Apple Limits iPhone File-Sharing Tool Used For Protests In China – Slashdot Yet another reason to avoid proprietary operative systems. It would be quite difficoult to get free-as-in-freedom hardware in that country.
Tricks
ASCII, oh ASCII! Wherefore art thou, ASCII?
ASCII, oh ASCII! Wherefore art thou, ASCII? The original line copied by an infamous English poet Puns aside, in the XXI century there are still need to stick to plain, old 7 bit ASCII character table. Many industrial applications stick to it for its simplicity. Unicode is often an overkill in that situations.
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Stime…
Ma tu guarda, ho sempre usato la tecnica nota come Stima di Fermi senza sapere che fosse una tecnica “già inventata” dal grande fisico. Pensavo fosse solo applicare matematicamente il “buon senso”.
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Kfc assume a Monza
Kfc assume a Monza… ok è un “bieco” fast-food, ma è quello che mi sta più simpatico degli altri… ora non sarà mai un presidio “mangia-lento” ma rispetto agli altri com’è messo eticamente?
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Molto ben scritto “Mastodon, il Fediverso ed il futuro decentrato delle reti sociali” di / ca gi zero / spiega molto, molto bene cos’è il Fediverso e di cosa è fatto.
Software, Software Libero
Open Color
Open Color, a color scheme for UI design. Found on ZeusNews as an alternative to the (very) proprietary Pantone.
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Digitize books: Searchable OCR PDF with text overlay from scanned or photographed books on Linux – Michael Franzl
Step-by-step tutorial to digitize books. Produce searchable OCR PDFs with a selectable text overlay from a hardcopy book using Linux free software. Source: Digitize books: Searchable OCR PDF with text overlay from scanned or photographed books on Linux – Michael Franzl
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Another good reason
I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC -from ExtremeTech Another good, sound reason to stick to free-as-in-freedom operative systems such as GNU/Linux, BSD, Haiku and the like
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Vanilla OS is Ubuntu on stock GNOME with on-demand immutability and package selection freedom. Sounds fun? Read more here.
Source: Vanilla OS: More Than Just Vanilla GNOME With Ubuntu
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EditorConfig
EditorConfig helps maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers working on the same project across various editors and IDEs. The EditorConfig project consists of a file format for defining coding styles and a collection of text editor plugins that enable editors to read the file format and adhere to defined styles. EditorConfig files are easily…