{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Valerio Francesco Vallone","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/Valluanino","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1714198","username":"Valluanino","bio":"I live in Southern Italy. EN-IT technical translator (with some JP to boot) in the medical and pharmaceutical field, currently broadening my career horizon. Your average geek with lots of interests and too little time. I keep my opinions mostly to myself, unlike what most of the contemporary social media landscape suggests. Still, spillovers may happen.","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":1,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Valerio Francesco Vallone","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/03/1714198.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"68845670","content_html":"

I may be back home, but I’m still in Verona with Mumford and Sons in my mind. No fancy stuff, no special effects, just our energy.\n🎵

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I did it! Got two tickets for the Mumford and Sons concert in Verona on July 7. Presale went live at 10am CET and by 10:04 only a handful tickets were left, I got a bit breathless with anxiety by the end of the procedure. 😮‍💨

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World news have put me on a sour mood consistently for the past two weeks. I had to take a break from all current affairs and media last week because one evening I was literally weeping. As a European, I’ve never been more scared of the future. We’re alone, and our national leaders don’t care to cooperate.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/2025/02/28/world-news-have-put-me.html","date_published":"2025-02-28T21:00:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Valerio Francesco Vallone","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714198.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Valluanino"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-28 21:00","date_timestamp":1740776426,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"57825222","content_html":"🔗 “NokiApple LumiPhone 1020 SE” merges Windows Phone body with budget iPhone guts - ArsTechnica\n\nReminds me of my old, white Nokia Lumia 925. That phone ran hot like a small oven, but the feel of that polycarbonate back was absolutely top notch… like any other polycarbonate-built phone, basically. Plus, I’... valluanino.it","summary":"","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/2025/02/18/nokiapple-lumiphone-se-merges-windows.html","date_published":"2025-02-17T23:00:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Valerio Francesco Vallone","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714198.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Valluanino"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-17 23:00","date_timestamp":1739833227,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"57261701","content_html":"

Ethnic cooking class tonight and we prepared pad thai. We used plain flour for wheat noodles instead of rice noodles because we wanted to do some stylish slapping action on the countertop to lengthen them. It was pretty tasty! 🍕 (no emoji category for “cooking”, so pizza emoji it is!)

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About Ali: valluanino.micro.blog

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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna’s Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

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Paraphrasing Keynes: if you download a dozen ebooks, you have a problem. But if you download a million, you don’t.

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📰 Owner of spyware used in alleged WhatsApp breach ends contract with Italy

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More news on the Italian state-sponsored spyware case that’s been picked up by, like… zero mainstream Italian news outlets. Contract terminated by Paragon for “breach of the terms of service and ethical framework”.

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New phone number for my dad, and the first text is a WhatsApp scam: valluanino.micro.blog

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New phone number for my dad, and the first text is a WhatsApp scam: valluanino.micro.blog

","summary":"","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/2025/02/04/my-dads-a-gp-and.html","date_published":"2025-02-04T10:14:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Valerio Francesco Vallone","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714198.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Valluanino"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-04 10:14","date_timestamp":1738664076,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"56561942","content_html":"📺 Mussolini: Son of the Century\n\nBased on the eponymous novel by Antonio Scurati. A prime, timely portrayal of the inner workings of a budding dictator in an exhausted, unequal nation dominated by an insipid oligarchy.\n\n“I am a beast: I know when the season’s changing”, repeatedly says Luca Marinelli’s M. ... valluanino.it","summary":"","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/2025/02/02/mussolini-son-of-the-century.html","date_published":"2025-02-02T09:50:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Valerio Francesco Vallone","url":"https://valluanino.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F03%2F1714198.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"Valluanino"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-02-02 09:50","date_timestamp":1738489858,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"56488398","content_html":"

Just saw the clip of a certain gaming website founder turned anglican priest throwing a Nazi-fascist salute. The way these techbros do the salute is so delicate it makes me laugh. As an Italian: real fascism would rip these guys to shreds… and they would embrace it. How cute of them.

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Dear PM, I think you should ask someone else to translate 32k highly-specialised words in 10 days, especially considering I’m just one person, k? Bye!

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This wasn’t the tone I used of course, but it might as well have been. QoL and having time for family isn’t worth feeling enslaved for pennies.

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Surgery for this pretty girl was today. They found a small, vaginal soft tissue sarcoma, so they removed ovaries and uterus (to reduce the chance of recurrence due to hormonal changes) and they cleaned the margins where the mass was. Hoping the biopsy for a possible mammary tumor turns out fine.

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Ctrl key not working in Windows 11 and Parallels Desktop: valluanino.micro.blog

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See this blog’s domain? I own the .com version as well, its registrar was Hetzner. I transferred it to another registrar today after almost a week from the first request only because I had to contact Hetzner myself to get them to manually unlock the domain. Weird, first time I had to do that.

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How’s the international community on Micro.blog? English is the primary language and that’s quite clear, but I wonder if it’s just the Discover section that’s “biased” towards English or if other languages are just in such a small minority that they rarely pop up.

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Declaration of intent: valluanino.micro.blog

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