Fabrizio Bartoloni
@bartoloni.bsky.social
Tech consultant & former IT journalist. QuoraIT Top Writer 2019, 2022. 日本語。
Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave is coming to the C64! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa0c...
Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave is coming to the C64!
YouTube video by Dave's Retro Forge
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave is coming to the C64! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa0c...
Silicon Valley envisions artificial intelligence ushering in an era of economic plenty. But what if the benefits are largely confined to corporations and investors that own the technology itself? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
The Dangerous Paradox of A.I. Abundance
Silicon Valley envisions artificial intelligence ushering in an era of economic plenty. But what if the benefits are largely confined to corporations and investors that own the technology itself?
www.newyorker.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Silicon Valley envisions artificial intelligence ushering in an era of economic plenty. But what if the benefits are largely confined to corporations and investors that own the technology itself? www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
"Asahi Linux - Porting #Linux to Apple Silicon" video from CCC: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi...
Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
In this talk, you will learn how Apple Silicon hardware differs from regular laptops or desktops.
We'll cover how we reverse engineered t...
media.ccc.de
January 12, 2026 at 7:38 AM
"Asahi Linux - Porting #Linux to Apple Silicon" video from CCC: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-asahi...
How Craigslist has stayed relevant as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds, public profiles, or ratings: www.wired.com/story/is-cra...
Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces. “There’s a purity to it.”
www.wired.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:21 PM
How Craigslist has stayed relevant as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds, public profiles, or ratings: www.wired.com/story/is-cra...
You're the product. qz.com/ai-web-brows...
AI web browsers are here. Are they safe?
AI-powered browsers can be tricked into stealing your data. The companies building them have decided that's a risk worth taking
qz.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:35 PM
You're the product. qz.com/ai-web-brows...
AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations. Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations. www.wired.com/story/ai-dee...
AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations
Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations.
www.wired.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:49 AM
AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations. Religious communities around the US are getting hit with AI depictions of their leaders sharing incendiary sermons and asking for donations. www.wired.com/story/ai-dee...
The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M. How CP/M 2.2’s Success Delayed the 8086 Port — and Whether It Really Mattered nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-a...
The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M
How CP/M 2.2’s Success Delayed the 8086 Port — and Whether It Really Mattered
nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M. How CP/M 2.2’s Success Delayed the 8086 Port — and Whether It Really Mattered nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-a...
This is an article from Moscow Times from 2019, don't think Trump does anything for anyone but himself: www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/05/p...
Putin Is Ready to Give Up Venezuela for the Right Price - The Moscow Times
Opinion | Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S.
www.themoscowtimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:35 AM
This is an article from Moscow Times from 2019, don't think Trump does anything for anyone but himself: www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/05/05/p...
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in...
Capital in the 22nd Century
Piketty was wrong about the past. He’s probably right about the future.
philiptrammell.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in...
News from the clown world we currently live in: "Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries" www.ft.com/content/29fc...
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch gold-coloured smartphone this year
Move marks latest setback for project that originally promised to sell a US-made device
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
News from the clown world we currently live in: "Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries" www.ft.com/content/29fc...
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout restofworld.org/2025/ai-data...
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout
The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.
restofworld.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout restofworld.org/2025/ai-data...
So, games don't sell (see previous post), hardware doesn't sell, is the industry OK? games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
Video Game Hardware Sales Had a Historically Bad November In the US - Slashdot
U.S. video game hardware spending fell 27% year over year in November to $695 million, according to market analyst company Circana. "This is the lowest video game hardware spending total for a Novembe...
games.slashdot.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
So, games don't sell (see previous post), hardware doesn't sell, is the industry OK? games.slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
"New data from market research firm Circana reveals that 63% of U.S. gamers now purchase two games or fewer per year, and a third of American gamers don't buy any new games at all in a typical 12-month period." qz.com/us-video-gam...
America's video game boom is stalling out
The industry now finds itself in an unusual position of selling plenty of devices to play games on — but struggling to sell the games themselves
qz.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"New data from market research firm Circana reveals that 63% of U.S. gamers now purchase two games or fewer per year, and a third of American gamers don't buy any new games at all in a typical 12-month period." qz.com/us-video-gam...
Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use. viznut.fi/unscii/
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use. viznut.fi/unscii/
The Zig Software Foundation left GitHub after years of unresolved bugs - e.g. a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever & cripple CI runners. Zig blames MS growing AI-first priorities & declining engineering quality. Other OSS developers express similar frustrations. slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
Zig Quits GitHub, Says Microsoft's AI Obsession Has Ruined the Service - Slashdot
The Zig Software Foundation has quit GitHub after years of unresolved GitHub Actions bugs -- including a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever and cripple CI runners. Zig leadership puts the bla...
slashdot.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Zig Software Foundation left GitHub after years of unresolved bugs - e.g. a "safe_sleep" script that could spin forever & cripple CI runners. Zig blames MS growing AI-first priorities & declining engineering quality. Other OSS developers express similar frustrations. slashdot.org/story/25/12/...
Fabio Ciucci quipped on LinkedIn: "The AI bubble is a wrapper of the data center bubble which is a wrapper of the Nvidia CPU bubble. "
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Fabio Ciucci quipped on LinkedIn: "The AI bubble is a wrapper of the data center bubble which is a wrapper of the Nvidia CPU bubble. "
Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job lemire.me/blog/2025/11...
Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job
Whenever I say I dislike debugging and organize my programming habits around avoiding it, there is always pushback: “You must not use a good debugger.” To summarize my view: I want my software to be a...
lemire.me
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won’t Steal Your Job lemire.me/blog/2025/11...
He fled Assad. Now he’s leading Syria’s tech transformation restofworld.org/2025/syria-t...
He fled Assad. Now he’s leading Syria’s tech transformation
In his first interview on the job, Abdulsalam Haykal explains how he plans to rebuild the country’s shattered digital infrastructure — and why he came back after years in exile.
restofworld.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
He fled Assad. Now he’s leading Syria’s tech transformation restofworld.org/2025/syria-t...
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism - Jamestown
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisor...
jamestown.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
PRC Elites Voice AI-Skepticism jamestown.org/prc-elites-v...
"Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal. The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal. The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...