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PulseMCP

A hub for exploring the Model Context Protocol ecosystem — servers, clients, use cases, tools, and a weekly newsletter covering what's new in MCP.

gpg.fail

A curated collection of reasons why GPG/PGP is considered broken and unreliable for secure communication — covering UX failures, cryptographic weaknesses, key distribution problems, and why modern alternatives are preferred.

Croce — Storicismo e Antistoricismo

Treccani encyclopedia essay by Fulvio Tessitore tracing Benedetto Croce's philosophical evolution from anti-Hegelian through his 1909 Logica to 1939's "storicismo assoluto." Covers Croce's identity of history/philosophy, opposition to Heidegger and Spengler, the "religion of freedom," and late turn to "vitalità" as foundation of his philosophy — his historicism as precise opposite of Hegelian historicism

European Digital Sovereignty — A Test of Courage

Wired Italia analysis of EU digital sovereignty strategy: US Cloud Act pressure, AWS/Azure/GCP control 70-80% of European cloud, Italy's Polo Strategico Nazionale hybrid model, FSF's "public money = public code" stance, CSI Piemonte's Nivola OpenStack cloud serving 400+ entities, Scaleway winning EU sovereign cloud tender. Open source as prerequisite for true sovereignty

The Last Six Months in LLMs in Five Minutes — Simon Willison

PyCon US 2026 lightning talk covering the "November 2025 inflection point." Model rankings changed hands 5x between Anthropic/OpenAI/Google. Coding agents crossed into production quality. OpenClaw personal AI assistant trend. Gemma 4, GLM-5.1 (1.5TB open weight), Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (runs on laptop). Two themes: coding agents got really good, local models wildly outperform expectations

Peter Salus — Author of "Quarter Century of Unix"

Computing historian and Unix chronicler who died May 15, 2026. Author of "Quarter Century of Unix" (1995), considered required reading for Unix history students. Also wrote "Death, Life, and Computers in the 20th Century" and "The UNIX Operating System: A Comprehensive Guide". Remembered for documenting the people and culture behind Unix's development

github-drama

A curated collection of controversial GitHub discussions — heated debates, maintainer quits, licensing drama, supply chain attacks, and community conflicts across open-source projects.