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linux·Linuxbyranzispa

Advice for a collaborative text editor

Hello, I'm looking for a simple collaborative text editor. We do have an office 365 subscription and it works, but the 10 minutes loading time every time you open a document are taking a strain on my mental sanity.

We don't need nothing too fancy, markdown support would be a plus, especially with embedded latex formulas and possibly bibfile references.

The things I really need are a simple ways to add comments to text and a changes view to immediately see what a collaborator modified.

I've been taking a look at hackmd, it kind of fulfills the role, but the pricing is a bit high for the features available.

Could be self hosted too, but to be fair I'd rather not have to maintain it.

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sysadmin·Sysadminbyranzispa

How to share a folder in Linux?

I work on an HPC and often I have to share files with other users. The most approachable solution is to have an external cloud storage and recline back and forth. However there's some projects that are quite heavy (several TB) and that is unfeasible. We do not have a shared group. The following is the only solution I found which is not to just set al permissions to 777, and I still don't like it.

Create a directory and set ACL to give access to the selected users. This works fine if the users create new files in there, but it does not work if they copy from somewhere else as default umask is 022. Thus the only appropriate solution is to change default umask to 002, which however affects file creation system wide. The alternative is to change permissions every time you copy something, but you all know very well that is not going to happen.

Does it really have to be such a pain in the ass?

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farming·Solarpunk Farmingbyranzispa

Spreading Alkekengi

Around where I live there are a few patches of Alkekengi officinalis. I like the fruit very much and I like to go pick it, however those patches are quite a bit far from where I live. Since the plant spreads quite fast, I was thinking of planting some more nearby. I have checked local laws and it is not considered an alien species, so that spreading it is allowed. Do you have advice on how to effectively spread it in the wild? What locations may result in good survival and whether it is better to transplant the ryzhomes or to plant the seeds?

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