Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning your language than people like you are at learning theirs. It’s particularly obvious in the world of programming languages, where English-derived language and syntax rules the roost.

It’s always IF foo THEN bar, and never SI foo ALORS bar. It is now possible to do something akin to OS foo YNA bar though, because [Richard Hainsworth] has created y Ddraig (the Dragon), a programming language using Welsh language as syntax. (The Welsh double D, “Dd” is pronounced something like an English soft “th” as in “their”)

Under the hood it’s not an entirely new language, instead it’s a Welsh localisation of the Raku language. A localisation file is created, that can as we understand it handle bidirectional transcription between languages. The write-up goes into detail about the process.

There will inevitably be people asking what the point of a programming language for a spoken language with under a million native speakers is, so it’s worth taking a look at that head on. It’s important for Welsh education and the Welsh tech sector because a a geeky kid in a Welsh-medium school Pwllheli deserves to code just as much as an English kid in a school near Oxford, but it goes far beyond Welsh alone. There are many languages and cultures across the world where English is not widely spoken, and every single one of them has those kids like us who pick up a computer and run with it. The more of them that can learn to code, and thrive without having the extra burden of knowing English, the better. Perhaps in a couple of decades we’ll be using code from people who learned this way, without our ever knowing it.

As your scribe, this needs to be added: Mae’n ddrwg gyda fi ffrendiau Cymraeg, mae Cymraeg i yn wael iawn. Dwi’n dôd o’r Rhydychen, ni Pwllheli.

Header image: Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Some time ago, Lego released a beautiful (and somewhat pricey) typewriter set that was modeled after one used by company founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen. To the disappointment of some, it doesn’t actually work—you can’t really write a letter with it. [Koenkun Bricks] decided to rectify this with their own functional design.

Right away, we’ll state that this is not a traditional typewriter. There are no off-the-shelf Lego components with embossed letters on them, so it wasn’t possible to make Lego type bars that could leave an impression on paper with the use of an inked ribbon. Instead, [Koenkun Bricks] decided to build a design that was Lego all the way down, right to the letters themselves. The complicated keyboard-actuated mechanism picks out flat letter tiles and punches them on to a flat Lego plate, creating a plastic document instead of a paper one.

It’s not perfect in operation. It has some issues unique to its mode of operation. Namely, the round letter tiles sometimes rotate the wrong way as they’re feeding through the typewriter’s mechanisms, so you get sideways letters on your finished document. It looks kind of cool, though. Outside of that, sometimes the letter pusher doesn’t quite seat the letter tiles fully on the document plate.

Overall, though, it’s a highly functional and impressive build. We’ve seen some other great DIY typewriters before, too, like this 3D printed build. Video after the break.

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[Thanks to hn3000] for the tip!]

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Two phases installed on the stator. (Credit: FarmCraft101, YouTube)
As part of his quest to find the best affordable generator for his DIY hydroelectric power system, [FarmCraft101] is trying out a range of off-the-shelf and DIY solutions, with in his most recent video trying his hands at the very relaxing activity of rewiring the stator of an alternator.

Normally car alternators output 12VDC after internal rectification, but due to the hundreds of meters from the turbine to the shed, he’d like a higher voltage to curb transmission losses. The easiest way to get a higher voltage out of a car alternator is to change up the wiring on the stator, which is definitely one of those highly educational tasks.

Disassembling an alternator is easy enough, but removing the copper windings from the stator is quite an ordeal, as they were not designed to ever move even a fraction of a millimeter after assembly.

With that arduous task finished, the rewinding was done using 22 AWG copper enamel wire, compared to the original 16 AWG wire, and increasing the loops per coil from 8 to 30. This rewinding isn’t too complicated if you know what you’re doing, with each coil on each of the three windings placed in an alternating fashion, matching the alternating South/North poles on the rotor.

Each phase’s winding is offset by two slots, leaving space for the other two phases, which then correspondingly are 90° out of phase when running, creating the three-phase AC output. This is further detailed in the video.

