Francesco P Lovergine :debian:

Debian Developer, GIS geek, FLOSS activist. Researcher and data scientist.

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2025-05-18 08:56:37

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@nprofile…wkrn
A parte la questione di affidarsi alle ricerche di Google, come a Wikipedia o a ChatGpt che rappresentano tutte soluzioni al pari di andare dal mago Otelma adatte (e ampiamente gettonate) ad un certo tipo di persone, in effetti la questione vera è: il livello scandaloso dell'informazione italiota mainstream. Se quella economico-politica è pessima, la media di qualsiasi cosa abbia a che fare con scienza e tecnologia è roba da studenti di scuola media inferiore recuperata alle serali.

2025-05-13 09:13:07

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@nprofile…hs3x
Small associations and personal use: GnuCash is successful for annual by-cash reporting. It is a bit more complicated if you need reporting by fiscal year, i.e., by competence. However, you can definitely have a clear report of liabilities and assets which is due at the end of the period.
You can also prepare budgets and if you are a Guile (Scheme) hacker it is also highly customizable, including possibly very complicated accounting reportings.

2025-03-03 09:22:49

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@nprofile…cwcm Yes

2025-03-03 09:20:13

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@nprofile…02jg
Beh almeno citare i sistemi di containerizzazione su cui si basano ormai parecchi hub di pacchetti sarebbe stato utile, no? Flatpak & C sono una soluzione per qualsiasi distribuzione da tempo.

2025-03-03 09:20:13

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2025-03-03 09:16:11

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@nprofile…cwcm
The first one is the common pattern. Have a look to #R-related groups to see literally tons of scripts that are screenshotted. Very disappointing.

2025-02-26 08:38:53

It is misleading to suggest that evil parties can be controlled by imposing backdoors on common systems such as Telegram, Signal, or WhatsApp.
They are motivated enough to use other systems proficiently and work around them.
You, so-called democratic governments, are cultivating an illusion and allowing other evil entities to abuse that power. It happened in the past and will happen again in the future.
Stop it, idiots.
#control #government #abuse #backdoors #paragon
https://swedenherald.com/article/signals-ceo-then-were-leaving-sweden

2025-01-20 19:08:51

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@nprofile…args
Some times ago I wrote a blog post about that, the main reason why I switched off social nets and moved to distributed system.
Everyday is worse, but reading people like you and others gives hope to get the dream back.
https://lovergine.com/the-shattered-internet.html

2024-12-24 11:55:31

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

2024-10-03 09:08:04

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@npub1t7d…pqpp
Interesting post; I'm primarily interested in how are your experiences with hardware supports for BSD flavors. This is my main worry when considering non-Linux solutions.

2024-08-27 09:38:06

Good news comes every now and then
#freebsd #SovereignTechFund
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/

2024-08-26 06:24:57

Reading #SICP 2nd ed. for fun. I wonder why in 1987 we as students at an Italian University had to learn #computer #programming with Pascal, instead. What had we done wrong?

2024-08-03 14:03:27

"#Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary. #Scheme demonstrates that a very small number of rules for forming expressions, with no restrictions on how they are composed, suffice to form a practical and efficient programming language that is flexible enough to support most of the major programming paradigms in use today."
Something went wrong in #computing

2024-07-30 09:34:17

Published some personal notes and bold opinions about distributions and trends in computing.
http://lovergine.com/are-distributions-still-relevant.html

2024-05-08 05:48:37

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@npub1p45…89jz well, Debian Trixie/testing comes with 8.7.1, currently. But of course, stable has 7.74.0. maybe it depends on what is the distro target.

2024-01-26 08:15:18

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@npub1yge…gg7y @npub1qrr…rnnz It seems a segfault, would try a debugging session with core dumping. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingEvolution as a starting point.

2024-01-22 07:33:57

Maybe it's me, but I see in #Python the same first signs of hypertrophy of another well-known elephantine language such as C++... #decorators and other strange beasts 🥱

2024-01-09 15:27:59

My first #mua on *nix was #Elm on ~1993 (I think). In 1995 I moved to #Mutt and never changed. So I will turn 30 years of use next year. Wow!

2024-01-05 10:53:08

Good intentions for the new year. Deeply dive into new (for me) niche languages with a lot of interesting programming patterns. I'm now evaluating a couple of #Scheme implementations: #Racket and #Guile. Hints are welcome.

2023-12-28 14:11:13

I'm old enough to have begun using #unix before #linux, and in the first years, I used *nix (well, SunOS, Solaris, and Digital OSF/1, to say more precisely) for so long. I'm what nowadays is considered a Veteran Unix Admin or #vua. I'm still curious enough to stay updated about current tech, but I wonder how many people out there in the #fediverse are still passionate about tech novelties but even cultivate legacy knowledge such as #C, #Perl, #Tcl, #autoconf and #automake, #m4 and above all why?

2023-10-12 09:47:34

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@npub1t7d…pqpp and snap or flatpack or appimage, not only docker and containers. Unfortunately, the long chain of dependencies nowadays encourages people to depend on language hubs, which do not always contain seriously maintained packages. Not better than using blob images such as docker, isn't it?

2023-09-18 09:38:00

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@npub1t7d…pqpp something difficult to explain to too many devs and users is that language specific package systems (call them npm, gem, cpan, cargo, pip or whatever) do not solve the issue, only hide the whole chain of dependencies, often in sneaky manners. You will pay what's due sooner or later.

2023-08-14 13:17:07

After #Redhat and #Hashicorp changes in their #opensource policies, I'm now looking with suspect and reviewing all single-company #FOSS projects without a clear story of multiple contributions, without a foundation based governance and/or subject to copyright #hijacking for third parties contributions. (as the infamous MySQL one).
If you are strongly depending on such a project, it is time to sleep worried. We are living in very strange times.