 As has been foretold: https://chaos.social/@RichiH/112579960719663379 #FOSDEM will happen on 2025-02-01 and 2025-02-02, we just signed the contract with ULB today! You're hearing it here first, because Mastodon is the #FLOSS social network. We'll publish official news in a bit :) Everyone going on about how can these AI companies just use IP and no one cares... ah, my sweet summer children. Get me drunk and ask me about the Sony rootkit one of these days. One of my first big Wired stories! Oh, poor Dan. Then ask a cajun fisherman about Deepwater Horizon. Or just look at Boeing right fucking now. Companies don't have to follow laws if they don't want to. And if someone does get mad, it's a few meetings, maybe a small fine, and everyone is sweet again.
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@gerrymcgovern and on top of all that, I believe there isn’t even any real demand for AI in the first place @gerrymcgovern Time to start pulling the plugs on all these AI focused businesses. Once started, it's hard to stop. Made a series of maps for 15-minute city debates. Highlighted remote buildings and the 15-minute zone. Used GraphHopper for calculating isochrones, Python/Shapely for processing, osm2pgsql/PostGIS for preparing the buildings layer, and QGIS for styling. Forgot the attribution label, again. @awsm Last one I watched on Netflix was "Midnight Mass", and it's good in its first half, although not as consistent as his first show, "The Haunting of Hill House". "Cabinet of Curiosities" is still on my list, but can't get myself to start. Regarding thrillers, I once started "Japan Sinks 2020" and could bear just two episodes. Maybe that would work :) Quite some years ago (2006-08), we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Ethiopia as pilot. A surprising thing happened. The laptops were often without battery power in the morning. A thing that wasn’t anticipated. It had two reasons. One was the keyboard LED (it was removed in later series). It was used by the parents to have a light at home. The other was a bigger surprise. The parents used the mesh networking to discuss market prices for their produce. Fascinating. 1/8
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@jwildeboer maybe it's time to revive it again? Cause nowadays hardware should be even cheaper and less energy consuming nor?  @jwildeboer I remember taking delivery of a pallet with 100 of them for linux.conf.au in 2008 and unboxing them all to upgrade them (to stop a bug breaking the conference wifi) and re-packing them to give them all away to developers :-)  @jwildeboer this is awesome. Are you aware of a similar mesh networking technology that's still available for current day computers? Sounds like this should get much more attention from the OS community. Finally got to design a cycling map. I don't like any of the colors here, but at least it's useful. Currently being discussed in the local group, so that we can present it at the car-free day events next week. The numbers are in! Here are just some of the stats for State of the Map 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya: 220 Nairobi attendees I’ve been waiting to do this and I prob toot too much for the first day but idc i follow my millennial heart 🫶🏼 Ty @erin for opening up this thread. Here’s my #sotm2024 outfits including pre-con, i tried to be colorful, consistent and match 🇵🇭 flag colors 🌈 And yes! We’re bringing a fashion show in Manila for #SotM2025 we’re already planning ☺️ #sotm #stateofthemap What you get when you have a free text field asking developers which programming language they use
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@opencage Or as I heard someone call it a long time ago, Guido's little language. But oddly enough, now when I google for that phrase, I find just one hit. I thought it used to be a common derogatory name for Python... (Note: Personally I have nothing against Python. What I find irritating, though, is Perl criticism (always the same jokes about line noise etc) from people who have never even used it back in the days when it did seem like a good idea.) Today's my last day as the curator on this account. I'm a bit under the weather so I couldn't go out to introduce y'all to the city of Dordrecht, so instead you're all invited to come visit sometime! We've got a bunch of old buildings and plenty of uhhh.. nature! 🍃 I wanna give a quick shoutout to all the friends I made during the conference, we had great vibes all around all 3 days of #sotm Our community is made up of the coolest, most diverse, and fun group of people in the open data community and that makes sotm a worthwile experience every time
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  @molly0xfff I would send this to the next stranger from the internet, who asks for a picture, if it wouldn't be so personal.  Had fifteen minutes yesterday to create three illustrative maps for a public transport counsel. Looked at QGIS and thought, too complex. Opened @felt , registered, and drew the maps pretty quick. Their editor is pretty good! Loved the "add route" feature. Alas no printing feature, so I had to manually adjust zoom to a fractional number, and make screenshots which I then printed. @EUCommission How does this square with the Paris Agreement? The amount of energy and clean water needed to power AI factories is not insignificant and, as it currently stands, unnecessary for daily living. Can you show us how the "AI factories" you're planning on subsidising will create a marked improvement to the lives of the majority of people living in the EU? Because right now, they can't even sort out how many 'r's are in strawberry.
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My outfits at #sotm this weekend. Make sure y'all are prepared for OSM fashion day at sotm 2025 in Manila! I’ve been waiting to do this and I prob toot too much for the first day but idc i follow my millennial heart 🫶🏼 Ty @erin for opening up this thread. Here’s my #sotm2024 outfits including pre-con, i tried to be colorful, consistent and match 🇵🇭 flag colors 🌈 And yes! We’re bringing a fashion show in Manila for #SotM2025 we’re already planning ☺️ #sotm #stateofthemap #sotm2024 @zverik retraces the history of #osm #fieldmapping, encourages reclaiming #openstreetmap from corporations and improving the newcomers first experience when joining osm.org   That's pretty neat, but the cool thing is that the low zoom support means you can zoom out and see a pretty good overview. This really makes Firefox work hard (it's deciding on colors for 100k's of features), but it works. https://iandees.github.io/TIGERMap/docs/WorldMap/?filter=%28color%29%2540user#map=6.45/44.986/-93.331   #sotm2024 Stefan Keller presenting ongoing research on #opendata #conflation in #openstreetmap introducing #diffedplaces created by Claudio Bertozzi and an improved forked version of #osmconflator |
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@fosdem We are ready for it! 😎
@fosdem this means I'll get to go, for the first time in 5 years ! awesome :)
@fosdem great news 🥳👍
@Crofton @theyoctojester As we just talked about it yesterday 😉 Would be great if you could make an OpenEmbedded (or YP) event happening again after FOSDEM in 2025 🤩
#fosdem #openembedded #yoctoproject #embeddedlinux