Posts by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
(DIR) Post #B0veBknTcKbTzT6Wyu by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2025-12-04T21:04:52Z
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@danielatafani@poliversity.itA quite reasonable policy that concretely means "don't use #LLM".My only objection is to this sentence:Since AI tools cannot take responsibilitySure, it would be dumb to attribute responsibility to a software.BUT it's totally reasonable to held accountable for its output those who run it and sell its output as a service.Whatever #OpenAI's websites display to users, it is Open AI's choice to display it, so it's their own responsibility, be it output of a LLM or #SamAltman own writing.We can and should held these companies legally accountable. Talking of #AI (obviouslack of) responsibility is misleading and only serves the interests of these companies.So a better wording would heve beenSince AI companies pretend to be above the Law and don't want to be held accountable for anything...@pluralistic@mamot.fr @mcp@poliversity.it @Iris@scholar.social @olivia@scholar.social
(DIR) Post #B1CYvyhWxS6oOdIfGS by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2025-12-13T09:13:27Z
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.orghonest question: what's your concern with #Matrix?I use #SchildiChat with a matrix.opencluod.lu that is operated by @paolo@mastodon.opencloud.lu, an #hacktivist for digital human rights I trust, and I've never had any usability issues.@whitequark@mastodon.social @lynn@raru.re @ariadne@treehouse.systems
(DIR) Post #B1GqG1qLScftmoPRWy by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2025-12-15T08:08:29Z
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@elettrona@poliversity.it#CodeOfConducts do not exist to protect the weakest from harm, but to protect space's leaders from blame (and responsibility).Without a #CoC, a community and its leaders are explicitly accountable for how they handle conflicts on a per case basis. With a CoC, leaders can exploit weak minorities to push their own agenda through a mostly uniform and conformist community.Iow, CoC are designed to force a US-workspace like behaviour on people contributing for free, so that they are easier to manage (and exploit) as #FreeLabor.But when you point this out, those same leaders will mount a rage mob against you.That's why say #FOSDEM becomes a testimonial of companies that support a #genocide, like #Google or #Microsoft, %ak*n_ their money and let their employees to talk. And also why I'll never attend to one.
(DIR) Post #B1XYtbJjH8LQ54wm5w by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2025-12-23T11:18:25Z
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.greenI'd focus to support small and efficient alternative servers like #snac2 that would really benefit the #fediverse diversity and distribution@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @Framasoft@framapiaf.org @Mastodon@mastodon.social @IceCubesApp@mastodon.online @ivory@tapbots.social @Tusky@mastodon.social @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz
(DIR) Post #B1XsC3e8aL7wHf0Vfc by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2025-12-23T16:12:50Z
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@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialGreat project I didn't know about.How does #CoMaps compares with #OrganicMapsB
(DIR) Post #B1YmRJ5n2Bqnxvn0bY by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2025-12-23T22:12:56Z
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@r_alb@mastodon.socialIf you are going to give your children phones for Christmas, and they are not dumbphones that can only call and at most send sms, you are robbing them of a future.Their smartphone will severely demage their frontal cortex, causing attention issues that will hurt them all life long.Give them books, games, offline video games, whatever... but NOT smartphones.You are really going to regret such gift.
(DIR) Post #B1YmTZOlNcDH7Jk8cC by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2025-12-23T21:39:28Z
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@cnx@awkward.placewell I think this is #freesoftware working at its best: I'm not deep enough in the #OrganicMaps' politics to know who is right and who is wrong, but forks are always welcome, in my opinion.#Diversity is #resilience.@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
(DIR) Post #B1sxWtnsxHfDvdTyG8 by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-01-02T18:03:22Z
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@elettrona@poliversity.itConsider #Snac2 as a cheap (in both resources and money) alternative to #Mastodon.You don't even need a vps: it can run as a (fast) cgi.You can check its accessibility on https://comam.es/snac/grunfink (that's one of the public instance view, obviusly the interface to post is different: your browser needs to properly support details/summary tag to works fine)
(DIR) Post #B20ITeQt6bumX1jmqW by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-01-06T09:09:52Z
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@gnemmi@mastodon.sdf.orgAlso... #Signal?A centralized half-open system from #USA is the opposite of "digital independence".@collectifission@greennuclear.online
(DIR) Post #B2GxM2mGajuHQDu4Bs by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-01-14T09:24:16Z
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One of the best article on #AI, #GenAI, and #ML I've read this week from a company that develop videogames and even published a couple of books about the topic in #gamedev: https://yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-dont-use-ai/TL;DR: AI companies make tools for hurting people and we don’t want to support that.andAI is now a tool for firing people, in a time when getting re-employed is especially difficult and being unemployed can be life-threatening. We don’t want to be part of that. Until this is fixed we won’t use AI in our work, nor integrate it into Yarn Spinner for others to use.We don’t want to support the companies making these tools or normalise their behaviour. So we don’t.#Gaming #Work
(DIR) Post #B2wZaP1HtTKVFfekbY by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-03T11:00:42Z
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.netUnfortunately #OpenSource is #US controlled anyway.We can hope to sneak some patch in, as with #xzutils, but there's no way to make #Chromium or #Android development "sovereign".Try hard fork them.Same for "open standards": what if a standard (#QUIC?) only serves the need of US #BigTech #hyperscalers and surveillance (0-RTT?)Then sure, while getting rid of US Tech it would be wise to get rid of proprietary software too.But #DigitalSovereignty is about breaking free of an evil empire.
(DIR) Post #B2wZaRjfnQ1RfuRE48 by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-03T11:53:25Z
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@dazo@infosec.exchangeIf you're concerned about the US controlling open source - you can fork it.This is a naive take: above a certain complexity, hard forks of a software is not licensing issue. So while you can legally fork #Chromium, nobody can really hope of doing so in any meaningful way.#WHATWG standards are dictated by the most used browsers, that are all US controlled anyway. And that's why it's such a monoculture, with #Firefox there only to provide a little #antitrust warranty to #Google: the standard themselves are designed to work as entry barriers to the browser market.So again, open standards do not provide #DigitalSovereignty by themselves.Open source and open standards only work in this regards whene there are several independent implementation from each country, so that there is no way to lock-in users, companies and countries' administrarions.Without existing, multiple alternative, independent and fully interoperable implementations, open standards just reinforce centralization as Google proved when even #Microsoft abandoned their browser engine.Then sure, #FreeSoftware helps with Digital #Sovereignty, since (and as long) people's #freedom is its primary concern.But it's important to not conflate individual freedom and autonomy with digital sovereignty!If all of your country payments are handled by US corporations, you might well use #GNU/#Hurd on your open hardware, but you are not free and your country has no sovereignty.If all of your health data are stored by US corporations, they might well only use free software on open hardware located in your neighbourhood, but they are alware at a ssh of distance from #NSA, so you are not free and your country has no sovereignty.What about your judges or your lawmakers exchanging unencrypted emails over #gmail or #outlook365?Again, they can use opensource only, but you are not free, your country has no sovereignty and your vote is worth nothing.So sure, after getting rid of US Tech we might even move to a #FOSS only stack EU-wide.But first and foremost we need to break free from US control and surveillance.Some opensource projects may help to ackieve this urgent goal.Biggest ones won't and we shouldn't naively argue that going full opensource is per se useful or required to gain #DigitalSovereignty.@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
(DIR) Post #B30aEP2c0jGnX9BmrI by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-04T09:26:26Z
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@Wuzzy@cyberplace.socialAny specific example?(just to be sure you are actually talking about free software instead of open source...)Anyway, I stink I should spend some time to write a tutorial on how to setup a #Fossil multi project forge. It's my #dvcs of choice these days given how cheap, easy and featureful it is, in a single statically compiled executable with no dependencies.Compared to git-based forges it's way simpler and more featureful despite having a web 1.0 interface (something I love, but some don't feel cool enough).Here a full feature example https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wikiHere one of my projects using it: https://code.tesio.it/p/self-hosting/doh.cgi/dir?ci=tip(Note that some hate my #HackingLicense, despite it gives users that accept it as a binding contract more rights and permissions than any other existing #copyleft: not a #opensource license for sure, arguably a free software license since it forbids any use of the covered work that would limit the freedoms of others... yet as a contract, it is a first attempt against #GenAI corporations' abuses...)
