Asteroids: Kessler Syndrome Edition
Asteroids, the late-70s arcade hit, was an immensely popular game. Often those with the simplest premise, while maintaining a fun, lighthearted gameplay have the most cultural impact and longest legacy. But, although it was popular, it doesn’t really meet the high bar of scientific fidelity that some gamers are looking for. That’s why [Attoparsec] built the Kessler Syndrome Edition of this classic arcade game.
The Kessler Syndrome is a condition where so much man-made debris piles up in low-Earth orbit that nothing can occupy this orbit without getting damaged or destroyed by the debris, and thus turning into more debris itself in a terrible positive feedback loop. [Attoparsec] brings this idea to Asteroids by reprogramming the game so that asteroids can be shot into smaller and smaller pieces but which never disappear, quickly turning the game into a runaway Kessler Syndrome where the chance of survival is extremely limited, and even a destroyed player’s ship turns into space junk as well.
To further the scientific accuracy and improve playability, though, he’s added a repulsor beam mechanism which can push the debris a bit and prolong the player’s life, and also added mass effect reactions so that even shooting bullets repels the player’s ship a bit. The build doesn’t stop with software, either. He also built a custom 70s-style arcade cabinet from the ground to host the game.
Asteroids is still a popular platform for unique builds like this. Take a look at a light-vector game using lasers to create the graphics, or this tiny version of the game that uses a real CRT.
Thanks to [smellsofbikes] for the tip!
Alimenti senza lattosio per tutti o solo per gli intolleranti?
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Mozzarella e fior di latte: differenze, aspetti nutrizionali e prezzi dei protagonisti dell’estate
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Embedded Python: MicroPython Toolkits
Last time, I talked about how MicroPython is powerful and deserving of a place in your toolkit, and it made for a lively discussion. I’m glad to see that overall, MicroPython has indeed been getting the recognition it deserves – I’ve built a large number of wonderful projects with it, and so have people I’ve shown it to!
Sometimes I see newcomers dissatisfied with MicroPython, because the helper tools they initially pick don’t suit it well. For instance, they try and start out with a regular serial terminal application that doesn’t fit the MicroPython constraints, or a general IDE that requires a fair bit of clicking around every time you need to run your code. In particular, I’d make sure that you know your options no matter whether you prefer GUI or commandline – both have seriously nice tools for MicroPython use!
The main problem to be solved with MicroPython is that you have a single serial port that everything happens through – both file upload and also debugging. For ESP8266/32-based boards, it’s a physical serial port, and for chips like RP2040 and ESP32-S* where a hardware USB peripheral is available, it’s a virtual one – which makes things harder because the virtual port might get re-enumerated every now and then, possibly surprising your terminal application. If you want to upload a program of yours, you need to free up the serial port, and to see the program’s output, you will need to reopen that port immediately after – not a convenient thing to do if you’re using something like PuTTy.
So, using MicroPython-friendly software is a must for a comfortable hacking experience. What are your options?
Power Of Thonny And Friends
Whether you’re primarily a GUI user, or you’re teaching someone that is, Thonny is undoubtedly number one in MicroPython world – it’s an IDE developed with Python in mind, and it has seriously impressive MicroPython integrations. Your board’s terminal is being managed as if effortlessly in the background – just open your files in different tabs as you normally do, and press the Run button sometimes.
Expecting more? There is more – basically anything MicroPython adjacent you’d do from commandline, is present in Thonny in a comfortable way. For instance, are you working with an ESP32 board that doesn’t yet have a MicroPython image in its flash? Lucky you, there’s an esptool integration that lets you flash an image into your MCU through a dialog box. Want debugging? There’s single-step debugging that works in an intuitive user-friendly way – you’d find this pretty hard to happen from console apart from specially engineered print statements, but Thonny delivers.
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Not looking to pick a new IDE? There are VSCode extensions. Arduino IDE more your jam? Yeah, well, remember how Arduino has a MicroPython IDE now? It’s decently usable, so if you got used to the Arduino keybindings, you might like it. More of a commandline user? You’ve got a good few options, then, and they are similarly powerful.
Mpremote And Ampy
Rather use the terminal? Maybe IDEs are too clunky for you and the terminal window’s cleanliness provides for a distraction-free environment you can only dream about, maybe it’s just the thing you’ve used your entire life, or maybe you’re even debugging a MicroPython device over an SSH connection? mpremote is the tool to save you.
mpremote is part of the MicroPython project, it’s developed alongside the project, and it’s got plenty of killer features to show for it. It includes an “inline” terminal emulator that lets you access REPL effortlessly to see your code’s results and interact with the variables afterwards, correctly managing things like Ctrl+C so you can interrupt your code if needed and still poke at its variables in the REPL. You can also explore the MicroPython filesystem Linux-style with ease, and, most importantly, you can mount your current directory up to it with mpremote mount, and mpremote will send files to your board as the on-MCU interpreter requests them.