To make sure the windings do not short out on the stator, each slot has a bit of Nomex insulating paper placed into it, and a PETG 3D printed slot holder makes sure that none of the windings sneak out of their slot after installation.

The phases were connected in a Wye configuration, which gives it the maximum possible voltage rather than optimizing it for current as in a Delta configuration.

With the rewinding done, the alternator was reassembled, and the three-phase output of the new stator tested. After some trial and error it was able to do 200 VDC after passing it through an external rectifier, for a total of 700 Watt.

While not an unmitigated success, it seems quite possible to use this alternator as a higher-voltage generator with the hydro setup, especially after the upcoming replacement of the rotor’s electromagnet with neodymium magnets to further simplify it. As a bonus, if he ever needs to rebuild a broken alternator from scratch, rewinding a stator is now child’s play.

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The Department of Homeland Security secretary calls leakers a threat to national security and wants to prosecute them.

But much of what the public knows about DHS, which includes its agencies Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, is thanks to whistleblowers and leakers who have exposed the government’s increasingly unlawful conduct as it aggressively enforces immigration law across the country.

In recent months, a series of major investigations into DHS, ICE, and CBP have relied on insiders who provided documents and information to journalists. Journalists, in turn, published what the public would otherwise never see.

Here are just a few recent examples of the journalism that leaks have made possible:

ICE claims the power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant

In January, The Associated Press reported on an internal ICE memo instructing officers that they could forcibly enter people’s homes to make arrests without a warrant signed by a judge. Instead, the memo claimed that an administrative warrant — issued by the executive branch and never reviewed by a court — is sufficient.

The news story was based on a whistleblower complaint sent to Congress and shared with the AP by an anonymous congressional official. The complaint and memo were later made public.

Because of this reporting, based on a leak, the public learned of a major constitutional violation. ICE is reversing its own past practices and training materials, which had long instructed officers that a judicial warrant was required to enter a home.

Yet, as one legal expert noted, challenging ICE’s new interpretation of the law in court could be difficult, because courts have made it so hard to sue federal officers for violating constitutional rights. That makes public scrutiny one of the few tools available to challenge ICE’s claim that it can knock down your door without a warrant. And that scrutiny is possible only because of a leak.

DHS is labeling protesters “domestic terrorists.”

Journalist Ken Klippenstein has repeatedly exposed internal DHS activities using leaked government documents. One of his most recent revelations shows that DHS has labeled American citizens who protest against ICE as “domestic terrorists.”

According to documents leaked to Klippenstein, ICE branded a Portland, Oregon, man, Chandler Patey, and “countless other American protesters” as domestic terrorists based on minimal and dubious evidence. (The unsubstantiated rumor that Patey is the leader of antifa — whatever that even means — was started by a right-wing influencer, for instance.)

The leaks also revealed a DHS-wide portal that aggregates personal information about alleged terrorists, including protesters, allowing authorities to centralize surveillance of them.

Without sources willing to leak these documents, the public would have no idea that DHS is transforming constitutionally protected activity into domestic terrorism.

ICE’s expanding surveillance state, built with big tech

Some of the most detailed reporting on ICE’s surveillance infrastructure has come from leaks and information via confidential sources provided to outlets like 404 Media and Wired, which have exposed how major tech firms are helping build ICE’s spy tools.

Next time DHS talks about cracking down on leaks, think about all you wouldn’t know without leakers.

404 Media, for instance, recently relied on internal ICE materials to report about a tool developed by Palantir for ICE called “Elite.” Elite helps ICE decide what neighborhoods to raid by mapping the addresses of people targeted for deportation, using sensitive personal information from agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services. 404 Media even published a copy of an internal Elite user guide.

Similarly, Wired relied on confidential sources to report that the Department of Government Efficiency was working on a “master database” in April 2025 to help DHS track and surveil undocumented immigrants, built on Palantir software and stitched together from vast pools of government data. Experts warned of sweeping privacy violations affecting not only those who are undocumented, but citizens, too.

ICE’s propaganda machine

In addition to exposing DHS’s tactics and surveillance, leaks have also revealed how the government is working to shape public perception. In December 2025, The Washington Post reported on ICE’s internal “media machine” using leaked chats and other documents from within the agency.

