Richard J. Acton

@[email protected]
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Scientist, Bioinformatician, R enthusiast
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2574-9611
Bloghttps://richardjacton.github.io
Podcasthttps://www.xenothesis.com
Show threadRichard J. ActonFeb 24, 2023
@zatnosk Fedora might be a good choice, I prefer the KDE spin for productivity. It's current but relatively low hassle by comparison with arch based stuff in my experience. It's rolling so it's never going to be as 'it just works' as an ubuntu LTS. I only really get weirdness when I forget to reboot after kernel updates. Running something like distrobox for your bleeding edge packages on something stupid stable like mint might also work for you.
Show threadRichard J. ActonFeb 23, 2023
@socrates @esty Do you have any specific reason to think their 'plant for the planet' thing is a scam beyond the baseline high prevalence of scams in this space? Accusations of racism feel like a bit of a reach based on a European languages rule and a name that can mean white. Not everyone can moderate effectively in every language. There's a fair few academic types there from a glance over their directory.
Richard J. ActonFeb 23, 2023
@esty This appears to no longer be the case according to their about: https://mastodon.green/about they are now open to world-wide membership Is there some kind of appeals process or can I just @socrates to ask them to reconsider this moderation decision? There are a few cybersecurity people there I'd like to follow.
Mastodon.green

Plant trees while you use Mastodon. A server originally for people in the EU, but now open for anyone in the world

Mastodon hosted on mastodon.green
Richard J. ActonFeb 22, 2023
I've been trying to follow a couple of people on mastodon.green but can seem to make it work anyone know why this might be?
Richard J. ActonFeb 20, 2023
@cwebber I made a list of Linux PC sellers in this post: https://scholar.social/@RichardJActon/109428770434300812 in response to a similar question a while back. I think Tuxedo *Might* have something that meets your needs performance wise. I also had some trouble with my system76 laptop (a pangolin, with AMD CPU and no coreboot) and multimonitor on GUIX works with fedora though. You *might* have better luck with one of their newer Intel based systems.
Richard J. Acton (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Linux Laptop Suppliers European: - https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en - https://slimbook.es/en/store - https://www.entroware.com/store/ USA: - https://system76.com/ - https://us.starlabs.systems/ International - https://www.wired.com/review/hp-dev-one-linux-laptop/ - https://frame.work/

Scholar Social
Richard J. ActonFeb 20, 2023

Discovered an R package today that I think I'm going to be using a LOT.

{checkmate} "Virtually every standard type of user error when passing arguments into function can be caught with a simple, readable line which produces an informative error message"

https://mllg.github.io/checkmate/index.html

Fast and Versatile Argument Checks

Tests and assertions to perform frequent argument checks. A substantial part of the package was written in C to minimize any worries about execution time overhead.

Richard J. ActonFeb 20, 2023
@matt I have one of these for locking my screen when I remove my Yubikey. They are great, so simple!
```
ACTION=="remove",\
ENV{ID_BUS}=="usb",\
ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="0407",\
ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="1050",\
ENV{ID_VENDOR}="Yubico",\
RUN+="/usr/bin/loginctl lock-session"
```
Richard J. ActonFeb 18, 2023
Free Software FoundationFeb 18, 2023
We love freedom 0, the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. Boost this post to share the message with others! And if you are able, please consider joining the FSF as an associate member.
Richard J. ActonFeb 17, 2023
Maria CruzFeb 17, 2023

#LoveDataWeek is getting close to an end but there's still time to invite you to take a look at the recordings of the #NWO #openscience in practice webinars to hear about the sharing of qualitative data and interoperable open data, among other topics. https://www.nwo.nl/en/open-science-practice-webinar-series

We featured many interesting speakers including @egonw, @LudoWaltman, @jscaux, @rogierK.

Many of the projects funded through the #NWO #OpenScienceFund are related to #opendata and #FAIRdata. https://www.nwo.nl/en/researchprogrammes/open-science/open-science-fund/open-science-fund-2021-awarded-grants

Open Science in Practice Webinar Series | NWO

This webinar series showcases the projects awarded an Open Science Fund grant and covers a wide variety of open science topics. On this page you can find more information about the webinars and recordings of all the webinars.

NWO
Richard J. ActonFeb 14, 2023
allotropia softwareFeb 14, 2023

We ❤️ Free Software!

On this #ILoveFreeSoftware day we want to thank all contributors and advocates of #FOSS for their world-changing efforts.

Shout-out in particular to our friends @libreoffice @CollaboraOffice and @delta

See https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/index.en.html for more about #ILoveFS !

I Love Free Software Day - FSFE

On the annual “I Love Free Software Day” we express our gratitude to all Free Software contributors. Join this special event and become part of a lovely community! #ilovefs

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