Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Category: Software Libero

X2Go, remote desktop faster than VNC

Sometimes VNC feels too slow, expecially other slow links. Enters X2Go – everywhere@home! X2Go enables you to access a graphical desktop of a computer over a low bandwidth (or high bandwidth) connection.X2Go is a Remote Desktop solution, which some vendors vaguely call Remote Control. This is not to be confused with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection,…

tmate • Instant terminal sharing

Today I discovered tmate • Instant terminal sharing  while issuing apt-cache search mate terminal. The Debian/Ubuntu repository told me1 that tmate provides an instant pairing solution, allowing you to share a terminal with one or several teammates. Together with a voice call, it’s almost like pairing in person. The terminal sharing works by using SSH…

We don’t make software for free, we make it for freedom.

From Automattic website. Because ethic does matter.

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I was pretty sure that Dell XPS 13 may be my next machine. Now this Ars Technica review confirms my impression

 

If you install and use proprietary software, you didn’t anything wrong.
A wrong is being done to you.

Communicating securely

A small list of application and documentation about secure, private communications: Open Whisper Systems, Home of Signal Voice Over Internet Protocol and chat application.  Communicating with Others from ( A Project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ) and also «Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications»