A tutti i vecchi che si lamentano dei giovani d’oggi fate leggere queste due citazioni. Ma fatelo senza fargli leggere chi e quando hanno scritto questa citazione. Rinfacciateglielo dopo. “La gioventù di oggi è corrotta nell’anima, è malvagia, empia, infingarda. Non potrà mai essere ciò che era la gioventù di una volta e non potrà…
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A growing number of college professors are finding that their Gen Z students don’t understand the concepts of directories filled with folders and files.
Source: Gen Z Kids Apparently Don’t Understand How File Systems Work
That’s sad. But previous generations could say the same about my generation who most often does not know how a transistor works
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Sweden’s Northvolt Builds First Lithium-Ion Battery Cell In Europe – Slashdot
It looks like we’re rebuilding european industries from the scratch or something like this.
Ethics, Mood
He dislikes open-source.
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…
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Just under half the entire IT budget goes on patching up outdated systems, a government report says.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.…