Those messages showed ICE officials coordinating with the White House to push propaganda celebrating immigration arrests, mocking immigrants in private chats, and selectively curating videos and images to fit a political narrative. They illustrated how ICE is manufacturing and distributing content to flood the internet with its own propaganda and overwhelm independent sources of information.

While many believed, based on what they could see online, that the government was pumping out propaganda, these leaks confirmed it and gave the public inside information about how it operates.

Protect the whistleblowers who make this possible

These are just four examples of journalism — based on leaks — that have been essential to informing the public about America’s growing surveillance state.

These stories share a common thread: Without whistleblowers and leakers, the public would never know how DHS is breaking the law and abusing our civil rights and civil liberties.

So the next time DHS talks about cracking down on leaks, or the government actually prosecutes a whistleblower, think about all you wouldn’t know without leakers. If the government succeeds in silencing leakers and whistleblowers, it won’t make us safer. It will only help the powerful operate in the dark, without accountability.

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404 Media

2026-01-15 14:03:04

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address, 404 Media has learned. ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be based.

The findings, based on internal ICE material obtained by 404 Media, public procurement records, and recent sworn testimony from an ICE official, show the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. The tool receives peoples’ addresses from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) among a range of other sources, according to the material.

The news comes after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head Kristi Noem said the agency is sending hundreds more federal agents to Minneapolis amid widespread protests against the agency. Last week ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed 37 year old U.S. citizen Renee Nicole Good. During Operation Metro Surge, which DHS calls the “largest immigration operation ever,” immigration agents have surrounded rideshare drivers and used pepper spray on high school students.

“Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) is a targeting tool designed to improve capabilities for identifying and prioritizing high-value targets through advanced analytics,” a user guide for ELITE obtained by 404 Media says. The tool aims to be nearly all encompassing when it comes to finding ICE targets, from identifying subjects in the first place, to building a list of people, to supervisors approving selections for officers to ultimately go into the field and apprehend.

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One feature of ELITE is the “Geospatial Lead Sourcing Tab,” according to the user guide. This lets ICE see people it may potentially want to detain on a map interface, based on various criteria such as “Bios & IDs,” “Location,” “Operations,” and “Criminality.” An ICE officer can then select people one by one, or draw a shape on the map to see people in that selected area.

ELITE has already been used by ICE to target specific areas, according to sworn testimony from an ICE official in Oregon. In October, immigration officers waited in three unmarked SUVs outside an apartment complex in Woodburn. They went on to bust a driver’s window and pull a 45-year-old woman from a van, used ICE’s facial recognition app Mobile Fortify on her, and agents had the goal of making eight arrests per team per day, Oregon Live reported. Lawyers representing the woman say authorities arrested her and more than 30 other people in a “dragnet.”

“One of our apps, it’s called ELITE. And so it tells you how many people are living in this area and what’s the likelihood of them actually being there,” a deportation officer with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Unit, identified in court records as JB, testified about the raid in early December. 404 Media purchased a transcript of JB’s testimony from the court. “It’s basically a map of the United States. It’s kind of like Google Maps.”

“It pulls from all kinds of sources,” JB continued. “It’s a newer app that was actually given to us in ICE.” JB said ELITE is what ICE sometimes uses to track the apparent density of people at a particular location to target. “You’re going to go to a more dense population rather than [...] like, if there’s one pin at a house and the likelihood of them actually living there is like 10 percent [...] you’re not going to go there.” For that raid in Woodburn, JB suggested the immigration officers used ELITE to generate leads. Additionally, in a text thread of immigration officers, someone described the area as “target rich,” which JB explained meant the officials had run multiple license plates in that area and found vehicles registered to people “who had either a criminal or immigration nexus.”

Screenshots of the ICE official's testimony. Image: 404 Media.

JB and other officials were testifying in the case of MJMA, the woman pulled from the van during the Woodburn raid. She is being represented by attorneys from Innovation Law Lab.

