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Anyone familiar with a lightweight text-wget type tool to pull text-only from http articles? I like to save clippings offline of various web articles for future reference/research (journalism, essays, etc) but my current solution is to: (i) toggle reader view + strip out images (ii) print - save as PDF. Anyone else got a more lightweight way to pull plaintext from web pages? I *imagine* there's some simple tools out there using e.g. python web scraping + parsing? #web #journalism #webtech #indieweb

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Front End North

We're delighted that our very own @katiefenn will be taking to the @heypresents stage in a couple of weeks! With "Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web AUDIO and what the web does best"

We saw a preview at a previous @FrontEndSheff, it's _totally awesome_!

heypresents.com/talks/around-t

heypresents.comAround the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web AUDIO and what the web does bestSo, you don't use the Web Audio and Web MIDI APIs in your day job - does that mean they have nothing important to tell us about the nature of the Web? Think again! Katie Fenn takes us on a tour of the Web Audio and Web MIDI APIs by creatively-coding Daft Punk's 1997 classic, "Around the World". The talk will reflect on what the Web is good at, and the enduring value of unlicensed standards.
#Leeds#WebTech#WebMIDI
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Asta [AMP]

On this note: are you interested in #tech, #selfHosting, #science, #computationalScience, #HPC, #liberatoryTech, or just #POSIX in general but otherwise lack the resources, financial or otherwise? Get in touch with me and we can have a chat about maybe getting you some time. I can't promise when things will be ready or how much I can offer, but.

No generative AI training, please. 'Classic' ML that doesn't generate trash, contribute to surveillance, or rely on stolen data is fine though.

EDIT: please feel free to boost! DMs for initial contact are fine; while I run my server, I do not run yours so just a hello and a general area of interest are all I ask that you put in there. If you feel a project or interest is sensitive we can arrange another chat medium from there. I just wanna get a sense of who you are since I'll be, you know, letting you access the computer sitting in my office lmao.

EDIT 2: I can also specifically help to some degree if you're interested in learning about #computationalChemistry, #proteinFolding, or running a few different types of #simulations.

EDIT 3: If you're interested in writing/deploying/understanding #webDesign, #webTech, etc, that's also possible. I'm not trying to limit anything here, mostly just tagging with what things I know.

EDIT 4: jesus christ Audrey. Anyway, "a sense of who you are" does NOT have to include personally identifying information. I mean much more informal and useful stuff than that, such as what you're interested in and wanna work on. I want you to get to know me a little bit, too, because we'll both need a degree of trust and if you feel you can't trust me then please don't force yourself to.

RE: https://fire.asta.lgbt/notes/a3911f2wi43200mf

fire.asta.lgbtAsta [AMP] (@aud)ALSO I am getting closer and closer to my goal of getting some educational compute going. I wouldn't say I _know_ freeipa or care but I did at least get an NFS w/ automatically mounted home directories going last night, despite my brain's immense desire to just fuck off while doing it. Ultimately even if it's not strictly HPC or science, I'd like to offer people the chance to play with some technologies that they'd otherwise have to utilize corporate services to experiment with. I dunno; it's something I can do, and I think the more we turn 'the cloud' into something owned and run by individuals (call it 'the fog'? since it's at person height? 😅) the better.
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Harald

Implementing a Javascript interpreter? I could!

But if I were asked to implement HTML+CSS rendering, I would do a lot of head scratching. Parsing HTML into a data structure? OK! Parsing CSS, OK, but into which data structure? And how is it applied during rendering? And efficient. And what is the general abstraction? Or is it a gazillion special cases these days?

Anyone know an explain site on a rather high level? Maybe a podcast?

(Thanks for boosting).

#javascript#html#css
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flow

It's kind-of easy to see the outline of the ethical, practical and 'adjust course' qualities feeding into the Solid/Inrupt proposal re data sovereignty[1] but I can't help that feel like the project and the direction it's going is rooted in a kind-of market-driven 'data realism' of neoliberalism and powerful states. This is not quite the radical about-turn we need.

[1]datanami.com/2023/10/09/berner

Datanami · Berners-Lee Startup Seeks Disruption of the Current Web 2.0 Big Data ParadigmTim Berners-Lee’s legacy as the creator of the World Wide Web is firmly cemented in history. But as the Internet strayed away from its early egalitarian
#inrupt#solid#Web
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Mike Ellis

A system to leave comments on any part of any web page. It's 2023 and I still can't find a good solution for this.

Hypothes.is sort of promises this, but seems to have gone down a sort of academic black hole of complexity doom.

Other solutions are paid, SaaS and I'd rather self host if possible.

Please internets, recommend me something...?

#annotation#web#webtech
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Ned ‘Jonathan’ Schofield

#webtech #webperf
Bearing in mind that Microsoft Edge is the last holdout for bringing AVIF support to the modern web – and is working on achieving it soon – should we still make and serve webP?

- See cramforce on the #birdsite 👉 x.com/cramforce/status/1510047

(Please qualify your non-No answer)

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X (formerly Twitter)Malte Ubl on X@mgaak1dev @HenriHelvetica WebP is a win on average but often larger than an equivalent JPEG. AVIF is always a win and much more so than WebP. At this point I'd consider not bothering with WebP and going straight to AVIF
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Ned ‘Jonathan’ Schofield

#WebTech
Malte Ubl’s assessment of roughly equivalent encoding quality settings for AVIF, WebP and JPEG is very handy:

industrialempathy.com/posts/av

AVIF 64 ≈ WebP 82 ≈ JPEG 80

I still struggle to formulate a consistent approach to pixel density though. I think the thing to do is probably let the user decide via something like @jimniels’s fidelity UI mastodon.social/@urlyman/11101

www.industrialempathy.comAVIF and WebP encoding quality settingsAVIF and WebP are modern image formats that generally produce smaller file sizes compared to the widely used JPEG format. This post explains...
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