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This service works as a resolver for different chemical structure identifiers and allows one to convert a given structure identifier into another representation or structure identifier. It can help you identify and find the chemical structure if you have an identifier such as an InChIKey.
Does not seem to work right now, though.
OPSIN is the (open source) standard for parsing IUPAC names.
These are such valuable guides (macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu), for @ubcmds and beyond. Installing a whole data science stack IS HARD. Enjoy and provide feedback!
https://nitter.net/JennyBryan/status/1293728561661005831
@joelostblom & I just finished our install guide for the @UBCMDS #datascience software stack across Ubuntu, Mac & Window. Got a new machine that you need to install the #datascience software stack on? Test drive our guide & report any issues!
https://nitter.net/TiffanyTimbers/status/1293680873431158786
For macOS, Ubuntu and Windows.
This guide consists of written instructions. Could easily be turned into an Ansible playbook, I think.
If you're ready for some archaeological adventure but find yourself pandemic-trapped at home and unable to make it to Egypt's ancient Valley of the Kings right now, try the virtual tomb tour of Pharaoh Ramses VI who reigned in the 12th century BC.
The tomb of Ramses VI is located in the Valley of the Kings, in Luxor, Egypt.
Fulltextsök i Statens offentliga utredningar och Departementsserien
dataskydd.net har lanserat sou.dataskydd.net. Den låter dig göra fritextsökningar/fulltextsökningar i alla SOU:er (Statens offentliga utredningar) som publicerats från 1922 till i dag. Källkoden till tjänsten finns fritt tillgänglig på GitHub. Barnsjukdomar kan säkerligen förekomma. Kontakta oss gärna på info@dataskydd.net om du hittar något som är galet eller har frågor eller funderingar.
How much could 10 french franc in 1898 buy in today's rupees? What was the worth of 1 billion German mark in 1923 or 1000 Polish zloty in 1980? Was an annual wage of 25 pounds per year in 1780 much compared to the wage rates at the time?
Via http://www.myntkabinettet.se/fakta/rakna_ut_penningvardet
Elsäkerhetsverket har tillsammans med butiker, e-handlare och återförsäljare av elprodukter, tagit fram en ny informationstjänst för konsumenter. Tjänsten Koppla säkert ska göra det enklareatt göra rätt när el ska installeras i bostaden.
Nature has launched a Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies. This facilitates transparent review and research into peer-review procedures, thereby contributing to open science and optimal journal management (see P. Wouters et al. Nature 569, 621–623 (2019) and F. Squazzoni et al. Nature 578, 512–514; 2020).
Funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, and created with the Leiden Centre for Science.
IUPAC Periodic Table Challenge
A quiz on the chemical elements with different levels.
Requires registration, but you learn a lot from the questions.
The Periodic Dinner Table, is a cross between a demo lecture, comedy sketch and a game of bingo played on the periodic table (video with additional resources).
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The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management system, and how the land has changed since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Baydha_Project
https://permacultureglobal.org/projects/286-al-baydha-project
Youtube channel with more videos
Via SOLARPUNKS
Stockholmskällan är ett samarbete mellan
- Stadsarkivet
- Stadsmuseet
- Medeltidsmuseet
- Stadsbiblioteket
- Utbildningsförvaltningen
General Julia resources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_%28programming_language%29
https://old.reddit.com/r/Julia/
https://github.com/JuliaLang/
Scattering, which seems it could replace diffractometry in R
Plus, they have extensively documented its development in a series of blog posts:
http://www.yxliu.group/2020/03/scattering-1
http://www.yxliu.group/2020/03/scattering-2
http://www.yxliu.group/2020/04/scattering-3
http://www.yxliu.group/2020/04/scattering-4
http://www.yxliu.group/2020/04/rotation-test
http://www.yxliu.group/2020/04/scattering-5
http://www.yxliu.group/2020/04/scattering-6
Differential equation solver
Innehållet i de digitala resurserna, hur de används och till vad, är viktigare än att diskutera skärmtid. Det menar forskaren Petra Petersen som i en avhandling undersökt de möjligheter surfplattan ger för att få barn delaktiga i förskolans aktiviteter.
