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RT @matt_fortini@twitter.com
Il Comune di Cento ha scelto di passare a un “office” libero, gratuito e #opensource, @libreoffice@twitter.com, in sostituzione di altre soluzioni proprietarie e a pagamento. I fondi risparmiati sono stati investiti nella formazione informatica del personale.
https://www.comune.cento.fe.it/aree-tematiche/relazioni-il-cittadino/il-comune-cento-passa-software-libero-0
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/matt_fortini/status/1291070177870860289
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Look at this cool-ass, hand-made notebook @ekaitz_zarraga made for me and sent me! 🤩 😍
#HTTP stands for #HyperText Transfer Protocol.
Yet, since decades, it's not anymore a protocol optimized for HyperText transfer.
Now, what if we wanted to design a protocol REALLY optimized for such goal?
We could design it from scratch for high bandwidth high latency network, maybe over something like BitTorrent, sharing signed but mostly unencrypted and cacheable contents and occasionally encrypted ones. Always static: browseable but not interactive, yet easy enough to self-host to allow social conversation through additive creation of new contents into such Web.
But how to name such protocol?
HTTP has been taken and corrupted. 😒
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This ad hoc theater made from hay bales.
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I'm about to do a Reddit AMA about BlueLeaks, the 269gb hack of police data, with Mara Hvistendahl from The Intercept. We've been digging into the data and reporting on it -- ask any questions you have! https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/i3nnup/were_an_investigative_reporter_and_the_director/
1943: Italian phrase book for American soldiers during the second World War.
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● NEWS ● #Vice #Environment ☞ Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzn5a/theoretical-physicists-say-90-chance-of-societal-collapse-within-several-decades
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The SDF Plan9 Boot Camp 2020 continues with weekly weekend meet ups. Do you want a slice? email membership for one! @neauoire
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I've noticed a recent linguistic shift in some young people, referring to websites as "apps". Reddit is an "app". The college website is an "app". "Which app did you see that on?"
I don't know if this is just shorthand (they likely access sites through an app) or a genuine misunderstanding of what's going on.
I don't want to be dramatic, but I'd lying if I said it didn't concern me a little. The WWW is a great resource which is free and interoperable. (Well we're down to just 2 browser engines now, but that's another matter). It'd be a shame if the WWW withered away, replaced by "apps", because people didn't know what they had.
"Damn kids. They're all alike."
"You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike."
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/31/21349920/twitter-hack-arrest-florida-teen-fbi-irs-secret-service
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curl -s http://artscene.textfiles\.com/vt100/globe.vt | pv -L9600 -q # Spinning ASCII art globe. Visit the parent directory in that URL for more animations.
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Read Steve Jobs’ emails about why you can’t buy digital books in Amazon’s apps - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/30/21348130/apple-documents-steve-jobs-email-books-amazon-apps-antitrust-investigation-schiller
I hate syntactic sugar.
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Hello fellow Europeans in the #Fediverse:
Do you know about any organisations promoting #FreeSoftware, #OpenSource, #OER to educational instiutions/public administrations?
Are you aware of any educational institutions already using FS?
Do you know about any other #education related activities in your country?
Asking for a friend @egnun
@fsfe
Please boost!
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In ecology, biodiversity is an important measure of ecosystem health.
Maybe we need to appreciate software, interface and network diversity as similar indicators of the health of our digital culture.
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Episode 2: The impact of machines that "learn" and produce https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/2-machine-learning-impact.html
Discussion about recent developments in machine learning and the impact they could have on FOSS, programming in general, art production, and civic society
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I am extraordinarily pleased to announce a new release of my refactoring source-to-source compiler for FORTRAN 77! So happy!
https://github.com/wimvanderbauwhede/RefactorF4Acc
#coding
#compiler
Brand new #SmartPhone models from my daughters' #hacklab. They built the safest system money can't buy, the only one a child should be allowed to use.
And note the App selection for their operating system: they didn't ask for any suggestions!
- O.S.
- http://jehanne.io
Joined May 2019
