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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Prima delle piante, c’erano i funghi. Letteralmente ovunque. Ci abbiamo messo un sacco di tempo per accorgercene.

Money quote: “Fossils of the organisms, known as Prototaxites, had peppered the paleontological findings of the past century and a half, ever since they were first discovered by a Canadian in 1859. But despite the fossil records, no one could figure out what the heck these giant spires were.”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/
Monaci fantasiosi nel 1100 “vedono” un meteorite che colpisce la Luna. Ma prendono un abbaglio.

Money quote: “The thing is, astronomers don't really know how young the crater is. While estimates at the time suggested that it might have been less than a thousand years old, more modern figures place it between one and 10 million years ago, most likely about four million. The other problem is that Giordano Bruno is pretty enormous. At about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across, the asteroid that caused it would have to be between a half-mile and 2 miles (1-3 kilometers) across — big enough to be a threat to human civilization if it had struck our home turf instead. That's a pretty close call, and it happened only a half-second ago if you think about it on a geological scale. It would be pretty weird if only five people on the entire planet witnessed an Armageddon-level event like that.”

https://curiosity.com/topics/these-12th-century-monks-may-have-seen-an-asteroid-strike-the-moon-curiosity/
Perché usare i DNS con HTTPS è peggio del problema che cerca di risolvere.

Money quote: “Why are you against changes in DNS?

I’m not. The DNS needs modernization. The DNS needs security features that prevent the peepers from reading your DNS traffic. I’m all in for it. But DoH is NOT the answer to this.”

https://www.bsdhowto.ch/doh.html
Scatto tutto in bianco e nero. Mi piace moltissimo. Però non è facile...

Money quote: “You don’t shoot in black and white, you shoot for black and white. It’s a mindset.”

https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59
Fa caldo. Il momento giusto per giocare con una bella macchina virtuale. Ma, anziché il solito Linux o Windows, perché non ci mettete dentro un bel sistema operativo scritto in CommonLisp? Ecco a voi Mezzano: nome orrendo, lo so. Però è divertente.

Money quote: "These releases are designed to be run in VirtualBox, though QEMU is also supported. 2GB of RAM, a virtio-net NIC and an Intel HDA audio controller are recommended."

https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano/
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Il disegnatore argentino Guillermo Mordillo Menéndez, noto semplicemente come Mordillo, è morto all’età di 86 anni nella sua casa di Maiorca, in Spagna: https://bit.ly/2LpvLlz.