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Bluesky-Hype: Man sollte meinen, dass der Niedergang von #Twitter/#X gezeigt hat, warum Plattformen, die von einem einzigen Unternehmen kontrolliert werden, eine miese Idee sind.

Bei #Mastodon liegen Inhalte auf verschiedenen Instanzen (Servern), die von Nutzern/Institutionen selbst betrieben werden und kein Unternehmen einen Besitzanspruch darauf hat. Die dezentrale Struktur von #Bluesky ist zwar ähnlich, aber man ist weiterhin vom Wohlwollen eines Unternehmens abhängig.

@pagessin Btw, any plans to update the mastodon version of hep.social to e.g. v4.2 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0?

Btw, I also often experience long loading image times on this instance, not sure what the cause is

I understand it's fairly small instance on your private servers and mostly administered by you, no ill feelings (instead thanks a lot for providing this!), but with this maintenance level personally I will consider switching to a bigger instance.
#hep

Release v4.2.0 · mastodon/mastodon

We are excited to release Mastodon 4.2.0, our next major upgrade 🎉 In this version, we've added (opt-in) search for posts, along with a refined set of privacy options where users can decide whether...

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The Meaningless University Rankings

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I see that the Times Higher has now released this year's outcomes of its annual exercise in numerology called the World University Rankings. The announcement is accompanied by narratives such as this: China is edging closer to the top 10 and now has two institutions in the top 15 for the first time. Tsinghua and Peking universities both overtake the 

http://telescoper.blog/2023/09/29/the-meaningless-university-rankings/

The Meaningless University Rankings

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I see that the Times Higher has now released this year’s outcomes of its annual exercise in numerology called the World University Rankings. The announcement is…

In the Dark

I'm really excited that this week I had been able to contribute to #Anki, one of my favorite and most-used #opensource softwares, which actually has a positive impact on my life and that of others. The recent inclusion of #FSRS in the public betas has been exciting, but still a bit unpolished with many low-hanging fruit what can be improved w/o deep knowledge of the codebase. Was fun to try out some #typescript, #svelte and #rust.

See https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases/tag/23.10beta3

#SRS #learning #programming

Release 23.10beta3 · ankitects/anki

What's Changed FSRS: Weight generation now handles outliers, and should be closer to the Python optimizer (thanks to @L-M-Sherlock and @asukaminato0721). Cards without learning steps in their revi...

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Also it seems that several #Anki addons are breaking due to the #versioning change from #SemVer to <year>.<month>, but the addons using string-splitting to get version parts. Nice reminder of the faleshoods we believe about versions when writing #software, see https://github.com/xenoterracide/falsehoods/blob/master/versions.md
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falsehoods/versions.md at master · xenoterracide/falsehoods

falsehoods programmers believe about X. Contribute to xenoterracide/falsehoods development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I'm testing the #Anki 23.10 beta release (see https://github.com/ankitects/anki/releases). The inclusion of the new #FSRS scheduler algorithm in the Anki core is a major improvent, it's nice to have a memory model which predicts memory state. Though at the moment it's still unstable, so if you try it make sure to follow the forums thread: https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-23-10-beta
Releases · ankitects/anki

Anki's shared backend and web components, and the Qt frontend - ankitects/anki

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Sanitize your youtube links!

Stolen from gryphoneer

"Rafting the most polluted river in Australia" by Beau Miles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFFSFxjg-TY

I really enjoyed the story-telling, the message, the adventure and the australian-ness of that short #documentary.

#tasmania #pollution #australia #rafting #environment #beaumiles #youtube #video #queels

Rafting the most polluted river in Australia

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@redmp I still use pure vim occasionally and this is one of the things that I miss then and also go the <insert>+<ctrl-alt-v> route.

@redmp I use #vim bindings in #emacs via #evilmode and simply pressing `p` in normal state works for inserting #clipboard contents there.

It inserts the contents from the primary cilpboard if they are more recent than the latest copy ("kill") action in Emacs and regions copied via `y` are also added to the clipboard (in addition to the "kill-ring"), though this is custumizable via the `select-enable-clipboard` setting. It's quite intuitive. Works on X11 and on Wayland for me.