Francesco Marini

@fmarini
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Sci-fi aficionado, πŸ“· by passion, I like snorkeling, long walks, cooking, good πŸ“š, 🎞️, 😺🐈, and nice conversations on way too many topics.

πŸ§‘πŸ»β€πŸ’», 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] πŸ˜…
Previously iOS @ Tribute Brand

Webhttps://www.lightskies.net/
IRClightman on irc.libera.chat
Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lightman73

A third of our fellow Americans support the murder of β€œa whole civilization.. never to be brought back again.” Some because they are enthralled by a fascist leader, some because they are fundamentally bigoted and racist, and some because they think that bringing on a man-made apocalypse will bring the End Times and their eternal salvation.

They are all fucking insane.

This is an apocalypse of choice.

The Gazification of Lebanon, round 3:
A picture of Margaret Hamilton, programmer for the Apollo space program, standing next to not one single microsoft error message or bluetooth problem.

I found the real life version of the xkcd infrastructure comics.

#GranCanaria #RoqueNublo

Clock Signal 2026-04-04 - A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Commodore VIC-20, Amiga and many more https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK

Credit https://x.com/Commodore_lives

#Commodore #VIC20 #Amiga #Emulator

The text "Line Height" calculation on iOS/Mac is THE rocket science πŸ”¬

There is literally one public method that can calculate it right: `NSLayoutManager.defaultLineHeight(for:)`. The logic behind it does not consistently match CoreText
CTLine, CTFramesetter, or a plain (ascent + descent + leading) calculation 🍿

Literal rocket science build on top of years of assumptions, mistakes, historic use. why? becasue reasons. magic delta values depends on the font name/style/size.

You know there's something wrong with US politics when NASA is forced to communicate in Imperial measurements.

"Orion’s main engine provides up to 6,000 pounds of thrust, enough to accelerate a car from 0 to 60 mph in about 2.7 seconds. At the time of the burn, Orion’s mass was 58,000 pounds and burned approximately 1,000 pounds of fuel during the firing."

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-day-2-orion-completes-tli-burn-crew-begins-journey-to-the-moon/

#space #artemis #nasa

Artemis II Flight Day 2: Orion Completes TLI Burn, Crew Begins Journey to the Moon - NASA

NASA’s Artemis II crew is on the way to the Moon.

NASA

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function

Absolutely pathetic

Mobile Device Vulnerability Management Concept - German National EUDI Wallet: Architecture Documentation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345677794218793

Good work everyone. We are not a whole continent with some of the brightest minds and universities to figure out how to do it decoupled from private companies.

We are a continent of bureaucratic people with knowledge only of laws and administration.

RE: https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/116346781244046341

We need a Nuremberg 2.0.