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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jul 23, 2026

#StrangerThings is here in the real world.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jul 22, 2026

So, #ClimateChange does not exist. Try explaining that concept to mountain lakes... They seem not to understand and are trying to disappear anyway.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jul 15, 2026

Ok, I love this man. I said it.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/

GamingOnLinux

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments

In reply to a developer on one of the Linux kernel mailing lists, Linux creator Linus Torvalds firmly put a foot down to push back against anti-AI comments.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jul 01, 2026

In Azzorre la benzina costa più o meno quanto in Puglia. Maremma maiala, in mezzo all'oceano Atlantico, su un'isola, in the middle of nowhere. 😠

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jun 19, 2026

Replying to @gisgeek@floss.social

To complete the concept, while servers generally retain IPs often for security and/or debugging purposes, profiling is totally another beast, and very few services are able to use such information within recommending systems or other machine learning engines. One of the few is surely Google, but most of the hyperscalers can, and probably already do.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jun 19, 2026

It is not trivial understanding if/how this information is relevant.

Most users currently navigate by using dynamic IPs and often CGNAT, so that in practice, it is tracked the network (and country) a user belongs to, IFF they are not using a VPN/proxy. Such information is already spread among millions of server logs in any case, often linked to specific credentials and IDs.

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/surveillance-privacy/google-ip-tracking-uk-eu-august-2026-51120/

#google #tracking #proflling #digitalrights #gdpr

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jun 19, 2026

Almost there, maybe one of the most important improvements in the WWW standards. QUERY for read-only HTTP calls.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/

#rfc #http #standards #webstandards

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jun 19, 2026

So, even the 38th attempt at a peace agreement has failed. This is not a war, it is a grotesque pièce of the theater of. absurd.
Beckett, Ionesco, or Pinter would be proud.

#war

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Jun 06, 2026

Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social

@nixCraft@mastodon.social The web has already changed, half of the traffic is bot-generated, and even content is heavily AI-authored. Handcrafted stuff is slowly becoming a minority for a minority of users.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 23, 2026

Replying to @EvenRouault@mastodon.social

@EvenRouault@mastodon.social We should all recognize the existence and dignity of the 'good enough' code: code that works enough as is, is maintained enough, and does not need big evolutions. They often call that a dead-end code, but I disagree. It is simply good enough for its purpose, and fuck the majority.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @gisgeek@floss.social

@Vive_Levant@masto.bike @Emmaf_77@piaille.fr @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Just a well-known example: fibromyalgia is one of the typical misdiagnosed syndromes, but it is not the only one. There are many illnesses out there that are very difficult to diagnose, and often the average doctor labels such illnesses as anxiety.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @Vive_Levant@masto.bike

@Vive_Levant@masto.bike @Emmaf_77@piaille.fr @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Yes, in my experience, it is not a genre issue but an attitude toward giving explanations to patients, right or wrong, in any case, with or without a founded diagnosis. It seems an admission of limited/inadequate skills/information is a social stigma for medical professionals. A simple 'I have no idea, sorry' is not admitted.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 12, 2026

Replying to @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone

@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Unfortunately, anxiety is the typical diagnosis by doctors who have no idea about the possible causes of illness. Understandable, but not justifiably. They should simply admit their impotence, instead.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 08, 2026

Replying to @starlily@mastodon.social

@starlily@mastodon.social I'm not a DHH's supporter for sure, but having a new laptop decently supported by current Linux kernel is something rare and an important signal for the community.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 08, 2026

"This is what it looks like when an OEM stops treating Linux support as an afterthought and starts treating it as engineering. Not a checkbox on a spec sheet. Not a “works with Linux” footnote. Actual kernel work, actual upstream contributions, actual collaboration with the people building the tools developers use every day and helping the Linux community as a whole."

Kudos to #Dell folks and well done

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/year-of-the-linux-laptop-omarchy-on-xps/

#linux #laptop #engineering #oem

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @elithebearded@fed.qaz.red

@elithebearded @Enalys Some languages are more prone to breakage on upgrade than others, and lately, the FAFO attitude has become popular.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @LeoBistmans@mastodon.online

@LeoBistmans @Enalys That's the reason why I still use #Perl intensively as explained here: https://lovergine.com/sm-tools-copernicus-foss-and-the-reasons-of-inevitable-choices-and-drifts.html

