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For Americans Only: Estimating Celsius and Other Mental Metrics


I know many computer languages, but I’ve struggled all my life to learn a second human language. One of my problems is that I can’t stop trying to translate in my head. Just like Morse code, you need to understand things directly, not translate. But you have to start somewhere. One of the reasons metric never caught on in the United States is that it is hard to do exact translations while you are developing intuition about just how hot is 35 °C or how long 8 cm is.

If you travel, temperature is especially annoying. When the local news tells you the temperature is going to be 28, it is hard to do the math in your head to decide if you need a coat or shorts.

Ok, you are a math whiz. And you have a phone with a calculator and, probably, a voice assistant. So you can do the right math, which is (9/5) x °C + 32. But for those of us who can’t do that in our heads, there is an easier way.

Field Expedient

Close enough for a quick estimate
Most of us can’t multiply by 9/5 in our heads. But 9/5 is very nearly two. So if you double the Celsius temperature, you are halfway there. Of course, the number will be too high. But to make up for it, instead of adding 32, just add 30. For weather temperatures, this gives you a ballpark estimate. For 0 °C, you get 30 °F instead of 32. For 20 °C, you get 70 °F instead of 68. For 35 °C, you get 100 °F instead of 95. All close enough.

If you want to flip the error as the temperature goes up, you can remember to add 25 instead of 30 if the temperature is more than, say 25 °C. Then 35 °C gives you 95 °F on the dot, although other temperatures will still have some error, of course.

The error gets worse as the temperature rises, but it has to get fairly high before it gets useless. For example, my AMD CPU is currently at 48 °C. Using the +25 estimate, that’s 121 °F, instead of the correct 118. But maybe it won’t help you set up your metal smelting furnace.

Other Estimates

Centimeters to inches the easy way.
This is a useful way to embrace metric. Find rough estimates for units you deal with. For example, 2.54 cm/inch is not the easiest thing to apply. But if you remember that 5 cm is about 2 in, that works well. So a 160 mm rod is 16 cm. If you think of that as 3 x 5 + 1, you’ll know it is 6 inches plus an extra centimeter. The right answer is about 6.3 inches. Not close enough to start cutting things, but it does give you a feel for how big a thing you are talking about.

If you lived through the time when gasoline in the US went from less than $1/gallon to over, you might remember that many gas stations switched to liters because the pumps couldn’t be set for a dollar. The reason is a liter is very nearly a quart, and there are four quarts to a gallon. So 12 liters is practically 12 quarts or 3 gallons. This turns out to be very close.

Kilograms and kilometers are a bit trickier. The right way to imprecisely convert kilograms to pounds is to multiply by 2.2. But a nice mental math trick is to double it. Then remove the last digit and add the rest back in to the whole result. Then put the last digit you removed after the decimal point. So 8 kg would be 16+1 (throw away the six) or 17 pounds. Then put the 0.6 in for the correct answer of 17.6 pounds. Of course, the conversion factor isn’t exactly 2.2, but that’s what most people use anyway. If you are trying to be scientifically accurate, none of this is going to help you.
Estimating kilometers.
The factor for kilometers is roughly 0.6 km/mile or 1.6 miles/km. If you halve the kilometers, that will get you a fairly low estimate. So 35 km (21.7 miles) is easy to guess as more than 17.5 miles. That’s a pretty big difference, though. But if you then add 10% of the 35 back (3.5) you get 21 miles which is close.

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I’m not trying to say that these rule-of-thumb tricks are good when you need an exact answer. But they are handy when you simply want a gut feel over some measure. Over time, you’ll just naturally know that 35 °C is summer-weather hot and you need more than a coffee mug to hold 3 liters.

Do you have a favorite fast conversion back or forth from metric? Share it in the comments. Americans love their strange measuring system. Turns out, some of the reasons we didn’t get metric was due to pirates, as you can see in the video below.

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Featured image: Wood thermometer on white background by Marco Verch under Creative Commons 2.0


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The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.#News


ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time


Members of a law enforcement group chat including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies inadvertently added a random person to the group called “Mass Text” where they exposed highly sensitive information about an active search for a convicted attempted murderer seemingly marked for deportation, 404 Media has learned.

The texts included an unredacted ICE “Field Operations Worksheet” that includes detailed information about the target they were looking for, and the texts showed ICE pulling data from a DMV and license plate readers (LPRs), according to screenshots of the chat obtained and verified by 404 Media. The person accidentally added to the group chat is not a law enforcement official or associated with the investigation in any way, and said they were added to it weeks ago and initially thought it was a series of spam messages.

The incident is a significant data breach and operational security failure for ICE, which has ramped up arrest efforts across the U.S. as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. The breach also has startling similarities to so-called Signal Gate, in which a senior administration official added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a group chat that contained likely classified information. These new ICE messages were MMS, or Multimedia Messaging Service messages, meaning they weren’t end-to-end encrypted, like texts sent over Signal or WhatsApp are.

“Going to need to roll out at 1000,” one of the messages, sent at 09:25 a.m. on Wednesday to the group, called “Mass Text,” reads.

“Copy. We can break it down at 10,” comes the reply.

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Do you want to contact me securely? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.

404 Media has verified that one of the members of the chat is an ICE official, and another appears to be from the U.S. Marshals Service.

The person accidentally added to the group chat, which appears to contain six people, said they had no idea why they had received these messages, and shared screenshots of the chat with 404 Media. 404 Media granted the person anonymity to protect them from retaliation.

