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la Coscienza e la tecnica
by Marco Pozzi Aug. 4, 2025

Aug. 4, 2025

Buongiorno a tutti, mi piace condivide qui il finale di un romanzo che ho appena riletto, un classico stupefacente per argomento e stile. Il bellissimo finale ha qualcosa in comune con alcune riflessioni sui rischi dello sviluppo tecnologico che prendono vita in questa lista. Si tratta della Coscienza di Zeno, e in questo periodo di quiete estiva e letture-sotto-l'ombrellone magari vi fa piacere lo spunto. Buona estate a tutti, Marco La vita somiglia un poco alla malattia come procede per crisi e lisi ed ha i giornalieri miglioramenti e peggioramenti. A differenza delle altre malattie la vita è sempre mortale. Non sopporta cure. Sarebbe come voler turare i buchi che abbiamo nel corpo credendoli delle ferite. Morremmo strangolati non appena curati. La vita attuale è inquinata alle radici. L'uomo s'è messo al posto degli alberi e delle bestie ed ha inquinata l'aria, ha impedito il libero spazio. Può avvenire di peggio. Il triste e attivo animale potrebbe scoprire e mettere al proprio servizio delle altre forze. V'è una minaccia di questo genere in aria. Ne seguirà una grande ricchezza... nel numero degli uomini. Ogni metro quadrato sarà occupato da un uomo. Chi ci guarirà dalla mancanza di aria e di spazio? Solamente al pensarci soffoco! Ma non è questo, non è questo soltanto. Qualunque sforzo di darci la salute è vano. Questa non può appartenere che alla bestia che conosce un solo progresso, quello del proprio organismo. Allorché la rondinella comprese che per essa non c'era altra possibile vita fuori dell'emigrazione, essa ingrossò il muscolo che muove le sue ali e che divenne la parte più considerevole del suo organismo. La talpa s'interrò e tutto il suo corpo si conformò al suo bisogno. Il cavallo s'ingrandì e trasformò il suo piede. Di alcuni animali non sappiamo il progresso, ma ci sarà stato e non avrà mai leso la loro salute. Ma l'occhialuto uomo, invece, inventa gli ordigni fuori del suo corpo e se c'è stata salute e nobiltà in chi li inventò, quasi sempre manca in chi li usa. Gli ordigni si comperano, si vendono e si rubano e l'uomo diventa sempre più furbo e più debole. Anzi si capisce che la sua furbizia cresce in proporzione della sua debolezza. I primi suoi ordigni parevano prolungazioni del suo braccio e non potevano essere efficaci che per la forza dello stesso, ma, oramai, l'ordigno non ha più alcuna relazione con l'arto. Ed è l'ordigno che crea la malattia con l'abbandono della legge che fu su tutta la terra la creatrice. La legge del più forte sparì e perdemmo la selezione salutare. Altro che psico-analisi ci vorrebbe: sotto la legge del possessore del maggior numero di ordigni prospereranno malattie e ammalati. Forse traverso una catastrofe inaudita prodotta dagli ordigni ritorneremo alla salute. Quando i gas velenosi non basteranno più, un uomo fatto come tutti gli altri, nel segreto di una stanza di questo mondo, inventerà un esplosivo incomparabile, in confronto al quale gli esplosivi attualmente esistenti saranno considerati quali innocui giocattoli. Ed un altro uomo fatto anche lui come tutti gli altri, ma degli altri un po' più ammalato, ruberà tale esplosivo e s'arrampicherà al centro della terra per porlo nel punto ove il suo effetto potrà essere il massimo. Ci sarà un'esplosione enorme che nessuno udrà e la terra ritornata alla forma di nebulosa errerà nei cieli priva di parassiti e di malattie.

