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Nathan Dyer ☛ Why I Made 'Kepublicity'
If you follow me on Mastodon, you might have noticed that I launched a new app a few weeks ago, which is available now on Flathub. The name is Kepublicity, and it’s a GNOME app for people who like to send book files from their computer to a Kobo ereader.
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James Cherti ☛ Measuring Emacs Startup Time More Accurately than the Built-in emacs-init-time
Emacs startup proceeds through several stages: it loads the early init and regular init files, processes command-line options, sets after-init-time, runs emacs-startup-hook, performs additional initial-frame setup such as applying frame parameters from the configuration, and then runs window-setup-hook after the initial frame parameters have been configured. This makes window-setup-hook a useful place to record a broader startup-time measurement.
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Perl ☛ CPerl mode for Emacs is now on GNU ELPA
The current version of CPerl mode supports Perl syntax up to Perl 5.44.
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Ardour ☛ Ardour 9.8 — What's new | Ardour DAW
Ardour now allows you to visualize out-of-scale notes and choose if you want to avoid creating them entirely when you compose and improvise in a specific musical key.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Calibre ebook manager now lets you generate Hey Hi (AI) book covers [Ed: Unnecessary slop and gimmicks]
A new version of open-source ebook manager Calibre is out – and it lets you create custom book covers using generative AI. Calibre 9.14, released August 28, lets you edit metadata for any book in your library and click an “AI Generate button” to make new ebook covers in “styles such as romance, sci-fi, pulp fiction etc”. You need to set an Hey Hi (AI) provider (with an API key) that supports image generation for the feature to work, but the first time you trigger the feature a setup screen appears.
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It's FOSS ☛ Content Creators Will Love This FOSS Android App
Image Toolbox will draw you in with its export presets tailored for Instagram, X, YouTube, and more.
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Education
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Perl ☛ Announcing the London Perl & Raku Workshop 2026
WHEN: Saturday 21 November 2026 WHERE: The Café at Zoopla, The Cooperage, 5 Copper Row, London SE1 2LH
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Perl ☛ London Perl & Raku Workshop 2026 | Perl workshop and training in London
Run by volunteers from the London Perl & Raku community, LPW will have talks about Perl, Raku, and other languages, technologies, and topics.
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Openness/Sharing/Collaboration
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Open Data
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India Times ☛ AI ecommerce projects may fail without clean, centralised data: Report
The report said companies often discover problems with their data only after they have already started an AI project. Product information, inventory records and customer data can be spread across different systems, making it difficult for AI tools to work with a complete picture of the business.
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Mauricio “Pachá” Vargas S ☛ wbstats 1.2.0 is now on CRAN
Programmatic Access to Data and Statistics from the World Bank API
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