Fabio Manganiello
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:platypush: #OpenSource #automation addict @ #Platypush
🤖 (Ethical) #AI builder
🔓 Compulsive #FOSS contributor
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🤖 (Ethical) #AI builder
🔓 Compulsive #FOSS contributor
:arch: Prone to unsolicited "btw I use #Arch" […]
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“Wrapped” end-of-year products are becoming the norm in tech.
What started as Spotify’s way to share your yearly listening habits in a couple of Instagram stories has become a trend in the whole industry - from LinkedIn offering you a yearly summary of your job hunt, to ChatGPT showing you how […]
What started as Spotify’s way to share your yearly listening habits in a couple of Instagram stories has become a trend in the whole industry - from LinkedIn offering you a yearly summary of your job hunt, to ChatGPT showing you how […]
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December 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“Wrapped” end-of-year products are becoming the norm in tech.
What started as Spotify’s way to share your yearly listening habits in a couple of Instagram stories has become a trend in the whole industry - from LinkedIn offering you a yearly summary of your job hunt, to ChatGPT showing you how […]
What started as Spotify’s way to share your yearly listening habits in a couple of Instagram stories has become a trend in the whole industry - from LinkedIn offering you a yearly summary of your job hunt, to ChatGPT showing you how […]
Thank you for these emails #google.
Their purpose may be to make me feel bad for ruining your multi-trillion dollar empire with the strict policies around trackers and ads on my private and regularly purchased devices.
But the more you folks send me emails […]
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Their purpose may be to make me feel bad for ruining your multi-trillion dollar empire with the strict policies around trackers and ads on my private and regularly purchased devices.
But the more you folks send me emails […]
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December 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thank you for these emails #google.
Their purpose may be to make me feel bad for ruining your multi-trillion dollar empire with the strict policies around trackers and ads on my private and regularly purchased devices.
But the more you folks send me emails […]
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Their purpose may be to make me feel bad for ruining your multi-trillion dollar empire with the strict policies around trackers and ads on my private and regularly purchased devices.
But the more you folks send me emails […]
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Verbal condemnation alone against #israel and its colonialist regime is no longer sufficient.
When a foreign minister reacts to the outrage against further expansion of the illegal West Bank settlments with “ _Foreign governments will not restrict the right of Jews to live in the Land of Israel […]
When a foreign minister reacts to the outrage against further expansion of the illegal West Bank settlments with “ _Foreign governments will not restrict the right of Jews to live in the Land of Israel […]
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December 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Verbal condemnation alone against #israel and its colonialist regime is no longer sufficient.
When a foreign minister reacts to the outrage against further expansion of the illegal West Bank settlments with “ _Foreign governments will not restrict the right of Jews to live in the Land of Israel […]
When a foreign minister reacts to the outrage against further expansion of the illegal West Bank settlments with “ _Foreign governments will not restrict the right of Jews to live in the Land of Israel […]
Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party).
Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party).
Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]
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December 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party).
Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party).
Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]
⚠️⚠️ **URGENT MEDICAL APPEAL** ⚠️⚠️
The wife of @MohammedHussein is pregnant and close to delivery, while going through a hard health condition - the poor conditions in #gaza mean that viral infections like hepatitis have become quite common, and they can pose great risks during pregnancy.
His […]
The wife of @MohammedHussein is pregnant and close to delivery, while going through a hard health condition - the poor conditions in #gaza mean that viral infections like hepatitis have become quite common, and they can pose great risks during pregnancy.
His […]
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December 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
⚠️⚠️ **URGENT MEDICAL APPEAL** ⚠️⚠️
The wife of @MohammedHussein is pregnant and close to delivery, while going through a hard health condition - the poor conditions in #gaza mean that viral infections like hepatitis have become quite common, and they can pose great risks during pregnancy.
His […]
The wife of @MohammedHussein is pregnant and close to delivery, while going through a hard health condition - the poor conditions in #gaza mean that viral infections like hepatitis have become quite common, and they can pose great risks during pregnancy.
His […]
In 1957 the average cost of a single-family home in America was about 2.2 times the average annual wage. Today it’s more than 10 times the average wage.
When the Boomer generation was the same age as today’s Millennials, it owned about 22% of the nation’s wealth; Millennials today control about […]
When the Boomer generation was the same age as today’s Millennials, it owned about 22% of the nation’s wealth; Millennials today control about […]
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December 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In 1957 the average cost of a single-family home in America was about 2.2 times the average annual wage. Today it’s more than 10 times the average wage.
When the Boomer generation was the same age as today’s Millennials, it owned about 22% of the nation’s wealth; Millennials today control about […]
When the Boomer generation was the same age as today’s Millennials, it owned about 22% of the nation’s wealth; Millennials today control about […]
When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled.
If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled — #ai is already here, and AGI is just behind the corner — then we will create that for them.
Which isn’t very […]
If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled — #ai is already here, and AGI is just behind the corner — then we will create that for them.
Which isn’t very […]
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December 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled.
If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled — #ai is already here, and AGI is just behind the corner — then we will create that for them.
Which isn’t very […]
If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled — #ai is already here, and AGI is just behind the corner — then we will create that for them.
Which isn’t very […]
> Every time you are inclined to use the word “teach”, replace it with “learn”. That is, instead of saying, “I teach”, say “They learn”. It’s very easy to determine what you teach; you can just fill slides with text and claim to have taught. Shift your focus to determining how you know whether […]
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December 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
> Every time you are inclined to use the word “teach”, replace it with “learn”. That is, instead of saying, “I teach”, say “They learn”. It’s very easy to determine what you teach; you can just fill slides with text and claim to have taught. Shift your focus to determining how you know whether […]
There is a lot of absurdity and plain falsehoods in this newfound nostalgia for feudalism among the ultra-conservative Americans.
But there’s also something quite unsettling that emerges from it.
First, by acknowledging that modern-day ultra-liberal American capitalism is flawed, they have […]
But there’s also something quite unsettling that emerges from it.
First, by acknowledging that modern-day ultra-liberal American capitalism is flawed, they have […]
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December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
There is a lot of absurdity and plain falsehoods in this newfound nostalgia for feudalism among the ultra-conservative Americans.
But there’s also something quite unsettling that emerges from it.
First, by acknowledging that modern-day ultra-liberal American capitalism is flawed, they have […]
But there’s also something quite unsettling that emerges from it.
First, by acknowledging that modern-day ultra-liberal American capitalism is flawed, they have […]
> Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more reusable.
Big […]
Big […]
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December 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
> Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more reusable.
Big […]
Big […]
#trump has just slapped his name to the Kennedy center while still alive and in office.
It brought another famous picture to my mind.
In one case the name of a narcissistic tyrant is affixed, in another one it’s removed […]
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It brought another famous picture to my mind.
In one case the name of a narcissistic tyrant is affixed, in another one it’s removed […]
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December 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
#trump has just slapped his name to the Kennedy center while still alive and in office.
It brought another famous picture to my mind.
In one case the name of a narcissistic tyrant is affixed, in another one it’s removed […]
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It brought another famous picture to my mind.
In one case the name of a narcissistic tyrant is affixed, in another one it’s removed […]
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New #mozilla CEO: “ _Blocking ad-blockers in#firefox could bring in an additional $150M in revenue_“.
Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and […]
Sure, even extracting and selling one of my kidneys could bring me a big revenue, but it doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea.
Firefox by now has less than 3% of the browsers’ market share, and […]
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December 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Is there anyone out there who still uses #plex?
I was an early adopter and even bought a lifetime pass for $300 back in the day.
But I saw the trajectory where it was going already back in 2019-2020 and ditched it - first for #kodi, then for #jellyfin.
I’m ok to regularly support software […]
I was an early adopter and even bought a lifetime pass for $300 back in the day.
But I saw the trajectory where it was going already back in 2019-2020 and ditched it - first for #kodi, then for #jellyfin.
I’m ok to regularly support software […]
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December 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thanks to our donations @rouh was able to purchase two tents for two kids who are part of her #gaza camp kids initiative.
More support is needed to provide tents for all the kids and their families (Mai’s initiative takes care of 20 kids, many of whom are orphans, and recently a family with 6 […]
More support is needed to provide tents for all the kids and their families (Mai’s initiative takes care of 20 kids, many of whom are orphans, and recently a family with 6 […]
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December 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thanks to our donations @rouh was able to purchase two tents for two kids who are part of her #gaza camp kids initiative.
More support is needed to provide tents for all the kids and their families (Mai’s initiative takes care of 20 kids, many of whom are orphans, and recently a family with 6 […]
More support is needed to provide tents for all the kids and their families (Mai’s initiative takes care of 20 kids, many of whom are orphans, and recently a family with 6 […]
The #pvv may soon have to modify its governance model.
From a one-man party ruled by a single member (a guy who wins votes by vomiting hate towards foreigners), to a proper party with members and internal voting on things like candidate lists and electoral programs.
