Paolo Redaelli personal blog

A civil engineer with a longlife fondness for Software Libero

Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS – Slashdot

Sorgente: Facebook Petitioned To Change License For ReactJS – Slashdot

I started to begin to suspect that ReactJs license is not compatible with GPL and other free-as-in-freedom software licenses. It looks like a Trojan horse to me, trying to undermine Free Software nastily using patents in a clever way.

Patents on software shouldn’t be conceded

Il progetto WiFi°Italia°it – WiFi°Italia°it

L’obbiettivo Il Progetto WiFi°Italia°It ha come obiettivo principale quello di permettere a cittadini e turisti, italiani e stranieri, di connettersi gratuitamente e in modo semplice a una rete WiFi libera e diffusa su tutto il territorio nazionale. Tutto ciò è possibile grazie all’utilizzo di una APP per dispositivi mobili che permette a ciascun utente di … Leggi tutto “Il progetto WiFi°Italia°it”

Sorgente: Il progetto WiFi°Italia°it – WiFi°Italia°it

So let’s see:

  • Proprietary
  • Requiring a version of Android I don’t have. And my phone is “only” 3 years old.
  • Not usable in any other mean, at least it’s not stated on the website.
  • Not FAQ.

All in all, that’s the usual, faulty bureaucratic mess.

Timeo Smart-TV et dona ferentes

Veramente belli ed istruttivi gli appunti di Gabriele Merli come per esempio questo «Windows – Dispositivi fantasma nelle risorse di rete – Gabriele Merli» leggendo i quali rimango sempre più convinto che mai e poi mai una smart-tv entrerà in casa mia.

Beh. a dirla tutta varrebbe anche per tablet e telefonini su cui non gira un sistema libero installato da me, ma almeno quelli li posso chiudere in un cassetto mentre una smart tv è sempre lì, in vista e ben alimentata.

I want to dive a little into WordPress codebase but modern PHP is quite a different language from what I’ve learned – albeit a little – way ago, so long ago that WordPress didn’t even existed then. Beside reading the obvious official documentation, I’ve discovered that the almighty O’Really seems not to have a recent book on PHP, or a book about recent PHP either. As books from Packt publishing quite often turns out to be “quite shallow”, I’ve been looking for info the good old way, namely IRC channels. They told me these little gems:

Well, they really look the right documentation for me.

X2Go, remote desktop faster than VNC

Sometimes VNC feels too slow, expecially other slow links.

Enters X2Go – everywhere@home!

X2Go enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection.X2Go is a Remote Desktop solution, which some vendors vaguely call Remote Control. This is not to be confused with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection, which is a competing Remote Desktop solution and protocol.

Let’s chat!

I’ve been lingering on OTFC -it IRC channel and the almighty Elena of Valhalla made me discover the importance of maintain control over our communications that nowasdays are oftn channeled into various chat, social network and the like.

So I’ve read her article «Modern XMPP Server» and Enrico Zini’s «Modern and secure instant messaging» discovering several interesting softwares like:

I also discovered Gruppo Linux Como Figli orgogliosi del pinguino 😉 (and their identi.ca account Friendica social networ)