Modifying a QingPing Air Quality Monitor for Local MQTT Access
The QingPing Air Quality Monitor 2 is an Android-based device that not only features a touch screen with the current air quality statistics of the room, but also includes an MQTT interface that normally is used in combination with the QingPing mobile app and the Xiaomi IoT ecosystem. Changing it to report to a local MQTT server instead for integration with e.g. Home Assistant can be done in an official way that still requires creating a cloud account, or you can just do it yourself via an ADB shell and some file modifications as [ea] has done.
By default these devices do not enumerate when you connect a computer to their USB-C port, but that’s easily resolved by enabling Android’s developer mode. This involves seven taps on the Device Name line in the About section of settings. After this you can enter Developer Options to toggle on Debug Mode and Adbd Debugging, which creates the option to connect to the device via USB with ADB and open up a shell with adb shell.
From there you can shoot off the QingSnow2 app and the watchdog.sh that’s running in the background, disable IPv6 and edit /etc/host to redirect all the standard cloud server calls to a local server. Apparently there is even SSH access at this point, with root access and password rockchip. The MQTT configuration is found under /data/etc/ in settings.ini, which is used by the QingPing app, so editing redirects all that.
Of course, the device also queries a remote server for weather data for your location, so if you modify this you have to provide a proxy, which [ea] did with a simple MQTT server that’s found along with other files on the GitHub project page.
Unfortunately, the popular MedMastodon server, dedicated to doctors and medicine, unexpectedly shut down at the end of 2025.
Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.
The speed with which it happened prevented users from accessing their data, highlighting the risks of decentralized social media without backups. Its administrator ceased operations, causing confusion and data loss for many healthcare professionals who had signed up as an alternative to Twitter.
This event serves as a reminder: Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!
WARNING: To help Med-mastodon users who have returned to the Fediverse, the Poliverso staff has created the Friendica group @MedMastodon
If you follow this group, you can:
1. Follow it and mention it in your messages, and it will reshare all your public posts addressed to it (this only applies to an initial message, not a reply to another message).
2. Follow it only to read all the messages from fellow doctors who send messages through it.
Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
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Venezuela: l’ennesima guerra di “assestamento”?
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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I lettori che, negli anni appena trascorsi, hanno seguito le osservazioni più acute riguardo le dinamiche internazionali non saranno stupiti dell’attacco americano al Venezuela, scatenato dall’impellente necessità di arraffare risorse.
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Il buio digitale di Caracas: cyber operazioni e resistenza anonima nella crisi venezuelana
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Mentre i titoli dei giornali di tutto il mondo raccontano del blitz militare statunitense in Venezuela e della cattura del presidente Nicolás Maduro, un’altra battaglia, più silenziosa ma non meno significativa, si sta combattendo nel
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Hunter-gatherers cremated a small woman in Malawi 9,500 years ago, revealing a glimpse of their capabilities and practices.#TheAbstract
Scientists Discover One of the World’s Oldest Cremations
Welcome back to the Abstract, and Happy New Year! Here are the studies this week that stoked the flames, cooled off, then went feral and rogue.First, the ashy remains of a cremation pyre reveal a rare glimpse of an ancient ritual. Then: Uranus is chilling, ham on the lam, and a Saturn without a Sun.
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An ancient cremation comes to light
Some 9,500 years ago, a community of hunter-gatherers assembled to cremate a small woman in a ceremonial pyre at a rock shelter near Mount Hora in Malawi.
Millennia passed. Many things happened. And now, at the dawn of the year 2026, scientists report the unearthing of the ashy remains of this ritual at a site, called HOR-1, which is "the oldest known cremation in Africa” and “one of the oldest in the world,” according to their study.
“Archaeological evidence for cremation amongst African hunter-gatherers is extremely rare, with no reported cases south of the Sahara,” said researchers led by Jessica I. Cerezo-Román of the University of Oklahoma. “Open pyre cremations such as that at HOR-1 demand substantial social and labor-intensive investment on behalf of the deceased. Thus, cremation is rarely practiced amongst small-scale hunter-gatherer societies.”
Indeed, before reading this study, I did not fully appreciate the work that goes into cremating a corpse from scratch. For a body to be properly reduced to ash in this prehistoric era, a community had to collect tinder, build the pyre, ignite it, and then keep the flames stoked at high temperatures for around seven to nine hours by continually adding more fuel.
