gabriele renzi
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Code Monkey, Professional Student, Geek
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Un gruppo di militari ha annunciato di aver assunto il controllo della Guinea Bissau e di aver sospeso il processo elettorale, in un momento in cui la popolazione era in attesa dei risultati delle elezioni presidenziali e legislative del 23 novembre.
Colpo di stato in Guinea Bissau, sospeso il processo elettorale
Il 26 novembre un gruppo di militari ha annunciato di aver “assunto il controllo della Guinea Bissau” e di aver “sospeso il processo elettorale”, in un momento in cui la popolazione era in attesa dei ...
www.internazionale.it
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Un gruppo di militari ha annunciato di aver assunto il controllo della Guinea Bissau e di aver sospeso il processo elettorale, in un momento in cui la popolazione era in attesa dei risultati delle elezioni presidenziali e legislative del 23 novembre.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Senza senso che l'italia abbia vinto la terza coppa davis di seguito, senza i due giocatori più forti.
Strafelice per #Berrettini e #cobolli che si meritavano una vittoria tutta loro.
#daviscup #tennis #coppadavis
Strafelice per #Berrettini e #cobolli che si meritavano una vittoria tutta loro.
#daviscup #tennis #coppadavis
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Senza senso che l'italia abbia vinto la terza coppa davis di seguito, senza i due giocatori più forti.
Strafelice per #Berrettini e #cobolli che si meritavano una vittoria tutta loro.
#daviscup #tennis #coppadavis
Strafelice per #Berrettini e #cobolli che si meritavano una vittoria tutta loro.
#daviscup #tennis #coppadavis
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We are back to Americans threatening and blackmailing us into accepting capitulation, again. I just hope to still be alive next spring. I hate you all.
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We are back to Americans threatening and blackmailing us into accepting capitulation, again. I just hope to still be alive next spring. I hate you all.
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An LLM can NEVER be used when both "receives untrusted input" and "can do a bad thing" are both true.
This means that "AI agents" can NEVER be made safe. This is Microsoft hackery broken sandboxing and blame the user security for a feature that shouldn't exist at all.
This means that "AI agents" can NEVER be made safe. This is Microsoft hackery broken sandboxing and blame the user security for a feature that shouldn't exist at all.
Whoops! Microsoft’s new Windows AI agent platform lets in malware
and you thought Windows was supposed to run software
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeN... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251119-who... - podcast
time: 4 min 27 sec
and you thought Windows was supposed to run software
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAeN... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251119-who... - podcast
time: 4 min 27 sec
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
An LLM can NEVER be used when both "receives untrusted input" and "can do a bad thing" are both true.
This means that "AI agents" can NEVER be made safe. This is Microsoft hackery broken sandboxing and blame the user security for a feature that shouldn't exist at all.
This means that "AI agents" can NEVER be made safe. This is Microsoft hackery broken sandboxing and blame the user security for a feature that shouldn't exist at all.
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"Our data backs up other findings that Ruby applications are generally less I/O-heavy, spending as much or more time on CPU as they do waiting on other services or database requests."
www.datadoghq.com/blog/ruby-pe...
www.datadoghq.com/blog/ruby-pe...
Optimizing Ruby performance: Observations from thousands of real-world services | Datadog
Learn about trends in Ruby development and opportunities for improving performance that many organizations are leaving on the table.
www.datadoghq.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Our data backs up other findings that Ruby applications are generally less I/O-heavy, spending as much or more time on CPU as they do waiting on other services or database requests."
www.datadoghq.com/blog/ruby-pe...
www.datadoghq.com/blog/ruby-pe...
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There is not much difference in principle between the US forcing the EU to stop regulating Silicon Valley, and the British Empire forcing China to stop regulating opium.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
There is not much difference in principle between the US forcing the EU to stop regulating Silicon Valley, and the British Empire forcing China to stop regulating opium.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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💰New revelation on the Orbán family’s €30m dacha, which Viktor Orbán insists is only his old father’s agricultural site: a witness testimony reveals that his son-in-law’s company BDPST Group (known for developing luxury hotels and mansions) maintains the property.
🦓Does it look like a farm to you?
🦓Does it look like a farm to you?
