[-] sprite14a@lemmy.one 5 points 9 months ago

I use runnerup from Fdroid. It can auto upload to runningahead.com ( which is on not foss but a passion project) which I like for getting weekly summaries and as a backup.

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On Bullshit (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 10 months ago by sprite14a@lemmy.one to c/wikipedia@lemmy.ml
[-] sprite14a@lemmy.one 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks - but having to host NextCloud is a dealbreaker for me. It seems very exciting and perhaps I'll learn how to do this at some point, but I'd really love a simple standalone program.

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submitted 11 months ago by sprite14a@lemmy.one to c/foss@beehaw.org

About once a year, I unsuccessfully quest for a FOSS replacement for Filemaker Pro. Specifically, I'm on the hunt for a solution that:

  1. Lets me create a variety of graphical 'layouts' of fields positioned on a page to display different segments of the data.
  2. Can search the data from those same layouts, by entering text into various fields (eg, 'Sanderson' in author, '< 1/1/2015' in date.

This is largely for personal sized datasets: I only need to handle small (several thousand entries, all just text based) data collections. Basically, small enough that it could in principle be handled using a Libreoffice Calc spreadsheet and applying filters - I'd just like something more friendly.

Several users will use my databases (locally, no need for online hosting). It will be rare that multiple users try to access it simultaneously, so its ok if only one person can open at a time. Macros and relational field structures would be a bonus but not necessary.

I've tried a bunch of solutions. The closest are:

  1. Libreoffice Base. Layouts can't be used to both enter and search data. Creating new search queries is overly arduous.
  2. Kexi. Similar to Base.
  3. Symphytum. Great, except the search is much too limited (no field specific search)

Any other suggestions?

[-] sprite14a@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! Great read. But there seems to be nothing at all to suggest that he was hiding a dark secret. The sisters confession did not preempt an investigation that might have implicated him. In fact the scant physical evidence and conclusion of the detective is consistent with her guilt.

Still... a fascinating life story

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sprite14a@lemmy.one to c/wikipedia@lemmy.ml

In 1944, codenames related to the D-Day plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the British newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, which the British Secret Services initially suspected to be a form of espionage.

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Michael Cicconetti (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by sprite14a@lemmy.one to c/wikipedia@lemmy.ml

Famously he offered 26-year-old Ohio housewife Michelle Murray the option (in return for a reduced prison sentence) of spending a night in the woods for abandoning 35 kittens in a forest in wintertime

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submitted 1 year ago by sprite14a@lemmy.one to c/wikipedia@lemmy.ml

Stolen peaches, wild dogs and rampant cheating... just some of the fun of the 1904 olympic marathon. I nominate this as the most entertaining article on Wikipedia!

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Banana equivalent dose (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by sprite14a@lemmy.one to c/wikipedia@lemmy.ml

Great article about radioactivity in bananas!

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