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @Enalys@mastodon.zergy.net

@Enalys The usual approach is using a containerized approach, BUT that changes exactly nothing, because even containers need upgrades, and at a certain point in time, you are fucked in any case. After 30 years, I have become quite choosy about computing choices based on the expected life cycle... Today, I tend to deprecate the use of frameworks and warn 'ex ante' about languages that are expected to fail by design.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @Enalys@mastodon.zergy.net

@Enalys Unfortunately, this is also true for Python. For instance, I recently updated a Debian 11 server to 12 and fucked all Python environments and all Django webapps, as fully expected. One of the most resilient interpreted languages is simply Perl.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @veronica@explains.social

@veronica Years ago, Ubuntu moved its universe repo to snapshot from Debian unstable, even for LTS. Yes, seriously. So, Ubuntu Is generally a core opinionated distro with a random playground around, basically. Be warned.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · May 04, 2026

Replying to @acallegaro@mas.to

@acallegaro@mas.to I mainly use planet aggregators when available, I strongly prefer them to RSS readers. E.g. https://planet.debian.org/ https://planet.guix.gnu.org/ #rss#atom #aggregator

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @stefano@www.maffulli.net

@stefano I would say that, regarding UI, the golden rule is the dominance of idiocracy. If anything appears too advanced for the dumb average user, it is inescapably removed. In a few times, someone will propose to remove any terminal, because the CLI is too advanced for the dumb ass user.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place

@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place @tante@tldr.nettime.org To be honest, a simple web search does not generally give better results One has to move to another level in order to make something better. It definitely depends on tasks and the level of competence of those using such tools. It can be a good starting point, not a refined result that requires skills, labor, and judgment altogether.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @hongminhee@hollo.social

@hongminhee @mitsuhiko @antirez I would also note that, currently, the extension of copyright protection to AI-generated works remains an open question, and the US side of the common law does not consider them even copyrightable without a significative human contribution (no, prompts do not count). So, every shot to the copyleft has its consequences I would say. The whole matter is quite complicated and questionable.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @hongminhee@hollo.social

@hongminhee @mitsuhiko @antirez It is technically legal, but note that it took ages to create a legal framework fully accepted for a lot of products of creativity that were fully accepted by all parties. And still there were corners in the rights not fully understood. Even, note that the white room reimplementation has been only a technical trick to enforce the safety of a reimplementation, not a strict legal requirement. For the future, who knows?

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 15, 2026

RE: @nixCraft@mastodon.social

Even a better way to targetize users of the Big ones and possibly facilitate large groups of abusers, thanks to almost certain leaking of data. What's better to abuse kids than apparently defend them?

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 03, 2026

Replying to @timbray@cosocial.ca

@timbray@cosocial.ca When the discussion is polarized by opposite personal interests, it all goes to hell. As always, probably the truth is in the middle, or at least it is the plainest solution.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @DazeEnd@mstdn.social

@DazeEnd This is not the point; the point is that someone needs to sue them and defend the point in court. Like it or not, there are no prior judgments on such things today. It will require years. What is certain is that current copyright rules are limited and old.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @andrea_ferrero@sociale.network

@andrea_ferrero@sociale.network Solo io vedo una sospetta somiglianza con John Belushi? 😀

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @fog@fosstodon.org

@fog @mjg59 Where is the 'I like it' button? 😀

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @quinta@mastodon.uno

@quinta@mastodon.uno Quello che è indubitabile è che dovranno passare anni prima che si avrà una legislazione aggiornata in materia. Per il momento navigano tutti a vista e tantissimi non sanno minimamente di cosa parlano.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

@mjg59 Another well-known past 'democratization' of programming has been the spreadsheet with its macro system. In the 80s, it changed how many professionals manage data. Spreadsheets had similar results: a lot of slop, with confusion between data and computation, but even some good results when used with a grain of salt. Was that good or bad? It depends on who judges that, and it varies from case to case.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 22, 2026

Replying to @raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

@raymaccarthy @frogglin Ah, the glorious Digital Equipment Corp. search engine. It worked, but never evolved enough. If Digital had a different policy regarding such a side product, the history would be different.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 22, 2026

Replying to @frogglin__dup_1360@theblower.au

@frogglin Once upon a time, there was a simple and effective search engine for websites...

