Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/wikipedia-loses-uk-safety-act-challenge-worries-it-will-have-to-verify-user-ids/ Deeply misguided legislation

Entirely evil move https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

I've updated my Selenium-based RSS feed builder: https://github.com/xorgol/scrapeRSS-comune-parma Now I'm also providing an RSS feed for the Cultural Heritage news page of the Emilia-Romagna regional government website.

I read this: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2025/08/miscounting-sheep/ Then I checked my own Apple Health sleep data, and I got something even more nonsensical, how can the time asleep be longer than the time in bed?

Allan Dwan’s stories https://blog.ayjay.org/allan-dwans-stories/

Linkpost: Beautiful Public Data https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/07/19/linkpost-beautiful-public-data/A collection of data, artefacts, and visualisations from American public institutions https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com

Linkpost: on the Vitruvian puzzle debacle https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/07/14/linkpost-on-the-vitruvian-puzzle-debacle/

Linkpost: Europeana 2025 videos https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/07/11/linkpost-europeana-2025-videos/A must watch for anyone in the cultural heritage sector

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-america-hot-garbage-problem-toxic-landfills/ In this interesting but horrifying article, I’m perplexed by this sentence: “In early 2022 a closed section in the landfill’s northwest corner began overheating, eventually reaching temperatures above 200F

Linkpost: Botticelli v Warhol – 2025 Cultural Heritage Conference in Florence https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/07/04/linkpost-botticelli-v-warhol-2025-cultural-heritage-conference-in-florence/IP Kat (which is very much the blog to follow on legal news regarding so called intellectual property)

Elenca porte aperte, e quali processi le aprono sudo lsof -PiTCP -sTCP:LISTEN https://prudenziolo.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/elenca-porte-aperte-e-quali-processi-le-aprono/

Linkpost: IIIF 3D spec released https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/07/03/linkpost-iiif-3d-spec-released/Read more in Thomas Flynn’s newsletter: https://nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/interoperable-accesible-portable?publication_id=2123354&post_id=166050797&isFreemail=true&r=1r7u5&triedRedirect=true

I'm thinking about the differences in affordances between books, e-books, and audiobooks. How do you highlight a piece of audio? Maybe it should be something like SoundCloud time-stamped comments?

Linkpost: 10 years of pomological watercolors https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/07/03/linkpost-10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/10 years ago, Parker Higgins called for the publishing of a collection of pomological watercolors, click through for the details (but this is pretty famous in my corner of

In-person demo at Casa nel Parco https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/07/02/in-person-demo-at-casa-nel-parco/We’ve been part of Officine On Off since October 2024, and last week we participated in their annual festival. There were games, music, and plenty of community feeling. We wanted to bring our

Caricamento su server senza sovrascrivere Per quando avete un server con SSH ma senza FTP, e dovete riprendere un dowload interrotto rsync -av /source/path [email protected]:/destination/path/on/server https://prudenziolo.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/caricamento-su-server-senza-sovrascrivere/

Gli smartphone venduti nell’Unione Europea avranno un’etichetta come gli elettrodomestici https://www.ilpost.it/2025/04/25/etichetta-smartphone/

Our first in-person installation https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/04/13/our-first-in-person-installation/This Tuesday our first in-person installation will be inaugurated. https://cultura.comune.parma.it/evento/it-IT/Parma-Liberata.aspx We created an immersive installation in the main room of the

Trump Betrays Ukraine in White House Ambush of Zelenskyy https://kottke.org/25/03/trump-betrays-ukraine-in-white-house-ambush-of-zelenskyy

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/ I will now attempt to bring all of my company digital infrastructure to Europe. Some will be relatively easy, like switching from Google Work to Proton. Our web-hosting is already ok, what I really

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” https://kottke.org/25/02/0046351-defense-secretary-pete-he

https://www.ilpost.it/2025/03/01/le-conseguenze-della-lite-tra-trump-e-zelensky/ We really should step the fuck up as Europeans

Tomorrow, European leaders will gather in the UK to discuss the defence of Ukraine. Tell your MP today to: 1️⃣ Immediately ramp up support for Ukraine 2️⃣ Transfer the frozen Russian billions to Ukraine 3️⃣ Increase investment in defence to 3% of GDP this year #StandWithUkraine 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

we are getting stories crazier than watergate every single day and no one bats an eye at them anymore. society has hypernormalized intense corruption that it feels like NOT being openly corrupt hinders you

I’m excited to announce that due to popular demand, we will release the full animatic of Flow aka Float aka the Crazy Frog Edition. Instead of using storyboards, all the scenes are designed directly in 3D. Everything was made in Blender and rendered in EEVEE.

Tickling capybaras

The more complex and fuzzy the quantity, the more macroscopically validate should our measurements be. A month of work is not a good measure, but it sure beats an hour of work.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/the-world-has-probably-passed-peak-air-pollution Never accept defeat, we can fix our politics, we can fix our environment.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/propaganda-2 Stupid is a feature, not a bug

huh...

How do you say milestone in German?

How copyright chaos reigns among the UK’s top cultural institutions https://walledculture.org/how-copyright-chaos-reigns-among-the-uks-top-cultural-institutions/

Weird pseudoscience on YouTube Shorts – a debunking https://e-muse.it/blog/2024/12/24/weird-pseudoscience-on-youtube-shorts-a-debunking/Debunking a YouTube video on the Alhambra

We’re on the local newspaper https://e-muse.it/blog/2024/12/24/were-on-the-local-newspaper/The Gazzetta di Parma, which is arguably the oldest newspaper in continuous operation in the world, ran an article about us and about the BCC Arte & Cultura project. Big thanks to the journalist, who did a

Nakatomi Plaza is Aubrey’s sister. Fun fact.

New mesh reduction tools https://e-muse.it/blog/2024/12/23/new-mesh-reduction-tools/Holo Lab released this new Blender add-on that does a pretty job at reducing most photogrammetry models: https://github.com/HoloLabInc/ModerateWeightReductionTools It does fail on the more topologically challenged

Acoustics measurements in the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, with no seats and with the meta Rayban for a binaural comparison #acoustics

BCC Arte e Cultura launch https://e-muse.it/blog/2024/12/11/bcc-arte-e-cultura-launch/We can finally talk about this! For the past year or so, we’ve been working on the cataloguing and digitalization project of the art and cultural heritage assets of the BCC ICCREA group. Overall 59 banks and 109

My parents got stuck in the snow, and they were running out of food and medicine. I had to be Balto

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

This Sunday the “sonic sceptre” was presented at Casa del Suono in Parma, it allows users to move sound sources in space. Here it is being used with the “chandelier” wave field synthesis array. It was developed by the Neurodive association, for Casa della Musica and the municipality of

Duolingo’s marketing is really leaning into the threatening vibe

Buffet in the anechoic chamber at the University of Ferrara last Friday, for the inauguration of their new immersive listening room. The VR experiences are really well done. #acoustics #VR

For its 20th anniversary, Half-Life 2 is free on steam, the whole Orange Box is like €2, and there is a 2 hour documentary on the making of the game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/

bunch 😀