Marco Fioretti
@mfioretti.bsky.social
Tech writer, aspiring polymath focused on digital-human studies and popularization. https://mfioretti.com
The consumer internet of things is just the third wave of unrecyclable trash dumped on poorer countries, after regular electronics and secondhand clothing.
#IoT #fastfashion
#IoT #fastfashion
‘Smart’ Gadgets, Dumb Ideas: Why Consumer IoT Went Off the Rails - FOSS Force
From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, Consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why “smart” tech is off the rails.
fossforce.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The consumer internet of things is just the third wave of unrecyclable trash dumped on poorer countries, after regular electronics and secondhand clothing.
#IoT #fastfashion
#IoT #fastfashion
Why on Earth are schools still using the WRONG office automation software? WHY on Earth are they using #Microsoft Office?
We Asked LibreOffice and Collabora: Why Aren’t They in Schools Instead of Word and Google Docs? - FOSS Force
We ask LibreOffice and Collabora why their software isn't used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around.
fossforce.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Why on Earth are schools still using the WRONG office automation software? WHY on Earth are they using #Microsoft Office?
from #dating to #bullshitJobs, #inequality and #Architecture... read me to find the right questions for which you should find your right answers:
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November 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
from #dating to #bullshitJobs, #inequality and #Architecture... read me to find the right questions for which you should find your right answers:
mfioretti.substack.c...
mfioretti.com/endors...
mfioretti.substack.c...
mfioretti.com/endors...
Easy question: Why did Consumer #IoT Went Off the Rails?
Hard question: why oh why are you still using it? Why, why are you still lured by falsely #smarthomes ?
Hard question: why oh why are you still using it? Why, why are you still lured by falsely #smarthomes ?
‘Smart’ Gadgets, Dumb Ideas: Why Consumer IoT Went Off the Rails - FOSS Force
From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, Consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why “smart” tech is off the rails.
fossforce.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Easy question: Why did Consumer #IoT Went Off the Rails?
Hard question: why oh why are you still using it? Why, why are you still lured by falsely #smarthomes ?
Hard question: why oh why are you still using it? Why, why are you still lured by falsely #smarthomes ?
One of the most important steps toward digital freedom is also the easiest: demand to produce and receive office file ONLY in the right format... which is NOT #Microsoft Office:
ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force
As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.
fossforce.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
One of the most important steps toward digital freedom is also the easiest: demand to produce and receive office file ONLY in the right format... which is NOT #Microsoft Office:
Digital sovereignty begins with the simple things that are everywhere.
And ODF is #opensource digital sovereignty done right
And ODF is #opensource digital sovereignty done right
ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force
As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.
fossforce.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Digital sovereignty begins with the simple things that are everywhere.
And ODF is #opensource digital sovereignty done right
And ODF is #opensource digital sovereignty done right
Reposted by Marco Fioretti
Just published on FOSS Force: Percona’s New CEO Peter Farkas Returns to a Company He Never Really Left fossforce.com/2025/10/perc...
Percona's New CEO Peter Farkas Returns to a Company He Never Really Left - FOSS Force
In an exclusive conversation, newly minted Percona CEO Peter Farkas explains why the company’s open source-first approach still works -- and how he plans to build on it across global teams and new database...
fossforce.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Just published on FOSS Force: Percona’s New CEO Peter Farkas Returns to a Company He Never Really Left fossforce.com/2025/10/perc...
If some offices in #Austria's government are "running into incompatible document format problems" they should only blame #Microsoft for not being compatible with ODF:
fossforce.com/2025/1...
fossforce.com/2025/1...
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If some offices in #Austria's government are "running into incompatible document format problems" they should only blame #Microsoft for not being compatible with ODF:
fossforce.com/2025/1...
fossforce.com/2025/1...
every time people (especially #freesoftware advocates!)...
use #opensource software to produce or accept files in proprietary formats
they HURT themselves and legitimize #Microsoft’s dominance, all for no reason. Especially because the real solution just got even better:
use #opensource software to produce or accept files in proprietary formats
they HURT themselves and legitimize #Microsoft’s dominance, all for no reason. Especially because the real solution just got even better:
ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force
As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.
fossforce.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
every time people (especially #freesoftware advocates!)...
use #opensource software to produce or accept files in proprietary formats
they HURT themselves and legitimize #Microsoft’s dominance, all for no reason. Especially because the real solution just got even better:
use #opensource software to produce or accept files in proprietary formats
they HURT themselves and legitimize #Microsoft’s dominance, all for no reason. Especially because the real solution just got even better:
Q: what is the 1st thing @ZohranKMamdani should do on the digital front now that he's #newyork major?
