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If Fediverse remains just like Free Software...

The seven lean years are here, at last (no, not THOSE ones)

Immensely stupid fragility, March 2023

It's my 11th Twitter Birthday, and Elon just gave me a GREAT gift

I just started a newsletter, and it's all your fault

Enough with calls for personal blogging

TikTok dangers explained, as shortly as possible

The devil is not China, it's closed source.

You too need a dumbphone

Software is eating EV charging? OK, but what for?

Algorethics? Here we are!

The OTHER face of recruiters and job seekers going bonkers

We are just 2 generations away from this

If CES tolerates this stuff, it DESERVES to die

CES gives great consumer advice

Remember to do this next April

The danger in ALL "era of mathematician" claims

What is really Lost in Translation?

Please help me share my NEXT million words in 2023

Here is an example of AI euphemisms

The problem with some Artificial Intelligence is NOT discrimination

Hey Alexa, you are a failure

House of future, full of DUMB ideas and GOOD sensors

Should groceries come by drone, EVERYWHERE?

Hey makers: can you help all of us to become IMMORTAL?

Since YOU asked MY take on Twitter...

What is "not evenly distributed" these days?

Driverless continues driving nowhere

Being frugal was ALWAYS expensive

Smart voice assistants for dumber children

What's the point of GENERIC, HUMANOID robots?

What if every smartphone had a Peak Carbon app?

New Zealand is a bit less good today

My own thoughts on why trashware's time has passed, part 2

My own thoughts on why trashware's time has passed

Apple airtags as stalker tools

Great news from NextCloud and the EU

What's missing in this future of drone-based deliveries?

Castes are still castes in Silicon Valley

Gmail will soon give its users what they REALLY deserve

What if climate REALLY becomes cooler than Silicon Valley?

Recruiters and job seekers are all going bonkers, and algorithms make everything worst

The last changes to WhatsApp are HUGE

Parenting tech is booming, watch out

Blockchain has no place in Land Registries

The road to driverless remains undrivable

Here is who spies on your smartphone, thanks to your smart car

Trashware, a practice whose time has passed?

Online countries are not countries

Is "no grid" the smartest grid of all?

A new, overcomplicated step towards road safety

Certain grocery stores should become DRONES, not trucks

The immense stupidity of uselessly wireless tools

Review of the Truly Ergonomic Cleave Keyboard

1500 experts dislike blockchain, and so should you

Again on the dangers of coworking coming soon to a mountain village near you

Here is software that should NOT exist

Happy Birthday, Open Know-Where!

Eight years later, people are still offended when asked not to use Facebook

Artificial Intelligence makes supply chains more vulnerable

Smart watches won't replace smartphones? Really?

Dear "Computer Professionals", this is for YOU

Why "data ownership" may not really matter

Here's a wireless charging that MAY make sense

Why "Video first/only" is often wrong

What I really don't get about digital nomads

Mothers + smartphones = normal birth weight?

Faster Internet makes bad citizens?

Democracy must be where our BODIES are

There are 10 Biggest Problems With Electric Cars...

Web3, or people "NOT wanting their own servers"?

Suicide, 3D printed and AI-monitored

Did Facebook shadow profile you?

Bravo, Louvre!

Mapping catholic properties is great. It should also be open

You need something like email, not MANY social networks

Clean ocean shipping comes from the past

Algorithm PRODUCERS are hard to regulate

The real dangers of Augmented Reality are the LEGITIMATE ones

Wanted: more Pink-like parents

The problem with automation is not "losing your job"

OF COURSE, personal clouds should be offered as-a-service

Public search engines may fragment the internet

Empowerment has gone bad

The ONLY way to reduce pollution with electric cars...

How to make The Linux Desktop irrelevant

Points worth noting in the Estonia i-voting report

Digital contributions to soft secession in America

On the myth of data portability

The incredible stupidity of capitalism

Really smart dishwashers, were are you?

Service announcement about reading

The deeper meaning of EVERY data

Should hackers destroy communication?

An Open Source FPGA ASIC??? GREAT!

Postulate on Digital Money

One password cover to track you all

Your pictures can be a distraction, and they are not yours anyway

Another IoT declaration that misses the point

Can we have INTERESTS, instead of "SOCIALIZATION"?

Web3, decentralization done wrong

Soulbound NFTs, one more problem we may not need to have

Thanks heaven my sister's dishwasher is NOT smart

The not-so hidden pollution of online advertising

In case you forgot it, five years ago a Facebook study...

The REAL purpose of NFTs: beam hikikomoris up in the metaverse

Your next wine may be 3D printed

What's wrong with "vinyl being good for artists"

Say no to predictive policing in European law enforcement

New music is dying, killed by its own defenders

Regional, OPEN microprocessors keep getting closer

Meta's threats are a huge opportunity. The EU must NOT waste them

Vaccines hesitancy is also due to paywalls

The millionth reason to NEVER buy "your" next car

India goes RISC, hooray!

Police robodogs are all called ToldYa

Battery-powered locomotives, coming to real railroads

Your smartphone should be like your stove

This is NOT a flock of sheep. It's a BOAT

Wanna go to a public school? Tell Google!

From FLoC to Google Topics? No thanks

On the imbalances in the sexual marketplace

The sorry, sorry state of Linux packaging

When data favour the rich

The unsustainable dumbness of "smart" recycling

Reclaim your face! Now

Study gives more evidence that certain high-tech utopias are utopias

Electric cars are not middle class? That's bad, IF...

The first four words you see are...

Dubmphones are smartphones, again

The web of power that has less masters every year

All hail this electric charging standards. Even if...

Filter bubbles are out, echo chambers are in

AI will never give you driverless cars

Parents, stop schools that turn your children into data

Colors in movies are disappeared

No normality, nowhere

Not much sex in the city? Of course

Please get better at reading

The 60-years old link between prison camps and social media

Web3, a reality check

Kazakhstan dispels a big myth behind Bitcoin

You have a BIG cognitive degradation problem...

Wishing you all a SLOW 2022

Big Tech, so bad that even Big Tech dislikes it

Certain biometric troubles in India...

New US Act about chipmaking is important for EVERYBODY

Self-hosted email MUST remain "practical"

Drones, bringing MAD to every neighborhood

The best food delivery programs for the digital age...

Sherlock Holmes would love rationing

Data cooperatives would not give EVERYBODY more power

Autonomous cars will kill the car industry

Would you like to have just one monthly bill... but like THIS?

Why Google is rapidly losing publishers' trust

Digital transformation in Eastern Europe

All those millions of online meetings are WASTED...

Device neutrality coming to Europe?

Why you want labels for software, just like for food

Certain "fact checks" are nothing more than opinion

Link rot, explained with just one post

Analog or digital, prepping makes no sense

Nudification is for women NEAR you

Your cautionary tale before purchasing any "smart home" stuff

On the, er... limits of tiny houses

From porch cameras to police states

Constitution DAO, thanks for a good laugh

Conspirituality is pervasive, but why?

Certain risks of drones were wildly exhagerated

The job of regulation is to make decentralization work

An incoming risk from Google, Apple, Twitter etc.. is coming

Math may be just math, but algorithms are written by people

The meditation that keeps capitalism happy...

Your Smart Car may spy on your smartphone

Renewables are not THE solution

The best Arduino projects are those that look like OLD Legos

The big paradox of green, recyclable batteries

Equality needs rituals, NOT flattening

NEVER mix your employer and your smartphone

Please support every "Polar Bear" like this

Where I hope to go (just NOT with SubStack)

Our URGENT need for simplicity, summarized

The epic notability battle between pornstars and scientists

Watching the World Bank must become easier

Of course, even NATO is doing Artificial Intelligence

We HAD been warned about coming digital stupidity

Living longer with THESE social media? NOT good

An idea whose time may be close: battery-powered TRAINS

Why did Facebook really shut down face recognition?

Incoherence of cryptoassets, the best parts

"Websites are dead" is NOT the whole picture

There is only one problem with these electrification strategies

Never buy a flying car...

Why buy toys if you can 3d print them?

Facebook ends face recognition. What does that REALLY mean?

Unstructured data are BAD for everybody

Never trash READABLE data!

All you need to know about the metaverse, in two posts

No girl software freedom here

All reject our pointless fridge overlords

Hitler can now dine in italian restaurants

Is 3D printing good only if it's active?

Could age verified phones for kids work? SHOULD they?

Help me share my NEXT million words

A steering wheel for fake autonomous cars

Censorship or... EFFICIENT slowness?

IVOW fights biases in artificial intelligence

Eager to know more about Einride pods

Malay manuscripts show the right way to digitize culture

Venezuela, the unlikely leader of digital payments

Why didn't the web disrupt mobile, you ask?

Armed robodogs are just like smart rifles

The real advantage of broadband via laser links

Algorithm bias, again. This time, in mortgages

Surveillance cameras are just more social media

In memory of Paolo Brunello

Facebook down gave people a glimp of a better world

Your "21st century banking" is sixty years old

The difference between Instagram and TikTok, and why it matters

The unsurprising digital challenges of agritourism

Pandemics, kicking cars out of the stone age

COVID-19, a lost opportunity for italian administrations

Why is mobile game development big in Turkey?

