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giulianopz··on Pg_links
Hi Paul, `pg_config` does not link to a conference but to a webpage that allows you to browse Postgres configuration parameters.

It's just a list of links I consult frequently when working with Postgres. I thought it could be helpful to someone else, too, and maybe others can suggest useful PG links I'm unaware of.

giulianopz··on Github.com/dashboard-feed does no more serve old feed
GitHub decided to remove the old feed despite its users clearly manifested their frustration in the past with the new feed, which is full of things nobody cares about: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188
giulianopz··on SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C
It's in Italian, you have to use subtitles:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrEMgOSrS_3cFJpM2gdw8EGFy...
giulianopz··on Deaf "hearing" companion- Alerts for people who can't hear sounds they should
Judging from the Apple Store, the app author seems to be a certain "Micah Roberson," while your HN nickname matches this Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-atkins/. Are you impersonating someone else, or are you the "co-author" of this app?
giulianopz··on Build an 8-bit computer from scratch (2016)
It is a rite of passage, as electronics wizards say. I remember at least another good example shared in the wild: https://github.com/vascofazza/8bit-cpu
giulianopz··on Debian Junior Desktop live image
I love the reference to Dinosaur Jr.
giulianopz··on Ask HN: Where do avatars like this come from?
I see avatars like this one very often on GitHub but I really don't know where they come from. It seems a corner of the internet culture totally unknown to me, probably dating back to the previous generation of programmers (early 2000s).
giulianopz··on Winamp removed "No forking" restriction from license
Justin Frankel (Winamp author) response here: https://www.askjf.com/index.php?q=7357s
giulianopz··on Fernando Oreste Nannetti (NOF4) "colonel astral"
From the linked page:

Fernando Oreste Nannetti was born in Rome, of an unknown father. After finishing primary school the young boy was put into a charitable institution and at the age of ten was placed in a psychiatric hospital for minors. He then spent two years in hospital where he was treated for spinal disease. It seems that he later worked as an electrician. In 1956 Nannetti was arrested for insulting a public official and that same year was confined to the Santa Maria della Pietà Psychiatric Hospital in Rome. There, at the age of twenty-nine, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Two years later, in 1958, he was transferred to the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital, in Tuscany. In contrast to his period of confinement in Rome when he talked abundantly both day and night, at Volterra he was taciturn and solitary, communicating only with Aldo Trafeli, one of the nurses. But he expressed himself by engraving texts on the courtyard walls of the Hospital’s Ferri block. In 1973 he was moved to the Bianchi Institution, also in Volterra, and then a few years later to another hospital where he stayed until his death in 1994.

Fernando Oreste Nannetti is the author of a written work cut into the stone walls of the Psychiatric Hospital in Volterra, Italy, where he was confined. He said he was in contact with electro-magnetic waves and so, day after day, he recorded that telepathically received information. His writing, reminiscent of Etruscan inscriptions, reveals a stunning world, somewhere between dream and reality, science and imagination. This monumental creation, the fruit of nine years’ work from 1959 to 1961, and 1968 to 1973, is seventy metres long and stretches across several of the institution’s courtyard walls. When out on his routine daily walks, Nannetti would engrave his texts on the walls using the metal tongue of the clasp on his hospital-uniform jacket. He would always begin by outlining a large rectangle, a kind of empty page in his book of stone, before going on to inscribe biographical facts, texts about wars, and references to imaginary places and people.

giulianopz··on Sixel Sabotage in VTE (Gnome Terminal)
Any image protocol implementation is blocked on Gnome side for no apparent reason.

While on KDE side, they happily welcomed a MR to add support for images in the Konsole terminal: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/59...

This is sad since Gnome retains a considerably large slice of the desktop market but it's offering a poor experience to its users.

giulianopz··on Photographic Database of Earthquake Effects on Buildings in Italy
Nope, I've just shared the link for mere curiosity: it's not so common for istitutions in Italy to digitalize this kind of things.
giulianopz··on [dead]
The article describe a simple solution I came up with to bypass the VPN at work to freely listen to music while programming. I post the article here to get a feedback from the community: probably a simpler and cleaner solution exists. (Actually, I'm reposting this link since ,stupidly, I had to change the article URI to fix a typo).
giulianopz··on Useful resources for newbies in Java for web-oriented programming
I tried to write down a list of stuff to learn to work as a Java back-end developer which could be useful for new trainees joining my company with no or little knowledge of Java and Computer Science. What do you think? What would you add to help young developers?
giulianopz··on Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) Exam Personal Notes
These are my personal notes to prepare for the LFCS exam. I hope these notes can help you for the exam or get you into Linux.