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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Ce anno fatto un corteo pe er NO bruciando cartelli co la faccia mia e Nordio
Dateve na mossa a fà un contro corteo pe er SI bruciando cartelli co la faccia de i maggistrati
...no spe, troppo esplicito 🤔
https://www.open.online/2026/03/14/corteo-no-referendum-no-sociale-roma-bruciate-foto-meloni-nordio/
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I know it's intended as a joke but it may not be that far from reality:
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Non siamo (ancora) alla minaccia di dazi ma i concetti sono simili. Gli anglosassoni lo chiamano tantrum. Quanto alle minacce alla Cina, loro controllano il rubinetto delle terre rare...
Donald Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad future’ if allies fail to help US in Iran https://www.ft.com/content/1ca6d121-760b-4ec5-b6ad-514fdaa94873
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@ZoidbergForPresident @grumpygamer somebody made a doom mod where the monsters are processes and killing the monster kills the process; I bet something similar could be done for defragmenting
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@annamam@mastodon.social hello and welcome to the #Fediverse
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@dazo @grumpygamer Funnily enough, I remember reading a letter to a Your Computer (the British one) in Februray 1985, lamenting that these new 64 KB monster machines made for sloppy programming and had taken all the fun out of computers. 😁
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@jwz I know. Some people don't
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Magnetic-Suspension Hoverboard is Only 11 Years Late
Anyone who saw Back to the Future II was disappointed when 2015 rolled around with nary a hoverboard in sight. There have been various attempts to fake it, but none of them quite have the feel of floating about wherever you’d like to go that the movie conveys. The little-known YouTuber [Colin Furze] has a new take on the idea: use magnets. Really big magnets.
If you’re one of [Colin]’s handful of subscribers, then you probably saw his magnetic-suspension bike. We passed on that one, but we couldn’t resist the urge to cover the hoverboard version, regardless of how popular [Colin] might be on YouTube. It’s actually stupidly simple: the suspension is provided by the repulsive force between alarmingly large neodymium magnets. In this case, two are on the base plate that holds the skateboard ‘trucks’, and two are on the wooden ‘deck’ that [Colin] rides upon.
Of course magnetic repulsion is a very unstable equilibrium, so [Colin] had to reduce the degrees of freedom. In his first test, that was with a pair of rods and linear bearings. That way the deck could only move in the z-axis, providing the sensation of hovering without allowing the deck to slide off its magnetic perch. Unfortunately those pins transferred too much vibration from the ground into the deck, ruining the illusion of floating on air.
After realizing that he’d never be able to ollie (jump) this massive beast of a skateboard, [Colin] decides he might as well use a longboard instead. Longboards, as the name implies, are long skateboards, and are for transportation, not tricks. The longboard gets the same massive magnets, but after a couple of iterations to find a smoother solution — including a neat but unsuccessful tensegrity-inspired version — ends up with a pair of loosely-fitted pins once again, though relocated to the rear of the board. From the rider’s perspective, it looks exactly like a hoverboard, since you can’t see underneath from that angle. According to [Colin], it feels like a hoverboard, too.
The only way to do better would be with eddy currents over copper, or superconductors over a magnetic track, but both of those methods limit you to very specific locations. This might be a bit of a fakeout, but its one with a degree of freedom. One, to be specific. You have to admit, it’s still less of a fake than the handle-less Segway we got in 2015, at least.