Undercover political campaigners are arrived

Profiling for USA 2024 is already happening

Confusion and conflicts around Open Source in Italy

Urban air travel, this is not

Networks are in for light-out factories

Is a school backpack app bad, or good?

Enough of batteries, already!

We focus too much on the low ends

Facebook knows Instagram is dangerous. Who else should?

Digital murder? We knew it was coming

Negative impacts of land digitization

Of supply chains, or why global is personal these days

Why and how Amazon Counter could be good for the world

This is not the toilet I was looking for

Facebook does opposite of what I said

Something meaningful about driverless, for a change

No, THESE 9/11 losses are not Adobe's fault

Graphene is the new plastic

One more proof that cyberspace does not exist? Great!

Promising news for right to repair from Germany

If reskilling is not quick enough, it's not COVID's fault

Hey Google, Siri, Alexa... tell me how this ends

Peak car is just one face of peak complexity

Decentralization will never be enough. Even if it is digital

Pandemics, pension funds, and cheap money

China's heist, and why it may be good

The madness of strategic desk ornaments

Speaking of electric cars powering the grid...

What if the city were bad for brain?

The next cyber attack that will hit Italy was just announced

Data shows the true productivity GAIN of the city exodus

Nine posts that changed lives

Artificial Intelligence just made Dungeons and Dragons too predictable

Good news about women and ID cards in Afghanistan

In praise of serendipity, again

Ten years ago, software was eating the world. Now...

Mark Zuckerberg is Nolan Sorrento

Big Tech is the new Walmart

The interesting Chinese crackdown on Big (Ed) Tech

Your private communications can (and will) be spied on

Why e-scooters, not Segways, are innovative

Do you know where your Phone Maid is?

Who owns what chips know about THEMSELVES?

We are dooming our own files, part two

Targeted ads ALWAYS divide

Two records Italy cannot be proud of

Houses should be homes, not gold mines

What is Google tensor, and why you want to know

WhatsApp still struggling to catch up with the 1990s

Reminder of who really rules Facebook

Just refuse books that expire

Email as only way to cope with productivity madness

If self-help books are a scam, what else is?

Chinese corporation surrogates parents

Nah, we are not postmodern. We are just hypermodern

Foodinho and Glovo get a slap on the wrist

A quick portrait of techno-feudalism

On erasing Palestinians. Or everybody else

The REAL case for "BIG nuclear batteries"

How civilizations can collapse

Windows 11? Another wave of pollution

Interpersonal Victimhood is digital

Beware sociopathic innovation

Westerners did not get only the Arab Spring wrong

The easiest policy against negative impacts of Artificial Intelligence on children

Facebook can ban you for two hundred, Fifty THOUSANDS years

Tech is the new oil in Saudi Arabia

Nothing new about online voting

Why Immuni failed

Stop silencing the world

Fake circuits. Fake circuits everywhere

Migrants test new surveillance schemes for Europe

Less e-waste would be good. If it happened in the right way

Throwing the WRONG kitchen sink at Big Tech

Italian farms may benefit a lot from digitization...

Lamps are too smart if they can do this

Google FLoc is just another bag of cookies

Digital Santería in Cuba

COVID exposes incompetence of digital natives

Software will extinguish cars

Copyright madness, barbecued

Sergeant Hartmann chips are coming

Gig workers of the world...

Lithium from oceans may be great...

Mindfulness, or work. Pick one

Save the Pirate Bay of Science

The problem with high-tech corporations. And geeks

On "anti Facebook" platforms, in Europe and beyond

A popular comic character just escaped from control freaks

Digital discrimination in Uganda

The solar panel factory that may solve all problems...

Big Tech does NOT need to listen to you

Open Insurance is coming to Italy

Poor in Tech, and why it is important

Blockchain? OK, but not for property

You want a Stolp in every restaurant

The worst argument against UBI

If dreams make and keep us smarter...

Digital pacification WILL end, that is sure

Shortage of metals worsens climate change

Where does Big Pharma find Big Numbers of sick customers?

Financial digital sustainability is not important

The interesting story of a big art "transaction"

If this is the effect of debunking...

Be VERY careful with coworking in villages

Should digital protocols be legally enforced?

THIS is what public data are for

The good side of stuff like Clubhouse

Here is a COVID effect that we won't fully see for years

We have too many few data centers. And too few too

This F**K is for the rich only

Learning to be digital from the Amish

EU is doing a bad move against online terrorism

Indonesia's discrimination by database

Facebook's WhatsApp "Business Plan"? Same old, same old

A primer on digital land grabbing

Solar energy, from one dependence to another

5G outsourcing elephant

Who said this? Elon Musk, or James Sullivan?

High-quality maps for driverless cars would be wonderful

Anumeracy is bad, and I just met it

Social media is the new commuting

IF semiconductor startups are back...

It's FAST social media that makes lifestyle porn BIG

Snow White or Frozen, it's all the same

"Data portability" is almost useless

Free news make extremists

On Richard Stallman ousted from FSF

Again, what we need is slowness

Would poisoning YOUR data work?

Why judges should NEVER START from algorithms...

Of newspapers hiding what OTHER newspapers wrote

How software made a political party easily scalable

I live in two worlds that do not talk to each other

What is power, again?

5G and 6G reality check, part 2

Social media is not like drugs

5G and 6G status check, part 1

What's good in Libra Shrugged? Arrogance, exposed.

How can driverless cars expand their territory?

NFT have big problems

About the triangle that will power your next car

Just a reminder of some COVID effects on women

Should your fridge have its own PHONE?

How much can we afford to forget?

What both USA and Japan seem to miss about electric cars

A cloud without Google and Microsoft for all italian schools

Toyota's Woven City has a lot of things I imagined in a real Smart City

That time that Facebook made Turkey happy

Women vs (white-only) Big Tech and activism in Brazil

Watch out! A splintered view of reality is coming

Something everybody should demand: Datasheets for datasets

Making electric cars "affordable" is wrong

Europe... "going alone at microchips"? Finally!

Schools keep using algorithms they don't understand

History rhymes. First physically, then digitally

On loss of languages

Face Recognition makes EVERYBODY happy

I've lived twelve months in lockdowns. What now?

Say NO to Big Tech deciding Global Governance of Big Tech

Why I won't join ClubHouse, and the real problem with it

Google's new idea is a self-checkout store

More copyright nonsense. From COPS, this time

Copyright Idiocy is strong with these ones

What's good and what's bad in ClubHouse

Silicon Valley ran on Saudi

Finally, a real laptop that makes sense

Even the blockchain can be imperialist

Electric cars will save the world. If only...

Email spies you

Five good reasons to try NextCloud in 2021

Help! Italy has too many types of digital trials

What's happening with Ethics in Artificial Intelligence?

Italian judge punishes Lenovo for not reimbursing Windows license

Freedom to map depends on WHO delivers it

Happy Birthday, Open Bank Project!

Should anyone go to prison based on secret SOFTWARE?

Gamestop: WHY, really, did it happen?

Gamestop summary: what happened, and who REALLY won

What you want to know about GPT-3

Browsers and websites should be PUBLIC, not private roads

6G brings hype to the next level. Or the PREVIOUS one

Word processing, we are doing it SO WRONG

What deserves firing? Asking for Excel, or ignoring the alternatives?

The "snob RSS" Hall of (constructive!) Shame

No reality czars, please

Project Economy? Count me perplexed

What do YOU see, if you search "rich" or "poor" people?

What on Earth are CBDCs? Money, of course

Why you must care that ".ORG was saved"

Of children dead "because" of social media

My "Two Minutes of Hate" would PROTECT Human Rights

Italian data and ICT agency? Left for grab by Big Tech

Full fintech ahead, privacy be damned

Embrace Inbox Zero. Especially with Gmail

Phylly means never leave real nerds ALONE.

Here is a WONDERFUL consequence of the Parler shutdown

The way out for Google Maps? Supporting OPENStreetMap

The chargers that should not exist

Immensely stupid fragility, January 2021

Your money, your public software. And router too

One more little, BIG reason why Facebook REALLY sucks

I have seen the laptop of the future

When healthcare is reduced to a single number

Uganda shows that there are elections, and there are elections

Boeing 737 MAX is a reminder of the REAL problem with software

Certain things are too good to leave them to journalists

What's the difference between bad students and cops?

With "smart" apps and media, YOU are the product. Even...

The age of DELIBERATELY delayed reckonings

How do you make ALL mother tongues digital?

The OTHER thing we should never accept by ANY political leader

The unneeded shortage of semiconductors for cars

PhD-level education: a hamster wheel, mounted facing the wrong way

From robots to dance, sex and back

The pros and cons of ocean digitization

The glasses that the planet and your wallet need

What Jimmy Kimmel, and others, did NOT say about scented candles and COVID19

We really need Two Minutes of Hate, every day

On #Trumpbanned from (one) Cuckoo Clock

What Fonio, or any other food, should share with serious digital standards

WHAT stopped in 1996? Software innovation, or priorities?

Georgia's runoff: an answer from the US

Some comments I'm seeing on Georgia's runoff...