A: Exploit the release of ODF1.4 to make really open digital documents mandatory in the city administration, of course:
fossforce.com/2025/11/odf-...
A: Exploit the release of ODF1.4 to make really open digital documents mandatory in the city administration, of course:
fossforce.com/2025/11/odf-...
ODF 1.4 Standard Set for Debut: Why This Is Important - FOSS Force
As ODF 1.4 nears release, office suite developers and users alike can expect an open, transparent format designed to meet modern needs.
fossforce.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Q: what is the 1st thing @ZohranKMamdani should do on the digital front now that he's #newyork major?
A: Exploit the release of ODF1.4 to make really open digital documents mandatory in the city administration, of course:
fossforce.com/2025/11/odf-...
A: Exploit the release of ODF1.4 to make really open digital documents mandatory in the city administration, of course:
fossforce.com/2025/11/odf-...
the real reason why Microsoft could establish and maintain an almost total monopoly on desktop computers for decades is NOT software licenses.
It's people ignoring OpenDocument. Now they have even less excuses to do it:
It's people ignoring OpenDocument. Now they have even less excuses to do it:
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
the real reason why Microsoft could establish and maintain an almost total monopoly on desktop computers for decades is NOT software licenses.
It's people ignoring OpenDocument. Now they have even less excuses to do it:
It's people ignoring OpenDocument. Now they have even less excuses to do it:
Even @zoltan_istvan gets #AI and #UBI backwards.
In a half funny, all sad way:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/even-zolta...
In a half funny, all sad way:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/even-zolta...
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Even @zoltan_istvan gets #AI and #UBI backwards.
In a half funny, all sad way:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/even-zolta...
In a half funny, all sad way:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/even-zolta...
November 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Best piece of dry humour I've seen this year:
"could"
"could"
November 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Best piece of dry humour I've seen this year:
"could"
"could"
The real problem is not scarcity of oil and minerals. It's ignoring it
No petroleum and minerals? No problem
The real problem is not scarcity of oil and minerals. It's ignoring it
mfioretti.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The real problem is not scarcity of oil and minerals. It's ignoring it
Honestly, THE problem with children online with #smartphones is #PARENTS who will continue to ignore the only real solution, which also saves money, simply because it would make them look backwards and uncool:
Honestly, THE problem with children online is PARENTS
Namely, parents that will continue to ignore the only real solution.
mfioretti.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Honestly, THE problem with children online with #smartphones is #PARENTS who will continue to ignore the only real solution, which also saves money, simply because it would make them look backwards and uncool:
What haters of #15minutescities get REALLY wrong:
Nobody needs to put you in a "15 minutes prison"
Get real, already, and demand decent cities:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/what-hater...
Nobody needs to put you in a "15 minutes prison"
Get real, already, and demand decent cities:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/what-hater...
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What haters of #15minutescities get REALLY wrong:
Nobody needs to put you in a "15 minutes prison"
Get real, already, and demand decent cities:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/what-hater...
Nobody needs to put you in a "15 minutes prison"
Get real, already, and demand decent cities:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/what-hater...
[to win] @AOC @BernieSanders & @ZohranKMamdani should have a "vision where the enormous wealth generated from #AI helps solve the struggles of working-class families"?
www.axios.com/2025/1...
Me: here, help yourself:
mfioretti.substack.c...
www.axios.com/2025/1...
Me: here, help yourself:
mfioretti.substack.c...
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
[to win] @AOC @BernieSanders & @ZohranKMamdani should have a "vision where the enormous wealth generated from #AI helps solve the struggles of working-class families"?
www.axios.com/2025/1...
Me: here, help yourself:
mfioretti.substack.c...
www.axios.com/2025/1...
Me: here, help yourself:
mfioretti.substack.c...
just found a GREAT confirmation:
"#Socialmedia... no longer merely contain echo chambers. They become them."
www.linkedin.com/pos...
of what I thought about #AI vs voting:
"#democracy may end.. bc [social media & AI] make much harder to CHANGE any idea one already had"
mfioretti.substack.c...
"#Socialmedia... no longer merely contain echo chambers. They become them."
www.linkedin.com/pos...
of what I thought about #AI vs voting:
"#democracy may end.. bc [social media & AI] make much harder to CHANGE any idea one already had"
mfioretti.substack.c...
Grokipedia has just been released.
A large language model generates entries, and the result is presented as a more "neutral" alternative to Wikipedia. But neutrality is not the central issue. What… | Walter Quattrociocchi | 16 comments
Grokipedia has just been released.
