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Another alternative not listed in the article: https://www.offen.dev/

Here's a blog post from the developer on the occasion of the open source release: https://rant.monkeydom.de/posts/2018/11/28/see-is-back

Given that most links on http://www.infinote.org/ are dead, I suspect the answer is no.

The developers went on to work on other things: https://web.archive.org/web/20130915093113/veracity-scm.com/...

Sydney’s anti-litter signs that read “Don’t be a tosser” are also worth mentioning in this context.

I think I learned the MySQL tidbit recently from an episode of the podcast Libre Lounge. What you ask for is not a bad description of what the hosts of that podcast do: deep dives into open source technologies and discussions of how they came to be the way they are.

Nice! May I ask what's the added load of running Prosody?

I use it in Firefox all the time with no difficulties. The only thing that doesn't work for me is selecting an external (USB PnP) microphone, but apparently that's due to a longstanding bug in Firefox that Jitsi is doing its best to work around.

Can confirm, 10 minutes is all it takes to go through the steps in this quick install guide on a Debian system: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-in...

Another thing that's great about Jitsi is how easy it is to self-host it.

If you are using a system with the apt package manager (such Debian or Ubuntu), you basically only have to run two commands: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-in...

Maybe some of the stuff Fractalide is doing? I vaguely remember some impressive stuff from a FOSDEM talk.

Don't dismiss Racket too soon, I would say. The developer of ActivityLog2 has been doing a lot to integrate charts and graphs into Racket GUI applications, and the program itself (https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2) is a good showcase of that work. His blog is also worth a read (https://alex-hhh.github.io/index.html). Take a look!

Ha, how did that not register??

Wonderful resources. There's also the Biodiversity Heritage Library at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

Cool, thanks for chiming in here.

> I don't think I could ever go back to working in a non-democratic workplace.

I would love to read a bit more about that sometime.

A great resource on this is Nathan Schneider's book Everything for Everyone: https://nathanschneider.info/books/everything-for-everyone/

For context, the author is an American sociology professor who serves on the American Sociological Association's committee on publications.

He recently came out in opposition to the ASA's official stance rejecting a proposed federal mandate to make all publicly funded research available open access. The ASA joined other scholarly associations in opposition such a mandate.

The author recently discussed his stance on The Annex podcast: http://sociocast.org/podcast/the-paywall-and-the-asa/

Thanks for this! Didn't know about the watermark extension, that looks useful.

I just started working with the Guix kernel for more easily reproducible and reusable notebooks. I suppose that's an alternative to using a conda environment.

See here for an example: https://gist.github.com/jboynyc/5d0319f33e71427aa42a98c1a3a9...

I used to assign a short piece by Luhmann on how to read that describes his note-taking technique with some concrete examples.

At the time I used my own translation (based on the text in Short Cuts published by Zweitausendeins), but I see somebody else has now translated (most of) it here: https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmann-on-learni...

There's a forest of them in the National Arboretum in Canberra: https://www.nationalarboretum.act.gov.au/living-collection/t...

You might also be interested in this essay on "proprietary relicensing" from the Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...

No, accounts are instance-bound, you can't just log into another instance in the federation.

I really enjoyed this talk, and not just because I like Racket. Academics rarely talk about how they manage to build the infrastructure they need to support their research and teaching and how they reconcile that with the other demands they face. This goes beyond computer science as well.

Source: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/

In the same post, the author writes: "If you want to read more about some of the deep technical problems we will be solving check out my ACM Queue articles" followed by some links. The first, on open-source firmware, even appears to be freely available: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3349301

So that may help get the necessary context for this company launch.

Of course there was disinformation ("fake news") before 2016 -- nobody would dispute that -- but it wasn't really framed as a crisis yet. So I would suggest you don't just dismiss this whole essay on the basis of semantic squabbling about the tl;dr summary.

There is Gephi, which is very capable, though I've also found it frustrating to work with, particularly for graph editing. Interface glitches, unresponsive elements etc. quickly get in the way.

Development seems to have stalled somewhat, so I'm not optimistic that this has improved.

If you are using Firefox, there's a great add-on called Invidition that you can install. It redirects Youtube to Invidious and Twitter to Nitter.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/invidition/

Is it valid literary criticism to point out pointless uses of cat on page 25?

I'm a big fan of Allison Parrish's work using word embeddings and other techniques to write computer-generated poetry.

http://portfolio.decontextualize.com/

You can find details on the language here: https://janet-lang.org/