Chrome – one of the most widespread browser – is proprietary software with Chromium being is “open source” base. According to Debian #Debian Bug report logs for “786909 – chromium: unconditionally downloads binary blob” Chromium even when built from source code still try to inject binary blobs – proprietary software – on your system without…
Author: Paolo Redaelli
Games
Dune 2 – Online (browser verion)
Browser version of classic game Dune 2. Dune 2 online can be played in every major browser.
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Creating vector icons with Inkscape is fun and easy.
Once you got proficient with Inkscape, of course. I forgot how much time is required to become actually productive with a new graphical tool.
Javascript, Mood
Fat, obese npm
I do understand that today designs tend to put less emphasis on conservative memory usage but that’s pretty outrageous. A simple search into node’s package manager ate one gigabyte and half of main memory having to deal with a simple question like npm find foobar more speficically GNU time told me that it took 48…
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nativeDroid2 – material design theme for jQuery Mobile
material design jQuery mobile theme – nativeDroid is free for private and commercial projects. A clean jQuery Mobile Theme inspired by the native GUI of mobile devices. From : nativeDroid2 – material design theme for jQuery Mobile
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Sorgente: Gratuito a Tutti i Costi | MadBob
Come tutti ben sappiamo, purtroppo, negli anni si è ampiamente diffuso il binomio “software libero = gratis”
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Forse sarebbe opportuno provare a sopperire a questo luogo comune del software libero “gratuito a tutti i costi”, per dare maggiore risalto alle sue effettive proprietà, ed optare per una strategia di comunicazione anti-ciclica. Mentre tutti regalano (o almeno fingono di regalare, ma il risultato percepito è lo stesso…), si dovrebbe porre l’attenzione sul fatto che il software libero – in qualità di software, e dunque prodotto ingegneristico per la cui produzione sono necessarie risorse – abbisogna di supporto, certamente di carattere tecnico (patch, traduzioni e documentazione sono sempre molto gradite) ma anche e soprattutto di carattere economico.
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Mood
xkcd: Matrix Transform
Sometimes a little joke on coordinate transformation made using a matrix is needed. Sorgente: xkcd: Matrix Transform Yet it’s only a simple rotation. There’s no translation neither skew…
Amiga
Amiga Boing Ball Animated GIF – Amigalog
Nostalgia effect in all its glory….. While designing the theme for Amigalog.com I decided to include all the Amiga logos inside the page layout: the typeface logo, the rainbow check mark and the unofficial Boing Ball. For the typeface logo I used the Bodoni font[a], the closest font to the one used in the original…
Software Libero
On being pro GPL
That’s am interesting point of view on the never really settled arguments between copyleft and non copyleft software licences. http://m.slashdot.org/story/297041 He says, “I am not only pro-copyleft, I am also pro-permissive licensing. The difference between these is tactics: the first tactic is towards guaranteeing user freedom, the second tactic is toward pushing adoption. I am…