Overall, mpremote offers a seriously comfortable environment for iterating on MicroPython code lightning quick. Without it, you would need to reopen the serial port each time you need to upload a new file – here, you can just chain a bunch of commands together and mpremote will dutifully do the serial port juggling needed to get you there.
In addition to that, you can see that mpremote is designed to help you with awkward-to-do things you didn’t know you needed to do. Need to sync your board’s RTC time with your computer’s time? That’s a mpremote rtc command away. Want to access the MicroPython package manager? That’s mpremote mip. Your board needs to switch into bootloader mode? No need to fiddle with buttons, just use mpremote bootloader. In short, mpremote is a MicroPython powerhouse for everyone who’s most comfortable in a terminal window.
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There is an alternative here, too: ampy, a personal choice of mine, which I use combined with screen. Ampy is a tool initially designed by Adafruit, and it’s more barebones – I like it because I have control of what’s happening when I issue a command to a software, keeping my MicroPython devices in a known state at all times. On the other hand, it does require jugging the serial port on your own, so when I need to update my code, I exit screen, run the ampy command, then re-enter screen again. I regularly work with large MicroPython files that also import static library files that don’t change for months, however, so having control of the upload process seems to save me a fair bit of time.
There are caveats, of course – the major one is, when using screen in serial terminal mode, you need to press `Ctrl+A k y` (kill window) instead of `Ctrl+A d` to detach the screen session. If you do the detach instead, as you might be used to with screen, the serial port will remain open until you unplug the device or kill the screen process, and ampy will fail mysteriously.
Summary
I hope this toolkit overview helps you make sure you’re using exactly the kind of MicroPython environment that works for you – while compiling it, I’ve learned some nuances myself! Next time, we shall talk about CircuitPython – a MicroPython fork that has grown into a contender in the educational Python space, and how it is different from MicroPython in a number of crucial ways you deserve to know about.
X slammed with data privacy complaint over AI training
Consumer organisations allege X's artificial intelligence (AI) tool is in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in a complaint filed with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Monday (5 August).
Einaudi: il pensiero e l’azione – “Via il Prefetto” con Claudio Cresatti
Lo storico scritto di Einaudi in cui propone l’abolizione dei prefetti e critica il centralismo napoleonico. Rubrica “Einaudi: il pensiero e l’azione”
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Il ricordo
Giovanna Ricoveri se ne è andata, a Genova, nella notte fra il 3 e il 4 agosto. Cinque anni dopo Giorgio Nebbia, con il quale aveva collaborato fin dal 1991, anno di nascita dell’edizione italiana di Cns-Capitalismo Natura Socialismo. La rivista di ecologia politica, diretta da Giovanna e da Valentino Parlato, faceva parte di una rete internazionale creata due anni prima in California da James O’Connor, il teorico della seconda contraddizione: quella fra capitale e natura.
Nata a Rosignano, sulla costa livornese, Giovanna Ricoveri aveva iniziato a collaborare stabilmente con la Cgil nei primi anni 1970, un impegno durato fino ai primi anni 1990. In seguito, dirigendo Cns, diventata poi Cns-Ecologia politica, si dedicò ad analizzare tre grandi questioni a lungo trascurate o negate dalle forze politiche della sinistra: la crisi ecologica come causa importante di crisi economica e sociale; lavoro e natura come due contraddizioni speculari che nel capitalismo maturo vanno affrontate insieme, due facce della stessa medaglia; l’importanza dei movimenti sociali nel superamento della crisi. Negli anni 1990, forse solo su Cns si potevano leggere saggi guidati dalle interconnessioni che cromaticamente potremmo riassumere nella definizione “rosso-verde”.
Giovanna fu anche straordinaria curatrice di diversi libri. Sviluppò l’idea della centralità della natura anche grazie ai rapporti con l’eco-femminismo a livello internazionale. Approfondì con passione l’antica eppure attualissima tematica dei beni comuni e si inserì, lei proveniente dal sindacato, nel dibattito internazionale sulla decrescita. Le tante persone che – come noi – hanno avuto Giovanna come compagna di pensiero e attività, e come amica, sono approdate a lei per vie diverse.
Chi partendo dal mondo del lavoro, chi da quello dell’ecologia. Giovanna era profondamente legata all’idea che per affrontare la crisi ecologica fosse indispensabile il contributo del movimento dei lavoratori, di chi agiva direttamente all’interno del sistema produttivo. E d’altro canto, per un vero ambientalismo che intendesse cambiare la società, era indispensabile il contributo dei lavoratori. Questione sociale e questione ecologica come inscindibilmente unite, una convergenza necessaria, ecco il messaggio centrale di Giovanna.
Un contributo che ci mancherà, in un mondo pervaso dalla convinzione che il neoliberismo si possa in qualche modo governare, e che la questione ecologica si possa risolvere con la green economy, mantenendo intanto il sistema capitalistico. Tanti i ricordi personali. Gli incontri con lei nella sua casa-ufficio erano sempre densi, a volte agitati, mai noiosi. Prima di passare all’enorme tavolo da lavoro, bianco e un po’ traballante sotto il peso di libri e fascicoli, l’accoglienza avveniva in cucina con il caffè e i biscotti.
E come dimenticare i piatti toscani che cucinava anche per i vegetariani. Negli ultimi due mesi aveva avuto un’emorragia cerebrale dalla quale purtroppo non si era più ripresa. Nel libro collettivo pubblicato dalla Fondazione Luigi Micheletti nel 2016 per festeggiare i 90 anni di Giorgio Nebbia, Giovanna si esprimeva così: “Giorgio è uno scienziato che ha cuore e intelligenza”. Giovanna, valeva anche per te. Un abbraccio alla famiglia e in particolare alle nipoti Eleonora e Luisa.
Giovanna Ricoveri, l’ ambientalismo per cambiare la società
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Serve Your Next Website with QuickBasic
You can only imagine that when they made Star Trek back in the 1960s, they would have laughed if anyone suggested they’d still be making the show nearly six decades later. If you told [John Kemeny] at Dartmouth back in 1964 that people would be serving websites in Basic in the year 2024, he’d probably be amazed after you explained what a website was. But that’s what [Jamonholmgren] is doing.
[Jamon] wrote his first Basic program when he was 12, which was a common thing to do. Recently, he decided to build and deploy a website using Basic, and so this project, qub (pronounced like cube), was born. The web server is modified from an existing source but adds features and many new features are planned.
The main program essentially creates a starter set of HTML and related files for the server. Honestly, we don’t recommend a server in Basic, but it is fun to see Basic — granted a modern version of QuickBasic — being up to the task.
It would probably be smarter to dedicate an old phone to the task. Or you could stand up an old DOS computer, but that’s probably not any better.
Radio Apocalypse: HFGCS, The Backup Plan for Doomsday
To the extent that you have an opinion on something like high-frequency (HF) radio, you probably associate it with amateur radio operators, hunched over their gear late at night as they try to make contact with a random stranger across the globe to talk about the fact that they’re both doing the same thing at the same time. In a world where you can reach out to almost anyone else in an instant using flashy apps on the Internet, HF radio’s reputation as somewhat old and fuddy is well-earned.
Like the general population, modern militaries have largely switched to digital networks and satellite links, using them to coordinate and command their strategic forces on a global level. But while military nets are designed to be resilient to attack, there’s only so much damage they can absorb before becoming degraded to the point of uselessness. A backup plan makes good military sense, and the properties of radio waves between 3 MHz and 30 MHz, especially the ability to bounce off the ionosphere, make HF radio a perfect fit.
The United States Strategic Forces Command, essentially the people who “push the button” that starts a Very Bad Day
Bombs Away LeMay
The US Air Force has a long history radio, dating back to when airplanes were little more than wood and canvas contraptions. Radio, especially HF radio, played a huge role in prosecuting World War II, changing the face of warfare forever. As the Cold War years set in and strategic forces became increasingly important, HF radio systems continued to play a role. One of the biggest boosters of HF radio for coordinating strategic air forces was none other than General Curtis LeMay, who as an enthusiastic amateur radio operator well knew the power of HF radio to communicate long distances, particularly using single-sideband (SSB) modulation.
Despite this history, HFGCS itself is relatively new. It only came onto the scene in 1992, when post-Cold War military restructuring combined two earlier Air Force HF networks into the Global High-Frequency System. GHFS would undergo equipment upgrades in 2002 and get an extra letter in its rearranged acronym, becoming HFGCS. While HFGCS may have started out as the Air Force’s baby, its design is open and flexible enough that it can be used by Air Force, Army, and Navy assets anywhere in the world around the clock.
The primary fixed infrastructure of HFGCS is a network of thirteen ground stations scattered across the United States and its territories as well as allied countries around the world. The HFGCS ground stations are linked together through a combination of landlines and satellite stations to act as a unified network. Almost all of the stations on the network are “lights out” stations that are controlled remotely. The primary control point for the entire system is located at Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, DC, with a backup location deep in the interior of the continent at Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska. Each of these two stations is manned around the clock and can control the entire network.
It’s obviously difficult to get a lot of technical detail on what sort of gear is being used at each HFGCS station, but there’s one aspect of the system that’s hard to keep from public scrutiny: the antennas. The Offutt AFB transmitter station provides a pretty good look at things, sitting as it does in the middle of a cornfield off a public road in Elkhorn, Nebraska. There sprouts a sprawling farm of directional and omnidirectional antennas, including a collection of massive AS-3482/GRC log periodic arrays. These giants have twin towers that support a rotating platform with three support booms for the radiation array. A balun at the base matches the antenna to the feedline, which is a 50-ohm hardline coax measuring a whopping 3-1/8″ (80 mm) diameter. HFGCS stations also have receive capability, of course, but given the 25,000-watt power rating on these antennas, the receivers are generally not located with the transmitters. In the case of the Offutt AFB station, the receivers are located 28 miles (45 km) away outside of Scribner, Nebraska.
