today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 28, 2025

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 876

      Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 876 for the week of January 19 – 25, 2025.

    • Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 876

      The full version of this issue is available here.

  • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

    • The Hindu ☛ Zepto charges iPhone users more for fruits and vegetables compared to Android users

      The discrepancy in price was seen in the case of multiple fresh vegetable and fruit-based products offered through the app. Android users also appeared to get more savings than iPhone users when calculated against the product MRP.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • APNIC ☛ RPKI's 2024 year in review

    A straightforward method to compare 2023 and 2024 is to look at the absolute numbers. Table 1 was constructed by comparing two 31 December RPKI Views snapshots (2023, 2024 .tgz) based on the ARIN, AFRINIC, APNIC, LACNIC, and RIPE NCC Trust Anchors.

  • Noë Flatreaud ☛ Vim sucks when you have ADHD

    Forget Neovim; it's too much for me, and Visual Studio Code is full of shit. Emacs is nice, too bad it doesn't ship with a good text editor. I did try Nano though...and... well, it was fine! It definitely doesn't have all the nice features of Vim, and it's pretty darn plain, but at least it's straightforward and doesn't demand too much attention.

    But here's the thing: I like the modularity of nvim, and I want it.

  • Web Browsers/Web Servers

    • Mozilla

      • Mozilla ☛ IYKYK: The secret language of memes

        If you’ve been on the internet anytime in the past 25 years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen a meme, shared a meme, or perhaps even created a meme. From the LOLcats and Advice Animals of the mid 2000s to the many emotions of Moo Deng, the world’s favorite pygmy hippopotamus, internet memes allow us to share pieces of media that we find funny, ironic or relatable.

  • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

    • Open Data

      • Creative Commons ☛ Why Digital Public Goods, including AI, Should Depend on Open Data

        Acknowledging that some data should not be shared (for moral, ethical and/or privacy reasons) and some cannot be shared (for legal or other reasons), Creative Commons (CC) thinks there is value in incentivizing the creation, sharing, and use of open data to advance knowledge production. As open communities continue to imagine, design, and build digital public goods and public infrastructure services for education, science, and culture, these goods and services – whenever possible and appropriate – should produce, share, and/or build upon open data.

    • Open Access/Content

      • University of Michigan ☛ UMSI project helps community librarians create civic solutions

        Funded by a $384,133 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Civic Librarian Project is an open-access, six-module course designed to help librarians create resident-centered solutions and partner effectively with local governments.

        Each module features video lessons by Lampe and TenBrink, case studies from Michigan communities, and activities that invite librarians to apply what they’ve learned to challenges in their own communities.