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__voidon Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage

but you do eat spaghetti allo scoglio, huh?

__voidon Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage

> Especially because we can't ban Monsanto's GMOs and I don't see how this is worse...

why should GMOs and Monsanto, which has now been taken over and is one of the lesser producers, be banned? and why do we always have to make ourselves known with our mediocrity of repeated bar ideas, dear fellow Italian?

__voidon Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study

producing steel requires a huge, huge amount of knowledge, energy (fire) and materials (wood, coal and ores), it took us millennia to maximise the process... to know that someone, even 'accidentally', was producing it eleven centuries earlier is at least fascinating to me;

Actually, I don't know how 'revolutionary' it is in total, but in the meantime my brain explodes!

__voidon Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study

wtf this fact melts my brain! Man already knew (meteoritic) steel and it is a known fact, but that we could already produce it is absolutely mind f-ck and rewriting the history books, predating by millennia some dynamics that were previously certain

__voidon Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites

I am absolutely in love with how spartan solved the input problem (prompt line), I wish gemini would also adopt the same function/tag

__voidon Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites

> able to browse the web

Yeah but this is not a browser for the web.

__voidon Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites

...a browser for what ? Kristall is (near) perfect, for its work

__voidon Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites

kristall is along with geminaut and lagrange, the perfect triptych for wandering the small web! until recently they were the only ones to pass (almost) torture tests [1]! highly recommended

[1] gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture/

__voidon Bra size calculator

a better calculator is surely this: https://www.abrathatfits.org/calculator.php

is the product of a community (with the same name) on reddit

__voidon Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

link? is literally the first line and the first link in the post above

> Worth remembering this is public information: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af

__voidon Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

...is perhaps the hundred and fiftieth time I have read this (or a similar variant) nonsense of false analogy, already debunked explained and reexplained in hundreds of variants

I am beginning to think that the people who parrot it are not even interested in its response (already said and reiterated hundreds of times in the last 12 hours)

__voidon Twitter Dissolves Trust and Safety Council, Yoel Roth Flees Home

> he is left-leaning. Calling him a conservative is

in Italian we have a word for this kind of people: rossobruni[1]

[1]halfway through this article explains what they are: https://italicsmag.com/2022/07/28/the-italian-axiom-crisis-r...

__voidon Musk, the Anti-Censorship Crusader, Allegedly Shadowbanned ElonJet Account

Why is this post flagged?

__voidon Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive

I am baffled by the comments here, not in a good way

__voidon Johnny Mnemonic in Black-and-White

yes, that movie! I'm told it has aged badly with its grotesque-erotic... I don't even remember, only the scenes in VR remain in my mind

__voidon Johnny Mnemonic in Black-and-White

regardless of the posthumous negative judgment on the film, when jhonny came out our brains melted: before then we had only seen "the matrix" on TRON and the Lawnmower

the flight scene in hyperreality was mindfuck on the same level as the wormhole in Stargate, absolutely a must-see for a nerdy 90s kid

__voidon A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

mmh serene comrade here we are revealing a little too much ;)

__voidon A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

https://www.osteriasenzoste.it/

https://www.tripadvisor.it/Attraction_Review-g666331-d199722...

it is basically a bar without waiters or owners, the name literally mean "the bar without the innkeeper"

However, now it is more mainstream than it used to be, it used to be really a secret place

__voidon A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

in the past sometimes the fire brigade has suspended one or more of the attractions, but since no one was ever hurt somehow they managed to fix them (both legally and as safety)

plus we are in italy, we are masters of (also) high precision mechanics

[the first person who responds to me with a joke about "Fiat" gets a slap]

__voidon A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

there is also good food, if one is a lover of festival ("sagra") food

__voidon RTEMS Real Time Operating System

..and what should this say about esp32? I don't understand what you are implying...

xtensa/tensilica is a good architecture, cheap and lean, unfortunately its biggest problem seems to be its harvard architecture and weird memory structure because out there I find very few loader/relocator impementations (nominally I only know niicoooo's version[1], brian pug's derivative[2] for his interesting joltos, mongoose/Zephyr's supercustom versions, and my own) and this seems to be the main stumbling block for new os development in this platform

[1] https://github.com/niicoooo/esp32-elfloader

[2] https://github.com/joltwallet/jolt_wallet/tree/master/jolt_o...

