Arjen P. de Vries @arjen@idf.social

Where To Buy GNU+Linux #Preinstalled Computers

Sharing is very appreciated.

Dell 🇺🇸
https://www.dell.com/linux

Entroware 🇬🇧
https://www.entroware.com

Lenovo 🇨🇳
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops

FSF 🇺🇸 🇪🇺
https://ryf.fsf.org

Purism 🇺🇸
https://puri.sm

System76 🇺🇸
https://system76.com

Curated List of #GNU #Linux Preloaded PCs
https://linuxpreloaded.com

#Computer #FreeSoftware

Print an access_log with indicator chart bars under each request line to show the size of the data transfer using log() to keep things "in control".
awk -v cols=$(tput cols) '{e=int(log($10)*5); print("\x1b[42m" substr($0, 1, e) "\x1b[0m" substr($0, e+1) )}' access_log | less -SR

Donald #Trump has launched a "new" social media service called #TruthSocial*. However, it's actually just a #Mastodon server.

#misinformation #fediblock #SocialMedia #Trumpeltier

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump

*LMAO

@tchambers @obsolete29 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16529

Interesting: IndexNow is an open standard by Microsoft and Yandex that lets sites push updates to a search index when the site changed.

https://www.indexnow.org

Pushing code to GitHub and having GitHub Actions build it on Windows is easier than writing code on Windows.

Siteimprove Analytics is another Google Analytics alternative that is used by several Dutch municipalities. #NoGA

https://siteimprove.com/en/analytics/

International Tell Someone You Love That Excel Is Not The Right Medium For Forms Day

The 4th Research Report of the @Wikimedia Research team is out! An an overview of the team's latest developments, that highlights existing and new work, introduces new staff, and details new collaborations, considerations and trends to watch.

https://research.wikimedia.org/report.html

First CfP: ACM SIGIR 2022: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval https://www.lists.utwente.nl/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=SIGIR;1cc4ae9a.2110

Exposing Query Identification for Search Transparency. (arXiv:2110.07701v1 [cs.IR]) http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07701

pro-tip: if you ever get a bit.ly link that you don't trust, add a "+" to the end of the URL so you can be taken to the info page instead

e.g.: https://bit.ly/3AOKQTQ -> https://bit.ly/3AOKQTQ+