Francesco 🍁 @fra@qoto.org

Stefano Bonaccini ed Elly Schlein sono i due candidati alla segreteria del PD https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/20/bonaccini-schlein-candidati-segreteria-partito-democratico/

shout out to whoever designed the "non-fiction" icon in Apple Books

Mentre in UE l'identità digitale è tra i temi nodali, l'Italia sta facendo morire #SPID, la conquista più importante per la nostra cittadinanza digitale.
Perché da noi l'unica #eutanasialegale è quella sui nostri diritti...
Di Luca #Zorloni su #wireditalia
https://www.wired.it/article/spid-convenzione-scaduta-2022-governo-cie/

We are taking high-speed internet to the space 🚀

This week, the European Parliament adopted our proposal to deploy IRIS² – the new EU satellite constellation.

It will bring connectivity to all of Europe, including rural areas.

Along with the Galileo and Copernicus space programmes, IRIS² will create a sovereign and secure communication service for our Union and its partners.

The private and public sectors will join forces to make it fully operational by 2027.

➡️ https://europa.eu/!q8chMc

Over on the birdsite, some people have been discovering geometric packing problems, about how small of a bounding shape you can draw around some number of a smaller shape.

(Sometimes the solutions are really beautiful, you see. And sometimes, um. See attached.)

I'd been unable to find this page I remembered about these. Turns out the professor who maintained it retired, so the old links to it broke. But it does still exist! So you too can experience the rollercoaster of https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html

The results of the independent inquiry into the "truckers" "freedom" convoy from last year were revealed today.

The "Freedom" Convoy was a violent and unlawful occupation, boosted by Russia and Fox News.

#cdnpoli #FreedomConvoy #Propaganda

Il decreto-legge che accentra la gestione del PNRR https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/17/pnrr-governo-meloni/

Il governo ha bloccato i crediti del superbonus https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/17/blocco-crediti-superbonus/

Pensa e scegli in grande (e da grande): insieme per un paese più laico e civile.
Iscriviti all’Uaar per il 2023, puoi farlo a partire dai 14 anni: perché per noi sono importanti le scelte libere e consapevoli.
Puoi farlo anche con soli 10 euro, per avere rivista e tessera in formato digitale.
Più saremo, più avremo forza e capacità di incidere! 👇
https://www.uaar.it/adesione/

The most ridiculous thing about the Twitter engineers being blackmailed by their egomaniac slave-owner into over-boosting his posts because Biden was organically getting more engagement is that there's still people using that platform.

#RIPTwitter #TwitterMigration #GetOutNow

Up for Donating Books? try the @internetarchive new app to find out which ones will help fill out the collections (if you go through this, we can sometimes cover postage)

Randomly scanning your or friend's books to see if the Internet Archive already has it... Again, try the app. (I find it fun, but it might just be me)

Search for "donate books" in the apple or google app stores.

You know who DOESN’T get to decide if the concept of “15-Minute Cities,” which supports MORE CHOICE, LESS CAR DEPENDENCY, and LOWER PUBLIC COSTS & CONSEQUENCES, is good public policy?

The same extreme alt-right conspiracy theorists and cynical political opportunists who brought us truck occupations in Canadian neighbourhoods, the January 6th Insurrection, & Brexit.

I won’t let their unhinged lies work. You shouldn’t either.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7g898/walkable-15-minute-cities-con

There are two trends in government over the past 30 years that have collided to cause a never-ending series of high-profile failures:

1. Outsourcing anything technology-related, regarding tech as outside of government’s core competencies (or even government’s proper role).
2. Relying on technology to accomplish nearly all agency goals and intermediating interactions with the public through software.

Can you identify the problem here?

Growth forecast for 2023 (%):

🇮🇪 4.9
🇲🇹 3.1
🇷🇴 2.5
🇱🇺 1.7
🇨🇾 1.6
🇸🇰 1.5
🇪🇸 1.4
🇧🇬 1.4
🇬🇷 1.2
🇭🇷 1.2
🇸🇮 1.0
🇵🇹 1.0
🇳🇱 0.9
🇧🇪 0.8
🇮🇹 0.8
🇪🇺 0.8
🇫🇷 0.6
🇭🇺 0.6
🇦🇹 0.5
🇵🇱 0.4
🇱🇹 0.3
🇩🇪 0.2
🇫🇮 0.2
🇨🇿 0.1
🇪🇪 0.1
🇱🇻 0.1
🇩🇰 0.1
🇸🇪 -0.8

#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion

As a committer on a couple of medium-popularity projects I couldn't agree more with this:

"Maintaining a successful open source project is Good Will Hunting in reverse. You start out as a respected genius, and end up being a janitor who gets into fights."

— Byrne Hobart (@ByrneHobart@twitter.com)

Google ha ucciso Golang. Con un colpo secco.
Google ha ucciso Golang. Con un colpo secco. - Das Böse Büro
https://keinpfusch.net/google-ha-ucciso-golang-con-un-colpo-secco/

La procura della Cassazione ha chiesto la revoca del 41-bis per Alfredo Cospito https://www.ilpost.it/2023/02/12/procura-cassazione-41-bis-cospito/

It's science.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/sports-cars-penis-size

Bing Chat Succombs to Prompt Injection Attack, Spills Its Secrets https://slashdot.org/story/23/02/12/0114222/bing-chat-succombs-to-prompt-injection-attack-spills-its-secrets?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

A man named Bruno Schröder, was a mining engineer for most of his life. When passed away in his 80s in June 2022, he had around 60,000 or so books spread out on the 4 floors of his house in Mettingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The books likely weigh about the same as 15 modern cars. 📚
#books #library #BookCollection #collection #Germany

h/t @BrianJopek