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paride5745··on Ubuntu Reveal Results of Gnome Desktop Survey
The Gnome-Tweak-Tool is going to get this switch.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/gnome-tweak-tool-move-win...

paride5745··on DDoS protection
> we had ~30 hours of downtime this sunday

30 hours in a 24 hours day? :O

paride5745··on Plugging in Kindle is crashing Windows 10 after summer update
Windows 10 SP1 with a fancy name.
paride5745··on “It's The Future”
From your comment I see you didn't read the post.

Read it, it's a lovely 5 minutes piece of writing.

paride5745··on Ubuntu Unity running on Windows 10
Absurdly funny, but true.
paride5745··on Apple File System
Apple should have bought Sun at the time, and cross-pollinate Mac OS X and Solaris while using OpenSolaris to attack the server/cloud market.
paride5745··on Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
Jokes aside, I would really like a UI/UX inspired by outlook.com and the other MS web apps.
paride5745··on Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B
From Scala to .Net?
paride5745··on FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
That's the reason I'm a DragonFlyBSD user. Plus the lovely community there.
paride5745··on FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
Some of it it's a reaction to systemd hate.
paride5745··on Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been rising since the 1960s. Why?
I care about plants, therefore I do not eat them.
paride5745··on Jolla C, a new Sailfish OS phone from Jolla
A friend of mine is still waiting for the Tablet or a refund. Honestly, I do not trust them enough to give them my money.
paride5745··on Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
Careful, Oracle might use this statement!
paride5745··on Google Allo and Duo, new messaging apps
Whatsapp has also a PC/Mac desktop app since a few days.
paride5745··on How I got through Docker's censorship
Agree.

Digital embargo is more appropriate IMHO.

paride5745··on How Italy Improved My English
Same for me.

I'm Italian, lived in UK for a few years, and I have problems with Standard Italian, so much that often I use English grammar in Italian or I have to Google translate from English to Italian for words.

Also, I noticed as well that my home dialect is getting stronger than Standard Italian, although I lived in another part of Italy for almost 10 years.

paride5745··on A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science
Clean Firefox (no addons) from Italy, no paywall or ad-wall.

I have the no-tracking enabled in the FF preferences and I'm on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS.

paride5745··on Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure
I disagree about the drain from retail to private.

7 millions+ people are not paying Blizzard already (me included) because the game they sell now it's not the one I subscribed years ago. It is not an MMO nowadays, you just hang around in your personal space, click to get in instances, click to get a selfie, click to buy some gold. I miss the community and the sense of exploration, and private servers, especially those on Vanilla or TBC, are the only ones giving me that feeling.

It's years the community ask Blizzard to give us Vanilla/TBC servers, and let us play the game we love. Most of us will pay an higher sub if required, so it's not being cheap.

Closing Nostalrius will not bring more people in retail, but the opposite. Most of the people I know are dropping their subscriptions BECAUSE of the action Blizzard has taken. Instead of solving the cause, they are sticking they head in the sands, telling us we don't know what we want, that they know better. Well, numbers don't lie, and the game is empty.

So yeah, good work Blizzard, you managed to kill the biggest game in history. And they could make a lot of money with a couple of legacy servers. Those have no costs, except for limited maintenance, and the game development has paid itself years ago. So it is virtually pure profit.

paride5745··on iPhone SE
I have a Moto G 3rd gen with a 64GB SD.

I've sold my iPod touch 5th gen 64GB as I wasn't using it anymore since moving to a smartphone + big sd.

paride5745··on The Unsuitability of English (2015)
As an Italian native speaker, I do not fully agree.

Italian is great, but often is too much rhetorical and "slow" to convey a message, while English is quicker and allows you to "hack" the language in a unique way.

I do not love English, but I think that it is good enough and the quicker language to use out there (albeit one of the hardest to master properly).

Italian is excellent, especially compared to other (major) European languages (hello French and German). But it is not the quicker language to learn at an acceptable level IMHO.

paride5745··on How I doubled the battery life on my Mac by closing one tab in Chrome
TIL if I close an app, my battery last longer.

Seriously, you should always close what you do not need. It is not only for energy efficiency, but for security as well.

paride5745··on “We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the 2.6 release”
This is a good news.

Firefox OS was never a real product, but a PoC.

IMHO, Mozilla should absorb the Tor project and focus on Free Web technologies, e.g. a really Free email service and a Free cloud storage service.

Yes, I intentionally use capitol F for Free.

How to raise money? Freemium model.

A good email+cloud storage service, with the optional pay model for using a custom domain.

And stop attacking the Linux distros for the Firefox trademark (forcing them to create the Iceweasel fork) or including proprietary services (e.g. Pocket) forcing the creation of the Icecat fork.

Just be a Free and Open browser, with some good cloud services, and make money within a Freemium model (allowed by Free Software Foundation policies).

paride5745··on Tumblr Has Lost Almost a Quarter of Its Value Under Yahoo’s Ownership
A buzzfeed article with a bait-y link? I don't believe you!
paride5745··on Show HN: Read Hacker News in a Pinterest Way
Technologically nice, but I really hate the Pinterest Way so I would never use a website with that kind of layout.
paride5745··on Unikernel Systems Joins Docker
Vice-versa IMHO, as this is the official statement.
paride5745··on Google sheep view
Don't tell the Welsh!
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