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On Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat

Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source – Andreessen Horowitz is a perfectly-sound article from a pure “profit-only” point of view. What the author misses is that Amazon infrastructure is overwhelmingly built on Free Software, that even companies like Microsoft and Oracle put lots of development efforts into Free…

D&D Tools

D&D Tools Complete list of all D&D spells, rulebooks, feats, classes and more! 5etools.com: A suite of browser-based tools for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons players and Dungeon Masters. The entire project can be downloaded from get.5e.tools. To run a local (offline) copy, simply download the project, extract it, and open the .html files in…

no-script

L’anno scorso ho regalato a mia figlia un Kano, che di fatto è un Raspberry 3 con tastiera, case e distribuzione specifica per bambini. Pensato per imparare e dal costo limitato il Kano è davvero bello visto con gli occhi del papà ma… Già perché c’è sempre un “ma”: avevo sottovalutato la voglia di esplorare,…

Bootstrappable builds

 Bootstrappable builds Compilers are often written in the language they are compiling. This creates a chicken-and-egg problem that leads users and distributors to rely on opaque, pre-built binaries of those compilers that they use to build newer versions of the compiler. To gain trust in our computing platforms, we need to be able to tell…