A large language model generates entries, and the result is presented as a more "neutral" alternative to Wikipedia. But neutrality is not the central issue. What matters is the structure that enables, shapes and legitimizes what we call knowledge.
Two intertwined transformations are taking place.
The first is infrastructural. Social media environments are evolving into ideologically coherent systems. They no longer merely contain echo chambers. They become them. These are what we define as echo platforms: ecosystems that reinforce belief rather than promote exposure, and that select not only content but worldviews.
The second is epistemic. Language models are increasingly embedded into evaluative processes: moderation, ranking, recommendation, classification. They produce outputs that appear aligned with human judgment, but the underlying process is statistical, not normative. Coherence replaces verification. Fluency mimics understanding. This is the condition we term epistemia: the illusion of knowledge that emerges when plausibility substitutes reasoning.
We explored both dimensions in two recent papers:
"The Simulation of Judgment in LLMs" (PNAS, 2025) https://lnkd.in/d8YVan-C
"Ideological Fragmentation of the Social Media Ecosystem" (PNAS Nexus, 2025) https://lnkd.in/dFd__uga
What is at stake is not just the quality of information, but the very criteria by which it is produced, assessed and believed.
This is not a technological shift. It is a cognitive one. | 16 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
just found a GREAT confirmation:
"#Socialmedia... no longer merely contain echo chambers. They become them."
www.linkedin.com/pos...
of what I thought about #AI vs voting:
"#democracy may end.. bc [social media & AI] make much harder to CHANGE any idea one already had"
mfioretti.substack.c...
"#Socialmedia... no longer merely contain echo chambers. They become them."
www.linkedin.com/pos...
of what I thought about #AI vs voting:
"#democracy may end.. bc [social media & AI] make much harder to CHANGE any idea one already had"
mfioretti.substack.c...
can you find commentary on #dating, #nuclearpower, #innovation, #UBI, #parenting, 15 minutes cities and more... all in the same place?
Sure: mfioretti.substack.c...
Sure: mfioretti.substack.c...
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
can you find commentary on #dating, #nuclearpower, #innovation, #UBI, #parenting, 15 minutes cities and more... all in the same place?
Sure: mfioretti.substack.c...
Sure: mfioretti.substack.c...
The dumbest thing anyone can do (including "expert communicators") is to publish anything first, or only, on ANY social media:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/famous-cli...
Blogging and RSS. Everything else will fade
mfioretti.substack.com/p/famous-cli...
Blogging and RSS. Everything else will fade
Famous climate scientist proves me right about online publishing
Don't shoot yourself in the foot. Publish smartly
mfioretti.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The dumbest thing anyone can do (including "expert communicators") is to publish anything first, or only, on ANY social media:
mfioretti.substack.com/p/famous-cli...
Blogging and RSS. Everything else will fade
mfioretti.substack.com/p/famous-cli...
Blogging and RSS. Everything else will fade
Let’s face it: as things stand now, VERY little will change about disinformation, socio-political polarization, and democracy in general unless more people go Back To The Future Of News, that is... RSS, of course:
RSS, Not Algorithms: How Open Source Tech Can Reclaim Reliable News - FOSS Force
When news disappears from search results and social media favors polarization, RSS keeps you in touch with news sources you trust.
fossforce.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Let’s face it: as things stand now, VERY little will change about disinformation, socio-political polarization, and democracy in general unless more people go Back To The Future Of News, that is... RSS, of course:
information that really wants to be free needs #RSS, and RSS users. That’s all that matters.
Please free everybody you can from the cage of time-wasting fake “information” by giving them an #opensource RSS reader:
fossforce.com/2025/1...
Please free everybody you can from the cage of time-wasting fake “information” by giving them an #opensource RSS reader:
fossforce.com/2025/1...
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
information that really wants to be free needs #RSS, and RSS users. That’s all that matters.
Please free everybody you can from the cage of time-wasting fake “information” by giving them an #opensource RSS reader:
fossforce.com/2025/1...
Please free everybody you can from the cage of time-wasting fake “information” by giving them an #opensource RSS reader:
fossforce.com/2025/1...
DO a favour to your mental health, NOW. Start getting news the right way, already. And tell everybody else to do the same.
Just published on FOSS Force: RSS, Not Algorithms: How Open Source Tech Can Reclaim Reliable News fossforce.com/2025/10/rss-...
RSS, Not Algorithms: How Open Source Tech Can Reclaim Reliable News - FOSS Force
When news disappears from search results and social media favors polarization, RSS keeps you in touch with news sources you trust.
fossforce.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
DO a favour to your mental health, NOW. Start getting news the right way, already. And tell everybody else to do the same.