Adriano Farina

I was on cohost

https://lyra.horse/css-clicker/

Pretty fun CSS clicker, with no JS, and very specific badges.

I do miss cohost!

EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations The agency is betting the the Supreme Court will reverse a prior ruling.

EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/as-expected-trumps-epa-guts-climate-endangerment-finding/

Naked Power - Infrequently Noted Apple and Google's app stores stand for nothing and will stand up to no-one. Good riddance.

https://infrequently.org/2026/01/naked-power/

Extremely shameful decision by the Olympic committee

https://www.ilpost.it/2026/02/12/vladyslav-heraskevych-skeleton-squalificato-olimpiadi-casco-foto-atleti-uccisi/

Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency - Bert Hubert's writings Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the International Criminal Court in The Hague, find ourselves locked out of our own mailboxes if we say something that is upsetting to the US government? This post was written in response to an article in the Financial Times.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/

https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/yearly-reminder-to-use-rss

https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2026/

https://petemillspaugh.com/the-world-beyond-your-head

An Unbounded Stomach - Futility Closet “Have you ever noticed … that all hot-water bottles look like Henry the Eighth?” — Max Beerbohm

An Unbounded Stomach https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/23/an-unbounded-stomach/

it/blog/2025/12/01/media-appearance-bcc-arte-cultura-second-edition-launch/This morning at the MUDEC in Milan, they presented the new edition of BCC Arte & Cultura, for which we digitized tens of artworks, and created a 3D gallery: here is the official report

Expected dog, Expected dog, Expected Slop

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop
I'm still not sold on paying for search, mostly because I want a level playing field, but it's an interesting approach to catching slop.

WhatsApp is launching third-party chat integration in Europe BirdyChat and Haiket will be first to offer it.

https://www.theverge.com/news/820858/whatsapp-third-party-messaging-date-eu-e2ee

Steam Hardware The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

Genuinely so cool: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Immergiti in un mondo di cultura E-MUSE

Media appearance: Innovazione Pubblica https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/10/28/media-appearance-innovazione-pubblica/After we went to SmartExpo in Rho, they wrote about us in the InnovazionePubblica Substack: https://innovazionepubblica.substack.com/p/immergiti-in-un-mondo-di-cultura?r=5gfls9

Immergiti in un mondo di cultura E-MUSE

They wrote about my company: innovazionepubblica.substack.com/p/immergiti-...

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. - YouTube

Embracing my role as the world's worst technology promoter, I gave a talk that was nominally on how to drive tech acceptance, but that really was for limiting adoption of hyped technologies to mindfully chosen and proven useful cases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_Sn0UCwAA

Academic research finds economic, technical and operational harms from Italy’s Piracy Shield <p>Walled Culture first wrote about Piracy Shield, Italy’s automated system for tackling alleged copyright infringement in the streaming sector, two years ago. Since then, we have written about the serious problems that soon emerged. But instead of fixing those issues, the government body that runs the scheme, Italy’s AGCOM (the Italian Authority for Communications Guarantees), …</p>

Academic research finds economic, technical and operational harms from Italy’s Piracy Shield https://walledculture.org/academic-research-finds-economic-technical-and-operational-harms-from-italys-piracy-shield/

We had to use the room’s computer setup due to the streaming setup, which complicated the demo quite a bit, but we made do. The recordings are available on LinkedIn, starting at around 2h50min. Sadly it […]

Double presentation ad MiniDigital Festival https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/10/18/double-presentation-ad-minidigital-festival/On october 17th we gave two presentations and a few demos at MiniDigital Festival at the University of Parma.

Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

I'll update to liquid glass as late as possible

co/ This is truly a reference of everything we’re striving for, it’s just that we also want to support VR headsets. One of the creators has a talk explaining how they work:

Linkpost: brilliant 3D webgame https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/10/07/linkpost-brilliant-3d-webgame/This has been making the rounds of all the popular link aggregators, and it is truly brilliant: https://messenger.abeto.

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. What the hell is RSS? RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a standard feed that you can subscribe to using an RSS reader (or aggregator). Don’t worry if this sounds extremely uninteresting to you; there aren’t many people that get excited about format specifications; the beauty of RSS is in its simplicity. Any content management system or blog platform supports RSS out of the box, and often enables it by default. As a result, a large portion of the content on the internet is available to you in feeds that you can tap into. But this time, you’re in full control of what you’re receiving, and the feeds are purely reverse chronological bliss. Coincidentally, you might already be using RSS without even knowing, because the whole podcasting world runs on RSS.

Link: a praise for RSS https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/

Genera feed RSS per siti che non lo forniscono Il piano gratuito supporta solo 5 feed, ma nei miei test funziona bene.

Genera feed RSS per siti che non lo forniscono

Il piano gratuito supporta solo 5 feed, ma nei miei test funziona bene.

https://prudenziolo.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/genera-feed-rss-per-siti-che-non-lo-forniscono/

Then, there was a

We won a hackaton https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/10/06/hack4culture-2025/This weekend we took part in this hackaton called Hack4Culture: https://officineonoff.

We won the "Hack4Culture" hackaton, and here's a full breakthrough:
https://e-muse.it/blog/2025/10/06/hack4culture-2025/

I’m on a 1400 day learning streak on Duolingo

ec.europa.eu/en/news/eu-report-calls-member-states-accelerate-digitisation-cultural-heritage

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs Judge tossed claim but said UK must not “significantly impede” Wikipedia operations.

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/wikipedia-loses-uk-safety-act-challenge-worries-it-will-have-to-verify-user-ids/

Deeply misguided legislation