Forget Amazon Prime. Demand Singapore shipping, instead

I do not see Artificial intelligence here

Check out this batteries kickstarter!

This year, let's talk electric, not driverless

Sex workers must go POSSE

Financialization of Big Tech is BIG

The globalization of evil autocompletion

Horrors and errors of SOME independent book sellers

What went wrong with software for prisons

Our need for rituals, and one thing that really upsets it

Nanoscale is where chipmaking must go

Big Tech = Feudalism + Animal Farm, digitized. Via tax havens

Software will eat Hollywood, bringing two risks with it

NO proprietary formats in Italy, please!

Sad follow-up on that small problem with e-voting in Italy

The Big Tech Model

What THIS "Google Down" put in full view

A key finding from OSOR's report on Open Source

The Stop! 2020-2021 fundraiser

Five critical things for our oceans

The immensely stupid fragility of our "high-tech" way of living

Something to monitor about e-voting in Europe

When algorithms meet debt...

The planet is obese

Really smart cities help their stores to go Dark

You are losing easy publishing, consuming and remixing

Lessons from Sweden about going cashless

Sometimes the best data are those that do not exist

Web Scraping Is Vital

What is more important, reading or job prospects?

Please promote ODF with these posters!

A small problem with e-voting in Italy

When you make digital archives in the wrong way...

Don't boycott Amazon. Free it, instead.

Racially biased pulsimeters

What is more short-sighted? UBI, or certain critics of it?

Starlink? All will be well

Artificial Intelligence is like Jessica Rabbit

Not ALL COVID-related "state interventions" are the same

The political threat of WhatsApp

Of Google, enforcing a false sense of democracy

OpenStreetMap is now Too Big To Stay Pure

It seems we need four more Asimov's laws

Online direct democracy? No, thanks

The second half of MANY chessboards

The opaqueness of "Be Not Evil"

Contact tracing failures, again

Why you want OPEN System-on-Chips

Watch out! Vokenization is coming!

The coming, dangerous hyper-segmentation of "news"

De-mainstream YouTube? Bad idea

The Hidden Cost of Streaming Music: is it really IN music?

Just because it isn't Closed, Doesn't Mean It Is Socialism

Let's read Libra Shrugged

A quick portrait of digital gerrymandering

Here is my hippocratic oath

Robotic Blacksmiths? Yeah!

Project Cybersin

COVID19 accelerates dispersion of private health data

Horizon Europe does the right thing

How free is the internet in 2020?

Nextdoor is not messy. It's just too fast

Culture wars:for minorities, but still relevant

Angrynomics, and my two cents to fix it

Rewilding half the planet? OK, if WE do it

Internet centralization is inevitable, and may even be good

Medical Artificial Intelligence depends on where you live

Advertising is broken, and stock market-like regulations won't fix it

Yahoo groups is finally closing, and I am SO happy

Always beware of mathwashing!

Websoft giants are doing great

A foreigner's opinion on Walt Disney's debts, or bailouts

Car design will improve forever

Another Amazon problem: its returns do not return

Which word is missing in "The Internet of Plastic Things"?

Crowdsourced fact checking? Hmm...

What makerspaces REALLY (should) make

Contact Tracing remains irrelevant

Castes will be castes. So...

An unexpected analysis of our digital economy

The Apple parable, from creativity to hoarding

Beware the fascist driverless car

Do you realize that you are socially cooling?

How to handle fights in almost any Facebook group

What Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court would REALLY mean for the future of tech

Why did you choose Microsoft? Sorry, don't know

Some evergreen insights from a survey on makers in Italy

Against possessionsless utopias

For non-westerners, it's harder to write in Wikipedia

Even if tech is addictive, abstinence is no solution

Reading algorithms make your world smaller

How is FOIA doing in Italy?

About too much work being pointless

An optimistic description of the Network Economy...

The future of farming looks more and more like Star Wars

Bicycle delivery, or SLOW delivery?

The unbearable US-ness of online discourse

Coronavirus, Italian schizophrenia

You do not have a Right To KEEP Buying (*)

Is Open Data for everybody, or not?

Automatic Wildness Creators?

What is the Value of Open Source Hardware Development?

The first thing to know about Artificial Intelligence? Its myths

NO CONSPIRACIES NEEDED HERE

Now is the winter of our post-lockdown life...

Which company wants to make it easier to punish researchers...

No ARM sale, please

A reminder of what to do with fossil fuels

Tech giants: maximum damage with minimum effort

Hooray for nuclear batteries...

The wastefulness of wireless

Algorithmic Colonization of Africa, part 2

Yes, computing belongs within social sciences, but...

A critique of data unions

Smartphones destroying a generation? No, but...

On Work, Money and PURPOSE, Part 4

What Producerism gets surely wrong

The WRONG way to mix self driving cars and city planning

Sicily tries an old solution to fight old work problems

On Work, Money and PURPOSE, Part 3

Here is a NICE electronic design service!

Algorithmic Colonization of Africa, part 1

On Work, Money and PURPOSE, Part 2

No more chips for you

Maybe it is time to stay away from Ancestry.com

More news from CloudHaven

On Work, Money and PURPOSE, Part 1

Restarting after a COVID-full spring, and summer

Against guaranteed services, and jobs

Obstacles to Open Data in and out of Public Administrations

What is heterarchy, and why you want it

From Irrigation Canals to Linux...

Italian public schools surrender email to Microsoft

Innovation in Clean Tech is still needed

A simple primer on Modern Monetary Theory

Why complete abolition of cash is BAD

Video tutorials considered harmful

Of manels, and neutrality of technology

The first thing Twitter would really need

The silent change in the nature of design

Some more coronavirus facts and feelings from Italy

COVID19 brings more proprietary software to italian public schools

On the meaningless reporting on COVID19

5000 concepts for Europe: update 2020/06/23

On Australia and others defunding humanities

Save forests, not tigers... 2020 edition!

Italian lawmakers still don't know how the Internet works

Italian Administration collapsing soon, without reforms and people

The 2020 USA elections are safe

COVID19 is flattening the curve of teaching

Talking about Facebook is strictly prohibited

Less responsibilities for algorithm-driven civil servants?

On real radicals, and polarization

The scam of flying taxis is back

THIS... is Italy (*)

Surprise, surprise: Smart Appliances are a stupid idea

Smart cities "fighting" coronavirus?

On real (digital?) convenience and real community

Why and how to avoid slow Internet Access Networks

Mark Zuckerberg may have just realized he is Prof. Falken

Not impossible prosthetics

On Frugal Innovation, again

Anxiety rules...

Pandemics intensify robotization of people

Quick: who was banned from Wikipedia 11 years ago?

An electric motor in EVERY vehicle!

What the Trump vs Twitter row REALLY means

Four things that the current Internet makes harder

What is Mattereum, anyway? (part 2)

In praise of Frugal Innovation

Manipulated fablabs in China

Don't friend your students until after they graduate

3D Printing Will Be Able to Mature in Places Where Production Infrastructure Is Broken

Ten years ago, (digital) life was just like today

Post-lockdown Italy is a soccer match begging for live audience

What is Mattereum, anyway?

Manipulated fablabs in Ireland

When Italy's lockdown means... Windows-only exams

When (Big) Data Fails...

Which country has the highest DQL?

Facebook self regulation. Yeah, right.

Hey look, robodogs used just as I said

#Italylockdown is over. Lack of meaning continues

Opportunities and limits of DGML homes

What on Earth is DGML?

Some articles of some Chinese laws that interest everybody

The biggest Digital DIY revolution should be invisible

#Italylockdown is ending. Yay?

On Internet of Things Fantasies, nine years later

All hail Open Spending, and Data

Comments to a view from India of the Future of Work

Where is YOUR Digital Culture Heritage?

Hidden messages in the European Strategy For Data

The necessity to be lazy

In a sane world, I would not need to repeat this...

Responsibility and artificial intelligence

Tomorrow is a crucial COVID19 day. In Italy and beyond

On the Undertaker of Silicon Valley, again

Feedback about the Tiranny of Openness? Here!

The Culture War in Open Source may just be irrelevant

Apple products, or repairable products. Take one

Did COVID19 come one year too late?

One way to give new life to struggling cities

Fear superstupidity, not (artificial) superintelligence

A guilty pleasure of mine, during Italy's lockdown

The Right to Have and Repair Cool Products

The italian blogosphere, in 2011 and today

The Increvable washer needs YOU!

COVID19 in Italy, I've almost had enough

COVID19, and family quarantine

Please change the way you think about protest

The Marauder's map exists, and feels bad

In case you thought you may protest with a mask...

Takeaway from a ridiculous YouTube copyright case

COVID19 in Italy, or making things as simple as possible

An Internet Report from ten years ago

Something you may have missed about ride-hailing

No self-driving cars yet. Please move along

The leapfrogging value of Digital DIY

Let's talk of our digital infantilization

One month of COVID19, two weeks of lockdown

Visualcad is how law should be visualized

The Web and Web browsers are OSCENELY complex...

Life, the Universe and Everything look closer from #italylockdown

It's time to write laws like software

On people as status-seeking monkeys

In praise of Appropedia

Coronavirus in Italy, another snapshot of YOUR future

Circular electronics economy, or pandemics?

A new cloud haven for you and your data

Coronavirus in Italy, more lockdown

Coronavirus in Italy, and what it should mean for everybody

5G is antisocial

Coronavirus is a digital issue

Of telecom networks and Free Markets

A proof that Facebook is right to refuse bans of political ads

Supplies of the WRONG smartphones may run out

All hail the REGIONAL microprocessors

Vatican calls for ethics: only for corporations?

How to take advantage of Coronavirus

Two implications of the end of the Moore's Law

Social tipping points for climate won't go anywhere

Nine european data spaces to keep an eye on

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Solitary ride "sharing" is bad

The problem with 5G is 5G

Say no to misleading titles on digital tecnologies

It's a crucial time for charting Europe's future

Ten examples of algorithmic discrimination

A certain dataset of objects is still online...

Digital social innovation: Recommendations

The web service that warned about the WRONG burglars

Of religious faith, and non-neutral technology

Digital Social Innovation: executive summary

Your next smart car will have an expiration date

Why you MUST care more than ever about file formats

Never ask "Why we can't develop working voting software that works"!

Is technology killing globalization...

The West's obsession with text

Open Source grid management solves ONE of the problems of "smart" grids

Five critiques of the circular economy

Open Data for Open Water, ten years later

Facebook 2020... explained in 2012

The way to achieve decoupling is simple

Cashless restaurants are racist. And delay driverless cars too

Open Source is unsustainably funded

Italian Public Administration is collapsing

From decentralized Twitter to basic truths

EU and China must help the world to do the RIGHT thing

Don't break up Big Tech? Of course

Escaping the Digital Dark Ages. Ten years later

Cruise Origin is my On-Demand Train

How (and where) NOT to make YOUR Memex

Record consumption of materials... Or of stupidity?

The Field of Dreams of self driving cars

Who is really to blame for clickworkers?

Spying is over. But why, exactly?

BuckyBox: food delivery as it should be?

People "predisposed to online hostility", and how to contain them

Join the personal websiteverse!

Full self-driving cars may never happen???

Finance, and the fake innovation of today's Silicon Valley

Another "switch to Linux" piece that misses the point

From Agricultural Extension to (missing?) Cities of Workshops

Google is Microsoft 2.0

Old tractors are the REAL modern ones

Inequality data dark (and closed) ages

Expanding horizons in Lesotho

Maybe the real problem of Silicon Valley...

Fintech report highlights importance of open standards

Computers are slower than in the 80s

Artificial Intelligence has been with us for centuries

Open Letter to EU on Open Banking

Wackier services from 5G? Wait a moment...

Denmark vs Cyberspace, 1:0

Ring Camera exposes Big (Bad) Parenting

Where has all the e-waste gone?

Superheroes with super riduculous sexuality

Five small reminders on Human Rights Day...

Who train first? Humans or machines?

Spotify wants to be Soma

The most absurd, less believable thing of superheroes

Who needs democracy when you have data? It depends

Relational organising is here to help you vote. Yay!

Time to measure something else in the world

The real problem with smart package delivery systems

If life without Facebook conversations is impossible...

RISC-V moving to Switzerland. Will Europe notice?

Scouts encourage to do good with tech? Of course

Yes, let's "slow down" social media

Automatic DiDIY Farming, three years later

Which wind turbines are the best?

Digital bans on 3D printed guns, four years later

The real reason for electric cars?

Adversarial interoperability. Of course.

Venezuela and Bolivia: do they make a clue, or already a pattern?

Accurate stats in 48 months are useless, unless...

Big Tech like Big Banks

"Year of Linux desktop" still misses crucial issue

What if Artificial Intelligence is leveling off?

Farming 2.0 may produce more food, but who will own it?

The BEST part of "No YouTube for not commercially viable YOU"

It should be completely illegal to sell stuff NOT like this

Huh? 6G? 6G, already?

Do we have too many political ads?

Panem et Circenses 2.0...

From Arab Spring to Internet not freedom in nine years

Why Facebook Won't Fact-Check Political Ads, and what to do about it

Smart pods are driverless cars done right

Artificial Intelligence summing the demons? WHICH demons?

What's REALLY wrong in kids with personal smartphones..

Comments to a New Digital Manifesto...

If YOUR files are really doomed, it will be only YOUR fault

More random internet humour

Some effects of MILITARY drones...

How to kill an ant with a face recognition sledgehammer

What happened to Helios RTH?

Facebook, neutral protector of elections? No way

Answering a cloud computing question from 2009

Seven years ago: outlawed by Amazon DRM

Perspectives of Free Software as a Social Movement, 11 years later

Beyond the drone bubble, part 1

e-rosary? No, thanks

The 5G strategy of the USA is worrying

The real smartphone of the future

Collapse OS, a great project with a too small goal

There is no artificial intelligence

Google tries new ways to devour the Web?

Trivialities about digital data, explained

New Compact on Data? Or New RULES and LESS Data?

Ahavel, the elusive entrepreneur

The problem with iPhones is not China. It's us

How to make slums (or any other place) really smart

Wiretapping and the first law of robotics

Just some random internet humour

Technology fixes are the Dark Side

What the Internet has is a speeding problem

Hardwired to want more FAKE innovation

Thoughts on electric highways

Open chairs, worms and hands, four years later

Let self-driving cars kill pedestrians. Or not?

Please help free millions of books

The wishcycling illusion, and what will worsen it

The long term, political outcome of children data surveillance

Flawed algorithms grading students told to cheat to get in college

Internet lump of google

The scam of AI and Industry 4.0: not only about journalism

The real danger of (digital) advertising is LONG TERM conditioning

Shopping on Amazon is a blessing for rurals. For now

UBI seen backwards. For the millionth time

No more difference between encryptions

Address, or you will not be addressed, part 2

Gerrymandering 2.0 is built right into your social networks

Is DIY (urban) farming real or not?

Of AstroTurfing, and one-sided Electronic Frontiers around Privacy

Amazon-for-bulk-commodity is coming

The problem of crowdwork remains the crowd

Climate change may hit just the SAME wall as Free Software

Have we missed something in FOSS? Of course

Workers, consumers and depressing myths

RSS is still great. And needed. More now than ever

A Spectre is Haunting Italy: the Spectre of Quota 100

Are Library of Tools and Things still missing in Europe?

Address, or you will not be addressed

What could Europe learn, and copy, from India's electric rickshaws?

Students will do the right thing, for the WRONG reason

What's good in this deportation story

Taylor Swift should be digital like Zendaya!

Smarter guns for dumber gun control

Betting addiction 2.0

On percloud, again

The costs of percloud, vs anything else

Status of the gig economy, 2019

Software polarizes everything. Even sex

I love that math can be touched in this way

To all "bourgeois" parents who don't get innovation

NO, it's not maths and tech specialists who need Hippocratic Oath

Which tech makes liberals believe in conspiracies?

Death, the digital way

The Amazons of Africa face TWO big challenges, not one

3D Printing or serious waste management? Both, of course

Robots caring for the elders. Or for growth?

2019 is the worst smartphone year ever. Or the BEST?

"3d printed food" means 3 VERY different things

Quick! Go visit the Geocities Archive!

Could India's car crisis save her from ending like Nigeria?

What China AI-based education tells us about work

Startups cannot die Open Source

The concrete dangers of cement

Wanted: electric OLD cars, not new ones

Wrong question: Can Robots Fix Recycling?

Hey, "makerspaces under pressure to revamp business models"

Everyone moans about privacy? Of course

The endangered power of forgetting

IoT for Sustainable Energy? Really?

Autonomous learning, coding for all, and reality

There can never be a Smart City without...

E-VOTING or... digital ELECTIONS?

Missing: LOCAL journalism linked to CRITICAL Citizen Science

There are MANY ways to get "Fewer Features, Not More"

You can't rely on nature for "privacy" any more

Make art more accessible to disabled people?

What a game company tells us about democracy

Wokeness? The algorithms made me do it

Two other blows to the "automation will give you better jobs" myth

5G is everything but real innovation

Algorithms rearrange Luddites too!

THIS is (again) why you need RSS instead of "social" media

Driverless cars: the wrong people solving the wrong problem

Where do the dangers of artificial intelligence come from?

Bringing Personal Fabrication to Jacquard-Woven Textiles

Food for thought on air travel and flight shaming

Who owns the night sky?

China launches MASSIVE promotion of REAL smartphones

Of course Big Tech investors don't fear governments

The biggest mistake that more and more websites do

On (unbiased?) Journalism in this digital age

What is a digital divide anyway?

Wanted: EUROPEAN strategy for European Digital Commons

To fix insane trade we must reform software too

Online resources to understand and enjoy maps

Big data about Religion. Or the religion OF Big Data?

Quick! Give your kids a permanent online IDENTITY!

On Open Source and software reuse, from Italy to India

Don't worry too much about HUMANS harming your children online

Alternatives to harmful human centred design

More selective breeding, er I mean: online dating

The real value of advertising. Behavioral or not

The unworkable complexity of DiEM25's data ownership vision

Maps are GREAT. Online historical maps are even better

Digital abundance, scarce genius...