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
💰New revelation on the Orbán family’s €30m dacha, which Viktor Orbán insists is only his old father’s agricultural site: a witness testimony reveals that his son-in-law’s company BDPST Group (known for developing luxury hotels and mansions) maintains the property.
🦓Does it look like a farm to you?
🦓Does it look like a farm to you?
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In Trump’s interview with GB News, its correspondent, Bev Turner, gave North Korea’s broadcasters a run for their money. “It feels much safer here,” Turner said, contrasting Washington to London, though the chances of being murdered in DC are around 26 times higher than in London
Trump’s little British helpers
Nobody should be surprised that the US president has the BBC in his sights
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In Trump’s interview with GB News, its correspondent, Bev Turner, gave North Korea’s broadcasters a run for their money. “It feels much safer here,” Turner said, contrasting Washington to London, though the chances of being murdered in DC are around 26 times higher than in London
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I get asked about this a lot, so... Would anybody be interested enough in a native-compiled Ruby implementation to fund a fork of JRuby that can be compiled with GraalVM Native Image? It's totally doable, but the work involved is nontrivial and incompatible with the JVM version.
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I get asked about this a lot, so... Would anybody be interested enough in a native-compiled Ruby implementation to fund a fork of JRuby that can be compiled with GraalVM Native Image? It's totally doable, but the work involved is nontrivial and incompatible with the JVM version.
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Da qui al giorno del referendum sulla riforma delle carriere bisognerà informarsi, e bene, rivolgendosi a chi rifugga la banalità degli slogan e provi a offrire spiegazioni e approfondimenti quanto più oggettivi.
(nel podcast c'è anche un mio piccolo contributo)
open.spotify.com/episode/22mt...
(nel podcast c'è anche un mio piccolo contributo)
open.spotify.com/episode/22mt...
Le tappe e il dibattito verso il referendum sulla giustizia
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Da qui al giorno del referendum sulla riforma delle carriere bisognerà informarsi, e bene, rivolgendosi a chi rifugga la banalità degli slogan e provi a offrire spiegazioni e approfondimenti quanto più oggettivi.
(nel podcast c'è anche un mio piccolo contributo)
open.spotify.com/episode/22mt...
(nel podcast c'è anche un mio piccolo contributo)
open.spotify.com/episode/22mt...
I sometimes forget Olaf exists, for years, and then I have the luck to read a ton of comics in one go.
This is one of those occurrences.
Go read oglaf, it's just awesome.
This is one of those occurrences.
Go read oglaf, it's just awesome.
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I sometimes forget Olaf exists, for years, and then I have the luck to read a ton of comics in one go.
This is one of those occurrences.
Go read oglaf, it's just awesome.
This is one of those occurrences.
Go read oglaf, it's just awesome.
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In case you missed the news - #Ruby 3.5 is going to become Ruby 4.0 to celebrate the 30th Ruby anniversary github.com/ruby/ruby/co...
It's a bit odd to make such a decision only a month and half before the release (Christmas day), but it is how it is.
It's a bit odd to make such a decision only a month and half before the release (Christmas day), but it is how it is.
Development of 4.0.0 started. · ruby/ruby@6d81969
github.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
In case you missed the news - #Ruby 3.5 is going to become Ruby 4.0 to celebrate the 30th Ruby anniversary github.com/ruby/ruby/co...
It's a bit odd to make such a decision only a month and half before the release (Christmas day), but it is how it is.
It's a bit odd to make such a decision only a month and half before the release (Christmas day), but it is how it is.
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ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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The same websites that spent the last few years becoming an unreadable mess of pop ups and banners are now complaining that users will do literally anything including installing apps or believing AI slop summaries to avoid having to browse through them.
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The same websites that spent the last few years becoming an unreadable mess of pop ups and banners are now complaining that users will do literally anything including installing apps or believing AI slop summaries to avoid having to browse through them.
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Italian Senator left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and a propagandist.
It happened on Prime Time Italian television.
Priceless 🤩
[ENG SUB]
(The 2nd part in the next tweet)
It happened on Prime Time Italian television.
Priceless 🤩
[ENG SUB]
(The 2nd part in the next tweet)
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Italian Senator left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and a propagandist.
It happened on Prime Time Italian television.
