Open-source model is a bad idea for the most part. One can come up with one or two reasons why open-source is good but for each of those… That’s what Leo Liou writes on Medium in his “Why I dislike open-source. Open-source model is a bad idea for the… “ It seems to me almost…
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GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Mood
Perché non usare l’originale?
The best part of Windows 11 is a revamped Windows Subsystem for Linux Io sarò paranoico, ma continuo a sentire puzza di Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (Abbraccia, estendi ed estingui) . Se la parte migliore di Win11 è il sottosistema Linux perché non usare Linux direttamente? Oltre al fatto che l’esperienza di software libero che ottieni…
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Keeping old computers going costs government £2.3bn a year, says report
Just under half the entire IT budget goes on patching up outdated systems, a government report says. Source: Keeping old computers going costs government £2.3bn a year, says report I would rather say that proprietary software costs UK government billions
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Mood, Wordpress
They start so little
Andrea Sartori tells us that recently WordPress turned eighteen. Many hugely widespread Software Liberi (italian word that is not ambigous!) start so little!
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English acronym mania
There’s a thing of English – well, actually American English, or even better “technical English” – they I find quite disturbing: the custom of creating acronyms at every steps. See this example Concrete Block (CMU) Sizes, Shapes, and FinishesConcrete blocks, also known as Concrete Masonry Units or CMUs, provide very durable structural and non-structural partitions.…
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Voglio il lieto fine!
No, spiace, questo Broken Tales proprio non potrà mai piacermi. Un gioco di ruolo che parla di Fiabe oscure ribaltando le prospettive: i cattivi cercano redenzione mentre i buoni vengono sedotti dalle tenebre, e nulla nelle storie è come ve lo siete finora immaginato. … C’era una volta un bambino che salvò il mondo delle Fiabe e ottenne…
Aside
A little reminder to myself: I should really give an extensive read to PortlandPatternRepository, a repository for computer programming software design patterns, which is the world’s first wiki.
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Linux Smartphones
I’ve just added Linux Smartphones to my feeds Providing news, tips and information about Linux smartphones and how to make the most of them.