Once a person is selected on the map interface, ELITE then shows a dossier on that particular person, according to the user guide. That includes their name, a photo, their Alien Number (the unique code given by the U.S. government to each immigrant), their date of birth, and their full address. ELITE notes the source of the address (such as the government agency that supplied it), and gives an “address confidence score.” One address confidence score example in the guide is 98.95 out of 100; another is 77.25 out of 100. This score is based on both the source of the address and how recent the data is, the user guide says. (ICE is paying skip tracers, private investigators, and bounty hunters to help verify peoples’ addresses.)

Those sources can include HHS, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and “CLEAR.” The guide does not provide any more specifics on what CLEAR might be, but ICE has repeatedly contracted with Thomson Reuters which sells a data product called CLEAR. Thomson Reuters did not respond to a request for comment. HHS did not respond to a request for comment.

The documents don’t say if those are the only entities providing data for ELITE. The user guide says ELITE is “integrating new data sources” to reduce officer workload.

ICE can also use ELITE to look up people based on an unique identifier, such as their Alien Number, name, or date of birth. ELITE also lets ICE do this in bulk, selecting up to 50 people at once, according to the guide.
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ICE can filter the map by what the guide calls Special Operations. These are “groups of pre-defined aliens specifically targeted by Leadership for action.” ICE officers are told to consult ICE leadership or “broadcasts” on when to use these operation filters. DHS’s surge in Minneapolis is focused at least in part on the city’s Somali community after renewed focus on a COVID-19 fraud case. The overwhelming majority of Somalis who live in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area are U.S. citizens, PBS reported.

“These records give us behind-the-scenes insight into the kind of mass surveillance machine ICE is building with help from powerful tech companies like Palantir,” Laura Rivera, senior staff attorney at Just Futures Law, told 404 Media. “When combined with what we know from ICE testimony and other public information, it gives us a blueprint into how ICE is going into communities and identifying people for arrest in real-time.”

Senator Ron Wyden, who represents Oregon where ELITE was discussed, told 404 Media in a statement, “The fact ICE is using this app proves the completely indiscriminate nature of the agency's aggressive and violent incursions into our communities. This app allows ICE to find the closest person to arrest and disappear, using government and commercial data, with the help of Palantir and Trump's Big Brother databases. It makes a mockery of the idea that ICE is trying to make our country safer. Rather, agents are reportedly picking people to deport from our country the same way you'd choose a nearby coffee shop.”
Screenshot of the Palantir contract, via highergov.com.
The ELITE user guide does not say who developed the system. But the tool’s distinctive title—Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement—exactly matches one included in an addendum to a Palantir contract from last year. It says Palantir should “continue configuration and engineering services” for ELITE and some other ICE tools. That supplemental agreement for $29.9 million started in September and is planned to go on for at least a year.

Palantir has worked with ICE for years and was focused on criminal investigations, supporting Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Investigative Case Management (ICM) system. That changed in the second Trump administration, with Palantir now working on ICE’s deportation efforts.

After participating in a three-week coding sprint, ICE updated an ongoing Palantir contract related to “Enforcement Prioritization and Targeting,” to “support the development of an accurate picture of actionable leads based on existing law enforcement datasets to allow law enforcement to prioritize enforcement actions,” according to an internal Palantir wiki previously obtained by 404 Media. The goal was to find the physical location of people marked for deportation, and Palantir said it believes its work with ICE is “intended to promote government efficiency, transparency, and accountability.”

The leaked material described Palantir’s deportation-focused work as “concentrated on delivering prototype capabilities” and lasting around six months. It left open the room for more work with ICE, and said “Palantir has developed into a more mature partner for ICE.” Documents ICE published described Palantir’s work as building a tool called ImmigrationOS.

More than eight months have passed since Palantir discussed the issue internally. Neither Palantir nor DHS responded to multiple requests for comment.

In their testimony, JB said, “it’s a tool that we use that gives you a probability. But there’s never [...] there’s no such thing as 100 percent.” The user guide adds, “As always, make sure you do your due diligence on each target to confirm removability prior to action.”