The process would have been long and arduous, suggesting that it held a significant meaning to these prehistoric attendees. This ancient rock shelter was clearly used for mortuary practices over millennia, which “reflect a deep-rooted tradition of repeatedly using and revisiting the site, intricately linked to memory-making,” the researchers said.
The oldest known pyre, located in Alaska, dates back 11,500 years and contains the created remains of a 3-year-old child. But HOR-1 is the oldest example of adult cremated remains found in a pyre. We will likely never know the identity of this woman, or why her death inspired such a carefully coordinated ritual. But it seems safe to assume that the cremation was a significant event for the community that expended so much forethought and labor to perform it.
“While this cremation is highly unusual in the African archaeological record, it contributes to growing evidence of complex social worldviews among tropical African hunter-gatherers,” they added. “These practices emphasize complex mortuary and ritual activities with origins predating the advent of food production.”
In other news…
The inexplicable Uranian chillout
Uranus is so cool. I mean this in the flattering vernacular sense—Uranus is genuinely nifty—but it’s also literally true. Not only is this ice giant the coldest planet in the solar system, its upper atmosphere (the thermosphere) has been getting steadily cooler for the past 40 years—and nobody really knows why.
Scientists now think they have ruled out a hypothesis that linked this long-term thermospheric cooling to a weakening of the solar wind, which is a stream of energetic radiation and particles emitted by the Sun. A new analysis suggests that this weakening effect has reversed over the past 15 years, hinting that it is not the cause of the cooldown.
“We determine that the solar wind kinetic power at Uranus has increased by ∼28% since the start of solar cycle 24 (at the end of 2008),” said researchers led by Jamie M. Jasinski at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“If the solar wind is a driver of Uranus' thermospheric temperature, then one would have expected a gradual increase in the temperature since then. However, the temperature has continued to consistently decline over the same time period. Therefore…we argue that the solar wind kinetic power is unlikely to be the primary driver of thermospheric temperature at Uranus.”
As for the real cause, the truth is still out there. May this mystery inspire a new generation of Uranian scientists.
When pigs sail…
Now, for the incredible adventures of ancient seafaring pigs. Today, many domestic and feral pig lineages are scattered across the Pacific islands of Wallacea, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia; their ancestors were schlepped over the oceans by early mariners in several migratory waves.
To learn more about how these boats brought home the bacon, scientists sequenced 117 modern, historical, and ancient pig genomes spanning nearly 3,000 years. The results revealed that pigs from Indonesia to Hawaii are mostly descended from a group of domestic pigs that voyaged with Austronesian-speaking groups from Southeast China and Taiwan about 4,000 years ago.
“Transporting these animals between islands resulted in a distinctive evolutionary history characterized by serial founder effects, gene flow from divergent lineages, and likely selection for specific traits that facilitated the establishment of feral populations,” said researchers led by David W.G. Stanton of Queen Mary University of London and Cardiff University.
In other words, some of the most significant Pacific voyages also doubled as piggyback rides.
A glimpse of a sunless Saturn
I don’t mean to cause alarm, but there’s a rogue Saturn on the loose in the galaxy.
Astronomers spotted this world drifting through interstellar space, untethered to any star, with a trippy technique known as microlensing. When a distant planet passes in front of a star from our perspective on Earth, its gravitational field warps the background starlight, creating a distinctive light signature that exposes its presence (for more on microlensing, here’s a short feature I wrote).
Concept art of a freefloating planet. Image: J. Skowron, K. Ulaczyk / OGLE
Now, a team has captured a microlensing event with telescopes located on both the ground and in space, a combination that allowed them to calculate the foreground planet’s mass (Saturn-ish) and its distance from Earth, which is about 10,000 light years. Based on its mass and its very quick pace through space, this gas giant was probably born around a star, but was flung out of its home system by gravitational interactions between neighboring stars or planets.“We conclude that violent dynamical processes shape the demographics of planetary-mass objects, both those that remain bound to their host stars and those that are expelled to become free floating,” said researchers led by Subo Dong of Peking University.
It’s a reminder that as bad as things seem sometimes here on Earth, at least our planet hasn’t been violently ejected from the solar system to drift endlessly in the dark. Small wins!
Thanks for reading! See you next week.