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"Stefano Rodotà (appositamente richiamato dall’Aldilà mentre giocava a scacchi)"
by Marco Fioretti Aug. 3, 2025

Aug. 3, 2025

Tutti quelli che sanno di che sto parlando mettano il dito qua sotto, perche' son sicuro di non averlo ricevuto solo io fra gli iscritti a questa lista. E se qualcuno che ha seguito la questione da vicino ha gia' avuto tempo di leggerlo, grazie in anticipo per un commento. Marco

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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
by Alberto Cammozzo Aug. 3, 2025

Aug. 3, 2025

<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-histor…> ‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse Damian Carrington “We can’t put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of [civilisation], we can understand the trajectories we face today – and self-termination is most likely,” says Dr Luke Kemp at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. “I’m pessimistic about the future,” he says. “But I’m optimistic about people.” Kemp’s new book covers the rise and collapse of more than 400 societies over 5,000 years and took seven years to write. The lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites, while past collapses often improved the lives of ordinary citizens. Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots. The work is scholarly, but the straight-talking Australian can also be direct, such as when setting out how a global collapse could be avoided. “Don’t be a dick” is one of the solutions proposed, along with a move towards genuinely democratic societies and an end to inequality. His first step was to ditch the word civilisation, a term he argues is really propaganda by rulers. “When you look at the near east, China, Mesoamerica or the Andes, where the first kingdoms and empires arose, you don’t see civilised conduct, you see war, patriarchy and human sacrifice,” he says. This was a form of evolutionary backsliding from the egalitarian and mobile hunter-gatherer societies which shared tools and culture widely and survived for hundreds of thousands of years. “Instead, we started to resemble the hierarchies of chimpanzees and the harems of gorillas.” Instead Kemp uses the term Goliaths to describe kingdoms and empires, meaning a society built on domination, such as the Roman empire: state over citizen, rich over poor, master over slave and men over women. He says that, like the biblical warrior slain by David’s slingshot, Goliaths began in the bronze age, were steeped in violence and often surprisingly fragile. Goliath states do not simply emerge as dominant cliques that loot surplus food and resources, he argues, but need three specific types of “Goliath fuel”. The first is a particular type of surplus food: grain. That can be “seen, stolen and stored”, Kemp says, unlike perishable foods. In Cahokia, for example, a society in North America that peaked around the 11th century, the advent of maize and bean farming led to a society dominated by an elite of priests and human sacrifice, he says. The second Goliath fuel is weaponry monopolised by one group. Bronze swords and axes were far superior to stone and wooden axes, and the first Goliaths in Mesopotamia followed their development, he says. Kemp calls the final Goliath fuel “caged land”, meaning places where oceans, rivers, deserts and mountains meant people could not simply migrate away from rising tyrants. Early Egyptians, trapped between the Red Sea and the Nile, fell prey to the pharaohs, for example. “History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.” All Goliaths, however, contain the seeds of their own demise, he says: “They are cursed and this is because of inequality.” Inequality does not arise because all people are greedy. They are not, he says. The Khoisan peoples in southern Africa, for example, shared and preserved common lands for thousands of years despite the temptation to grab more. Instead, it is the few people high in the dark triad who fall into races for resources, arms and status, he says. “Then as elites extract more wealth from the people and the land, they make societies more fragile, leading to infighting, corruption, immiseration of the masses, less healthy people, overexpansion, environmental degradation and poor decision making by a small oligarchy. The hollowed-out shell of a society is eventually cracked asunder by shocks such as disease, war or climate change.” History shows that increasing wealth inequality consistently precedes collapse, says Kemp, from the Classical Lowland Maya to the Han dynasty in China and the Western Roman empire. He also points out that for the citizens of early rapacious regimes, collapse often improved their lives because they were freed from domination and taxation and returned to farming. “After the fall of Rome, people actually got taller and healthier,” he says. Collapses in the past were at a regional level and often beneficial for most people, but collapse today would be global and disastrous for all. “Today, we don’t have regional empires so much as we have one single, interconnected global Goliath. All our societies act within one single global economic system – capitalism,” Kemp says. He cites three reasons why the collapse of the global Goliath would be far worse than previous events. First is that collapses are accompanied by surges in violence as elites try to reassert their dominance. “In the past, those battles were waged with swords or muskets. Today we have nuclear weapons,” he says. Second, people in the past were not heavily reliant on empires or states for services and, unlike today, could easily go back to farming or hunting and gathering. “Today, most of us are specialised, and we’re dependent upon global infrastructure. If that falls away, we too will fall,” he says. “Last but not least is that, unfortunately, all the threats we face today are far worse than in the past,” he says. Past climatic changes that precipitated collapses, for example, usually involved a temperature change of 1C at a regional level. Today, we face 3C globally. There are also about 10,000 nuclear weapons, technologies such as artificial intelligence and killer robots and engineered pandemics, all sources of catastrophic global risk. Kemp says his argument that Goliaths require rulers who are strong in the triad of dark traits is borne out today. “The three most powerful men in the world are a walking version of the dark triad: Trump is a textbook narcissist, Putin is a cold psychopath, and Xi Jinping came to rule [China] by being a master Machiavellian manipulator.” “Our corporations and, increasingly, our algorithms, also resemble these kinds of people,” he says. “They’re basically amplifying the worst of us.” Kemp points to these “agents of doom” as the source of the current trajectory towards societal collapse. “These are the large, psychopathic corporations and groups which produce global catastrophic risk,” he says. “Nuclear weapons, climate change, AI, are only produced by a very small number of secretive, highly wealthy, powerful groups, like the military-industrial complex, big tech and the fossil fuel industry. “The key thing is this is not about all of humanity creating these threats. It is not about human nature. It is about small groups who bring out the worst in us, competing for profit and power and covering all [the risks] up.” The global Goliath is the endgame for humanity, Kemp says, like the final moves in a chess match that determine the result. He sees two outcomes: self-destruction or a fundamental transformation of society. He believes the first outcome is the most likely, but says escaping global collapse could be achieved. “First and foremost, you need to create genuine democratic societies to level all the forms of power that lead to Goliaths,” he says. That means running societies through citizen assemblies and juries, aided by digital technologies to enable direct democracy at large scales. History shows that more democratic societies tend to be more resilient, he says. “If you’d had a citizens’ jury sitting over the [fossil fuel companies] when they discovered how much damage and death their products would cause, do you think they would have said: ‘Yes, go ahead, bury the information and run disinformation campaigns’? Of course not,” Kemp says. Escaping collapse also requires taxing wealth, he says, otherwise the rich find ways to rig the democratic system. “I’d cap wealth at $10 million. That’s far more than anyone needs. A famous oil tycoon once said money is just a way for the rich to keep score. Why should we allow these people to keep score at the risk of destroying the entire planet?” If citizens’ juries and wealth caps seem wildly optimistic, Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Goliaths. That’s because these are stories that have been hammered into us over the space of 5,000 years,” he says. “Today, people find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit. Of course we can do democracy at scale. We’re a naturally social, altruistic, democratic species and we all have an anti-dominance intuition. This is what we’re built for.” Kemp rejects the suggestion that he is simply presenting a politically leftwing take on history. “There is nothing inherently left wing about democracy,” he says. “Nor does the left have a monopoly on fighting corruption, holding power accountable and making sure companies pay for the social and environmental damages they cause. That’s just making our economy more honest.” He also has a message for individuals: “Collapse isn’t just caused by structures, but also people. If you want to save the world then the first step is to stop destroying it. In other words: don’t be a dick. Don’t work for big tech, arms manufacturers or the fossil fuel industry. Don’t accept relationships based on domination and share power whenever you can.” Despite the possibility of avoiding collapse, Kemp remains pessimistic about our prospects. “I think it’s unlikely,” he says. “We’re dealing with a 5,000-year process that is going to be incredibly difficult to reverse, as we have increasing levels of inequality and of elite capture of our politics. “But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited. And even if we fail, at the very least, we didn’t contribute to the problem.” Goliath’s Curse by Luke Kemp was published in the UK on 31 July by Viking Penguin

