compulsivi di una slot machine digitale, solo che invece di monetine, buttiamo dentro minuti (e spesso ore) della nostra giornata. Non per forza. L’ironia è che in questo “mercato” noi siamo allo stesso tempo merce e consumatori. Da un lato veniamo corteggiati, monitorati e spinti a guardare “ancora un episodio”. Dall’altro, possiamo diventare consapevoli di questi meccanismi e imparare a usare gli strumenti digitali a nostro favore. Un esempio? Decidere di spegnere le notifiche, stabilire dei tempi senza schermo o persino pagare servizi premium per liberarci dalla pubblicità. Non è una rivoluzione, ma è un modo per dire: ok, i miei occhi e il mio tempo hanno un valore, e lo gestisco io. La domanda, in fondo, è semplice: a chi vogliamo dare la nostra attenzione? Perché ogni minuto passato su un contenuto è un minuto tolto ad altro: leggere un libro, parlare con un amico, cucinare, o – perché no – non fare assolutamente niente. Che, in un mondo così saturo di stimoli, è quasi un atto di ribellione.
Matteo Mainardi ospite al FLAG Festival: “Conversazioni sul fine vita”
Roma, Piazza Vittorio – Notti di Cinema Domenica 14 settembre 2025 Ore 19:00 All’interno della 6ª edizione del FLAG Festival – C’entriamo tuttə
In occasione della sesta edizione del FLAG Festival, appuntamento con Matteo Mainardi, coordinatore delle iniziative sul fine vita e Consigliere Generale di Associazione Luca Coscioni.
L’incontro, dal titolo “Conversazioni sul fine vita”, sarà un momento di confronto sui diritti civili, sull’autodeterminazione e sull’urgenza di una legge che garantisca dignità anche nell’ultimo tratto della vita.
Introduce Renato Scatteralla.
L’evento si svolge nell’ambito di Notti di Cinema a Piazza Vittorio, nel cuore del quartiere Esquilino di Roma, e rientra nel programma del FLAG – Festival delle libertà e dell’autodeterminazione di genere.
Filomena Gallo interviene da remoto al convegno “Il consenso informato ed il ruolo del medico”
Spazio Incontri Fondazione CRC, Via Roma 15 – Cuneo Venerdì 26 settembre 2025 Ore 14:30 – Registrazione | Ore 14:50 – Inizio lavori
Nell’ambito della Settimana della Medicina Interna, la Camera Penale “Vittorio Chiusano” – Sezione di Cuneo promuove un incontro di grande rilevanza giuridica, etica e sanitaria dal titolo:
“Il consenso informato ed il ruolo del medico. Tra vizi della capacità e diritto all’autodeterminazione”
Tra i relatori anche Filomena Gallo, Avvocata e Segretaria Nazionale dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, che interverrà da remoto con un approfondimento sul diritto all’autodeterminazione nel percorso di cura.
L’evento offrirà uno sguardo multidisciplinare sul tema, con il contributo di esperti di antropologia, diritto amministrativo, medicina legale, psichiatria e giurisprudenza. Un’occasione preziosa per affrontare le complessità del consenso informato, dai risvolti teorici fino alla pratica quotidiana.
La partecipazione è gratuita e dà diritto a 4 crediti formativi per Avvocati. Posti limitati in presenza (max 80), iscrizione tramite Riconosco Possibilità di seguire anche online, iscrizione su: www.staffpep.com – sezione Prossimi Eventi
Scheda madre Gigabyte b550, nuova e mai usata, confezione intatta e scheda ancora sigillata. Include ogni accessorio in condizioni intatte.
Prezzo 120€ + spedizione.
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“In un tempo in cui il progresso tecnologico sembra correre più veloce della nostra capacità di comprenderne gli impatti, la riflessione dell’enciclica Redemptor hominis ci richiama a un’urgenza etica: rimettere l’uomo al centro”.
"Passare dalla cultura dello scarto alla cultura della cura", andando "oltre le tensioni e i conflitti geopolitici sempre più profondi" che attraversano il nostro tempo.
Sullo sconfinamento dei droni russi in Polonia nelle prime ore di mercoledì non sono ancora emerse notizie chiare né prove certe, ma il governo di Varsavia e il resto della NATO non hanno come al solito esitato a lanciare una nuova ondata di attacchi…
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