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Does anybody know of any workarounds to remove old online course materials from Canvas—even just partial deletions? This when the institution’s policy keeps the course shells in the university’s clutches for a minimum of five (5!) years?!

I’ve revisited my old modules, discussions, assignments, and even the files areas; none of them allow/offer options to delete. Neither bulk, nor individually. Same deal in the Settings menu. . . .

This is my former institution’s policy, and it’s frustrating that IT refuses to help remove any old course creations, citing “records retention requirements” of the state library. Even more frustrating, given that most of us know to assume the worst w/ how our data can be / is getting “scraped” and consumed for LLMs, AI training, and just good ol’ state surveillance, etc.

So esp. the late 60s - early 70s period.

I’m searching for some of those amazing, radio DJ-like curators out there who share the stuff that just blows your mind. For ex.: Wimple Winch, Modulos, Tractor, Embryo, Os Mutantes, Offenbach, Cicadelic records label. Full albums, or full releases if comps. . . .

I know of at least a few such folks on YT; and of course I’m not looking for hi-fi quality, but even my favorite YTubers have infrequent, distracting artifacts in their uploads.

Thank you!

P.S. Yes, I know torrents exist, but I’m trying to avoid blatant, piracy resources like torrents. And I'm trying to get away from services like spotify. . . . Also, I have indeed searched before posting. Engines like google have become almost worthless for such things. And archive.org disappoints in different ways.

I'm relatively new to the opus format for listening to music.

I do value how remarkably efficient the format is for storage. And I think that a lot of yt music uploaders are doing mighty, laudable work--esp. when sharing rarer, vintage recordings.

That said, I've only seen it mentioned in a few places how opus--as w/ other popular compressed formats--can still yield discernible artifacts as part of the digital signal processing. I hear these infrequent but distracting artifacts in a number of otherwise quality uploads to yt. . . . Just something else to keep in mind when considering overall sound quality.

(Of course, if the very initial processing contains a hiccup--say, in going from analog to digital, as some folks do in order to share their own vinyl records on yt--then bitrate and subsequent file conversions won't really help any such artifacts.)

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/99928-thinking-beyond-the-blurb.html

Genuine question. I see some useful, albeit general insights here. But also points that seem to short sell some pretty longstanding trends in US book publishing, esp. for debut fiction authors. For ex., the bits about advocating for big risks like “formal experimentation” as well suggestions that downplay writers’ platforms (i.e. the comment that “Author platform doesn’t equal reviewability”). Then there’s the advice for writers to gamble on ambiguity and complexity, to challenge readers, etc.

I love all of these ideas. And I’d love hearing them all the more, if only I really believed that agents and editors actively value these qualities anywhere near as much as they prioritize work made for genre for market—and from authors w/ that ready platform.

Go ahead. Tell me I’m wrong to be skeptical here. . . . Are prospects starting to change for the better for debut fiction authors who take these risks?

P.S. Yes; I realize the perspective in the article is from a reviewer.

Apart from the big names, what are some of the less obvious yet reputable magazines (print, online) that literary agents still might read?

Esp. for sci-fi &/or horror?

Ideally, I'm looking for pubs. that are routinely open to unsolicited subs., if not year-round.

Fyi, I'm asking this b/c I believe I've done some homework, but still at a loss. . . . Associations like the BSFA and SFWA as well as The Splintered Mind blog have shared some useful resources. (Of course the contributor notes listing other pubs. are helpful, too.) But even a lot of the award nominated short fiction pubs. look very under the radar. This versus more professional pubs. that are either completely closed gates to unsolicited fiction (Tor.com / Reactor) or w/ very narrow, sporadic subs. windows.

After Asimov's, Analog, and Clarkesworld, there just aren't (m)any notable, bigger market (esp. decent paying) pubs. consistently open to unsolicited subs. (AFAIK.)

P.S. Apologies if I'm describing the water here--if this is simply the way it is, what with an increasingly contracting literary "marketplace." I'm just more familiar w/ lit. journals than speculative fiction pubs.

Hello, I can't figure out how to get calc to automatically highlight a given cell as it's being typed in. Or get "helplines" to perform the same function. It looks like the "value highlighting" is the closest feature, but it appears to need toggling repeatedly for every / any cell when typing or inputting. The "helplines while moving" feature is nice, but they only show when . . . moving; as soon as typing in a cell, they disappear. In Excel, helplines remain while working on a given cell, which would be great if Calc did the same but it doesn't.

As a compromise, I've tried the "column/row highlighting"--which is like a kind of crosshairs over the whole screen--but to me it's overkill and I haven't gotten used to that yet.

Obviously I have some sheets that are very busy w/ text, which is why I'm obsessing over this simple option. . . . That and I'm easily obsessed.

Images below: the "yadayadayada" one is the other closest workaround to make this work, but it only works if I begin by typing in values previously entered in the same column then deleting and starting anew. . . . I also tried the settings "cell focus" (which doesn't appear to save when applied) as well as "highlight cell in edit mode" (which doesn't seem to do much from what I observe).

EDIT: These issues appear to replicate in Calc whether in an .xlsx file or a new, untitled Calc file unsaved.

Version: 26.2.2.2 (X86_64)

Build ID: 1f77d10d6938fd34972958f64b2bcfa54f8b1ba5

CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win

Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US

Calc: CL threaded

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