I never visited Russia and as far as I know I may never visit it, yet suddenly I feel the urge to return to the old “trusty” Nokia/HDM feature phones. Or even to leave the phone home

Mozilla is shutting down Pocket

Despite shutting Pocket down, Mozilla will continue offering curated content through other channels like Firefox’s New Tab experience and a newly branded email newsletter.

It seems that I have to change my tag “helpMozillaSharingPocket”

 Luckily it seems we have plenty of free-as-in-freedom alternatives, according to alternativeto.net

I cellulari Nokia ora li fa HMD!

La soluzione digitale facile e sicura per la Pubblica Amministrazione

Una piattaforma OpenSource integrata con cui gestire la classe, la segreteria, creare documenti e fogli di calcolo, presentazioni ma anche stanze virtuali e laboratori; adatta anche per la linguistica in digitale. 

CAD & GDPR compliant

KDE Is Getting a Native Virtual Machine Manager Called ‘Karton’ aiming to offer a seamless, Qt-native alternative to GNOME-centric tools like GNOME Boxes.

Oh, the irony of this naming, it tells a lot about the life-long friendly competition between KDE and Gnome! Someone would have to write a book on hackers’ naming schemes and its history…

Its guiding principles are

• Simplicity and readability
• Minimal: there ought to be one way to write something
• Striving for orthogonality
• Programs are about transforming data into other forms of data
  • Code is about expressing algorithms—not the type system
• There is embedded knowledge and wisdom in older programming languages
• The entire language specification should be possible to be memorized by a mere mortal

Its featre are features (in no particular order):

• Full UTF-8 Support
• Custom allocators that are simple to use:
  • Memory arenas/regions, pools, stacks, etc. which can be easily added
• Context system for allocations, logging, and thread data
• Built-in types and procedures that take advantage of the context system:
  • new(type), and make use the context’s allocator (unless explicitly given)
  • Dynamic arrays and hash maps ([dynamic]int and map[string]int)
• Array programming
  • a, b: [4]f32; c := a * b
  • i := a.x * b.y
  • v := swizzle(a, 1, 2, 0)
• Explicit procedure overloading
• Introspection on all types
• High control over memory layout
  • Alignment
  • Field offsets
  • Endianness
  • Data sizes
• Endian specific integer types (useful for specific data formats)
  • u32le
  • u64be
• Decent package system and file handling
• No bad preprocessor
• Type inference
  • x: int = 1
  • x := 1 // x is deduced to be an int
• using
  • making everything a namespace (similar to Pascal’s with but on steroids)
  • Ability to have subtype polymorphism
• Multiple return values
• Clean, consistent, and fast to parse syntax
• No need for procedure prototypes
• defer statements
  • defer a statement until the end of scope (akin to D’s scope(exit))
• Nested procedures and types
• Tagged unions and untagged unions
• Ranged for loops
• Labelled branches
  • break label_name
• break by default in switch statements
  • Explicit fallthrough
• “Raw” strings
  • x := `what "the" string?`
• cstring for legacy use
• Parametric polymorphism (“generics”)
• Foreign system
• Compile time when statements
• Bounds checking which is togglable at the statement level:
  • #no_bounds_check #bounds_check
• i128 and u128 support

And lots more!

https://www.xda-developers.com/how-i-made-a-home-vpn-with-dynamic-dns-for-secure-remote-access/