Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Paweł Grzybek ☛ Neovim file explorers
For quick file switching, I would recommend things like telescope.nvim or Harpoon. This post is not about file switching, but file-based operations.
Stop being so nit-picky, please! I understand that file managers, viewers and explorers can mean a different thing to different people, but I am going to use these terms interchangeably. A thing to do things with your files.
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Alexandru Nedelcu ☛ Self-hosted Bookmarks Manager
I finally found a Pinboard-like replacement that I can easily self-host and that’s just perfect for my needs: linkding (GitHub link).
My links are now hosted here: links.alexn.org (RSS feed).
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Events
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Rajeesh K Nambiar: The 46th International TeX Users Group Conference, 2025
The 46th annual meeting of the International TeX Users Group (TUG 2025) will take place in Thiruvananthapuram (aka Trivandrum), Kerala, India, on 18–20 July, 2025. The Indian TeX Users Group and TeXFolio (STMDocs) with support from International TeX Users Group and sponsors are organizing the event this time as it comes back to India after a long hiatus of 14 years (the last two instances hosted were in 2011 and 2002).
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Access/Content
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Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Defending the "Walled Garden": Yes, Academic Libraries Actually Should Focus on the Needs of Their Host Institutions
The problem, of course, is that academic libraries are not using their own resources. They’re using the resources of their host institutions – resources that have been entrusted to them for the purpose of pursuing specific institutional goals, which may or may not always be global in nature and may or may not have anything to do with transforming the scholarly communication ecosystem. It’s all well and good to decide not to build a private walled garden on your own property with your own money, but when you’ve been hired and given a budget from someone else for the purpose of building a private walled garden on their property, would it be ethical to decide unilaterally to use that budget for building a public garden instead?
Now, I’ve had a lot of conversations on this general topic in recent years – enough to provide fodder for a list of FAQs: [...]
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