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The sixtyforgan aka Eternal Sunshine of the Hacker Mind
by Giovanni Biscuolo April 1, 2021

April 1, 2021

Buonasera nexiane [1] una piccola distrazione musicale... «perché ho voglia di niente» :-) Un mio caro amico mi sorprende per quanto talvolta riesca a essere persino più tekno-nerd di me, come quando mi segnala questo: https://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/index.php --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- The sixtyforgan is a Commodore 64 equipped with a spring reverb, featuring the keyboard layout of a chromatic button accordion. [...] Decisions and ideas from the past are still lingering today. We should savour those echoes from the past, but also transform and recombine them in new and fanciful ways. By adding our own tone colour, we become a part of their reverberation. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Trovo la chiusura del pezzo sublime: «part of their reverberation»; è esattamente per questo che nell'oggetto parlo di «eternal...» Ascoltare la qualità del suono prodotto da un C64 sulle note della meravigliosa BWV 639, suonata a "quattro mani", è impressionante https://invidious.tube/watch?v=iF4eeoDp43k ...il livello di hackerosità è impressionante! Saluti, Giovanni. [1] nel senso di persone -- Giovanni Biscuolo

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Google: El economista 'retirado' que está costando millones a Amazon, Apple y Google
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 1, 2021

April 1, 2021

https://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2021-04-01/tommaso-valletti-googl… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Quando si può legittimamente decompilare un software?
by Diego Giorio April 1, 2021

April 1, 2021

Per reverse engineering sembra abbastanza pacifico, ma se il fornitore non corregge un errore ed il licenziatario provvede personalmente è legittimo? Per ora siamo solo nella fase del parere dell'Avvocato Generale, ma c'è già qualche considerazione in merito: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=363a5a27-c2eb-4163-be9d-9287… Saluti e Buona Pasqua a tutti D.

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Si può fare commercio di dati personali? Scorza: "Consiglio di Stato boccia ricorso Facebook, ecco le questioni aperte"
by Mauro Alovisio April 1, 2021

April 1, 2021

gent.mi segnalo *da sito del Garante * *Si può fare commercio di dati personali? Scorza: "Consiglio di Stato boccia ricorso Facebook, ecco le questioni aperte"* *Il Consiglio di Stato ha respinto il ricorso Facebook su una sanzione Antitrust che giudica ingannevole presentarsi agli utenti come gratis mentre, in realtà, il social farebbe pagare in dati personali. Una sentenza che ora apre interrogativi sui massimi sistemi di privacy e data economy* Intervento di Guido Scorza, Componente del Garante per la protezione dei dati personali *(Agenda Digitale, 30 marzo 2021)* https://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb… Buona giornata Mauro Alovisio

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Lavoro: Cgil, Cisl, Uil, ai rider di Just Eat verrà applicato ccnl logistica. Un primo accordo per regolare il settore
by Luigi Scorca March 31, 2021

March 31, 2021

http://www.cgil.it/lavoro-cgil-cisl-uil-ai-rider-di-just-eat-verra-applicat… Luigi

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Federated Learning of Cohorts (#FLoC)
by don Luca Peyron March 31, 2021

March 31, 2021

Biscotti addio, ma non è detto che vada meglio buona lettura dl https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/google-starts-trialling-its-floc-cookie-a… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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A few new publications you might e interested in
by Diego.Latella March 31, 2021

March 31, 2021

Dear Colleague, below a list of documents you may be interested in Final Report [1] National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence [2] March 2021 Nuclear weapons decision-making under technological complexity [3] Katarzyna Kubiak, Sylvia Mishra Graham Stacey (Editors) ELN, March 25, 2021 Emerging and Disruptive Technologies, Multi-domain Complexity, and Strategic Stability: A Review and Assessment of the Literature [4] Brad Roberts - Director of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ELN, March 22, 2021 Multi-Domain Complexity and Strategic Stability in Peacetime, Crisis, and War - Annotated Bibliography [5] Brad Roberts - Director of the Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ELN, March 22, 2021 All the Best Diego -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [6]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986] Links: ------ [1] https://reports.nscai.gov/final-report/table-of-contents/ [2] https://www.nscai.gov/ [3] https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/report/nuclear-weapons-decision-m… [4] https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/report/emerging-and-disruptive-te… [5] https://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/report/multi-domain-complexity-an… [6] http://www.isti.cnr.it