(DIR) Post #B30aESLrhbS9njDhmi by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-05T09:09:27Z
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@Wuzzy@cyberplace.socialFirst it's important to note that over years I realized that #OSI is just a corporate (and US-led) gatekeeper organization that serve the very interests their sponsors.You can easily see this reading their license review mailing while keeping a tab opened on the sponsors page of the day through the #WaybackMachine.Just as a couple of example, they rejected #MongoDB's #SSPL while #Amazon was their major sponsor and adopted CAL that was way more contentious.The last damage that OSI did to our communities has been the #Meta dictated #OSAID (OpenSource #AI Definition) better known as #OpenWashing Definition, that superseed the #OSD and does not require training data sharing, voiding the freedom to study and welcoming toxic candies within "open source" just to avoid the #AIAct requirements.So I don't care about OSI opinion about the #HackingLicense (or about anything else).Having said that, you are right that its first condition forbid any use of the covered work that would limit third party access or use of it.So basically you can't use your freedom to limit the freedom of others.Is it still a free license?Never asked to #RMS or #FSF, but I guess that such formal constraint makes it "not free" to their eyes.What they miss, imho, is that freedom without communion is always going to be exploited by the strongers (under #capitalism, the rich) to oppress the weakest (everybody else, the workers, the customers, the environment...) as #LLM are showing these days.In fact the latest version of the #HackingLicense was written in response ti #GitHub #Copilot (aka #CopyALot), after it distributed #GPLv3 code from #Quake with a wrong attribution and a permissive license.The Hacking License is a dependency inversion: if you use data or code covered by it, anything that come out can be used under such license.
(DIR) Post #B326xHERHdH42J7eXg by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-05T17:52:16Z
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The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for yearshttps://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/#BigTech #GAFAM #Google #Meta #TikTok #Snap #teens #mentalhealth #privacy #surveillance #addiction #drugs
(DIR) Post #B32Klf3eGvMBoYQlIO by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-06T06:44:05Z
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@deFractal@infosec.exchangeProhibiting addiction-oriented algorithms would be beneficial.You can't wait for whistlebowers to be sure the algorithm employed are designed to addict.So "prohibiting #addiction-oriented algorithms" is in no way enough: we need to make their application unfeasable.Let's ban any centralized #SocialNetworks.Let's outlaw any software that transfer one bit of data more than what is demonstrably required to fulfill users' request.Let's completely ban #cookies, software fingerprinting, tracking, targeted ads and everything that fluel #SurveillanceCapitalism.Let's ban "free services" based users' data collection and users' manipulation, starting from #GMail free tiers.Let's break #BigTech like #Google or #Meta so that they cannot both provide services to users and sell ads or data.This will work.#AgeVerification is just giving these companies further data point even on people they cannot directly spy. It will further damage worldwide societies and #democracy withou any benefit to kids and other vulnerable people.
(DIR) Post #B36ELevoIULcngp24O by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-03T12:13:05Z
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@firefoxwebdevs@mastodon.socialPlease invert the default: let people who want #AI enhancements enable them in the settings.@alextecplayz@techhub.social
(DIR) Post #B36FYlN5lSgUUbOZ0a by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-07T13:32:36Z
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nzGood catch!I urge you to complain to info@techoversight.orgAlso, they are not on the #fediverse.Yet I don't care much about them, and my post was not intended as an endorsement of their organization or future goals.I just think that people should know why the mainstream #SocialNetworks are so #toxic and #addictive: it's a design goal of the #BigTech running them, and there is no wise or proper or smart way to wield them.We can only quit them or be worthless puppets obeying their will.
(DIR) Post #B3B4rJ5l0JLma7j6G0 by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-10T11:31:38Z
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@bagder@mastodon.socialMoney from? To? Through?Also, let's assume I'm the xz-utils or the log4j maintainer who in full good faith believe the distributed binaries are perfectly safe.I attest this and get the money.What should happen when the attack get discovered?Nothing?More money to the maintainer?Maintainer refunds?go read the license, that's what you've gotThat is "NO WARRANTY".It's fun someone want requires warranties over something explicitly shared without.I guess that without moving to new licenses with warranties, CRA will just harm users.@smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz
(DIR) Post #B3B4rKXnbXNL5Nr0bY by giacomo@snac.tesio.it
2026-02-10T11:48:27Z
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@bagder@mastodon.socialHow much money would you ask to strip line 12 to 18 from #curl's license?@smallsees@social.dropbear.xyz