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…
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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…
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Android, Smartphones, Software Libero, Web
I don’t care about cookies
Today I was digging into Firefox extensions for my Android phone discovering this nice “I don’t care about cookies” https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/?src=category
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commodore Amiga ebook pdf
Sorgente: Commodore Computer Blog: eBook gratuito! “Amiga, da informatica a religione”
Android, Smartphones
A little too much
In a middle of typical morning I saw the battery of my smartphone quite lower than what I expected so I looked at power usage : Hey, wait a moment, I haven’t used Google Play Music! It must have been working under the wood: Dear Google, I understand that you strive to provide refined, responsive,…