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eicker.news ᳇ tech news<p>»<a href="https://eicker.news/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> is adding <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a>, its take on <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/CommunityNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityNotes</span></a>: But the company isn’t walking away from <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/factchecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>factchecking</span></a>.« <a href="https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-is-adding-footnotes-its-take-on-community-notes-140040044.html?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">engadget.com/social-media/tikt</span><span class="invisible">ok-is-adding-footnotes-its-take-on-community-notes-140040044.html?eicker.news</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
Mela News :verified:<p>TikTok introduce "Footnotes" 📝, la sua versione delle note della community per aggiungere contesto ai video. Un approccio collaborativo alla moderazione dei contenuti sulla piattaforma. Da oggi gli utenti USA 🇺🇸 possono candidarsi come contributori se rispettano i requisiti. <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Moderazione" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moderazione</span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>✨🎉 Breaking News: A nearly 30-year-old software guide has been updated with 475 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a>, because who doesn't love reading a novel's worth of annotations on obsolete technology? 📚🔍 Now you can finally revel in the subtle differences between user interfaces from the era of dial-up and the futuristic landscape of 2025. 😂🚀<br><a href="https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-march-mastering-delphi5-annotated-complete.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-</span><span class="invisible">march-mastering-delphi5-annotated-complete.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/breakingnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>breakingnews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwareupdate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwareupdate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/userinterfaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>userinterfaces</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>
Every day I bask in my own stu<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@radiofreearabia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>radiofreearabia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> </p><p>Just put the <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> in the back and you're good to go.</p>
qurlyjoe<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a></p>
Marian Dörk<p>The call for Web Residencies »Tools for Citation« from Akademie Schloss Solitude looks amazing:</p><p>"The residency encourages artists to delve into associative trails, transdisciplinary thinking, and collaborative processes in and between analogue and digital networks and worlds to explore the practices of citation."</p><p><a href="https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/news/ausschreibung-fuer-web-residencies-no-20-tools-for-citation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">akademie-solitude.de/de/news/a</span><span class="invisible">usschreibung-fuer-web-residencies-no-20-tools-for-citation/</span></a></p><p>Apply by 15 Dec 2024</p><p>/via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@proff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>proff</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://vis.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/InterfaceDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterfaceDesign</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Citations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Citations</span></a></p>
Danger<p>they're called "footnotes" because a real horny nasty boy named them <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a></p>
john rakestraw<p>It’s so refreshing to be reading an older <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> book that has true <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> instead of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/endnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endnotes</span></a>. In addition to the obvious, it reminds me of a conversation with my favorite philosophy professor — when I complained about the frustration of dealing with endnotes, having to bounce back and forth between text and notes, he said “Oh, I just read all of the endnotes first, and then read the text itself.” Would that I could.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/paratext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paratext</span></a></p>
Terence Eden’s Blog<p><strong>How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress</strong><br><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/</a></p><p>As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices <em>must</em> start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1.</p><p>The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was <em>nothing</em>.</p><p>If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancient version of <a href="https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Markdown Extra</a>. You can either monkeypatch this, or <a href="https://codeberg.org/jeffmcneill/markdown-extra-unofficial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">install a separate Markdown plugin</a>.</p><p>I've <a href="https://codeberg.org/edent/markdown-extra-unofficial/src/branch/edent-update" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">patched my fork of it</a> in two specific places.</p><p>Firstly, I set <code>$this-&gt;footnote_counter = 0;</code> in the initial config of the footnotes.</p><p>Secondly, I changed the display so that the ordered list began from zero: <code>&lt;ol start="0"&gt;</code></p><p>Wait… should that be zerothly and firstly?</p><p>There's no way to change footnote links to symbols like * or ♪. Perhaps I'll add that next<span>3</span>😉?</p><p>Anyway, I enjoy hacking around on my theme.</p> <ol start="0"><li><p>I've even got certificates in it!&nbsp;↩︎</p></li><li><p><a href="https://youtu.be/SNTzOBKs1bA?t=74" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Five is <em>right</em> out!</a>&nbsp;↩︎</p></li><li><p>Or is it "noughtst"?&nbsp;↩︎</p></li><li><p>OK, maybe there is a way. But it isn't particularly easy or automated.&nbsp;↩︎</p></li></ol> <p><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/footnotes/" target="_blank">#footnotes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/html/" target="_blank">#HTML</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/markdown/" target="_blank">#markdown</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/wordpress/" target="_blank">#WordPress</a></p>