Priceless 🤩
[ENG SUB]
(The 2nd part in the next tweet)
It happened on Prime Time Italian television.
Priceless 🤩
[ENG SUB]
(The 2nd part in the next tweet)
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This is the fantastic outcome of two decades of work by so many people.
Firesheep used to be a thing! Your ISP used to know everything you did online! The web is so much safer than it was just 10 years ago.
Especially happy that this will kill off invisible links to HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects.
Firesheep used to be a thing! Your ISP used to know everything you did online! The web is so much safer than it was just 10 years ago.
Especially happy that this will kill off invisible links to HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects.
It's time to make HTTPS the web's default, and reap the full security benefit from years worth of HTTPS adoption!
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...
HTTPS by default
One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...
security.googleblog.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This is the fantastic outcome of two decades of work by so many people.
Firesheep used to be a thing! Your ISP used to know everything you did online! The web is so much safer than it was just 10 years ago.
Especially happy that this will kill off invisible links to HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects.
Firesheep used to be a thing! Your ISP used to know everything you did online! The web is so much safer than it was just 10 years ago.
Especially happy that this will kill off invisible links to HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects.
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Here is the most recent Source of Truth update, including the awaited Q&A: rubycentral.org/p/2bb40cdc-f...
Source of Truth Update – Friday, October 24, 2025
We appreciate the community’s patience and grace as we briefly paused our regular cadence of weekly updates. Out of respect for last week’s announcement from Matz and its importance to the community,…
rubycentral.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Here is the most recent Source of Truth update, including the awaited Q&A: rubycentral.org/p/2bb40cdc-f...
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📸 There's a story behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 revolution: Orbán’s government banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
📸 There's a story behind this breathtaking shot of Hungary’s opposition rally marking the 1956 revolution: Orbán’s government banned drones to try conceal the crowd’s size. Yet a passenger on a landing plane caught the scene in Budapest from above — the photo hit Reddit and went viral instantly.
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Qualcuno si ricorda un periodo confuso nei 2000 in cui c'erano dei modem (credo? forse schede grafiche?) con la scatola disegnata da Milo Manara?
Sono sicurissimo sia esistito, ma non riesco a trovarne prove online.
(boost welcome)
#informatica #manara #fumetti
Sono sicurissimo sia esistito, ma non riesco a trovarne prove online.
(boost welcome)
#informatica #manara #fumetti
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Qualcuno si ricorda un periodo confuso nei 2000 in cui c'erano dei modem (credo? forse schede grafiche?) con la scatola disegnata da Milo Manara?
Sono sicurissimo sia esistito, ma non riesco a trovarne prove online.
(boost welcome)
#informatica #manara #fumetti
Sono sicurissimo sia esistito, ma non riesco a trovarne prove online.
(boost welcome)
#informatica #manara #fumetti
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Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.
CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out
Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread
Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread
Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.
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Vietare l’educazione alla sessualità nelle scuole medie compromette salute e sicurezza per:
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
October 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Vietare l’educazione alla sessualità nelle scuole medie compromette salute e sicurezza per:
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
👉aumento gravidanze adolescenziali
👉maggiore incidenza infezioni sessualmente trasmissibili
👉minore capacità di riconoscere e prevenire abusi, violenza e coercizione sessuale
#Valditara
#Lega
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We are looking for volunteer submission readers! Join a community of 200+ submission #readers at After Dinner Conversation. Help us find the needle in the haystack of submissions. (Being a #reader is the fastest way to improve your writing)
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October 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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To implement robust mitigations across Geomys, I did a survey of open source project compromises in 2024/2025.
Three root causes dominate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers. All three can be systematically avoided.
words.filippo.io/compromise-s...
Three root causes dominate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers. All three can be systematically avoided.
words.filippo.io/compromise-s...
A Retrospective Survey of 2024/2025 Open Source Supply Chain Compromises
Project compromises have common root causes we can mitigate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers.
words.filippo.io
October 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
To implement robust mitigations across Geomys, I did a survey of open source project compromises in 2024/2025.
Three root causes dominate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers. All three can be systematically avoided.
words.filippo.io/compromise-s...
Three root causes dominate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers. All three can be systematically avoided.
words.filippo.io/compromise-s...