How ICE raids in Minnesota connect to a years-old fraud scandal

The Trump administration is using a years-old scandal first prosecuted under the Biden administration to justify its immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

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Corso di duo acrobatico

Cascina Torchiera - Piazzale Cimitero Maggio 18, Milano
(martedì, 10 febbraio 19:00)

GallinƏ!
Da questo mese partono ben tre nuovi corsi, per cui correte in cascina, vi aspettiamo con gioia e voglia espressiva!

Da martedì 8 ottobre!

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To kill a war machine (aperitivo e proiezione | benefit 100x100 Gaza)

Piano Terra - via Federico Confalonieri 3, Milano
(domenica, 15 febbraio 19:00)

Vi aspettiamo a Piano Terra per una serata a sostegno di 100x100 Gaza, una mobilitazione straordinaria di solidarietà nata nel 2025 per rispondere collettivamente alla catastrofe provocata dal genocidio inflitto da Israele sulla popolazione di Gaza [100x100gaza.it]

A partire dalle 19 ci sarà un aperitivo a offerta libera per sostenere concretamente la campagna. A seguire, proietteremo “To Kill a War Machine” (2025), un documentario che racconta le azioni del collettivo Palestine Action e il loro impegno nel denunciare il ruolo dell’industria bellica nel Regno Unito.

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Laboratorio Aperto

Matrici Aperte - Via Elia Capriolo 41C, Brescia
(martedì, 10 febbraio 15:00)

Tutti i Martedì e i Giovedì dalle 15:00 alle 22:00 apriamo il laboratorio per chi ha bisogno di stampare ma anche per chi vuole solo sbevazzare!
Potete venire a fare serigrafia, incisione calcografica, xilografia e tecniche grafiche sperimentali (cianotipia, gum print, monotipia, stampa bianca a rilievo).
Per l'utilizzo del laboratorio chiediamo un contributo libero a supporto del progetto. Portate carta e matrici da casa, noi mettiamo a disposizione strumenti e spazio di lavoro. Ci sono due postazioni serigrafiche, due torchi calcografici, sala acidi e piani da inchiostrazione.
Dalle 18.00 (ma anche dalle 15.00 per lx ubriaconx) apre il baretto con vino, birrette, pirli e gin tonic di pessima qualità! -c'è pure il pinkanello!
Sarà aperto e consultabile anche l'archivio con libri serigrafici, fanzine e distro a supporto di movimenti e collettivi!

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Laboratori in campo: innesto-siepe-mista potatura

Burzanella - Burzanella, Bottega con Cucina, Piazza della Chiesa 25,40032, Burzanella (BO)
(sabato, 7 febbraio 10:00)

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Laboratori in campo

Burzanella - Burzanella, Bottega con Cucina, Piazza della Chiesa 25,40032, Burzanella (BO)
(domenica, 15 febbraio 10:00)

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Pervin Buldan, membro della delegazione di Imrali, ha affermato che Abdullah Öcalan ha sottolineato che il processo ha raggiunto un punto morto e ha chiesto la ripresa dei negoziati e del dialogo, aggiungendo che l’accordo tra il governo di Damasco e le SDF è stato raggiunto in linea con tale richiesta.

L’accordo firmato tra le Forze democratiche siriane (SDF) e il governo di transizione siriano è considerato più di un semplice accordo tecnico: è il risultato di un nuovo equilibrio di potere creato sul campo e in politica dalla resistenza multidimensionale del popolo curdo nel corso di molti anni.

La realtà militare, sociale e politica sul campo ha rivelato l’insostenibilità delle politiche che ignorano il popolo curdo, mentre l’inclusione dei diritti identitari, culturali ed educativi nel testo dell’accordo dimostra che la politica di negazione e annientamento perseguita per quasi un secolo ha ampiamente fallito.

Pervin Buldan, membro della delegazione di Imrali del Partito per la democrazia e l’uguaglianza dei popoli (DEM), ha commentato l’accordo firmato tra le SDF e il governo di transizione siriano e il ruolo del leader del popolo curdo Abdullah Öcalan in questo processo.