“At first I thought it was just another series of spam messages like I get all the time from home improvement, car insurance , business loans, etc. Then I saw the rap sheet and license plate numbers and was like WTAF,” the person said in an online chat.



Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.

A DHS official not affiliated with the group chat told 404 Media, “This breach strikes me as indicative of the current carelessness of officers. They're concerned about pumping up arrest numbers, not about operating with the level of care and rigor we should expect from law enforcement officials.” 404 Media granted the source anonymity as they weren’t permitted to speak to the press.

404 Media only obtained text messages from the group sent on Wednesday and only learned of the issue at that time. They start early in the morning with one of the participants, which 404 Media has identified as an ICE official, sending a screenshot of the ICE field operations worksheet. This document names the target, lays out their criminal history, and includes personal information such as their Social Security Number, country of citizenship, and driver’s license number.

The target is a person who was previously convicted of attempted murder according to the document, and a search of the ICE Online Detainee Locator System returned no results.

Nearly an hour later, another member of the group replies with a series of license plates. The name registered to that number matches that of a U.S. Marshals Criminal Investigator, according to a freely available phone lookup tool and LinkedIn searches.


Screenshots of the messages. Redactions by 404 Media.

“Running those plates,” the ICE officer then replies. “In the mean time he has two vehicles,” the ICE officer adds, before uploading two photos of car registration data which appear to come from a DMV; one of the photos shows a PDF filename which includes “DMV.” ICE is able to access DMV data in many circumstances. The respective DMV for the state this investigation took place in acknowledged a request for comment but did not provide a response in time for publication.

Immediately after, the ICE official wrote “no LPR hits since March.” LPR cameras are made by various companies and are stationed all across the United States. These cameras typically scan any vehicles driving by them, recording the vehicle’s license plate, model, and color, and makes a timestamped record of where that car, and by extension person, was. For example, more than 9,000 ICE agents had access to an LPR database run by Vigilant Solutions, according to records the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained in 2019. 404 Media also revealed that local police were tapping into Flock cameras on behalf of ICE and for immigration enforcement, sometimes in violation of the law.

“It’s possible it’s still a connected address. Could be family. The last name matches the female co-reg on one of his vehicles,” the ICE official writes, appearing to refer to some of the data he’s pulled up.

“Copy,” another participant replies.

“Ok I’ll call you,” another says.

By the time the chat members say they’re going to “roll out at 1000,” appearing to mean they will move at 10am, the ICE official says “I’ll have someone sit and try and get a pattern of life/pid.” Pattern of life is a general term law enforcement and intelligence agencies sometimes use to describe where someone may live, go to work, or spend their time.

The source who was accidentally added to the group chat said they haven’t received any more messages since then.

Neither DHS or the U.S. Marshals Service responded to requests for comment.

Recently ICE officials have raided incorrect addresses; potentially violated court orders banning the agency from racial profiling people at Home Depots; detained U.S. citizens (including for days without water); and deported U.S. citizen children, one of which had cancer, with their families to Honduras, all while aggressively rounding up undocumented people many of whom have no criminal record and denying due process to some. Around half the people in ICE detention, nearly 30,000 people, do not have criminal records, according to the Deportation Data Project.

Previously senior administration officials gave ICE a quota of 3,000 arrests a day. The administration has since claimed that no such quota exists.

With its new budget injection and overarching mass deportation goal, ICE is about to go on a social media ad recruiting blitz, 404 Media previously reported. On Tuesday DHS said it had received more than 100,000 applications for roles at ICE. At the end of July, the agency said it had issued more than 1,000 tentative job offers since July 4.


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3D Printing a Self-cleaning Water Filter


No one likes cleaning out water spouts. [NeedItMakeIt] wanted to collect rainwater and was interested in using a Coanda filter that those used on hydroelectric plants to separate out debris. Ultimately, he decided to design his own and 3D print it.

The design uses a sloping surface with teeth on it to coax water to go in one direction and debris to go in another. It fits into a typical spout, and seems like it works well enough. Some commenters note that varying volumes of rain and different types of debris behave differently, which is probably true. However, there are similar commercial products, so you’d guess there would be some value to using the technique.

The water pushes the debris off the slope, so you end up losing a little water with the debris. So as always, there’s a trade-off. You can see in the video that if the water flow isn’t substantial, the debris tends to stall on the slope. Could the filter be improved? That was the point in trying a second design.

It wasn’t a big improvement. That’s where there’s a plot twist. Well, actually, a literal twist. Instead of making a flat slope, the new design is a conic shape with a spiral channel. That improved flow quite a bit. We weren’t clear from the video of exactly where the debris was going with the last version.

Usually, when we think of the Coanda effect, we are thinking aerodynamics. It can be quite uplifting.

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4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay#Media #News


4K Blu-Ray of 22-Year-Old 'Master and Commander' Is Sold Out Everywhere, Being Scalped on eBay


August—2025. The new limited edition 4K Blu-ray of the 2005 film Master and Commander has sold out everywhere. Secondary markets are now battlefields.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who read the above sentences and feel an intense pain and yearning for camaraderie and combat on the high seas, and those who have never seen Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
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Copies of the new 4K release of the film are now selling on eBay for roughly double its MSRP, proof that physical media is not dead.

Released in 2005, Master and Commander is a war movie set in the Napoleonic period that focuses on the relationship between Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, played by Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany respectively. The film, which is based on a 20-book-long novel series of the same name, grossed $212 million on a $150 million budget but didn’t become a runaway hit at the time.

