I already knew this but now from “Chrome RAM/CPU usage vs. Safari vs. Flotato” we officially know that Chrome is a memory hog. Beside it’s not its biggest bug. It’s biggest defect is that Chrome is proprietary
Hardware, Software, Software Libero
L’alternativa veloce, aperta e rispettosa della privacy a Windows e macOS ⋅ elementary OS
L’alternativa veloce, aperta e rispettosa della privacy a Windows e macOS ⋅ elementary OS Ed in più mi fa scoprire altre due società europee che vendono Linux preinstallato: l’olandese Laptop With Linux e l’inglese Star Labs oltra alla spagnola Slimbook che già conoscevo.
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Role Play Games
Dark Sun Campaign Setting Preview Art
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Fun
Il pilastro
Comparisons, Eiffel, Liberty Eiffel
The V Programming Language
I’ve just read “Is Zig the long awaited C replacement” and it cites: The V Programming Language seems to be a “fastly compiling” language. Compilation speed benchmark C 5.2s gcc test.c C++ 1m 25s g++ test.cpp Zig 10.1s zig build-exe test.zig Nim 45s nim c test.nim Rust Stopped after 30 minutes rustc test.rs Swift Stopped…
Ethics
Critiques
I’m copying here A short critique of Stallmanism (found on https://web.archive.org/web/20170929154127/http://flowing.systems/2016/09/24/a-short-critique-of-stallmanism ). Someday I will find time to write a short critique to a short critique of Stallmanism coupling with some thoughts on Bertrand Meyer’s “The Ethics of Free Software” (here the PDF of his essay); here a local copy:
Ethics
Local CND emulators
We may discover that we want do use them: LocalCDN LocalCDN is a web browser extension that emulates Content Delivery Networks to improve your online privacy. It intercepts traffic, finds supported resources locally, and injects them into the environment. All of this happens automatically, so no prior configuration is required. Feel free to use the…
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Piping video over ssh
My situation is not the same depicted in “Can I pipe /dev/video over ssh” but I have a similar need. See an audio-video flow from an RTSP camera which is not accessible – by choice! – from the net but there is an accessible Linux machine which can talk to such a camera. So in…
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Why Blobs Are Important, And Why You Should Care
We are extraordinarily fortunate to live at a time in which hardware with astounding capabilities can be had for only a few dollars. Systems that would once have taken an expensive pile of chips and discretes along with months of development time to assemble are now integrated onto commodity silicon. Whether it is a Linux-capable…