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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2025-01-27 at 09:29

Minimal features to have:

• mobile and Linux/web app
• by topic/keyword/tag view
• Time window easily tunable

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2025-01-27 at 09:16

And yes, I can also pay a reasonable fee for such a service.

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2025-01-27 at 09:14

I eventually decided that it is time to move my whole feed of tech and non-tech news onto an #RSS #aggregator, that would allow an organization by topic, possibly self-hosted. I can admit to using a cloud-based service, but the capability of exporting my own settings is a must. I would avoid being locked in a system that disappears after a few years, without a plan B to move my feed collection elsewhere.

Suggestions are welcome, because of my laziness in actively searching solutions.

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2025-01-09 at 08:52

Wise suggestion for fighiting the #ClimateChange

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-12-24 at 12:33

Again another fork of a once-FOSS project.

I have to say that again and again:

DON'T TRUST SINGLE COMPANY DRIVEN FOSS PROJECTS.

https://github.com/OpenPuppetProject

I expressed clearly the reasons here:

https://lovergine.com/foss-governance-and-sustainability-in-the-third-millennium.html

[#]foss #puppet #governance #sustainability

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-12-24 at 11:55

My considerations about #IPv6 and its role as a matter of users' #freedom.

https://lovergine.com/ipv6-is-a-matter-of-freedom-not-a-technical-issue.html

[#]indieWeb

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-12-23 at 08:36

After solving some oddities (thanks Scaleway guys), I finally have my first working full IPv6 home-to-server connection.

Welcome to a new era. I still cannot understand why most ISPs here do not offer IPv6 connectivity. A nice plus is the availability of free static IPs.

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-10-25 at 17:59

Once upon a time, there was #opensource.com Now, there is #allthingsopen.org. Side effects of governance changes in a company with a certain red cap...

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-10-21 at 07:10

So, the Bitwarden stumble is one more example of why FOSS product companies cannot be trusted in the medium/long term.

I would say I told you, but... damn it yes, I told you here:

https://lovergine.com/foss-governance-and-sustainability-in-the-third-millennium.html

See section 'Pure FOSS products companies'

I will be more brief: they are mostly unsustainable. Full stop.

[#]Bitwarden

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-10-15 at 11:47

I just found a pure Python #geotiff implementation; it has been experimental for 3 years. It has a series of contributors, too.

Quite a long time ago, I wrote my own implementation of a TIFF library in C. That was before the well-known SGI libtiff implementation, and I know that writing such a lib from specs is not for the faint of heart: I was perfectly able to write legal TIFF files that caused segfaults for many applications at the time (but for Adobe ones).

https://github.com/KipCrossing/geotiff

1/2

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-10-08 at 13:22

I wonder if #guile #scheme could be considered as an embedded language for #grassgis to use instead of bash to create less weak pipelines. I find python scripts too much dependent on third-parties packages for my taste. Maybe I'm a dreamer...

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-09-28 at 13:28

@edodusi with wifi problems calls all the Saints

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-09-09 at 17:10

This is a post about multiple #programming #languages #performances It's not too serious, but it's interesting enough.

https://lovergine.com/a-silly-benchmarking-of-some-programming-languages.html

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-09-03 at 08:26

This is the second episode of my #guix diving experience. More are coming, and comments/fixes by Guix fellows are warmly welcome.

https://lovergine.com/the-guix-system-take-two.html

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-30 at 08:19

So they did it again after 3 years. An AGPL license has been added to Elasticsearch and Kibana. I wonder if this is the last change, and who can trust such governance teams at the end of the day?

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-27 at 09:43

While others make opposite choices to move towards non-open-source licenses, a different change comes. #gpl #goodnews #license

https://forgejo.org/2024-08-gpl/

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-26 at 18:15

My other car is a cdr. Or maybe it is a cadr, while cdr is not a car at all. Ok, I'm definitively into it ... 😆

[#]joke #scheme #guile

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-26 at 06:24

Reading #SICP 2nd ed. for pleasure. I wonder why in 1990 we as students at an Italian University had to learn #computer #programming with Pascal, instead. What had we done wrong?

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-18 at 17:07

I just published some notes about #guix the-system and the-package-management-system.

https://lovergine.com/an-initial-dive-into-guix.html

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Written by Francesco P Lovergine on 2024-08-16 at 07:44

https://dhirajpatra.medium.com/the-new-feature-in-python-3-13-allowing-cpython-to-run-without-the-global-interpreter-lock-5aad89124720

So a new 'feature' is disabling GIL. Look Mama, without hands! So a feature now is a tentative disabling to get something that in #perl worked since ages.

But

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78828192/what-caused-python-3-13-0b3-compiled-with-gil-disabled-be-slower-than-3-12-0

Come on #python guys, is this a joke???

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