They don’t care about freedom

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

I’ve just read “Why China is Giving Away Its Tech For Free“.

The real issue is that they are speaking of “open source” and not about freedom for people.

Chinese government likes the utilitaristic approach of “open source” and do not care – to say the least – to speak about freedom for people. In fact the reporter wrote:

… the government, see open models as the quickest way to narrow the gap with America.

After having noted that

[…] the rise in China of open technology, which relies on transparency and decentralisation, is awkward for an authoritarian state. If the party’s patience with open-source fades, and it decides to exert control, that could hinder both the course of innovation at home, and developers’ ability to export their technology abroad.

The real issue here is let Chinese persons to know that they have the right to be free

Farewell, spacevim, welcome lazyvim

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Today I wanted to add dart support to my spacevim setup, so I opened https://spacevim.org/. What a surprise, I got redirected to https://wsdjeg.net/why-spacevim-is-archived/ that stated

SpaceVim 这一项目起源于 2016 年 12 月份，于 2025 年 2 月 21 日停止维护。

Thanks to Firefox automatic translation I read that

The SpaceVim project originated in December 2016 and was discontinued on February 21, 2025.

Needless to say I was a little mithered. Luckily there are several other “(neo)vim distribition” that turn our beloved editor into a full-fledged IDE. Since I have been told by my fellows of PoUL that even LunarVim is not so healthy I followed their suggestion installing lazyvim.org which is NeoVim-specific but worked out-of-the-box. Well, almost. In fact its dart support require a fairly recent version of NeoVim (0.10+) and I discovered after a while that I was running a not so current release (0.9). After adding flutter/dart support following this Reddit comment, it worked like a breeeze.

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1511 ilsoftware.it

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Leggevo

GitHub Copilot non viola alcun diritto di terzi secondo Julia Reda: ecco perché

Il nuovo strumento per generare codice in qualunque linguaggio grazie all’intelligenza artificiale non viola i diritti intellettuali di terze, tanto meno non sarebbe soggetto alle prescrizioni delle licenze GNU GPL. Julia Reda spiega il perché.

L’articolo ha già 4 anni – è del 2021 – ma contiene spunti interessanti. Ma qui ne scrivo per i biscottini della praivasì: ci danno dentro ad ilsoftware.it con ben 1511 biscottini, ma loro sono personcine precisine, quindi ci fanno anche sapere che dei loro 1511 fornitori 913 sono “Partner TCF” mentre altri 598 sono “Partner Google”

Futura agenda

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

5 strutture dati strane (ma utili) nell’informatica (“5 Strange (but useful) Data Structures in Computer Science”).

Let’s look at five weird data structures that will help you when the arrays and hashmaps of this world aren’t enough.

Do we have it in Liberty Eiffel? ROPE is part of the standard library. The other are “futura agenda”, i.e. “things that must be done in the future”, at least when speaking of LibertyEiffel

La libertà di controllare la propria vita

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

fedimedia ha recenemente caricato su peertube.uno “Software Libero e Liberazione del Cyberspazio”, il video che Richard Stallman ha usato come introduzione al suo recente discorso al Politecnico di Milano.

https://peertube.uno/videos/embed/8T9i8hAt5PMKWtosXp2qVZ

Questo video è fondamentale perché in esso Stallman spiega in modo chiaro e appassionato:

  • La differenza tra “gratis” e “libero” nel software
  • I 4 diritti irrinunciabili degli utenti (usare, studiare, modificare, condividere)
  • Come il controllo proprietario minaccia democrazia e creatività
  • La filosofia etica dietro il movimento Free Software

Questo intervento non è un estratto casuale, ma l’introduzione ufficiale degli eventi con Stallman: per questo è stato proiettato dagli organizzatori – Fedimedia Italia ed il Politecnico Open unix Labs (poul.org) in apertura al discorso milanese di RMS, come un ponte ideale tra la sua visione e le nuove generazioni.

“La libertà degli utenti è la libertà di controllare la propria vita”

RMS