Consider the following: rust rewrites of projects like coreutils exist purely to remove copyleft licensing. The supposed security and performance gains are irrelevant, and while memory safety is important, logic bugs don’t suddenly cease to exist just because it was written in Rust.
phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-…
Ahead of tomorrow's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support (LTS) versionwww.phoronix.com
Ha collaborato con le più importanti agenzie spaziali, ha dato il nome a un asteroide e ha avuto un ruolo chiave in uno degli esperimenti più audaci della storia dello spazio: far atterrare una sonda su una cometa a centinaia di milioni di chilometri dalla Terra. Amalia Ercoli Finzi è la prima donna italiana laureata in ingegneria aeronautica.
Nata il 20 aprile 1937 a Gallarate, in provincia di Varese, Amalia cresce con una passione travolgente per la matematica. Già la scelta di frequentare il liceo scientifico a Busto Arsizio è insolita per l’epoca, ma non quanto la successiva: si iscrive al Politecnico di Milano per studiare ingegneria aeronautica, corso dominato dagli uomini e frequentato da sole 5 ragazze su 650 studenti. I genitori avrebbero preferito per lei una cattedra di matematica alle medie. Lei non li ascolta.
Nel 1962 si laurea con il massimo dei voti e lode e vince la medaglia d'oro dell'AIDAA, l’associazione italiana di aeronautica e astronautica. È la prima donna italiana a conseguire questa laurea e passeranno dodici anni prima che arrivi la seconda. Da parte sua, Amalia seguirà personalmente molte delle prime colleghe per aiutarle a inserirsi nel mondo del lavoro.
Inizia subito a insegnare al Politecnico di Milano, dove resterà per oltre cinquant'anni: diventa professoressa associata nel 1980 e ordinaria nel 1994, insegnando meccanica orbitale e dirigendo il dipartimento di ingegneria aerospaziale.
L’apice della sua carriera arriva con la missione Rosetta dell'ESA. Per diversi anni è Principal Investigator (responsabile scientifico) del trapano SD2 montato sulla sonda Philae, progettato per perforare la superficie della cometa Churyumov-Gerasimenko e raccogliere campioni del terreno da analizzare. L’atterraggio di Philae sulla cometa, nel novembre 2014, è uno dei momenti più emozionanti della storia spaziale europea, anche se non tutto va come previsto.
Anche dopo il pensionamento non si ferma: studia il possibile atterraggio di un equipaggio umano su Marte e progetta un orto botanico sulla Luna.
Nel 2018, l'International Astronomical Union le dedica l'asteroide 24890, ribattezzato "Amaliafinzi". Riceve anche il Premio Frank J. Malina dell'International Astronautical Federation e viene nominata Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.
È sposata con il fisico Filiberto Finzi e ha cinque figli. La sua formula per conciliare tutto? "Nervi d'acciaio, salute di ferro e marito d'oro."
Per tutta la vita ha combattuto perché la scienza desse spazio alle donne. È stata presidente nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana Donne Ingegneri e Architetti e ha combattuto tutta la vita contro stereotipi e pregiudizi. Vorrebbe essere ricordata come una persona che ha fatto con coerenza le cose in cui credeva. Ma è anche la donna che si è conquistata un posto di rilievo nella storia dell’esplorazione spaziale.
`curl > /dev/sda` – How I made a Linux distro that runs `wget | dd`
astrid.tech/2026/03/24/0/curl-…
This is part 0 of a four-part series about doing weird things in early Linux boot.
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1. brilliant & inspired
2. scary
3. initramfs is _way_ too complicated & we should eliminate it
@anparker Exactly!
It's a fascinating series of blog posts though.
It starts with an obviously bad idea and develops it into an amazingly educational detective procedure... Which never even bothers to visit the "why is this a bad idea?" question, because we know that. We don't need that.
Instead it asks why it can work, and how it can work, and what you have to do to make it work.
I have a post brewing on this topic, probably won't be quite suitable for @lwn, but something I need to sit down and wrestle with one of these evenings just to get it out of my head.
It's a shame that we don't have Watterson still doing Calvin & Hobbes, though I get why he wrapped it up when he did. He left us wanting more.
Also? While I love web comics, I deeply miss the routine of digging through the Sunday paper and reading the comics when they were still printed at full size. I would pay good money to have a collection of Sunday comics delivered every week in the old format that I could read while drinking coffee and occasionally just clip one out and put on the fridge.
Yeah, yeah, I'm an old.
Timezone rage finally got the best of me.
Coordinating meetings across time zones isn't something my brain is great at. A million sites already do this, but most are ugly, ad-ridden, or want you to sign up.
