Run Windows programs on Linux.
Source: Easily run Windows software on Linux with 🍷 Bottles! ⋅ Bottles
Software
PinePhone Pro | PINE64
PinePhone Pro, our flagship smartphone and the best way to experience mainline Linux on a mobile device Developer pre-orders are now open Pre-order * Additional charges, such as import taxes and…
Source: PinePhone Pro | PINE64
It looks like a wonderful piece of hardware. But as I’m still waiting to receive my Librem5 I think I will at least wait to receive it and the official release of the PinePhone Pro. I think I won’t make preorders soon, even if Pine have been much more timely than Puri.sm
Warpinator – Send and Receive Files Across a Network
Warpinator is a free, open-source tool for sending and receiving files between computers that are on the same network.
Source: Warpinator – Send and Receive Files Across a Network
Office 2021 obbligherĂ ad avere un account Microsoft
L’epoca dell’utilizzo esclusivamente offline è tramontata per sempre
Ennesimo, ottimo motivo per evitare i prodotti Microsoft. Idem vale per Google.
WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages – Slashdot
Gizmodo highlights the findings of a new ProPublic report on WhatsApp’s content moderation system. What they found was that there are at least 1,000 WhatsApp content moderators employed by Facebook’s moderator contract firm Accenture to review user-reported content that’s been flagged by its machine learning system. “They monitor for, among other things, spam, disinformation, hate speech, potential terrorist threats, child sexual abuse material (CSAM), blackmail, and “sexually oriented businesses,'” reports Gizmodo. “Based on the content, moderators can ban the account, put the user ‘on watch,’ or leave it alone.” From the report:
From: WhatsApp Moderators Can Read Your Messages – Slashdot
What a surprise, don’t you think? I already wrote about it in italian (here WhatsApp non ti legge, ma ti spia)
That’s why it is important to avoid it. Use Telegram, Session or Briar.
Useful tools
htmlq, like jq, but for HTML. Uses CSS selectors to extract bits content from HTML files. Mozilla’s MDN has a good reference for CSS selector syntax.
jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
Greentea OS — free desktop alternative
Free Windows alternative. Open source Windows operating system.
Source: Greentea OS — free desktop alternative. I’ll try to make it run Gelfi’s programs
Come installare WhatsApp su tablet senza SIM
Write on Medium? No thanks, you’re proprietary
Today I found this flashing notice on the daily mail I get from Medium.com:
Let me be cristal clear:
Write on Medium? No thanks, you’re proprietary
While I appreciate some tech blogs hosted by Medium, in the improbable event that I will become a tech-blog-star I will never rely on proprietary software, not when there are so many excellent alternative libere, alterternatives based on software libero, aka libre.
Il tuo computer non è tuo (aggiornamento)
Jeffrey Paul ha aggiornato l’articolo che avevo citato a novembre ne «Il tuo computer non è tuo». Mi piacerebbe tradurlo, ma non sono un bravo traduttore e tempo ne ho pochissimo. Quasi quasi provo ad usare DeepL.