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @a@paperbay.org

@a Now I would like to see an index of software contributed by asshole people, too. I'm quite sure it would be a longer list... 😎

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @jake@mastodon.theorangeone.net

@jake This does not seem to be a problem of AI slop, but of the stupidity of the involved dev. As I said in another thread, AI tools are often augmentations, but when the dominant aspect is stupidity, that's an augmentation at an intractable level.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @nyalld@mastodon.social

@nyalld@mastodon.social I wonder why some people join such an unsustainable vibe coding approach with conviction. Any dev with even minimal experience should be aware of the stupidity of not reviewing and being fully responsible for any change proposal to a third-party codebase. With or without AI tooling. Yes, AI is an augmentation tool... of stupidity. apparently quite often.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @alienghic@timeloop.cafe

@alienghic I guess guile-websocket is mandatory for guile-goblins. I'll have a look at it.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 09, 2026

Finally, #haunt entered #debian main archive.

https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/haunt

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 06, 2026

Replying to @tbortels@infosec.exchange

@tbortels@infosec.exchange @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @kevinr@masto.free-dissociation.com @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz Where is the edge between inspiration and infringement? Are today's office suites infringing MS rights? Copyright says no, patents (a totally different beast) may say yes in some countries and no in others. So pay attention to what you desire for FOSS, because it could happen in many ways, including some very destructive ones.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 06, 2026

Replying to @gisgeek@floss.social

@tbortels@infosec.exchange @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @kevinr@masto.free-dissociation.com Just to compare, all free libre office suites today are currently inspired to MS office, often with a very similar UX, but they are clearly separate work with their own license and MS cannot claim any rights about them. Do not confuse software with industrial artifacts and patents. Even out of US software is not patentable...

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Mar 06, 2026

Replying to @tbortels@infosec.exchange

@tbortels@infosec.exchange @bgalehouse@mathstodon.xyz @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange @kevinr@masto.free-dissociation.com Well, yes but no. The point about spec is the level of detailing taken from the original work. If you write an original novel about a wild, big monkey found in a jungle, brought to New York, who escapes and so on, the King Kong author cannot claim any rights to that, sorry. If it were different, many narratives and movies would not exist today. That is inspiration, not derivation. Of course it is fair declaring inspiration, but call it with the right name.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org

@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social The truth is that copyright and licenses cannot be used to avoid abuses per se. They need to be defended in court, and I'm quite sure copyright laws will change, but you know that such laws vary from country to country, so the problem was there before and will be there in the future as well. In the past, changes in law always followed changes in technology. I see no signs of something better for the future.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @gisgeek@floss.social

@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social All that just to say that licenses probably should be reconsidered for modern times, because they are quite inadequate for some people's vision. If you have concerns about the use of such personal creations, let me say clearly: put them in your drawer.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @gisgeek@floss.social

@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social This is, unfortunately, also the main reason the so-called ripping off of artists' creations is pointless. If you buy a book with pictures of original creations, one can use them for training, exactly as a reader can study such portraits for their own goals, make hand copies for their own use, and so on. Like it or not, licenses and copyrights are something more specific than what it seems the idea of many people.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @gisgeek@floss.social

@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social Also, for the GPL use, note that 'derivation' cannot be confused with a set of billions of weights. The key point is the possible use of non-FOSS code in training again. But all that needs to be demonstrated. Of course, IANAL, but I see very little possibility of seeing such points in a judgment.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 16, 2026

Replying to @rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org

@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social Clearly, a lot of training has been conducted in violation of third-party rights. But note that the violation, in most cases, has been recognized not for the digitalization — processing—destroying part, but for the use of a clearly pirated repository of digital content (see the Anthropic case). Like it or not, the training part is not, if not explicitly introduced as an exclusion in the license, a violation. The same for FOSS code.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 13, 2026

Replying to @sjn@chaos.social

@sjn@chaos.social ROTFL, if the world were in black and white, we would have lived in a perfect society for ages. Unfortunately, there is nothing that is good or bad a priori, and the future is always in the fog. If one were to base a decision on what it seems at the present time, we probably would still live in a forest. Changes are never good for all people, so the logical decision would be no changes at all.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 13, 2026

Replying to @sjn@chaos.social

@sjn@chaos.social Ah sure, the impact of AI on society is a much larger topic, my observation was only about simplicistic labeling of quality for human-only vs AI-aided tasking. I'm worried too for many aspects of the AI-revolution, but which are largely due to our (as a whole society) total incapacity of managing changes in a proper way, for instance in order to avoid leaving people behind.

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Francesco P Lovergine

@gisgeek@floss.social · Feb 13, 2026

Replying to @gisgeek@floss.social

@sjn@chaos.social Anyway, thanks for your poll; it sparked a possible blog post where I could better articulate why quality is a human-driven goal, not something intrinsically present or absent in AI-aided design. High-quality or good enough are often the choices in many fields, regardless of tools.

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