So I built *timething*:
• No ads, no accounts, no tracking
• Per-zone working hours
• Shareable links — generate, send, done
• Beautiful landscape printouts (with a "valid until" warning, because DST sucks)
• Mobile-friendly, because I don't only get confused about time at my desk
Hope it makes you a little less angry about timezones.
#timezone #DST #webdev #indiedev #productivity
A clean time zone comparison dashboard for finding meeting times across the globe.timething.app
stellantis e microsoft hanno annunciato una collaborazione di 5 anni per l'uso dell'intelligenza artificiale.
il tempo di accensione delle nuove automobili è stato stimato in più di 3 minuti, se troppo cariche, e se vi si bloccheranno, potrete sempre chiudere i tutti i finestrini, e tentare di riavviarle.
Attn: DOS PC users using EtherSlip for networking:
I have a new version of EtherSlip available that fixes two bugs:
* The incorrect MAC address was being set in the simulated Ethernet header. This broke mTCP NetDrive and possibly other programs.
* The code in EtherSlip that simulates ARP responses has a pointer bug in it. This can cause data corruption or crash your program any time it tries to send an ARP request.
A fixed version can be found at brutman.com/Device_Drivers/pac… .
Also, please boost the original post ... this is something I want to spread the word about given the possibility of crashes.
If you've ever been frustrated by old DOS code randomly crashing before, well, this is one of those bugs that causes that. I'm on a mission to make DOS as stable as possible, one ancient bug fix at a time. ;-0
This is hilarious! Amanda Gefter wanted to ask Yuval Noah Harari why he misrepresented the story of a chatbot hiring a TaskRabbit to get past a Captcha, but she couldn’t get past the Captcha on his web site … and nor could the TaskRabbit she hired to do it for her.
The whole essay is a great take-down of the hype about AI spontaneously generating its own goals and interests.
quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-t…
Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models.Amanda Gefter (Quanta Magazine)
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Bernadette Banner (YouTube)
The Complex Transformations Underlying MC Escher’s Works
hackaday.com/2026/04/12/the-co…
Self-similar images are rather common, which are images in which the same image is repeated on a smaller scale somewhere within the image that one is looking at, something which is also referred to…Maya Posch (Hackaday)
@chaucho merci pour le partage.
Regarder un tableau de MC Escher s'est se vriller le cerveau. Maintenant je connais l'équation de vrillage 🙂
Still using fail2ban just for stopping SSH brute force attempts? Since OpenSSH 9.8 there is a new config option for sshd_config: PerSourcePenaltiesThis option has several parameters where you can define how long a client, based on its IP address, will be blocked, according to the unwanted behaviour. The most important parameters are:
There is also PerSourcePenaltyExemptList, which is a comma-separated list of addresses to exempt from penalties.
As you can see the default values are quite lax. Let's tighten the rules a bit:
The resulting sshd_config snippet looks like this (for OpenSSH 10.3 and newer)
MaxAuthTries 3
PerSourcePenalties crash:3600s invaliduser:300s authfail:3600s max:86400sMaxAuthTries 3
PerSourcePenalties crash:3600s authfail:3600s max:86400ssource: wired.com/story/artemis-ii-mic…
#meme #software #outlook #microsoft #artemis #artemis2 #apollo #moon #technology #humanity #fail #email #omg #wtf #future #history #nasa #space #exploration #science
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Read on HackerWorkspace: hackerworkspace.com/article/li…
#databreach #cybersecurity #privacy
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.BrowserGate
La sicurezza di un sistema operativo vista da una prospettiva diversa, per chi non vuole davvero fidarsi di nulla.
estelinux.serviziliberi.it/qub…
#QubesOS #Whonix #Sicurezza #Privacy #SoftwareLibero #SistemiOperativiSicuri
Immagina un sistema operativo che non si limiti a “difendersi” dalle minacce, ma che le renda quasi irrilevanti per progettazione. Non un antivirus, non un firewall aggiuntivo, ma una vera filosofia: separare tutto in compartimenti stagni.Kaneda (ILS Este)
I progetti open source di cui l'umanità ha bisogno
A Plex poster daemon that overlays googly eyes on your media library - Bothari/googlarrGitHub
Meet the awesome judges of our #ASIC demoscene competition: @JeriEllsworth , @WillFlux and @sprite_tm !
tinytapeout.com/competitions/d…
#opensource #ASIC #competition
Build a sound and graphics demo on 130nm ASICQuicker, easier and cheaper to make your own chip!
A Dot a Day Keeps the Clutter Away
scottlawsonbc.com/post/dot-sys…
The simplest organization system I've tried is a sheet of colored dot stickers. It's also the best.Scott Lawson
Lolwhut: NS has announced the public sale of ICM / Koploper electric multiple units, with a minimum 15 units per sale.
Really wondering if someone is willing to buy some and for which purpose.
railwaygazette.com/tenders-and…
Organisation: Nederlandse SpoorwegenLocation: The NetherlandsDeadline: 24 April 2026Railway Gazette International
Microsoft Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests on GitHub
Why do so many people keep falling for the same trick over and over again?
With an over $400 billion gap between the money invested in AI data centers and the actual revenue these products generate, Silicon Valley slowly returned to the tested and trusted playbook: advertising.
Now, ads are sta
Quoto da un giornale nazionale:
"Delmastro e gli altri esponenti di Fratelli d’Italia piemontesi che detenevano quote minoritarie restano al momento fuori della contestazione perché ad oggi non è detto che fossero a conoscenza della provenienza del denaro investito dalla allora 18enne, nominata amministratrice unica della srl con il 50 percento delle quote."
Chi non investirebbe in una società amministrata da una 18enne, che detiene il 50% del capitale? Largo ai giovani!
@Diego Roversi una società amministrata da una 18enne che non conosci, altrimenti sapresti chi è il padre.
mi pare un investimento più che ragionevole!
Parte oggi una serie di interviste ai responsabili dei progetti Linux italiani presenti nel fediverso.
IL FediLUG intervisterà le distro attive e partiamo con @fuss una distro storica fondata più di 20 anni fa:
fedilug.it/dentro-il-progetto-…
Per non perdere le prossime distro italiane basta seguire il gruppo fedilug: @linux@diggita.com che ha da poco superato i 1000 iscritti e/o iscriversi alla newsletter FediLUG su fedilug.it oppure nella stanza matrix: matrix.to/#/#fedilug:fedimedia…
Questa è la prima di una serie di interviste che il FediLUG ha deciso di fare per andare alla scoperta delle distribuzioni Linux italiane presenti nel Fediverso.FediLUG (FediLUG Italia)
A heads up to everyone who has pre-ordered the new Jolla Phone.
The moment to complete your order is getting close and soon you will be able to finalize your full payment - personal email will follow soon.
Thank you for your trust and your patience. The Jolla Phone exists because of you. ❤️
#Jolla #SailfishOS #DigitalSovereignty #PrivacyFirst #CommunityPowered #European
When you date people in an open source dating app...
Chest fridge
Using vertical doors in refrigeration devices is an act against the Nature of Cold Air. Understanding and cooperating with Nature rather than acting against it leads to much better efficiency.
Chest fridge Using vertical doors in refrigeration devices is an act against the Nature of Cold Air. Understanding and cooperating with Nature rather than acting against it leads to much better efficiency.mtbest.net
I know some people say they don't read speculative fiction because it's "not realistic" well guess what 😜😂
@bookstodon @books
@worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#Dune
#SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #SciFiMemes #Fantasy #SciFi #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Low #High #Epic #Science #Opera #Hard #CottageCore #SolarPunk #Comedic #Whatever #GiveMeAllYouveGot
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove
Greetings fans of DOS networking! I'm working on bug fixes for mTCP. If you have a bug report or a feature request now would be a great time to let me know. Send it by email or ping me here.
So far I've done a lot of "code golfing" (making things smaller and faster). Telnet will have SIXEL graphics enabled and a few bug fixes. TCP has a flow control improvement to help with the occasional stall. And there are a few other small fixes so far too.
Sir Terry Pratchett.
It has been 11 years since death inexplicably refused to give you back.
You still remain the person who has had the biggest influence on me.
Nanny Ogg teaches me to enjoy life.
Granny Weatherwax teaches me to trust in myself, and not to treat people as things
Magrat teaches me that it is ok not to know exactly what I am doing all the time, but to do things I think are important, even if those older and allegedly wiser don't really agree.
Vimes teaches me about determination, family and justice.
There are so many more lessons I learnt from the world you created, and I would not be me without the Discworld.
I'm currently making my way through the audio books of the Watch series (currently nearing the end of "Thud!") and am once more reminded of what an amazing author and human being Sir Terry was.
My running (tongue in cheek) theory is that him leaving us broke reality, explaining all the madness of the past decade.
I have the very same theory!
Terry dying unanchored us from the Discworld and that started the madness
@foosel Not ashamed to say that those audio books, especially those performed by Stephen Briggs, kept me sane & hopeful during difficult times nearly all by themselves.
I regularly use ~. but had never bothered to memorize the others. Neat!
“The LLM generated what was described, not what was needed.”
blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-ll…
One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:Hōrōshi バガボンド (Vagabond Research)
This is gold:
In the 1980 Turing Award lecture Tony Hoare said: “There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”