The fact that the Chinese Communist Party — with its economic pragmatism — is not pushing Putin to mild advice is a bad news. — At the time of writing, Russia’s war against Ukraine has reached its fifty-first day. To date, the possibilities for negotiations are in sharp decline, in light of the events in Bucha and the findings in the villages and small towns conquered by the Russian army, especially in northern Ukraine. …

The sanctions after the war in Ukraine have suddenly raised all the criticality of the choice to have the Russian ‘government’ as partner. A summary of what happened and the new directions. — The events: Putin invades Ukraine Let’s start with the breaking news: the Russian army started an offensive in Ukrainian territory, therefore not only in the disputed territories of Donbass and Crimea. Within days the offensive from Belarus reached Kiev, putting the Ukrainian capital under siege.

This story is the beginning of a short series on the buying process and the personal experience of the owner of a Lithium electric moped. Waiting for budget and valid electric cars to come out on the market, the motorcycle is a brilliant solution to reduce part of the emissions. — At the end of 2020, after all the limelight of the reborn environmental movement — the last time was 2007 and it was more a technochic environmentalist than a neohippie environmentalism — in a Greta Thunberg and centennial generation key, my environmental conscience woke up after years of numbness.

In this third round we will update the Mac Pro to Big Sur in order to use the brand new Final Cut 10.6, while retaining the hardware acceleration. Let’s do this! — Premise We are in November 2021 and Apple has just released macOS Monterey for supported macs. As you know the Mac Pro 5.1 was already “dropped” since Catalina, so the fact that’s not supported is not surprising. The Monterey installation is still too unreliable — adding the problems of a release…

In the first round we got a hardware accelerated Mojave installation, via Open Core. Now it’s time to move on Catalina and use FCP 10.5. — We’re in 2021, at the beginning of the new shiny Apple-ARM era, but many people still own a “classic” Mac Pro and still want to upgrade to unsupported versions of macOS. Why upgrade to Catalina? In the first Episode, we installed Mojave and obtained the H264/H265 hardware acceleration inside the overpriced RX GPU you…

The first step in the upgrade is to get a Mojave installation with support for GPU H264/H265 acceleration. — I bought a cheap Mac Pro 4.1 flashed to 5.1 in order to get a solid desktop mac that can host some of the SSD I have around, and finally doing heavy Final Cut transcoding/exporting without burning like an Intel Macbook. This choice may sound strange in 2021, in the…

There are great cameras among mainstream smartphones, but when you look at the alternative phones scene, it’s hard to find decent cameras. The Volla Phone (Gigaset) and Sailfish OS on Xperia 10 ii are an exception. — In September at Città Alta, more precisely in Piazza Vecchia, an event called “The Masters of the Landscape / Landscape Festival” is held, where the old central square is set up as a garden.

As a USA/EU citizen you must be informed about the stealth offensive that the Chinese Communist Party has been carrying out towards the rest of the world in recent years. — I want to be clear: this book shocked me! It was supposed to be a quiet summer read on an international political theme, a book with a beautiful exaggerated cover artwork, with a cold war flavour maybe, but as I read it I realised that I was facing a serious…