Open Data vs food deserts and social divides

No broadband? No informed voting, sorry

Rationing may be the new degrowth. And it may be great

When Everything is Software

Just a small reminder that this is hardly democracy

The future is only rural, unless cities...

No, it's not Amazon that "helps police to build surveillance networks"

Main points (and limits) of a new Digital Humanism Manifesto

On edge computing, the environment, and village life

What seems missing from DiEM25's Democratisation of Technology and Innovation

The myth of passive social media users, and their war on absence

WHO can AFFORD not to fly in 2020? People or companies?

5G influencers... or just fans and cultist?

How many of us will die in front of a screen?

DNA + online dating = self segregating castes, faster

Who deserves welfare? It's all a matter of data

Clegg is right, but Facebok is a tobacco company

Why We Should Stop Fetishizing Big Tech

The POLITICAL reasons to support NuScale Power's Small Modular Reactors

WHEN is the right moment to cure mental illness with Artificial Intelligence?

We DO need a worldwide Amazon service. We just need somebody else to run it

FreedomBox: simple, inexpensive... and very likely ineffective

The Matrix will start in 2025

Thanks Zendaya for doing the right thing on the Web

Two micro-comments on Universal Basic Income and bad jobs, if I may

The deliberate production of ignorance, and a suggestion to contain it

Sometimes, mobility may use a bit less bicycles and more Open Data

Porn confirms that driverless cars are fake

Minority Report 2.0: Behaviour, not content

Two views of privacy, and consent made meaningless

What killed decent jobs is NOT sophistication

Facebook's War Room is the opposite of the Fight Club. And full of elephants

A simple, great summary of the BIG issues with Machine Learning

What is worst, the Royal Baby, or beer at the Rugby World Cup?

Amazon could be (almost) OK if it just became a SLOW standard

The best argument for Universal Basic Income? The laws of physics

What's wrong with automatic farming STARTUPS

Open Data do fight inequality and discrimination. If...

The banal evil of Big Tech, and who I wish reacted more to it

Data portability is useless. Hardware is a privilege

Pepsi potatoes: a preview of IP-based serfdom

What we already knew about (big) data-driven inequality

Ford and others prove me right on driverless cars. Again

Yes, we got gatekeepers. We just got the wrong ones

What if we just outlawed INSTANTNESS in social networks?

Thoughts on energy (3 of 3): The political impacts of renewables or nuclear

Social media infer a lot and it's all YOUR fault

The "smart charger" sadly limited to solve "First" world problems

The latest PROOFS that Amazon Echo is a 1984 telescreen

The continuing, appalling idiocy of "modern", "smart" phones

The chilling effect the Notre Dame fire may have on crowdfunding

Even more reasons to AVOID Google's AMP

Thoughts on energy (2 of 3): as time goes on, nuclear looks less and less bad

Winston Smith has been just transferred to Wikipedia

Do you REALLY want "more women in science and engineering"?

In 2016, Brexit also was a failure of Open Data. Will this happen again?

Machine learning for security clearances... of a Snowden Generation?

Thoughts on energy (1 of 3): role and limits of Renewables

What is worst than Russians using social networks to influence your elections?

What if who decides what you see online were your father?

Breaking up Facebook? Einstein would not be happy

Autonomous, driverless cars need 5G? Wait a minute...

A dangerous way to fix radicalization by video? Suggestions of opposite videos

Please stop worrying that driverless cars would run over kids

Coming soon in some EU state: Bad copyright vs Privacy?

The sadly wrong targeting of some "smart" outdoor gear

A dangerously misleading title about robots

The rest is organizational overhead

How Facebook may neuter the EU Copyright Directive

The wrong reasons for edge computing: 5G and self-driving cars

Six "smart" devices whose very existence seems dumb

What is wrong with today's Intellectual Property, in one sentence

The problem with AI? Sometimes is humans. Human PARENTS, that is

What may make Warren's "break up Facebook" proposal USELESS

5000 concepts for Europe: update 2019/03/04

One more proof that private Peak Car is here

Limits and risks of "data as money"

Fake news, and dangerous ways to detect them

Here is another IoT article that completely ignores...

What should happen when an organization dies?

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram merging? A triumph of stupidity, with one upside

What happens in your iPhone stays...

The "Death of Tumblr" is nothing but proof n. 99999....

The Internet of Things? Yes, but ONLY if it is OPEN and ORGANIC

Brexit means Brexit... and more high-tech pollution too

You NEVER saw this if you are older than 27. No, 32. No...

Julia exists, and works at Amazon

Here's what a BIG gap between manufacturing and reality looks like

Some important, appropriate digital developments across Africa

Why do you still propose to regulate, break or clone Facebook, Google & C.?

Trade wars will boost digital manufacturing. But not at home

Inconvenient Truth, 2018 version

Those little links between Climate Change, income and digital buzzwords

The embarrassing absurdity of Article 11, explained

Comments to "Whither Peer Production"

Why I share OLD bookmarks

Reason N. 999... why Sustainable Development needs good Open Data

Doubts on Software Licenses, 2018 version

The ONLY thing to "regulate" in Facebook, Google & C

Software vs. your rights and quality of life, revisited

Better Internet service for Indigenous communities? Right. Then what?

Stratus Sphere: a guest post about personal clouds...

Hey Silicon Valley: why don't you disrupt TOILETS?

A "complex" economy may make all journalists blind

The good and the bad in China's "Open Source on hyperspeed"

Blockchain tech VS blockchain NOW

Important IoT announcement

Our self-flying car future? Not so flying

Internet costs 40 percent less. Aren't you happy?

EU research on digital DIY "vs" gun control becomes even more relevant

5000 concepts for Europe: update 2018/07/11

In praise of modular, "good enough" computing

THIS is the right way to build and buy computers

Who needs insurance when they can have a blockchain?

Agriculture innovation in India: is it looking in the right direction?

The EU copyright directive may likely destroy its main SUPPORTERS

The EU copyright directive is a mess that may do a lot of good

Side effects of Public Administrations using WhatsApp

China court that likes blockchain shows EU how to...

Indian companies learning about file formats the hard way

IoT is the new plastic

Making the Internet Affordable to Everybody. OK. What now?

If you want REALLY clean solar energy, you need Open Source lawn mowers

Self-Flying cars instead of self-driving cars. Hmmm

Data stored by governments? No, thanks

A 100% cashless society would be great. Except for a couple of things

Marriott Hotels, where "sharing" marries...

Some movie broke some record. Thanks, copyright. Or not?

An explanation of tech buzzwords, and why I like it

The unseen rudeness of WhatsApp and Telegram users

Facebook and Google supporting Wikipedia. How NOT cool is that?

Is Wi-Fi "harmful"? No idea, but please discuss it in the right way

Guess who may be testing new payment systems in India

How a tuna from Fiji confirmed my "blockchain for food" doubts

Dating app scandal from India proves that you DO HAVE something to hide. Yes, YOU

The Tanzanian law lots of western politicians would love to copy

Two dumb ideas: abandoning encrypted email and using phone numbers as account names

The stupidest EU proposal that you can and want to block NOW

The biggest, untold problem of using blockchain in agriculture

China, Russia and California confirm urgent, worldwide need for Personal Clouds

Teens have abandoned Facebook and it's bad

Eric Schmidt's vision about AI may not be "exactly complete"

Food for thought found on Twitter about "legislation as code"

Do we really need 5G mobile networks? Ask GDPR and seahorses

GDPR? OK, here you go

That TERRIBLE LibreOffice tip that never dies

Tyranny of Metrics, teaching to the test and Open Data

Proposal: replace online advertising with microformats for ads

More proofs that I am right to not write on Medium etc..

Women, you are not emancipated unless you buy Smart Appliances

The cultural danger inside voice recognition by artificial intelligence

Blockchain in farming? It may be incompatible with...

The age of platforms

What everybody can and SHOULD learn by READING about Aadhaar

Yes, you may soon download a house. And that would be terrible

From loneliness to smart cities, in one sentence

"Making should not be anything new". But maybe it already is

The limits of "banning discrimination through Artificial Intelligence"

Life as a Service is coming. Aren't you happy?

Who gives Facebook data about non-Facebook users?

Tesla troubles show even more limits of fake autonomous cars

Why I do not write on LinkedIn. Or Medium. Or Patreon. Or...

The worst thing about that girl who designed porn banners for a living is NOT porn

Breaking into the SHARING economy???

Gmail's new design will include a 'useless mode'

Experimentation in agriculture IS necessary. Just make it as diverse as possible

What would United States v. Ackerman be, without AOL?

The bright, planetary next billion of Facebook users

Limits, and one big side effect, of granting personhood status to "robots"

Quick: what is the FIRST thing that should be open to democratic control, and used for the common good?

Everything that's wrong in Zuckerberg's hearing, in one paragraph

Every year fewer and fewer words...

What seems missing from that agriculture summit

Some questions about mangoes, blockchain and fraud

This is what I mean by "treating driverless cars like trains"

How do you make fast fashion an even bigger problem than it already is?

NO, It's NOT "Time for Mark Zuckerberg to Give Up Control of Facebook"

The Caves of Steel are coming, and this may be good. As long as...

