I neede to draw some sequence diagrams. Many people use presentation software like LibreOffice Impress or drawing software but I’m lazy and slow with those programs. Let’s add that I want to use them in a reveal.js presentation. So I asked DuckDuckGo, discovering https://github.com/denniskniep/reveal.js-plugin-sequence-diagrams which uses https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/. The latter in particular is really a smart…
Category: Software
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Quickemu Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
I may need to crosscompile Eiffel applications for MacOs
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Nanos.org: Run code faster than the speed of light
A unikernel running one and only one application in a virtualized environment. More secure and faster than Linux. All while keeping it simple.
Of course it runs faster than Linux. No fork, one process and several other significative simplications.
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Apache NuttX
Apache NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS).
Apache NuttX
NuttX is a real-time operating system (RTOS) with an emphasis on standards compliance and small footprint. Scalable from 8-bit to 32-bit microcontroller environments, the primary governing standards in NuttX are Posix and ANSI standards. Additional standard APIs from Unix and other common RTOS’s (such as VxWorks) are adopted for functionality not available under these standards, or for functionality that is not appropriate for deeply-embedded environments (such as fork()).
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Run Windows programs on Linux.
Source: Easily run Windows software on Linux with 🍷 Bottles! ⋅ Bottles
Hardware, Smartphones, Software, Software Libero
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…
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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
Ethics, Proprietary software
Office 2021 obbligherà 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.
Proprietary software
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…
Software Libero, Web
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.