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Un escandaloso oligopolio del que nadie habla: Lo que pasa con el correo electrónico

20/01/202320/01/2023 Paul 0 Comments arseholes, big tech, email, mastodon, oligopoly, tech bros

A pesar de un protocolo abierto y libre, y una red pública y federada, el correo electrónico se ha convertido en un oligopolio. ¿Correrán la misma suerte Mastodon y el resto del Fediverso?

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Why Mastodon is Better

05/11/202214/11/2022 Paul culture, free software, open source, social media, technology

With the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon, and even mainstream praising the platform as “interesting”, should you too migrate away from Twitter? (TL;DR: Yes. You can carry on with your day now).

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Breaking: Open Source not to Blame in node-ipc Debacle

21/03/202222/03/2022 Paul node-ipc, sabotageware

All the reasons that lay the blame for the node-ipc debacle at the feet of “open source” are, surprise, surprise, bullshit.

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Who’s Important

02/01/202203/01/2022 Paul accessibility, free software, KDE, linux, open source

I am not about to start a flamewar, but how pointless is it we fret about what a couple of YouTubers and their sidekicks have to say about Linux desktops?

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Missing the Point, PinePhone KDE Community Edition

16/11/202007/12/2020 Paul FLOSS, KDE, phones, plasma mobile, privacy

If you expect the PinePhone to match up to your current pocket supercomputer/surveillance device, you don’t get it.

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First 5 Things to Do After Booting Your KDE Slimbook II

05/03/201815/02/2019 Paul KDE, Plasma, Slimbook

You unboxed your KDE Slimbook II, posted the pics to Instagram, and logged into the desktop. What you are seeing

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Linux Inside Opinion Software 

The new and subtle Microsoft

19/11/201619/11/2016 Paul free software, linux, microsoft

Deep, deep, very deep inside me, I just hope all of this will turn out not to be true. Hopefully

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Snap! — Beyond teaching coding to would-be programmers

30/07/201602/02/2017 Paul coding, computer science, education, learning, scratch, Snap

Following on from our prior article and one more step in my lifelong (?) quest to rectify all the sillines

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Dump Scratch — Use Blockly or Snap! instead

12/07/201629/08/2016 Paul arduino, blockly, children, education, programming, scratch, Snap

The people who make Scratch have migrated it to Flash. This is the most bonkers, hare-brained, backward idea they could

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Free Software Artists and their Tools — Part III: Tom Carlos & Inkscape

07/06/201629/08/2016 Paul art, inkscape, vector graphics

In the final installment of this series we shift our focus away from FLOSS applications for creating bitmap graphics (in

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