The Internet of Things Is Coming. Inside Us. But not like you think.

Smart contracts, these are not

The cars that drive themselves. But only if you drive them too

A too often forgotten problem with the Internet of Things

The paradoxes of journalism, and the best way to (not) DeleteFacebook

Three ways in which IoT is NOT harming the environment

On paying for everything you WANT to read, and others be damned

Q: Can we convert facebook into a global coop? A: WHY should we?

THIS is all you need to know about Cambridge Analytica

5000 concepts for Europe: update 2018/03/18

Ford just patented a hijacking system

WITHOUT perclouds you may not do anything else right

Please just REFUSE the Right to Repair the Wrong Things

On the real impact of fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles

What Linux "needs to target" is the PAST of its potential users

ALL intelligence "needs uncertainty". Not just "Artificial Intelligence"

Embraco, firing people to make in a cheaper country the SAME, WRONG appliances

The question nobody asked that Ghana teacher

The science of genetics-based dating is dubious at best. If you are lucky

Father of school shooting victim fights conspiracy theories with censorship

5000 concepts for Europe: update 2018/02/24

The intrinsic dumbness of connected cars, part 2

Please STOP demanding (self) regulation of Facebook, INSTEAD of turning it into a...

THIS post may be copyright infringement. Yes, THIS ONE

The progress behind digital loneliness

Robot dogs opening doors. Or keeping them shut?

Children should build their online presence. Sure, but where?

The next three titles about cops with fingerprint scanners

What's the difference between a blockchain-powered city and...?

A reminder from Storify to all platform cooperatives

Open Source home appliances!

It's 2018, and Libre Office is still promoted in the wrong way?

Uber "self-driving trucks" are NOT trucks. And this means that...

5000 concepts for Europe: update 2018/02/02

The cost of five MORE years without perclouds

The percloud is still only a proposal. For everybody

How to customize the Facebook News Feed (infographic)

Er.. No, sorry: Facebook CANNOT provide transparency

If you were worried about Russia hacking elections...

The fix for Facebook is NOT a different PLATFORM

When news are true, but CLONED

Four BAD online habits you very likely have

About "managing personal fabrication on a mass scale"

When software turns churches from sanctuary to surveillance agents

More about "why no new AND successful FOSS projects..."

Of high-tech companies, and fablab potential in Trivandrum

A little proposal to make Eelo more valuable

That collapse brought by Facebook, and its Whatsapp/Telegram corollary

Most absurd and invasive things done by tech platforms

Plans of the car industry, and my vision of driverless cars

Are dumb smart homes also coming to India?

Forget blockchain. THESE are smart contracts

Why no more new AND successful FOSS projects in the last ten years?

Why I do NOT like Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

And THE business model of the year is...

That time that Facebook declared (again) that it is a Sovereign State

Indeed, it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web

The Blackrock letter, in one sentence...

You can finally have (virtual) sex with ANYONE you know. Or even...

On Facebook, it's OK to be anti-you and your beliefs

Unhappy the land that is in need of surgeons and firefighters. Or not?

5000 concepts for Europe: update 2018/1/10

Swatantra'17: software freedom, and awareness of larger picture

Spectre, explained as if computer were banks

The smart devices that notify you when you are dumb

On Digital DIY, and its place in India

Forget Net Neutrality. Think personal clouds instead

Transportation as a service needs better cities, not smarter cars

5000 concepts for Europe? The first one is...

5000 concepts for Europe: a book proposal

Frequently Answered Questions about: 5000 concepts for Europe

THE big question about the Internet of Things is...

Repubblica: crappy journalism from The Usual Suspects

Robots displacing humans... or humans becoming robots?

Once more: online or e-voting? No. Just no

Misleading advice in Europol's cybercrime page

A suggestion for on-demand public transit, from Fiumicino to Los Angeles

How Danish students may become savvy Internet users

Privacy is very recent? So what?

The Internet should host ALL voices! No, wait...

There is NO free speech inside Facebook

The REAL name, and value, of self-driving cars

Facebook and Google forcing countries to trust them

The endless, useless CRAP in connected cars

Red Hat Open Source Day rewards with proprietary hardware. For the fourth time

On male-dominated technology, and marriage

New 3D printing demo opens huge market to makers

Gucci vs the Restaurant Who Must Not Be Named

Peer-to-Peer Science: The Century-Long Challenge to Respond to Fukushima

Individual or collective clouds? Both, of course

Mastodon has no users, nor people. But people (can) have Mastodon

Facebook and the Future of Global Governance

Mastodon is a problem only if you want it to be a platform

Nobody cares about online identities? Really?

No, you don't need another Twitter. Or another Medium

On Mastodon flaws, and decentralized services

Mastodon, or: Can Nazi use Free as in Freedom Software?

All the absurdity of modern copyright, in ONE removal

After Yahoo, it's Amazon's turn to show why a percloud is needed

What the CIA director forgot to say about millennials

Dumbphone is the new Smartphone. Especially for traveling

That digital divide in Fiumicino airport

UK Labour "closer scrutiny of algorithms" will be useless. If you are lucky

William Chumley proposes "obscene content" bill on personal computers

POSS 2016, from Open Hardware to "Open divorce" (*) and formats

The future of ODF, XML and office suites in Public Administrations

Core values? Even software, file formats and servers transmit them

Things I heard at the "Core Values" conference

Gmail Buddy, aka "The Internet of Things we do NOT need"

Yahoo, or why geeks need to give ALL their friends a PERSONAL email server now

Light Saver, a nice project... that should be explained better

Brexit is also a wake-up call for the Open Data movement

On Brexit, young people "betrayed" by their elders, and voting

Do you really need "IT controls" on the blueprints of your products? Probably not

Internet of things, who's right? UK or Denmark?

What almost nobody is telling you about the ApplevsFBI case

The Really Smart Home vs the Internet of Stupid Things

Bit Prepared, 12 years later? On Scouts and Free Software, again

Star Trek creator was clueless about computers

The day the mobile phone took a wrong, dumb turn

Good Parenting, or High-Tech Cruises?

Copyright, site policies and legal info

Forget fablabs and makerspaces! Who ELSE is promoting Digital DIY in Europe?

final bits from fOSSa 2015, from Open Education to Ecology

Citizen cloud thoughts, after fOSSa 2015

Rogue Engineers Behind Volkswagen Scandal? So what?

Pesaro, Microsoft and OpenOffice: the consequences

Microsoft vs OpenOffice in Pesaro: first, let's recap

What do USA special forces and Mexican drug lords have in common?

The Free Software icon that we need the most. Fifteen years ago

Hacker proves with Open Data that Microsoft license costs don't matter

Why you are very often wrong when you copy a full web page somewhere else online

About the Stop (original version)

It's time for Open Data in and from (not "ABOUT"!) schools

Smart dust: coming soon to a lung near you?

Catholics, Free Software and Free Knowledge, again

"many more gadgets will surely be built with FPGAs"

Can secure voting exist on the Internet?

Digital natives so smart that they do not need certificates

Please tell ALL Facebook partners what you want to keep private

Trip report: Open Data in Skopje

What's dying is not the Mobile Web

Friendly reminder to people who still don't understand email

The background you should put on your smartphone

I don't get Uber labeling, or Uber drivers expectations

On the percloud, one year later

Some percloud Questions I've already Frequently Answered

On people offended when asked not to use Facebook, and who will die first

Digital innovation or Biourbanism? Both, of course!

Semi-random thoughts (and some motivations) about innovation and digital technology

A few numbers about the European Elections in Italy

How many Christians will participate to DFD2014?

You don't really own Fargo blogs either

Antex answers my 2013 post

When Open Data meets Show and Tell

Three thoughts on the Iron Mountain tragedy

On movie studios using copyright to loot their own basements

Data, file formats and protocols as the first platform of network politics

Why free trials of certain software programs are bad

Why 'greener' computing is coming soon to Europe

The power of Big Data and the failures of online advertising

They had copied all my articles. No problem

The biggest lie on the Internet...

Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of open office formats?

Thanks NSA for your great help. No, seriously!

Cozy Cloud and percloud: a comparison

Percloud crowdfunding, Albanian Translation

Here is how the percloud would work, in practice

The real problem that the percloud wants to solve, and why it's still necessary

Who will make the percloud happen? Traditional FOSS advocates, or everybody else?

"How Linux owns the Internet" is SO wrong. And bad. But luckily...

Yes, the percloud is "just" another Gnu/Linux distro. That's why it's a good idea

The correct way to use and advocate OO.o and the real reason to do it

The actual advantages of OpenDocument

Call to fund research on an easy and COMPLETE alternative to Gmail, Facebook etc...

Why Mailpile, FreedomBox, Diaspora... aren't enough

Thoughts and Tips from the 2013 Open Data Week

Girl Scouts, other equal opportunity employers and... software discrimination

Urgent: help needed for a Workshop on Open Data in and from schools

What are the Commons anyway? Some answers and thoughts from ECC 2013 in Berlin

Some questions and suggestions to all commoners

On copyright being useless because it's recent

Cyberbullying: how much does it change from country to country?

Google Reader quits? That's wonderful, because...

