Category: Proprietary software
Android, Proprietary software, Smartphones
How to Uninstall Any Android App With ADB (Including System Apps and Bloatware)
Android phones often come with lots of extra apps installed. If you can’t uninstall them normally, you can remove them using the ADB tool. Here’s how. Source: How to Uninstall Any Android App With ADB (Including System Apps and Bloatware)
Ethics, Proprietary software
Il monopolio della tecnologia: un disastro
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…
Patents, Proprietary software, Software, Software Libero
JPEG-XL, WebP or AVIF?
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 )
Proprietary software
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.…
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software
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…
Games, GNU/Linux, Proprietary software, Videogames
How to play Elite Dangerous on Linux
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
Proprietary software, Software Libero, Wordpress
wpOS, how do they cope with GPL?
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.
Proprietary software, Software
How to join a Linux system to an Active Directory domain
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
Debian, Proprietary software
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…