Screenshots | Shutter – Feature-rich Screenshot Tool Well, it’s really a shame that such a tool is slowly fading into Debian’s oldstable and oldoldstable. Then I found why: it’s written in Perl which is a perfectly good programming language but it is currently considered too “old-fashioned”. It is also “stuck” using the old Gnome 2…
Fun, Games, Videogames
Wonder Boy or Monster Boy?
I already posted one a video of Wonder Boy. Now on the same “plot” or genre there’s Monster Boy and the cursed kingdom, “created in cooperation with series creator Ryuichi Nishizawa” Wonderful. Even if proprietary. And for “plain old computers” is served throught Steam. Ok, it runs on Linux too. Bi-wonderful. So I finally installed…
Fun, HTML, Web, Wordpress
Borders
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;">…
Ethics
Mark Zuckerberg Again Calls for Big Tech to be Regulated – Slashdot
Mark Zuckerberg Again Calls for Big Tech to be Regulated – Slashdot Zuckerberg has previously called for more government regulation of internet companies, and reiterated his arguments in favor of laws covering four major areas: elections, harmful content, privacy and data portability. “I don’t think private companies should make so many decisions alone when they…
Mood
Le 10 parole più belle del DIALETTO milanese – Milano Città Stato
Che lingua fantastica è il milanese. Queste sono le sue parole più belle. Le 10 parole più belle del DIALETTO milanese – Milano Città Stato. Sulle prime sembra carina. Poi ti rendi conto che liquidano un’intera lingua – sebbene locale – con dieci lemmi e ti sale la tristezza.
Mood
Alfin Poste chiude la posta.
Secondo voi una società che si chiama “Poste Italiane” e che ha avuto per più di un secolo il monopolio della posta in Italia non avrebbe come “missione aziendale” nel XXI secolo di offrire servizi di posta elettronica? Ovvio che sì. Ed in fatti Poste Italiane con la diffusione dell’email ha offerto per anni…
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Documentations, Fun
how old is your linux installation
I was just wondering how old is my Dell Precision. So I asked DuckDuckGo “how old is your linux” and it told me to to read how old is your linux installation on documentacoes.wordpess.com sudo tune2fs -l $( df -h | awk '$NF ~ "/$" {print $1}' ) | grep created Filesystem created: Wed Nov…
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Why Most Code Sucks – Better Programming – Medium
And what you can do to improve yours
Senza categoria
Oh, debug symbols
I forgot how big an executable can become when you compile it with debug symbols. I was recompiling IfcOpenShell. For a moment my 16Gb, 12core machine froze. Well, an executable of six hundred, thirty five millions of bytes! paolo@rigel:/mnt/dati/paolo/src/IfcOpenShell/build/Linux/x86_64/install/ifcopenshell/bin$ file * IfcConvert: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,…