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Francesco Marini
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Sci-fi aficionado, 📷 by passion, I like snorkeling, long walks, cooking, good 📚, 🎞️, 😺🐈, and nice conversations on way too many topics.
🧑🏻💻, in particular iOS, but been developing for a loooong time with probably too many languages and technologies.
🎤 NSSpain XII speaker.
iOS (or Mac? Who knows 😁) @ [to be defined] 😅
Previously iOS @ Tribute Brand
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Joined November 18, 2022
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@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz @brembs@mastodon.social all true, but the birds ones are at least way better than the famous people and buildings ones 🤷🏼♂️
There has been a lot of sloppy reporting regarding DarkSword, with basically every news outlet saying that iOS 18 is vulnerable. It’s not, if you have the latest 18.7.3.
Google has a more in depth analysis, with a lot more information on the specific versions of iOS that are affected.
TL;DR It doesn’t seem to affect 18.7.3 at least (might also not work on 18.7.2 given that CVE-2025-43520, which DarkSword uses, has been patched in .2).
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain
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@peternlewis sloppy reporting, as usual.
Google has a more in depth analysis, with a lot more information on the specific versions of iOS that are affected.
TL;DR It doesn’t seem to affect 18.7.3 at least (might also not work on 18.7.2 given that CVE-2025-43520, which DarkSword uses, has been patched in .2).
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain
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@fusion@mastodon.social @bradr@infosec.exchange the mix in 2025 was:
21.85% solar
21.56% gas
20.41% wind
18.78% nuclear
11.37% hydropower
3.48% oil
2.23% bioenergy
0.32% coal
So renewables accounted for 53.63%, zero emissions (solar + wind + hydro + nuclear) 72.41%. Really good.
(Source: https://ourworldindata.org/search?q=energy+generation&countries=Spain&resultType=all )
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@lothcat I’d add “and to not have to worry about the future”, but other than that, this. Definitely.
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@hiiamfrompoland@troet.cafe @Tutanota@mastodon.social I’m more and more convinced we should skip the riot part, and go straight to the guillotine part, à la French.
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@tsturm played the hell out of it on my Amiga. Incredibly good game, but the jousting was crazy hard 😅
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@KimeraGupta@todon.eu @bradr@infosec.exchange honestly, Spain should tell the EU to fuck off (and not only for this particular thing).
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@HopelessDemigod 20 MB A590 for my Amiga 500. I think there were a couple of hard drives for the C64, but 1) never felt the need, and 2) no way I could have been able to pay for one 😁
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@ole@chaos.social oh, sure. It’s a clever trick, and like with all clever tricks, there might be (and there will be) unintended consequences 😅
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@dimitribouniol@mastodon.social @helge@mastodon.social @finestructure@mastodon.social see my other response.
I have a 2.0L, 275CV car that can quite easily go well over 200 km/h, and yeah, I get much worse fuel economy at 130 (and over) than at 85. And I can assure you it’s a really competent track car, so it *is* made to go fast, like really fast. Other less track ready cars might be more optimized for cruising at 100-130 km/h, but a lot are not, I’m quite sure 🤷🏼♂️
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@agreenberg@infosec.exchange more in depth analysis from Google.
It doesn’t seem to affect 18.7.3 at least (might also not work on 18.7.2 given that CVE-2025-43520, which DarkSword uses, has been patched in .2).
https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-millions-of-iphones-can-be-hacked-with-a-new-tool-found-in-the-wild/
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@kristoffer@mastodon.kristofferjohansson.com @obrhoff@mastodon.social build quality of the alternatives is indeed a problem, but the fact that basically none is offering a glossy version is imho even worse (Benq now has one, but it has a strange 70Hz frequency that is… well, strange 🤷🏼♂️).
That Asus one is good, plastic-y and matte, but good; my gf has one, and for the price it’s really nice.
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@danielpunkass@mastodon.social tbh, the same could easily apply to a number of countries. Which makes it even more relevant.
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@tripleman it is sloppy, because the ones on 18.7.2 and up aren’t affected, contrary to the “18 is affected” narrative.
So, when I looked at prefab houses (both concrete and wood) in Spain (Cantabria in particular) last year, I found the prices to be perfectly reasonable, some even offering Passivhaus certification, and all looking really good.
Now we’re on the active search for a terrain, and I looked again at the same houses, and, lo and behold, they’re all around 15-20% more expensive, screwing up our budget. Fuck.
Inflation my ass. So pissed off right now. 🤬🤬🤬
(“Normal” ones look to be the same story)
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@Strandjunker I would suggest another three words: Eat the rich [there’s only one thing that they’re good for]
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@tewha@appdot.net hmm. Wait… I have a feeling we’re talking about two different books 😅 I’m thinking about Lisey’s Story 😁
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@tewha@appdot.net nope, “The room sighed. Then it was silent.”
And the “it’s for you” is only used a couple of times in the book, and only at the beginning (well, around 20%, as per Books), when gives her the b-b… strange, I thought he used it again near the end 🤔🤷🏼♂️
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@lproven unconvinced that you can’t.
A modular NUMA system with multiple Mx Max/Ultra could be built, if they want to. I would love to see one built.
But the question is: would it make sense from a business perspective? Honestly, I don’t think so; it would be really niche, and I don’t see Apple so interested in gaining market share in the [really] professional market, tbh. 🤷🏼♂️
But from a technological point of view? Yep, it could be done.