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شهادة الأبوة في المغرب
by walid falcon Aug. 2, 2025

Aug. 2, 2025

كل ما تحتاج معرفته حول شهادة الأبوة بالمغرب يمكنك تحميل الطلب من خلال الرابط المباشر https://www.targir.com/2025/04/blog-post_14.html معلومات شاملة لاستخراج شهادة الأبوة والإجراءات القانونية المرتبطة بها ما هي شهادة الأبوة في المغرب؟ شهادة الأبوة وثيقة قانونية تصدر بناءً على حكم قضائي، وتُثبت العلاقة البنوية بين الطفل ووالده البيولوجي، في حال عدم وجود عقد زواج رسمي أو تسجيل سابق. تُعَد هذه الشهادة جزءًا من الإجراءات القضائية التي تدخل ضمن قضايا الحالة المدنية. الحالات التي تستوجب استخراج شهادة الأبوة 1. الأطفال غير المسجلين في الحالة المدنية عندما يولد طفل خارج إطار الزواج أو لم يُسجَّل بصفة قانونية في دفتر الحالة المدنية، يحتاج الأب إلى رفع دعوى للحصول على شهادة الأبوة. 2. إثبات النسب في غياب عقد زواج في حالات عدم توفر وثيقة الزواج بين الأبوين، يُلجأ إلى المحكمة لتقديم التصريح بالأبوة. إجراءات الحصول على شهادة الأبوة أولا: رفع دعوى أمام المحكمة يتوجب على الأب أو ولي أمر الطفل تقديم طلب إلى المحكمة الابتدائية التي يقع فيها مقر سكن الطفل أو الأب، وذلك من أجل إصدار حكم قضائي بإثبات الأبوة. ثانياً: الوثائق المطلوبة نسخة من بطاقة التعريف الوطنية عقد الازدياد الخاص بالطفل (إن وُجد) شهادة طبية للولادة شهادة السكنى وثائق أو إثباتات تدعم علاقة الأب بالطفل نموذج شهادة الأبوة pdf تتيح بعض المواقع الإلكترونية تحميل نموذج شهادة الأبوة PDF قابل للطباعة، غير أن إصدارها الرسمي لا يتم إلا بعد حكم قضائي، ويتم توجيهها لمصلحة الحالة المدنية لتسجيل الطفل. الأسئلة الشائعة حول شهادة الأبوة هل يمكن تقديم طلب شهادة الأبوة إلكترونياً؟ لا، المسطرة تظل قضائية وتتطلب الحضور أمام المحكمة. ما هي مدة الحصول على شهادة الأبوة؟ قد تختلف المدة حسب عدد الجلسات، ولكن عادة ما تستغرق بين شهر إلى ثلاثة أشهر، حسب تعقيد الملف. صلة بين شهادة الأبوة وبعض التصاريح القانونية الأخرى تم الربط ضمن هذا الدليل بين شهادة الأبوة وبعض المفاهيم القانونية الأخرى التي يبحث عنها الكثير، مثل: 1. التصريح الأمني وتصريح السفر غالباً ما يُطلب في بعض الحالات القانونية توفير تصريح أمني عند استخراج أوراق ثبوتية، كما هو الحال في: الأوراق المطلوبة لاستخراج تصريح السفر من منطقة التجنيد تصريح أمني مستعجل التصريح الأمني الإلكتروني 2. استبدال التصريح برخصة قيادة في حالات مثل شروط إصدار رخصة قيادة بعد التصريح أو تجديد التصريح إلى رخصة، من المهم التأكد من إثبات الهوية القانونية، وهو ما يجعل شهادة الأبوة ضرورية في بعض الحالات القانونية الخاصة. شهادة الأبوة الغاية من هذه الوثيقة هي إثبات علاقة الأبوة بالابن سواء كان راشدا أم قاصرا وغالبا ما تطلب في بعض المساطر الإدارية. صاحب الطلب المغربي المقيم بالخارج الوثائق المطلوبة بالنسبة للراشد : · بطاقة التسجيل ؛ · الدفتر العائلي بالنسبة للقاصر : · بطاقة تسجيل الأب ؛ · الدفتر العائلي . المصلحة المكلفة باستلام الوثائق المطلوبة المصالح القنصلية التابعة لمحل إقامة صاحب الطلب المصلحة المكلفة بتقديم الخدمة المصالح القنصلية التابعة لمحل إقامة صاحب الطلب في حالة تعذر الحصول على الخدمة مؤسسة الوسيط لأجل الاتصال وزارة الشؤون الخارجية والتعاون مصدر المعلومات (الإدارة المعنية) وزارة الشؤون الخارجية والتعاون_أرشيف يمكنك تحميل الطلب من خلال الرابط المباشر نموذج شهادة الأبوة بالمغرب محكمة الأسرة بـ: [اسم المدينة] رقم الملف: [يُترك للمحكمة] رقم القضية: [يُترك للمحكمة] بيان تصريح بالأبوة أنا الموقع أسفله: الاسم الكامل: [الاسم الكامل للأب] رقم بطاقة التعريف الوطنية: [رقم CIN] تاريخ ومكان الازدياد: [تاريخ ومكان ولادة الأب] العنوان الكامل: [عنوان الإقامة] المهنة: [المهنة الحالية] أُصرّح بموجب هذا، وبكامل قواي العقلية والقانونية، بما يلي: أن الطفل (ة) المسمى (ة): [اسم الطفل/ة] المولود (ة) بتاريخ: [تاريخ الولادة] بـ: [مكان الولادة] هو(هي) ابني/ابنتي البيولوجي(ة)، وقد وُلد(ت) نتيجة علاقة أبوية قائمة بيني وبين السيدة: [اسم الأم]، المولودة بتاريخ: [تاريخ ميلاد الأم]، والحاملة لرقم بطاقة التعريف الوطنية: [رقم CIN الأم]. وأتحمل كامل المسؤولية القانونية والأبوية تجاه هذا الطفل/ة، وأطلب من المحكمة الموقرة إصدار حكم قضائي يثبت نسب الطفل لي، وتمكينه من التسجيل في الحالة المدنية. الإمضاء الإسم الكامل: _____________________ التوقيع: ___________________________ التاريخ: ____ / ____ / ________ ملاحظات : يُرفق هذا النموذج بالوثائق الداعمة كـ: نسخة البطاقة الوطنية، شهادة السكنى، شهادة الولادة، وغيرها. يُودَع لدى كتابة ضبط المحكمة الابتدائية (قسم قضاء الأسرة) التي يقع ضمن اختصاصها محل ولادة الطفل أو محل سكن الأب.

