rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

I opened LinkedIn today and I was shocked by a lot of Italians writing posts, either in Italian or in terrible English, condemning the Italian Privacy Institution for having sanctioned OpenAI because they were infringing the Italian privacy laws.

This is absurd, we have a government that courageously confronts a huge company telling them to fuck off unless they abide by our laws and people condemn it.
I'm more and more convinced there is no real way to improve Italian society in the short term.

There's too little cultural piracy available and this is a huge wasted occasion to build bridges among different people from different countries and cultures.
I don't know if you are also noticing a huge decline in piracy, it is now much harder than before to download music, books, movies; and it's almost impossible to upload them.
Just try it, I had a freely distributed movie that can't be found on the internet and I wanted to put it on a torrent website... No way, that's very difficult. It will take you a bunch of time and people over there will start questioning what you're uploading and why.

It feels like the people who are now uploading pirated stuff are part of a very small circle; this is extremely dangerous as it greatly limits the variety of stuff available.
You have all the American blockbusters and even the last published bullshit. You will be able to find most of the important western European things, even though it gets difficult going back in time.
But... What else? Want a Russian book? Sure their literature is quite famous so you'll find something; want one of their movies? Good luck with that, unless it made some huge noise around the world it's just not there.
You can get a fairly decent amount of Indian movies; books are much more difficult.
Chinese stuff is quite unfindable.
South America, a cradle of cultural stuff which leaves a huge hole in the internet accessible stuff.
Not to talk about African stuff, of which I barely know anything; definitely the unavailability didn't help.

I'm not saying you should pirate everything, but the availability of information and culture helps people get together. It doesn't necessarily have to go through piracy, but the best alternative are public libraries, which don't even get near to the potential piracy has.
I'm very sad whenever I hear of some cool movement or interesting production and it just can't be found in any way because it is not American.
We should foster an ethical piracy movement, the Italian website TNTvillage had this as its objective; it unfortunately had to close due to low funding and the low respect towards the mission by its users.

I hope things will change. I'm afraid that the comfort of streaming services has turned off a lot of people from searching different things and exploring different cultures.

Bravi, porco dio

Extremely interesting video about how sharing information with other people might lead us to worse decisions.

I guess this finally gives an authoritative explanation to my belief that election polls are detrimental to democracy.

https://youtu.be/25kqobiv4ng

Basta sperare in un'Italia migliore. Che emigrino tutti quelli sotto i 50.
Senza contare le pessime situazioni nelle aziende e l'infimo rispetto per il lavoro, ci avete tolto l'articolo 18, aumentato l'età pensionabile, tolto ogni utilità dei sindacati e fornito alcuni dei governi peggiori d'Europa (anche se riconosco che rispetto alla media globale siano rispettabilissimi).

Quelli che parlano di stipendio minimo non hanno capito una semplice cosa: in Italia uno stipendio Tedesco non è abbastanza; per accettare queste condizioni di merda è necessario che la paga sia almeno il doppio di quanto viene offerto negli altri paesi.

Ho la fortuna di essermi trasferito in quella che sostanzialmente è l'unica regione Europea fuori dall'Italia dove si mangiano le cime di rapa.
Oggi una collega me ne ha regalato un sacco pieno dato che a lei non piacciono perché troppo amare.
Ma quanto sono buone?

#CimeDiRapa #RossoDiSeraPuntarellaSiSpera

@lowqualityfacts how do you follow over 7,000 people?
I can only imagine the caos in your home timeline; how do you organize it and read it?

Oggi sono andato al cinema, era da molto tempo che non lo facevo credo di essere andato l'ultima volta che ero in Slovenia, che lo potrebbe a quasi due anni di distanza, non ricordo molto bene; forse ci sono andato a Roma comunque un sacco di tempo fa.
Ho visto los reyes del mundo, un bel film; che vita di merda che han fatto i ragazzi della storia.
Non so quanto sia realistica la situazione ricostruita, ma pare molto verosimile ed è triste pensare quanta gente possa vivere così.
Parla di ragazzi di strada in Colombia e la storia si fonda sul tentativo di farsi restituire legalmente dal governo un pezzo di terra che gli era stato sequestrato dai paramilitari.

#cinema

Wonderful article about a new approach to a problem which also provides an open source library.
Test the library, doesn't really work that well.
Read the library code: pretty much exactly the old solution but with awful coding, the logic is so bad it cannot even achieve the performance of the previous approaches.
Bunch of spelling mistakes, a bunch of self spelled as sefl, which incredibly it appears to work anyways in python...