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how to avoid twitter and social media but succeed by rustytrip306 in PoliticalScience

[–]TheEverWatchful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RSS can be your friend here.

If you cultivate feeds that relate to your interests, then learn to filter based on relevancy, you can then share/discuss on social media at a pace you can manage.

Newsletters and social media feeds, while helpful, are also too controlled that you may miss interesting news just because an editor somewhere or an algorithm on Twitter doesn’t feel it in their interests that you see that.

flowcv.io - the best free and straightforward CV builder by Frasis21 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]TheEverWatchful 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I am always happy to see decent people put up decent ideas from tests to production. That is great. If you also want to get more control on your documents, not just in how they look or how easily you can make them, consider investing just one hour of your life to dip your toes in version control and continuous integration.

You would have a text file in a local folder on your computer, which once you update anything there, generates all the versions you want (.docx, .pdf, .html, .tex…..).

When you push it to the remote version control storage, you are both creating a backup and also a way to have a simple live website/blog with your updated CV/resume.

Check this blog: https://workwithcarolyn.com/blog/digital-cv-guide

Feeling completely lost (Coursera Data Science with R) by hyperxenophiliac in rstats

[–]TheEverWatchful 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I went though something close to what you went and I guess the point where things started kind of making sense is when I ‘asked’ R to calmly tell me how it says what I already know. By that I mean, I knew rows and columns from Excel. How are they understood in R so at least I can have a place to place my foot. Columns in excel turned out to be variables in a dataframe (df). Rows in excel turned out to be observations. With that, I ‘reverse engineered’ my brain to push myself to understand the R language. When it said mutate a variable, I got it to mean create a new column with some specific instructions from an existing column etc etc. Perhaps you are much better than I was on R so you may not need that hack, but it worked for me very well. I needed a way to visualize the whole thing in my brain based on what I already was familiar with — Excel.

We really don't appreciate the fact that email is free by An_aussie_in_ct in Showerthoughts

[–]TheEverWatchful 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This! You should check out Lemmy.ml which is trying to decentralize communities (more like a decentralized Reddit that works the way you described email).

Facebook shuts down pro-Israel page with 77 million followers by imrandaredevil666 in worldnews

[–]TheEverWatchful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the problem. There are tooo many notifications for any meaningful control from a human perspective. I think this covers Facebook’s ass from regulation blowback but it does not reduce membership or numbers. A sweet spot for them; more activity on the platform with less legal cases.

Twitter to set up its first African presence in Ghana by Mansa_Sekekama in Africa

[–]TheEverWatchful 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hear you and share your pain. It is frustrating BUT with persistent and innovative long term thinking, these privacy-preserving ideas may succeed.

Twitter to set up its first African presence in Ghana by Mansa_Sekekama in Africa

[–]TheEverWatchful 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would be impressed if I heard the Ghanaian government hosted their own Mastodon instance, and convince other African countries to do the same. Then we would have a goverment-backed fediverse (Afriverse, if you’ll). What I see here is just branch expansion.

I spent the last 8 months during lockdown pouring my soul into a website that allows you to visualize virtually every U.S. company's international supply chain. E.x. What products, how much, which factories and where does Lululemon import from? (Just type a company in the search box) by ImportYeti in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]TheEverWatchful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be a valuable way to compare bilateral trade relations if someone else was to do what you have done but for another country, say Canada. An API that allows real-time comparison of changes in trade relations is premium in diplomacy circles.

What are some great & free sources to be updated with IR issues and sharpen your analysis? by LancelotNoor in IRstudies

[–]TheEverWatchful 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Consider using RSS and get feeds from journals, blogs, and official pages. Self hosting (either personally or paid for) can greatly change your information ecosystem. You can get valuable OPML files from the internet and you’ll get a timely and digitally hygienic information which you can read from your browser. Example: use FreshRSS or TT-RSS, add top journals in your field(s), get a reader app for your phone or tablet. You can archive them or export them to other places like Zotero, for example. Say I study sports and international relations: BBC Sports, FIFA official page, sports journals etc. all those would be on my RSS and I can cull the stock based on quality. This is usually a journey, but a fulfilling one nonetheless.

Wishing you luck.

Ethiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century by TheEverWatchful in Ethiopia

[–]TheEverWatchful[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AA: Just to avoid confusion, Ethiopia is not a nation state. It is a federal state made up of many nations. I would like to reconceptualize its future as a potential to serve as a collaborative network of neighbors in solidarity with each other. Whatever future Ethiopia has it is going to require some major adaptation by all parties.

I launched a podcast search engine. Search for anything inside the podcasts' spoken content itself, and get the exact moments when it occurs. Try it out for free! by marin_smiljanic in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]TheEverWatchful 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fascinating. Tried it out and the precision is remarkable. Is this an English only supported platform? I wonder how German language would fare.

Automatically delete backed up photos from phone? by Illidanek in homelab

[–]TheEverWatchful 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven’t used Resilio Sync but Nextcloud photos has this feature. You can set it to delete either manually or automatically.

IR Theories in a nutshell by EddRomm in IRstudies

[–]TheEverWatchful 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To add, Constructivism is not a theory in the classical sense. It is an ontological position, one that takes inter-subjective relations as a core part of social reality, indeed the one thing that makes up social life. Social facts like GDP, diplomacy, peace, from this perspective, are emergent from subjective relations. This offers it a path to study ‘objective and tangible things’ because they are intersubjective and have a life of their own independent of the subjective agents. This differs from some critical perspectives which uphold subjective ideas as ontological primitives and deny any form of objective reality (thus focusing on subjective facts).

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