Just found out that you can add emojis to your @zotero library. Please take this away from me, I am #procrastinating with this the whole morning. <3 @phdlife #academicChatter
After a month of intensive lecturing on the history of environmental economics, I've concluded that history of economics as a field is a bit like the price of carbon:
everyone loosely agree that its value should be $300 the ton, but the market price has been stuck at $8 for 20 years
#histecon #historyofecon #envhist @historyofeconomics
"Call for Letters of Inquiry: Institutional Support for Open Source Software in Research
Grants of up to $750,000 over two years will be awarded to U.S. higher education institutions to launch university Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)"
1/5 I have recently noticed a shift by the FTC to a more traditional progressive approach to enforcement and away from the original NeoBrandesian (NB) positions of the Biden administration. Given the media attention paid to the left-leaning progressive stance of Biden administration antitrust enforcement, these changes are noteworthy. Several recent events indicate this centrist shift.
@elementary I know this sounds trivial, but Files being added to the dock by default.
@matthew_d_green Yep. It also reminds me of Signal Messenger not implementing any backup feature for iOS in part because they don't trust iCloud. But it means lots of users lose valuable chat history with no recourse. There is an ongoing forum thread since 2017: https://community.signalusers.org/t/ios-backup-keeping-message-history-when-switching-phones/1736/807
@matthew_d_green Who is asking people to give up cloud backup in order to retain control of data? Agreed with you but this could apply to a few different things and I wasn’t sure which ones this is reacting to.
@elementary Does this replace the stack exchange site or is it a complement?
Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 🦊 to iOS 🥂
Real Firefox with Gecko 🦎!
Apple's over a decade long ban on competitive third party browsers has almost certainly cost Firefox significant market share and 100s of millions in lost revenue.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/
Pantheon Desktop (from the @elementary team) is a master piece on #NixOS 🤌🧑🍳
If I'm switching distros, I might as well go all in. I'm switching to Pantheon too 😲 Excellent work @danirabbit 💖️
The trackpad gestures are sublime. The hardware/peripheral configuration is on point. I can tweak the keyboard shortcuts to suit my muscle memory. Outstanding job by the #Nix contributors who pulled all this together ⭐️
@grahamc The notification settings might be what you're looking for 👍
Yet another team at work getting totally f'd by "modern frontend" has caused me to write down why I've been *intensely* frustrated with the clearly broken market for web technology over our long lost decade:
https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/
Thanks to @brucelawson, @heydon, Taylor Hunt, @andy, and @phae for spotting errors in drafts.
@andrew kableExtra changed my life not even exaggerating
New report from NTIA says the current mobile app store model is harmful to consumers and developers and recommends policy changes to fix it. https://ntia.gov/report/2023/competition-mobile-app-ecosystem
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Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics