1. Project Necromancy - O miei DEI

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    Mi sono ricordato che all'epoca del primo, fallimentare tentativo di carriera universitaria (circa 2006-2010, ingegneria informatica, totale esami dati: 4) avevo cominciato a realizzare una breve serie di webcomic sulla vita nel Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (DEI) dell'Università di Padova. Il titolo era "O miei DEI". È stata una serie …

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  2. Una giornata nel futuro

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    La versione ri-editata di un racconto che ho scritto nel 2017 e che è stato pubblicato nel #3 della zine LAPIDAZI(O)NE nell'ottobre dello stesso anno.

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  3. Project Necromancy

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    Looking at other people's blogs made me think about how long ago I started a blogging. I didn't have an answer, so I did what any reasonable person would do: I started looking for my (nick)name on search engines. By doing this I found at least two old blogs …

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  4. Rock Paper Scissors Solitaire

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    Are you bored? And I mean, really bored? Like "I'd do anything to pass time"-bored?

    Do you also happen to be alone and without an internet connection?

    You could play Rock Paper Scissors solitaire!

    All you need is a dice. That's your opponent. Throw it from your hand and …

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  5. The Guardian vs. Scary Russian Hackers

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    There are a couple of things that are really complex: geopolitics and computer security. In this day and age, a lot of people seem very scared about a mix of those two themes, that is Russian Hackers.

    While casually snooping around The Guardian's homepage today, I found an article entitled …

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  6. Aesthetic Minimalism and Technical Minimalism

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    A recent submission to Hacker News was a website called Brutalist Websites, a showcase of other websites with a graphic style that one could define, well, ugly (by today's standards). Most of them also display some characteristics of this decade's design trend, namely minimalism.

    What actually distinguishes them from the …

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  7. My list of things for a better world

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    Here is a list of things, in no particular order and without much explanation, that I think could make, for various reasons, the world a better place.

    Please note that, as I seem to be a human being, I'm prone to errors and I sometimes change my mind about various …

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  8. Endless Computer, code dumps and free software

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    On the libreplanet mailing list, a user recently asked for opinions on the response the members of the Endless Computer project gave when asked why they are not releasing their whole software stack as free software. One paragraph in particual caught my attention:

    Finally, any successful free software project needs …

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