Javascript, HTML5 and the browser in all its incarnations are quickly becoming the new amazing way of developing applications for the “plain and simple end-user”. On the MacBook Pro Javascript was 44% slower than C (Java only 1.5%). The Javascript Nitro VM on my iPhone 4S was 99% slower than C. On the Nexus 7…
Author: Paolo Redaelli
Mood
Look, dad!
I’ve read from time.com “The War on Pink: GoldieBlox Toys Ignite Debate Over What’s Good For Girls“, as Slashdot gained my attention with “Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?“. Being an engineer and father of two wonderful girls I am quite interested in the matter. Quite obviously my wife and me wish the best…
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Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
Awesome. Quite awesome. Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop is really awesome. Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP.We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is…
Senza categoria, Software Libero, Web
Big G or Big Brother?
Google Criticized For ‘Opaque’ Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium (source Slashdot): Debian, mother of Ubuntu, a major player in the software Libre world always required to have access to the sources of the programs they distribute1, especially in web-browsers. I’m not surprised to read this. I do not use proprietary browser for this very reason,…
Software Libero
FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…
Looks like I found a nice news reader for me FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…
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Android, Smartphones, Software Libero, Web
I don’t care about cookies
Today I was digging into Firefox extensions for my Android phone discovering this nice “I don’t care about cookies” https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/?src=category
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commodore Amiga ebook pdf
Sorgente: Commodore Computer Blog: eBook gratuito! “Amiga, da informatica a religione”
Android, Smartphones
A little too much
In a middle of typical morning I saw the battery of my smartphone quite lower than what I expected so I looked at power usage : Hey, wait a moment, I haven’t used Google Play Music! It must have been working under the wood: Dear Google, I understand that you strive to provide refined, responsive,…
Amiga
Un Commodore Amiga 2000 da quasi 30 anni gestisce la climatizzazione di 19 scuole negli USA
Sorgente: Un Commodore Amiga 2000 da quasi 30 anni gestisce la climatizzazione di 19 scuole negli USA | Archeologia Informatica