Most people simply had to deal with proprietary software that more or less runs exclusively on Microsoft OSes. For example when I bought my Dell laptop I used the Microsoft license that I grudgingly had to bought to create a fully legal installation into a virtual machine as the physical machine never ran it. I…
Android, Smartphones, Software Libero
RedPhone
I can’t believe I still haven’t install RedPhone from Open Whisper Systems : free-as-in-freedom, licensed under GPLv3
Software Libero
It’s actually over
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t be evil“. For a convenient definition of “evil” it seems when you read news such as this: The default behavior of hotword, a new, black-box module in Chrome (and its free/open cousin, Chromium) causes it to silently switch on your computer’s microphone and send whatever it hears to Google. Google…
Mood, Software Libero
No source, no trust
Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free No, thanks, I rather prefer not to use software that I cannot trust. You may offer it for zero money but as there’s no sources to inspect I cannot trust it. No source, no trust. It’s that simple. Sorgente: Microsoft brings Office to Android smartphones for free
Mood
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
The Fiji GPU is comprised of roughly 8.9B transistors Almost nine billion transistors…. sounds like science fiction for the child in me that once played with Commodore 64, powered by the almighty 6510 which has a transistor count of around 3,500. From: AMD Radeon R9 Fury X Review: Fiji And HBM Put To The Test
Javascript, Smartphones
The amazing JavaScript
Javascript, HTML5 and the browser in all its incarnations are quickly becoming the new amazing way of developing applications for the “plain and simple end-user”. On the MacBook Pro Javascript was 44% slower than C (Java only 1.5%). The Javascript Nitro VM on my iPhone 4S was 99% slower than C. On the Nexus 7…
Mood
Look, dad!
I’ve read from time.com “The War on Pink: GoldieBlox Toys Ignite Debate Over What’s Good For Girls“, as Slashdot gained my attention with “Are Girl-Focused Engineering Toys Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes?“. Being an engineer and father of two wonderful girls I am quite interested in the matter. Quite obviously my wife and me wish the best…
Senza categoria
Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
Awesome. Quite awesome. Guacamole — HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop is really awesome. Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC and RDP.We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required.Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is…
Senza categoria, Software Libero, Web
Big G or Big Brother?
 Google Criticized For ‘Opaque’ Audio-Listening Binary In Debian Chromium (source Slashdot): Debian, mother of Ubuntu, a major player in the software Libre world always required to have access to the sources of the programs they distribute1, especially in web-browsers. I’m not surprised to read this. I do not use proprietary browser for this very reason,…
Software Libero
FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…
Looks like I found a nice news reader for me FreshRSS, a free, self-hostable aggregator…