First Contact
A narrative and visual exploration of humanity’s age-old search for and fixation with extraterrestrials.First Contact explores the ancient idea—and epic ...Hachette Book Group
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[2026-01-07] Apertura Porfido @ Centro di Documentazione Porfido
Apertura Porfido
Centro di Documentazione Porfido - Via Tarino 12/c, Torino
(mercoledì, 7 gennaio 16:00)
Disponibile l'ultimo libro Edizioni Tabor
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Il Centro di Documentazione Porfido è aperto Martedì, Mercoledì e Sabato dalle 16:00 alle 19:30.
[2026-01-07] CENA BELLAVITA @ Mezcal Squat, Parco della Certosa, Collegno
CENA BELLAVITA
Mezcal Squat, Parco della Certosa, Collegno - Mezcal Squat, Parco della Certosa, Collegno
(mercoledì, 7 gennaio 18:00)
CUCINA APERTA DALLE 18.00.
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Il Mezcal Squat è uno spazio autogestito e le attività svolte al suo interno si basano sulla condivisione. Non vi è circolo di denaro. Porta quello che vorresti trovare. Utilizza la cucina e prepara quello che vuoi da mangiare.
SOLO COMPLICI E SOLIDALI, NESSUN CLIENTE!
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COME RAGGIUNGERE IL MEZCAL SQUAT
BUS : 33 - CP1 - 76 - 44
TRENO : FERMATA COLLEGNO
METRO : FERMI
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NO MACHI, NO FASCI, NO SBIRRI
Parco della Certosa Irreale - Collegno (TO)
[2026-01-10] Apertura Porfido @ Centro di Documentazione Porfido
Apertura Porfido
Centro di Documentazione Porfido - Via Tarino 12/c, Torino
(sabato, 10 gennaio 16:00)
Il Centro di Documentazione Porfido è aperto Martedì, Mercoledì e Sabato dalle 16:00 alle 19:30.
Porfido – per la critica della società capitalista – ha una biblioteca con oltre 6000 titoli, catalogati e suddivisi per argomenti, riviste, poster, dvd in prestito. Abbiamo anche una distro di libri in vendita, passate !
Occhio alle nuove uscite Edizioni Porfido, visita il sito porfidotorino.it/
[2026-01-16] Presidio a L'Aquila @ Tribunale de L'Aquila
Presidio a L'Aquila
Tribunale de L'Aquila - Via xx settembre
(venerdì, 16 gennaio 09:30)
[2026-01-17] Assemblea nazionale verso il corteo del 31 Gennaio @ Palazzo Nuovo
Assemblea nazionale verso il corteo del 31 Gennaio
Palazzo Nuovo - Via Sant'Ottavio 20 a Torino
(sabato, 17 gennaio 15:00)
Askatasuna chiama: governo nemico del popolo, il popolo resiste. Assemblea nazionale il 17 gennaio alle h 15 a Palazzo Nuovo (Torino) verso il corteo nazionale del 31 gennaio. "Sgomberare Askatasuna ha significato fare una prova di forza, una sorta di castigo esemplare per chi ha respirato aria fresca nei blocchi delle stazioni e dei porti, per chi ha fatto sciopero e ha visto che ha funzionato, per chi ha pensato insieme siamo più forti. Ha significato colpire una città, Torino, che di resistenza è simbolo ma anche di pesante crisi, industriale ed economica. Insieme, indipendentemente da sigle, strutture o organizzazioni, uniti nell’urgenza di agire collettivamente per invertire il senso di marcia. Ci auguriamo che questa assemblea possa costituire uno dei tanti spazi in cui organizzare l’opposizione al governo Meloni: contro la crisi sociale, contro la guerra e contro il genocidio in Palestina." Link https://www.instagram.com/p/DTFvQaVDNxn/?igsh=MXMwY2N0azVzbHFoMQ==
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Intervista a Tonino D'Annibale Portavoce dell'Associazione Per le future generazioni e attivista dell'Unione dei comitati contro l'inceneritore
Intervista a Tonino D'Annibale Portavoce dell'Associazione Per le future generazioni e attivista dell' Unionedeicomitaticontro L'inceneritore nel programma di Radio Roma TV A VISO SCOPERTO, l'informazione senza veli, condotto da Matteo Demicheli.
Puntata di Giovedì 14 agosto
#Ambiente #StopInceneritore #NoInceneritore #NoInceneritori #ZeroWaste #Rifiuti #Riciclo #EconomiaCircolare #NoAlCarbone #EnergiaPulita
Ranucci: saremo in onda nonostante Gasparri
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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“Il senatore Gasparri con le sue agenzie sta cercando di fermare l’inchiesta di questa sera sulle stragi di mafia. Ma Report andrà in onda regolarmente e manderà in onda gli audio rimasti per circa 20 segreti dove Alberto Lo Cicero, autista del
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Il nuovo video di Pasta Grannies: youtube.com/shorts/DwmH0yyLDaY
@Cucina e ricette
(HASHTAG)
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Per chi avesse letto il mio messaggio di ieri sull'idea di lasciare la mia istanza #Nextcloud e spostare tutto su #cryptpad.org, beh oggi ho scoperto #mailbox.org che per due spiccioli l'anno ti dà tutto quello che ti dà #KryptPad più la mail (e altre cose più o meno interessanti).
Se mi convincessi che mailbox.org è la cosa buona potrei mollare GMail...
Vi viene in mente qualche punto debole di #mailbox.org che dovrei valutare meglio prima di decidere?
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Sleeping Rough in Alaska with a USPS Cargo Bike
Out of all 49 beautiful US states (plus New Jersey), the one you’d probably least want to camp outside in during the winter is arguably Alaska. If you were to spend a night camping out in the Alaskan winter, your first choice of shelter almost certainly wouldn’t be a USPS electric cargo trike, but over on YouTube [Matt Spears] shows that it’s not that hard to make a lovely little camper out of the mail bike.
We’re not sure how much use these sorts of cargo trikes get in Alaska, but [Matt] seems to have acquired this one surplus after an entirely-predictable crash took one of the mirrors off. A delta configuration trike — single wheel in front — is tippy at the best of times, but the high center of gravity you’d get from a loading the rear with mail just makes it worse. That evidently did not deter the United States Postal Service, and it didn’t deter [Matt] either.
His conversion is rather minimal: to turn the cargo compartment into a camper, he only adds a few lights, a latch on the inside of the rear door, and a wood-burning stove for heat. Rather than have heavy insulation shrink the already-small cargo compartment, [Matt] opts to insulate himself with a pile of warm sleeping bags. Some zip-tie tire chains even let him get the bike moving (slowly) in a winter storm that he claims got his truck stuck.
While it might not be a practical winter vehicle, at least on un-plowed mountain roads, starting with an electric-assist cargo trike Uncle Sam already paid for represented a huge cost and time savings vs starting from scratch like this teardrop bike camper we featured a while back. While not as luxurious, it seems more practical for off-roading than another electric RV we’ve seen.
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Ray Marching in Excel
3D graphics are made up of little more then very complicated math. With enough time, you could probably compute a ray marching by hand. Or, you could set up Excel to do it for you!
Ray marching is a form of ray tracing, where a ray is stepped along based on how close it is to the nearest surface. By taking advantage of signed distance functions, such an algorithm can be quite effective, and in some instances much more efficient then traditional ray marching algorithms. But the fact that ray marching is so mathematically well defined is probably why [ExcelTABLE] used it to make a ray traced game in Excel.
Under the hood, the ray marching works by casting a ray out from the camera and measuring its distance from a set of three dimensional functions. If that distance is below a certain value, this is considered a surface hit. On surface hits, a simple normal shader computes pixel brightness. This is then rendered out by variable formatting in the cells of the spreadsheet.
For those of you following along at home, the tutorial should work just fine in any modern spreadsheet software including Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc. It also provides a great explanation of the math and concepts of ray marching, so is worth a read regardless your opinions on Excel’s status as a so-called “programming language.”
This is not the first time we have come across a ray tracing tutorial. If computer graphics are your thing, make sure to check out this ray tracing in a weekend tutorial next!
Thanks [Niklas] for the tip!
Qualcuno conosce un gruppo in cui si discute delle alternative a #GAFAM?
Non cerco un elenco di possibili alternative, quello ce l'ho già, vorrei proprio un gruppo di gente che discute delle singole alternative, per capire un po' meglio pregi e difetti delle varie opzioni.
Non so neanche a quali tag appoggiarmi per raggiungere più gente quindi o questo post me lo condividete un po' voi oppure campa cavallo... 😁
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@Le Alternative @Scimmia di Mare
Credo sia scomodo discutere in tanti su una chat.
Comunque, se mi dai i riferimenti sul gruppo Signal gli do volentieri un'occhiata.
Grazie.