But in the two decades since it first hit screens, Master and Commander has grown in esteem, especially in American national security circles. It’s a cult favorite. The occasional live screenings at revival theaters routinely sell out, memes involving the film’s opening text are ubiquitous, and it often lands on lists of the the “best movies of the 2000s.” In the middle of July, a joint venture of Sony and Disney studios announced it would publish a high quality 4K UltraHD limited edition steelbook Blu-ray to be released in August. Fans went nuts.

This would be the highest quality home release of the beloved film ever seen. Fans tracked pre-orders as they went live on Amazon, Wal-Mart, and other retailers. It sold out in days, and has done so consistently every time it’s been restocked. Master and Commander heads are so hungry for 4K Crowe that they’re now paying double and triple the asking price for the steelbook copy on eBay and several notable people have posted about how they can’t find a copy.

totally missed that there was a new master and commander 4K out and naturally it is completely out of stock
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It’s rare in 2025 that the physical release of a 20 year old film is met with such fervor. Delight is especially high among members of America’s military community. Soldiers, officers, journalists, and the extremely online NatSec weirdos love Master and Commander. Like Star Wars, the movie has become a lingua franca in U.S. military circles where it’s a source of memes and concepts that drives discussion.

“There's no doubt that Master and Commander is beloved within the national security community. What's harder to explain is ‘why,’” Robert Farley, a senior lecturer at the University of Kentucky, told 404 Media. Farley said he just rewatched the movie two weeks ago after forcing a friend to watch who’d never seen it.

“If I had to hazard a guess, it's because the movie depicts the tight functioning of a community of warfighters, a community that is mostly comfortable with itself…and yet is deeply grounded in English social structure,” Farley said. “As in any well-functioning military, everyone has a place to be and a job to do. Jack Aubrey isn’t so much brilliant as ‘lucky,’ which adds to the workmanlike aspect. I'd say that there's a male bonding aspect to it (I don't believe any female character has even a single line), but I know plenty of women in the NatSec space who will quote ‘Oceans are battlefields’ in everyday conversation.”

Pauline Shanks Kaurin, a former military ethics professor at the U.S. Naval War College, told 404 Media that she’d used Master and Commander in her classes as a way to teach Aristotle’s three kinds of friendship and, separately, the Ethics of Care. “I think it’s really about the friendship between the Captain and doctor, as well as a portrayal of leadership and comradeship that is still masculine and strong, but not brutal and gratuitous,” she said.

When reached for comment about the film, Remap Radio’s Robert Zacny—famously a fan of the film—was actively debating paying $140 for a copy of the 4K steelbook. 404 Media informed Zacny that eBay had listings for half that price and asked the Remap founder for his thoughts on the movie and its enduring legacy.

“There's a moment in the film where Aubrey snaps at Maturin about the things that hold together their ‘little wooden world.’ Master and Commander is a war movie where the entire concerns of the world are reduced to the interior or a single ship. But it's also a character study about the worlds held within and between individuals. The roles people have to inhabit and the things they have to do in service to duty, the state, to ethics, to morality.
Yet this movie is also backdropped by the vastness and wonder of nature, of time considered on an evolutionary scale and the awareness that beyond that bubble of consciousness awaits eternity in the darkness of the sea. The oft-memed opening text is deceptive. It doesn't really matter that Napoleon is the master of Europe. The concept of a battlefield is meaningless to the ocean. The movie is about men waging battles inside themselves to reconcile their own contradictions and choose their own meaning. It's immaculately directed, acted, and scored, but so are a lot of movies. This one endures because it's always offering a berth on this voyage of introspection, and it's so much fun you don't even mind how insistently it reminds you to think about mortality.”


His thoughts exhausted, Remap’s founder pressed 404 Media for information. “Now link me some of these good deals on steelbooks,” he said. “I am gonna be buried with one.”




How The Widget Revolutionized Canned Beer


Walk into any pub and order a pint of Guinness, and you’ll witness a mesmerizing ritual. The bartender pulls the tap, fills the glass two-thirds full, then sets it aside to settle before topping it off with that iconic creamy head. But crack open a can of Guinness at home, and something magical happens without any theatrical waiting period. Pour it out, and you get that same cascading foam effect that made the beer famous.

But how is it done? It’s all thanks to a tiny little device that is affectionately known as The Widget.

Beer Engineering

A pint of Guinness, pictured with the iconic foamy head. Credit: Sami Keinänen, CC BY SA 2.0
In 1959, draught Guinness diverged from other beers. The pints served from the tap at the pub were charged with a combination of nitrogen gas and carbon dioxide, rather than just carbon dioxide alone. Nitrogen is less soluble in beer than carbon dioxide, and low temperatures and higher pressures are required to get it to stay in the fluid. Charging the beer in this way, and then forcing it through a tap with a restrictor plate with many fine holes, allows the pouring of a beer with small, fine bubbles. This is what gives Guinness its signature smooth, creamy texture and characteristic dense head. The lower carbon dioxide level also contributes to the flavor, removing some of the sharp taste present in regular carbonated beers.

When Guinness started using the nitrogenation method, it quickly gained popularity and became the default way to serve the draught beer. The problem was that it wasn’t initially practical to do the same for bottled Guinness. Without being poured through the fine holes of a special tap under pressure, it wasn’t possible to create the same foamy head. Bottled Guinness thus remained carbonated in the traditional manner, and it was thus very much unlike the draught beer served at the pub. The desire was to produce a better version—”bottled draught Guinness” was a term often bandied about. The company experimented with a variety of methods of serving nitrogenated Guinness from a bottle or can. It even sold some bottles with a special “initiator” syringe to generate head in select markets, but it was all too clumsy to catch on with the beer drinking public. A better solution was needed.
The modern floating Guinness widget, pictured in a can that has been cut open. Credit: Duk, CC BY SA 3.0
The modern widget was developed as the technological solution to this fundamental problem in beverage physics. Guinness tackled this challenge by essentially putting a tiny pressure vessel inside the larger pressure vessel of the can itself. The widget is a small plastic sphere, hollow inside, with a tiny hole on the surface. The widget and beer are placed inside the can on the production line. Liquid nitrogen is then added, before the can’s lid is sealed. The can is then inverted as the liquid nitrogen quickly boils off into a gas. This effectively fills the widget with gaseous nitrogen under pressure, often along with a small amount of beer. It’s a charged pressure vessel lurking inside the can itself.

The magic happens when the beverage is served. When you crack open the can, the pressure inside drops rapidly to atmospheric pressure. The nitrogen under pressure in the widget thus wants to equalize with the now lower-pressure environment outside. Thus, the nitrogen sprays out through the tiny hole with tremendous force, creating countless microscopic bubbles that act as nucleation sites for the rest of the nitrogen dissolved in the surrounding beer. As the beer is poured into a glass, a foamy head forms, mimicking the product served fresh from the tap at the local pub.

Today’s widget, first marketed in 1997, is the floating sphere type, but the original version was a little different. The original widget launched in 1989 was a flat disc, which was mounted in the bottom of the can, but fundamentally worked in the same way. However, it had a tendency to cause rapid overflowing of the beer if opened when warm. The floating spherical widget reduced this tendency, though the precise engineering reasons why aren’t openly explained by the company. The fixed widget actually had a surprise return in 2020 due to COVID-19 supply chain issues, suggesting it was still mostly fit for purpose in the brewery’s eyes.

The key to the widget’s performance is in the filling and the construction. It’s important to ensure the widget is filled with pressurized gas, hence the inversion step used in the filling process. If the pressurized nitrogen was allowed to simply sit in the empty space in the top of the can, it would just vent out on opening without making any head. The orifice size on the widget is also critical. Too large, and the pressure equalizes too quickly without creating the necessary turbulence. Too small, and insufficient gas and beer volume flows through to generate adequate nucleation. The widget as it stands today is the result of much research and development to optimize its performance.
A finned “rocket” widget as used in Guinness beer bottles. Credit: Joeinwap, CC0
Further different widget designs have emerged over the years. The company had mastered draught Guinness in a can, though it needed to be poured into a glass to be drank properly. The company later looked to create draught Guinness that could be drank straight from the bottle. This led to the creation of the “rocket widget.” It worked largely in the same way, but was designed to float while remaining in the correct orientation inside the neck of the bottle. Fins ensured it wouldn’t fall out of the bottle during drinking. It would charge the beer with bubbles when first opened, and continue to boost the head to a lesser degree each time the bottle was tilted for a sip.

Guinness could have left this problem unsolved. It could have remained a beautiful tap-based beer, while selling its lesser carbonated products in bottles and cans for home consumption. Instead, it innovated, finding a way to create the same creamy tap-poured experience right out of the can.

The next time you crack open a widget-equipped can and watch that mesmerizing cascade of bubbles, you’re witnessing a masterpiece of beverage engineering that took years to perfect. It’s a reminder that sometimes the most elegant engineering solutions hide in the most ordinary places, waiting for someone clever enough to recognize that a tiny plastic ball could revolutionize how we experience beer outside the pub.


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Dopo Darcula arriva Magic Mouse: il nuovo incubo del phishing ruba 650.000 carte al mese


Dopo la chiusura della piattaforma di phishing Darcula e del software Magic Cat utilizzato dai truffatori, la soluzione Magic Mouse ha guadagnato popolarità tra i criminali. Secondo gli specialisti di Mnemonic, Magic Mouse contribuisce già al furto di dati da almeno 650.000 carte bancarie al mese.

Recentemente abbiamo parlato del lavoro di Darcula e dell’indagine condotta dagli esperti di Mnemonic. Questa piattaforma PhaaS (phishing-as-a-service) ha preso di mira utenti Android e iPhone in oltre 100 paesi. Il servizio criminale ha utilizzato 20.000 domini che imitavano marchi noti per rubare credenziali.

Secondo gli analisti, gli operatori di Darcula sono stati responsabili del furto di 884.000 carte bancarie e le vittime di hacker in tutto il mondo hanno cliccato su link dannosi ricevuti tramite messaggi di testo 13 milioni di volte.

Poco dopo l’attività di Darcula è cessata, ma come hanno spiegato i ricercatori di Mnemonic al DEF CON, un altro servizio di phishing simile sta guadagnando popolarità tra i criminali informatici.

Gli esperti ricordano che il software Magic Cat ha svolto un ruolo chiave nel lavoro di Darcula. Ora Magic Cat è stato sostituito da una piattaforma simile, Magic Mouse, la cui popolarità è aumentata notevolmente dopo la chiusura di Darcula.

Gli esperti ritengono che Magic Mouse sia un’operazione nuova, con sviluppatori diversi dietro. Non è quindi correlato a Darcula. Tuttavia, l’attuale successo di Magic Mouse è dovuto in gran parte al fatto che nuovi operatori si sono appropriati dei kit di phishing che hanno reso così popolare il software del suo predecessore.

Questi kit contengono centinaia di modelli di siti di phishing che Magic Cat ha utilizzato per imitare pagine web legittime di importanti colossi tecnologici, noti servizi al consumatore e servizi di consegna. Tutti questi siti sono stati progettati per indurre le vittime a fornire i dati della propria carta di credito.

Sebbene Magic Mouse sia già popolare e potrebbe diventare ancora più pericoloso di Magic Cat in futuro, portando ai suoi operatori milioni di dollari di profitti (sotto forma di fondi rubati alle vittime), i ricercatori osservano che le forze dell’ordine “non riescono a vedere” oltre alcune segnalazioni isolate di frode. In altre parole, nessuno attualmente considera Magic Mouse una campagna fraudolenta su larga scala.

Allo stesso tempo, Mnemonic ritiene che gran parte della responsabilità dell’esistenza e della prosperità di tali schemi fraudolenti ricada sulle aziende tecnologiche e sui giganti della finanza, che continuano a rendere difficile ai truffatori l’utilizzo di carte rubate.

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Dal 13 al 17 agosto Riccione sta ospitando la missione di evangelizzazione di strada evangelizzazione di strada “Chi ha sete venga a me”, promossa dalla diocesi di Rimini insieme al Punto Giovane, alla comunità Nuovi Orizzonti, alle Sentinelle del Ma…


Join Our Leadership Team — Apply to Be a Team Lead for the European Pirates!


We’re building something big — a European umbrella organisation working to support our pirate parties across Europe and amplify our shared political voice. Our movement is rooted in collaboration, grassroots empowerment, and making real impact at the EU level. To make this happen, we’re looking for motivated, reliable, and passionate people to take on Team Lead roles in our volunteer-run European secretariat.

As a Team Lead, you will:

  • Coordinate the work of your team and help shape its priorities
  • Collaborate closely with other team leads in the Management Team
  • Support volunteers, delegate tasks, and ensure smooth internal communication
  • Help develop the strategy and direction of our European-level work

We are currently seeking Team Leads for the following teams:

  • Communications Team
  • Community & Outreach Team
  • IT Team
  • Policy Team
  • Operations Team

👉 You don’t need to be an expert or have years of experience — we value commitment, collaboration, and curiosity. We’re especially excited to hear from people with lived experience in grassroots activism, digital tools, or cross-border collaboration.

⏳ Time commitment: Flexible and part-time (volunteer-based). We expect most leads to dedicate around 4–6 hours per week, depending on availability.

🌍 Location: Remote / anywhere in Europe

Interested in helping build a stronger, more connected European movement?
📩Apply now or reach out with questions — we’d love to hear from you!
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PhantomCard: la nuova minaccia NFC che colpisce gli utenti Android in Brasile


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Di recente l’abbiamo visto con NFCgate, ora lo scenario si ripete con l’emergere di PhantomCard, un malware Android sofisticato che sfrutta la tecnologia NFC per perpetrare frodi finanziarie. Scoperto in Brasile ma con potenziali ramificazioni globali, questo



John Lennon & Yoko Ono annunciata l’uscita del box Power To The People
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Esce il 10 ottobre il Box deluxe composto di nove CD + tre Blue-Ray più un libro di oltre duecento pagine dedicato a John Lennon e Yoko Ono. 31 brani live tratti dai due storici concerti di John e Yoko al One To One Concert, accompagnati dalla Plastic Ono Band, dagli Elephant’s Memory e da […]
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We’re building something big — a European umbrella organisation working to support our pirate parties across Europe and amplify our shared political

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Ucraina, l’Europa supera gli Usa e diventa il maggior fornitore di aiuti militari a Kyiv

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Per la prima volta dall’inizio della guerra in Ucraina, l’Europa ha superato gli Stati Uniti nella produzione e nella fornitura di materiale militare a Kyiv. Lo dicono i numeri diffusi dal Kiel Institute for the World Economy: tra febbraio 2022 e giugno 2025, la produzione militare europea



Samsung si piega a Trump: nuovi investimenti per chip americani

L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Il lavoro muscolare di Trump sta dando i suoi frutti: la necessità di Apple e Tesla di trovare una filiera statunitense sta portando Samsung a investire nuovamente negli States. La notizia comunque ha una




Golden Dome, ecco come funzionerà lo scudo spaziale di Trump. I dettagli

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Il Dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti ha deciso di alzare il velo sull’architettura operativa del Golden Dome, il futuro sistema di difesa missilistica destinato a proteggere l’intero territorio statunitense – Alaska e Hawaii inclusi – contro le minacce balistiche,



"Fiat: in autunno le prime immagini del prossimo SUV"

ancora suv? maledetti suv. sono la rovina del mondo. a chi si ostina produrre suv posso solo augurare il fallimento.

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peggio: non hai visuale davanti e un bambino per strada è in pericolo. sono peggiori dal punto di vista della frenata. hai meno angolo di visuale in generale. cappottano facilmente. e sopratutto se già era un problema viaggiare in 1 persona da 80kg spendendo energia per trasportare 1000kg, la situazione non è migliorata quando per portare una persona si trasportava 3500kg... e poi compriamo le auto elettriche per fare gli ecologisti? ha senso? compra 1 motorino e inquini di meno. siamo proprio malati. è questo l'unico problema.


il concerto di Gastone Pietrucci e la Macina con Elisa Ridolfi - 13 agosto 2025


Il concerto di Gastone Pietrucci e La Macina insieme a Elisa Ridolfi, vincitrice del Premio Tenco 2024 per la migliore opera prima, si è rivelato un'esperienza suggestiva e toccante. Il luogo prescelto, una radura a pochi metri dal borgo medievale di Cerreto di Montegiorgio, ha donato all'evento un'atmosfera intima e quasi magica. Seduti su semplici assi di legno grezzo, ci siamo ritrovati a stretto contatto con i musicisti, annullando ogni barriera e favorendo una vera e propria comunione tra artisti e ascoltatori.
Nonostante la qualità del suono non fosse sempre eccelsa, quasi a voler dimostrare che quello che conta è la sincerità e non la perfezione artificiale, l'espressività dei musicisti ha superato ogni limite tecnico. Le emozioni scaturite da ogni nota e da ogni parola sono state così coinvolgenti da rendere l'esperienza unica e indimenticabile.
L'esibizione ha offerto un viaggio musicale che ha saputo unire brani originali ad omaggi ad alcuni dei più grandi cantautori italiani: le canzoni di De André, Ciampi, Tenco e Piero Cesanelli (padre della rassegna musicale Musicultura) sono state reinterpretate con passione e rispetto. Momenti di rara intensità si sono raggiunti con le esecuzioni appassionate di "Vedrai, vedrai" di Luigi Tenco e del canto popolare "Sotto la croce Maria", così come con la sorprendente interpretazione della “Ballata degli impiccati” di De André, che è stata introdotta dalla voce nuda e dirompente di Elisa Ridolfi.
Questi passaggi hanno trasformato la serata da un semplice concerto in un'esperienza quasi spirituale di condivisione di sentimenti e storie, confermando ancora una volta il valore di una musica che affonda le radici nella tradizione, ma che sa parlare con forza e attualità al cuore di chi ascolta.
(13agosto2025 - #worldland festival)

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è una conferma che la risposta è si dentro di noi, epperò è quella sbagliata.


Fortinet VPN sotto attacco: una nuova ondata di attacchi brute-force rilevata da GrayNoise


GreyNoise ha rilevato due importanti ondate di attacchi ai dispositivi Fortinet all’inizio di agosto 2025. La prima, un attacco brute-force mirato alla VPN SSL di Fortinet il 3 agosto, che poi è stato seguito da un brusco cambiamento su FortiManager il 5 agosto, con una nuova firma del traffico. I ricercatori avvertono che tali picchi di attività precedono la pubblicazione di vulnerabilità critiche nell’80% dei casi.

Secondo GreyNoise, il picco del 3 agosto ha coinvolto tentativi di accesso basati su dizionario sulla VPN SSL FortiOS . L’impronta digitale della rete JA4+, che utilizza l’impronta digitale TLS per classificare il traffico crittografato, ha indicato una possibile corrispondenza con l’attività osservata a giugno. Tale traffico proveniva da un indirizzo IP residenziale associato all’ISP Pilot Fiber Inc. Sebbene ciò non dimostri un’attribuzione specifica, i ricercatori suggeriscono il riutilizzo dello stesso toolkit o infrastruttura.

Il 5 agosto, è stata osservata una situazione diversa. L’aggressore è passato da SSL VPN a FortiManager e ha iniziato con attacchi di brute force al servizio FGFM, che fa parte del sistema di gestione Fortinet. Sebbene i filtri GreyNoise continuassero a attivarsi sul vecchio tag “Fortinet SSL VPN Bruteforcer”, la firma del traffico stessa è cambiata. Il nuovo flusso non corrispondeva più a FortiOS, ma corrispondeva esattamente al profilo FortiManager, ovvero FGFM. Ciò indica un cambio di target che utilizza gli stessi strumenti o una continuazione della campagna con un nuovo focus.

GreyNoise sottolinea che queste scansioni non sono solitamente esplorative, poiché le attività esplorative hanno una portata ampia, una frequenza moderata e non comportano l’individuazione delle password. In questo caso, l’attività sembra essere una fase preparatoria prima di un tentativo di sfruttamento. L’obiettivo potrebbe non essere semplicemente quello di scoprire endpoint accessibili, ma di condurre una ricognizione preliminare e valutare il valore dei potenziali obiettivi, con un successivo attacco a una vulnerabilità reale non ancora resa pubblica.

Secondo le statistiche di GreyNoise, i picchi di attività registrati , in particolare quelli contrassegnati con questo tag, presentano un’elevata correlazione con i futuri CVE nei prodotti Fortinet. La maggior parte di questi incidenti si conclude con la pubblicazione di una vulnerabilità entro sei settimane. Pertanto, i responsabili della sicurezza non dovrebbero attribuirli a tentativi di sfruttare bug chiusi da tempo. Al contrario, è giunto il momento di rafforzare le difese, soprattutto sulle interfacce esterne, e limitare l’accesso ai pannelli amministrativi tramite IP.

GreyNoise ha anche pubblicato un elenco degli indirizzi IP coinvolti in entrambe le ondate di attacchi e raccomanda di bloccarli su tutti i dispositivi Fortinet.

Secondo gli analisti, dietro questi indirizzi si cela lo stesso gruppo, che conduce test adattivi e modifica le tattiche in tempo reale. A questo proposito, le aziende che utilizzano FortiGate, FortiManager o SSL VPN di Fortinet dovrebbero urgentemente rafforzare le policy di autenticazione, abilitare la protezione brute-force, applicare limitazioni di velocità e, se possibile, limitare l’accesso alle interfacce di gestione solo tramite VPN affidabili o whitelist IP.

L'articolo Fortinet VPN sotto attacco: una nuova ondata di attacchi brute-force rilevata da GrayNoise proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.



L’obsolescenza programmata di Microsoft verrà punita?

L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
La sospensione del supporto a Windows 10 finisce in tribunale. Un cittadino californiano accusa Microsoft di spingere all'acquisto di nuovi dispositivi al fine di dominare il mercato dell'IA. Il caso, tra l'altro, ha anche un

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Il missile nucleare che inquina l’Artico. Putin testa il Burevestnik alla vigilia dei colloqui con Trump

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Dal 7 al 12 agosto, le autorità russe hanno chiuso lo spazio aereo per 500 chilometri lungo la costa occidentale di Novaya Zemlya. Almeno quattro navi di supporto hanno raggiunto posizioni di osservazione nel Mare di Barents, mentre due velivoli della Rosatom



Hacking the Bluetooth-Enabled Anker Prime Power Bank


Selling power banks these days isn’t easy, as you can only stretch the reasonable limits of capacity and output wattage so far. Fortunately there is now a new game in town, with ‘smart’ power banks, like the Anker one that [Aaron Christophel] recently purchased for reverse-engineering. It features Bluetooth (BLE), a ‘smart app’ and a rather fancy screen on the front with quite of information. This also means that there’s a lot to hack here beyond basic battery management system (BMS) features.

As detailed on the GitHub project page, after you get past the glue-and-plastic-clip top, you will find inside a PCB with a GD32F303 MCU, a Telink TLSR8253 BLE IC and the 240×240 ST7789 LCD in addition to a few other ICs to handle BMS functions, RTC and such. Before firmware version 1.6.2 you can simply overwrite the firmware, but Anker added a signature check to later firmware updates.

The BLE feature is used to communicate with the Anker app, which the official product page advertises as being good for real-time stats, smart charging and finding the power bank by making a loud noise. [Aaron] already reverse-engineered the protocol and offers his own alternative on the project page. Naturally updating the firmware is usually also done via BLE.

Although the BLE and mobile app feature is decidedly a gimmick, hacking it could allow for some interesting UPS-like and other features. We just hope that battery safety features aren’t defined solely in software, lest these power banks can be compromised with a nefarious or improper firmware update.

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Passo qualche giorno da una mia zia 85enne a cui sono molto affezionato, lo faccio un paio di volte l'anno, per ferragosto e per l'ultimo dell'anno.

Da 5 anni io la televisione l'accendo solo per guardare Netflix, la TV vera e propria la guardo solo qui da mia zia, dove è accesa dalla mattina alla sera.

Ecco... io credo che per capire meglio questo paese, e come sia finito così in basso, non si possa prescindere dal riflettere su quello che passa in TV.




La guerra dei chip si tinge di giallo: tracker statunitensi nei semiconduttori per non finire in Cina

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Per evitare che i chip americani finiscano nelle AI cinesi Washington avrebbe iniziato - ben prima dell'arrivo di Trump - a

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Recensione : Wojtek Mazowleski Quintet – Live Spirit I


Con Live Spirit I, il Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet firma il suo primo album dal vivo: un viaggio sonoro tra jazz spirituale e momenti di estasi collettiva, che celebra la libertà compositiva del suo leader.

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possibile che i repubblicani non si siano accorti che trump naviga "a vista" con una politica inconsistente come non mai negli ultimi 200 anni, che oscilla fra il lasciare l'europa alla russia, per impegnarsi personalmente extra nato in ucraina, con politiche anti-liberiste come i dazi che poi sono tasse per gli americani, dove neppure si capisce per trump come rendere l'america grande se contro nessuno, contro tutto il mondo, contro solo la cina, contro tutto meno che contro la cina, contro tutti meno che contro la russia, ma si è mai visto un presidente usa così confuso? sembra un nano che continua a prendere sberle da tutti, inconcludente e incapace anche solo di mettere a fuoco o decidere quali sono davvero i problemi che vuole risolvere, o stabilire delle priorità, con l'aiuto o l'appoggio non si sa di chi, e nel contempo, mentre rotea, colpisce a caso, infastidendo più che altro e confondendo. qualcuno ha il coraggio di vederci un raffinato piano che noi non capiamo?


Whonix 17.4 è fuori! Solo un exploit 0day può minacciare il tuo anonimato


È stata rilasciata la versione 17.4 della distribuzione Whonix, creata per garantire maggiore anonimato in rete. Il sistema è basato su Debian GNU/Linux e trasmette tutto il traffico tramite Tor. Il codice sorgente è pubblico rilasciato sotto licenza GPLv3.

Sono disponibili per il download delle nuove immagini di macchine virtuali in formato OVA per VirtualBox : con Xfce (2,3 GB) e console (1,5 GB).

Whonix si basa su uno schema a due componenti. Whonix-Gateway funge da gateway di rete, consentendo il passaggio delle connessioni solo tramite Tor, mentre Whonix-Workstation funge da ambiente di lavoro isolato.

Entrambi i sistemi sono inclusi nella stessa immagine, ma vengono eseguiti su macchine virtuali diverse. Grazie a ciò, la workstation non ha accesso diretto alla rete e i suoi parametri di rete sono sempre fittizi. Anche se il browser viene hackerato o l’aggressore ottiene l’accesso root, il vero indirizzo IP rimane nascosto.

Se Whonix-Workstation viene compromesso, l’aggressore vedrà solo indirizzi falsi, poiché dati reali e richieste DNS passano attraverso il gateway. Gli sviluppatori avvertono che, poiché Whonix è progettato per essere eseguito all’interno di hypervisor, esiste il rischio di exploit 0-day nelle piattaforme di virtualizzazione che possono fornire accesso al sistema host. Pertanto, si sconsiglia di mantenere Gateway e Workstation sullo stesso computer.

