Idiocy of human race knows no bounds: "lazy, incompetent or overworked psychoterapist use #chatgpt to answer their patients" How can "professionals" like these still be allowed to work?

"Europeans were lectured that industrial policy violated market principles by the very Americans who systematically practiced it."

"now I have this horrible feeling now that some couples are having children for views"

"if EU regulation were so ineffective, why did Trump threaten bans and sanctions against European regulators who dared to implement digital laws? Precisely because effective regulation is seen in Washington as a direct obstacle to U.S. technological supremacy."

"The only thing that we can do about this is to puncture the AI bubble as soon as possible", says @doctorow: pluralistic.net/2025... Me: of course we can, because current #AI is NOT unavoidable. It's just a childish, really fragile figurehead: fossforce.com/2025/0...#AI

"It is time for those who once advocated for #freespeech as a positive right to look at the world they have created, and call for a return to more responsible gatekeeping." www.richardhanania.c...#freespeech Makes sense to me. Sadly, but it does.

Me: Just say NO to overcomplicated cars: fossforce.com/2025/0... @danablankenhorn: ditto for e-bikes! danafblankenhorn.sub... Me: and don't forget scooters DONE AND MANAGED RIGHT! mfioretti.substack.c...

“very quickly all of our advantages with #drones were overtaken by #opensource disruption [so I realized that] sooner or later, the same would happen to #EVs charging”

private cars for mass transportation can’t die too soon, a #China/#EU partnership could make that happen, current EVs are uselessly and ridiculously complicated. But THIS standard for EV chargers IS really important:

I REALLY dislike today’s cars, #EVs included. Still, a project like EVerest seems to me a crucial part of bringing sanity back to that world, and I wish it success:

The REALLY bad news: #science has a SERIOUS reproducibility crisis. The good news: #opensource hackers and Software Heritage can do a lot to fix it:

the real impact of software defined #EVs charging architectures like EVerest saves energy — and more — at all levels.

When NATO Spending Fuels European Startups—And Risks for the very country that bullies #EU to increase that spending

Not all open source projects are born equal. Some are like #Linux, within reach of every programmer. Others are almost exclusively for, and by, big businesses. This is the story of one of those other projects, which can do a lot of good: #opensource #EVs charging

Here's another example of the STUPID, uselessly complicated cars: techcrunch.com/2025/... that I can't stand for all these reasons: fossforce.com/2025/0... Just say no to dumb smart cars!

Some #AI-related applications of this tech are about #surveillance... Other are about capturing key moments in sports competition, generate promotional thumbnails..." AI stick and carrot:

Just published on FOSS Force: Open Source and EVerest Are Driving the Future of EV Charging fossforce.com/2025/10/open...

#LibreOffice and Collabora people, about why their software that's made to order for #education isn't used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around:

“#Renewables” are in fact just a “smarter” way of burning long dead plants and dinosaurs.

One year after the debut of the #opensource #AI Definition, it still fails to be relevant, pointing to bigger questions for tech, as well as open source:

Understatement of the century: "the US may have built the wrong kind of #AI" www.telegraph.co.uk/... Why that kind of AI is wrong: fossforce.com/2025/0...#AI"

"For political reasons, #psychiatry is doing its best to deny the existence of high-functioning madness"? Comments? Suggestions for further reading? Thx

"culture is overtaking genetics as the main force shaping human evolution" is the same as "full control of all humankind is getting easier" But we already knew that, of course. Right, #AI ?

Most scientists agree: many published results are hard to reproduce. Can #opensource practices help fix the problem?

Just published on FOSS Force: Avoid OSAID: Brock and Perens Reflect on a Year of Open Source AI Debate fossforce.com/2025/09/avoi...

scientific research is in a VERY BAD STATE, and one of the reasons is lack of #opensource attitudes among scientists. Luckily, at least for THAT problem, a great solution already exists:

A year after OSI debuted its Open Source #AI Definition, critics Amanda Brock & Bruce Perens still say the debate points to bigger questions for tech, as well as #opensource. Me, I have even bigger doubts...

