Paolo Redaelli personal blog

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Paolo Redaelli

Is Advanced AI a Reason to Decouple from The Centralized Internet?

That’s the question posed by Purism, the USA manufacturer of Linux hardware, laptop, servers and the Librem5 phone.

Interesting. Obviously but without hiding in the end they propose their products but I think they do well
If only Librem5 USA didn’t cost so much… 😅

Don’t trust proprietary

Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser (source Slashdot).I strongly, strongly suggest everyone to avoid using this functionality because it is proprietary software. Not having the sources you can’t be sure what it really does. It can easily have a backdoor to let some external entities come in and raid (i.e.…

Of course, they don’t need it

WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief – wrote Slashdot Of course they would not remove it, they don’t need it! Governments have their own Meta-provided comfortable backdoor to WhatsApp. How can I be sure? I’m not, but being WhatsApp proprietary software it is pratically impossible to ensure there are no…

Link

https://github.com/uNetworking/uSockets

Miniscule cross-platform eventing, networking & crypto for async applications

Firmware – Debian Wiki

The Debian project has taken the decision in 2022-10 to create a new repository component non-free-firmware, and include its content on installation media for the upcoming Debian release bookworm to make things easier for our users. From Firmware – Debian Wiki So people like me that installed Debian several years ago keeping it updated  shall…