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Dopo il grande successo delle scarpe multicolor, fortunatamente prodotte in edizione molto limitata, nacque il sospetto che alla Lidl fossero tutti daltonici. Oggi questa teoria non basta più a spiegare gli evidenti problemi dell'azienda con le immagini. Un
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Chat Control, spiegata bene.
La versione temporanea e meno invasiva del contestato regolamento europeo contro la pedopornografia intanto è stata prorogataIl Post
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La corsa globale al quantum ha imboccato una nuova fase. Non è più soltanto una competizione tra laboratori per realizzare il computer quantistico più potente, ma una sfida per costruire per primi l’infrastruttura industriale, normativa e strategica che consentirà a
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sono davvero triste. specie se penso alle canzonette di sanremo
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Attendere mesi per una visita specialistica o un esame diagnostico senza sapere di avere un’alternativa. È la situazione in cui si trovano molti cittadini che, davanti a liste d’attesa sempre più lunghe, non conoscono gli strumenti previsti per far rispettare i tempi indicati nella propria prescrizione medica.
Ogni richiesta di primo accesso per una prestazione sanitaria deve infatti riportare una classe di priorità, alla quale corrisponde un tempo massimo entro cui la prestazione dovrebbe essere garantita. Se la data proposta supera quel termine, il cittadino può chiedere l’attivazione delle procedure previste per ottenere la prestazione entro i tempi stabiliti.
Un diritto che però, nella pratica, resta poco conosciuto: molte persone non sanno che questa possibilità esiste, non sanno a chi rivolgersi o non riescono a orientarsi tra moduli e procedure.
Per colmare questo vuoto informativo, il Numero Bianco dell’Associazione Luca Coscioni, impegnata a livello internazionale nella tutela del diritto alla salute, amplia oggi il proprio servizio: accanto alle informazioni sui diritti nel fine vita, offre ai cittadini orientamento anche sulle liste d’attesa, spiegando come muoversi per far valere i propri diritti.
«Un diritto non conosciuto rischia, nei fatti, di non essere esercitato. Questo vale quando una persona deve affrontare una scelta delicata sul fine vita, ma anche quando deve accedere a una prestazione sanitaria in tempi congrui. Su entrambi i temi, la complessità delle procedure e la difficoltà nel reperire informazioni chiare possono generare tempi incerti, confusione e impedire ai cittadini di conoscere e utilizzare pienamente i propri diritti», spiega l’Associazione Luca Coscioni.
Chiamando il Numero Bianco (06 9931 3409), i cittadini possono ricevere informazioni su come attivare il percorso previsto per le liste d’attesa e su quali passaggi seguire per presentare la richiesta alla struttura sanitaria.
La chiamata è gratuita. Se gli operatori sono impegnati, è possibile lasciare un messaggio e ricevere un richiamo.
L'articolo Da oggi il Numero Bianco aiuterà i cittadini a far valere il diritto di ottenere visite ed esami medici nei tempi previsti proviene da Associazione Luca Coscioni.
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Oggi il Parlamento europeo ha approvato la scansione di massa senza sospetto delle comunicazioni private (“Chat Control 1.0”), una misura che aveva respinto due volte a marzo. Sebbene la maggioranza dei deputati europei votanti si fosse effettivamente opposta al regolamento ( 314 contrari, 276 favorevoli, 17 astensioni ), la mozione di rigetto non ha ottenuto la maggioranza assoluta di 361 voti…
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🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨
New ESO study finds that current proposals to launch 1.7+ million satellites into orbit would have devastating consequences for astronomy.
The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital
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#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #environment #pollution
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The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...)
It's now published in The Conversation Canada: theconversation.com/a-new-cras…
How prepared are we for a solar storm, bad software update or cybersecurity event that could trigger widespread loss of satellite control?The Conversation
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About 18 months ago, we brought you a sneak peek at a handheld that started life in the Dutch conference badge scene. At the time it showed promise, but its software wasn’t ready for a fair review. Now it has both a stable operating system and a growing software library. It’s time to put it through its paces and see what it can do.