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@leeloo@c.im @dimitribouniol@mastodon.social @helge@mastodon.social @finestructure@mastodon.social all correct, expect for maybe “driving the slowest your engine will willingly go”. You have to take the torque curve into account: at low speed, the engine might not stutter, but at lower RPMs the engine is not providing enough torque, thus getting you worse fuel efficiency. Ideally you want to have enough torque, at the lowest RPMs possible for a given speed, which is not always the lowest absolute RPM without stuttering.
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@tripleman I’m on 18.7.3 on a 13 Pro. Every iPhone up to 16 received it, until Apple decided to make 18.7.3+ XR and XS only. So the ones that received either 18.7.2 or 18.7.3 and still haven’t upgraded to 26 are safe to stay on 18.7.x.
Saying that all 18.x are not safe is simply not true.
So, just got an email from Springer saying that they sold Scientific American to a to me obscure LabX Media Group.
1) I hope they won’t enshittify it.
2) does anyone know LabX Media Group and has any kind of insight or opinion on them?
#scientificamerican #sciam #science #sciencecommunication
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@swifteves I would submit a proposal (and I have one that would be a perfect match for your conference name 😁), but I honestly can’t even think about coming to the States right now. Wouldn’t feel safe doing so, sorry 🤷🏼♂️
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@tewha@appdot.net oh. Wait. Got it. Right. Dumb me.
Though I’m not sure it’s ending exactly with the “it’s for you”… gotta double check now 😅
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@craiggrannell@mastodon.social waited about two years here between the cables being installed in the street at the end of mine (some 30m from my house or so, as the bird flies) and when I finally got the last 30m from my street to my apartment on the second floor connected (yep, it has to go an interesting way to get up here, old, old house 😅).
But when you see that lovely 2.5Gb down/1Gb up connection working, it’s so, so good a feeling 😁
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@evacide@hachyderm.io
Google has a more in depth analysis, with a lot more information on the specific versions of iOS that are affected.
TL;DR It doesn’t seem to affect 18.7.3 at least (might also not work on 18.7.2 given that CVE-2025-43520, which DarkSword uses, has been patched in .2).
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain
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@swifteves next time, hoping things will have changed by then! 😁
I’m sure it’s gonna be an awesome conference 👍🏻☺️
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@tripleman you could try switching on iOS 18 public beta, it might (might, not sure) give you the option for 18.7.2 or 18.7.3. If it doesn’t, I guess you’re of luck, since from 18.7.4 on (or maybe even 18.7.3; I got it before they “forced” the 26 update for newer phones) it looks like they’re only for iPhone XR and XS 🤷🏼♂️
@fale@gts.fale.io I would wager that L0 should be no AI (sorry, LLMs) in the organization.
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- Hidden Coffee in El Born has some outdoor seating
- Origin Specialty Coffee is another nice place in El Poblenou
That said, there are a lot of nice places with at least outdoor seating, you won’t have any problem finding one you like! ☺️
TIL SourceForge still exists, and there are still projects hosted on SourceForge.
Wow 🤯😅
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@maccath@phpc.social La Mariposa Negra has some amazing cocktails, and outdoor seating which won’t be a problem with a wheelchair.
A bit of self- (family, my uncle’s 😅) promotion: for coffee and/or breakfast/lunch el Bicioci Bike Cafè is cozy and with only a small step at the entrance (plus a couple of seating places outside) 😁
If you’re into specialty coffee:
- Nomad, three locations around the city
- Departure Coffee in the El Raval neighborhood is really nice
1/2
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@tewha@appdot.net oh, Cell. Right. And yeah, around the end the father says something like “I came for you” to his unresponsive son, though I don’t exactly remember when. But yeah, it ends with the father trying to “reboot” the son with a cellphone 😁
In Lisey’s, the husband says “it’s for you, it’s a blood bool”when he cuts his arms for her, as a way to make amends for having forgot their anniversary.
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@lproven sorry, but the AS GPUs are absolutely capable of doing general purpose computation. What is missing is CUDA support, but that doesn’t absolutely mean they’re not more than good at GPGPU.
The fact that the RAM is local to each AS processor is why I wrote NUMA system.
Moreover, every multi-GPU system is de facto a NUMA one, since the graphics memory is local to each single GPU card, and each GPU can only talk to its memory. Also, they’re not connect to any output, usually.
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@tewha@appdot.net as a King lover I’m quite disappointed with myself that I can’t recognize the second one 🤔
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@lproven just a couple of examples:
Paradigm liquid simulation for Houdini: https://www.theoryaccelerated.com/paradigm From the FAQ: “Nvidia & Apple GPUs are recommended” (https://theoryaccelerated.notion.site/paradigm-1-faq) Can use either OpenCL or Metal on AS GPUs.
Wolfram MetalLink, AS GPUs with Mathematica: https://www.classcentral.com/course/youtube-metallink-general-purpose-gpu-computation-on-apple-silicon-425810
A nice educational fluid simulation in Metal: https://github.com/Pierre-Joly/SPH-Fluid-Metal-GPU
Edit: removed undeserved rudeness 🤦🏻♂️
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@cb_desu@mastodon.social @simonbs@mastodon.social definitely. And it also makes sense, for a number of reasons.
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@helge@mastodon.social @dimitribouniol@mastodon.social @finestructure@mastodon.social well, there is a lower limit; it’s a matter or torque, RPMs, transmission ratio, speed, …
The sweet spot for my Hyundai i30N is cruising around 65/75 km/h in sixth gear, for example. At 130 km/h I consume roughly double.
But regarding the topic at hand, cruising at 100 on the highway instead of 130 or, worse, 180/200 will absolutely consume less gas per km. At those speeds, air resistance is the biggest consumption hit, so…