Gregory's Server
Spent half a day converting https://revert.osmz.ru to Python 3 (my old server is old) and OAuth2. This paves the way for the rest of my osm-related services.
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Phew. It is done. Level0 is now HTTPS-enabled with OAuth2 support, working on a new fast server. All thanks to @opencage support that made me speed up my php coding and ansible scripting. Enjoy! https://level0.osmz.ru/ (My others services are migrating too, e.g. the imagery offset database.)  Here is another benefit for FOSS4GE attendees!๐ You can get a free ticket to the oldest museum in Estonia, the Natural History Museum, by showing your name tag!๐ The museum is in the same building as the conference venue and is open 2-7 July from 10-18๐๏ธ So check out the exciting geology, zoology, botany, and mycology exhibits!๐ฌ ๐https://2024.europe.foss4g.org/venue/participant-benefits/   Google, Meta etc... same trend. They all suddenly got super-capable leadership around 2016-17. Did they all go on the same CEO course? We may never know. But it's totally down to skill, and not a massive grift that began in 2016. I can assure you of that. Great news everyone! I finally talk about AI hype. Someone finally mentioned LLMs one time too many, and the reckoning is upon us: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Thank you to everyone who helped us defend against the recent vandalism attacks. OpenStreetMap is now stronger with improved monitoring, automatic blocking, and respectful limits on new accounts. The default osm.org map is now quicker at fixing large-scale vandalism. Offline actions are also progressing. Alright #Mapstodon #OpenStreetMap There's still / again broad scale vandalism going on in our beloved map ๐ So let's clarify a couple of things! ๐ค There are practically zero checks for what goes into the OpenStreetMap database. You can create an account and delete a city. It'll be in the database immediately. The thinking is that the community will spot it and fix it ("self-healing map") and there are tools to check for vandalism in the map. 1/n  Whatever is in the OpenStreetMap database will get rendered into a map you'll see on Rendering and re-rendering the whole planet Earth continuously is expensive and takes a while. The result is cached so that whenever you go to that website you see the map immediately. 2/n More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. ๐ Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change. Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. ๐โ๏ธ #LetReadersRead
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 @internetarchive @paninid They will only care when it is more profitable for them to behave that way. Cries and pleading to the contrary will land on deaf ears. They are in it for a profit. Nothing else will do. If it doesnโt stroke their greed, they have zero interest.  @internetarchive Iโll say again that the LL goes against the best spirit of IA. A library holding on to PD works and titrating access to them serves the same function as museums who make Wikipedia afraid to use 200-yo portraits in bios of famous people. โ๏ธPlease take note of the following transportation informationโ๏ธ 1โฃIt will be possible to start booking train tickets for the conference this week through the website: https://elron.ee/en 2โฃThere has been a change in the Tallinn-Tartu train transportation timetable. The section between Tamsalu and Tartu will be served by buses from July 2nd to 4th, leading to longer trip durations.   3โฃTrain tickets can be purchased online and on-board. However, 1st class tickets should be bought several days before to ensure assigned seat. 4โฃAnother option is to use the buses, which run every 30 minutes. It is advisable to book bus tickets early as seats fill up quickly: https://luxexpress.eu/en/ For further transportation options, refer to our website๐https://2024.europe.foss4g.org/venue/getting-to-tartu/ Was shopping for a new laptop recently, and was astonished learning that virtually every laptop comes with a 100 โฌ license for MS Windows. Which you cannot reimburse. The only way to spend that hundred on two switch games or on a new mouse or whatever is to hunt for a No-OS laptop, which are rare and all booked for next several shipments. So, hoping to receive my laptop in July. @zverik but it's the no os laptop actually cheaper than the one with os, since they don't sell as many of them. And you are still not guaranteed that Linux runs well on it. There are a few good Linux laptop vendors out there that sell laptops which run Linux out of the box. Your regular reminder that epsg dot io is *not* an official reference: https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/4170 . Better go to https://spatialreference.org So, the news is, HOT is now an Overture Maps contributor member (neither are on Mastodon). That means paying half of what HOT pays OSMF for membership, and having an option to help Overture with stuff. So basically the same as in OSMF. Idk why people take it as a betrayal. HOT was never an OSM organization, they share nothing with OSMF besides the map. And getting in the Overture team might help them with the network.  @zverik heh I guess Iโm blissfully ignorant of the latest drama ;) Either way, I see no problem with them joining. Both orgs have good reasons to exist. @zverik Agree, let's see how it develops and let's not react with gut reactions here. I believe the negative connotation folks have with Overture Maps transfers to this, too. But to be fair looking at the announcement HOT put out there, they could have communicated better to guide people through their thought process and get buy-in (for lack of a better word). Bosca Ceoil, the stupidly simple music creation app is back... and now it's written using #GodotEngine. Meet Bosca Ceoil - The Blue Album. @GameFromScratch Finally someone did it. I believe remaking Bosca Ceoil was a botched project for so many of us indie devs. There is a new feature on osm.org: now you can see the date of the last edit by a user directly from the profile page. Another case of worldwide vandalism today. It has already been reverted. Please remember that OSM tiles are cached. After such worldwide changes, the tile servers are overloaded and refreshing the tiles may take several hours. Lots of people will see an outdated image of OSM data for a few more hours. @bxl_forever it's funny cause it's true (And no amount of pinned forum posts will ever fix this because "my problem is special" ๐) @bxl_forever Yeah, I noticed it myself while I was explaining OSM to a member of the public. @bxl_forever It's not 50 hours - it's nearer 150! Looking at the last incident, we were still getting people creating tickets around 6 days after the problems had been fixed in the data (but not in that user's browser cache, of course).  In my experience VC bros are not very versatile socially, even professional social. So they gravitate toward men like themselves - privileged, predatory, and emotionally challenged. We're not going to teach them anything, we need to replace them.  the coding habit I'd most like to kick is being reluctant to try a thing and see if it works. I think experience is slowing me down, too often it has worked initially but then that working has turned out to be conditional on other factors I did not apprehend at the time. But also many times the quickest way to understand a system is to actually make it go, not just peer at the circumstantial evidence. A few words and links on OAuth 2, @openstreetmap, Level0, open source ecosystem, @opencage and supporting developers: As of June 9th, the @EuropeanUnion's #OpenData Directive mandates all public high-value datasets be published free of charge and with open licenses, like those from #CreativeCommons. We are providing #climatedata providers no-cost consulting and training for agencies working to meet this goal under our Open Climate Data Project. https://loom.ly/yhuGS5U (Image: https://loom.ly/VFKxX7I) |
