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Are you suggesting that the editors or Slashdot get a kickback from payments to Linux Pro Magazine? Because something like that would have to be happening to justify language like "sleazy". Of course we would all prefer to read everything immediately without having to pay for it or subscribe. But you can still wait a few week for the article to become free.
The Gemini protocol is designed to be un-extendable in several respects, specifically so that it can not evolve into the WWW. Nevertheless, as you point out, people will always find a way to abuse the users.
Itâ(TM)s not shady and itâ(TM)s not advertising. I donâ(TM)t get paid for visits. Many people here probably already have a subscription, and the article becomes free after a while, as well.
Asking for a direct payment is the opposite of the kind of abuses I was referring to in the article. These take the form of pretending that a service or information is free, but extracting a cost in tracking, invasion of privacy, and annoyances such as door slams.
lee1 writes: The danger and irritations of the modern web have unleashed a movement dedicated to creating a safer and simpler alternative. The old Gopher network and the new Gemini protocol have emerged as building blocks for this new "small Internet."
lee1 writes: The UHI human interaction research group has been intensively studying a pervasive problem facing users of the web: the problem of tabs. How to organize them, preserve them, keep track of them. We have carefully considered the pros and cons of various approaches offered by different browsers, and by extensions: tab trees, second rows of tabs, vertical tabs, 3D tabs, musical tabs, you name it.
lee1 writes: On November 29, version 1.7 of SymPy was released. SymPy is a Python library that performs symbolic mathematical manipulations. Like others of its kind, it can solve algebraic and differential equations, simplify expressions, apply trigonometric identities, differentiate, integrate, and knows things about sets, manifolds, tensors, and many other mathematical objects.
lee1 writes: On November 26, version 6.1 of [GNU Octave][@GNUOctave], a language and environment for numerical computing, was released. There are several new features and enhancements in the new version, including improvements to graphics output, better communication with web services, and over 40 new functions.
We will take a look at where Octave fits into the landscape of numerical tools for scientists and engineers, and recount some of its long history.
lee1 writes: Those who are unfamiliar with Mutt will learn about a different way to deal with the daily chore of wrangling their inboxes; while Mutt experts may discover some new sides to an old friend. As might be guessed, version2.0 brings several enhancements to Mutt’s interface, configurability, and convenience.
lee1 writes: Classical physics remains a vibrant arena of active research. Its foundations and the fundamental problems posed by several of its subfields still engage the imaginations of thousands of physicists throughout the world. And like all areas in active development, it attracts contention and controversy to this very day.
Author here. While mathematicians usually begin the series with zero, in papers about computing the initial zero is often left off. I should have been consistent, though.