How to deal with websites who exist only to put ads inside copied content

OpenStreetMap for young people: a cool game that (re)creates the real world

Save the forests, not the tiger!

Open Data for education in Brazil

The departure of Benedict XVI? Not on this computer, sorry

The false savings of AntexWeb

The best places and moments to make room for women in technology

The alternatives to Apple, Facebook & C already exist. Shall we package them?

What if Europe made its own Open Microelectronics (Education)?

Microelectronics makes all YOUR world work

If you tell others about this page, you owe me 1000 Dollars!

A Future of Uncommunications (in 2002)

Usability of Free Software Desktops: a rant from 2002

Coming soon to your smartphone: a network that everybody could turn off

Yes, Open Data will also destroy (certain) jobs. If we are lucky, that is

The best, shortest argument ever against online voting

Why (for now) I am still on Facebook

It is time for European microprocessors and FPGAs

Why Facebook cannot really help you in your neighborhood

A little known effect of Wikipedia

You will not die. You will just have a hard time, forever. Unless...

Pictures of the Colosseum? Only if you buy the right shoes first

More meaningless concerns about ebooks, part 1

More meaningless concerns about ebooks, part 2

Three little thing to consider about the environmental impact of e-books

Yes, Open Data will not fix everything quickly. So what?

Angola ghost town shows the mess that "professional media" make of copyright

PDF version of the Family Guide to Digital Freedom now available

Some comments on the invitation to take Open Gov out of the hands of technologists

Reason n. 0 why the Pirate Party won in Germany

With leaders like these, Free Software will never win

Italian School, Province and Government not talking to each other show the importance of open data

Italian Students, please give away your ebook slogans!

Without Internet access, are computers any good for Sierra Leone?

Is Sierra Leone, without Internet and Free Software, just a knowledge landfill?

Your Harry Potter Love Affair is over because...

"Blog Killer" law proposal reappears in Italy

Reminder for everybody living in the attention economy: who should we really thank for command-line Wikipedia searches?

Why and How to access Facebook from the command line

Cisco gives "Society Impacting" Award to project that hasn't even started working and...

Going to Mauritius? Remember to map breadfruit trees!

Can you demand my name to give me a public link?

How can you sell quality olive oil online?

Who can afford Open Source?

If European senior, jobless or student citizens knew that...

A partial answer to "Open Data: who profits?"

A few notes from the 2011 Brazilian ICT meeting

Groupon, 950 coupon per 7 camere?

Open Data for crime prevention: some food for thought from Brazil

Eleven Things to remember from the 2011 Open Government Data Camp

Bringing rural Europe online: what’s better, wireless or fiber?

Open Days 2011: growth and job creation vs an ageing Europe

The European Energy SuperGrid needs education and openness

Not (enough) Open Data at the European Open Days?

Wikileaks and the Open Data movement

Social and political landscape

Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices

Open Data emerging trends and best practices: bibliography

Involve NGOs, charities and business associations

Focus on LOCAL, specific issues to raise interest for Open Data

Educate citizens to understand and use data

Impose proper licensing and streamline procurement

Keep past and future separate

Keep political issues separated by economics ones

Properly define and explain both Open Data and Public Data

The need to better define what is Public Data

The privacy "problem" of Open Data

Unprepared Public Administrators

Lack of public interest

Lack of education to data

Unequal access

Real impact of data manipulation or misunderstanding

Data alterations and financial sustainability

The nature of Open Government and the relationship between citizens and Government

The price of digitization

Legal issues remain crucial

Creative, unforeseen uses of local Open Data increase

Cost of not opening PSI is increasing

Emerging trends and issues related to Open Data

Open Data in Latin America, Asia and Africa

Data Openness in EU

It's time to bring FPGA design to the masses

A quick summary of the status of programmable ICs and Open Hardware

Online ads show one of the differences between men and women

What is resilience and why it is good for you today

What is the real value of Gmail and why it's important to think about alternatives

Part 2 of the Open Data, Open Society report is now available online

In the future, nobody will THINK about what we KNOW

Free Software and homeschooling: reports from the trenches

Why I never contribute to Wikipedia, and probably never will

The day the world died of cloud computing

Humiliating one's ex-partner online: are men the only ones to do it?

Efficiency is NOT the top economics priority

This is why bits are better than paper

1997: a glimpse on globalization

Never mind the debt! What matters is EROI

Autodesk buys Instructables? Wait a moment...

Notes from the first Personal Democracy Forum Meetup in Rome

Vendola, Puglia and Free Software: communication struggles and unanswered questions

AGCOM: how many Italians realize who is its real target?

With ICT, young people become their own managers. If you tell them the whole story, that is

Final thoughts from CONSEGI 2011: get kids involved and don't be afraid of Open Data!

CONSEGI 2011: Digital Inclusion and Open Data

CONSEGI 2011, a promising start

Going to Vatican as a blogger: which questions and proposals should I bring with me?

Claimer.org tries to make it easier to claim damages by climate change

GNU Free Call - the freedom to call out when you really need to

Is there a place for computers and digital communications in degrowth?, part 2

Save as WWF? But printing creates forests, doesn't destroy them!

Affittopoli, an Italian scandal easily avoidable with open data

Car sharing? It works in Rome, too!

Is there a place for computers and digital communications in degrowth?

Of Vodafone, Copyright, Fair Use and Italy

Why rejecting email from "certain countries" may be a bad idea

Primo Levi explains the importance (and the absence) of ebooks in Public Libraries

Italian e-gov service helps to see why Public Sector Information should be open

Word clouds, the images that help to see what a speech is about

Does VODAFONE really ignore how copyright works? Why?

Louis Vuitton bags and intellectual property

Tablet-based magazines, digital TV and the uniqueness of the Web

What are the original WWF tips on paper efficiency?

Courses for digital citizens

The Family Guide to Digital Freedom (2007 edition) is now online

What do alpine steinbocks and arctic crustaceans have in common? Climate Change

Saab IQon and Linux: when Open Source isn't Open, and your car isn't really yours

Is Linus' Law still valid?

Groupon saves money... but only when you need something!

Why is it so difficult to know how long Italians really live?

Why doesn't the City of Milan use Netlamps?

Schools, Healthcare, useless jobs and the Internet

Are ebooks better or worse than paper books? Do (not!) ask the experts!

OpenStreetMaps to relax, study and get faster where you want to go

OpenStreetMap: open data that create services and jobs for everybody

Answer to some comments about "Software is too important to leave it to programmers"

Digital divide in Africa: is it really that big?

When does Fair Trade really make sense?

Garamond and Social Learning: ebooks and digital school for everybody? Yes, but only if...

Dear Green Activists, will you please start to take file formats seriously?

Software is too important to leave it to programmers

Pirates are not hackers and software piracy is also the Government’s fault

We want more Linux presentations inside shopping centers!

Digital colonialism: nothing new since last century?

Google, schools, the Police and the Ministry of Youth? Don’t get lost!

Is copying entire articles on my own website fair use?

No peace for the "Save As WWF" campaign

The Open Data, Open Society report

Notes to readers of the Open Data, Open Society report

What to do: Political support for Open Data, part 2

Open data vs optimistic assumptions about citizens data literacy

The social dangers of Open Data

Open data about waste and water management

Open data in Education

Open data about Security and legal issues

Aggregate health, or health-related open data

Open Data about Real Estate

Open Data about Energy production and consumption

Open Data: Demographics and election support

Open Data for Local transportation

Real world examples of Open PSI at work

Why Start local with Open Data

Internal value of data openness

Government transparency

The nature of data

An example of local Open Data policy from outside Europe: the City of Vancouver

Notes on the status of Open Data in several European states

Current status of Open PSI support in Europe

Open Data, Open Society: Conclusions, next steps and contact information

The role of the Public Sector in an age of Open Government: quality and reliability of openly generated PSI

Citizens education

Practical advice for Public Officers promoting Open Data

Some short technical notes on data formats and software managing open PSI

What to do: Political support for Open Data

Open Environmental data and pollution measurements

Open Data about local economics activities

Open Data about Budgets and taxes

Open Data to restructure government

If Open Data are so good, why aren't all Public Data already open?

Why Open Data?

Notes on the status of Open Data in several European states, part 2

Economic value of data openness

Why data are important

The REAL health danger of cell phones and Wi-Fi networks

Are iPad apps green and culture-friendly?

When DRM on ebooks works like a bewitched, terribly broken bookshelf

The Bunga Bunga dictator? A (stupidly) Windows-only show, sorry

Want to present your thesis? Please be compatible with Windows

Did you know that in Naples, in Federica Square...

Why can't Penguins enter Federica square?

After Umberto Eco, even Franco Debenedetti gets ebooks wrong

What I've really learned so far thanks to Wikileaks

Is Internet censorship keeping Rome dirty and ugly?

Wanna save trees? Don't Save As WWF. This is the really green format!

If banking were more Open Source, we would need less Wikileaks

Save as WWF? No, thanks!

How should we manage the Vendola-Puglia-Microsoft deal?

Smart meters tell the inconvenient truth to Iraq veteran (and everybody else)

Italian region asks for help to avoid software lock-in... to Microsoft

Nichi Vendola explains (but does he?) his Berlusconi-like deal with Microsoft

Italian Left Leader signs Berlusconi-like deal with Microsoft

Three things to not forget to make LibreOffice (and ODF) succeed

A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

Non digital commons a lot more complicated than Free Software

Italians will die buried under a mountain of cars, but want to continue to produce them

What is Trashware? A way to save money and pollute less with computers!

Final Report from fOSSa 2010 in Grenoble

The connections among Education, Green ICT and Free Software

What can all managers learn from Free, Open Source Software?

Nine questions for a Linux Day (or any other moment)

Kids traveling inside cars like rockets ready to launch or human airbags

Member of largest supermarket chain in Italy hosts Linux presentation

Note to all NGOs: please don't make a mess with Microsoft donations

How to NOT implement a website privacy policy

Microsoft video proves that Microsoft Office is like cocaine and has dealers inside schools

Touring the Balkans to promote Free Software

Free Software solutions to Balkan problems

Diversity, Freedom and Education at the Open World Forum

Every day should be 10/10/10!

Computer health certificates for surfing the Internet? Are you serious?

Paying attention: when a (kind of) hacker meets sociologists

A cultural side effect of "what happens on Facebook and Twitter when you die"

Free Technology Academy working to offer more Free Software online teaching

Are citizens ready for Open Data and Government?

Political support for OLPC brings new challenges to education in Mauritius

Open Public Data are so good that it's hard to start explaining why

Open Data, Open Society: a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations

Where is a filter to convert FrameMaker files on Linux?

The big limits of today's email: privacy, barriers and robustness

Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government: Conclusions

Cut and paste mail-bombing? No, thanks!

The real obstacles to personal email management: unaware users and (absent) laws

Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government

The Digital Age Explained

Standards and the Problems with Digital Technology

Why Has Digital Gone Bad So Often?

The Huge Positive Potential of Digital Technologies

Free and Open Standards and Software: The Digital Basis of Open Government

New documentation project for blind Linux users and all the others

Notes on copying the CC licensed parts of this website

Proposal from OLPC Paraguay on how to manage Sugar or other educational software

Global Voices, Transparency and the need to understand technology

OLPC in Paraguay educates both little kids and teenagers

Why custom documentation for Free Software is needed for vision-impaired users

Linux, a very powerful but still almost unknown environment for vision-impaired users

Netlive,a complete Free Software lab in the pockets of every teacher

The importance of Document Freedom Day explained by Microsoft job offer

What's your school project? An alternative to Microsoft Windows!

Articles of regional Free Software law violate the Italian Constitution

Textbooks are too expensive, so Italian high school tries to produce them in house

Cash for software clunkers? No, thanks, unless it promotes Free Software

Italian Government fails to shut down one of its websites

Microsoft, where did you get those data about OpenDocument?

More than 100 candidates to Italian regional elections support Free Software

A word about online spoof stories and chain email

Why I won't sign the "Internet For Democracy" Petition

When traditional media want copyright for themselves, but violate others' copyright

Taxing every citizen for Microsoft Windows problems? Are we insane?

Do we deserve traffic jams? Ask cats and dogs

Again on public or private water (this time in Rome)

Junior High students in Monza build their own Ubuntu computers

Italian entrepreneur fights proprietary file formats in Public Administrations

Why every citizen should read the Open Government book

File formats, alphabets and public money: did you know that...

Who cancels your email? Warning to Infostrada and Barracuda users

The first question you should ask yourself during traffic bans

A family's experience with Free Software, the Internet and autism

When and how can Free Software really save public money?

After water, Australian State may open many more public data

Disappointed (so far) by Italian Open Legislation experiment

Mr Label's nightmare: what really, really scares him

Enough with this "Free Software is communist" myth! Please!

A simple exercise about online privacy

If you died now, who would look after your digital YOU?

Good news for all parents and teachers: it's Ubuntu User Day

Explaining global warming to home buyers

The great educational minicomputer that didn't want to exist

The real effect of the Internet on Catholicism (or any other religion)

This is a long-range thinking, highly creative website: what about yours?

A little known but very powerful tool for homeschooling: Free Software

The Online Loser Guide, 2010 edition

[...], help me have a sane, slow Christmas

If we all used computers to watch TV...

Free Software, Open Data give more opportunities to young Kosovars

What does the Stop logo mean, and who did it?

What should we do with FIAT cars made in Termini Imerese?

What should we do with Free Software users who don't contribute to it in any way?

Digital Culture online course for parents, teachers and everybody else!

Should water be public or private? Australian, of course!

Reduce waste this week, next Christmas and every other day

One hour with the XO laptop in a Nepali school

Ninux Day: here's why you too may need your "neighborhood Internet"

OOo4Kids, the office suite for all children... and their parents

The "Respect Creativity" project from EMCA Italia: do they tell the whole story?

Linux, great scenery and great Italian food... all in one day!

Plan for Universal Basic Education discussed in Kathmandu

E-Learning for Kids... and everybody else

INGOTs: a software certification that rewards children helping other people

Computers in the classroom: how JumPC helped teachers and pupils without turning the system upside down

The missing accessory for your cell phone is coming

Linux Day: why software isn't just a matter of software

Two things to remember on Oct 24: Time and Climate

Walkability: check it before choosing your next home!

Mother explains why everybody should attend the 2009 Linux Day

Online contest for young people "Citizens of the World"

Risks for Italian Public Education in Government/Microsoft deal

Five questions about Digital Freedom for all children

How to turn into Free Software supporters people who couldn't care less

Help everybody love Free Standards and Free Software!

Table of Contents of the Family Guide to Digital Freedom, 2007 Edition

A Potential Future: Dinner talks in 2030

Are computers really needed in (basic) education, part 2

Are computers really needed in (basic) education?

Are digital communications safe? Can they be used without hassles?

Are digital communications safe? Can they be used without hassles? Part 2

Are our governments spying on us? How much?

Are our governments spying on us? How much? Part 2

Are Public Websites Done Right?

Can freedom of speech and participation be actually practiced?

Can freedom of speech and participation be actually practiced? Part 2

Can I Publish My Own Movies?

Conclusion: act and spread the word

Do we still have some privacy, part 2

Do we still have some privacy?

Do We Still Need Papyrus?

Does Fighting the Digital Dangers Destroy Jobs?

Does it make sense to buy a computer and not install software on it?

Does Software pollute, part 2

Does Software pollute?

Does software waste energy?

Does software waste energy? part 2

How All Internet Users Can Fight The Digital Dangers

How Can A Parent Fight The Digital Dangers?

How much do we all pay for software, part 2

How much do we all pay for software?

How much of my life is digital, part 2

How much of my life is digital?

How to recognize a really good ICT School Program, and why

How to recognize a really good ICT School Program, and why, part 2

How to tell if all the programs and games inside my PC are legally usable

Ignorance and Lack Of Interest

Is E-Voting a solution? To which problem?

Is E-Voting a solution? To which problem? Part 2

Is it OK for a School or Charity to accept software donations?

Is it technically possible to block or restrict Internet Access?

Is that really you?

Living among digits and hackers: survival tips

Must all software, be free, or all proprietary?

Must We All Become Computer Programmers?

My child wants to be a hacker. Should I worry?

My children "share files" with their friends: are they always criminals, part 2

My children "share files" with their friends: are they always criminals?

Should all the computers and computer programs of the world be equal?

Software and copyright fanatism and opportunism

Structure Of The Family Guide To Digital Freedom

The causes of the Digital Dangers

The Digital Troubles of politicians and the Military

The need to control the future

The tax on future, alleged guilt

The tax on future, alleged guilt, part 2

What are Biometrics and RFID?

What are Biometrics and RFID? Part 2: RFID

What Are Other Countries Doing to Fight the Digital Dangers?

What are protocols and formats anyways?

What Can I Do As A Citizen, part 2

What Can I Do As A Citizen?

What Do I Really Lose Without Net Neutrality?

What in the world is this "source code" anyway?

What is "Free Software”? Is it legal?

What is "Free Software”? Is it legal? Part 2

What is Digital Freedom, and why should I care?

What Is OpenDocument?

What is this DRM thing I keep hearing about, part 2

What is this DRM thing I keep hearing about?

What Is Trusted Computing, part 2

What Is Trusted Computing?

What Is Web Usability, And Why Should I Care?

What must be done to protect privacy?

When does Internet Telephony Make Sense?

When does Internet Telephony Make Sense? (part 2)

When Is Fair Use Fair Enough?

Who owns information, ideas and fun, part 2

Who owns information, ideas and fun?

Would all the other businesses and jobs suffer be better off without the Digital Dangers?

A Free Software Manifesto For All Of Us

Digitally Free Schools

Seven Things we're tired of hearing from software hackers

The last two copyright myths

Myth 5: art can and should go on just with the help of rich patrons, fan donations or government funding

Third and fourth copyright myths

Myth 2: What is good for software is good for every other creative activity

Myth 1: since no "intellectual property" can exist, no right to limit redistribution can exist

Some Dangerous Copyright Myths

Why 'greener' computing is coming soon to Europe, part 2

Hooray for Bluecurve