Ha sottolineato che il processo di accordo tra le SDF e Damasco è in corso da molto tempo e che è importante raggiungere questa fase.

Pervin Buldan ha affermato che l’accordo ha impedito la perdita di migliaia di vite umane, aggiungendo che quanto accaduto nei quartieri di Şêxmêqsûd (Sheikh Maqsoud) ed Eşrefiyê (Ashrafiah) è stata una grande cospirazione che potrebbe portare al massacro del popolo curdo in Siria.

Ha dichiarato che durante il loro ultimo incontro con Abdullah Öcalan sull’isola di Imrali, il 17 dicembre, gli scontri continuavano nei quartieri di Şêxmêqsûd ed Eşrefiyê, aggiungendo che questa situazione ha causato grande preoccupazione e rabbia ad Abdullah Öcalan. Pervin Buldan ha dichiarato: “Abdullah Öcalan ha fatto importanti osservazioni che hanno aperto la strada al negoziato e al dialogo.

Non sarebbe sbagliato affermare che questa fase è stata raggiunta dopo aver trasmesso i suoi messaggi alle parti interessate. Pertanto, la missione, il ruolo e gli appelli del signor Öcalan su questa questione, basati sulla prospettiva di impedire che il popolo curdo venga nuovamente massacrato, sono stati decisivi per portare l’accordo a questa fase .”

Ha affermato che i curdi si trovano davanti a una grande cospirazione

Pervin Buldan ha affermato che la sicurezza del popolo curdo è molto importante per Abdullah Öcalan: “Il signor Öcalan ha detto: ‘Non vedo nulla di male nel dire che questa è in realtà una nuova cospirazione del 15 febbraio’.

I curdi sono di nuovo sull’orlo di una nuova cospirazione per massacrarli. Per questo ha fatto importanti osservazioni sulla loro sicurezza, sul loro futuro, sulle loro vite e sulla tutela delle conquiste che hanno ottenuto in ogni parte del mondo in cui si trovano attualmente.

Pervin Buldan ha riferito che Abdullah Öcalan ha sottolineato la grande importanza della preferenza del popolo curdo per la negoziazione e il dialogo, affermando: “Ha compiuto grandi sforzi in tal senso e, in linea con i risultati di questo sforzo, l’accordo o la riconciliazione tra il governo di Damasco e le SDF è entrato in vigore oggi con questo appello”.

Sottolineando che la lotta non è finita, Pervin Buldan ha affermato che il processo è in corso e continuerà, ricordando che il governo di Damasco è un governo di transizione.

Pervin Buldan ha concluso: “Guardando all’accordo ci sono molte discussioni: è sufficiente o insufficiente? Non dovremmo guardare la questione solo in questo modo. La lotta del popolo curdo continuerà; di conseguenza, il popolo curdo continuerà a portare avanti la sua lotta.”

MA / Selman Güzelyüz

L'articolo Pervin Buldan: la missione di Öcalan è stata decisiva per l’accordo proviene da Retekurdistan.it.

La campagna “No alle esecuzioni di martedì”, che ha annunciato che più di 2.350 persone sono state giustiziate dall’inizio dell’anno, ha richiamato l’attenzione sui massacri e sulle sparizioni forzate commessi dal regime repressivo, insieme alle proteste in corso in 56 carceri.

La campagna “No alle esecuzioni di martedì”, lanciata contro la pena di morte in Iran, prosegue in 56 carceri per la sua 106a settimana. La campagna ha annunciato che 123 persone sono state giustiziate a gennaio. Secondo i dati pubblicati dalla campagna, dall’inizio di quest’anno sono state giustiziate più di 2.350 persone.

Il testo della campagna include le seguenti dichiarazioni:

“Sono trascorse più di tre settimane dalle brutali uccisioni di civili e dalla detenzione di decine di migliaia di cittadini indifesi nelle strade, nei quartieri e nei viali dell’Iran, eppure ampie fasce della popolazione iraniana rimangono completamente all’oscuro della sorte e dello stato dei propri cari. Queste azioni del regime repressivo sono un chiaro esempio di omicidio e sparizioni forzate sponsorizzati dallo Stato, e la responsabilità principale ricade sul Velayat-e Faqih.”

