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  Heya R devs - did you know you can run all your favorite GitHub actions on Codeberg? Codeberg is rolling out Forgejo actions - an (almost) drop-in replacement for GitHub actions, which means we can (almost) use `r-lib/actions` directly on a free and open source platform! Just a couple tweaks are needed, and for your convenience I'm automatically mirroring r-lib/actions and applying those changes so they're ready to use. https://codeberg.org/r-codeberg/r-lib-actions #rlang #rstats #co...

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  Let's start with the positives. It's pretty repairable. Replacement electronics are easily sourced and the 3D printing STL/STEP files are public. It uses the programmable and open source QMK firmware and has a plethora of buttons. Assembly was relatively straightforward. One throughhole component to solder and otherwise just cleaning up some 3D printing mess and screwing a few things together. Probably about an hour of assembling a kit with good instructions.

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  @defuneste@fosstodon.org @geospacedman@mastodon.social when there’s tension in the air (and here I mean the tension between financial and social interest), I think the best thing to do is to be loud about it and help bring other people to the realization that the current course isn’t in their interest. If the company you’re alluding to were a B Corporation, I’d hope they’d have the social interest in mind for core infrastructure decisions like this.

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  @geospacedman@mastodon.social @defuneste@fosstodon.org yeah.. momentum is a hard thing to change. I was also GitLab-curious when it was the best alternative, but was always a bit unsure of what to make of their enterprise/open-source split. With Forgejo I think the story is a lot less ambiguous. Still, it’s hard to get people to move away from where all the action is. I think real change is only likely if we can see some major R packages move. The r-lib org seems like a great candidate 🤔

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  The R Consortium’s grant cycle is rolling around (Deadline October 1st). Of course, if you have a burning idea this is the opportunity to pitch it. If you don’t and you’re an avid R developer looking to get paid for open source work, then I’d gladly support you in carrying some of my projects over the finish line 🧵 #rlang #rstats

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  Noodling on a theory I had at the start of the AI wave: Aside from translation & image gen, AI software solutions are almost universally solving problems where a structured data model would solve the problem better. Of course, it takes significant thought to model these problems as data. This isn't a claim that all AI problems should be solved by data modelling, but when we are building AI systems we should be cogniscent of which deterministic problems we're approximat...