@mxp @twsh I forgot to add the link: https://codeberg.org/tarleb/jog

@mxp @twsh The `jog` library is a re-implementation of pandoc filters in pure Lua that should make this easier. E.g., "jog" allows to get the element context, i.e., the list of all parent elements, as a second filter argument. It also offers performance improvements in some cases.

@Lydie
SSDs are rated to retain data unpowered for six months for consumer grade devices, and for three months for enterprise grade. They need to stay powered up so that they can scrub (refresh) memory cells that lose their charge over time. This is because each data bit is actually stored by a surprisingly small number of electrons in modern NAND flash devices.
Spinning drives, despite their potential mechanical failure modes, are actually better for cold storage than SSDs.

@ctietze Sorry for the late reply, my Mastodon instance hadn't notified me :(
I managed to get a part time job. It gives me the flexibility I needed to be there for my family, but also a stable income. It does wonders for my peace of mind.
I'm also lucky in that I have a client who gives me small projects from time to time, so I can do those when time permits.
Getting back into the more rigid structure after enjoying freelancer freedoms took some getting used to, but so far I don't regret it.

@ctietze I started a salaried position last month for very much the same reasons. Wishing you good luck for your job-hunt!

I'm thinking of getting a salaried job after years of freelancing. (The stress and overhead isn't worth it with a toddler, I'd rather have it calm.)

If you know someone who needs a #Swiftlang dev with 10+ years of experience, macOS and iOS, also some C and #Rust, who can self-manage and also manage-manage and act as product owner etc. (I'm also an indie with the full spectrum of experience), do share!

Thanks 🙏

#getfedihired

(Remote from Bielefeld, Germany)

Kennt ihr OA-affine Menschen auf Jobsuche in Berlin? Wir haben eine 50%-Stelle befristet bis 30.9.26 ausgeschrieben. Sprecht mich gerne an, wenn ihr Fragen habt.

https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/ub/ueber-uns/stellen/index.html

#openaccess

@heafnerj EPUB still requires XHTML. That's about it, I think :)

PKP's long-time friends @tibhannover announce a new consortium to support PKP #OpenInfrastructure!

The PKP #OpenJournalSystems Deutschland 2026 – 2028 Consortium aims to "enable easier memberships for Germany's academic institutions".

With more than half of the world's #DiamondOpenAccess journals using #OJS, and being a key part of the German #OpenAccess landscape, there are many reasons for sharing in sustainability of PKP software.

Learn more at TIB's blog: https://blog.tib.eu/2025/10/15/pkp-consortium/

I'm happy to announce that I've joined the national service point for Diamond #OpenAccess (#SeDOA) at Freie Universität in Berlin.
If you're involved with scientific publishing, especially in Germany and with XML-based workflows, then I'd love to have a chat.
Please come and say hi!

@achim Bitte was? Wie wollen die denn ihren Job machen? Das muss doch ein schlechter Scherz sein!?!

@tvluke Da war sicher eine Irische Fluggesellschaft an der Planung beteiligt.

@kellertuer Meine Mails laufen seit guten zehn Jahren über mailbox.org. Kann ich wirklich empfehlen: eigene Domains sind kein Problem, Kosten finde ich angemessen, und extra Features wie Kalender gibt's auch.

@joliyea Auf GitHub gibt es einige Topics, die für die Suche nützlich sein können. Unter dem Topic „quarto-dashboard“ findet man zum Beispiel
https://dashboard.thecoatlessprofessor.com/nsf-grant-cuts/#

Andere nützliche Topics: quarto-project, quarto-website, und natürlich quarto.

@mxp Sorry for the late reply.
There currently isn't, but I'll try to set something up. Do you happen to have any recommendations?
And a huge THANK YOU for sponsoring my work!

Current Russian strategy in a nutshell: if you defend the country, we'll terrorize the population. And if you still won't let us win, then we'll switch to mass-murder.

@richard @stuartelden Thanks for sharing. Truly fascinating and a pleasure to read.

An excerpt from "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45", an interview with a German after WWII on why they didn't rise up against the regime due to incrementalism.

“Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”

And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jewish swine,” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early morning meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free

#USpol #USpolitics