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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · Aug 21

Drop #697 Editor-ial Edition

Today's Drop explores 3 text editing perspectives: Zedless prioritizes privacy & community ownership, Neovim serves static content efficiently through a Lua plugin & MCP Text Editor Server offers line-based editing w/secure ops.

Drop #697 (2025-08-21): Editor-ial Edition

Today’s Drop explores 3 distinct text editing perspectives: Zedless prioritizes privacy & community ownership by forking the Zed editor, Neovim serves static content efficiently through a…

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Bruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'll be releasing a new version of my #RStats package chronicler which makes it easy to log functions, now it's able to log ggplots as well!

b-rodrigues.github.io/chronicler/i...

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Karandeep Singh @kdpsingh.bsky.social · Aug 13

TidierErrors.jl now has an #rstats counterpart in {errbud}, your local LLM-powered tool for decrypting error messages in R, thanks to @randy.pub.

No more settling for “object of type `builtin` is not subsettable”

It even looks to see what packages are loaded!

github.com/rdboyes/errbud

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Oct 18

I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science...

#RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience

Screenshot of the Data Science resources website showing a list of blogs at the top of the site.

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Aug 12

I now also have a (work in progress) list of #DataViz specific resources as well!

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-viz-res...

You can find links to tools, papers, books, blogs, and websites that are related to data visualisation. I'll be adding more resources soon 📊

#RStats #Python

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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · Aug 11

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team

www.theverge.com

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Aymen @aymennasri.bsky.social · Aug 10

Safe to say, things are not looking too good.

nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 9

Intel laid off several employees who were key maintainers of Linux kernel drivers. As a result, many drivers, including those for CPU temperature and the Slim Bootloader, are now "Orphaned" and lack anyone to maintain them www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-M...

Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring

www.phoronix.com

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Tangled @tangled.org · Aug 8

buckle up tanglers, we've been working hard! first up:

✨CI is now generally available!✨

head to your repo settings and set your workflow runner to the hosted instance.

🚀 we have also got support for secrets! you can now deploy your site on CI!

read the blog for more: blog.tangled.sh/ci

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screenshot of repository settings on @tangled.sh/core. the "pipelines" tab is selected, and the spindle is configured to be spindle.tangled.sh. everybody is now welcome to join in the fun!

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Tyler Burch @tylerjamesburch.com · Aug 8

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
LLM Subscriptions $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 7

Debian Linux version 13 is scheduled for its stable release this Saturday, August 9, 2025. Everybody get ready for the mother distro!

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 6

🇯🇵 Japan has officially banned Apple’s iOS browser engine restrictions. Starting Dec 2025, iPhones must allow real Firefox, Chrome, and others to run their own engines, just like on desktop. open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-a...

Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December - Open Web Advocacy

open-web-advocacy.org

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Rami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · Aug 5

History repeats itself..

OpenAI opened two models today, and they are available on Hugging Face 🤗.

Long term, the competition will do the work, and we see LLMs fully open source, as it was with deep learning algorithms and other applications.

huggingface.co/openai/gpt-o...
#opensource #ai #llm

openai/gpt-oss-120b · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 5

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari running on iPhone, iPad, and macOS (Mac). It is a free and opensource app to block Ads and other stuff. Give it a try. apps.apple.com/us/app/ubloc...

‎uBlock Origin Lite

‎uBO Lite (uBOL) is a reliable and efficient content blocker. The default ruleset corresponds to uBlock Origin's default filterset: - uBlock Origin's built-in filter lists - EasyList - EasyPrivacy -...

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Aymen @aymennasri.bsky.social · Aug 4

This will surely solve a lot of problems when dealing with Named Entity Recognition and Relationship Extraction, fresh library released yesterday! Check it out #LLM #AI #pydata

LangExtract - Google's New Library for NLP Tasks

YouTube video by Sam Witteveen

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 4

The `sudo systemctl soft-reboot` on Linux is used for performing a userspace only reboot operation. It will reboot the Linux distro without the BIOS, UEFI or the hardware having to perform a complete cold boot. As a result your system reboots in seconds but will not load a new Linux kernel.

A screenshot of manual page named `systemd-soft-reboot.service` that reads:

Such a userspace-only reboot operation permits updating or resetting the entirety of userspace with minimal downtime, as the reboot operation does not transition through:

•The second phase of regular shutdown, as implemented by systemd-shutdown(8).
•The third phase of regular shutdown, i.e. the return to the initrd context.
•The hardware reboot operation.
•The firmware initialization.
•The boot loader initialization.
•The kernel initialization.
•The initrd initialization.
However, this form of reboot comes with drawbacks as well:

•The OS update remains incomplete, as the kernel is not reset and continues running.
•Kernel settings (such as /proc/sys/ settings, a.k.a. "sysctl", or /sys/ settings) are not reset.

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Karandeep Singh @kdpsingh.bsky.social · Aug 3

I ran an #rstats lab for many years before our foray into #pydata, so wouldn’t say my experience is super generalizable. But going back to play with R and seeing improvements to wasm and shinylive, ellmer, ragnar, vitals, and the entire tidy ecosystem reminded me just how batteries-included it is.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Aug 3

The open-source CapCut alternative to edit videos. No watermarks or subscriptions and works on all devices github.com/OpenCut-app/...

#opensource #AppOfTheDay

GitHub - OpenCut-app/OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative

The open-source CapCut alternative. Contribute to OpenCut-app/OpenCut development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Aymen @aymennasri.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks for always being supportive and friendly Matt! One of the coolest people on #rstats 🙌🏻

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Aymen @aymennasri.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thought i'd share this video about the importance of luck in careers and how people expand and create networks through talking about what they love and by helping people out, definitely worth watching!

The actual reason you can't get a job

YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Jul 30

LocalSend is a cross-platform app that enables secure communication between devices HTTPS encryption (Airdrops like functionality). Unlike other messaging apps that rely on external servers, LocalSend doesn't require an internet connection or 3rd party servers, making it a fast and reliable solution

GitHub - localsend/localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop - localsend/localsend

github.com

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Jul 29

Opensource Terminal bandwidth utilization tool for Linux, macOS, Android, and Windows users and IT Professionals github.com/imsnif/bandw...

GitHub - imsnif/bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Terminal bandwidth utilization tool. Contribute to imsnif/bandwhich development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Julien 🐧 @dju.bsky.social · Jul 25

or lineage os, or crdroid..

also, you can just disable the AI services on your android.
install adb, connect it to usb, enable usb debugging
then:
adb shell
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.aicore
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.as
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.bard

com.google.android.as

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · Jul 25

I'm sharing this because lots of folks are sick of Gemini AI in Android or wish to de-google. So here is a quick view about Graphene OS.

Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

lwn.net/SubscriberLi...

Do as wish this info :)

#privacy #security #android

Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

People tend to put a lot of trust into their phones. Those devices have access to no end of se [...]

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Aymen @aymennasri.bsky.social · Jul 23

Love how this thread turned into a nerdy one about compressing files

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