Fine Business, Old Minuteman
The ability of HF radio to make contacts across the globe with no fixed infrastructure between contact points is what makes it perfect for backup communications with strategic forces. That’s not to say that it’s foolproof, of course; there certainly are ways to interfere with the ionospheric skip that it depends on, which probably plays a large part in why HFGCS is only a backup, but things have to have gone badly wrong for that to be the case.
Ironically, one of the ways for things to go wrong enough to bump HFGCS up from backup status is an all-out nuclear exchange, which would no doubt involve the 450-odd Minuteman III ICBMs that comprise one of the legs of the United States’ nuclear triad. The Minuteman missiles are kept at the ready in 45 missile alert facilities (MAFs) scattered across the American prairie. Each MAF is comprised of ten launch facilities, each storing one LGM-30 missile in an underground silo, and a separate launch control center, or LCC. The LCC is the underground bunker crewed by two Air Force officers who bear the responsibility of turning the keys that launch their flight of missiles, should it be so ordered.
But to perform that final official act of their careers, those officers have to get the coded order from US Strategic Command, typically over one of the primary secure networks. Should those links fail, though, each LCC is equipped with an HFGCS link. The fact that each LCC is no doubt slated to receive a nasty package on the appointed day means that standard HF antennas, which tend to be quite large, are far too exposed to survive and perform their backup duties. So the LCCs sport hidden HFGCS antennas that can be deployed on command.
On the transmit side, each squadron LCC has a 50′ (15 meter) deep reinforced concrete silo topped by an extremely sturdy blast door that’s flush to the ground, for maximum resistance to nearby blast waves. Upon command, the door opens to allow a telescopic HF antenna to extend up to 120′ (36 meters) above the ground. The reality, though, is that the need to transmit on HFGCS is far less important than being able to receive. That’s why the receiving antenna arrangement is a bit more complicated.
To make sure the LCC is always ready to receive and act on an Emergency Alert Message (EAM), each facility has a hardened HFGCS receive antenna array. Like the transmitting antenna, these are housed in underground silos. Each silo has six monopole steel antennas, one of which is always deployed. The five others are kept in reserve; should the main antenna get knocked down, an explosive charge at the bottom of the antenna’s tube detonates, extending a fresh antenna above the ground.
Mainsail, Mainsail
Given the highly sensitive nature of the traffic on a radio network charged in part with ending the world, you’d think that messages would be digitally encrypted and completely useless to try snooping in on. And while it’s true that there are encrypted digital modes that use HFGCS, a surprising amount of traffic is just plain old voice messages transmitted in the open. While it remains true that nothing punches through like good old Morse code on continuous wave (CW), SSB voice is far more efficient. The video below shows British ham M0SZT monitoring HFGCS from an adorable shepherd’s camp somewhere in the Peak’s District, not far from the RAF Croughton HFGCS site:
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That’s not to say that you’d be able to understand the messages, the bulk of which is a block of 30 numbers and letters, with the former stated as the standard NATO phonetic alphabet. Unless you have the decryption code, the message will read as gibberish. In fact, you can’t even derive any useful information from the length of the message, since it’s always 30 characters long. About the only metadata you could potentially glean would be the station code names embedded in the message, but since those are randomly changed every day, there’s not much point.
Still, there’s plenty to be gained from monitoring HFGCS, especially in times of geopolitical tumult. If the balloon goes up, so to speak, then traffic on HFGCS will undoubtedly increase markedly, as it will on its Russian counterpart, colloquially known as Bear Net to the US military. It’ll make for interesting listening — at least for a few minutes.
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Truppe Usa fuori anche dall’ultima base in Niger. Gli effetti sulla regione
[quote]Gli Stati Uniti abbandonano oggi la seconda e ultima base aerea 201 in Niger, marcando il ritiro delle loro forze da un Paese assolutamente strategico nel continente africano. Questa decisione arriva dopo che, nel mese di marzo, un portavoce militare nigerino ha annunciato la fine dell’accordo di controterrorismo con gli Stati
Mulé a TPI: “Forza Italia non deve chiudersi in cerchi magici, è ora di aprirsi come nel 1994”
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Presidente Mulè, proprio non riusciamo a uscire dagli anni di piombo? Anche gli anniversari delle stragi di Bologna e dell’Italicus sono una ragione per l’ennesima contrapposizione sul ventennio mai passato. “Il nostro problema, il
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Il futuro della guerra è qui. Cosa deve fare il Pentagono secondo Foreign Affairs
[quote]“L’America non è pronta per le guerre del futuro. E sono già qui”. Un titolo (con annesso sottotitolo) che potrebbe risultare allarmistico e volutamente esagerato, come già altri lo sono stati nei mesi e negli anni precedenti. Ma se a prendere questa posizione piuttosto
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È disponibile il nuovo numero della newsletter del Ministero dell’Istruzione e del Merito.
