…. is to hack an old computer and trying to install Slackware 15 I am serious. I love Linux and I hate linux. Regardless, distro hopping and trying to install little known text based linux distros has made me. Here is the website of slackware: The Slackware Linux Project Hey folks! It's been a long time, but as usual we had to get everything just exactly perfect, and you just can't rush…www.slackware.com

… the new free, decentralised, open-source, fun social networking protocol you are probably not using but should … Nostr is a new decentralised, censor-resistant, free open source fun social networking protocol. Get started Step 1. On your browser, and your phone, install a Nostr compatible extension or app (you do not have…

… Let’s start with Gadfly If you have done any kind of data analysis you know that good visualisation is key to everything: you can see if your data are tidy enough, and you can identify what models to use. It sits between your data tidying and data modelling. What’s…

This meta analysis needs to be replicated and revised. There are other errors as well, for instance, if you look at the body of evidence and their funnel plot, you can see they did not include studies that were positive, regrardless of the size of the studies (so, see the right lower quadrant of the funnel plot, and indeed, the right half of the funnel, it's practically empty with three studies close to the null line, and two studies included. It's almost like a foregone conclusion.

Layering, sizing, and colouring of points Gadfly is Julia package for data visualisations. You can of course use several other packages such as Plots, StatsPlots, CairoMakie or *Makie, and AlgebraofGraphics (based on Makie), and each of them are very powerful as well and feature rich, I like Gadfly because it…

What is Joplin Free Open Source notetaking app Feature rich but all your payments are optional (that said, I strongly encourage to pay for their services and this thing, too good a product to get for free when you can easily pay tens of dollars for other products that are not even as…

This is an interesting point and needs elaboration. In theory, as Mastodon is part of fediverse, where you can create an account on any server and you should be able to ‘Follow’ other users throughout the Fediverse with just one account, and 'pull in' and 'push out' resources to any…

Hi Jeff, Fantastic write up, as always! Great to see you focused on Fediverse as a whole in the opening paragraph! You may want to link to https://fediverse.party to provide readers a 'smorgasbord' of different fediverse apps, :-), just a thought. Where you write that it "does not greatly matter…

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