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Alessio Maffeis

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    The vibes are off (Cloudflare CEO’s corporate MAGAism), but they are right on the specific. Piracy Shield is a dangerous erosion of net neutrality and free speech principles, all just to protect Serie A (Italy’s premier football league).

    Nicolò Ribaudo @nicr.dev
    Italy fined Cloudflare because it refuses to implement our instant censorship mechanism "Piracy Shield" (a small group of people representing the interests of football streaming services can block any IP in 30 minutes, with no warning or courts involved), and Cloudflare basically said "fuck you" 🎊
    86 10
    Jan 10, 2026
  2. 2

    Gotta give it to the Swiss!

    sschueller.github.io/posts/the-fr...

    The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
    The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
    46 6
    Apr 6, 2026
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    Helium is pretty much everything I've been looking for in a Chromium-based browser: minimal, user-first, private, and performant. 👌

    helium.computer

    Helium Browser
    The web browser made for people, with love. Best privacy by default, unbiased ad-blocking, no bloat and no noise. Fully open source.
    10 4
    Sep 26, 2025
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    “if we drop the AGI fantasy, we can evaluate LLMs and other generative models as solutions for specific problems, rather than all problems, with proper cost benefit analysis”

    www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2025/11/agi-...

    AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
    AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
    6 3
    Nov 15, 2025
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    A+ trolling 👌🏻

    Emily Liu @emilyliu.me
    zuck wearing a shirt that says "aut zuck aut nihil" jay graber, bluesky ceo, wearing a shirt that says "mundus sine caesaribus"
    13 3
    Mar 10, 2025
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    Reply to @maffe.is

    Moar #caturday

    A gray British Shorthair cat with orange eyes crouches on a wooden floor next to a wooden chair leg. The cat's fur is short and dense, and its ears are small and rounded. British Shorthair cat lying on a white textured rug in a sunbeam. The cat is lying on its back with its paws in the air. A gray British Shorthair cat with orange eyes lying on a beige couch. The cat's front paws are stretched out in front of it. A gray British Shorthair cat with orange eyes lying in a purple box with text on it. The box is on a wooden floor. There are colorful toy vegetables and a gray mouse toy next to the box.
    10 2
    Mar 14, 2026
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    Cat Town > Gas Town

    Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com
    Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU
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    14 2
    Feb 16, 2026
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    “Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn’t be bothered to write?”

    www.0xsid.com/blog/aidr

    ai;dr | Sid's Blog
    7 2
    Feb 13, 2026
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    The music is mysterious and important

    youtu.be/JRnDYB28bL8

    Severance — Music To Refine To feat. ODESZA | Apple TV+
    YouTube video by Apple TV
    2 2
    Feb 25, 2025
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    I TOLD YOU SO

    Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish.com
    You guys aren’t going to believe this, but today I used a cable from my big box of old cables.
    20 2
    Feb 7, 2025
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    I do not appreciate DHH’s thoughts, but I do appreciate Armin’s.

    Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at
    I appreciate DHH's thoughts, but I disagree on where Europe's problems are, and from where I'm sitting it's not immigration. Thus I wrote a response to his post. dark.ronacher.eu/2026/7/17/li...
    Europe Won’t Live By Deporting
    A case for focusing on Europe’s actual problems.
    52 1
    Jul 17, 2026
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    Mi sa che la limitazione ulteriore è solo per voice customization ;) per il resto dovrebbe avere gli stessi requisiti di Apple Intelligence

    1. Siri Al will be available In beta later this year and requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled device set to a supported language. Available in English to start. Siri Al will not initially be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS. 2. Available on compatible iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro models with device language set to a supported English variant. 3. Available on iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone Air, iPad models with M4 and later and at least 12GB of unified memory, Mac models with M3 and later and at least 12GB of unified memory, and Apple Vision Pro (M5). 4. Apple Intelligence on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionS 27 is available on all iPhone 16 models and later, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad mini (A17 Pro), iPad models with M1 and later, MacBook Neo (A18 Pro), Mac models with M1 and later, Apple Vision Pro with M2 and later, Apple Watch Series 9 and later, Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later, and Apple Watch SE 3 when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone nearby, with Siri and device language set to Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, or Vietnamese. Some features may not be available in all regions or languages. Some devices may not be available in all
    1 1
    Jun 9, 2026
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    “the openai/anthropic feud is like the mad men elevator meme but both companies are ginsberg” — @mikeisaac.bsky.social 🎯

    via @caseynewton.bsky.social

    www.platformer.news/sam-altman-a...

