Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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2023-Q2: music, unity, xgb, jujulang, setdb and opensmtpd
Then Omar Polo came out of nowhere, synchronized the repository with upstream, pushed some of the portable diffs to OpenBSD, made sure it built on various distros … and asked me if we could make a release.
He essentially took the dying portable project, revived it, brought it back to date and crafted a release in less than two weeks… this was awesome work.
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[Repeat] Social media and "parasocial media"
On traditional “social media” platforms, in particular YouTube, the interactions are often not especially social. The platforms facilitate a kind of intellectual consumption moreso than conversation: conversations flow in one direction, from creator to audience, where the creator produces and the audience consumes. I think a better term for these platforms is “parasocial media”: they are optimized for creating parasocial relationships moreso than social relationships.
The fediverse is largely optimized for people having conversations with each other, and not for producing and consuming “content”. Within this framework, a “content creator” is a person only in the same sense that a corporation is, and their conversations are unidirectional, where the other end is also not a person, but an audience. That’s not the model that the fediverse is designed around.
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Graph Data Modeling with Python
This books takes you from a nascent understanding of graph data science methods to a more confident user, all in under 250 pages.
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Hackathon October 4th-6th Oslo, Norway
Developers are welcome to invite guests to attend the developer summit, subject to their tolerance for ceaseless hours of kernel hacking, and availability of space at the venue.
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openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Call For Sponsorships
The openSUSE.Asia Committee is seeking sponsors for the ninth openSUSE.Asia Summit. The summit will take place in Chongqing, China, from Oct. 21–23, 2023. Our participants are FLOSS users, developers, students and people who are interested in FLOSS from a wide range of different industries. The sponsorship is for accommodation, food, publicity, etc.
We are aiming to provide a low-barrier offline platform for users, contributors and developers to meet. Relationships between open-source enthusiasts can be greatly facilitated through offline summits. It is also an opportunity for technologists to share and promote the latest trends in technology and to exchange experiences. Sponsorship is an expression of your appreciation and recognition of our community and our work goals.
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How to self-publish a technical book on Leanpub and Amazon using Quarto
UPDATE: I’ve update this blog post on the 30 of June 2023. I corrected a statement where I said that the _quarto.yml file is where you can choose the version of R to compile the book. That’s wrong, choosing the version of R to compile the book is done on the Github Actions workflow. I’ve also added some answers to questions I got on social media.
So I’ve recently self-published a book on both Leanpub as an Ebook and Amazon as a physical book and thought that it would be worth it to write down how to do it. I’ve wasted some time getting everything to work flawlessly so if you’re looking for a guide on how to create both an ebook and a print-ready PDF for Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing service using Quarto, you’ve come to the right place.