Leggendo L’estetica retro nei videogiochi tra nostalgia, arte e strategie di sopravvivenza ho avuto una strana sensazione. Chi ha vissuto quegli anni avrebbe giudicato stratosferico un gioco con una grafica come questa: anzi, sarebbe stata stratosferica anche per una introduzione.
Mood
Cowboy Bebob – Heavy metal queen intro
I’m re-watching Cowboy Bebop with my family – you know, my daughters are really grown up today and they are really appreciating it. We reached the Heavy metal queen episode with its powerful intro song, titled Live in Baghdad.
Ethics
Le mettiamo le sanzioni?
Date una letttura alla Dichiarazione Sovranità Digitale Europea: Italia sottoscrive il documento con gli altri Stati membri sul sito governativo innovazione.gov.it; e notate questo passaggio che toglie ogni dubbio: “In questo quadro, viene riconosciuto anche il ruolo delle soluzioni open source, purché rispettino elevati standard di sicurezza informatica e siano integrate, ove necessario, da tecnologie…
Ethics
Android diventerà una piattaforma bloccata
Android diventerà una piattaforma bloccata!!!
Social networks
Movim: Your Network, Your Rules. Fully standard, decentralized and secured.Chat, Share and Connect, without the compromise.
Tricks
Manually updating font list
This is not needed if you use high-level facilities, but in case of manual, low level manipulation of fonts repositories in your machine just issue fc-cache -f -v to update the available font lists. I looked for it far too many times; taken https://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts
Link
MosaicWM Rethinking window management for GNOME Shell
Link
FFF.nvim
Finally a smart fuzzy file picker for neovim.
FFF stands for
freakin fast fuzzy file finder(pick 3) and it is an opinionated fuzzy file picker for neovim. Just for files, but we’ll try to solve file picking completely.It comes with a dedicated rust backend runtime that keep tracks of the file index, your file access and modifications, git status, and provides a comprehensive typo-resistant fuzzy search experience.
Liberty Eiffel, Mood
Emulated FP64
Choosing the right news sources is important. In my case Hacker News 50 proved to be precious as in this recent post/toot/message they proposed “Fifteen Years of FP64 Segmentation, and Why the Blackwell Ultra Breaks the Pattern“. Briefly, modern consumer GPU has a 64:1 ration in FP64:FP32 performances (FP64 is a shortcut for Double-precision floating-point…
Wine
First came Wine…
First came Wine, i.e. Wine Is Not an Emulator, a free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Windows API, allowing to run Windows application with various grade of effectiveness. Then came those: