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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 18, 2023

pg_partman 5.0.0-beta available for community testing

The top of the update file contains the current full release notes.

Since this is a beta release, this version cannot be installed directly. The standard installation procedures will install the latest stable release (4.7.3) into the database. To install 5.0.0-beta, you will then have to run an extension update

ALTER EXTENSION pg_partman UPDATE TO '5.0.0-beta’;

The Corporate Capture of Open-Access Publishing

The answers, we propose, lie somewhere in that overlooked, undervalued middle ground of nonprofit or fair-profit university-press publishing, mission-aligned with the academy. Many of those presses have been leaders in findings ways to meet the goals of providing both equitable access to knowledge and equitable participation in the creation of new knowledge. These are the publishers that universities should protect, invest in, and make deals with. Perhaps an international network of university-based publishers, libraries, and other public-knowledge providers could work together, balancing paid-for and open research content in a way that is sustainable rather than extractive, and that still values the research itself. Such a network could face down the likes of academia.edu

GNU Screen v.4.9.1

I'm announcing availability of GNU Screen v.4.9.1

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

Using the WordStar diamond in 2023

My brother Berwyn created a set of scripts just for you. They’re MIT-licensed, and available on his wordstar-keys repo. They map the Caps Lock key (right under your left pinky) as the WordStar control key, but leave the real Ctrl key available for normal use.

If you’re on Linux, this uses the xremap key remapping tool. This works on X11 and Wayland, and I use it daily on Ubuntu (22.04 LTS). Installation is simple: [...]