Paolo Redaelli personal blog

Le mettiamo le sanzioni?

Date una letttura alla Dichiarazione Sovranità Digitale Europea: Italia sottoscrive il documento con gli altri Stati membri sul sito governativo innovazione.gov.it; e notate questo passaggio che toglie ogni dubbio: “In questo quadro, viene riconosciuto anche il ruolo delle soluzioni open source, purché rispettino elevati standard di sicurezza informatica e siano integrate, ove necessario, da tecnologie…

Manually updating font list

This is not needed if you use high-level facilities, but in case of manual, low level manipulation of fonts repositories in your machine just issue fc-cache -f -v to update the available font lists. I looked for it far too many times; taken https://askubuntu.com/questions/3697/how-do-i-install-fonts

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MosaicWM Rethinking window management for GNOME Shell

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FFF.nvim

Finally a smart fuzzy file picker for neovim.

FFF stands for freakin fast fuzzy file finder (pick 3) and it is an opinionated fuzzy file picker for neovim. Just for files, but we’ll try to solve file picking completely.

It comes with a dedicated rust backend runtime that keep tracks of the file index, your file access and modifications, git status, and provides a comprehensive typo-resistant fuzzy search experience.

Emulated FP64

Choosing the right news sources is important. In my case Hacker News 50 proved to be precious as in this recent post/toot/message they proposed “Fifteen Years of FP64 Segmentation, and Why the Blackwell Ultra Breaks the Pattern“. Briefly, modern consumer GPU has a 64:1 ration in FP64:FP32 performances (FP64 is a shortcut for Double-precision floating-point…

First came Wine…

First came Wine, i.e. Wine Is Not an Emulator, a free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Windows API, allowing to run Windows application with various grade of effectiveness. Then came those: