I’ve been working a lot with AI lately. Wait, don’t run away. I know it’s a boring and unpleasant topic, about which everything and its opposite has been said, but it’s a topic that can’t be ignored. And anyway, I’m only telling you a side story. So, listen, go ahead.
Questa cosa, quella di andare a leggere i post del giorno come quello di ieri ma del 2021, questa cosa mi ha fatto ricordare che una volta, solo pochi anni fa, una volta il focus di questo blog era anche un altro. Adesso, se mi leggi, e se magari mi leggi in inglese, adesso è tutta tecnologia e cose digitali. E tutto, inoltre, è tutto un lamento. Un po’ perché sono invecchiato anche io, col blog. E un po’ perché forse scrivere è riflettere, e riflettere per poi scrivere in inglese1 per me è più complicato.
I’m someone who likes to frequently change default applications. Anyone who occasionally checks this page will have noticed that modifications happen quite often.
I’ve been using only Apple devices for a few years now. I don’t have a Windows PC or an Android smartphone. I don’t even have headphones or accessories from other brands. I subscribe to iCloud+ and use various Apple services, such as Music, Arcade, and email with a custom domain. In short, I’m a user who is totally immersed in the Cupertino ecosystem, but I’m not a satisfied user at all.
‘Se Natale nun venesse ‘cchiù,
chi chiagnesse ‘e lacreme ‘cchiù amare?
‘e commercianti o ‘e creature?
Smartphones are not the enemy, reports Kev Quirk in his blog referencing Thomas Rigby’s post. True, the phone is just a tool, and our attraction is caused by the operating system’s constant demand for attention and the apps that try to eat away at our time.
My friend Nicola, a few weeks ago, referenced this post of mine and wrote about Bitonto, the town where he lives. I admire and almost envy the way he described it. You can clearly tell that, somehow, it’s his roots and that those roots engage him.
Microsoft cannot guarantee that European citizens’ data will not be transmitted, if requested, to US authorities. Neither can Google, Meta, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, Oracle, Adobe, Dropbox, Zoom, Atlassian, Twilio, Salesforce, Cisco, Box, Slack, Anthropic, or any of the dozens of others I can’t think of right now.