rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org

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@anjou I use RSS feeds every day. Most of my internet readings outside of my job I do through RSS.
I use selfoss as it allows me to have the articles available anywhere, with a nice web interface and phone application.
Most websites I'm interested in provide an RSS feed, that is generally blogs and that sort of stuff.
If you search my profile, just the other day I found a website which offers the service to turn Facebook pages into RSS feeds.

As much as it is nice, I only keep essential stuff in my reader: I want to read pretty much everything that gets into my feed. This means I have to think a little bit up front to decide whether to add a site to my feeds, but while reading I don't have to think about what to read and what to discard; from time to time I prune my list of feeds removing stuff I'm not interested into anymore.

@TheStrugglingScientists Arrive late and leave early; pretend you've got some business to do in some other place and you're going to work.
The sad part is that I pretend this to be true, but I actually have to go around doing stuff...

@hasmis If you're making use of it, I believe that 20$ a month is quite an affordable price.
I'm just experimenting with it and that wouldn't justify the expense, but I'm sure there's plenty of people who'll find it a nice option.

@tripu Exactly the same reason why people need a 10.000€ watch

@openwarfare I mean, this is obviously unfeasible; but seeing how much money the scientific community is just throwing into the garbage is ashaming.
Getting that grant money is difficult!

@naciketas In certe situazioni, vale la pena di togliersi le cuffie ed iniziare una chiacchierata con il prossimo; magari poi ci fate una risata assieme.

A couple very rough estimates retrieved quickly in 5 minutes from official Elsevier data.
RELX, the company which owns Elsevier has a capitalization of 56£ billion. Elsevier publishes around 600.000 articles per year and the average price per submission is 2350£ (simple average over submission price in every journal, not counting amount of articles published.)
The average subscription price for each journal is 3524£, I'll assume 600.000 subscription just to have a number.
This means that research institutes and universities overall would pay around 3.5£ billion to Elsevier every year. By saving that money, we could collectively buy Elsevier in less than 10 years.
Maybe we should set up an association, every time you pay money to Elsevier you'd have to make a donation to such association with the objective of buying the majority of RELX.
This would be an economically sound decision.

#research #elsevier #publishing #publishers

@oliphaunt It seemed quite interesting to me, so I took a look at the article. The study is well done and finds no statistically significant difference in infections between groups of people wearing masks and not wearing masks, however your conclusions are not based on the evidence brought up by the article. I'll point out the study was performed in Denmark in April/May 2020, so this is not really a new finding.

As the authors of the paper point out: "The findings, however, should not be used to conclude that a recommendation for everyone to wear masks in the community would not be effective".
In fact they point out that at the time it was rare for people to wear masks; thus the study shows that wearing masks in a place where nobody wears masks does not protect you significantly. However, it proves nothing about the infectiousness in places where everyone wears a mask.

I found this service: https://fetchrss.com
They are able to convert a facebook page in a rss feed and 5 of these feeds are for free.

My internet connection has been extremely slow for months: when connecting to certain websites I'd have to wait several minutes to load the page. However, the connection is very quick when I transfer data.
Recently, I decided to investigate. Apparently my company is dropping connection to a vast amount of domains; this wouldn't be a problem, if they didn't include a lot of CDN among those domains.
I asked the IT technician, who said that the security system mistakes CDNs for spam addresses.
Now people, host your own style sheets please, as I otherwise have to wait several minutes to get bootstrap, which you use for setting a header and nothing more.

I'm amazed by the fact that hundreds of people work here and nobody ever complained about it...

Fuck CDN, Fuck people dropping packets rather than rejecting them.
#internet #disservizioIT #CDN #firewall

@WataruTenkawa@vivaldi.net @skyportradio @gijs Thanks! I use selfoss and it allows getting twitter feeds directly there. I'm afraid it cannot do it for Facebook; probably I'm better off writing a plugin to download Facebook stuff as I really don't want to change software.

@skyportradio Looks cool, but I don't want to change my rss reader just for facebook.

@Liesvanrompaey Oh, i see! Then I think the better option should be searching the names on a database, such as chemspider, chembl or pubchem and download the structural information in the SMILES format.
Then you can convert the smiles string into a structure with the properties you prefer; I believe Marvin should be able to convert a list of smiles into structures automatically.

How to get a Facebook page as an RSS feed? Here they have very cool sociocultural centers that publish the activities on Facebook, and I don't want to regularly log on Facebook just to check events.

#rss #facebook