🔶 Istruzione tecnica e professionale, la riforma è legge.
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Tutti i dettagli sul nuovo pattugliatore di Fincantieri/Leonardo per la Marina
[quote]La Marina Militare Italiana ha ufficialmente incaricato Orizzonte sistemi navali (Osn) di costruire il quarto pattugliatore di nuova generazione nell’ambito del programma Opv (Offshore patrol vessel). Osn, una joint venture tra Fincantieri e Leonardo, con rispettive quote del 51% e 49%, ha ricevuto la notifica
La decimazione del mondo accademico di Gaza è ‘impossibile da quantificare’
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Con migliaia di docenti e studenti probabilmente uccisi e i campus distrutti, le università palestinesi della Striscia provano a sopravvivere allo "scolasticidio"
L'articolo La decimazione del mondo accademico di Gaza è ‘impossibile da quantificare’
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Greenpeace: Eni continua a estrarre gas e petrolio ignorando l’Accordo di Parigi
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Il nuovo articolo di @valori
Eni è operatore o azionista in 552 progetti fossili che hanno iniziato, o inizieranno, le attività estrattive dopo il 2015. Lo svela un report di Greenpeace
L'articolo Greenpeace: Eni continua a estrarre gas e petrolio ignorando l’Accordo di Parigi proviene
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PER IL PRESTIGIOSO SETTIMANALE TEDESCO FOCUS L’OCCIDENTE E’ GOVERNATO DA “AUTOCRATI” (CIOE’ DITTATORI).
La copertina del settimanale tedesco Focus (numero 28/2024) è davvero interessante.
Welcome back to another edition of the weekly-ish news of the fediverse. This edition contains the news of last week, as well as some news items from the previous few weeks that I’ve spotted while I was on holiday break.
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Welcome back to another edition of the weekly-ish news of the fediverse. This edition contains the news of last week, as well as some news items from the previous few weeks that I’ve spotted while I was on holiday break. My holiday was indeed fully offline out of the feeds, but I could not resist afterwards to dig in to find out what happened while I was offline.
As a teaser: I’ve started working behind the scenes to launch something new with Fediverse Report, that will be in addition to the weekly newsletters. Stay tuned!
The News
GoToSocial’s latest release adds comment-controls, which allows people to determine who can reply to their posts. GoToSocial explains: ‘you’ll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.’
Safety has been a major conversation on the fediverse feeds recently, especially with Black people pointing out the lacking safety tools and major harrassment they experience on the fediverse. One aspect that facilitates the harassment is the default opt-out approach to federation; where racists and other bigots will simply spin up a new fediverse server and send (semi)-private messages with hate speech to Black people. This is why ‘just switch to a server with better moderation’ is such a problematic response; it does not actually fix one of the main ways Black people experience on the fediverse, while placing the onus on them to solve the problem. One interesting response is in building a separate network with ActivityPub based on allow-list federation, and I’m keeping a close eye on how this evolves.
PeerTube’s latest update adds ‘automatic video transcription using Whisper , a new comment policy “requires approval first”, auto-tagging/labelling of videos and comments based on specific rules and a comment moderation page for video publishers’. This blog post provides more details about the development story on adding the transcription feature.
Patchwork is an upcoming plugin system for Mastodon that is developed by Newsmast, that is tentatively scheduled to be released next month. The latest update by Newsmast showcases the variety of plugins that they’ll offer, including setting local-only posts, changing post length, and scheduling posts. The bigger part is also the addition of Channels, custom timelines that will allow external parties to hook into as well.
Some statistics that relate compare the different platforms. A comparison of sources of traffic to news site heise.de, showing how Bluesky has surpassed Mastodon in clicks. A new comparison by Kuba Suder shows the different ways people post on Bluesky that is not done via a PDS that is hosted by Bluesky company. In February this year, Bluesky started support for having people self-host their own Personal Data Server (PDS) that is not managed by their company. The amount of people who do so is small, with less than 100 active account. Significantly more people post onto Bluesky via their bridged ActivityPub account. Speaking of bridged accounts: Eugen Rochko has now bridged his Mastodon account to Bluesky. Rochko has been outspokenly critical of Bluesky in the past, saying that they should adopt ActivityPub instead of building their own protocol.
Some more updates by Ghost, who is getting along further with their ActivityPub implementation. The newsletter is now getting better connected to the fediverse, allowing you to follow it directly from your Mastodon account.
Mastodon moves their iOS app development in-house, and is recruiting a full-time iOS app developer. Up until now, the Mastodon iOS app was developed by two freelance developers.
A slightly obscure news update because I love interoperability: Guppe Groups have been around for a while, and are a way to get some semblance of Groups added onto microblogging platforms, functioning similar to hashtags. Now link-aggregator platform PieFed has added support for these types of groups, you can see an example here. I’m mentioning this news here because I think there is a lot more space to experiment with different platform designs that take inspiration from both microblogging, link-aggregators and forums, and this is a small example of it. PieFed added support for community wikis as well.
Bluesky released Starter Packs a month ago as a way to easy the onboarding process, and reactions on the rest of the fediverse were that this was a good idea that could potentially be copied. Statistics show however that the feature has not been actively used by the community. Part of the reason could be that signups to decentralised social networks in general have mostly stopped.
WeDistribute wrote about NeoDB, calling it ‘a review system for culture’. NeoDB is one of the more interesting platforms available in the fediverse, with an incredible wide variety of features. NeoDB themselves describes by drawing comparison to other platforms, saying ‘NeoDB integrates the functionalities of platforms like Goodreads, Letterboxd, RateYourMusic, and Podchaser, among others.’ NeoDB’s own pitch is taking fediverse platforms tendency to be ‘centralised platform concept + ActivityPub’ to the extreme, and I enjoy the simplicity of NeoDB is a fediverse review platform for culture more.
What is the fediverse? This question is answered by a tech-free explainer video by Newsmast, a new video series by WordPress.com, or a podcast episode by TheNewStack with Evan Prodromou.
The latest update for software forge Forgejo has foundational parts of ActivityPub based federation, and the first forgejo instances that have federation in some alpha form are starting to appear.
The Links
- Privacy and Consent for Fediverse Developers: A Guide – by WeDistribute.
- ‘Rethinking Trust and Safety in the Fediverse, with Samantha Lai and Jaz-Michael King’ – the latest podcast episode by Flipboards dot social podcast.
- An update on the Bridgy Fed, the bridge between the fediverse, Bluesky and the web, and websites can now be bridged directly onto Bluesky.
- A tool to view all labels applied on your Bluesky. posts and account.
- Replies from the fediverse can now be read on Threads.
- The history of the fediverse logo.
- The third party app for Pixelfed Vernissage has been renamed to Impressia. Vernissage is now exclusively the name for the fediverse photo sharing platform that is currently in development by the same developer.
- A tool to temporarily mute words in Bluesky.
- An experimental demo of how a “Sign in with the Fediverse” mechanism might work.
- IceShrimp originally started as a Misskey fork, but they have changed so much it is starting to make more sense to see it as their own project: a full rewrite of the backend, and now the added support for plugins.
- Smoke Signal is a new event planner platform that is in development and build on top of atproto.
- The newsletter ‘The Future is Federated’ has a showcase of the interoperability between Mastodon and WordPress.
- An extensive comparison how different apps for Lemmy display content correctly.
- This week’s overview of fediverse software updates.
- Activitypub.academy is ‘a modified Mastodon instance that allows you to study the ActivityPub protocol in real life’ that has gotten some new features.
- In the main Bluesky app, if you block someone and you have a thread in which both you and the blocked account have posted replies, it prevents other people from viewing those posts, which often breaks the thread. This system, the ‘apocalypseblock’ is intentional for Bluesky, but the openness of the protocol allows people to build other thread viewers that do not have this feature.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading!
video di presentazione: “in fiamme. la performance nello spazio delle lotte (1967-1979)”
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In fiamme. La performance nello spazio delle lotte (1967-1979) è un libro edito da brunonel 2021 e curato da Ilenia Caleo, Piersandra Di Matteo e Annalisa Sacchi. Il volume interroga la scena del lungo Sessantotto in Italia all’incrocio tra sperimentazione artistica e lotta politica, alla ricerca di questioni che ancora turbano il presente: comunità, ecosistemi relazionali e affettivi, processi di soggettivazione, rapporti tra creazione e produzione. Il cosiddetto laboratorio italiano – radicale, inventivo e non privo di contraddizioni – ha preso corpo attraverso percorsi eccentrici tra gli anni Sessanta e Settanta, in quella performance che iniziava a deflagrare nello spazio delle lotte – un’eredità raccolta più dal dibattito internazionale che dalla storiografia teatrale italiana. Nel vivo di geografie, ambienti, scritture e immagini, In fiamme prova a restituire la dimensione complessa della performance come campo di produzione del comune. www.museomacro.it/
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L’archivio che ne è nato:
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In fiamme. La performance nello spazio delle lotte (1967-1979) è un libro edito da Bruno nel 2021 e curato da Ilenia Caleo, Piersandra Di Matteo e Annalisa...Internet Archive
incommon – performing arts in italy: 1959 to 1979
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INCOMMON. In praise of community. Shared creativity in arts and politics in Italy (1959-1979) is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 2015) and hosted by IUAV, University of Venice. INCOMMON is meant to be the first study to systematically analyse the field of performing arts as resulting from the practice of commonality both theorized and experienced over the 1960s and the 1970s. In particular, the project is aimed to study the history of the ‘laboratory Italy’ as the place where artistic counterculture expressed by performing arts arose in a milieu characterized by a profound relation between philosophy, politics, and revolutionary practices.
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incommon – performing arts in italy: 1959 to 1979
INCOMMON. In praise of community. Shared creativity in arts and politics in Italy (1959-1979) is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 2015) and hosted by I…slowforward
link e materiali per / su “vero metodo per la cernita dei poeti” (edizioni volatili, 2023)
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aggiornamentoVERO METODO PER LA CERNITA DEI POETI
testi: Marco Giovenale, partiture visive: Giuditta Chiaraluce
Edizioni volatili, a cura di Giuditta Chiaraluce e Giorgiomaria Cornelio,
collana Minimo storico, 2
Macerata, marzo 2023, pp 154
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29 lug. 2024: servizio di Alessandro Trevisani sulle Edizioni Volatili in Rai TgMarche, a circa 15′ 36”:
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Qui una versione solo audio del servizio:
Qui un post di Alessandro Trevisani: facebook.com/share/p/4Xx8XfFco…*
25 ago. 2023
Audioframmento di lettura dal Vero metodo…, @ I fumi della fornace:
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7 mag. 2023
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Video di Pasquale Polidori / Deposito solventi, sul Vero metodo per la cernita dei poeti
Il post di PP: facebook.com/watch/?v=59715901…
“Utilissimo e pratico questo libretto da imparare a memoria. (Poi in casa ci sono: la salvia, la fragola, il timo, il rosmarino e la salvia symbol.)”*
10 apr. 2023, Matteo Bianchi sul “Sole 24 ore”:
“La bibliodiversità risalta sulle dodici copertine che segnano il secondo gradino del Premio Strega Poesia. Quasi per contrappasso, difatti, nella fatidica dozzina sono gli editori indipendenti a dominare sui monoliti che solitamente determinano le sorti del mercato, dettando legge tra i generi che differenziano tutto ciò che si stampi in prosa […] E venerdì scorso, per annunciarli dal ligneo pulpito, Andrea Cortellessa si è avvalso di un pamphlet allegorico fuori dagli schemi e fuori dall’angelica bolgia, un Vero metodo per la cernita dei poeti, con cui classificare, nel bene o nel male, il nome e il titolo delle raccolte in lettura. Beati gli esclusi?
Marco Giovenale, che ha pubblicato il taccuino in questione per le Edizioni Volatili, passa in rassegna circa un centinaio di categorie sotto cui annotare i volumi esaminati, senza eufemismi né riguardi di sorta: ‘ossidati dai cliché’, ‘brutalisti del kitsch’, ‘retori del buonismo o del cattivismo’, ‘cannibali anziani’, ‘riavanguardiani a serramanico’, ‘liricantropi’, ‘neofuturisti con la fissa delle maiuscole in giro per il foglio’, ma ancora ‘autocandidati al Nobel’ e ‘ladri di cattedre’ sono solo alcune delle sottospecie più spietatamente spassose”.ilsole24ore.com/art/il-premio-…
pdf dell’intero articolo qui:
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10 apr. 2024: Andrea Cortellessa introduce la “dozzina” del Premio Strega Poesia citando il Vero metodo: facebook.com/watch/?v=32887957…
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#000000 #999999 #AlessandroTrevisani #AndreaCortellessa #DepositoSolventi #EdizioniVolatili #GiorgiomariaCornelio #GiudittaChiaraluce #IFumiDellaFornace #IFumiDellaFronace #MarcoGiovenale #messaggiAiPoeti #PasqualePolidori #poesia #poeti #PremioStregaPoesia #RaiTgMarche #StregaPoesiaNoGrazie #TgMarche #utiliSussidi #vediamoSeRiescoASpiegarmi #VeroMetodo #VeroMetodoPerLaCernitaDeiPoeti
Il Premio Strega e le sue fatidiche dozzine
Romanzieri, poeti e autori internazionali: tutti i candidati tra le immancabili controversie di ritoIl Sole 24 Ore (Il Sole 24 ORE)
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Spadolini, un italiano
[quote]Forse anche per il suo aspetto esteriore pingue e pacioso, da professore d’altri tempi, Giovanni Spadolini è ricordato soprattutto come un grande mediatore. E certamente il leader repubblicano, di cui ricorre il trentennale della morte avvenuta il 4 agosto 1994, possedeva notevoli doti di equilibrio, che gli permettevano di giocare un ruolo di rilievo in […]
L'articolo
ci sono 2 modi di agire: razionale e istintivo. se condanniamo l'operato umano in base a "sentimenti" e paure stiamo agendo a livello istintivo. come agisce un animale. quindi usiamo la natura animale dell'uomo per definirlo lontano da ideali "animali" di una perfezione che in realtà, un etologo, direbbe "lontani" dal vero comportamento animale, profondamente amorale. e come volere un uomo che abbia valori superiori e morali e poi criticarlo di non essere degno animale.
