Behind every EV charger, software determines what actually works together. EVerest is the open source approach that's quietly driving change in the EV energy infrastructure.
Posts published by “Marco Fioretti”
Marco Fioretti is an aspiring polymath and idealist without illusions based in Rome, Italy. Marco met Linux, Free as in Freedom Software, and the Web pre-1.0 back in the '90s while working as an ASIC/FPGA designer in Italy, Sweden, and Silicon Valley. This led to tech writing, including but not limited to hundreds of Free/Open Source tutorials. Over time, this odd combination of experiences has made Marco think way too much about the intersection of tech, ethics, and common sense, turning him into an independent scholar of “Human/digital studies” who yearns for a world with less, but much better, much more open and much more sensible tech than we have today.
A year after OSI debuted its Open Source AI Definition, critics Amanda Brock and Bruce Perens still aren’t sold -- and they say the debate points to bigger questions for tech, as well as open source.
Most scientists agree: many published results are hard to reproduce. Can open source practices help fix the problem?
FOSS Force's 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.
Open source powers the world, but who should to keep it running—and who should decide where the money goes?
From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, Consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why the so-called “smart” tech trend is spectacularly off the rails.
Free software is everywhere, running the world’s biggest systems and your smallest screens, so why not throw a Jubilee in its honor?
From bulletproof backpacks to banning file downloads: why our fight against 3D-printed guns keeps missing the point—and what policy leaders should really be asking.
The biggest question our man in Italy has about Linux distros and other open source software projects taking political stances is: do they do more harm than good?
The Mustang Mach-E recall isn’t just a glitch—it’s a sign that sometimes, the best solutions are the ones we’ve left behind.