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I liked so much how Viticci has contextualized his review of the new iOS 18, focusing on the people behind the technology and not on AI. I fully share its perspective.

I appreciate Micro.blog platform and their created community. I thought several times about opening an account because the idea to join to the Fediverse with my blog intrigues me. Moreover, I found it a good place to embrace the magic blogging world for those that haven’t the right nerdy nature to open a website himself. But I gave up because their mission scared me.

There is a guiding light that must light up your working path: you can switch companies.

Imagine if Chrome could deplete your iPhone battery as fast as it does your MacBook battery. Imagine if you were one of the millions (zillions?) of people whose “incognito mode” browsing history was observed and stored by Google and deleted only after they lost a lawsuit. Imagine — and this takes a lot of imagination — if Google actually shipped a version of Chrome for iOS, only for the EU, that used its own battery-eating rendering engine instead of using the energy-efficient system version of WebKit.

Maybe Musk could be legally responsible in some jurisdiction for things he has said, or for things hosted on a platform he owns. But we should almost never encourage the idea of arresting people for things they say. Yes, there are limits: threats of violence and fraud are both types of generally illegal speech. Yet charging Musk for being a loud public idiot is a very bad idea.

I met a new supplier who presented to me a slide of their security partners. Speaking about CrowdStrike, he smiled slightly. Then he continued to talk.

Things that I can’t pay cashless in the South of Italy. Anno domini 2024.