gabriele renzi
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Code Monkey, Professional Student, Geek
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💥 “It’s not clear who attacked whom,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said today at a presser on the Russia–Ukraine war, after an EU summit where he opposed any financial help for Ukraine.
Orbán is now clearly escalating his rhetoric, for the first time openly questioning that Russia started the war.
Orbán is now clearly escalating his rhetoric, for the first time openly questioning that Russia started the war.
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
💥 “It’s not clear who attacked whom,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán said today at a presser on the Russia–Ukraine war, after an EU summit where he opposed any financial help for Ukraine.
Orbán is now clearly escalating his rhetoric, for the first time openly questioning that Russia started the war.
Orbán is now clearly escalating his rhetoric, for the first time openly questioning that Russia started the war.
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Pur essendo favorevole alla riforma della magistratura, Alessandro Barbano ha l’onestà mentale di rilevare le sciocchezze da dette da esponenti di governo che motivano la riforma con il caso Garlasco o con quello dell’imam di Torino
P.S. Vi stanno prendendo in giro, e nemmeno ve ne rendete conto.
P.S. Vi stanno prendendo in giro, e nemmeno ve ne rendete conto.
December 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Pur essendo favorevole alla riforma della magistratura, Alessandro Barbano ha l’onestà mentale di rilevare le sciocchezze da dette da esponenti di governo che motivano la riforma con il caso Garlasco o con quello dell’imam di Torino
P.S. Vi stanno prendendo in giro, e nemmeno ve ne rendete conto.
P.S. Vi stanno prendendo in giro, e nemmeno ve ne rendete conto.
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Jucika Prepares for the Ball
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Jucika Prepares for the Ball
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
(Sound design by hypnadot on NG)
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In James Gunn we trust. I mean, this is Guardians of the Galaxy v4, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
#supergirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
#supergirl
December 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
In James Gunn we trust. I mean, this is Guardians of the Galaxy v4, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
#supergirl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
#supergirl
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today I discovered that the famous Amazon review of "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram is no longer visible on the website.
Luckily for us, it's on the internet archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090316203517/http://www.amazon.com/review/R6B8KO2M32P8G
Luckily for us, it's on the internet archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090316203517/http://www.amazon.com/review/R6B8KO2M32P8G
December 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
today I discovered that the famous Amazon review of "A New Kind of Science" by Stephen Wolfram is no longer visible on the website.
Luckily for us, it's on the internet archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090316203517/http://www.amazon.com/review/R6B8KO2M32P8G
Luckily for us, it's on the internet archive
https://web.archive.org/web/20090316203517/http://www.amazon.com/review/R6B8KO2M32P8G
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💥🪧Huge protest tomorrow outside Viktor Orbán’s office after another week of damning evidence of sexual and physical abuse in child care and youth detention centers. It's Hungary’s own Epstein-style scandal, fueled by wild rumors.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
December 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
💥🪧Huge protest tomorrow outside Viktor Orbán’s office after another week of damning evidence of sexual and physical abuse in child care and youth detention centers. It's Hungary’s own Epstein-style scandal, fueled by wild rumors.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
This new related video has already been seen by millions.
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🇭🇺💥Thousands marched to Viktor Orbán’s office in Budapest on Saturday, led by opposition leader Péter Magyar, who called on the PM to resign over multiple child abuse scandals. Protesters carried toys and torches under the banner “Protect the children!”.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🇭🇺💥Thousands marched to Viktor Orbán’s office in Budapest on Saturday, led by opposition leader Péter Magyar, who called on the PM to resign over multiple child abuse scandals. Protesters carried toys and torches under the banner “Protect the children!”.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.
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🚨 BREAKING: Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and top diplomat Stefano Sannino are in custody after Belgian police launched raids as part of a fraud probe.
Read the story: politi.co/4pORFPb
Read the story: politi.co/4pORFPb
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and top diplomat Stefano Sannino are in custody after Belgian police launched raids as part of a fraud probe.
Read the story: politi.co/4pORFPb
Read the story: politi.co/4pORFPb
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so, #day2 of #adventofcode with #rust and #ruby.
Brute force, but in ruby it feels more natural for me to create a bunch of arrays, in rust it seemed easier to fiddle with array indexes.
I wonder if I could use some "zero cost" slices?
I'm pretty sure I could do both things the same way tho […]
Brute force, but in ruby it feels more natural for me to create a bunch of arrays, in rust it seemed easier to fiddle with array indexes.
I wonder if I could use some "zero cost" slices?
I'm pretty sure I could do both things the same way tho […]
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December 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
so, #day2 of #adventofcode with #rust and #ruby.
Brute force, but in ruby it feels more natural for me to create a bunch of arrays, in rust it seemed easier to fiddle with array indexes.
I wonder if I could use some "zero cost" slices?
I'm pretty sure I could do both things the same way tho […]
Brute force, but in ruby it feels more natural for me to create a bunch of arrays, in rust it seemed easier to fiddle with array indexes.
I wonder if I could use some "zero cost" slices?
I'm pretty sure I could do both things the same way tho […]
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so, day 1 #adventofcode, the #ruby solution is easy, and the #rust one too.
I'm a bit sad rust doesn't seem to have integer subrange types a-la pascal (or I couldn't find them 🤷)
rust important bits, if you want to criticize them :)
https://gist.github.com/riffraff/7aa3fb332ae9e2d61783b671cf160361
I'm a bit sad rust doesn't seem to have integer subrange types a-la pascal (or I couldn't find them 🤷)
rust important bits, if you want to criticize them :)
https://gist.github.com/riffraff/7aa3fb332ae9e2d61783b671cf160361
day_1.rs
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December 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
so, day 1 #adventofcode, the #ruby solution is easy, and the #rust one too.
I'm a bit sad rust doesn't seem to have integer subrange types a-la pascal (or I couldn't find them 🤷)
rust important bits, if you want to criticize them :)
https://gist.github.com/riffraff/7aa3fb332ae9e2d61783b671cf160361
I'm a bit sad rust doesn't seem to have integer subrange types a-la pascal (or I couldn't find them 🤷)
rust important bits, if you want to criticize them :)
https://gist.github.com/riffraff/7aa3fb332ae9e2d61783b671cf160361
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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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💰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...