The Tanmatsu (Japanese for “Terminal”), is a general putpose palmtop computer based around an ESP32-P4 application processor from Espressif. It takes the form of a PCB and PETG 3D printed sandwich, with the front face PCB sporting a silicone QWERTY keyboard and an 800×480 MIPI DSI display. The keyboard should be familiar to many readers, being the same moulding as the Solder Party KeebDeck which has appeared on other devices.
Under the hood that P4 has two 400MHz RISC-V cores and 32MB of PSRAM with 16MB of Flash, and there’s an ESP32-C6 for WiFi, BLE and IEEE 802.15.4 mesh networking. There’s an Ebyte LoRa module with an SMA antenna too, which can be had in 868, or 915MHz versions depending on where in the world you live.
For interfacing there are USB A and C ports, and SD card socket, a 3.5 mm jack for audio, and three expansion ports. On the right side a Qwiic compatible socket, on the left a socket with PMOD and SAO capabilities, and on the rear under the cover, a CSI camera connector the same as the Raspberry Pi, and a much larger expansion socket with all the various signals, planned for add-ons. It’s all powered by a chunky 2500 mAh LiPo which can be charged through the USB-C port.
Because I know the folks behind it I’ve watched it grow from its origins in a souped-up version of the MCH2022 badge into its current form, indeed I bought my Tanmatsu just over a year ago. Due to those origins in the Dutch badge team, this device is open-source. The Tanmatsu is a commercial version produced and sold by Renze Nicolai, its designer, while the Konsool is its community cousin. You can find its mechanical hardware here, its electronics here, and its firmware here.
Turning the Tanmatsu on, after a synthwave-inspired splash screen you find yourself in a graphical menu. The user interface is pretty intuitive to anyone used to a desktop GUI or a modern smartphone, along the top are status icons for SD card, Wi-Fi, and battery, the main body of the screen has a grid of icons, and along the bottom is a list of the various keyboard shortcuts. Navigation is via a set of arrow keys with the return key selecting an option, and a set of coloured function keys handle special functions.
On first start-up the Tanmatsu has no apps installed, so the first order of business is to connect to a Wi-Fi network and update the firmware through the Settings. It takes a while to do this as it can update the firmware on the P4, the C6, and the microcontroller it uses for housekeeping. A feature I like is that this is the first device from the world of badges I’ve seen that can hold more than one set of Wi-Fi network details rather than requiring me to change the settings at each location.
With a freshly updated Tanmatsu you can open the repository, this device’s app store, and download some apps to get started. This is a long-standing badge.team feature, in that badges going back to their SHA 2017 offering have had downloadable apps. The apps are sorted into categories for easy navigation, and in my case there are immediately two apps I have installed, the Tamatype camera app for my Pi camera add-on, and from the choice of two different Meshcore apps, Wadamesh.
The apps themselves come in two forms, either ones written in an interpreted scripting language such as MicroPython, or those compiled directly for the P4. It doesn’t ship with a script engine installed, however MicroPython is downloadable as an app from the repository. This is not a multitasking device so the front-end is a launcher, and after running an app the screen will flash blue for a moment as it loads. Each app has a metadata file which instructs the Tanmatsu what to do with it, an icon file, and a folder containing its executable components. There’s a comprehensive online guide, should you wish to try developing your own apps.
In use the Tanmatsu is convenient to hold and type with using two hands. The display is clear and bright, and the keyboard while a little on the small side has a positive click action. Using the apps depends on the individual choices of the app developer, but the interface conventions are straightforward. I’ve been using it for Meshcore for a while now, and it makes a very handy terminal indeed.
The price of a fully assembled Tanmatsu is 99 Euros, plus Dutch sales tax if you live in the EU, and shipping. The good news for Americans in an age of uncertain tariffs is that I’m told they will be shipping from a US warehouse in the next few months. It’s worth considering for a moment where this places the device in the ecosystem of similar computers.
It’s relatively simple to make a handheld Linux cyberdeck using a Raspberry Pi board, however once the price of new peripherals and parts is taken into account it’s not necessarily a cheap project. There are quite a few similar-sized Linux devices on the market whose prices reflect this at about twice as much. Thus I think that the Tanmatsu fits in a middle zone between development boards that come without the screen, battery, and keyboard, and those Linux handhelds that are all-singing all-dancing.
In its favour it’s as far as I know the only P4 device on the market with a mature operating system and particuarly an app repository, but if only Linux will do, it’s unable to deliver. Where I think its niche lies is in being simple and low power enough to be a reliable and powerful hacker’s communicator and general purpose toolkit, but cheap enough to remain a reasonable purchase. For now it stands alone in that niche, and only time will tell whether it can successfully define it.
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We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a set of reference transmitters and super-accurate timing information can be used to calculate a position to an astounding precision. They had land based predecessors such as LORAN and Decca Navigator which worked in a similar fashion but with fixed land-based reference transmitters. Terra is an attempt to do the same thing without a network of dedicated transmitters, instead using FM broadcast transmitters as its fixed points.
This might seem like an impossible task without access to the transmitters, but they have a workaround using the Internet as a backhaul. Instead of transmitting their timing information like the systems mentioned above, they rely on a set of reference receivers sharing it online to the client’s receiver software. So far they have a demo running in Denver.
The interesting thing about this system is that it’s open-source, and requires only a relatively inexpensive software defined radio receiver and a computer to operate. Now anyone with a group of internet-connected friends to set up reference receivers can have their own positioning system, it’s no longer the exclusive preserve of governments. We like this idea, and we look forward to seeing it being tested more widely.
If you’d like to know where we’ve come from, we’ve taken a look at LORAN before.
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The first known use of humans using wind to perform mechanical work with machines dates back to ninth-century Persian windmills. But if we count sailing vessels among those machines, the history goes back to sometime just before the invention of written language. Since then, humans have been sailing everything from the tiniest of Sunfish to the largest of shipping vessels, and even sailing boats like canoes that aren’t typically designed for efficient sailing. For those who already own a canoe, the conversions can be straightforward but often involve drilling into the hull. This homemade conversion kit, on the other hand, requires no drilling at all.
The first, and most obvious, part of the conversion is to add a mast and sail. [Tea]’s primary setup does involve drilling a mast thwart into the gunwales of the canoe, but he also built an alternative setup which clamps to the gunwales and the bow deck instead. The standing lug sail is then hoisted on an unstayed wooden mast. The next major component of the build are a pair of leeboards which also clamp to the gunwales and function like a centerboard, and can be adjusted for one’s preferred amount of weather helm. Rounding out the stern of the boat is a custom-built rudder with a pair of lines in lieu of a tiller which can be positioned anywhere along the length of the boat.
All of the wooden parts of this build were custom-built from common lumber with finishing touches from a router to soften all of the hard edges. Canoe sailing is fairly popular, although without the leeboards these common sailing kits are often meant for downwind sailing only. A complete setup like this turns it into a much more capable craft. Without a canoe as a base vessel to start with, though, a complete sailing vessel can be built from common lumber as well.
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Doing something once is fun, but if you get interesting feedback from viewers on how to make things even more fun, you can only follow all of these instructions and put more random objects on top of an induction cooker, as [Brainiac75] fortunately did.
Much like in the first video, the goal here is to use the Lorentz force that is induced in the object for levitation, ideally without having said object depart for orbit, melt into a puddle of molten metal or be a general hazard to anyone standing in the same room.
Some of the suggestions were rather benign, such as improving the aluminium foil ring by adding four times more layers to create more mass. Unfortunately adding more layers here had the device refuse to turn on due to the absence of a suitable ferromagnetic target. The difference between the working versions with one to three layers was here also not really noticeable. Various aluminium and copper tape configurations were then attempted, but without much success.
Of note is that while levitating, the metal gets pretty hot. At one point a CD even gets melted to aluminium foil. Even the use of water-filled aluminium cans will only give you so much time, and ramping down the power level on the induction cooker only revealed that this particular model operates only at either at full blast or off. Correspondingly a new induction cooker with claimed constant output was obtained for the next experiments at lower levels.
Interestingly, it was this new induction cooker set to a more reasonable output level that showed the first reasonably static levitation results without immediate conflagration or molten metal splatter risk. Whether this is the kind of levitation display that you want to set up in your living room in lieu of a boring magnetic one is still a good question, but at least this demonstration got downgraded to something potentially safe enough to play around with in a physics class.
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Laser diodes are convenient light sources, but for precise optical work their often-elliptical beam profile leaves something to be desired. One way to get around this is to couple the beam into a single-mode optical fiber, which then emits a circular Gaussian beam from the other end. For more advanced experiments, therefore, [Diffraction Limited] built this fiber-coupled laser source.
The simplest approach is to place the fiber directly against a light source, but this results in most of the light missing the three-micron fiber core. Optical fibers have an acceptance cone, and only light approaching from within this cone is coupled into the fiber. The design therefore uses an aspheric lens to focus light from the laser diode down to a tiny point matching the diameter of the fiber core, creating a cone of incoming light narrower than the acceptance cone.
The body of the laser source was CNC machined out of brass, with the laser-diode press-fit in one end. The lens stands in front of the diode, and was glued in place so that its focal point was just above the end of a mounting pin for the glass fiber. Positioning and fixing the fiber in place was the biggest challenge; [Diffraction Limited] could use the micro-manipulator from a previous video to position the fiber, but the UV-set glue used to fix it in place shrinks during curing, pulling it out of position. To deal with this, two set screws under the mounting pin allowed its position to be adjusted slightly after gluing. As expected, adhesive shrinkage meant that the completed source initially produced no light, but after the set screws were adjusted, the beam appeared.
For more on fiber-coupled lasers, check out [Les Wright]’s work. If you don’t have access to an aspheric lens, an anti-bumping bead could be a reasonable alternative.
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There are many experimenters who have had a go at a mechanical television, and though there are a few challenges, it’s a relatively straightforward project in 2026. A hundred years ago though it was still beyond the cutting edge of technology, and that’s where [Paul Kocyla] is placing his build. It’s a mechanical TV system, using only parts that would have been available in the 1920s. The project isn’t finished yet, but we suggest following along for some fascinating insights into developments in early electronics.
As it stands he has a wooden chassis, a period power supply and amplifier, a synchronous motor, and of course the Nipkow disk that makes it all possible. The electronics aren’t quite finished, and he’s yet to source a neon lamp. This last party may be particularly tricky, as there were specific flat-plate neon lamps made for this application. It’s interesting to find that the motor would synchronize to the grid frequency and would need to be restarted a few times for the frame to be in the right place.
His last posting contains a particularly interesting nugget of information for anyone using tubes. The amplifier carries a 120 Hz hum, something difficult to trace. The culprit is the early tubes with directly heated cathodes formed from the heaters themselves; they had such a low thermal mass that they would “blink” at 120 Hz if fed with AC. A set of period copper oxide rectifiers solve this by feeding DC to the heaters. There’s a YouTube series to follow, and we’ve placed the most recent one in which he fixes the power supply, below the break.
Back in January, we marked the hundredth anniversary of mechanical TV’s invention. Meanwhile, some of us have been known to experiment in this direction too.
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Aria condizionata spenta negli uffici EU di Bruxelles (eccetto quelli della V.d.Leyen)
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🥵 Se questa vi sembra un'estate rovente, ricordate che potrebbe essere la più fresca del resto della nostra vita.
Non possiamo cambiare il clima con un post, ma possiamo informarci meglio e fare scelte più consapevoli.
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potrebbe sempre esserci un vulcano che esplode e avere un’estate mite grazie alle polveri sollevate 😅
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in reply to ESO • • •SpaceX plans to launch 1 million satellites for space-based data centres.