e come se ci fossimo romanzati una natura che non esiste, con animali "virtuosi", secondo canoni umani e non animali, e poi accusiamo l'uomo di comportarsi come un animale e di essere lontano dalla natura. ha senso? no. un autentico corto-circuito del pensiero. la specie umana non può essere contemporaneamente umorale e animale e distante dalla natura e "amorale" sulla base di canoni animali che ci siamo inventati noi.
mi piacerebbe qualcuno mi aiutasse a mettere meglio a fuoco questo discorso.
After 303 days of genocidal war on #Gaza, extensively documented and broadcasted every second, one truth remains: the world is indifferent & lacking compassion. Tens of thousands of lives have been lost—entire families, including children, women, the elderly, and young people
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INAIL, gli incidenti mortali sul lavoro crescono del 4,2%
Nel primo semestre del 2024 sono stati denunciati 469 incidenti mortali sul lavoro, un numero che si configura come un aumento del 4,2% rispetto al medesimo periodo nel 2023. A comunicarlo è l’Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro, che tra i dati rileva anche un analogo aumento delle denunce di infortunio sul lavoro pari allo 0,9% (che corrisponde a 299.303 denunce). Quest’ultima statistica risulta comunque inferiore a quella registrata nel primo semestre del 2022, rispetto a cui si è registrato un calo del 21,7%. Aumentano invece del 19,6% le denunce per patologie di origine professionale, pari a 45.512.
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Ho provato diversi sistemi per formattare questo post e nessuno di questi mi ha convinto...
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Sudan, dopo dichiarazione di carestia appello per maggiore supporto umanitario
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Gli umanitari hanno lanciato un appello “per maggiori risorse per il Sudan devastato dalla guerra e per il libero accesso alle persone bisognose,
Etiopia, visita del ministro degli Esteri turco mette in luce investimenti strategici e relazioni
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Il ministro degli Esteri turco Hakan Fidan ha visitato Addis Abeba, dove è stato accolto calorosamente dal primo
Burkina Faso, creazione di un deposito del Tesoro per l’indipendenza dal franco CFA
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La Treasury Deposit Bank verrà lanciata domani: i giorni del franco CFA sono contati. Il Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 ha finalmente creato una banca di deposito
SOMALIA. Attentato suicida fa decine di vittime sulla spiaggia di Mogadiscio
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Un'esplosione ha causato almeno 32 morti e 63 feriti su una popolare spiaggia di Mogadiscio, la sera di venerdì 2 agosto. Il gruppo al Shebaab, legato ad al-Qaeda, ha rivendicato l'attentato.
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Tutti i dischi anni ’70 dei Magma, dal peggiore al migliore | Rolling Stone Italia
"Un linguaggio inventato, un pianeta alternativo chiamato Kobaïa, una musica possente. Un viaggio nel mondo e nella discografia migliore della band di Christian Vander, prog a modo suo."
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...e continuò il suo viaggio tutto allegro!
Come cristiani –alle volte– dobbiamo riscoprire la grazia sovrabbondante di Dio, insieme agli altri fratelli e sorelle, e ricomprenderla nelle varie situazioni della nostra esistenza. Anche se non sono particolarmente facili o affatto gioiose.
Ricevendo il messaggio di salvezza, viviamo con gioia e allegria la nostra vita giorno per giorno, ringraziando il Salvatore.
pastore D'Archino - …e continuò il suo viaggio tutto allegro
Nel libro degli Atti si vede come l’annuncio dell’evangelo si diffonda a poco a poco oltre le ristretta cerchia dei primi discepoli. Qui c’è un etiope, che nell’idea popolare di allora viveva ai co…pastore D'Archino
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in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •naturalment consigliamo agli utenti poliversity di guardare il link alla pagina correttamente formattata di Friendica:
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Unknown parent • •@:sailfish: Must o don't? ⭐️ non è colpa tua, mastodon non riesce a comprendere le tabelle...
Puoi leggere qui la formattazione reale:
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • •@Elena ``of Valhalla'' ho provato diversi sistemi per rendere quel post compatibile con mastodon, meno invasivo possibile e leggibile. .
Mi sembra che finora non sia riuscito a trovare nessuna possibilità. Considerando che non è stato neanche pubblicato nella community di Lemmy, e non ho neanche capito perché, ho deciso di cancellarlo 🤣
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in reply to Simone • •@Simone ma sì, tanto a riscrivere un post meglio si fa sempre in tempo. E se non ci si riesce, vuol dire che era meglio non scriverlo... 😁
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