About This Newsletter

I'm Nicola Baudo. I write about the philosophy of digital tools — not "tech commentary," not product reviews, but the application of philosophical frameworks to the software and systems that shape our lives.

What you'll get: Every Sunday, one article. Aristotle's four causes applied to AI. Socrates dismantling algorithmic determinism. The logical proof that closed-source software cannot respect privacy. The predator hierarchy in cybersecurity. Regulatory analysis (GDPR, AI Act) read through the lens of verifiability and sovereignty.

What you won't get: Tips to speed up your commercial OS. "Both sides" equivocation. Ads. Trackers. Telemetry.

Why Ghost: This newsletter runs on Ghost, an open-source platform. I can self-host. I can export my subscriber list. The medium matches the message — I write about verifiability and sovereignty; I won't publish on infrastructure that locks me in.

My project: I'm building dropQbsd, a compartmentalization system without virtualization — 500 lines of ksh, 10 lines of C, 512 MB RAM, zero outbound calls. Security through simplicity, not through stacking layers. The newsletter is where I document the philosophy behind it.

The longer archive: Full articles live on my blog at blog.nicolabaudo.fr — static, lightweight, no JavaScript, no tracking.