marc0s @marc0s@librem.one

🎉 Our iOS app is finally public! 🎉
https://snikket.org/blog/snikket-ios-public-release/

This is a huge milestone for the project, and proof of what we can accomplish when a community comes together around a purpose.

The app link will automatically appear in the next Snikket server update (along with some other app-related fixes), but the post has manual instructions for admins who just can't wait 🙂

#xmpp #ios #snikket

Work in many companies ...

The open calendar, task and note space is a mess
https://stevenvanbael.com/open-calendar-task-space-is-a-mess

(submitted by quaintdev)

At the root of our disposability culture is the belief that our stuff depreciates as soon as we touch it.

Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces

The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

#xmpp #chat #foss

https://gajim.org/post/2021-08-27-workspaces/

Majas

@aral
As someone who just got back into academia, I agree with this.
The amount of obstacles to publishing research from "industrial partners"(in the UK, you jst say "customers"), and the ability of industry to determine what is researched at, has grown like crazy in the last 20 years, and based on older colleagues' stories, at least since the early 1990's.

Incentives for "relevant" research are not per se bad but it's been going too far for quite some time now.

You want people to trust science? Remove the profit motive. Decouple science from capitalism. Do away with patents. Do away with closed silos. Ensure 100% transparency and openness. Create and share in the open for the common good.

Network effect let Facebook attract billions of users who joined to talk to people who were already there. Switching costs turned those users into hostages - blocking interoperability means users have to choose between friends and fleeing the platform.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better
https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html

(submitted by elchief)

Phoenix 1.6.0-RC.0 Released
https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.6-released

(submitted by thibaut_barrere)

Stop using Excel to process important business and scientific data.

"Researchers in data-intensive fields (particularly in the life sciences) need better computer skills. Initiatives such as Software Carpentry offer workshops to researchers, but universities should also focus more on giving undergraduates the advanced analytical skills they will need."

https://theconversation.com/excel-autocorrect-errors-still-plague-genetic-research-raising-concerns-over-scientific-rigour-166554

#Excel #DataScience

Scrollbars are now terrible in GTK. Let's make them not terrible.

# Make this part of your environment, however you do that:
export GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0
# For things that start as services:
systemctl --user import-environment GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING || true

Also, clicking in the trough should page, not warp:

$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0

Shift-click will still do a warp

#TeamBringBackVisibleScrollbars

When the scientific community changes gene name abbreviations to accommodate the quirks of the dominant Microsoft Excel:

"Autocorrect errors in Excel still
creating genomics headache"
– Dyani Lewis, for Nature

Paywalled, so here's the PDF: https://nuage.liiib.re/s/ge3PsEMkrEr3Bd5

#science

Making a #sip call from the #calls app on the #librem5 (and yes audio worked ;) ). This is still a development version of gnome-calls. And work still needs to be done to make it more user friendly and integrated with other components. But hey it is progress :D
Credits go out to: @devrtz that has been working to add #sip on gnome-calls. Also the account on the phone is an jmp.chat account, shoutout to them as jmp.chat is an awesome service :D

RT @DHeartsurgeon@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DHeartsurgeon/status/1430326270353621003

RT @DaniVilaro@twitter.com

A l’esquerra, Justa Freire, pedagoga i mestra republicana represaliada pel franquisme. A la dreta, Millán Astray, militar feixista i fundador de la Legión. Ara endevina qui ha deixat de tenir carrer a Madrid i qui l’ha recuperat.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DaniVilaro/status/1430259033131397126

Pro-tip: if you use the DOM Inspector in your browser to copy the HTML source for a <table> and then save that HTML source in a file with an .xls extension and open it in LibreOffice Calc or Excel, it will actually open it correctly and allow you to save as a CSV.

This is useful in case your organization's enterprise software doesn't allow you to export data Jesus Fucking Christ what century are we even in fuck

Brandalism, #Banksy

Feli: Why is it called a fly?
Me: Well, because it flies.
Feli: Okay but why is a horse called a horse and not a "walk" or something then?

From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”).