 So, tomorrow old auth with @openstreetmap will be disabled. I've managed to migrate all my services to OAuth2 except one. OSM Streak authorization will break. You'll be fine unless you log out or lose a cookie. Telegram bot will keep working too. The problem is, the bot was written in Python 2 with a library discontinued in 2019. Rewriting it takes time, and I'm busy running in circles and panicking about my @foss4geurope talk. Sorry about that, try not to log out for the next couple weeks. @jwz non-cyclists that are confused by activism think that activists are attracted to cycling, when the reality is that becoming a cyclist very quickly radicalizes one into becoming an activist. Nothing crystallizes strong opinions as being frequently threatened with death by at best indifferent and at worst aggressive and antagonistic people.
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@ekuber @medley56 @jwz I DEPEND on my bike for transportation as I travel by boat throughout the US and Canada. But no matter how much I ride, I will NEVER be the kind of anti-car/truck activists I see on Mastodon every day. Some of these people really need to get a grip. Not everyone can bike instead of drive for a lot of reasons. Yes, push for bike lanes. But stop trying to get people to stop driving. It ain’t gonna happen. Read this at my funeral. For nearly all of my life, I've known how I was going to die. Not from cancer, or diet, or drink, but by being crushed under a car. I will be mangled and bleed out painfully. The driver, distracted on their phone, will say that I "came out of nowhere". The police and the DA will call it an "accident". There will be no consequences of any kind. Except for my death, of course. [...]
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 @jwz this was exactly our reality when we lived in Toronto, but once our kids became old enough to ride a bike it was too much for us. This was one of the top reasons we left Canada and moved to the Netherlands. I've talked about this in several videos, in particular this one: With @foss4geurope around the corner, get prepared right now! Forget the official app, it doesn't even have searching or speaker names. Install Giggity for Android! It's super fun to use, see the video. On iOS, you've got the calendar app. Where to get the extended schedule with OGC Innovation Days, workshops, BoF and side events? @neilhimself no longer seems to be active on @Mastodon, so might as well share his words here. #books #writing
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 @Christian Mutig 👻🚫 another one who feels the fediverse is too complicated for him ... his books made me expect smth different but i haven't read anything of him for a long time. prhps he changed ...
 @Ductos @neilhimself @Mastodon I dunno, #JRRTolkien is still somehow turning out books. I'm not sure being-dead is any bar. Thanks to the invaluable contributions from @foss4geurope gold sponsors, we will also be streaming all talks so you can enjoy a cup of your favourite drink and immerse yourself in your favourite geosubjects'n'speakers next week from anywhere in the World. Details to follow soon. 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. 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!🎊 You can get a free ticket to the oldest museum in Estonia, the Natural History Museum, by showing your name tag!🙌 The museum is in the same building as the conference venue and is open 2-7 July from 10-18🏛️ So check out the exciting geology, zoology, botany, and mycology exhibits!🔬  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 😓 So let's clarify a couple of things! 🤓 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. 📚 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. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead
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 @internetarchive @joncamfield But if people start reading books they could start thinking. If current events show us anything, it is that no one wants people to think. @internetarchive @internetarchive I appreciate the effort to appeal to publishers, but wouldn't it be better to lobby Congress to amend copyright law to give libraries permission to engage in CDL? ❗️Please take note of the following transportation information❗️ 1⃣It will be possible to start booking train tickets for the conference this week through the website: https://elron.ee/en 2⃣There 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. 3⃣Train tickets can be purchased online and on-board. However, 1st class tickets should be bought several days before to ensure assigned seat. 4⃣Another 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 website👉https://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 € 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 I’m 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. |
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