Francesco Lodolo

荷兰政府以国家安全为由接管中资芯片制造商恩智浦 Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia (www.cnbc.com) 10-13  ↑ 110 HN Points

In other news: Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch-government-takes-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia.html

It doesn't feel good when Russia or China make similar moves, not sure why this should be different.

@gabrielesvelto https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-growth-zero-first-half-2025-jason-furman-harvard-economist/

Data centers and IT technologies represented 92% of US GDP growth in H1. This is getting scarier by the day.

I've been trying to detangle my savings from US economics […]

GitHub - tt-rss/tt-rss: A free, flexible, open-source, web-based news feed (RSS/Atom/other) reader and aggregator. A free, flexible, open-source, web-based news feed (RSS/Atom/other) reader and aggregator. - tt-rss/tt-rss

@jrconlin Looks like someone is picking up development for self hosting? https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss

@jrconlin Uff, following :-(

I had to install PostgreSQL a while ago to keep it running (and wasn't particularly impressed by the dev's attitude on the topic).

S&P500 Full Chart

@gabrielesvelto Have you ever checked the S&P500 chart? You cannot spot the dot-com bubble and subprime bubble at all, they simply disappear. What you notice is the insane growth post Pandemic. Not sure what that tells about modern economy […]

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In Italian, we have an expression, "toccarla piano". Haven't found a good English equivalent yet. https://www.theverge.com/business/793525/bari-weiss-cbs-news-glass-cliff

I rarely see max heart rate above 170 these days. Surprised that it can still go as high as 176 without me passing out #oldman

@mconley I didn't know he was still building guitars.

I never understood what happened with the Parker Fly: everyone who had one was in love with it, they were impossible to find in the second hand market, and yet they never became popular.

I'm unreasonably excited about split view becoming available as a native feature in Firefox.

The peculiar case of Japanese webdesign: https://sabrinas.space/

The message "paying the bully will not stop the bullying" didn't get through, did it?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/29/youtube-trump-lawsuit-settlement

I don't think the Italian Volleyball movement gets enough credit.

Women: World Champion, WNL Champion, World Champion U21, 5th World U19 (and Olympic Champion from Paris).

Men: World Champion, 2nd WNL, 2nd World U21, 5th World U19.

And a ton of teams at this point have Italian coaches.

Element (for Matrix) just got a massive visual update.

I wouldn't mind the change, too bad now my favorite channels are mixed with the rest (can still see the flag if I right-click). Am I missing something obvious?

Apple calls for changes to anti-monopoly laws and says it may stop shipping to the EU The iPhone-maker criticises Brussels’ Digital Markets Act and says delayed features are leading to a worse experience for users

Empty threats https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu

Netflix is finally pushing me out of my ad-free basic account, after pestering me for months with full-screen takeover messaging.

Email subject: "Changes and savings for Basic members". Sure…

Stumbled upon this YT channel today. They should have way more subscribers https://www.youtube.com/@moreperfectunion

I read this depressing piece about how "AI" affected translators, and as I kept reading I couldn't help but think: this won't last long and when it ends it won't be pretty. If you've heard about model collapse, you know what is going to happen to these tool as they're fed with an increasing […]

If it keeps up like this, runners doing the Berlin Marathon are going to have a toasty day tomorrow.

@tedmielczarek You're missing a "good day" (buongiorno)

Skype email, received today, warning that my credit will become inactive in 7 days.

Someone forgot to update stuff at Microsoft.

[#uspol #trump]

I was wondering if there is a website tracking Trump's promises. Being Internet, obviously the answer is yes.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/

https://apnews.com/projects/trump-campaign-promise-tracker/

Firefox Nightly with "cool" icon selected

New Firefox icons available on Android

Reporting back: age works flawlessly, and it was easy to come up with a bash script to encrypt/decrypt folders or files using a key.

Years ago I ended up using AES Crypt to encrypt files before putting them in the cloud. Today, I discovered that AES Crypt went closed source and stops working after 30 days without a license (which you won't notice initially, because it works as usual). What a dick move […]

Empty fridges at a supermarket following black-out on Sep 9

Silly me for thinking that I would find food in the supermarket.

https://www.stromnetz.berlin/krisenseite/

Still 25,000 people without power, it might be solved Thursday (48+ hours). Schools still closed today (they started on Monday), still no Internet.

Again, what a brilliant way to get people mad about you and your cause, if it's indeed political.

Any bet on how long before someone will bend or break their iPhone Air while sitting down?

https://warnung.bund.de/meldungen/mow.DE-BR-B-SE017-20250909-17-001/Ausfall_Notruf_112_aufgrund_eines_Stromausfalls_Berlin_TreptowKoepenick

Emergency numbers still down, they're asking people who have power to avoid appliances that use too much electricity (I get washing machines and […]

If it's true, what a bunch of idiots
https://de.indymedia.org/node/537364

Plenty of houses still without power, possibly until tomorrow. Phones were completely out for hours, including emergency numbers. Schools had to send kids back home across all ages, people couldn't go to work. What a way […]

Good thing is not Monday.

Power out between 5 and 10 (about 50,000 people affected in South East Berlin). Now power is back up, but Vodafone is still completely down (guessing that emergency power ran out in a lot of places).

At least I can hotspot with a Telekom SIM.