RIcopio qui l’intervento che Roberto Foglietta ha scritto su LinkedIn: È arrivata finalmente la carta d’indentità digitale. Una roba che schifavo già quando se ne parlava a Genova nei congressi di Liguria Digitale, che penso fosse il 2010/11. Dopo 12 anni, il male sembra aver prevalso. Ma come spesso succede, piove sul bagnato. Infatti, se…
FSF Says Google’s Decision to Deprecate JPEG-XL Emphasizes Need for Browser Choice – Slashdot Personally, I never used nor remember having saw a JPEG-XL picture.I see WebP happily replacing Jpeg and PNG and GIF thought.I just wonder how an open, royalty-free image file format should not be desirable (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF )
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.…
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…
How to play Elite Dangerous on Linux Elite Dangerous is a space flight simulator game developed and published by Frontier Developments. In the game, the player takes control of the
wpOS – WordPress dashboard replacement that changes everything. From their website it looks like any other proprietary software. But I do know that WordPress is licensed under General Public License, so this wpOS -which is patently a WordPress plugin – must abide to the GPL. I just wonder how they comply.
Do you need to centrally manage Linux systems and user accounts under an Active Directory domain? Here’s how to do it. Source: How to join a Linux system to an Active Directory domain
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…
WhatsApp smetterà di funzionare il 31 dicembre 2022 su molti telefoni datati Sono i modelli più vecchi che perdono la compatibilità con l’app di messaggistica a causa della vetustà del sistema operativo non più aggiornato. E questa è un’ottima notizia! Magari qualcuno passerà a Telegram o Signal Tuttavia è un pezzo che non vedo più…
For my personal serie “yet another reason to avoid x”, today we have Roomba: Intimate Photos By Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online Your robot vacuums are watching you and the resulting imagery of your most private moments can, horrifically, get leaked online… iRobot … confirmed that gig workers shared intimate photos… to social media. Source: Slashdot.org