Things like #META sponsoring "their own definition of #opensource #AI and simply wouldn’t be happening if OSI hadn’t opened an unnecessary can of worms with the OSAID”, says @AmandaBrockUK

Hey #FreeSoftware / #opensource #hackers: one of the best things you may do is to... adopt a researcher, to make scientific research REPRODUCIBLE: Of course, if you are already doing that, let us know! fossforce.com/2025/09/scie...

A year after OSI debuted its Open Source #AI Definition, critics Amanda Brock & Bruce Perens still say the debate points to bigger questions for tech, as well as #opensource. Me, I have even bigger doubts...: fossforce.com/2025/09/avoi...

The Economist: "Could #AI tilt the outcome of elections?" ME: no, #AI will FREEZE them. And that's the problem. See " pre-existing, now digitally enhanced gossip traps" here: mfioretti.substack.c...#AI#AI

Without “sustainable funding and support, it is entirely foreseeable that critical components [of #opensource software] will degrade, leaving entire industries exposed to systemic risk." Do YOU agree, #Europe?

Consumer #IoT (a.k.a. #CIoT ) has some categories that come with real bad long-term effects that I feel are often overlooked - even among #FOSS and Open Hardware advocates.

"proprietary software has the strategic approach necessary to ensure long term success of projects, as it happened in #Munich, where the #FOSS community could easily transform the LiMux project into a systemic win instead of spending time in self-flattering meetings."

Q: how come so many #schools & universities still accept — if not DEMAND — that their students use only proprietary tools [sending] so many taxpayer dollars allocated for #education to the likes of #Microsoft & #Googler? Do you agree with THESE answers?

Marco Fioretti asks LibreOffice’s Italo Vignoli and Collabora’s Naomi Obbard about why their software isn’t used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around: We Asked LibreOffice and Collabora: Why Aren’t They in Schools Instead of Word and Google Docs? - FOSS Force buff.ly/ZSWpU38

Maintenance of #opensource infrastructures may not look as glamorous as start-ups or as becoming the next #SiliconValley, but it’s something that actually keeps the world going. An #EU fund like this could greatly helpt it:

"There aren’t enough of us to afford a Them." Very wise words, for every country:

"We literally think slower because of the air we breathe."

NEVER forget this, and NEVER stop telling it to everybody: **THIS** #AI is not unavoidable. Not at all. And it's really fragile too:

getting #EU funding for anything is a life-sucking experience... that's well beyond the capabilities of #opensource maintainers the whole world depends on. An European Sovereign Tech Fund done right could solve this problem:

NO. F***k NO. The first if not the only thing that's realistically doable soon enough to prevent #AI chatbots screwing adolescents is to stop giving them personal #smartphones since primary school. Screenshot source: www.afterbabel.com/p...

One year ago, I wrote that #Eu citizens should get all their #electricVehicles from #China, and that it would be GOOD: mfioretti.substack.c... Today, the BMW chairman: "The (EU) base car market segment will either vanish or will not be done by European manufacturers": oilprice.com/Latest-...#Eu#electricVehicles

if #China & #India developed & shared #opensource alternatives to American EDA software, as they are ALREADY doing with RISC-V processors, eventually almost everybody will benefit. Do you agree? See fossforce.com/2025/06/as-e...

Error 8 of the 10 biggest errors of our time: Granting human status to what is NOT human mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-10-big... And no, I don't mean just #AI Also #pets and #corporations personhood

Again on #opensource funding, which I recently covered here: fossforce.com/2025/08/adva... check out this talk about the State of Open Source Software Funding: Survey Insights and Recommendations for Practitioners www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5nW...

#NATO’s defense spending is fueling #Europe’s tech independence - what does that mean for US dominance? fossforce.com/2025/06/when...

Dear #opensource and #FreeSoftware advocates: please tell all #Catholics that they should make a #FreeSoftware #jubilee happen! fossforce.com/2025/08/lets...

Error 6 of the 10 biggest errors of our time: believing that #education and schooling must prepare for #work mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-10-big...

From cat lasers to #AI-powered pacifiers, Consumer #iot promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense, sorry I meant: TOXIC CRAP: fossforce.com/2025/08/smar... Pls point me to the stupidest home IoT product you know