The lost paradise of Mallorca
When our friends invited us to their little house in Mallorca, we did not know we would be travelling through time. The small cluster of houses around the cove welcomed us as if it had been waiting for us forever...
My personal blog
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They've fooled us again: the problem with technological hoaxes
On 10 October 2024 they pulled another prank on us. During one of those events that make your eyes pop, videos appeared showing robots walking among the crowd, talking and interacting like real people.
How to add a Google email account to your Android email app without linking it to the phone's account manager
Spoiler for those who don't want technical or long details: If you're trying to add a Google email account on your Android device and your email app keeps redirecting...
A new kind of attack, not trivial for everyone.
Today I came across a new kind of attack that, for people who are not very tech-savvy, can lead to serious problems and give malicious people "hidden" access to their computer.
More Restaurants in Malta than in Paris? Time to Debunk a Myth! How to Discern Reality from Distorted Data…
I recently came across an article ( https://maltadaily.mt/there-are-more-restaurants-in-malta-than-paris-or-new-york/ ) claiming a surprising fact: "there are more...
how to change Windows NTP Server to OVH NTP (for example, for OVH Public Cloud servers)
OVH lacks of documentation, especially for windows, and when you find something, it's too old. So here it is... how to change Windows NTP Server to OVH NTP... Open...
How to change email on ryanair website ?
Can I change my email on ryanair website ? Straight answer: ABSOLUTELY NOT! Seems it's waaay too complex for their technicians. Yes, they have a technology able to check...
The vagabond
She was there, not wondering when she was born or who her parents were. She was there wandering around, without much on her mind.
How to disable freemake notifications and auto updater
So, you had enough of that annoying update notifications multiple times a day, when you don't use Freemake products (like the Video Downloader) so often ? Here is how to...
Postmark vs Sendgrid
Very simple article. I am testing several transactional email services. Among them, PostMark and Sendgrid. Let's go straight to the results without wasting any time......
AjaxControlToolkit.Sanitizer class disappeared ?
So, you just updated your AjaxControlToolkit, and found out you don't have anymore AjaxControlToolkit.Sanitizer class, right ? And there's not even ONE single post on...
The mistakes on repubblica.it (or how to flush Italian grammar down the toilet)
When I was a kid in the 1980s, my father always told me that newspapers were the "official" source of the Italian language. If you had a doubt about how to spell a word...
A dive into the past as a gamer...
If there is one thing I miss, it is the games from when I was younger. I mean video games, the "coin-ups", the ones where you put in a coin, which I played from about 13 to 25 years old.
Setting up a company abroad and trusting whoever pops up on Google...
The other day I came across this article by a certain "Massimo Tonci", about whose preparation I have personal doubts.
OVH Support and useless firewall against other internal servers
This post is about being able to jump the OVH Firewall simply using a server inside OVH itself. Lessons learned in short: 1 ) OVH does not have any kind of internal...
Keliweb vs SiteGround vs GoDaddy...
Short version for the lazy: if you just want an answer and are not interested in reading my whole analysis: in my tests, SiteGround and GoDaddy as shared WordPress hosting turned out to be between 10x and 20x faster than Keliweb.
New site!
At last I made up my mind and surrendered to WordPress... this is how my new site is born, hoping that I'll manage to update it more often than once a year...