marc0s @marc0s@librem.one

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”).

Exciting news! Thanks to funding from the Open Technology Fund, the excellent folks at Simply Secure will be working with us to improve the usability of #Snikket, particularly our iOS app.

If you're interested in helping out with the usability study, there is an opportunity to participate with 30 minutes of your time. No special expertise required :)

Read more on our blog: https://snikket.org/blog/simply-secure-collaboration/

#xmpp

We've outlined our history syncing strategy on the ModernXMPP docs and would love for other #XMPP clients to do the same, if you're willing. This is part of a push to write a standard that outlines best practices, and we'd love to cooperate with you all! https://docs.modernxmpp.org/client/sync/

I have no words...

UK food firms beg ministers to let them use prisoners to ease labour shortages
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/23/uk-food-firms-beg-ministers-to-let-them-use-prisoners-to-ease-labour-shortages

https://rocblackblock.com/

Errekaleor, Gasteiz.

Irudiaren egilea: rocblackbock.com

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