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I do like Gutenberg, the “next-gen” WordPress editor. Yet it is still in its infancy as there are many little graphical customization that its basic blocks does not allow for. Neither the old editor allowed them, I must acknoledge, but you could switch to the HTML code and add a <div style="border: red double thick;"> to get something like

I could keep doing it but I would have lost all the ease-of-use that Gutenberg bring us. So a quick search with my favourite duck told me to try “Multipurpose Gutenberg Block” as it allow to define borders, padding, background gradients and so on.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/multipurpose-block/

I hope all those features will come to basic Gutenberg blocks. But they won’t be “basic” anymore and most probably they won’t came as all those features would add too many sliders and options to the “paragraph” block.

Many WordPress developers would not like all that complexity as it is often unneeded. And unneeded complexity makes software harder to use and slower.

I also suspect that those borders aren’t stylish enough, according to “modern webpage typesetting”. Oh, all those fashions! Don’t show pages like “Space Jam” to young web developers: they could die on the spot for the shock!

‘Space Jam’ Forever: The Website That Wouldn’t Die

Perché proprietari?

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Tutto è cominciato con la nostra visita all’Open Day del liceo don Gnocchi. Gran bell’evento: son riusciti a rendermi simpatico il liceo classico a me che ho sensibilità quasi diametralmente opposte.

Tutto ben fatto. C’è solo una cosa che non mi è piaciuta: il fatto che pur avendo il sito istituzionale fatto in WordPress si son messi ad utilizzare un “aggeggio” proprietario per fare le pagine di presenzazione, ossia site123 punto com (che mi guardo bene dal collegarvi per evitare di fargli pubblicità). Dubito che ci sia malizia perché le pagine illustravano le lingue straniere ed i viaggi studio

Cercando cosa fosse questo site123 mi son poi imbattuto in questo confronto https://www.mybestwebsitebuilder.com/compare-wix-vs-wordpress-vs-site123 che dire che è in malafede mi pare poco: se ne esce con bestiate tipo che wordpress.com non offrirebbe hosting gratuito quando è esattamente il contrario.

L’ultima chicca l’ho trovata su alternativeto.net che riporta l’iniziativa di qualche burlone che è riuscito a creare “You Don’t Need WordPress – Create A Blog With Only Google Docs”. Oh oh oh, promette tre cose:

  1. Hosted for you – We handle hosting, all you need is a Google Drive account!
  2. Open Source The platform is open source. Feel free to contribute and/or host it yourself!
  3. FreeWe are free to use!

Oh bella, puoi aprire tutti i sorgenti che vuoi ma se per funzionare fai affidamento su un servizio proprietario sei un gonzo. È vero che non costa denaro. Già vero. Costa in riservatezza persa, in invasività e via discettando. Pessima, pessima scelta.

Eh che stufita!

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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.

Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired

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Oh my! Firefox disabled all add-ons because a certificate expired

Well, only those who do nothing do not make mistakes.

Here’s a quick workaround:

For now, there is at least one workaround, but it only applies if you’re using the Firefox Developer or Nightly build. If you look under “about:config” (if you don’t know what this is, you probably shouldn’t try it) and set the “xpinstall.signatures.required” value to False, then your extensions will start working again.