This diagram shows the satellites that would be visible above our VLT:
⚪ invisible satellites in Earth’s shadow
🟠 2000 satellites brighter than magnitude 7
🔴 200 satellites brighter than magnitude 5
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📷 ESO/O. Hainaut
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in reply to ESO • • •Reflect Orbital aims to launch 50,000 mirror-like satellites to provide sunlight at night, with reflected beams spanning at least 5 km on Earth's surface.
This image illustrates how scattered sunlight would increase the overall brightness of the sky above the VLT, even if the mirrors aren’t aiming directly at the observatory.
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📷 ESO/O. Hainaut
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in reply to ESO • • •Both SpaceX & Reflect Orbital have filed with the US Federal Communications Commission for permission to launch.
Our response to the FCC, together with the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union, was based on this study 👉 eso.org/public/news/eso2607/
📹 F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser
"Beyond the limit": one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky
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Robert Frank
in reply to ESO • • •gunstick
in reply to ESO • • •You could also try to shoot down the rocket with those datacenter and mirror satellites.
I think it is legitimate defense.
At least starlink has some use to be in space. But datacenters? Or mirrors? WTH???
Gerardo Lisboa
in reply to ESO • • •Erik Laan
in reply to ESO • • •vampirdaddy
in reply to ESO • • •Why does the FCC have authority over the space above Europe?
They already allowed a US satellite company hogging european HAM radio frequencies even when in radio range of europe.
TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦
in reply to ESO • • •Sensitive content
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in reply to ESO • • •Lstn2urmama 🇨🇦
in reply to ESO • • •Ben Ramsey
in reply to ESO • • •In the alt text, it says the simulated image shows the night sky at 3-4x brighter. Is that a worldwide estimate with 50,000 mirrors, or is it localized to the VLT area? The effects to astronomy will be tremendous, but how will this also affect wildlife across the planet?
Cc: @sundogplanets
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in reply to ESO • • •☭ Father Hardstone
in reply to ESO • • •Didn't the Soviets (later Russians) tried this and turned out to be a 'crazy idea' ! :thaenkin:
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Dingswart
in reply to ESO • • •Thee Mighty Peculia 🍄
in reply to ESO • • •Lord
in reply to ESO • • •The earth is getting hotter and some evil genius want to add more sunlight ?!
Ray McCarthy
in reply to ESO • • •The FCC should only authorise spectrum over USA, not orbits and not RF elsewhere (AST). Not fit for purpose.
"The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital"
Those should be rejected by any sane civilisation.
SF is not blueprints, but entertainment and/or warnings.
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in reply to ESO • • •ESO
in reply to Dr David Mills • • •One hour of satellites over the northern Atacama Desert in Chile (October 2025)
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in reply to ESO • • •Scotty Trees
in reply to ESO • • •F4GRX Sébastien
in reply to ESO • • •Vikas | Performance Engineer
in reply to ESO • • •Technology evolves.
Trust compounds—or disappears.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to ESO • • •Elon Musk is a fossil fuel shill.
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His numerous boondoggles are intended to launder money for thuggish Russian oil oligarchs & murderous petrostate despots.
Imagine how much worse climate change will become under a satellite-enabled surveillance system like his
Larry Ellison
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Ellison and the Lie
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in reply to ESO • • •JungYulKim Dotcom Free Press
in reply to ESO • • •Will the datacenters have any advantage in terms of cooling in space? I thought this was a non-starter. Maybe the electricity from the sun is somehow making it worthwhile?
I really don't understand why that would be functional. Maybe if there are 1 million of them the math works out? Seems like a high number.
Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂
in reply to ESO • • •Stephen Dedalus 🇺🇦
in reply to ESO • • •"Firefly" intro: "Burn the land and boil the sea, You can't take the sky from me."
Oligarchs: "Hold my beer!"
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in reply to ESO • • •FElon&Felon47🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇹🇼
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in reply to ESO • • •Tanya Karoli 4 a better world
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in reply to ESO • • •Wtf noooooooo!!!
The sky looks like a shitty cutting board…