today's leftovers
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Preparing Editors for Emerging Challenges
At the start of a recent webinar, the moderator invited the panellists to identify the biggest challenge for editors. While my fellow panel members were sharing some diverse, crucial, and lasting (as well as emerging) challenges, I was struck by the geographical aspects of editors’ challenges.
We all understand that the challenges of the editors from the Global South are different from those in the Global North. Or, do we? For example, while the editors and their journal publishers in the North are struggling to address increasing demand for open access by experimenting with different business models, in the South, open access is not an emerging issue since most of society and institutional journals are already Diamond open access journals. Here the challenge is around recognition.
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Don’t make the same mistakes I made buying a second-hand phone. Do this first!
I love using the most bleeding-edge tech and I have spent all my life doing the best I can to get my hands on the most advanced toys. But we all know that this can fast become a very expensive hobby and to still be able to manage this, there are some corners I personally cut. I buy my smartphones second-hand just like 26.4% of Zimbabweans. So far my success rate has been really great but I recently had the biggest inconvenience as a result of buying a second-hand phone.
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An introduction to smart home business models
Smart homes are changing. A modern smart home typically isn’t a self-contained, set-it-and-forget-it, custom installation. It’s a hyper-connected set of devices that work together to automate and enhance the users’ living space. Today’s smart homes contain devices from many manufacturers, running dozens of protocols, interfacing with multiple cloud backends. Navigating this ecosystem is challenging both for the consumer and for businesses determining their optimal business model in the space.
Smart homes evolve constantly; the business models associated with them should, too. Device manufacturers need to find sustainable business models that work for their customers, while matching the technology landscape as it evolves. In this blog, I’ll highlight a few approaches to smart home business models as well as tradeoffs and use cases associated with each.
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TLDR – Simplifying Linux Commands with User-Friendly Man Pages
One of the most commonly used and reliable ways of getting help under Unix-like systems is via man pages, which are the standard documentation for every Unix-like system and they correspond to online manuals for programs, functions, libraries, system calls, formal standards, and conventions, file formats and so on.
However, man pages suffer from many failings one of which is they are too long and some people just don’t like to read too much text on the screen.