Nearly 200 000 North Macedonians hold Bulgarian passports https://novinite.com/articles/233049/Nearly+a+Quarter+Million+Macedonians+Are+Now+Bulgarian+Citizens+-+Here’s+Why

This is about the official codebase, both server/website and app. Anyone could fork it, but si far the original remains the most used service by far.

not “every”, we have plenty of positive examples, but there are so many equilibria in place that are anything but democratic.

More than a decade. I’ve grown up wondering what stops Western governments from blocking the overwhelming Russian manipulations over social networks (remember Cambridge Analytica?). Now I am in my forties…

Clearly now that the fascists have criticised Russia, he is quick to claim a share of the money they kept receiving from Russia.

There’s no such thing as Chechen ordinary people. We are talking whether Ramzan Kadyrov sticks well with FSB or not.

LibreOffice bolla Euro-Office un ‘alleato di fatto’ della strategia di lock-in di Microsoft

La Document Foundation accusa l’Euro-Office appena lanciato di minare la sovranità digitale in default nel formato di documento OOXML di Microsoft

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/

I’ve added the newspaper in the title. I wouldn’t like to share paywalled information.

By all means, I promote a subscription to the Japan Times.

What happened to “all multimillionaires are a plague to this planet”? Fucking inflation, ruined it all…

Regarding your last point, I totally share that disposition, but I’d think math/functional is a different type of skill/competence and its basics have way too little to do with computers. Probably the most relevant here is that pure dynamically typed languages like smalltalk, logo, python and JavaScript (the ones that you’ll probably end up teaching anyway) are so versatile that they successfully implement both the functional and object-oriented paradigms, so you can choose how to look at them.

I’ve always found it weird that Arduino has its own language. On top of it, it’s not a really well designed one in the sense that it does not follow a simple paradigm where there are few basic fundamentals and from there it’s only vocabulary.

One thing that’s pretty cool about your case of having two kids of different ages is that you can make them play a sort of an asymmetric ping-pong game where one becomes the game master/designer to the other.

I have a son that’s about to turn 6 now. Since the age of two I’ve been playing with him with Cubetto https://primotoys.com/. Cubetto is a no-screen programming of a robot using physical directional shapes.

When I help them with a playful narrative (I’ve even written an article about it), he and his friends enjoyed it a lot. They play with moving it around.

However, my observation is that at this age they are not ready for the more advanced feature of reexecutable code (the Cubetto board has this equivalent of a callable procedure). They struggle even with the simpler random or invert commands (which are an extension pack actually).

One nice thing is that there is a learning path towards disassembling the robot and potentially (unofficially) towards reprogramming its Arduino. So kids can also tinker with at later age.

As you can see, I’m quite enthusiastic about the technology and could share some further resources, if anyone cares to read them.

Wow, great! Didn’t know Alice is still a thing. I’ve remember trying it out when I was a kid when it was little more than a syntax highlighting IDE (or at least that’s how I remember it). I see with Alice 2 and Alice 3 it has leapfrogged. Still, scratch/squeak feel more accessible to small kids to me.

If this is about age (and it might not be), the age range in question is very sensitive. A typical kid at 6 can’t yet read or do simple maths. On the website I found these indicative ages

Well, a lot of people voted him because they didn’t see an alternative in the EPP-affiliated crooks, i.e. Borissov’s criminal gang.

тук става дума за продаден бухал:

“България е чат от общите европейски решения, ние в лицето на правителството не се страхуваме да поставяме българския интерес, да го обясним и целите да бъдат постигнати. Това и направихме с изключването на три лица от санкционния списък”, каза Радев, като имаше предвид шефа на “Лукойл” Вагит Алекперов, патриарх Кирил и Искандер Махмудов. https://www.segabg.com/hot/category-bulgaria/bulgariya-i-slovakiya-radost-otbelyazaha-che-ne-podkrepyat-ukrayna

Thank you for your opinion, it is appreciated.

Anche a Busto Arsizio: https://www.malpensa24.it/ciclobus-per-le-scuole-e-luci-sulle-ciclabili-busto-in-bici-per-la-mobilita-sostenibile/

Thanks! This is a really important one. Only if we had a way to convert these pain points to action points and organize financial support for the effort to address them…

I must say that the masto5 post felt like really a big step in this direction, but the threadiverse has still to get the academic and institutional support mastodon has managed to achieve.