Free Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 25, 2022

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, November 25, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC)

• Zotero citations in Markdown - publishing to ePub or PDF

  Mostly notes to myself - I hope you find them useful.

  So, you want to write your dissertation or thesis in Markdown. But how do you manage all your citations?

• My future teaching statement

  Now that I have several years of teaching experience and have moved to industry, I've been reflecting on how I could be a better teacher (and how I should have written my teaching statement).

• FOSS Weekly #22.44: Mastodon, Tagging in KDE, Why Cinnamon, Linux Deals and More

  What are you thankful for?

  I am thankful for Linux and other open source projects. These projects gave power to the people.

  Think about it. Linus Torvalds had to develop his own operating system because he could not afford to purchase a UNIX license. From ls to grep, Richard Stallman's GNU project rewrote the implementation of various UNIX commands.

  We might take these things for granted today in 2022 but look closely, and then you'll realize how these projects changed the course of technology simply by putting it in the hands of people.

• Whoogle Search: Create your Private Meta Search Engine

  Whoogle is a free open-source self-hosted metasearch engine that allows you to search and get your Google results without ads, JavaScript trackers, or AMP links.

  It also ignores cookies, and does not perform any IP address tracking.

  To get your Whoogle ready, all you need to do is deploy it using Docker. You can also choose to deploy it manually or install it directly on Arch Linux, Heroku, and Fly.io.

  Whoogle also offers a straightforward configuration using a single configuration file.

• Thoughts on Mastodon

  Five years ago, I was all-in on Mastodon. I deleted my Twitter account, set up a Mastodon instance, and encouraged my friends to join. A year later, I wrote my own Mastodon client in an attempt to make Mastodon faster and easier to use.

  So with the recent Twitter exodus, and with seemingly every news outlet and tech blog talking about Mastodon, you’d think I’d be pretty pleased. And yet, I’m filled with a deep ambivalence.

• Subtext 1.0 Released

  This is the initial public release of the Subtext BBS server for Classic Mac OS. It represents a full year of development and testing while operating the Kludge BBS on my Macintosh Plus.

• 9 holiday gift ideas for open source enthusiasts in 2022