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archivi della lista, era: Stefano Rodotà..
by M. Fioretti Aug. 2, 2025

Aug. 2, 2025

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 10:51:31 AM +0200, 380° via nexa wrote: > [1] sempre che gli archivi di questa ML siano ancora disponibili, perché > adesso https://nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa restituisce > un bel errore 404; la lista è elencata qui: > https://nexa.polito.it/get-involved/social-media-mailing-lists/ Al momento in cui scrivo il primo link che citi da' ancora 404, ma cliccando sulla prima mailing list nexa nel secondo link arrivi qui: https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa e da li' cliccando su "Archivi della lista nexa": https://server-nexa.polito.it/pipermail/nexa/ c'e' tutto Marco

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CfP - Scelta e IA
by Alessio Rocchi Aug. 1, 2025

Aug. 1, 2025

Buon pomeriggio nexiani/e. Condivido con voi questo Call for Papers con scadenza 15/09 della rivista di studi transdisciplinari di IUSTO. Se lo desiderate, inoltrate pure a chiunque possa essere interessato. Auguro un mese di agosto ritemprante! Alessio Alessio Rocchi Amministratore Delegato IUSTO - *IUSTO Chief Executive Officer* Professore aggregato di Pedagogia - *Associate Professor of Pedagogy* Coordinatore europeo IUS - *IUS **European Coordinator* -- <http://www.ius.to/> *IUSTO - Istituto Universitario Salesiano Torino Rebaudengo* aggregato alla *Facoltà di Scienze dell'Educazione dell'Università Pontificia Salesiana* in Roma Agenzia Formativa* *accreditata dalla *Regione Piemonte* Piazza Conti di Rebaudengo, 22 - 10155 Torino Tel: +39 011 2340083 (Lun-Ven 10.00-13.30 - 14.30-17.00) www.ius.to <http://www.ius.to/> ___________________________________________ Questo messaggio è stato inviato da IUSTO e può contenere informazioni di carattere estremamente riservato e confidenziale. Le informazioni contenute in questa e-mail sono dirette essenzialmente alla/e persona/e o all'istituzione menzionate nell'oggetto e/o corpo del messaggio. Qualora chi lo riceva non ne fosse il destinatario, è pregato di informarci immediatamente tramite e-mail/telefono/fax e di eliminare il presente messaggio con gli eventuali allegati, senza trattenerne copia. Qualsiasi utilizzo non autorizzato del contenuto di questo messaggio costituisce violazione dell'obbligo di non prendere cognizione della corrispondenza tra altri soggetti, salvo più grave illecito, ed espone il responsabile alle relative conseguenze civili e penali. Si rammenta infine che la conservazione e la riproduzione del presente messaggio, qualora contenga dati personali, è soggetta al regolamento UE 2016/679 e a tutte le vigenti norme in materia di protezione dei dati personali. <http://www.ius.to/index.php/news-eventi-iusto/69-notizie/891-dona-il-tuo-5x…>