Which is quite sensitive […]
From a one-man party ruled by a single member (a guy who wins votes by vomiting hate towards foreigners), to a proper party with members and internal voting on things like candidate lists and electoral programs.
Which is quite sensitive […]
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manganiello.eu
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The #pvv may soon have to modify its governance model.
From a one-man party ruled by a single member (a guy who wins votes by vomiting hate towards foreigners), to a proper party with members and internal voting on things like candidate lists and electoral programs.
Which is quite sensitive […]
From a one-man party ruled by a single member (a guy who wins votes by vomiting hate towards foreigners), to a proper party with members and internal voting on things like candidate lists and electoral programs.
Which is quite sensitive […]
Reposted by Fabio Manganiello
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
itsfoss.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
If you want to know how modern #ai could be, or should be (or how it should already have been), and how the fixation on modern-day LLMs is keeping the whole industry stuck in a local minimum, your best bet is to follow this cute boomer who seems to make videos out of Windows 95 cliparts, rather […]
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December 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
If you want to know how modern #ai could be, or should be (or how it should already have been), and how the fixation on modern-day LLMs is keeping the whole industry stuck in a local minimum, your best bet is to follow this cute boomer who seems to make videos out of Windows 95 cliparts, rather […]
#america has a long-standing a problem with the worship of wealth.
In the land of the self-made men, wealth is often naively associated to ingenuity - ignoring all the overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that just because someone is rich it doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
The naive and […]
In the land of the self-made men, wealth is often naively associated to ingenuity - ignoring all the overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that just because someone is rich it doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
The naive and […]
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December 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#america has a long-standing a problem with the worship of wealth.
In the land of the self-made men, wealth is often naively associated to ingenuity - ignoring all the overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that just because someone is rich it doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
The naive and […]
In the land of the self-made men, wealth is often naively associated to ingenuity - ignoring all the overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that just because someone is rich it doesn’t mean that they’re smart.
The naive and […]
> Neither of us had prior experience developing mobile apps, but we thought, “Hey, we’re both smart. This shouldn’t be too difficult.” _Freedom Chat CEO Tanner Haas_
Of course, it’s so easy to build secure E2EE apps that it’s usually an assignment for undergrads in computer science, you know […]
Of course, it’s so easy to build secure E2EE apps that it’s usually an assignment for undergrads in computer science, you know […]
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December 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
> Neither of us had prior experience developing mobile apps, but we thought, “Hey, we’re both smart. This shouldn’t be too difficult.” _Freedom Chat CEO Tanner Haas_
Of course, it’s so easy to build secure E2EE apps that it’s usually an assignment for undergrads in computer science, you know […]
Of course, it’s so easy to build secure E2EE apps that it’s usually an assignment for undergrads in computer science, you know […]
If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #ai models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.
If you want to get a visual intuition of how model […]
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If you want to get a visual intuition of how model […]
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December 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #ai models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.
If you want to get a visual intuition of how model […]
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If you want to get a visual intuition of how model […]
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_📰 New blog article_
**Self-host your own multi-service#music server on #android**
#mopidy #platypush #termux #python
@Selfhosted @Android @python
https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Self-host-your-music-experience-on-mobile
**Self-host your own multi-service#music server on #android**
#mopidy #platypush #termux #python
@Selfhosted @Android @python
https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Self-host-your-music-experience-on-mobile
Self-host your music experience on mobile
Build your mobile music streaming experience with Mopidy, Platypush, ntfy and Tasker
blog.platypush.tech
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
_📰 New blog article_
**Self-host your own multi-service#music server on #android**
#mopidy #platypush #termux #python
@Selfhosted @Android @python
https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Self-host-your-music-experience-on-mobile
**Self-host your own multi-service#music server on #android**
#mopidy #platypush #termux #python
@Selfhosted @Android @python
https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Self-host-your-music-experience-on-mobile
Price experimentation isn’t anything new in tech. E-commerce websites have been employing for at least a decade. Showing different prices for the same item to different customers has become a normalized practice.
But, in the physical world, the cashier at the mall can’t ask me to pay $7 for the […]
But, in the physical world, the cashier at the mall can’t ask me to pay $7 for the […]
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December 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Price experimentation isn’t anything new in tech. E-commerce websites have been employing for at least a decade. Showing different prices for the same item to different customers has become a normalized practice.
But, in the physical world, the cashier at the mall can’t ask me to pay $7 for the […]
But, in the physical world, the cashier at the mall can’t ask me to pay $7 for the […]