Weekly Shaarli
Week 47 (November 20, 2023)
Really nice work by Steve Byrnes. Very useful.
Archived.

avtal med företaget ArkivIT om drift och support av ett e-arkivsystem baserat på programvarorna Archivematica och AtoM (Access to Memory)
Hösten 2021 gick det Enskilda e-arkivet med Arkiv Sörmland i spetsen in i slutfasen för E-arkivportalen. Tanken är att portalen ska nyttjas av föreningar som vill arkivera digitalt material som i första hand tillkommit digitalt. Det kan röra sig om hemsidor, sociala medier, mailkorrespondens, avtal, räkenskaper, fotografier, videofiler, och mycket mer.
I keep getting annoyed by Doodle. In this latest example, it proved impossible to change the shown "name" as guest user once my answer was submitted, despite it being possible to change everything else, or even decline. (I wanted to make use of the "name" field to include a single-word message to the organizer.) And when logged in the name field never even showed up during the answer flow.
Alternatives to Doodle
- https://crab.fit (it's FOSS, source code on Github)
- https://framadate.org/abc/en (FOSS, by the well-known French organization Framasoft)
- https://datumprikker.nl (not FOSS, but perhaps convenient since it offers Google and Apple apps). Don't forget to change to English in the menu.
Self-hostable alternatives
- https://github.com/lukevella/Rallly >2k stars, on v3.3.0, built on Next.js. Reddit thread.
- https://github.com/kellerben/dudle >300 stars, on v1.2, built on Ruby. Reddit thread.
- Nextcloud may have some doodle-like app (I haven't checked).
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/business/nigeria-fertilizer-shortage.html Behind paywall, inaccessible. Intro to the article here, what appears to be the full article here. Via chemjobber.
- https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2022/world-food-supply-threatened-global-fertilizer-shortage/
African farmers on average use the least fertilizer per acre in the world and have some of the lowest yields, particularly for corn and other grains that provide the bulk of the continent’s calories. As a result, despite having 60 percent of the world’s arable land, almost half the countries in Africa depends on imported wheat from Russia and Ukraine, with 14 African countries getting more than half their wheat from the two warring nations.
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/global-food-crisis-looms-as-fertilizer-supplies-dwindle National Geographic, 2023-05-23
First farm in Kenya to produce fossil-free fertilizer (ammonia from renewably produced hydrogen), built by US startup firm Talus Renewables. Yale Environment 360 Magazine, 2023-10-11.
- https://www.businessinsider.com/fertilizer-shortage-is-at-the-heart-of-pending-food-crisis-2022-8 Business Insider, 2022-08-01
- https://nelhydrogen.com/press-release/awarded-iberdrola-contract-for-20-mw-green-fertilizer-project-in-spain/
- https://africafertilizer.org - slightly suspect website, but might contain useful data.