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Dear all, Maybe a little off topic, but certainly a big anniversary! JavaScript (JS) was announced 'yesterday in 1995': https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/05/javascript_25_anniversary/ It is a little late for a party, perhaps, but I have celebrated in another way! That is, installing a plugin for Firefox/IceCat called 'GNU LibreJS'. It is a program that detects proprietary JavaScript code contained in websites and blocks that code from running, whilst in the same way detecting JS which is free software and letting that run. I think this is a very convenient way of maintaining one's freedom by enjoying freely licensed JavaScript that one happens to come across. It has the added, albeit coincidental, benefit of blocking most of the distracting pop-ups so common on the Web! LibreJS is really easy to install if you are already on a Mozilla-based browser; you can just click the 'Latest installer' button on this site: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/ Another really interesting project I have seen recently is Etherpad - it's a very nifty word processor program that's made in JavaScript and allows multiple people to collaboratively write a document at the same time. Best wishes, Sebastian Freenode: 'seabass' -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq