Why do you think Gephi is using Graphviz?

I don’t get on here often so now I have forgotten what gave me that impression.

Gephi, NetworkX or iGraph

Thanks for the tip! Debian officially has a r-cran-igraph pkg, so perhaps I should start by tinkering with that.

I LOVE that you show people how it’s done. I wish more posts included the reproduction steps.

Gephi is not in the official Debians repos (bummer!). Installing tarballs creates a maintenance burden for Debian upgrades. So I wonder what Gephi does considering it seems to use graphviz. Graphviz is in the official Debian repos, but nothing I have made with graphviz looks like your art. So would you say Gephi is an essential extra layer to get your effects?

Tor-hostile link unreachable. I can’t even view the pic b/c of that. Just the thumbnail.

I hate, for example, that my college only enables the use of Outlook through EWS as an email client, and Office 365 web as a web client.

I never knew the nannying could go that far as to force students & staff into a web browser for email. Usually in MS Exchange situations, Thunderbird is a drop-in replacement and there’s also davmail if you want to use your linux client of choice. But these are only options if the exchange server is reachable.

And I can’t have an email client on a Linux computer to read and write those emails? I hate it. But I also don’t want to be one of those who reply from a personal email to professional stuff.

I recall a long time ago Yahoo introduced a change to make their mail servers exclusively reachable to paying subscribers. Those with gratis plans were forced to use their web UI (presumably to feed advertising revenue). One rebellious developer scraped the website and integrated an IMAP or POP3 server, so the gratis users could use that bridge to return to using their mail clients of choice. It seems bizarre that a university would impose the shitty web on email users. But the same scraping trick could be a way around it. I see there already exists some projects along the same lines for EWS.

OTOH, EWS will be dropped this year.

W.r.t using a different ESP, you could send email to your recipients without touching the university system. Neomutt will let you enter the FROM: address freehand. From there, you just need an ESP that’s flexible about that, or you can run your own server just for sending. For inbound, then you are still chained to the garbage toolchain unless you take the scraping route or harvest EML files from EWS.

but why can’t there be another network where labs can host their own databases, file servers, compute servers, and can connect their own PCs?

In the 90s, my university had general services for all students and all disciplines, but then the engineering department had their own servers including email. I can’t imagine a university that would nanny their engineering dept and block them from practicing the trade they are studying. It would be embarrassingly anti-academic.

Speaking of anti-academic – I must say the mere use of MS mail servers is anti-academic because MS blocks all inbound mail from residential IPs. It means the university is actually blocking students from running their own mail server at home and then using it to email other students. It’s effectively a proactive assault on students and profs who want to tinker.

I just downloaded the manual and skimmed through pages of safety info. This was the only relevant statement about that:

“Limit the length of use and check the skin’s reaction.”
“Overly prolonged radiation may lead to the skin being burned.”

Since they don’t mention a duration of exposure, I get the impression this is just pointing out the obvious for liability purposes in case someone does something foolish.

The 15 min seems to be more about protecting the device itself from over-heating. Which I suppose means it’s not well designed… overly fragile. And I guess the lack of fan would enable the device itself to take on lots of heat. (edit: sorry, just read that it has a fan… though it could be fragile nonetheless)

update: I also see that the bulb lasts 2000 hours. I’ve seen 250 watt bulbs claimed to last 6000 hours for like ~$20. So I guess this thing is garbage.