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oltre al gruppo @lealternative@feddit.it ci sono anche i gruppi citiverse.it, ben più verticali al link citiverse.it/category/4/addio-…
Si tratta di:
@amazon-ia
@googlelandia
@localhost
@metaland
@browser
e il più generale @addio-big-tech
Venezuela, spunta un (possibile) supertestimone contro Maduro: chi è Hugo Carvajal, l’ex capo dell’intelligence
In passato uomo di fiducia del governo di Caracas e successivamente estromesso con l’accusa di tradimentoYgnazia Cigna (Open)
Intervento di Giuseppe Girardi Coordinatore del Comitato tecnico scientifico al Corteo del 22 novembre 2025.
Intervento di Giuseppe Girardi Coordinatore del Comitato tecnico scientifico al Corteo del 22 novembre 2025.
#termovalorizzatore #energiapulita #copenhill #copenhagen #raccoltadifferenziata #ambiente #energia #climatechange #clima #denmark #energia #termovalorizzatori
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Se Robert Prevost è il secondo Papa sudamericano. Le parole sul Venezuela
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
articolo21.org/2026/01/se-robe…
È strano, presentato insistentemente come il primo papa americano, per dire statunitense, Robert Prevost non piú presentato così. Forse perché con lui
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Intervento dell'Attivista dell'Unione dei Comitati Norma Bianchi al Corteo del 22 novembre 2025.
Intervento dell'Attivista dell'Unione dei Comitati Norma Bianchi al Corteo del 22 novembre 2025.
#termovalorizzatore #energiapulita #copenhill #copenhagen #raccoltadifferenziata #ambiente #energia #climatechange #clima #denmark #energia #termovalorizzatori #ecologia
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#Valditara
#Mamdani
#Corano
#Bibbia
Sebastiano Cuffari ha taggato stato di Sebastiano Cuffari con #Valditara
L'ultima inutile polemica del ministro Valditara
libramenteblog.blogspot.com/20…
#Valditara
#Mamdani
#Corano
#Bibbia
Gli Usa hanno chiuso la partita con Maduro ma non con il Venezuela
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo
Alla fine, gli Stati Uniti si sono risolti a chiudere i conti con Nicolas Maduro manu militari. Nella notte tra il 2 e il 3 gennaio, le Forze armate americane hanno condotto con successo un’operazione all’interno del territorio venezuelano per sopprimere le difese aeree del Paese e
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Ministero dell'Istruzione
Il #4gennaio è la Giornata mondiale del #Braille, proclamata dall'ONU in memoria della nascita di Louis Braille.Telegram
Ad esempio se edito un post con una foto, su Raccoon la foto pare venga ripetuta dopo aver reinviato, ma se ricarichi poi la tua home è sembra corretto. E poi non mi visualizza gli hashtag.
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Exploring Nintendo 64DD Code Remnants in Ocarina of Time
What if you took a Nintendo 64 cartridge-based game and allowed it to also use a large capacity magnetic disc format alongside it? This was the premise of the Nintendo 64DD peripheral, and the topic of a recent video by [Skawo] in which an archaeological code dig is performed to see what traces of the abandoned product may remain.
The 64DD slots into the bottom of the console where the peripheral connector is located, following which the console can read and write the magnetic discs of the 64DD. At 64 MB it matched the cartridge in storage capacity, while also being writable unlike cartridges or CDs. It followed on previous formats like the Famicom Disk System.
For 1998’s Game of the Year title The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time such a 64DD-based expansion was worked on for a while before being cancelled along with the 64DD. With this Zelda game now decompiled, its source code has shown to be still full of 64DD-related code that [Skawo] takes us through in the video.
As is typical for CD- and magnetic storage formats like these 64DD discs, their access times and transfer speeds are atrociously slow next to a cartridge’s mask ROM, which clearly left the developers scrambling to find some way to use the 64DD as an actual enhancement. Considering that the 64DD never was released outside of Japan and had a very short life, it would seem apparent that, barring PlayStation-level compromises, disc formats just weren’t a good match for the console.
The interface with the 64DD in the game’s code gives some idea of what the developers had in mind, which mostly consisted out of swapping on-cartridge resources like dungeon maps with different ones. Ultimately this content did make its way into a commercial release, in the form of the Master Quest option on the game’s re-release on the GameCube.
Although this doesn’t enable features once envisioned, such as tracking the player’s entire route and storing permanent map changes during gameplay, it at least gives us a glimpse of what the expansion game on the 64DD could have looked like.