__voidon RTEMS Real Time Operating System

no support for xtensa/esp32 :<

__voidon I accidentally discovered one of the most egregious pharma scams imaginable

> I do not think government is the solution.

mmmh I don't know, for the rest of the planet (except for a handful of backward African and Middle Eastern countries), however, it works...

so here we're almost at the classic title of the onion: 'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

__voidon The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton

nowadays 98% of things implying "security" are actually unwanted products, protections for "the other side" or trivial distortions of reality where, conveyed by "security" itself, the user himself becomes the product

- no, I don't need protections for the side channel, I never asked for them

- no, I don't need a unique identifier, who is the demented person who asked you for it

- no, I am not going to glitch the power supply, and even if I did it means I am interested in doing it and wish it worked instead I was prevented from doing it

- no, I don't care at all about having a hw store for certificates, which are ephemeral and dropped from above anyway so what am I supposed to trust?

- and so on

"not secure by design" nowadays comes close to being a coveted feature

__voidon Walking Venice

Venessiani gran signori

__voidon YouTube banned my debunking video but leaves deadly how-to vids online, 34 dead

...by now even youtube video previews are the evolution of clickbait, they would make even dante's divine comedy or The Great Gatsby look like total garbage

__voidon LMN 3, an open source DAW in a box [video]

by design, it seems that the teensy+pcb are basically a stand-alone midi controller, while the raspberry instead provides all the "DAW" part of the machine

a nice project, even separated the two elements are reusable for other adventures!

__voidon Need some advice, feeling depressed about the direction of our industry

I's very funny: i can not proprer explain my similar feeling to you because all major translator services are down right now (due to cloudflare)...

so, yeah, like you i hate everything we do because we are not truly doing anything "new" (plus no research, no optimization and enormous -near absolute- wasting of space and bandwidth) and everything is layer of shiny bloat over bloat

I don't have answers but you are not alone, OP

__voidon A Brief History of Frankincense

as I recall in the bible there are more than a couple of recipes for mixtures of incense, resins, and ointments

example: https://www.laparola.net/testo.php?riferimento=Esodo30%2C23-...

(Es.30, 23-25)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+30&versi...

__voidon KyuWeb: A proposal for a simple document-oriented web

well, commomark was just an example of the technical choices not explained, but for the sake of discussion let's focus on this single one:

actually commonmark has enough problems (already pointed out by others - see [1] and indirectly the flourishing of sub versions) and in good substance is unambiguous, it seems to me that they are not known by the author given the choice

> It's pleasant to write; it's readable even when[...]

very debatable, I could as an example rebut that in a lot of keyboards literally lack the characters for some tag, but the point is that once again here we're trying to merge a content with its representation and it's an outdated approach (heck, even on html5 there's css that would serve to separate text from layout) and potentially a can of worms!

> As for the protocol/communication parts, it's just good ol' HTTP. Refer to an HTTP tutorial or spec if you're not yet familiar with it.

(beyond the tone used and the slight arrogance in assuming that i don't know what an http connection is - but maybe it's just my interpretation due to the language barrier), in practice this "kyuweb" is reduced to be an additional layer on top of what is already there? but shouldn't it be simple? in order to have a kyuweb browser do i have to have first a classic working browser that also sends custom header tags? and on the other side do i have to have custom classic web servers that also respond in this subformat? and if the server sends me mixed content? what should the browser do?

but at this point why not use HTTP/1.0 and serve plain markdown, without building additional layers?

if these remarks seem stupid, I still repeat that they are all addressed on gemini (even though the answers may not please everyone)

[1] https://github.github.com/gfm/#why-is-a-spec-needed-