Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Open Street Map contributions 2 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/open-street-map-contributions-2

@natecull@mastodon.social @thornAvery@layer13.p7.co.nz

I assume this is an okay link to post out loud because the book claims to be Creative Commons ShareAlike, despite also being published by MIT Press.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacec33ajcri5fwx6vp26uphw5ejlcu5iv3s7vmzfsyeucklpyyyzakc?filename=Chris%20Hanson_%20Gerald%20Jay%20Sussman%20-%20Software%20Design%20for%20Flexibility_%20How%20to%20Avoid%20Programming%20Yourself%20into%20a%20Corner-MIT%20Press%20%282021%29.pdf

Addendum 4 - Universities in #Mastodon #Fediverse

New #universities joined Mastodon:

• @KIT_Karlsruhe #Institute for Technology #KIT #Karlsruhe #university #Germany

• @vunk Centre for Consumer Research and Sustainable Consumption (#vunk) at #Pforzheim University #UniPforzheim

• @hdmstuttgart Hochschule der Medien
University of Applied Science #Stuttgart

@VictorVenema @unigreifswald @unituebingen @h2international @unihohenheim @unijena @unifreiburg @utwente @phludwigsburg @UniUlm

My Way of Recommending Free Software Messengers to Others

Sharing is very appreciated.

I respect their choices without questioning nor challenging them.

❤️ Use #FreeSoftware messenger that you need or works for you.

🌻 I am not forceful in inviting others to one decentralized or not.

I support all #LibreSoftware licensed #messengers and I prioritize ones which support #GNU+#Linux over ones which do not.

✉️ 🗨️ ☎️

I noticed my Razer Blade 15 Advanced (early 2021) is listed in the full Linux support List. Also, the OpenSUSE is officially supported by Razer. You know what I'm going to do.

https://openrazer.github.io

The Shape of Space
https://placesjournal.org/article/the-shape-of-space/

(submitted by conanxin)

i wish i could argue that reading books helps you develop concentration and discipline but the good ones don’t take any effort to read, so it’s almost the opposite. it’s escapism, even if you’re learning useful things, because you lose yourself for a bit.

If you're a teenager in the US and your parents are refusing to provide consent to get you vaccinated, there's a website that's designed to help you figure out if and how you can get around your parents, as well as what vaccinations you should get if you haven't had any:

https://www.vaxteen.org/

Friendica 2021.09 released

The summer sprint is over and we are happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Siberian Iris” 2021.09. It contains more then 160 pull requests from seven contributors and updates to several language packages from the translation teams. For a detailed overview of the changes, please have a look at […] https://forum.friendi.ca/objects/39bbe52a32d26f99401ec6e7944f848f425672a2

Project to rebuild papers with plaintext markup languages
Is there a project which tries to recreate all / the most important scientific papers with plaintext markup languages (e.g. Markdown, AsciiDoc, or LaTeX). Storing them as PDFs feels like such waste of space if most papers are just text and diagrams anyways. Also, PDFs are not responsive and don't scale pleasantly on different screen sizes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/pvgj3y/project_to_rebuild_papers_with_plaintext_markup/?utm_source=ifttt

"Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability" - a good alternative to trying to anti-trust everything under the sun: https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/24/comcom-acm/ #interop #internet #decentralization #communication #platform

All 16,777,216 RGB colours
http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2005/02/all-16777216-rgb-colours/

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"Demonopolizing the internet with interoperability" by Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/24/comcom-acm/#cacm

"The problem isn't just that Mark Zuckerberg is unfit to be the unelected, perpetual lifestyle czar of 3 billion people – it's that no one should have that job."

My son Louis (who is now a fervent supporter of Linux, especially in his computer science/network IUT at Caen/France) gave me a demonstration of the power of Manjaro (Arch based). In a few clicks he installed Manjaro from a USB key on my old PC with its exotic hardware. The graphics acceleration is operational with a beautiful desktop under the latest version of gnome. The installation of its huge up-to-date software is simple. Impressive, I am conquered! I think I'll switch to Manjaro soon.

The Missions of Astronomy (2009)
https://nybooks.com/articles/2009/10/22/the-missions-of-astronomy/

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