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Top image: N64 with stacked 64DD, credit: Evan-Amos
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Intervento di Aldo Garofolo Chimico del Comitato tecnico scientifico dell’Unione al Corteo del 22 novembre 2025.
#termovalorizzatore #energiapulita #copenhill #copenhagen #raccoltadifferenziata #ambiente #energia #climatechange #clima #denmark #energia #termovalorizzatori #ecologia
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neootopografia
Manifesto della Neotopografia - iaf 2772003
Noi siamo i discendenti dei Nuovi Topografi, che ci hanno indicato la strada da percorrere.
Di Adams ce n'è uno solo: Robert.
Rinneghiamo l'estetismo compiaciuto e la Falsità dei truccatori: crediamo nella Verità solo e soltanto perché essa è nuda e invisibile.
Noi non pieghiamo nulla e nessuno al volere della nostra indole: siamo inermi e sopraffatti dalla Bellezza, e non la ricerchiamo. Noi non cerchiamo nulla.
Fotografiamo il territorio circostante perché non si deve mettere in posa: esso sta, qui e ora.
Non aspettiamo l'attimo fuggente: esso è, qui e ora.
Non attendiamo l'affanno di un nuovo progetto, né una nuova idea: il. progetto siamo noi stessi.
Il neotopografo ama fare la fotografia, perché in quel momento essa è solo il nutrimento della sua anima.
Il neotopografo non ha il culto della personalità, ma ama ciò che guarda.
Il neotopografo non vuole "fare una bella fotografia", ma si abbandona all'inconscio tecnologico della macchina perché la Bellezza entri con passi felpati dalla porta di servizio.
Chiunque può divenire neotopografo, purchè abbia la fede.
(Autore Pietro Pesaresi, it.arti.fotografia, 2003)
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Scoperti tunnel impossibili nel deserto: riscrive ciò che sappiamo
Nascoste proprio nella roccia, minuscole gallerie perfette sembrano opera di un'antica forma di vita mai vista prima.Everyeye Tech
Il ghiacciaio dell’Apocalisse è sempre più vicino a un collasso irreversibile
Un'analisi dell'espansione delle crepe presenti sul ghiacciaio dell’Apocalisse negli ultimi 20 anni suggerisce che potrebbe essere solo una questione di tempoRitsuko Kawai (Wired Italia)
"Venite a prendermi, codardi", Trump 'sfotte' Maduro con il suo stesso discorso
Il presidente del Venezuela è stato arrestato in un blitz americano a CaracasRedazione Adnkronos (Adnkronos)
Secondo quanto detto dalla nostra fantomatica premier, allora è legittimo anche l'intervento della Russia in Ucraina. Aspetto le sanzioni agli Usa, il mandato di arresto del CPI per Trump, la condanna dell'ONU, e il divieto agli atleti statunitensi a partecipare alle gare sportive internazionali.
Le cancellerie del mondo si dividono sull’azione militare degli Usa in Venezuela, che ha portato all’arresto del presidente Nicolás Maduro, subito trasferito negli Stati Uniti per essere processato con l’accusa di narco-terrorismo. Quanto al governo italiano, è uscita nel pomeriggio una nota di Palazzo Chigi per dire che la presidente del Consiglio, Giorgia Meloni, ha seguito gli sviluppi “fin dalle loro primissime evoluzioni”. E chiarire che “l’Italia ha sempre sostenuto l’aspirazione del popolo venezuelano a una transizione democratica nel Venezuela, condannando gli atti di repressione del regime di Maduro, la cui auto-proclamata vittoria elettorale l’Italia, assieme ai principali partner internazionali, non ha mai riconosciuto”.
Rispetto al modo scelto da Donal Trump, la nota prosegue con un distinguo: “Coerentemente con la storica posizione dell’Italia, il Governo reputa che l’azione militare esterna non sia la strada da percorrere per mettere fine ai regimi totalitari, ma considera al contempo legittimo un intervento di natura difensiva contro attacchi ibridi alla propria sicurezza, come nel caso di entità statuali che alimentano e favoriscono il narcotraffico”.
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Il problema non è Maduro ma il principio
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo
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Non abbiamo mai avuto simpatia per un personaggio come Maduro, meno che mai da quando il suo governo ha preso in ostaggio il cooperante italiano Alberto Trentini, rinchiuso da oltre quattrocento giorni in un carcere venezuelano senza alcuna accusa
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in reply to tomiant • • •[Edit: PieFed did not show the title including the link to Reddit where additional information was provided.]
