Paolo Fabio Zaino's Blog

In this article we’ll explore how LLMs (Large Language Models) actually work internally, with practical examples so everyone can understand how they work and behave.

In this tutorial, we’ll see how to configure Windows and Linux hosts to run my ShareFSServer together with your favorite RISC OS emulator.

AI systems are increasingly being discussed as if the model were the system.

While the DME project slowed down due the need for a better development environment for which I have designed UltimaVM for, the parts I can continue to work on are still moving forward, here is an updated with pictures of Themes ports to the new DME ExtTh…

Given the interest Ultima has been receiving from enthusiasts and engineers, both online and at the few computer shows where I’ve demonstrated it, I think some will appreciate a more detailed look at its ongoing progress.

Next Saturday (25th October 2025) I’ll be at the RISC OS London Show, together with many other developers and enthusiasts who keep our favourite operating system alive and evolving.

Large language models can produce text that looks fluent and convincing but turns out to be wrong; a problem known as hallucination.

In this article, we’ll take a look at an important new effort I am adding to my operating system, Merlin OS: formal verification, using a set of tools available to all Rust developers, as well as some custom ones.

In this short article we’ll see my personal “corrections” over some common advices given in the industry which have been proved to cause more problems than helping people.

In this second article exploring Liquid Neural Networks (LNN), we’ll take a look at the security challenges behind developing both a foundational library and foundational models based on LNNs.

Given all the questions I have received on the matter of Liquid Neural Networks from people interested in my zLNN foundational LNN library, I have decided to write an article to explain LNNs in the hope of helping people to find answers to initial questio…

In this article, we explore the complexities of assigning liability to software developers compared to traditional engineers.

In my career, quite a few of my co-workers have had wild dreams of creating their own bytecode interpreter virtual machine (VM).

📣 I am excited to announce the new alpha release 0.9.4 of theCROWler (my Content Discovery and Security development platform) GoLang Port available for Testing!

In this quick How-To article we have a look at what is and how to install pre-commit quickly on many platforms including macOS, Linux and Windows.

In this how-to we’ll have a look at how to get started with password recovery on Linux, macOS, BSD and Windows operating systems.

In this quick how-to, we’ll see how to read command line arguments in GNU ASM (GAS) on RISC OS.

In this short how-to we’ll see a quick example of how we can return a complex object in C, like we do with more modern languages like Rust or GoLang.

In this post we’ll have a look at the Castle Iyonix PC memory bus and how to expand memory on the Iyonix.

In this post we’ll have a look at the various CPU Architecture classification terms and what do they mean in the everyday world.

(Setting up the system and building Samba Server) In this set of “how to”, we’ll see how to use Linux to build and configure a complete Retrocomputing Server on a Raspberry Pi, to provide a set of services to retro and vintage systems (for ex.

Quick how-to on setting up Go Lang to use Snowflake Data Sources via ODBC.

In this quick how-to we’ll see how to correctly install Golang on macOS and create all required paths and first program for a painless experience 🙂 Intro Golang it’s a really fun language to play with.

This post is a full tutorial on how to install and configure a Fleet Controller and OSQuery to check and manage endpoints state, vulnerabilities and more.

This is the User Guide for ZVector, an Open Source Vector library (dynamic arrays) in ANSI C (C99) that is aimed to be secure, fast, reentrant, thread safe, easily configurable, portable and small.