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Re: [nexa] Blocco all’HTML
by karlessi Aug. 1, 2025

Aug. 1, 2025

> Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:13:16 +0200 > From: Andrea Trentini <andrea.trentini(a)unimi.it> > To: Giuseppe Attardi <attardi(a)di.unipi.it>, nexa > <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: Re: [nexa] Blocco all’HTML > Message-ID: <f075ecd5-7fda-4df6-916d-5a02dfafac41(a)unimi.it> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > -1 (MENO UNO!!!) -1 (meno un altro) > > io bandirei in toto HTML dalle mail, se possibile metterei proprio un ban automatico a chi invia in > HTML... sul ban automatico anche no, nel senso che magari c'è chi non lo sa e gli va spiegato, che HTML NON è adatto alle mail HTML è un linguaggio per ipertesti, va bene pe ril web, per quanto non sia standard, peccato nelle mail, HTML è molto utile per: - pubblicità > non mi interessa / vorrei evitarla - cose colorate ecc > non mi interessano / vorrei evitarle - è molto più pesante del semplice testo > maggiori costi di stoccaggio ecc. - cose malevole > è molto più difficile il phising ecc. senza HTML le persone oggi sono generalmente abituate a consultare la posta via web (== gmail). ciò IMHO è male perché è semplicemente uno strato in più inutile quando non dannoso, per cui le persone pensano che le mail stiano sul web, mentre invece stanno su internet (al limite c'è uno strato web aggiunto). un client è meglio, anche per ragioni pedagogiche, per imparare che non tutto è web ed è bene così: +diversità tecnica alimenta un'evoluzione tecnica variegata invece della monocoltura tecnica unica :D quando mostro alle studenti il client di post sul computer che impiego, rimangono stupite di quanto sia scarno. un po' come lo smartphone senza notifiche, in super-risparmio energetico e senza colori. I bambini che lo prendono in mano lo posano subito: non ci sono colori, non ci sono suoni, non si eccita il circuito dopaminergico. Risolto il problema della "dipendenza"? Non esageriamo, però, però, tante cose si posson fare. Cmq Non vorrei eccitarlo, il sistema dopaminergico, tramite mail piene di faccine, colori, link che vanno chissà dove in quanto nascosti via HTML malevolo. Proprio perché ci sono automatismi tecnici implementati nei sistemi "moderni" che spingono in quella direzione mi pare sensato evitarlo. senza barricate eh. se viene implementato HTML cmq io invierò e riceverò solo testo - finché sarà possibile farlo :D buona giornata k. > > (e su Thunderbird mi è capitato di sbagliare config e inviare in HTML per poi scoprire che il mio > quoting veniva "sminchiato" (TM) e il destinatario vedeva un messaggio apparentemente vuoto) idem. disdicevole, invero. PS: aneddoto personale. Durante una breve esperienza lavorativa (pochi mesi, poi mi trovarono una borsa di dottorato per levarmi di torno) nel quadro del progetto EG4M (UNIMIB), il professore che dirigeva la baracca mi mandava mail che non riuscivo ad aprire, e sosteneva che non fossi capace. Professore importante di DB ecc ecc. Ecco, inviava mail da 15-20MB (15 anni fa...), abituato a fare drag&drop dei file da allegare (ma perché allegare? sono mattoni legati a una cartolina, gli allegati alla mail in chiaro... fai un link a un repo/cloud, è meglio) nel corpo del messaggio. il mio client si rifiutava di visualizzarli e non riuscivo a scaricarli, con estensioni XLS ecc. senza HTML ciò è difficile o impossibile. -- transizioni digitali sostenibili - https://eudema.net pedagogia hacker - https://eleuthera.it/ph https://circex.org tecnologie conviviali - https://eleuthera.it/tc

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Re: [nexa] GDPR could protect us from the AI Act
by Giuseppe Attardi July 31, 2025

July 31, 2025

Ho sempre sostenuto e contestato direttamente anche a voce con i relatori dell’AI Act, che l’impostaziine della norma fosse sbagliata. Invece di definire dei diritti, come stabilisce la GDPR, indipendentemente dal modo con cui questi diritti possano essere violati, l’AI Act ha un approccio “risk based”, in cui si elencano le applicazioni che producono danni. Questo comporta complicazioni burocratiche come l’introduzione dell’AI Office per mantenere aggiornato l’elenco. Sono quindi pienamente d’accordo con questa critica: The AI Act's approach to the protection of fundamental rights is based on a profound misconception of the law: for the law to protect a right means to protect against the violation of that right, as Mireille Hildebrandt reminds us, and harm is by no means a condition for the violation of a fundamental right. Under the AI Act's harm approach to fundamental rights impact assessment, fundamental rights can be violated with impunity as long as there is no foreseeable harm. Requiring only a risk impact assessment is like being satisfied with asking whether a despot is benevolent or malevolent: freedom, understood as the absence of domination, is lost whatever the answer. Purtroppo ogni volta che ho sollevato questa obiezione di fronte a dei giuristi, tutti hanno sminuito la questione, dicendo che dietro ogni legge ci sono dei diritti. Peccato che quei diritti non siano espressi né indicati esplicitamente nell’AI Act. Quindi come si fa a fare capire questo errore originale di impostazione di una norma che tutti lodano indiscrminatamente? — GA > On 30 Jul 2025, at 12:00, nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it wrote: > > Send nexa mailing list submissions to > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > nexa-request(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > You can reach the person managing the list at > nexa-owner(a)server-nexa.polito.it > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of nexa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. R: "Stefano Rodotà (appositamente richiamato > dall’Aldilà mentre giocava a scacchi)" (Daniela Tafani) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 09:27:22 +0000 > From: Daniela Tafani <daniela.tafani(a)unipi.it> > To: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo(a)tesio.it>, "nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it" > <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it>, 380° <g380(a)biscuolo.net> > Subject: [nexa] R: "Stefano Rodotà (appositamente richiamato > dall’Aldilà mentre giocava a scacchi)" > > Buongiorno, 380°, > > ________________________________________ > Da: nexa per conto di 380° via nexa > >> non me ne vogliano i membri e i sostenitori del GPDP ma >> l'istituzione è decisamente troppo presa sul serio; dire che le >> aspettative nei confronti del GPDP sono illusorie è eufemistico. > > > Quando un diritto è sistematicamente violato, le norme e le istituzioni che almeno in parte lo tutelino > dovrebbero forse essere prese più sul serio, non meno (anche se capisco il senso della tua nota). > > E trovo eloquente il fatto che le prenda molto sul serio chi si sobbarca la fatica di lavorare per cancellarle. > Ne ho scritto qui: > > GDPR could protect us from the AI Act. That's why it's under attack > <https://zenodo.org/records/14002329> > > Un caro saluto, > Daniela >

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China summons chip giant Nvidia over alleged security risks
by 380° July 31, 2025

July 31, 2025

Buonasera, questo significa (anche) che è _praticamente ovvio_ che una discreta quantità di "chip" [1] esportati in EU siano dotati di tracking e backdoors :-O [2] https://english.almayadeen.net/news/technology/china-summons-chip-giant-nvi…> «China summons chip giant Nvidia over alleged security risks» --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- China questions Nvidia over security risks in H20 AI chips sold to the Chinese market, raising concerns amid the ongoing US-China tech rivalry. Chinese authorities summoned US tech giant Nvidia on Thursday over serious security concerns related to its H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chips, as tensions escalate in the ongoing technological standoff between Beijing and Washington. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the country's top internet regulator, announced it had engaged Nvidia in discussions following the discovery of potential vulnerabilities and backdoors in its H20 chips, a version specifically developed for the Chinese market. The CAC issued a public statement on social media confirming that Nvidia was asked to explain the security risks tied to the H20 chips and to submit relevant technical documentation for review. The chips, [designed with downgraded capabilities to comply with US export restrictions], have now become a flashpoint in the broader debate over Nvidia H20 chip security. "The company has been asked to explain the security risks of vulnerabilities and backdoors in its H20 chips sold to China and submit relevant supporting materials," the statement read. Chinese regulators cited reports from US experts, noting that location tracking and remote shutdown [technologies for Nvidia's AI chips] "are already matured." [designed with downgraded capabilities to comply with US export restrictions] <https://english.almayadeen.net/news/technology/nvidia-ai-chips-repair-indus…> [technologies for Nvidia's AI chips] <file:Nvidia’s%20AI%20chips> 1.1 Nvidia's return to the Chinese market draws scrutiny ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Earlier this month, Nvidia [said it would resume H20 sales in China] after the US government signaled it would lift some of the licensing restrictions that had previously blocked such exports. The H20 chip is a less powerful version of Nvidia's top-tier AI processors, created to meet US regulatory thresholds while preserving a foothold in the lucrative Chinese AI sector. However, renewed concerns from both sides of the Pacific have [reignited debates over AI chip export] controls and national security implications. Nvidia, based in California, has found itself increasingly caught between Washington's containment strategy and Beijing's push for technological sovereignty. As part of tightening US-China tech tensions, American lawmakers have proposed requiring Nvidia and other AI chipmakers to embed location tracking and remote-disable features into their products. While the proposals are framed as safeguards against unauthorized use, Beijing views such measures as potential vectors for foreign surveillance and control, particularly when implemented in semiconductors destined for Chinese infrastructure or research facilities. The CAC's summons of Nvidia appears to be part of a broader effort to assert Chinese data and cyber sovereignty as foreign technology continues to play a role in sensitive sectors. [said it would resume H20 sales in China] <https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nvidia-cleared-to-resume-ai-ch…> [reignited debates over AI chip export] <https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/nvidia-cleared-to-resume-ai-ch…> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, 380° [1] che poi tecnicamente sono dei veri e propri SoC (system on chip): si capisce la differenza vero?!? [2] per un esempio si veda alla voce "Intel Management Engine": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Security_vulnerabilit… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assertions_that_ME_is… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#By_Google -- 380° (lost in /traslation/) «Welcome to the chaos of the times If you go left and I go right Pray we make it out alive This is Karmageddon»

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An internet privacy expert has said she was called a “paedo” during a UK Government meeting after raising concerns about the Online Safety Act
by Fabio Alemagna July 31, 2025

July 31, 2025

The legislation, which came into force on July 25, mandates that websites verify users’ age – often using facial recognition or photo ID – before granting access to adult content such as pornography, violence, or material on self-harm and eating disorders. Heather Burns, a tech policy specialist and author of Understanding Privacy <https://heatherburns.tech/book/>, told The National the UK Government and Ofcom had been on a “full-scale media blitz … really hammering down on the lines that this is about children and it's about pornography”. However, she said: “It's not. It applies to any service provider anywhere in the world whose services could theoretically be accessed in Britain. It applies to a bare minimum of, the last figure I saw was 60,000 companies. “What we're seeing over the past week is six years of narratives collapsing into reality in real time.” Burns warned of threats to journalism and freedom of information, noting that sites like Reddit have begun age-checking users accessing “things like forums about war crimes in Gaza <https://www.thenational.scot/topics/Gaza/> and Ukraine <https://www.thenational.scot/topics/ukraine/>”. “This is escalating quickly,” she added. “We're one week in and platforms are censoring news content – because they have to. “I think we're going to see more journalistic content blocked or age restricted before we get a resolution here, and that's scary.” The issue has seen Wikipedia launch a court case <https://www.courthousenews.com/wikipedia-seeks-to-shield-contributors-from-…> against the UK Government because, Burns explained, “they've been thrown into Category One compliance requirements, which is full-fat, full-on, on the grounds that Wikipedia has articles about self-harm, suicide, and eating disorders”. “If young people can't find straightforward, factual, curated information on an encyclopaedia, where are they going to go? They're going to go to the really nasty places you wouldn't want any child looking at.” She added: “History tells us that it's never a good idea when governments start demanding censorship of encyclopaedias.” Continua a leggere qui: https://www.thenational.scot/news/25354060.tech-expert-called-paedo-home-of…

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