Terence Eden<p>🆕 blog! “How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress”</p><p>As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1. The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing. If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancien…</p><p>👀 Read more: <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-t</span><span class="invisible">o-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/</span></a><br>⸻<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a></p>
scholar_farmer<p>So I thought I got info straight from a website but actually after spending 45 minutes on the wayback machine, it turns out that I apparently took what they actually said and then abstracted it to make a visual.</p><p>So, past me was quite smart (and my visual is quite cool) but past me didn’t quite get the credit right. Document document document, and claim credit for your own work!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/FactCheckYourself" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FactCheckYourself</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a>, so many footnotes</p>
George Ellenburg (he/him/his)<p><span>The new </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/Bibisco" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bibisco</a><span> is really really good! The addition of </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/footnotes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#footnotes</a><span> and </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/comments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comments</a><span> as well as the enhanced </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/CharacterDevelopment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CharacterDevelopment</a><span> are a welcome surprise.<br><br>If you're a </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/writer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a><span> or a </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/novelist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novelist</a><span> and you've never really taken a liking to </span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/Scrivener" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scrivener</a><span>, then you really owe it to yourself to check out Bibisco.<br><br>It's free and open source (</span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/foss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foss</a><span>)! But there is a Supporters' Edition available on Gumroad with a few extra features if you want to support its development.<br><br></span><a href="https://bibisco.com/novel-writing-software-download/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bibisco.com/novel-writing-software-download/</a><span><br><br>(I'm not affiliated with the developer just a happy </span><i><span>camper</span></i><span> ... or should I say ... </span><i><span>writer!</span></i><span>)</span></p>
Christian Boulanger<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@osma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>osma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@storytracer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>storytracer</span></a></span> Hi-just found this old thread - we're just working on a <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/referenceextraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>referenceextraction</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/evaluation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evaluation</span></a> workflow involving <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> to measure their performance using a hand-annotated dataset of older scholarly articles with <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> . Untrained <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/GROBID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GROBID</span></a> performs very badly but that does not mean that it will when properly trained with a good dataset.</p>
Lorelei<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MatthewTitus88" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MatthewTitus88</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>analgesicsleep</span></a></span> Pixie will take credit for “helping” me with my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SymSat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SymSat</span></a> presentation a couple of weeks ago … 😹🐾🐾 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FootNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FootNotes</span></a> 🐈‍⬛🐾🐾 lol 😂 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ISitHere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISitHere</span></a></p>
the roamer<p>"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame." </p><p>Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Mirrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mirrors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/deSelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deSelby</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a></p>
Michael Meckler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> The article is based (as it should be) on the work of my erstwhile teacher Tony Grafton, who once said to me, while we were discussing a particular footnote in an article I wrote, 'Of course, I love footnotes. After all, I wrote the book!' </p><p>(The book in question is Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: A Curious History [Harvard University Press, 1997].)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/AnthonyGrafton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnthonyGrafton</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>History’s Footnotes</p><p>The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).</p><p>By: Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/historys-footnotes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/historys-footn</span><span class="invisible">otes/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a></p>
Richard Jones<p>We need more <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> like footnote 11. Thank you Colin Richmond. From _The Penket Papers_ (1986) <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishMuseum</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lavatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lavatory</span></a></p>
Bharath M. Palavalli<p>Oh the joy of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a>, this one has “I am using British understatement here. The American equivalent would be ‘utter crap.’” :-). If you're interested in the complete article do read <a href="https://www.tcj.com/reviews/rogue-trooper-blighty-valley/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tcj.com/reviews/rogue-trooper-</span><span class="invisible">blighty-valley/</span></a>.</p>
Matthew<p>Anyone have a favorite example of well-done web footnotes? Either design or implementation?</p><p>Getting really deep into a new footnotes thing and looking around for nice, existing examples to cite.</p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a></p>