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Covid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control? - The BMJ
by J.C. DE MARTIN March 30, 2021

March 30, 2021

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/30/covid-19-vaccine-passports-and-vaccine… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Red Hat withdraws from the Free Software Foundation after Stallman’s return | Ars Technica
by Margherita Salvadori March 30, 2021

March 30, 2021

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/red-hat-withdraws-from-the-stallman… Last week, Richard M. Stallman—father of the GNU Public License that underpins Linux and a significant part of the user-facing software that initially accompanied the Linux kernel—returned to the board of the Free Software Foundation after a two-year hiatus due to his own highly controversial remarks about his perception of Jeffrey Epstein's victims as "entirely willing." (.....) We suspect that closely examining the FSF's own mission statements—as opposed to simply assuming its mission—answers many of the questions about RMS' return. The FSF describes itself as an organization far more concerned with maintaining a part of history it holds dear—and attacking its perceived enemies, whether real or not—than with discovery, outreach, and mentorship to new faces in free software. Partecipa alla Lotteria per

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Il ritorno di RMS
by Giacomo Tesio March 29, 2021

March 29, 2021

Ciao a tutti, vi propongo una breve sintesi di una lotta di potere in corso. Qualche giorno fa, Stallman ha annunciato il proprio ritorno nella Board of Directors della Free Software Foundation, dalla quale si era dimesso a seguito dello shitstorm di due anni fa. https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1373905399707955202 Alcuni non l'hanno presa bene e hanno lanciato una raccolta firme per chiedere le dimissioni dell'intera Board della FSF. > Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a dangerous > force in the free software community for a long time. He has shown > himself to be misogynist, ableist, and transphobic, among other > serious accusations of impropriety. [...] > There has been enough tolerance of RMS’s repugnant ideas and behavior. > [...] > We are calling for the removal of the entire Board of the Free > Software Foundation. [...] > We are also calling for Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all > leadership positions, including the GNU Project. Continua su https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ Altri hanno risposto con una raccolta firme a supporto di Stallman > Richard M. Stallman, frequently known as RMS, has been a driving > force in the free software movement for decades, with contributions > including the GNU operating system and Emacs. > > Recently, there have been vile online attacks looking to remove him > from the FSF board of directors for expressing his personal opinions. > We have watched this happen before in an organized fashion with other > prominent free software activists and programmers. We will not stand > idly this time, when an icon of this community is attacked. Continua su https://rms-support-letter.github.io/ Molto interessanti sono anche le issue https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io/issues Lo erano anche sulla prima, ma sono state censurate, vedi https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io/issues/1… Alcune letture utili di contesto: - https://jorgemorais.gitlab.io/justice-for-rms/ particolarmente interessante il passaggio sullo studio riguardante il Politically Correct, vissuto come un problema da oltre il 75% della popolazione americana, maggiormente quella più povera - https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web che contiene una analisi di Nadine Strossen, professoressa emerita, prima donna a guidare la American Civil Liberties Union etc etc.. Quando le firme si saranno stabilizzate sarà interessante fare un'analisi dei firmatari delle due lettere, controllando quanti di questi hanno ricevuto fondi dai GAFAM o hanno partecipato a progetti finanziati dai GAFAM. In una sarà un po' più complesso, perché mancano i link, ma credo che sarebbe un'interessante inchiesta giornalistica, anche alla luce di del "mercato dell’indulgenza 2.0": http://blog.quintarelli.it/2021/03/the-soft-corruption-of-big-techs-antitru… Giacomo

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