Länk till avhandlingen "Delaktighet och digitala resurser: Barns multimodala uttryck för delaktighet i förskolan i flerspråkiga områden" (DiVA) (PDF)
International travel document news from IATA
The 2Africa project is part of a joint enterprise by China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, and the West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC).
The 37,000km-long 2Africa cable will feature around 21 landing points in 16 African countries and will carry three times the total network capacity of all the submarine cables currently serving the continent.
Egypt Telecom appears to also be involved in another subsea cable encircling Africa. I don't know if/how it relates or interconnects to the 2Africa cable.
In a word, thrilling. When is the last time you heard someone describe Sudoku in that way?
- In 2013 Google killed Google Reader
- Firefox removed feed discovery features in 2019 (available as plugins now, for example Awesome RSS)
- I've written a linknote on how to subscribe to Youtube channels using RSS
- About Feeds, a primer on web feeds/RSS by Matt Webb.
- You Need Feeds, quickly explains what RSS is and how to use feeds. Via @killyourfm@layer8.space.
- Vad är RSS?, bra intro till RSS av Kamratdataföreningen Konstellationen.
- Youtube channel RSS feeds
- Github RSS feeds
- https://feedcanary.com via https://kevquirk.com/dont-change-your-rss-url
- https://andregarzia.com/2024/05/feed-and-blogrolls-discovery.html
- https://defaults.rknight.me
- https://rubenerd.com/does-your-site-refresh-have-rss - Does your site refresh still have RSS?
blog posts
- p1k3, 2020-05-08
- Staying informed without big tech, 2021-07-03, The New Oil
- How to read RSS in 2020, 2020-03-24, Laura Kalbag
- A thorough comparison of three self-hosted RSS readers, 2020-05-31, Luke Singham
- Felicia Day's amazing rant about RSS, 2020-12-16
- Why I still use RSS, 2021-03-03, Marc @0066cc
- Robin Rendle writes about how RSS is the "promised land", via Roy Tang
- How to Subscribe to or Read RSS or ATOM News Feeds, Christopher Heng
- What is RSS?, 2021-09-11, Ali Reza Hayati
- What using RSS feeds feels like, 2022-02-13, Ben Werdmüller
- Styling OPML and RSS with XSLT to XHTML, 2023-06-22, Rubenerd. Something to consider for my own blog.
- RSS for Post-Twitter News and Web Monitoring, 2023-07-06, ResearchBuzz (Tara Calishain). A long, very informative article on RSS and how to use it.
- A well curated RSS feed reader is a wonderful substitute for social media
- You should be using an RSS reader, Pluralistic, 2024-10-16
- Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
- https://starikov.co/rss-fieldguide - RSS for the rest of us, 2025-06-01. Via https://old.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1l46z8i/after_this_shitshow_at_so_many_social_media
- https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss - Curate your own newspaper with RSS, Molly White, 2025-07-31
- https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication - In praise of RSS and controlled feeds of information, Tom Burkert, 2025-09-26. HackerNews post.
- https://jpawlik.com/blog/09/26/11015 - RSS & You, slides from talk by Jey Pawlik. Via https://mastodon.art/@jeypawlik/115271764616435749.
- https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-reader-deep-dive - A deep dive into the rss feed reader landscape. By Lighthouse, makers of the eponymous feed reader, so partial, but still a good overview. 2025-10-07
- https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/recommended-rss-readers - Recommended RSS readers, Cory Dransfeldt, 2025-10-02
feed readers
- Tiny Tiny RSS, this is what I've been using for years. See my linknote with more details.
- Miniflux
- Vienna RSS
- FeedReader, a desktop client.
- Fresh RSS
- Newsboat - can integrate with TTRSS, or read an OPML file. https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/rss-with-newsboat
- https://codeberg.org/newsraft/newsraft - feed reader with ncurses UI, inspired by Newsboat.
