I believe I have to paid a 50% more salary just because I have to deal with Microsoft nonsensical and poorly-designed mail server and office suite. I still don't know why people are paying top money to use a set of product that are this bad. Spent 20 minutes drafting an email in Outlook web […]

@Mehrad https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc check this out if you need to Tramp more often

GitHub - ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc: High-performance TRAMP backend using JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing

High-performance TRAMP backend using JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing - ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc

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I was remote working today and needed to use the #Emacs on my work machine. Tramp is generally slow, x11 forwarding is useless because of Wayland, and didn't want to work in terminal (it was my backup plan). I learnt about waypipe. I'm amazed how smooth the experience is over ssh! ```sh waypipe […]

I think we, the scientific community, need to read this. GenAI models are tools, really performant one in fact, but the companies behind them are for-profit and they don't play by the ethical guidelines we have in place in #academia . Until there is clear legal guardrails, we need to be vigilant […]

I put it in my wishlist to read some scientific articles about the Cencel Culture. Socialogy and phycology are far from my field of research, but would be nice to educate myself about the premise of Cancel Culture if I manage to find some introductory and less technical articles, so that I can […]

What should you do if your office-mate keeps violently banging their mouse on the desk out of frustration? Asking for a friend 🙄

This is nice article by @monsieuricon The graphs puts it in perspective. I actually wondered for a long time how Github and Gitlab are dealing with this? Do the crawlers use `git clone` for them? Especially because a lot of discussion is in issues and PRs. One of the sentences that I really […]

I need the power of the #fediverse : For an upcoming presentation I am looking for examples many people will understand where the software caused consumer electronic devices not to work anymore. E.g. company decided not to update the software which caused the device to stop, company disappeared […]

"Network-based stratification of allele-specific expression reveals patient subgroups in Huntington’s disease" https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag592 "Intersection of differentially imbalanced and expressed genes identified FAM181B as a candidate gene […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

Today marks the 2^7 (128th) day to the #Google will block every #Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID. Side-loading apps through alternative stores like f-droid would also get affected. I believe it would be a […]

# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]

I really don't understand why LSPs are written in Typescript instead of a more performant language. Take bash-lsp: https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server Why do we need Node.js as a dependency for #Bash #LSP? #LanguageServerProtocol #NodeJS

GitHub - bash-lsp/bash-language-server: A language server for Bash

A language server for Bash. Contribute to bash-lsp/bash-language-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I wish there was a Fediverse platform for music #scrobbler. Something similar to last.fm but OpenSource and supporting #ActivityPub. There is libre.fm, but despite being active, I cannot find their source code and I believe they are a centralized platform. It would be great if we can also […]

I'm looking Volume 28, Issue 4 of the "The Mathematical Intelligencer" journal [1] which is published on 2008-11-07 . I contacted Springer but they said they only sell the issues from max 2 years prior. Does anyone know where I can get my hands on physical copy of that issue? 1 […]

Distrobox and repology.org are the perfect combination. Needed the latest Zola on my Fedora (which have not packaged Zola at all), and Guix is one version behind (so as Nix). In repology saw that AlpineEdge has the latest version of Zola packaged. One `distrobox create` later I have the […]

The Principia August 2026 Donation Drive is still also ongoing and we need your support to reach the goal, with two weeks left. Boosting for visibility is appreciated. https://principia-web.se/august-2026-donation-drive #foss #opensource #linux #gaming #sandbox

It's funny how people are having anxiety (the term they use) about Google forcing AI results in their search, but same people are stubbornly refusing to give @kagihq a try!

I wonder how much of Python popularity is because it is installed by default in all major Linux distros. This effect is identical to "windows popularity is partly because it is installed by default on most laptops and computers and people don't bother to change them". This affect have been also […]

I'm observing a weird behavior of org-mode python evaluation. Can anyone help me understand why I can only get the value out when I use `:session` for the source block while avoid using `print()` in Python? The attached screenshot has all 4 combinations, and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/117088321673814427 I've never heard of “Mallory in the Middle Attack” but I've heard of "Man in the Middle Attack" plenty. Is this a common term? I couldn't find much online. #Signal #cybersecurity

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#Signal: Introducing Automatic Key Verification https://signal.org/blog/automatic-key-verification/ #cybersecurity #FOSS #privacy

Today I was knee-deep in #Python dependency hell. At some point I used my browser to access the #HPC, to emulate #KDE, to launch another browser with #Jupyter. It still did not work. Current solution is to try making a minimal bundle and run on #GoogleCollab. Luckily it's only a tiny piece of […]

A 9 years-old feature request in #Rstudio for having split view of the file is finally coded and merged [1]. Thank you @kevinushey for working on this and making this a possibility in Rstudio. 1. https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/2129 #RStats

View different parts of a source file at the same time · Issue #2129 · rstudio/rstudio

In TexShop there’s an option to split source which allows you to see (and edit) multiple areas in a document in one window so that you don’t need to keep scrolling up and down. It would be wonderfu...

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🆕 blog! “NHS Goes To War Against Open Source” The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still […]

After a week of Python coding for a project, I'm craving to replace all my Python code into R. Before R, I was a Python person for a couple of years and before that few years of Perl. I still from time to time go back to Perl, but I don't miss Python at all. It feels much more limiting than R […]

The Principia Wiki contains hundreds of pages with information about the game, a large percentage of them being about objects and items of the game. However, with a game as complex as Principia there is undoubtedly a lot of things that remain undocumented. Recently I have begun trying to flesh […]

I've been testing the new #Jolla phone for a couple of days now. At the same time I'm documenting the experience and I will publish it as an honest review on my blog. So far I should say that it is a very smooth experience. Native app availavility is an issue, but because we xan install Android […]

I'm amazed how often people think that @pidgin used to connect to some public API in #AIM, #YIM, #ICQ, #MSN, etc... In reality we helped you break the #TOS constantly by using an unauthorized client that only worked thanks to the tireless efforts of reverse engineers. #Pidgin #OpenSource

It seems @Codeberg unauthenticated access is down (e.g., I couldn't git pull my public repo of my Emacs config over https without authentication). I hope it is not yet another round of DDOS or botnets that is ruining Codeberg admins' weekend. #Codeberg is an important part of today's FLOSS and […]

Please help test Principia! The next release aims to replace all the game's GTK3 dialogs on desktop platforms with new ones implemented using Dear Imgui. This has been a lot of work and a lot of dialogs that need to function like they should. I was originally aiming to release by the end of the […]