Times are Europe/Rome, the same as Prague.

Fri 6 Nov · today

• Nothing timed.

Sat 7 Nov

• Nothing timed.

Sun 8 Nov

• Nothing timed.

From Raf (product). Reply in Raf's chat.

Global Industrie 2027 Start-up Competition (Lyon). Deadline Tue 10 Nov 2026 (4 days). Nothing submitted yet. Raf needs Lorenzo's answers:

1. OK to use lorenzo@getshiftpanda.com and getshiftpanda.com to open the application form.
2. Registered office address, plus a phone number if the form asks.
3. Business-plan gaps: team and bios, customers or pilots that can be named, funding, current revenue, 2027–2029 roadmap and targets, euro pricing, when the French UI ships, attending in Lyon or not; confirm market assumptions (plants, users per plant).
4. Confirm the yellow cells in the financial forecast: plants, users per plant, price, churn, FTEs, cost per FTE, hosting, marketing, overheads.
5. Can a demo or trial link go to the jury?
6. Approve the one-pager, pitch deck and the English documents so Raf can do the French translation.
7. Sign, date and place the French self-declaration (attestation sur l'honneur) and approve its sentence about official evidence on request.
8. Optional: Czech company register extract.
9. Final review and submission (Lorenzo does it or approves).

• Alza 1066619257 (2× Stérimar Nasal Hygiene 100 ml) · ready in AlzaBox · P3 Žižkov, Fibichova 1586/11 (Žižkovská věž) · code 340101 · collect by TODAY, Fri 6 Nov, 23:59 · paid
• Alza 1066619256 (Vraždoku book, Vilgain Coenzyme Q10, TePe toothbrush, Jamieson Zinc) · not shipped yet · AlzaBox · paid · book expected 11 Nov, order waiting
• JP Kontakt desk, order 20/2026/4730 · promised delivery in the week of 2–6 Nov · no delivery mail yet · book a day on 778 747 901

The Strait of Hormuz from orbit (NASA STS-4, public domain). Wikimedia Commons

• Ukraine: overnight strikes continue. Russia says it hit an energy-storage site near Kyiv and a cargo vessel in Odesa. Zelensky says every Ukrainian power plant has been damaged. Al Jazeera · NBC · Guardian
• Abu Dhabi talks set for 10–11 Nov. US-mediated Russia–Ukraine talks are scheduled; Trump says a "big agreement" is near after meeting Putin's envoy Dmitriev. Brussels talks on reconstruction and security guarantees just ended. The EU sent Ukraine €4.4bn from its €90bn loan. Al Jazeera · Guardian
• Iran nuclear proposal via Qatar. Iran sent the US a proposal but says it will only discuss it after Washington meets its seven demands; the US is reviewing it. Iran International · The National
• Hormuz and midterms. Reports say US forces are ready to resume strikes if Trump orders it. Iran claims tankers burned in Hormuz after using an "unauthorised route". Trump has admitted the war hurt Republicans in Tuesday's midterms. New Arab · Iran International

Garlasco, the castle tower (Alessandro Vecchi, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• Trial requested for Sempio. On 3 Nov the Pavia prosecutors asked for Andrea Sempio to stand trial for aggravated murder (cruelty and "abject motives"). The preliminary-hearing judge (gup) now decides; the hearing is expected December to early 2027. ANSA
• Defence strategy. Sempio's lawyers will ask to suspend the case pending Stasi's revision request, due in Brescia by mid-November, and may raise a constitutional challenge. The Poggi family will not be civil parties. Il Giorno

Screenshot of ncdu browsing /etc (Amux, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• Bitwig. Latest is Studio 6.1.4 (13 Oct), adding rekordbox library and track-analysis import (BPM, key, hot cues). Nothing newer. Bitwig releases
• Traktor. Pro 4.5.1 (9 Jul) is still the latest; nothing new. NI update status
• Ubuntu tip: which process owns a port. ss -tulpn lists which program is listening on which port — handy when "address already in use" shows up.
• Package: ncdu. sudo apt install ncdu gets an interactive disk-usage browser in the terminal: run ncdu / and delete space hogs right from the list.

Is your clock right? Open Timezone in Settings → General and check it matches where you are. Routines and reminders fire in your local time, so a wrong zone means a "9:00" reminder lands at the wrong hour.

A Peruvian diving petrel fledgling (CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

• 🐦 Chile petrels rebound. After invasive rabbits were removed from Choros Island, Peruvian diving-petrel breeding pairs rose roughly 300-fold, to nearly 90,000. Island Conservation

A giant burrowing frog in Royal National Park, NSW (JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0). Wikimedia Commons

• 🐸 Frogs back in Australia. 53 captive-bred southern giant burrowing frogs went back into the wild, from tadpoles rescued after the Black Summer fires. Guardian

An Antarctic blue whale at the surface (Paul Ensor, CC BY-SA 2.0). Wikimedia Commons

• 🐋 Antarctic blue whales rebounding. About 4,018 animals, growing about 4.5% a year. UW News

A common wombat on Maria Island, Tasmania (JJ Harrison, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings. A Georgia Tech study (published in Soft Matter) found the shape forms in the last stretch of the intestine, whose walls stretch unevenly, so the faeces get moulded into cubes. Soft Matter (RSC) · Science

Caravaggio, Vocazione di San Matteo (1599–1600), Contarelli Chapel. Public-domain reproduction.

Caravaggio, Vocazione di San Matteo (1599–1600) · Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

A beam of light cuts across a dim tavern and lands on Matthew, the tax collector, as Christ points at him. The tax men at the table still count coins; Matthew points at himself, as if to ask "me?". Philippe Daverio fronted Corriere della Sera's 2017 "I grandi maestri dell'arte" series, whose first volume was Caravaggio — no verbatim Daverio or Sgarbi quote on this painting turned up, so none is given. Wikipedia

mellifluous (adj.): sweet and smooth to hear.

• Her mellifluous voice made even the safety briefing sound like a lullaby.
• The radio host's mellifluous tone kept everyone listening.

• nádraží (NAH-drah-zhee): station. Kde je hlavní nádraží? (Where is the main station?)
• jízdenka (YEEZ-den-ka): ticket (for travel). Jednu jízdenku do Brna, prosím. (One ticket to Brno, please.)

Bohumil Hrabal, 1985 (Hana Hamplová, CC BY-SA 3.0). Wikimedia Commons

Bohumil Hrabal, Příliš hlučná samota (Too Loud a Solitude, 1976/1989)

Haňťa, a Prague waste-paper presser, spends 35 years in a cellar rescuing banned books and reading them. Funny, tender and bitter at once — very Hrabal. Fits the Hašek–Hrabal vein.

Get it: Amazon.it · Italian edition, Una solitudine troppo rumorosa, Einaudi ET Scrittori 2014, transl. Sergio Corduas, €11.00

Il sorpasso (1962, Dino Risi)

A shy law student and a loud, reckless Vittorio Gassman spend a Ferragosto weekend racing down the Aurelia in a Lancia. A comedy that slowly turns dark; one of the best portraits of Italy's boom years.

Trailer: Janus Films on YouTube

Where to stream: Czechia: not streaming right now. Italy: rent or buy on CHILI, Amazon Video; buy on Apple TV; rent on CG TV STREAMING. JustWatch IT

The Italian Origins of the Baroque Art Movement (Waldemar Januszczak), Ep 1 · Perspective (UK) · English

A lively, opinionated tour of how Caravaggio and Bernini's Rome invented the Baroque — pairs nicely with today's painting. YouTube