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Renato Ramonda

@renatoram@fosstodon.org

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Bearded geek, loudmouth, lover of hats, good food, strange music, games, language, plastic model kits and lots of other stuff.

Beginner but enthusiastic Ukulele player, complete beginner at acoustic guitar. Yes, I like to suck at many things at the same time.

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Joined October 06, 2020

Blog::

https://renatoram.ch

OpenPGP:

https://keyoxide.org/hkp/B9762B3ED6D832409153BB29F13A06E003F05D49

Pronouns:

He/Him

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 6d ago

Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe

So... Which app are you using for Mastodon lately? Any juicy updates, or new ones? The feature I want the most is being good at keeping its spot in the timeline, so that I can scroll (up, ideally) towards the present without missing too much stuff. I follow few enough people that I can actually exhaust my feed, so that's neat. #fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 1w ago

Replying to

@RaymondPierreL3@aus.social @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange there are documented cases where a clean new phone without social media apps has been considered proof of suspicious behavior by border agents and reason for imprisonment with no lawyer for hours, or days.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 1w ago

Replying to

@appassionato@mastodon.social one of the most absurd aspects is that (if my understanding is correct) the whole "mining deep sea nodules" is based on fake science research papers published by the CIA to justify the GLOMAR Explorer "scientific expedition", and building the ship. All because they needed a cover story to the mission to try and steal a Russian sub (which failed, BTW). The incident that gave the world "we cannot confirm nor deny" also gave us "seabed mining" (99% of it is a financial scam).

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 6mo ago

Yoko Kanno is so cool!

And the Seatbelts just kick ass: what an ensemble of musicians.

https://youtu.be/d75ov4HvRrM

Yoko Kanno & SEATBELTS - TANK! Extended [Official Music Video]

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

You know... a lot of things suck in the world, so I'll spread some joy: a couple of young musicians and sound guys in Genoa (Italy) were inspired by the NPR Tiny Desk concerts (Indoor, a handful of ppl in the audience, but genuine and with extra good audio and video quality) and they went and made their own.

It's called Live From The Docks (Genoa is a port city after all) and they had two episodes so far. 1/2

#music (and tagging @etherdiver@ravenation.club for good measure)

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Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@shadowfals@toot.cat @DeltaWye@tiggi.es @feliks@chaos.social a Masto mutual has successfully asked a support chatbot to write silly poetry in another language, and other things. Remember: "guard rails" are entirely fictional and the only real protection would be parsing the meaning of the queries... And if that was possible you wouldn't need LLMs, would you?

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@arafel@mas.to @zebulonmysterioso@mas.to @cstross@wandering.shop cause it's not just a ruthless monster... But also a flying alien with a disintegration ray.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@cstross@wandering.shop @oliversampson@sigmoid.social @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social @DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange oh, it's even worse. They poked PRS.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@oliversampson@sigmoid.social @JamesPadraicR@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop @DJGummikuh@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange the Düsseldorf ruling about Fender is... The opposite of that though? It was ruling by default (no defendant) and the judge accepted enthusiastically the bullshit "work of art" argument by Fender's lawyers.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange isn't that something like... Aiding and Abetting? Not an expert, but... If they're literally factoring it in their books, that's not even basic due diligence.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@RikerGoogling trombadour

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@elilla@transmom.love very true... That's probably part of the myth and mystique of Cremona's violins

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@syntaxseed @SmudgeTheInsultCat and very importantly (listen to it)... I NEVER use the space bar.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@elilla@transmom.love uh.. I never put 2 and 2 together... In Italian we say "stonato come una campana" (out of tune like a bell), very likely because church bell towers with more than one bell (a lot do) would commonly produce spicy disharmonies when the bells are ringing together (also because making a giant metal thing and also have it perfectly tuned must be very hard). I seem to remember the guy in the Rob Scallon video about the bell tower carillon saying how hard it is to make them sound "pretty".

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@elilla@transmom.love the craft of instrument making is just amazing. And most of these building techniques were developed without access to sound analysis tools... Just good ear, and math. The recent video about violin making (again on Scallon's channel) was delightful (so MUCH manual labor).

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Judd@dice.camp my first instinct without context was, instead... "...uh, sus, very sus"

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sio ho paura a cercare su YouTube e scoprire che qualcuno l'ha fatta

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@cstross@wandering.shop do you remember the agriculture company on the NYSE that woke up to being suspended for excessive price growth because the "rational investors" were buying their stock wholesale... Because they had "com" in their name? Something like "Agricom Corp" or somesuch. In 1999 you didn't even need a vaporware product presentation.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 18mo ago

Replying to

@davidgerard@circumstances.run ...and they seem to get more toxic and abusive with each iteration

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 47mo ago

Replying to

@Judd @satchel the migration functionality was introduced after I first tried Masto and after my first migration, and that time I had to export my contacts and reimport them (and people had to re-allow follow, if not automatic). The second time, I used the new functionality and it was pretty smooth IIRC

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@rygorous you just described Italian. Nano: same word.

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sio ...of course. L'Internet è un posto meraviglioso (a volte)

Renato Ramonda @renatoram@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sstendahl and it can import from a Aegis app backup, even if encrypted and password protected, making it a viable disaster recovery path in case your phone gives up the ghost.