Molti dei detenuti vengono processati segretamente, senza il diritto a un giusto processo, e rischiano dure condanne e minacce di esecuzione. Le agenzie di sicurezza hanno minacciato molti avvocati indipendenti, chiedendo loro di non assumere la difesa dei detenuti durante la rivolta. Noi, come membri di questa campagna, invitiamo tutte le famiglie degli arrestati e di coloro che hanno perso la vita ad alzare la voce e a rendere pubblici i nomi dei loro cari. Invitiamo inoltre tutte le persone oneste e gli attivisti per i diritti umani, sindacali, civili e politici a farsi portavoce dei prigionieri e di coloro che sono stati recentemente arrestati, con più forza che mai.

Il regime dispotico continua le sue esecuzioni in modo sconsiderato e quasi isterico. Ad oggi, sono state giustiziate 123 persone, e oltre 2.350 dall’inizio dell’anno.

La legittima protesta del popolo iraniano e il ricordo delle migliaia di ragazze e ragazzi il cui sangue è stato ingiustamente versato dalle forze oppressive del regime fascista e religioso con proiettili e asce, hanno finalmente portato la Guardia Rivoluzionaria, principale responsabile di questi crimini, ad essere inserita nell’elenco delle organizzazioni terroristiche dell’Unione Europea. Questo sviluppo rappresenta un passo fondamentale nella lotta del popolo iraniano ed è la richiesta non solo dei membri di questa campagna e di tutti i prigionieri politici, ma di tutto il popolo iraniano che da anni chiede libertà e uguaglianza.

Nell’ambito della campagna, in 56 carceri si svolgono scioperi della fame per la 106a settimana.

L'articolo Campagna “No alle esecuzioni di martedì”: sciopero della fame in 56 carceri proviene da Retekurdistan.it.

My colleague Lewin on the other side of the world has recently bought himself a new camera. It’s a very cute little thing, a Kodak Charmera, the latest badge-engineered device to carry the venerable photography company’s name. It’s a keyring camera, not much bigger than my thumb, and packing a few-megapixel sensor and a little fixed-focus camera module. They’re all the rage and thus always sold out, so when I saw something similar on AliExpress for just under a tenner I was curious enough to drop in an order. How bad could it be?

A Blatant-Knock-Off With Interesting Internals

My G6 Thumb Camera arrived a few days later, as straightforward a copy of a branded product as I have seen, and while it’s by any measure not a high quality camera, I am pleasantly surprised how bad it isn’t. I’ve received a three megapixel camera with image and movie quality that’s far better than that of the kids toy cameras I’ve played with before at a similar price, and that’s something I find amazing. This isn’t a review of a cheap camera, instead it’s an investigation of what goes into a camera like this one. How can they make a camera that’s almost useful, for under a tenner?

If I were setting out to make this camera, I would reach for a microcontroller and one of the variety of cheap all-in-one camera modules on the market. You can buy just that for a similar price, the so-called ESP32-cam module, which pairs the Tensilica version of the microcontroller with a parallel-interface camera module. You can do all manner of hacks with an ESP32-cam and I have too, but unlike my knock-off Kodak it’s not quite fast enough for usable video. Plus, it doesn’t come with a battery and screen.

The little thumb camera is easy enough to crack open, and doing so reveals a small PCB with as expected a camera module dangling from it on a flexible PCB. It’s got a lens with an M8 mount which technically makes it an interchangeable lens camera, but we doubt anyone’s going to change lenses on this thing. Undoing a couple of screws, the board comes out along with the battery, speaker, and display connection, and on the reverse is the SoC, and a Flash memory chip. It’s an HX-Tech HX3302B, a dedicated IC for small cameras which appears in so many of these devices, but one which is sadly one of those Chinese chips for which almost no info can be found online. Oddly some of the best info comes from a familiar source, Sprite_TM has done a little hacking here and discovered that it has an openRISC 1000 core and the firmware is usually accessible, but beyond that no handy data sheets are to be had.

