software

Recently I leafed through a conversation between LWN and Richard Stallman from about two decades ago. Even at that early stage his remarkably confrontational style already stood out. LWN writes in “Interview with Richard M. Stallman |”: Proprietary software is antisocial, so developing it is wrong. In most cases, the user of proprietary software is expected to promise not to share with anyone else. It’s wrong to make that agreement, wrong to keep it if you have made it, and especially wrong to lure someone else into making such a promise. Using part of the proceeds of this antisocial activity for a worthy cause cannot justify it. ...

Once again this blog has been a bit neglected. So far I had been blogging with an iOS Shortcut workflow, but it somehow stopped working. I adjusted the process again — technically it worked, but it wasn’t very practical. I briefly googled how others had solved the problem and came across Post from Rosemary Orchard. This workflow uses the stdin input option of the Run Script Over SSH action — in simple terms, it lets you pass input to that action as well as use variables as input in the script section. – Rosemary Orchard von 27. August 2018 ...

How environmentally friendly is your website? The Carbon Calculator tries to estimate this using the following factors. Calculating the carbon emissions of a website is somewhat of a challenge, but using five key pieces of data we can make a pretty good estimate: Data transfer over the wire Energy intensity of web data Energy source used by the data centre Carbon intensity of electricity Website traffic – Website Carbon Calculator Even though I scored a perfect 100%, you shouldn’t take the result too seriously. ...

Dejalu for Mac Fast and Simple Email Client for Mac Nice-looking mail client. Not many features yet. Still in beta! The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

After Inoreader, I’m now trying out Feedbin as an RSS server. I simply like the website better, and I appreciate the ability to subscribe to Twitter accounts as well. What I’m still missing, though, is a client that displays videos inline and automatically expands truncated articles. What would be really great, of course, is an RSS client that also offers solid support for podcast features—but that’s probably wishful thinking. ...