Miren @miren@mas.to

If someone you know wants to create an amazing digital image, here's an amazing tool to try right now: Inkscape - https://inkscape.org - there're thousands of video tutorials & docs on line. It saves kids & institutions the outrageous per-seat cost of the "professional" tools (which, honestly, are totally unnecessary). With fully Free and open source software like Inkscape, we can remove barriers to education. This is how we achieve digital equity. No corporations required.

Loituma - Now and Then

A mid-2000s Internet meme.

Two videos.
The same group.
The same song.
23 years between them.

Salivili hipput tupput täppyt
Äppyt tipput hilijalleen

https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/cybersylvanian/loituma-now-and-then.html

Announcing my latest open source project, in collaboration with @carl

🌵 Cactus Comments - Federated web comments, based on the Matrix protocol.

Docs: https://cactus.chat/
Demo: https://cactus.chat/demo
Source: https://gitlab.com/cactus-comments

I finally got time to share some of the stuff I have done to make Pandoc + Markdown fit my specific needs, there some nice things that might interest you that are spread around multiple tutorials of multiple languages, and I made it all into this single blog, which I will probably update by the end of the semester

Day 20 of #100DaysToOffload

https://joelchrono12.ml/blog/doing-school-work/

(1/6) Was recently contacted by someone who mentioned the trending feature has changed the way they use Pixelfed.

El Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional, del Gobierno de España, no acepta mi cuenta de correo "@tutanota.com", de @Tutanota ☹

Over the next few years the world is going to start to realize how bad of an idea it was to let private US tech rise to the level of public utilities while also privatizing accountability and other basic functions to the same companies who's only goal is stock price.

Good news from #Mozilla: “Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to that website, such that it is not allowed to be shared with any other website.”

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/

Legalize Sci-hub

@rstats : such wonderful news for the world of #RStats. Version 1.0 of the ragg package brings support for non-Latin scripts and ligatures to R graphics (including RTL scripts), makes using all system fonts a breeze, and renders colour fonts (e.g. emojis) with no problem. 🙌

This article is a great look at these new improvements, with effective illustrations: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2021/02/modern-text-features/

(Note that there is unfortunately no vertical script support yet, because of limitations in base R.)

Google fired another woman working in the ethics of AI... because she was looking into why they fired the woman before her who was working in the ethics of AI.

https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/cybersylvanian/googles-lack-of-ethics-in-ai.html