Excellent piece by Ed Yong in the Atlantic.

FIFA has released the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Official Film.
1h and 20m down memory lane ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAcU2DvbXM

https://wallabag.chepec.se/share/5e76e150d26128.44547100

A list based off of the above article, with some more I have learnt of from different sources:

• Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research.
• Dat project: A protocol for researcher-centric data sharing.
• JOSS: The Journal of Open Source Software (paper review as Github issues!).
• Open Citations: Open bibliographic and citation data.
• Plaudit: A browser extension that enables verified (via ORCID) endorsements of publications. A way to let other researchers know what you think is good science.
• PubPub: Collaborative writing and publishing.
• ReScience: A journal for replicated computational research.
• FlashPub: Fast micropublications.
• ReimagineReview: A whole database of peer review innovations!
• Dokieli: Decentralized articles and annotations, using linked data.
• Scite.ai: Machine learning for determining research quality.
• Scholarcy: Automatic summarisation of papers.
• BMJ Labs' mega list: Projects in scientific publishing, all of them!
• unpaywall integrations (unpaywall is one of several projects run by OurResearch).

Video by Kurzgesagt

Via kottke.org which has a nice write-up of the video.

How interconnections between national grids facilitate more renewable energy generation capacity.

Good explanation of exponential growth and how it relates to health-care capacity in light of the current SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak.

Of course, virus transmission is in fact logistic, not exponential, but this video by Sharafestien nonetheless does a good job of driving home the main point: why it is prudent for everyone to take precautions.

Slides by Michael Lin, PhD, M.D., professor of neurobiology and bioengineering at Stanford university.

Also via MR

Ministries have signed MoU with Saudi energy company ACWA Power.

Currently there are 76 seawater desalination plants in Egypt, that supply 831,690 cubic metres per day. The plan is to build 67 more plants, in the governorates of Matrouh, Red Sea, North and South Sinai, Ismailiyah and Suez.
https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/egypt-looking-25-bn-finance-17-desalination-plants

All those existing plants are probably not solar-powered, right?

Plans for new, solar-powered ones: https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/egypt-plans-desalination-plants-worth-2-5bn-over-next-five-years/

Bitvis riktigt roligt :-)

Med tillhörande "skola" och studiecirkel hos Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan.

Some guides on the why's and what's of password managers

• The best password manager in 2021, The New Oil
• A technical introduction to password managers, Tavis Ormandy. Via Alan Ralph.
• Wikipedia has an informative article on password managers.
• Internetstiftelsen har publicerat en utmärkt guide för hjälpa dig att komma igång med lösenordshanterare.
• Bra råd hos Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap (MSB) om hur du säkrar din lösenord.
• https://reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/1abpovo/%C3%A4r_det_inte_riskabelt_att_ha_l%C3%B6senordshanterare
• https://lemmy.ml/post/19156372

BitWarden

Open source password management solution, can be self-hosted (how-to)
Integrates with Ansible.

1Password

A cloud-hosted password manager. No longer recommended, as it has regressed into an Electron application mandating remote storage of your password vault.

KeePass

Free, open source, light-weight, and easy-to-use password manager.
These slides discuss the why? how? what? where? of KeePass (presented by F. Morsbach at the first CryptoParty in Uppsala, 2019)

KeePass is written in C# and therefore requires Microsoft's .NET platform.

• Plugins: A list of third-party plugins for KeePass
• Android: Keepass2Android
• iPhone: MiniKeePass
• Chrome / Firefox: Tusk
• Web App: KeeWeb

KeePassXC

Open source, cross-platform.
KeePassXC is developed in C++ and runs natively on all platforms.

• Easy to achieve cloud sync by simply storing your KeePassXC database inside your shared cloud folder (using Nextcloud, for example).

AuthPass

AuthPass supports the KeePass database (KDBX format).
Setup instructions.

Pass

Simple GPG/Git password manager. Adheres to the Unix philosophy, which makes it easy to integrate with anything, e.g., Ansible.
This is my password manager of choice :-)

• Excellent in combination with rofi or dmenu on the Linux desktop, and
• on Android, useable with a combination of Password Store and OpenKeychain.
• Rich ecosystem of plugins, tools: pass-rotate.
• Clever uses of pass, by Vikaly Parnas.

Dashlane

"An intuitive password manager with over with over 8 million users worldwide."
Not open source, as far as I know.

Passbolt

Free, open source, self-hosted, extensible, OpenPGP based.

LessPass

Stateless, open source password manager.

Psono

Open source and self-hosted password manager for teams.

Buttercup

Another open source password manager with desktop, mobile, and browser clients.

LastPass

One of the most widely-used password managers, but that does not mean it's the best. Parent company is LogMeIn. Completely cloud-based, and not open source, obviously. On that basis alone, I do not recommend it. LastPass has suffered a major breach, it is now effectively dead.

Password manager apps that integrate with Nextcloud?

• Keeweb for Keepass
• Enpass
• Passman
• Passwords, native Nextcloud app

More lists of password managers

• https://codeberg.org/alicia/awesome-privacy#password-managers
• https://nextcloud.com/blog/password-managers-for-nextcloud/
• https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy#password-vaults
• https://protonmail.com/blog/open-source-password-managers/
• https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks/best-password-managers
• https://european-alternatives.eu/category/password-managers

Smithsonian releases 2.8 million images into public domain

With an API and metadata dumps on Github

Via reddit

Färre bilskjutsar gav tryggare skolväg och piggare barn.
Via Cyklistbloggen.

Författaren bakom studien, Anna-Karin Lindqvist, universitetslektor vid Luleå tekniska universitet, har deltagit i ett avsnitt av Cykelfrämjandets poddcast: "Utmaningen är inte barnen – det är föräldrarna".

Endast omkring 30% av svenska barn når rekommendationen för fysisk aktivitet och bara hälften av barnen använder aktiva skoltransporter. Förutom den samhälleliga utmaningen som detta innebär för barns hälsa och kognitiv förmåga, har det också en negativ inverkan på klimatet och trafiksäkerhet nära skolorna. Dessutom följer barns fysiska vanor med in i vuxenlivet och därmed har den fysiska inaktiviteten på sikt en betydande hälsoekonomisk negativ effekt.

Hennes forskningsprojekt "Aktiva skoltransporter" går att läsa om i flera vetenskapliga artiklar men har även lett till publikationer i flera tidningar/bloggar:

• Cykelväg till skolan kan vara vägen till framgång, Skolledaren, 2019
• Aktiva skoltransporter – elevers upplevelser av att gå och cykla till skolan under vintern, kandidatuppsats, 2018, (PDF)
• Active School Transportation in Winter Conditions: Biking Together Is Warmer, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
• Children's motivation overcame parental hesitation: active school transportation in Sweden, Health Promotion International, 2019
• Låt barnen cykla till skolan för att minska smittspridning, debattartikel, Göteborgs-Posten
• Hon vill få barnen att cykla till skolan, Luleå kommuns nyhetssajt "Vårt Luleå", 2019
• Målet: 80 procent ska gå eller cykla till skolan, IT-pedagogen, 2020
• Stort forskningsanslag till Aktiva skoltransporter, Luleå tekniska universitet, 2020
• Så ska fler barn cykla eller gå till skolan, Extrakt (Formas), 2020
• Lägre förväntad medellivslängd än sina föräldrar, Norrländska Socialdemokraten, 2019

Kairo har närmare 20 miljoner invånare och bedömdes av Världshälsoorganisationen WHO år 2018 att ha de näst värsta luftföroreningarna i världen.
Enligt tidningen Egypt Independent fokuserade diskussionerna mellan Kamel al-Wazir och Volvo på ett projekt som innebär att etablera ett BRT-system på ringleden i Kairo i samband med att leden byggs ut med fler körfält.

SKR beräknade i fjol att det behöver byggas över 700 förskolor fram till år 2022.

https://arkitekten.se/nyheter/klart-med-ramavtal-for-konceptforskolor/

Brandbergen Centrum ska byggas om och utökas med cirka 400 nya bostäder. Serneke är totalentreprenör och har tecknat ett totalentreprenadavtal värt omkring 500 miljoner kronor med fastighetsbolaget Savana AB.

Here's a library of thousands of book illustrations from old books, with searchable name, artist, source, date, which book it was in, etc.

Via Jason Kottke

• No ads
• No need to create a Google account
• Tools for managing subscriptions
• Adds ability to listen only to audio
• No need for YouTube app in order to listen to videos on mobile (or use Newpipe on Android)
• No need to "ding" bell, just being subscribed is enough to receive all notifications
• No age-gate
• Dark mode (although YouTube has this now too)
• Free software (AGPL v3 license)

A good Firefox add-on is Privacy Redirect. Apart from handling Youtube can also redirect other services, and it also automatically rotates each redirect from a list of Invidious instances so as to avoid overloading any single one.

See Invidious Instances for a list of publicly available instances.

• "Small acts of resistance are all we need. Together, we make change", Yarmo Mackenbach
• https://reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/8wvazc/invidous_alternative_frontend_to_youtube/
• https://github.com/omarroth/invidious

Other Youtube front-end alternatives

• yt-dlp
• NewPipe (Android)
• PipePipe (Android), includes SponsorBlock
• yt-local , via reddit thread

Replacing Youtube altogether

Another approach is to replace Youtube with an open-source, federated video host service.
That would be PeerTube (see this blog post by LazyBear).

• https://fedi.video - a good place to get started with PeerTube, by FediThing

A custom-made mobile personal web server made from over-the-shelf components.
This project puts a fine point on the question: why can't we use our mobile phones as truly personal mobile computing devices?