Carlo Maria Curinga

Founder & CEO - previously Director of Technology Operations - Compulsive maker and food lover.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.

In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.

In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

@josefprusa @Prusa3D @BondtechAB You know the product is right when announcing it results in an organic DDOS of your partner's website :D

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

@jaredpalmer @github @pimoroni amazing project! 😍 I just can't get over "flappy mona" without laughing my ass off. It has a very distinct meaning in Venetian Italian 😂

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I don't know what labs are doing to these poor LLMs during RL but they are mortally terrified of exceptions, in any infinitesimally likely case. Exceptions are a normal part of life and healthy dev process. Sign my LLM welfare petition for improved rewards in cases of exceptions.

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

@Noctua_at this is gonna be a great one 😍

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

❤️

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

Amen @jorandirkgreef

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

This workhorse has been printing tirelessly for almost six years. It has continuously improved with better software and an enriched feature set over time. It has never broken down and has required little to no maintenance. Hats off @Prusa3D

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

If you ever needed one more reason to move to @home_assistant , here it is https://t.co/FfQ7XlVOti

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

@fzb @aeroitaliasrl

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

Hey @Jaguar I suggest hiring @xai 's Grok

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

Howdy @WootingKB 🥰

[Linda Yaccarino @lindayaX]

Grazie Mille Italia! 🇮🇹

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

Hey @intesasanpaolo ci pagate i danni vero?

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

@alexandrosM Hands dow the best brain development excercise I've had in 8 years and counting. Wouldn't hit that unfollow not even at gunpoint. Ad astra per aspera.

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

WOW

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

Quando funziona è comodissima. Peccato che non funziona mai. Ovviamente scaricate la colpa su openfiber e ve ne lavate le mani

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

What a wonderful day!

[Thierry Breton @ThierryBreton]

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my colleagues in the College, Commission services, MEPs, Member States, and my team.

Together, we have worked tirelessly to advance an ambitious EU agenda.

It has been an honour & privilege to serve the common European interest🇪🇺

[Wes @wmorrill3]

Have you heard of Conway's Law? It's an interesting observation about the root cause of why large organizations usually make products worse.

In 1967 Melvin Conway wrote "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

When you think about any product carefully, if you see an obvious lack of integration it's usually due to an organizational social boundary. If you are working on a product you should consider if organizational boundaries are getting in the way of optimal design.

A well known example - early days of Tesla there was a battery team and separately a vehicle structures team. Structures team designed their vehicle body to meet given requirements of strength, crashworthyness, torsional stiffness, etc. likewise the battery team designed their part to be self contained, it could survive durability, accidentally being dropped, being hit in a crash, etc. As a result, we ended up with was a super dense battery in a strong box like structure, which was then Installed into the vehicle which had a nice space for it to mate into. There were no issues with integration, everything fit together perfectly and met all product goals. It achieved one of the highest crash safety ratings measured at the time.

But we had a box full of battery cells that was installed into another empty box shaped receptacle on the body. A box in a box. When you simplify it down that far it sounds obviously wrong. The two organizations had achieved their goals, worked together without friction, and the product met its overall goals. Yet the product ended up with a clear lack of optimization as a result of the organizational boundaries of the two teams working in isolation. Nothing was wrong, but it wasn't optimal.

So before the next product was designed, the battery team gave responsibility of the battery structures also to the vehicle structures team. On this iteration, we ended up with the structural battery, which is an integral part of the body and crash structure. Without it, the vehicle body will not work. It's the literal floor for the vehicle. But the redundancy is gone and the design is more efficient as a result. This vehicle also achieved one of the highest crash safety ratings measured at the time.

This is a super obvious example (in retrospect) and solved with a fairly large organizational change but you can also see this happen in small technical decisions and doesn't require structural change to fix. Someone just needs to question if there is a better solution in a team open to criticism. This mindset to work together to make the best product regardless of ego is where you end up with the most innovative products.

Some smaller examples have been seen when inspecting Cybertruck design. The chassis air suspension which is used to pressurize the battery pack to prevent water ingress. The subwoofer which utilizes the air volume of the body side instead of making the enclosure larger. Centralized zonal vehicle controllers instead of many small distributed controllers. Doors which use the exterior surface as a crash intrusion beam. The pedestrian warning system used as a horn. The list goes on. The excitement and motivation by everyone involved to work across boundaries and actively break down Conway's Law is one of the many reasons I love working at Tesla.

[Carlo Maria Curinga @curcuz]

@lollopede @xn3cr0nx Ti sei reso conto che ti stava dando ragione, leone da tastiera? Che figura di merda.