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Six days before my Swedish exam

spam me with Swedish sentences

Happy 21st, curl! https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/03/20/happy-21st-curl/

curl is 160,000 lines of code documented with 36,900 lines of man pages. Turns 21 years old this Wednesday. #curl21

It's really frustrating how much we could self-host the internet but can't because consumer ISP service is intentionally broken

No, journal web designer

No one ever wants to read the PDF in a browser using your "enhanced reader" if they clicked the PDF button

That means they want to download it every time

"Elsevier wanted to keep meeting with us, and we have a meeting scheduled for tomorrow (Friday), but yesterday they approached our faculty directly — faculty who are editors of Elsevier journals, who they have working relationships with — and also the media, and presented a rosy view of the offer they’d made to us. Their characterization of the offer left things out, and they didn’t mention what we’d proposed as conditions. They went public with it. So, we announced the end."

"University of California terminates subscriptions with world’s largest scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research"

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly

Context for those not in the US: this is huge. UC is a uniquely enormous and influential university system in our country. When they do things, many other universities follow suit.

@Gargron
Fun fact: this cat is kept in France as the International Prototype Unit Cat. All other Units are based off of this Cat. If they are equal in value their Unit rating is declared Absolute.

Another good comic by the JoyOfTech:

„Let’s play Facebook! - So much fun ... move fast and break things!“

https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2584.html

Sometimes I think about the raccoon with the cotton candy