Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That’s a Good Thing Here’s one of the several reason why you cannot rely on proprietary software: you can’t never be sure your systems don’t have a backdoor. Note: the same holds for its main competitor Juniper.
Category: Software
Proprietary software, Software Libero
Neo4j, Graph database
Source: Graph database – Wikipedia Neo4j 3.3.5 (April 2018)[20] GPLv3 Community Edition, commercial & AGPLv3 options for enterprise and advanced editions I do like companies that uses AGPL.
Software Libero
UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine
UnQLite – An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc. as well a standard Key/Value store similar to BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, etc. A cousin of the much more famous SQLite
Software Libero, Web
Gigablast
Gigablast, an opensource (mono-node?) search engine
Android, Software Libero
microG Project
Project A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries. Sorgente: microG Project
Android, Android, Smartphones, Software Libero
Now it’s the time
As my FairPhone2 returned from repairing it’s time to keep its software as free as possible, installing Fairphone Open 18.04.1
Android, Mood, Proprietary software, Smartphones
How they know where I am?
I've always wondered how Google can locate us so easily when using an Android phone. Here's the answer of Stack Exchange How does Google know where I am? and from Znet How Google–and everyone else–gets Wi-Fi location data.
Mood, Software Libero
Ettore’s Vice
Everytime I read a news like this – Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator – Slashdot – I recall its main author, the late Ettore Perazzoli and share a tear and a prayer for him.
Android, Proprietary software
How To Run Android Apps On Linux
How To Run Android Apps On Linux? Very informative, but the answer is summarized in “install Google Chrome plus arc-welder extension“. If I had to run proprietary sw then one more doesn’t make such a difference Update: well, it’s not that simple. So let’s write all the steps.
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«Microsoft Is Embracing Android As the Mobile Version of Windows» reports Slashdot and most of the times it is as proprietary as Windows plus it tries to known everything about you and tell it to the great G that doesn’t want anymore “not to be evil”.