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Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione Some 52 years ago.

https://archiyou.com/articles/enzo-mari-s-autoprogettazione-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)

kurrenon Farewell to Antonino Zichichi, pioneer of particle physics

Antonino Zichichi, one of the leading Italian figures in high-energy physics, passed away today, Monday 9 February, at the age of 96.

Many major projects in international physics are linked to his name: the LEP at CERN projects, the HERA project at DESY, and the INFN National Gran Sasso Laboratory.

kurrenon The Olivetti Company

but also: 'The Mysterious Affair At Olivetti' Attempts To Find A Cold War Conspiracy

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/776834206/the-mysterious-affa...

kurrenon The Olivetti Company

Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century

The industrial city of Ivrea is located in the Piedmont region and developed as the testing ground for Olivetti, manufacturer of typewriters, mechanical calculators and office computers.

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1538/

kurrenon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://pianabianco.com

kurrenon Inverting the interface: design, personal agents, and the post-brand world

What happens when people experience brands, services, and institutions primarily through their own AI agents—rather than through brand‑designed apps, websites, and campaigns?

kurrenon Age of mediocrity: designers and the AI mirror

This post reflects on the future of design* —and the role of designers* —in a world where AI is poised to reshape how society works.

kurrenon Innovation and cultural change as a result of errors

From Penicillin to MySpace, balancing structured research and build with openness to failure has proven a successful approach.

kurrenon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

Location: EU (currently: Turin, Italy + Madrid Spain)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Strategic Design + Product Strategy + Agile Leadership

Résumé/CV: https://pianabianco.com/docs/apianabianco_cv.pdf

Email: a@pianabianco.com

kurrenon Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx

Updated, thanks again.

kurrenon Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx

1.23.1

kurrenon Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx

My bad, yes I didn't declare it:

listen[::]443 ssl http2;

thank you.

kurrenon Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx

Using Chrome on a mac, access logs say http 1.1 is accessing the domain. Nothing in front of Ngnix, but I'm wondering if I have the http 2 module on Nginx...

kurrenon Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx

mmm, blocking everything not http/2.0 is also blocking legit browser, while blocking http/1.0 does not block bots (at least not ChatGPT); blocking non-browsers with $http_sec_fetch_mode works as expected.

kurrenon Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx

Thanks. I'll give it a try with the != HTTP/2.0 method.

kurrenon Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx

I've been tinkering with a combined solution to block AI bots from crawling my website, it's a robots.txt file (I know, they don't care about it) and a Nginx directive (it works for Ngnix web servers, not if you are on Apache).

kurrenon Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)

These and other anthropological elements are very well described by Esther Gokhale as the basis of her method (which has been a life changer, at least for me).

You can find more on her website or book "8 Steps to a pan-free back".

kurrenon Midjourney Showcase

I guess the good stuff is private and not on Showcase - quite poor quality here.

kurrenon An American airline wins the right to weigh passengers on its Samoan route

https://youtu.be/AvbuNj37Z8I

kurrenon Zuckerberg donates €500k for Italy earthquake in ad credits

Most disgusting act of 'philanthropy' ever?

kurrenon Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea

Sounds like the US for the wrong nationality/demographic, to me...

kurrenon Scandinavian Education System Better Than US?

It's not just Finland.

It's pretty much all Europe, where any decent high school student can easily outscore any undergraduate US student on pretty much any subjects (knowledge of anything not-US or not pop culture-related showing possibly the most embarrassing difference between them).

And indeed they directly built or indirectly facilitated much (most?) of the innovative products in the fields you are mentioning. It's just that they work/teach/live in the US because of a more favourable entrepreneurial framework, easier access to capital, less red tape, higher pay at top universities.

kurrenon Bibliotheca – the bible designed to read like a novel

It is a novel.

kurrenon [dead]

With "criticizing a nation", you probably mean criticizing a nation illegally occupying another Nation's territory, repeatedly breaking international human rights conventions, and indiscriminately killing civilians (with a particularly predilection for children).

I'm part of a large, and growing, international community not supporting anything Israel.

kurrenon Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules

of course. let's apply the same 'logic' with mickey f*ng mouse, now. please.

kurrenon Ask HN: What data science blogs do you follow?

My daily fix:

Run by biostatisticians Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafa Irizarry, Simply Statistics (http://simplystatistics.org/) it's more than stats - and it's a must read.

R-bloggers (http://www.r-bloggers.com/) is the hub for everything R.

kurrenon Jeff Bezos evacuated off Galapagos Islands for kidney stones

I wonder, how much would have been charged for the chopper emergency service an alien on US soil?

Hopefully mr. Bezos donated some of his wealth to the preservation of the Galapagos natural sanctuary.

kurrenon Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules

It's really interesting how US justice is always so keen to rule for public domain for non US ip while being so defensive for US ip products (eg. Disney) - I guess it's one more face of American exceptionalism.

We love you so much guys.

kurrenon [dead]

It's Sunday, shouldn't you be in church?