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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
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Linuxiac ☛ Navidrome 0.59 Music Server & Streamer Introduces Scrobble History
A major addition in this release is native scrobble and listen history tracking, as Navidrome can now keep its own record of playback activity. Selective folder scanning and improvements to the file system watcher further strengthen library maintenance by reducing unnecessary work and increasing reliability when monitoring large or frequently changing collections.
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Watts Martin ☛ Emacs and Shortcuts
It’s a match made in…frankly, I’m not sure where. But I’ve been experimenting with using org-journal as a replacement for Day One, and while it’s pretty good, there are two things that I immediately missed: [...]
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Gunnar Morling ☛ You Gotta Push If You Wanna Pull
Historically, data management systems have been built around the notion of pull queries: users query data which, for instance, is stored in tables in an RDBMS, Parquet files in a data lake, or a full-text index in Elasticsearch. When a user issues a query, the engine will produce the result set at that point in time by churning through the data set and finding all matching records (oftentimes sped up by utilizing indexes).
Generally, this approach of pulling data works well and it matches with how people think and operate. You have a question about your data set? Express it as a query, run that query, and the system will provide the answer. But there are some challenges with that, too: [...]
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Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
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Pete Brown ☛ Trying to find a text editor I like - Exploding Comma
Installing Linux on this old MacBook has re-opened a can of worms that I had been really glad to have mostly closed for the last few years: Fiddling with different text editors to find one that I like.
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GNU Projects
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Amin Bandali: Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus
At the 10th anniversary of my involvement in EmacsConf, I’m finally giving my first ever talk at the conference, for EmacsConf 2025. :) In this talk, I give a quick introduction to Gnus and show a basic configuration for reading and writing email with Gnus and Message.
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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Rlang ☛ Introducing openESM: A database of openly available experience sampling datasets including R/Python interface
[...] We address this issue by introducing openESM, an open-source database of openly available experience sampling datasets in a harmonized format. The growing database currently comprises 60 datasets with more than 16,000 participants and more than 740,000 observations. [...]
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