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Nextcloud adds desktop app for Euro-Office productivity suite

Nextcloud has developed a desktop app for its Euro-Office-based productivity applications, filling a gap in the software suite that it pitches as a sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office. Nextcloud, one of the backers of the Euro-Office initiative, integrated the software into its Nextcloud Office suite in June.

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How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism

Since its integration into our digital world, social media has played a pivotal role in youth organizing and social mobilization. Yet, people’s access to these platforms is increasingly coming under threat from courts and legislatures under the guise of protecting young people online—presenting a significant hindrance to youth organizing.

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Resident Evil Review

Review: With a laser focus on putting its hero through the worst night of his life, Resident Evil is a simple and exciting survival horror story that benefits greatly from director Zach Cregger’s…

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How to get a DOI for your blog posts

  • Digital Object Identifier (DOI) benefits scholars in citing blog posts.
  • Non-institutional users can obtain DOIs via services like arXiv.
  • Rogue Scholar provides DOI for science blogs, ensuring long-term discoverability.

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I built a motion design studio in the browser. Here's what it took.

AtomCut started as a tool that was supposed to animate text. Today it's an infinite canvas above a multi-track timeline, in the browser, where you can keyframe anything, paint with a wet watercolour…

  • AtomCut started as text animation tool, evolved into browser-based motion design platform
  • Platform offers infinite canvas, multi-track timeline, various content editing tools
  • Architecture based on rendering function, centralized store for undo operations

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Cinder is now Tomoshibi 灯火 — same scraper, better name

Cinder is now Tomoshibi (灯火, lamp light). Same Go scraper, same API. New name, cleaner monorepo, easier to find. If you used Cinder, your old GitHub URL still redirects and your stars carried over.

  • Cinder rebranded as Tomoshibi (灯火), Japanese for lamp light
  • No breaking API changes, users can access via old GitHub URL
  • Renamed to clearly represent tool's purpose and ease search

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"Nobody designed the frontmatter"

I open any file in these repos in VS Code, and before the first heading the Outline panel shows a block of names: title , numero , date , sesion_fuente , fecha_creacion , description , tags…

  • Frontmatter is metadata block at top of Markdown file
  • Evolved through four origins with distinct fields
  • Not all fields present in all files, some missing
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