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.
Category: Proprietary software
Proprietary software, Software, Software Libero
I’d rather use other DB
Dear Packt publishing, yesterday you wanted to make me a gift giving me a free copy of a book of yours. I shall thank you. One must always thanks for a gift. Yet I am somehow mithered to discover that the book deals with proprietary software. Namely Azure Cosmos DB. I strive to avoid proprietary…
Android, Proprietary hardware, Proprietary software
Apple is Another Dark Side
«Apple Hate From The Other Dark Side – Demo Insight» or the pot calling the kettle black. Apple is the new Evil Knight as much as Google
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software
A damning internal Facebook document
British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court Source: British Member of Parliament publishes 250 pages of damning internal Facebook documents that had been sealed by a US court / Boing Boing Expecially: …they show Facebookers at the highest level — up to…
Ethics, Mood, Proprietary software, Software Libero
“Own your data”, part III: Moving calendar and contacts into my ownCloud // Sebastian Greger
https://sebastiangreger.net/2014/03/own-your-data-part-3-calendar-contacts-owncloud/ Tonight assignment
Android, Ethics, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero
Like a drug
I naïvely thought that I wasn’t so reliant on the “we have shun our don’t be evil motto” organization (hint G00gle). How fool I was. I didn’t even have the phone number of my wife saved into my own CardDav address book. She phoned me to ask about my sprained ankle and my phone didn’t…
Android, Ethics, Proprietary software, Smartphones, Software Libero
Not only WhatsApp is proprietary software but it doesn’t even like to run on a pure Android release which I have to remind you is Free Software. Sadly its freedom is not persistent so it can be turned and it is too often turned into proprietary. Telegram happily runs on many terminals at the same…
Ethics, Proprietary software
Another reason
Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That’s a Good Thing Here’s one of the several reason why you cannot rely on proprietary software: you can’t never be sure your systems don’t have a backdoor. Note: the same holds for its main competitor Juniper.
Proprietary software, Software Libero
Neo4j, Graph database
Source: Graph database – Wikipedia Neo4j 3.3.5 (April 2018)[20] GPLv3 Community Edition, commercial & AGPLv3 options for enterprise and advanced editions I do like companies that uses AGPL.
Android, Mood, Proprietary software, Smartphones
How they know where I am?
I've always wondered how Google can locate us so easily when using an Android phone. Here's the answer of Stack Exchange How does Google know where I am? and from Znet How Google–and everyone else–gets Wi-Fi location data.