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📌Special thanks go to @getindico@twitter.com @bigbluebutton@twitter.com @matrixdotorg@twitter.com & @element_hq@twitter.com for making 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗦𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 possible. Your upgrades made the event better!

See you all next year!!!🛰️🌎🌍🌏

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The pdf annotation software I started using early on my career was Mendeley, back when it was an open-source independent project. Then it was bought my Elsevier, its code became private, and a sort of social network was built around its user data-base. No thank you, I won't give my data to such an evil publishing machine.
I then switched to Polar. It was independent, light-weight, open-source... Really nice! But the creators of the project started complaining they were not receiving any support from users (before they even released their first stable version), they started using google code, closed the source-code, and then again everything went to downhill...
I thought I would never find a decent, open-source, independently developed academic library. I annotate my pdfs, write comments on them, etc. And I need to have the ordered by topic, authors, and all the relevant metadata.
And then I realized the answer was in front of me this whole time! Okular! The pdf reader that comes with KDE (linux) implemented a lot of options that allow to highlight, underline, annotate, etc your pdfs. The interface is great, the software is very lightweight, works flawlessly, and I can be sure it will remain open-source.
The only thing I am missing is a dedicated library to manage my pdfs, but honestly, I can do that myself by keeping an ordered and systematic system to store my library on my hard-drives, with some backup in the cloud.

#linux #foss #pdfs #Mendeley #Polar #Okular #Kde #opensource #academia #science

Your clone is an equal “version” of you on the grid. The synchronization is transparent to the people that comment on your posts or share things with you. If your primary hub goes offline for some reason, you can continue your communications using your clone. When your primary comes back online, it will sync automatically in the background.

You can even delete your original account on hubzilla.dev and make beta.dev your channel’s primary hub, which allows you to do something you can’t do on any other decentralized social networking platform: migrate your identity and connections seamlessly between servers.

Your online identity is not an account on a server, and your social graph is not imprisoned on a website. This is true ownership of your identity. This is nomadic identity. And it’s only available on Hubzilla.

See a good guide on how to set it up at Nomadic identity, brought to you by Hubzilla

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