Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Gotomeeting is disgusting

My Order of Engineers – the Italian organisation you must join after passing an exam if you want to practise as an engineer in Italy – organize online courses. Engineers in Italy must attend at least 20 hours a year on average to maintain membership. And they foolishly chose to use GoToMeeting. I bear with…

Forgejo, l’alternativa libera a GitHub e GitLab.

Forgejo è l’alternativa self-hosted e libera a GitHub e GitLab. Una piattaforma di hosting di codice e collaborazione che puoi installare sui tuoi server o usare su istanze come forgejo.it, senza dipendere da Big Tech. Perché scegliere Forgejo: Vuoi liberarti dalle piattaforme proprietarie e costruire il tuo spazio di sviluppo? Provalo su forgejo.it, oppure Installalo…

A little too much

Once upon a time, when I was an young and naive Amiga user I used to mock Windows entusiast for their sheer waste of resources: it needed a whopping 4 megabytes of memory! When I switched to Linux I started to enjoy the benefits of memory protection and a real mult-user operative systems and I…

Running Infinity Nikki on Linux

My family use only free-as-in-freedom software as far as I can. I am also quite pleased that my 2nd daughter is quite fond of the setup of her Debian GNU/Linux box as she can play all the games she likes, using Steam and ProtonDB. With one sorely exception: Infinity Nikki. It has requirements so high…

Cashew

A budget and financial tracking application designed for you Source: Cashew Looks wonderful. There are just a couple of things that prevents me from adopting it: So, thank you, but I think I will use some alternativeto self-hostable free-as-in-freedom programs.

Paolo Redaelli

Today I tried facebook-scraper as I would like to download posts posted on Facebook by notable people I respect. But I am a rookie and I am lazy as I haven’t been able to make it works: it keeps saying that the cookie file has some encoding errors. Yet I notice that other people have similar issues. I’ll try again after some time

Paolo Redaelli

Firefox mi propone Dovremmo tutti riscoprire il luddismo… l’ho letto “un po’ di sfuggita” – stavo quasi per derubricarlo al solito articolo “acchiappa-click”… mi pare piuttosto superficiale.

L’unico punto che mi pare condivisibile è che non sia tanto l’AI a “rubarci il lavoro” quanto le scelte scellerate di certi amministratori delegati…