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- kfogel parentWe are happy to be providing this public service :-). I wish the term were better known outside tech; it's useful in so many contexts.
- So many stories like this about Slack.
We use Zulip (https://zulip.org/) for our corporate chat, and we've never looked back. It's been good, and it's fully open source. We self-host, but paid hosting is easy to get too if you want.
- Wow. This project was the cause of a very long and intense discussion about mis-use of the term "open source". See https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40#issuecomment-5397146... for details (lands mid-thread -- you might want to scroll back to see the start, and if you read the whole thing to the end then you deserve some sort of award!).
TL;DR: The author originally tried to call n8n "open source" but while using a non-open-source license. After much discussion, he kept the license but stopped using the label "open source", to the relief of many people.
That half-decade-old thread is still what I point to when I want to explain to someone why preserving the specificity of the term "open source" matters.
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- That part about "...you wouldn’t want to wing it with the configuration, because allegedly you could break your monitor with a bad Monitor setting" -- strike the "allegedly"! Or at least, let me allege it from personal experience: I did that to one monitor, in the early 1990s. You could smell the fried electronics from across the room.
- Thank you. My idea was more the opposite: do it with a normal laptop or desktop computer driving the display, rather than a tiny microcontroller. I guess I'm assuming that either the display's USB input supplies enough voltage to run the display, or that the display has a separate power supply -- i.e., that there's nothing magical about a Raspberry Pi that makes it supply special bits or special voltages to these displays that can't be supplied by, say, my desktop computer.
- Does anyone know why projects like this always seem to specify using a particular type of tiny, low-power computer (usually a Raspberry Pi or something similar) to drive the display?
I already have plenty of non-tiny computers that run Debian GNU/Linux. Suppose I wanted to run an e-paper display from one of those computers, using this code, just via a normal USB cable. I could do that, right? There's no reason I would have to use a Raspberry Pi or something similar?
- The most important factor in my learning Emacs was doing it in a room with experienced Emacs users. I really strongly recommend doing this if you possibly can. A few minutes of an experienced user shoulder-surfing while I worked, and giving advice on better ways to do things, was worth hours of self-directed study.
Get together with experienced users in person and have them watch you edit. That's it.
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- There are algorithms where I think "Sure, with enough time and attention given to the problem, I might have thought of that." And then there are algorithms where I think "Oh, wow. That came from another planet. I would never have come up with that myself."
This one is definitely in the latter category.
- Very happy user of a System76 Lemur Pro laptop (i7, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) for the past year, FWIW. I'm running stock Debian on it, not System76's Pop!_OS.
I get the kind of battery life the review mentions if I put the laptop into "Power Saver" mode. In "Balanced" or especially in "Performance" mode the battery doesn't last as long, of course. So when I can't be plugged in, I put it into Power Saver mode (this is super easy via the Gnome upper-right settings popup panel; I assume it would be just as easy in other window managers).
I got great customer service from System76 when I ran into a hitch at the start of my Debian installation process (TL;DR: see Debian bugs #1024346 and #1024720 -- the file ".disk/info" existed on the pre-installed Pop!_OS partition; getting rid of that enabled the installation to continue). System76 support went above and beyond the call of duty in tracking this down and solving it, considering that I was installing an OS that wasn't even officially supported by them.
Happy customer; would buy again; I get no commission for any of this -- I just want to see the company flourish so they're still there when it's time for me to upgrade my laptop!
- The linked page is on signalusers.org, but Signal's regular home site is https://signal.org/.
I'm looking all over signal.org for some link from there to signalusers.org, as that would make me more relaxed about the authenticity of the latter -- i.e., that it really is run by the same people who run signal.org.
Yes, maybe I'm being paranoid. But we're talking about an app whose whole purpose is secure communications :-).
- If you liked this article, you might also like the book "The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World" by Patrick Nunn (Bloomsbury, 2018).
https://patricknunn.org/writing/books/the-edge-of-memory-anc...
The book gives many more examples, along with a lot of corroborating geological evidence.
- Po Lu's port of GNU Emacs to Android has been approved, pending a couple of minor checks, to be merged into the main Emacs tree and thereafter maintained in-project like any other supported architecture.
(Editorial commentary: This is an amazing piece of work by Po Lu. Yes, it works on LineageOS. Users / testers / contributors welcome, as always!)
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- Did they say which Creative Commons license? I missed it if they did. Oh wait, if you click through to the repository you can see it: CC-BY-SA.
Good! That's a relief. CC-BY and CC-BY-SA are effectively like open source licenses, as is the quasi-license CC0, whereas the other CC licenses are not due to restrictions on derivative works or on certain kinds of use.
- WANT. Marcin Wichary has been researching everything about keyboards, everything adjacent to everything about keyboards, and everything adjacent to everything adjacent to everything about keyboards for over a year now. I've been looking forward to this book ever since I first heard that he was working on it.
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