- RSS Guard desktop RSS reader for Linux, BSD, OS/2, macOS, or Windows that supports RSS/ATOM/JSON/iCalendar/Sitemap feeds and also web-based services such as Feedly, Nextcloud News and TinyTinyRSS.
- Winds
- Stringer
- Selfoss
- feedbin
- Leed
- commafeed
- Feedbro is a feature-rich browser plugin feed reader, but it's not open source, so not recommended.
- https://www.huguesross.net/code/singularity - desktop reader, support for RSS, RDF, and Atom, and JSON-Feed.
- https://github.com/iamaziz/TermFeed Python-based, last commit 10 yrs ago
- Nom - https://github.com/guyfedwards/nom https://www.omglinux.com/command-line-rss-readers-for-linux
- https://github.com/sheepla/srss - Simple-RSS, written in Go, inspired by Newsboat. https://medevel.com/srss
- https://git.codemadness.org/sfeed - sfeed, docs have an example dmenu integration. https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html
- tuifeed - https://github.com/veeso/tuifeed
- https://github.com/iidrees/cli-rss-feed-reader - looks simple, just a single Python script. Based on the feedparser package.
- https://codeberg.org/serghei/ozean - simple web-hosted RSS reader made with Go.
- https://github.com/Clortox/rss-cli https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/os0wom/rsscli_a_simple_program_for_parsing_rss_feeds_for
- https://github.com/gvalkov/rsstail.py - rsstail, Python, actively developed.
- https://github.com/xqtr/feedln
- https://github.com/YoloSwagTeam/feedstail
- https://github.com/mackers/theyoke - last commit 12 yrs ago, written in Perl
- https://github.com/tylerharper/wag - last commit 15 yrs ago, written in Python
Note: this list is not exhaustive. If you know of a feed reader I've missed, let me know and I'll add it.
Tools that make it easier to add sources to your feed reader
- FiveFilters: Create Feed and other services.
- https://rssgizmos.com (including feed freshness checker, OPML maker, and OPML peeler).
- Feedsearch, an API service for searching websites for their RSS, Atom or JSON feeds.
- FetchRSS. Works well for those Soundcloud "podcasts", but this site requires registration (which suggests that this site is creating their own feed endpoint instead of simply exposing soundcloud's already existing (but well-hidden) RSS endpoint).
- rss discovery engine, pre-alpha, by Brandon Quakkelaar (via Rubenerd)
- https://feedle.world a search engine for blogs and podcasts
- Explore RSS feeds in your own neighbourhood (interesting project) via https://mastodon.social/@paulcuth/112020399228840502
- https://siftrss.com - Nifty! It even supports regular expressions. But no source code?
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Telecommunications metadata
Your ISP learns every website you visit via a few different channels: DNS lookups, the IP address of sites, and TLS Server Name Indication (SNI). Most ISPs log and store this metadata for some time. Mitigation There's no need to use your ISP's DNS server. Run your own. You can't really getting around your ISP learning the IP addresses you visit. But with TLS encryption and the pervasive use of content distribution networks (CDN) by many website providers, the IP address itself does not really say much. The "leaking" of domain names via SNI is harder to get around, but newer versions of TLS improve on the situation. -
Web Site Data
Any Web site that you go to is very likely to keep extensive logs of everything you do on the site, including what pages you visit and what links you click. They may also record what outgoing links you click. For example, Google Search does this. Mitigation Try to use alternative services, that don't track you. Such as Nitter instead of Twitter, Invidious instead of Youtube, DuckDuckGo instead of Google Search, Bibliogram or PixelFed instead of Instagram, Jitsi instead of Zoom, Signal instead of WhatsApp, and so on. -
Browser Sync Data
Although the browsing history stored on your computer may not be directly accessible, many browsers offer a “sync” feature which lets you share history, bookmarks, passwords, etc. between browser instances (such as between your phone and your laptop). This information has to be stored on a server somewhere and so is potentially accessible. Mitigation Make sure that whoever hosts this server allows you to properly encrypt your data (in such a way that the server owner can never decrypt). Or even better, self-host the sync server yourself (Firefox sync can be self-hosted in this manner).