San Carlo Lwanga e compagni martiri ugandesi

3 giugno: memoria di San Carlo Lwanga e compagni martiri ugandesi, martirizzati in odium fidei da un pederasta

Furono uccisi in odio alla fede dal loro re, un pederasta conclamato, per non essersi voluti assoggettare ai vizi di lui, dopo essersi proclamati cristiani.

Santi patroni da invocare in modo particolare di questi tempi, almeno fino a quando la lobby non deciderà di censurarli.

3 giugno SANTI MARTIRI UGANDESI

  • San Carlo Lwanga, prega per noi.
  • San Mbaya Tuzinde, prega per noi.
  • San Bruno Seronuma, prega per noi.
  • San Giacomo Buzabaliao, prega per noi.
  • San Kizito, prega per noi.
  • Sant’Ambrogio Kibuka, prega per noi.
  • San Mgagga, prega per noi.
  • San Gyavira, prega per noi.
  • Sant’Achille Kiwanuka, prega per noi.
  • Sant’Adolfo Ludìgo Mkasa, prega per noi.
  • San Mukasa Kiriwanvu, prega per noi.
  • Sant’Anatolio Kiriggwajjo, prega per noi.
  • San Luca Banabakintu, prega per noi.
  • San Giuseppe Mkasa Balikuddembé, prega per noi.
  • San Dionigi Ssebuggwawo, prega per noi.
  • Sant’Andrea Kaggwa, prega per noi.
  • San Ponziano Ngondwe, prega per noi.
  • Sant’Atanasio Bazzekuketta, prega per noi.
  • San Gonzaga Gonza, prega per noi.
  • San Mattia Kalemba Mulumba, prega per noi.
  • San Noè Mawaggali, prega per noi.
  • San Giovanni Maria Muzei, prega per noi.
  • Pregate per noi, Santi martiri ugandesi,

affinché scampiamo al peccato!

O Dio,
che nel sangue dei martiri hai posto il seme di nuovi cristiani,
concedi che il campo della tua Chiesa,
irrigato dal sangue di San Carlo Lwanga
e dei suoi compagni,
produca una messe sempre più abbondante
a gloria del tuo nome.
Per il nostro Signore Gesù Cristo, tuo Figlio, che è Dio,
e vive e regna con te, nell’unità dello Spirito Santo,
per tutti i secoli dei secoli.
Amen.

BOOX Tab X C | 13.3” Kaleido 3 Color ePaper Tablet – The Official BOOX Store

BOOX Tab X C | 13.3” Kaleido 3 Color ePaper Tablet – The Official BOOX Store

The Tab X C is a spacious color E Ink tablet optimized for intentional productivity. It features BOOX Super Refresh Technology, runs on Android 13, and is powered by an octa-core CPU. Paired with a magnetic keyboard cover for a top-notch productivity tool.

Sadly it has three defects:

  1. it seems that they violate the General Public License of the kernel (GPL2 kernel source)
  2. installing your own Linux seems unsupported
  3. …something that I prefer not to share here…

Doist a freemium that gives back

Recently I hit a “nasty” bug in NextCloud Tasks which I have been using extensively. Luckily it’s “only” in the frontend as accessing the same tasks using a CalDav client such a DavX5 and JtxBoard.

Since today we are all using web applications I found an alternative, finding https://doist.com which is a “freemium” service. While I tend to prefer free-as-in-freedom software I do acknoledge that they are way better than the GAFAM. In fact

Part of being a remote company means being responsible citizens of the world. Every year we donate up to 2% of our revenue growth to support the vital work of internationally-minded organizations like:

From https://doist.com/about-us#giving-back-section

They either stopped updating it in 2022 or they stopped donating. I just hope it’s the former

The fastest USB

The fastest USB key are not normal memory sticks but SD cards of a decent class with an USB-C 3.1 adapter

This is the suggestion from Davide Depau, found running several benchmarks with EtchDroid

SD cards are made to put them in cameras and it’s not uncommon to get 300 MB/s write even with a phone.

The slower ones do 100 MB/s on average

Whereas I haven’t found a way to get consistently fast USB sticks. The more expensive ones are generally better but not always. On average, flash drives do not do more than 70 MB/s and after a while they drop even slower when they run out of cache. So do SD cards, but they generally have bigger caches and hardly fill it up with the ISO of arch

Also, in the last 10 years I have noticed (empirically) a substantial improvement in the durability of SD cards. 10 years ago half of even branded SD cards would die on me, now even the ones from the fucking sub-brand on Amazon are OK

Fast iterative circles (and ellipses, and other figures).

Fast iterative circles (and ellipses, and other figures).

Here’s the entire algorithm to compute points on an elliptical arc, very quickly:

    while(true)
    {
        x += d * y;
        y -= d * x;
    }

Attributed to Marvin Minsky, 1972: HAKMEM, MIT AI Memo 239 (HTML version here). Also on a PDP-1, David Mapes talks about finding it independently. I’ve been using this to make circles since I found it by accident in the early 1980s (using a BBC Micro). Nowadays I’m using it to make music synthesizers (running on ARM Cortex M4).

Source: https://cabezal.com/misc/minsky-circles.html