    Sam Altman’s second thoughts
    OpenAI’s CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI. But who turned it up in the first place?
    13 1
    Apr 14, 2026
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    What percentage of the population is covered by that? Must be lower single digit…

    0 1
    Apr 6, 2026
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    BUT YOU DON?T UNDERSTAND! IT ONLY HAS 8 RAMS!

    1 1
    Mar 20, 2026
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    pathetically

    1 1
    Mar 18, 2026
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    phpOURadmin!

    bugs bunny is wearing a hammer and sickle hat and holding a basketball in his hands .
    Alt: bugs bunny is wearing a hammer and sickle hat and holding a basketball in his hands .
    2 1
    Feb 18, 2026
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    potatproto

    0 1
    Feb 18, 2026
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    Normalize asking for the prompt instead.

    Alessio Maffeis @maffe.is
    “Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn’t be bothered to write?” www.0xsid.com/blog/aidr
    ai;dr | Sid's Blog
    6 1
    Feb 13, 2026
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    “Qwen-Image-2.0 not only accurately models the “riding” action but also meticulously renders the horse’s musculature and hair, the man’s facial expression, and the cracked earth texture. Another example:”

    qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen...

    Horse riding/stomping on a man
    11 1
    Feb 11, 2026
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    Yes please.

    MacRumors.com @macrumors.bsky.social
    iOS 27 to Focus on Bug Fixes, Performance, and Design Tweaks
    iOS 27 to Focus on Bug Fixes, Performance, and Design Tweaks
    Apple's new software updates to be previewed at 2026's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) could be relatively modest, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claims. In today's "Power On" newsletter, Gurman said that iOS 27 will be unveiled at WWDC this year, and while it will deliver further Apple Intelligence improvements, the event will be "a fairly muted affair this year." The headline new software features will apparently be a "more personalized Siri with a chatbot interface," as previously rumored, but the software platforms will generally focus on performance improvements, bug fixes, and fine-tuning the design. Gurman added that the first beta version of iOS 26.4 will release to developers during the week of February 23, featuring "some components" of the long-anticipated improvements to ‌Siri‌. WWDC 2026 is likely to be announced toward the end of March and take place in the first or second week of June. The major new software updates unveiled at the event will probably be available to developers in beta immediately after the keynote address, and release to the public in the fall. Tags: iOS 27, WWDC 2026 This article, "iOS 27 to Focus on Bug Fixes, Performance, and Design Tweaks" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
    1 1
    Feb 9, 2026
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    “my substack” 🙄

    6 1
    Feb 2, 2026
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    L

    Mike Masnick @masnick.com
    The last thing anyone needs is a new "platform" for microblogging. The whole point is we should be moving beyond silo'd platforms into an open social world. So my response to the launch of "W" as a competing platform to "X" is simply: "but Y, tho?" cybernews.com/tech/europe-...
    Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W
    European organizations may soon launch their own social media platform, W, requiring user identification and photo verification to prevent bots.
    5 1
    Jan 21, 2026
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    I said already that the vibes are off. Both parties in this conflict are awful, I’m not interested in electing a moral winner. If this leads to the demise of an abusive structure like Piracy Shield, I won’t oppose it because who’s making it happen doesn’t align with my value system.

    8 1
    Jan 10, 2026
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    Cue the “AI is killing OSS” takes…

    I get the sentiment, but as much as we should push back the corporate rhetoric of “AI layoffs”, we should also refrain from using it as a scapegoat, to be consistent.

    Alessio Maffeis @maffe.is
    Also: it’s pretty disingenuous to say this is du e to AI. I am not saying there’s no merit to it, but the broader reality is that there is no shortage of free, high quality, customizable component libraries anymore (shadcn, radix, etc). That’s largely what they are competing against, not just “AI”.
    5 1
    Jan 8, 2026