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Matteo Panella

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Master of the Mystic Arts (ops and infrastructure automation) at Banca d'Italia. Opinions, rants et al. are my own.

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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 26/09/2026
"Se per strada mi si avvicina una donna col burqa o col velo integrale mi spavento, posso spaventarmi o sono per forza una razzista?" Non necessariamente, sicuramente sei xenofoba e probabilmente anche islamofoba.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 25/09/2026
You should also toggle this off if you use Tailscale and have subnet routing enabled in your tailnet (apparently this "feature" breaks split-horizon VPN routing in subtle and annoying ways)
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 15/09/2026
PSA: if you have a @tailscale.com setup with subnet routes *DISABLE CONNECTIVITY ASSIST ON iOS 27*. Somehow it completely breaks routing and routes traffic intended for the routed subnets through the mobile network instead of the tailnet! This is completely unrelated to VPN on Demand.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 11/09/2026
These people were the ones that gave us the unmitigated disaster that is Hacktoberfest and handwaved the consequences of their PR stunt on the FLOSS world, so it was very hard to sink lower. And yet...
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 02/09/2026
Hey @1password.bsky.social, stop supporting people calling for ethnic cleansing and discrimination of LGBTQIA+ people, there are plenty of opensource projects that you can support and don't have a leadership that sucks. Oh, and sack your VP of product for creating this mess, while you're at it.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 30/08/2026
Could we have a goddamn edit button? [Narrator: "WAFFLES!"]
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 28/08/2026
Sorry not sorry #LakeOntario
Map of Lake Ontario renamed as "Lake Ah Shit, Here We Go Again"
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title above the first two panels reads, "Dog Toys".
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a bone shaped dog toy. She says, "Look!"
The second panel shows a dog wagging its tail. There is a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It squeaks!"
The title above the last two panels reads, "Cat Toys".
In panel three we see Sarah again. She says "Come, child."
Panel four shows a cat raising its paws in glee. We see Sarah's hands holding cat nip. We see a speech bubble leading back to Sarah saying "It is time to do drugs".
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 26/08/2026
The US Government designated Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" and imposed sanctions on their members: www.state.gov/releases/off... I have only one comment: WHAT THE EVERLASTING FUCK?!?!
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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 22/08/2026
This is your periodic reminder that if you're a DHH cheerleader you can fuck off into the sun.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 15/08/2026
La nostra è passata direttamente al demolitore
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 07/08/2026
Pointless stuff that lives rent free in my head: the UNIX dd command syntax is so bizarre because Dennis Ritchie wrote it to be as similar as possible to JCL's DD statement.
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il Post @ilpost.it · 28/07/2026
Il posto dove si sta sviluppando l’euro digitale
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Il posto dove si sta sviluppando l’euro digitale
È una sede della Banca d'Italia poco nota, appena fuori Roma, dove si è accumulata la grande esperienza italiana nel settore dei pagamenti
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Scottish Batman
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 18/07/2026
You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
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Lino Banfi: Commissario
Alt: Lino Banfi interpreta il Commissario Auricchio in "Fracchia la belva umana"
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 17/07/2026
Torment Nexus LLC, the professional's choice.
A flyer for a heavily corporate company named TORMENT NEXUS LLC. They appear to be advertising ways to make life so much harder, but couched in so much corporate language it looks like a damned good deal.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 10/07/2026
*OF COURSE* a dangerous project by a bunch of VC-backed techbros is (mis)named after something/someone from J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Just received a breathless press release from a Danish restaurant which says the kitchen decided to apply the principles of jazz to cooking. As someone with a size 12 foot firmly inserted deep in both camps, my conclusion, having read it all, is: they are not musicians.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 04/07/2026
Go Larry!!
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 04/07/2026
Vorrei capire come cazzo sia possibile che per un evento di un cantante con affluenza (ottimisticamente) prevista di 250k persone si devasti la viabilità di mezzo quadrante sud-est di Roma e invece quando ci fu 1M di persone per il papa fecero molto meno casino.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 03/07/2026
Sempre più convinto di aver fatto bene a mollare il mondo degli Enti Pubblici di Ricerca... www.ilpost.it/2026/07/03/a...
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Il capo del CNR sta ostacolando la legge sul suicidio assistito
Andrea Lenzi, presidente del più importante ente pubblico di ricerca in Italia, ha dato al parlamento risposte inverosimili, con gravi conseguenze concrete
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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 29/06/2026
Me: "I don't have an x86_64 Linux system with 16GB of RAM at home..." My Steam Deck: "... am I a fucking joke to you?!?!?"
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I wrote about what was actually in that #Fable guardrail bypass research paper, and why it should never have triggered an #AI model export control. We can't export control our way to cyber resilience. So many tshirt ideas. www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fab...
me wearing a black tshirt with pink writing.
Front: fix this codeme wearing a black tshirt with pink writing.
Back: this shirt is a munition
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 13/06/2026
What - and I can't stress this enough - the fuck?!?
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 13/06/2026
It really saddens me when people that I used to respect suddenly begin to spread bullshit worth of a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist on something I happen to know *very* well.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 11/06/2026
If you think that the EU/Apple Siri AI debacle is just Apple trying to give the "competition" a hard time, I'd like to point you to the Private Cloud Compute white paper and the documentation of App Intents. Then ask yourself if the "competition" comes even close in terms of privacy.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 09/06/2026
HELL YEAH
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Federico Fuga (HappyCactus) @happycactus.org · 03/06/2026
Una giornata molto triste per tutta l'informatica italiana, per il mondo del giornalismo serio e professionale. Se n'è andata Carola Frediani. www.guerredirete.it/addio-carola/
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Addio Carola - Guerre di Rete
Oggi, 3 Giugno 2026, è venuta a mancare all'affetto della sua famiglia e dei suoi amici Carola Frediani. Carola è stata anima e linfa di Guerre di Rete e lascia un vuoto incolmabile in tutti coloro ch...
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Although there is a really obvious exception to the SF rule ;)
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Captain Picard's Star Trek Facepalm
Alt: Jean-Luc Picard - who mysteriously sounds like a Yorkshireman who joined the RSC.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 15/05/2026
I think the saddest phrase I ever hear in a computer installation is that horrible one: "But we've always done it that way" - Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, 1982
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 13/05/2026
Scritta vista ieri su un muro lungo Via della Pineta Sacchetti a Roma: "SO' BONI TUTTI A FA' I PRO-LIFE CON LA SORCA DELL'ARTRE". Non penso serva una traduzione.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 10/05/2026
I just found out that the OrbStack developers do not publish their patched kernel nor their patched qemu anymore (the last published OSS code is 3 years old and their kernel commits are deliberately squashed), if you want souces for GPL components you have to send an email and ask for them.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 09/05/2026
Karma doesn't care about your money, it'll come for you sooner or later.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 06/05/2026
Va bene che il KYC non va preso alla leggera, ma in questo caso hanno esagerato *giusto un pochino*...
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 04/05/2026
Members of Eduroam that block DoH/DoT, all VPN traffic (including VoWiFi tunnels!), the Tailscale coordination servers *and even fucking Apple iCloud Private Relay* should be banned forever from the federation.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 26/04/2026
After 5 or so months without symptoms, my cat's gastric illness has decided to flare up again. She's 14 and I'm worried AF because the only way to stop her from puking right after eating is to administer meds that interfere with her central nervous system in a not-so-great way.
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 25/04/2026
Buon 25 Aprile! upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 21/04/2026
Paging @levarburton.bsky.social
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 21/04/2026
I wanted to try to use an LLM to perform some coding tasks for my side projects, this is basically how it went: 1. "I just need to subscr... WHAT THE FUCK? $100 PER MONTH?!?!" 2. "Ok, let's try a local model... WHAT THE FUCK? I need HOW FUCKING GBs of RAM to write a simple hello world?!?"
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 17/04/2026
media.tenor.com
the emperor from star wars is wearing a hooded robe and smiling at the camera .
ALT: the emperor from star wars is wearing a hooded robe and smiling at the camera .
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 15/04/2026
Remembering when I was young, idealist, with a lot of free time on my hands and an insane love for IRC, C and the scariest codebase I ever worked on. Kudos to vjt for the incredible stroll down memory lane. /away For all time. Always. sindro.me/posts/2026-0...
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sindro.me - Forking Bahamut for Azzurra IRC: IPv6 and SSL in 2002
I found a CVS repository from 2002 on SourceForge. Inside it: 171 commits, three authors, and the IPv6 and SSL patches I wrote for the Bahamut IRC server when I was 21.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 10/04/2026
Another day, another slew of triumphant press announcements about some country "ditching Windows for Linux". I'm sure it will be a big success, especially when they get to the point where they need to migrate away from MS Active Directory and find out what the alternatives really are.
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a close up of a man 's face with the words david worren written below him
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words david worren written below him
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Matteo Panella @matteo.panella.boo · 09/04/2026
Oggi stavo canticchiando Take Five in macchina, mio figlio mi ha chiesto cosa fosse e gli ho spiegato in maniera moolto semplificata come contare 5/4 come 3+2. Ha voluto sentire il pezzo, ho cominciato a contare "1, 2, 3" e lui ha strillato a tempo "UNO, DUE!". Cinque anni e conta i tempi dispari 🥹
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Sol St. John @stjohnsol.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight: (cat wailing) Person: No!! (cat wails some more) Person: You do not want that! Spit it out! (even louder wailing) Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!! #ahcats #lifeinapartments
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