Just Good Enough To Be A Camera-As-A-Module

The focal plane focusing technique in action, in my digital Super 8 cartridge.
My camera then can be software-hacked, but not easily. If that were all then we’d be at the end of it, and I’d have merely another trinket. But there’s another reason I bought this thing, and that’s because I wanted a hardware hackable camera, not a software one. I want to use a small sensor like this behind all manner of custom lenses and mirrors in projects featuring repurposed 1970s snapshot cameras, and while I can and have used Raspberry Pi cameras and those ESP32s to do the job, that introduces annoying things like software and power systems to the equation. This camera has the germ of a digital camera as a module; I can take away the M8 lens and surround to replace it with my own optics, and in an instant I have a digital camera of my own without the hassle. Suddenly a just-good-enough novelty camera becomes rather interesting.

So my knock-off novelty integrates a package I would struggle to replicate for the price, and holds the promise of many creative camera hacks to come. I’ll probably follow the path I have with Pi cameras of fitting an M12 macro lens, and rear-focusing on the focal plane of a full-frame film camera for retro digital fun.

In the ten days or so since the work for this article started, the G6 Thumb Camera has been removed from AliExpress in Europe. You can still find it by switching your country to somewhere far-flung, but given that as you can see from the photos above it really is a blatant knock-off of the Kodak product it is hardly surprising that some lawyers have probably made a call. The good news is though that for hacking it doesn’t matter what the case says. I’ll be looking out for the inevitable follow-up, a thumb camera that’s not such a knock-off but which packs the same internals, and if you’re enjoying camera hacking, I suggest you do too.

Like many of us, [Tim]’s seen online videos of circuit sculptures containing illuminated LED filaments. Unlike most of us, however, he went a step further by using graph theory to design glowing structures made entirely of filaments.

The problem isn’t as straightforward as it might first appear: all the segments need to be illuminated, there should be as few powered junctions as possible, and to allow a single power supply voltage, all paths between powered junctions should have the same length. Ideally, all filaments would carry the same amount of current, but even if they don’t, the difference in brightness isn’t always noticeable. [Tim] found three ways to power these structures: direct current between fixed points, current supplied between alternating points so as to take different paths through the structure, and alternating current supplied between two fixed points (essentially, a glowing full-bridge rectifier).

To find workable structures, [Tim] represented circuits as directed graphs, with each junction being a vertex and each filament a directed edge, then developed filter criteria to find graphs corresponding to working circuits. In the case of power supplied from fixed points, the problem turned out to be equivalent to the edge-geodesic cover problem. Graphs that solve this problem are bipartite, which provided an effective filter criterion. The solutions this method found often had uneven brightness, so he also screened for circuits that could be decomposed into a set of paths that visit each edge exactly once – ensuring that each filament would receive the same current. He also found a set of conditions to identify circuits using rectifier-type alternating current driving, which you can see on the webpage he created to visualize the different possible structures.

We’ve seen some artistic illuminated circuit art before, some using LED filaments. This project doesn’t take exactly the same approach, but if you’re interested in more about graph theory and route planning, check out this article.

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Giovedì 19 febbraio torniamo in corteo sull’Ardeatina per manifestare contro la condanna che Gualtieri vorrebbe infliggere alla terra dove viviamo.

La nostra protesta contro le decisioni di Gualtieri e del potere romano tutto, vuol rendere chiaro che la comunità di donne e uomini impegnata da anni contro l’inceneritore non ha nessuna intenzione di piegarsi ma, al contrario, rilancia la mobilitazione intensificando le azioni territoriali perché vogliamo che molte più persone prendano coscienza del male che il mostro brucia rifiuti porta al nostro vivere.

Torneremo a manifestare per le bambine e i bambini che hanno aperto i nostri cortei estivi e i cui occhi continueranno a trasmetterci la forza che serve per restare liberi dai veleni di Roma.

Partiremo dal piazzale di via Ardeatina, angolo con via della Cancelliera, dove, poco meno di due anni ci stringemmo nel giuramento di Santa Palomba.

Ci troviamo là dalle 17.00.

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