It reads like an instance by the name of MedMastodon went down with little to no notice.
Although this announcement seems to have been made on a Friendica instance that also isn't cooperating (edit: hashtags) - certainly not to anyone without a login on that specific instance, which I imagine will affect roughly 100.00000% of all people reading this (and high ironically - in the Alanis Morissette sense - roughly also 100.00000% of the people that do not read this:-).
To anyone on Lemmy and wondering, there are additional hashtags that render on PieFed but not Lemmy, though it doesn't help here since this is the only place that hashtag has ever been used (that PieFed here shows).
Oh, and the instance actually does return an error page saying "This instance is under maintenance.", ~~so it's remotely possible that this Friendica message is based on misinformation, and that the instance being "down" may be only temporary? (I have no idea)~~
Some additional info I could scrounge:
Article about Med-Mastodon, basically saying to use both the X and then treat that Mastodon as a way to hedge your bets against Twitter enshittifying.
Hrm, it looks like their GoFundMe may have just run out, having started on Nov. 15, 2022 and lasting for 3 years? (I have no idea if there were any follow-up ones)
~~And at this point I've already put far more work into this than OP, it would seem, trying to guess what they meant, so I'll stop here.🙄~~ (edit: this was due to a PieFed rendering bug)
Med-Mastodon Gains Users Amid Uncertainties at Twitter
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in reply to OpenStars • • •For some reason Piefed is removing the title of the post, which links to a Reddit thread as a source. That thread clarifies: "I emailed the address given on the page and was told the instance service was cancelled by the instance owner and it's unknown whether there was a plan to migrate or just shut down completely".
Looking at the under maintenance page myself, the email seems to be the server host's, so this isn't the instance owner being unsure about their future plans yet, it means the hosting relationship is cancelled and the host doesn't know about things beyond that.
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in reply to Pamasich • • •Thank you for the correction and additional information.
@rimu@piefed.social a bug report: Piefed is removing the title of the post, which profoundly affects its understandability.
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in reply to OpenStars • • •It's not released yet, this fix will come out with v1.5.
I'm probably going to switch to making smaller releases from now on (one big monster every 4-6 weeks contains too many changes for people to really absorb and understand) so 1.5 might be sooner than you expect.
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in reply to OpenStars • •@OpenStars Great update: MedMastodon is back online and its users should be able to access their data.
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in reply to tomiant • • •This is the fediverse, where many different software intersect. You should expect the possibility of incompatibilities with users from instances other than your own. When a post looks like something is missing, always open it on its origin instance before complaining. It's likely your own instance is at fault for the issue, not the author.
In this case it looks like Piefed deleted the post's title.
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in reply to Jeena • • •They did.
There's almost hundreds of dead social media that inaccessible, some even have zero backups.
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in reply to chicken • • •ActivityPub (the model that the fediverse uses for federation) is publishing-based, as the name implies. Like email, you're sending messages to a list of recipients. Usually that's your followers, people you mention, and the person you're replying to.
If the recipient list is empty, then your message won't leave your instance.
Threadiverse users don't really have to worry about this too much because communities act as relays, sending your posts to all of the community's followers as well. But microblogging instances don't have that luxury. If they don't have any followers, aren't writing a reply, and don't mention anyone... their post isn't federated anywhere.
It's also worth considering that only public data is federated. For example I wouldn't be able to recover my bookmarks from another instance, and it doesn't seem like Lemmy federates your list of subscriptions. Your posts may still exist elsewhere even when your instance goes down, but that's not necessarily the data people want to be able to recover.
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in reply to The Pirate Post • • •I'm not sure what people would be trying to access, I suppose. Post history? Things that can be exported, like account settings, generally should be stashed somewhere. Things that can't be, well... That's a bit sad but I dunno, I never post anything online that I care so much about I'd be sad if it disappeared. Anything I did care about, I make a backup of it locally.
Not trying to downplay people's upset, but just pointing out ways to protect the things you care about.
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in reply to The Pirate Post • • •Dear lazyweb (or lazystodon or lazyverse), are there dead simple scripts for periodic backup? You know, something you just authorise to act as a client and then stick into a crontab to run daily/weekly and it'll keep a local copy of your stuff. Preferably something you can just install via pip or gem or (oh please gods no) npm.
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