Di default, Whonix-Workstation utilizza Xfce e include applicazioni preinstallate : VLC, Tor Browser, Pidgin e altre.

Whonix-Gateway è dotato di software server, inclusi server Apache httpd, nginx e IRC, e supporta anche l’inoltro di connessioni tramite Tor per Freenet, i2p, JonDonym, SSH e VPN . Se lo si desidera, è possibile utilizzare solo il gateway, connettendovi le workstation esistenti, incluse quelle Windows, per l’accesso anonimo a Internet.

L'articolo Whonix 17.4 è fuori! Solo un exploit 0day può minacciare il tuo anonimato proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.

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Steampunk Copper PC is as Cool as it Runs


Copper! The only thing it does better than conduct heat is conduct a great steampunk vibe. [Billet Labs]’ latest video is an artfully done wall PC that makes full use of both of those properties.

The parts are what you’d expect in a high-end workstation PC: a Ryzen 9 and an 3090Ti with oodles of RAM. It’s the cooling loop where all the magic happens: from the copper block on the CPU, to the plumbing fixtures that give the whole thing a beautiful brewery-chiq shine when polished up. Hopefully the water-block in the GPU is equally cupriferous too, but given the attention to detail in the rest of the build, we cannot imagine [Billet Labs] making such a rookie mistake as to invite Mr. Galvanic Corrosion to the party.

There’s almost no visible plastic or paint; the GPU and PSU are hidden by a brass plates, and even the back panel everything mounts to is shiny metal. Even the fans on the radiator are metal, and customized to look like a quad throttle body or four-barreled carburetor on an old race car. (Though they sound more like a jet takeoff.)

The analog gauges are a particular treat, which push this build firmly into “steampunk” territory. Unfortunately the temperature gauge glued onto the GPU only measures the external temperature of the GPU, not the temperature at the die or even the water-block. On the other hand, given how well this cooling setup seems to work later in the video, GPU temps are likely to stay pretty stable. The other gauges do exactly what you’d expect, measuring the pressure and temperature of the water in the coolant loop and voltage on the twelve volt rail.

Honestly, once it gets mounted on the wall, this build looks more like an art piece than any kind of computer— only the power and I/O cables do anything to give the game away. Now that he has the case, perhaps some artful peripherals are in order?

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Thanks to prolific tipster [Keith Olson] for cluing us into this one. If you see a project you take a shine to, why not drop us a tip?


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Backdoor in xz Utils: 35 immagini Docker Hub ancora infette


Gli analisti di Binarly hanno trovato almeno 35 immagini su Docker Hub ancora infette da una backdoor che ha penetrato xz Utils l’anno scorso. I ricercatori hanno avvertito che questo potrebbe potenzialmente mettere a rischio utenti, organizzazioni e i loro dati.

Binarly spiega che molte pipeline CI/CD, sviluppatori e sistemi di produzione estraggono le immagini direttamente da Docker Hub, utilizzandole come base per i propri container. Se queste immagini vengono compromesse, ogni nuova build erediterà la vulnerabilità o il codice dannoso.

Ricordiamo che una backdoor nel popolare pacchetto xz Utils fu scoperta accidentalmente nel 2024 e l’incidente ricevette molta attenzione. Di conseguenza, al problema fu assegnato l’identificatore CVE-2024-3094 e ottenne 10 punti su 10 possibili sulla scala CVSS.

Poiché xz Utils e la sua libreria liblzma sono molto popolari e inclusi nella maggior parte delle distribuzioni Linux (e sono utilizzati anche da molte applicazioni Linux e macOS), la scoperta del malware ha scatenato l’intera comunità open source.

Un’indagine condotta l’anno scorso ha rivelato che l’operazione backdoor era stata pianificata con cura ed era durata diversi anni; gli aggressori avevano pianificato l’attacco per molto tempo e si erano guadagnati la fiducia del responsabile della manutenzione di xz Utils, Lasse Collin (alias Larhzu).

La backdoor intercettava e reindirizzava le operazioni di decrittazione della chiave RSA SSH (la funzione RSA_public_decrypt ) a OpenSSH tramite il meccanismo IFUNC della libreria glibc. Di conseguenza, se un aggressore con una chiave privata speciale si connetteva tramite SSH a un sistema infetto, era in grado di bypassare l’autenticazione ed eseguire comandi da remoto con privilegi di root.

Poiché il malware è stato infine distribuito nei pacchetti ufficiali della distribuzione Linux (come Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE e Red Hat), l’infezione xz Utils è stata una delle compromissioni più gravi dell’anno scorso.

Come riportato da Binarly questa settimana, i problemi alla supply chain causati dall’infezione xz Utils sono ancora in corso, con decine di immagini infette ancora presenti su Docker Hub.

“Abbiamo scoperto che alcune di queste immagini compromesse [da xz Utils] sono ancora pubblicamente disponibili su Docker Hub. Quel che è peggio è che altre immagini sono state create su queste immagini di base infette, dando origine a infezioni a cascata”, hanno affermato i ricercatori.

In totale, gli esperti hanno trovato 35 immagini di questo tipo ancora disponibili per il download. Allo stesso tempo, gli analisti sottolineano che questo numero riflette solo parzialmente la reale portata del problema, poiché non hanno effettuato una scansione completa della piattaforma.

L'articolo Backdoor in xz Utils: 35 immagini Docker Hub ancora infette proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.