Paolo Redaelli – Paolo Redaelli https://monodes.com/predaelli A civil engineer with a longlife fondness for Software Libero Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:15:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 91795679 AnyWhereLan: keep an eye on it https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/29/anywherelan-keep-an-eye-on-it/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/29/anywherelan-keep-an-eye-on-it/#respond Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:15:46 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13651 I recalled that I wanted to set up my own home-made VPN following How I made a home VPN with dynamic DNS for secure remote access. It seems that someone is going to make this far easier: enters https://github.com/anywherelan/awl

It’s still in beta but we shall keep an eye on it. I hope it will be included into Debian repositories soon.

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GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3) Explained in Plain English https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/28/gnu-general-public-license-v3-gpl-3-explained-in-plain-english/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/28/gnu-general-public-license-v3-gpl-3-explained-in-plain-english/#respond Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:14:12 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13646 GNU General Public License v3 (GPL-3) Explained in Plain English – TLDRLegal ]]> https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/28/gnu-general-public-license-v3-gpl-3-explained-in-plain-english/feed/ 0 13646 Local-First Software https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/26/local-first-software/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/26/local-first-software/#respond Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:53:29 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13640

the Seven Ideals for Local-First Software 0 — basically for free:

  • Software can respond near-instantaneously to user input. (No waiting on server round-trips, no spinners.)
  • Cross-device synchronization. (Pick up work on your mobile device just where you left off with your laptop.)
  • “Offline-First” as a subset of Local-First. (Connectivity is irrelevant when interacting with the application>0
  • Seamless collaboration with other peers. (Edit and sync shared data without fear of conflicts.)
  • Full data agency. (Do what you want with your data, it’s yours only.)
  • Secure and private data management. (Everything is encrypted, only you have the keys.)
  • Full ownership and control over the application’s data. (No one can take away a service from you.)
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As usual, decades late https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/25/as-usual-decades-late/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/25/as-usual-decades-late/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:43:08 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13632 Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor For Linux . My mind immediatly recalls

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Henry Spencer, author of regex

Dear MicroSoft, you’re fifty years late. Also if I want a very light, very simple editor I use mcedit – the editor coming with Midnight Commander – or nano

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Webstudio.is? Something else, please https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/24/webstudio-is-something-else-please/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/24/webstudio-is-something-else-please/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:25:56 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13625 Recently on the Telegram chat channel of the Politecnico Open unix Labs a dude asked for a substitute of the proprietary wix.com. Initially I suggested webstudio-is but they boicott Firefox, so I can’t suggest it!

For static sites https://www.silex.me/ or https://getpublii.com/ may be good choices.

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https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/24/13621/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/24/13621/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:06:53 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13621 Università, il Politecnico di Milano tra i primi 100 atenei al mondo. L’attuale presidenza raccoglie i frutti di decenni di lavoro. È ingegnere gestionale. Sarà capace di gestire e far fruttare ancora tutto questo lavoro? Francamente, visto alcune notizie recenti, nutro qualche dubbio, stante la infausta fama dei gestionali.

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Lo scheletro impossibile https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/18/lo-scheletro-impossibile/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/18/lo-scheletro-impossibile/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:20:08 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13606 Lo scheletro impossibile

https://www.ibs.it/stelle-dei-giganti-ebook-james-p-hogan/e/9788852071386?utm_source=tradedoubler&utm_medium=cpa&utm_campaign=1860113&utm_content=affiliazione&tduid=295f14622e9cd247d28283bef5a97616

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They don’t care about freedom https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/18/they-dont-care-about-freedom/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/18/they-dont-care-about-freedom/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:40:02 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13597 I’ve just read “Why China is Giving Away Its Tech For Free“.

The real issue is that they are speaking of “open source” and not about freedom for people.

Chinese government likes the utilitaristic approach of “open source” and do not care – to say the least – to speak about freedom for people. In fact the reporter wrote:

… the government, see open models as the quickest way to narrow the gap with America.

After having noted that

[…] the rise in China of open technology, which relies on transparency and decentralisation, is awkward for an authoritarian state. If the party’s patience with open-source fades, and it decides to exert control, that could hinder both the course of innovation at home, and developers’ ability to export their technology abroad.

The real issue here is let Chinese persons to know that they have the right to be free

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Farewell, spacevim, welcome lazyvim https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/17/farewell-spacevim-welcome-lazyvim/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/17/farewell-spacevim-welcome-lazyvim/#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:52:27 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13593 Today I wanted to add dart support to my spacevim setup, so I opened https://spacevim.org/. What a surprise, I got redirected to https://wsdjeg.net/why-spacevim-is-archived/ that stated

SpaceVim 这一项目起源于 2016 年 12 月份,于 2025 年 2 月 21 日停止维护。

Thanks to Firefox automatic translation I read that

The SpaceVim project originated in December 2016 and was discontinued on February 21, 2025.

Needless to say I was a little mithered. Luckily there are several other “(neo)vim distribition” that turn our beloved editor into a full-fledged IDE. Since I have been told by my fellows of PoUL that even LunarVim is not so healthy I followed their suggestion installing lazyvim.org which is NeoVim-specific but worked out-of-the-box. Well, almost. In fact its dart support require a fairly recent version of NeoVim (0.10+) and I discovered after a while that I was running a not so current release (0.9). After adding flutter/dart support following this Reddit comment, it worked like a breeeze.

Here’s the small required additions:

You can add in plugins folder, But I have created a file in lua/plugins/extras/lang/flutter.lua

flutter.lua

return {
  {
    "akinsho/flutter-tools.nvim",
    dependencies = { "nvim-lua/plenary.nvim" },
    config = function()
      require("flutter-tools").setup{}
    end,
  },
}

and loading by adding in spec in lua/config/lazy.lua

  spec = {
    ....
    { import = "plugins.extras.lang.flutter" },
Thanks to mraza08 (from Reddit)

Well, “of course” I should have managed the configuration as a git repository, but well, I’ll do it later…

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Mudita Kompakt https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/15/mudita-kompakt/ https://monodes.com/predaelli/2025/06/15/mudita-kompakt/#respond Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:38:55 +0000 https://monodes.com/predaelli/?p=13579

Mudita Kompakt

Mudita Kompakt is a minimalist E Ink® phone designed for focus, privacy, and freedom from digital distractions.

The operative system is software libero, released under GPLv3. The only thing blocking me is price… €439.00 is a little too much

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