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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Real Ownership, and Sharing
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Herman Õunapuu ☛ Why Nextcloud feels slow to use
I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set and how easily it replaces a bunch of services under one roof (files, calendar, contacts, notes, to-do lists, photos etc.), but no matter how hard I try and how much I optimize its resources on my home server, it feels slow to use, even on hardware that is ranging from decent to good. Then I opened developer tools and found the culprit.
It’s the Javascript.
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It's FOSS ☛ Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion—Unless You Self‑Host
Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?
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Education
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Jeremy Cherfas ☛ Create Day IWC Berlin 2025
Both of the tasks I set myself for the second day of IndieWeb Camp Berlin came good, though the easier one was hard because I made it so and the hard one was easy because I spent too much time on the easy one. Confused? So was I.
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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Rlang ☛ Urban
The concept of an urban unit is based on continuous built-up areas and population size. Urban units are defined (…) as follows: a municipality or group of municipalities with a continuous built-up area (no gap of more than 200 meters between two buildings) and a population of at least 2,000.
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Programming/Development
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Python
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Linux.org ☛ Python Series Part 17: Understanding Tkinter Labels
We’ve already been using labels in the examples for the previous Python articles dealing with Tkinter window methods, but we never got too deep into using them.
Labels are one of the basic objects used for Graphical User Interface (GUI) windows. They are used to just place text or a picture in a window.
There are quite a few options for the Label widget. Some we have seen, very few, so there is quite a bit about ‘Labels’ to learn.
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