Most people simply had to deal with proprietary software that more or less runs exclusively on Microsoft OSes. For example when I bought my Dell laptop I used the Microsoft license that I grudgingly had to bought to create a fully legal installation into a virtual machine as the physical machine never ran it. I…
Category: Software
Android, Smartphones, Software Libero
RedPhone
I can’t believe I still haven’t install RedPhone from Open Whisper Systems : free-as-in-freedom, licensed under GPLv3
Software Libero
It’s actually over
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t be evil“. For a convenient definition of “evil” it seems when you read news such as this: The default behavior of hotword, a new, black-box module in Chrome (and its free/open cousin, Chromium) causes it to silently switch on your computer’s microphone and send whatever it hears to Google. Google…
Mood, Software Libero
No source, no trust
Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free No, thanks, I rather prefer not to use software that I cannot trust. You may offer it for zero money but as there’s no sources to inspect I cannot trust it. No source, no trust. It’s that simple. Sorgente: Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free
Senza categoria, Software Libero, Web
Big G or Big Brother?
Google Criticized For ‘Opaque’ Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium (source Slashdot): Debian, mother of Ubuntu, a major player in the software Libre world always required to have access to the sources of the programs they distribute1, especially in web-browsers. I’m not surprised to read this. I do not use proprietary browser for this very reason,…
Software Libero
FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…
Looks like I found a nice news reader for me FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…
Android, Smartphones, Software Libero, Web
I don’t care about cookies
Today I was digging into Firefox extensions for my Android phone discovering this nice “I don’t care about cookies” https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/?src=category
Status
https://github.com/leanote/leanote?files=1
Another interesting application written in Go.
It seems that an interoperability between Go and Eiffel could be desirable…
Software Libero
Calendari CalDav sincronizzati e gestiti da terminale
Some people would call this geekish. Calendari CalDav sincronizzati e gestiti da terminale Questo articolo è rivolto a tutti coloro che non voglio usare client dispendiosi di risorse e/o troppo legati ad un Desktop Environment, ma vogliono comunque poter sincronizzare, gestire ed editare i propri calendari remoti, pubblicati con CalDav.Per i più pigri, e per…
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See Linux Desktop Themes Archives – Make Tech Easier they all looks sneak, polished and nifty and I’ll never have enough time to check them all… 🙂