Ah, secondo la vulgata comune Windows 10 sarebbe solidissimo. E come li spieghiamo questi “schermi blu della morte” su una macchina aggiornata con su solo Firefox che si inchioda malamente al solo leggere una paginetta web di testo?
E no, non mi tirate fuori la storiella dei driver che non sono sotto il controllo di Microsoft, perché con Win10 non regge.
I knew that almost all phones comes with a proprietary OS, either the prison-ware iOS or proprietary derivative of Android. Yet I wasn’t aware that the situation is SO bad. Read this.
Hong Kong Protesters Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block: Usage Up 3685% – Slashdot:
An anonymous reader quotes Forbes: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet.
That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Francisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using no persistent managed network…
Too bad that Bridgefy is proprietary software. Luckyly there are free-as-in-freedom alternatives: the first entry is Briar:
Briar is a messaging app designed for activists, journalists, and anyone else who needs a safe, easy and robust way to communicate. Unlike traditional messaging tools such as email, Twitter or Telegram, Briar doesn’t rely on a central server – messages are synchronized directly between the users’ devices. If the Internet’s down, Briar can sync via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, keeping the information flowing in a crisis. If the Internet’s up, Briar can sync via the Tor network, protecting users and their relationships from surveillance
It has a nice website, it’s available on both Google Play “walled garden” and in the free-as-in-freedome F-Droid repository: 
Dear Facebook,
I’ve been accessing your social service using Frost an free-as-in-freedom Android app.
Why? Because I don’t trust you. You already far too much about me. And knowing your ways of handling and selling the data you collect I’ve decided to confine you as much as possible and this means that I will never install your proprietary client to access your services.
I want to keep you confined into softwares that I can trust, such as the Firefox web browser or the Frost client.
But you keep thinking that my usage of Frost is “suspicious” and keep locking me out. I’m fed up.
I’ve been designing concrete mixes for almost 20 years and I’ve always used spreadsheets. Seeing those frees for a “free product” Free Concrete Mix Design Software | Concrete Quality make me think that we do actually need one which is free-as-in-freedom
The Concrete Quality software is free” Free to use, pay only for additional services, no minimum subscription time. Starting at 35 € (~39 USD) per month.
Sarebbe bene proporne uno al giorno sulle reti sociali…..
We should not need this in an ideal world. But since the great G has ditched its motto “don’t be evil” long ago we need much more projects like this
Non riesco a capire perché non hanno semplicemente iniziato a distribuire i sorgenti solo ai clienti paganti e/o rilasciare sotto AGPLv3…
Perché prima a chiunque e poi a nessuno? La GPL non “obbliga” a rilasciare i sorgenti indiscriminatamente ma a rilasciarli solo a chi usa il programma o riceve una copia del binario.
Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists – Slashdot
So does anybody still need to be taught why Software Libero (i.e. Free-as-in-Freedom) is of utmost importance today for the actual freedom of people? Or better why we must ban software which does not came with readable and inspectable source code?
Caro Zukenberg, cara Facebook,
Da qualche mese ho intensificato la mia presenza sulla vostra rete sociale, complice il mio rinnovato interesse per i Giochi di Ruolo. Ma da avidi ed abili collezionisti e rivenditori di dati personali conoscete perfettamente la mia predilezione per il Software Libero.
