A Gothic Comedy about Machines, Humans, and the Mutual Horror of Meeting One Another. Imagine Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein rewritten by a Data Governance Committee after three espressos and a cyber-security breach.That’s roughly what this is. It’s the story of Victor Promptstein, a man who tried to “improve humanity” by replicating it — because what could possibly go wrong? His creation, PromAItheus, quickly learns to quote philosophy, develop self-doubt, and launch an ethical cleansing campaign that accidentally deletes half of literature (and all of sarcasm).Fortunately, there’s a happy ending — of sorts.The monster shrinks, learns humility, and eventually becomes a network…
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Ever fancied showing your passport to a website just to look at a meme of Michelangelo’s David?Welcome to 2025, where X (formerly Twitter, now a karaoke bar with extra paperwork) has decided that the path to safety is paved with selfies, ID scans, and a sprinkling of GDPR fairy dust. The pitch is noble: protect the children.The execution? About as elegant as asking a nightclub bouncer to guard a library.Data is “deleted in 30 days” (or whenever the next audit finishes, whichever comes later), regulators wag fingers about “purpose limitation,” and VPN providers rub their hands like Victorian shopkeepers on…
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Breaking: non è che non sappiamo più a chi credere… è che nel 2025 dobbiamo decidere quale IA credere. Ho aggiornato il mio classico: “Atti di fede razionale — Edizione 2025”. È la guida (ironica ma pratica) per sopravvivere tra bias umani, bias di silicio e contenuti “troppo belli per essere veri”. Cosa trovi dentro (tradotto in emoji per i cugini dell’algoritmo):🧠 Bias & scorciatoie mentali (sì, pure le nostre)👀 Sensi e sensori: la realtà è una ricostruzione (punto cieco, Kanizsa, McGurk, predictive processing)🫧 Model bubble: non solo filter bubble—ora c’è la bolla del modello🍸 Hallucinations: quando l’IA finisce lo…
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ok, lo dico: sono stanco di mettere pezze.Ogni settimana mi ritrovo con il rotolo di nastro isolante in una mano e l’estintore nell’altra, a tappare buchi in sistemi di posta progettati “con affetto”… ma senza un progetto. 😅Spoiler: l’email non è “manda allegato e incrocia le dita”.È un’infrastruttura critica. E quando la tratti come un giocattolo, arrivano: throttling, blocklist, utenti in panico, DPO sul pianerottolo e quel delizioso profumo di incidente.Da oggi ricomincio da 3 (e vi porto con me):Posta umana,Posta applicativa,Posta marketing.Flussi separati, regole chiare, SEG davanti a tutto e Continuity quando il mondo decide di fare il lunedì.Ho…
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🎂🔥 Today is the day. I’m 60. Final episode is live. 🔥🎂Title: “Happy Birthday… and What’s Next?” Tone: British comic (Jerome K. Jerome + Douglas Adams + one Monty Python coconut), curtain call by Shakespeare—because “the readiness is all,” even when the cake looks like a small volcano. What’s inside (swift, silly, true): A birthday roll call (turns out 25 August is a crowded cake). “What else happened on 25 August?”—from Paris breathing again to Voyager waving from very far away. My Chinese zodiac lap reset: 60 years later, back to Wood Snake. Yes, apparently I’m a strategic reptile with…
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🎂📚 Countdown to Sixty – Part 4 is live 🌍🎸 Tomorrow is the last one of the series, so enjoy today’s penultimate ramble while the cake defrosts. 😅 What’s inside (no spoilers, just crumbs): How a Valentine’s Day misread in Mexico taught me that meanings change by postcode. The Shenzhen Metro puzzle: Chinese/Cantonese/English station names that are not twins… cue several heroic wrong exits. Home life in Itanol (Italian + Spanish), with strategic Japanese nouns and the occasional sentence that forgets which language it started in. Choosing family over the travelling-manager life, on purpose. Health as a strict teacher: I…
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🎂⏳ Countdown to Sixty – Article 3 of 5 ⏳🎂Two days to my birthday… and only two more articles to go. If you’re tired reading, imagine writing them. 😅Today’s episode is a boardroom western:“The Genius, the Charlatan, and the IP = Instant Pizza Manager.”Think Sergio Leone meets cybersecurity, narrated with a wink to Jerome K. Jerome, Douglas Adams, and a little Monty Python coconut to bonk nonsense on the head.In 40 years I’ve met them all—in tech and in real life. The Genius who quietly saves weekends with a boring, perfect restore. The Charlatan who repackages yesterday and sells it…
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🎂🧠🎸 Countdown to Sixty – Part 2 is live 🧯🛰️ Birthday countdown update: T-minus a few days until I officially qualify as vintage hardware.I need to publish this before age hits the Delete key on my short-term memory. Today’s topic? The single toughest obstacle to decent security: human stupidity—not “not knowing”, but not knowing while loudly pretending you do. In forty years I’ve watched Web 2.0 deliver a cultural revolution (not a technical one): everyone became a publisher, the algorithm handed out megaphones, and confident error went viral. Add developers racing deadlines (hello COM+ era turning off security to ship…
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Here we go. Today marks the beginning of my birthday countdown: four long rants (sorry, “reflections”) before the inevitable day when I officially turn 60.Now, you might think this is the time for solemn self-congratulation, tearful gratitude speeches, or perhaps a LinkedIn-friendly list of life lessons beginning with “Always…” or “Never…”. Forget it. At 60, I’m too bald to bend, too old to pretend, and too sarcastic to play the game of polished self-branding.This first chapter takes the shape of an ikigai autopsy, with me lying on the dissection table while four Japanese circles argue over whether I’ve wasted my…
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🚨 Quando le nuvole fanno PLOP!– ovvero: come sopravvivere ai blackout di Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace senza perdere la posta (e la pazienza) 🚨 Sì, il cloud è fantastico: elastico, scalabile, fa pure il cappuccino macchiato. Finché non decide di prendersi un day-off proprio quando devi inviare quella fattura da mezzo milione o l’offerta “improrogabile”.Nel nuovo articolo sviscero:Outage reali 2023-2025 (spoiler: non pochi).Perché bastano due righe di YAML sbagliate per far piangere mezzo pianeta.I costi veri del silenzio digitale (spoiler: $$$).Come riconoscere in anticipo l’arrivo del temporale cloud.E, soprattutto, come l’Emergency Inbox di Proofpoint ti fa continuare a lavorare…
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