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Skip paywall link: https://archive.is/TdP3Q

Joey Hess is unimpressed. See https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/Debian_and_the_sirens/

I store my travel in YAML files in git.

https://edwardbetts.com/agenda/trip/past https://edwardbetts.com/agenda/trip/stats

Come to the MapLibre talk in the Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM on Saturday

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QAL9VN-state-of-the-m...

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s by Jason Burke

It's worth noting that Ted Nelson's visionary Xanadu project had actually addressed this issue decades ago. In the original design of Project Xanadu, rule 9 states "Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ('transclusions') of all or part of the document." This suggests a foresighted approach to content monetisation which the modern web, in many ways an unfinished hypertext prototype, still lacks. Nelson's idea was to embed financial transactions directly into the fabric of document interchange, an integration not yet realised in today's digital content landscape.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rul...

Write open source software, travel to tech conferences and post comments like this on Hacker News.

Discussion on Reddit suggests there is account sharing happening. Somebody with the right to work signs up and somebody else does the deliveries.

The Internet Archive got there first: https://www.getty.edu/news/clay-sculptures-of-archivists-sho...

Full disclosure: There's a statue of me at the Internet Archive.

This is the tipping point that will make the world switch from passenger flights to high-speed rail.

Sure, I tried one country name and it didn't work.

My first search attempt return no hits.

"Sorry, no results found for 'Israel'. Try entering fewer or more general search terms."

https://find.search.gov/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=usas...

LinkedIn says "No longer accepting applications".

Diffoscope is used extensively by the Debian reproducible builds project to compare software build artifacts and find how they differ.

There's a write up on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_1282

I'm going to see all the talks in the Railways and Open Transport devroom.

https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/railways-and-open-tra...

Sure, let's pick a new image. How about an astronaut.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mae_Carol_Jemison.jp...

This is a NASA photo so it's in the public domain in contrast to the copyrighted Lenna image.

There's no need to add these photos to flickr, just upload them straight to Commons.

I really like the idea of the Terminal Graphics Protocol and the aims of the project, but I feel it's important to address the choice of the Lenna photo. This image, although historically significant in the field of image processing, is increasingly viewed as an outdated and inappropriate choice due to its origins and the implicit message it conveys.

The Lenna photo, originally taken from a Playboy magazine, perpetuates a narrow and objectified view of women. Its continued use in tech demos and educational materials not only overlooks the rich diversity of alternative images available for such purposes but also subtly endorses a culture that many in the tech community are striving to move away from.

In an era where inclusivity and sensitivity are rightfully gaining prominence, it's crucial that we reassess and update our educational and demonstrative tools to reflect these values. Opting for more neutral and universally appropriate images would not only avoid potential discomfort among a diverse audience but also demonstrate a commitment to fostering a more inclusive and respectful tech culture.

No. That's the magic of Creative Commons.

I love paperless-ngx but I wish it had a rotate button. Some of my document scans are upside down.

I'd like a way to tell the delivery app that I'd prefer delivery by bike as opposed to car. Maybe I'm willing to pay a premium for bike delivery.

I'm going, who of you is going to be there? We could have a HN meetup at the conference.

There's a slack channel for the conference (I made it): https://osmus.slack.com/messages/sotm-eu/

Tech conferences are great. This'll be my ninth conference so far in 2023.

I submitted a talk to the wild card track and it was accepted. It's a session I've done at a few other conferences. The title is "Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap".

Better link: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1355283/accepted-chromium-10...

I fixed a spelling mistake: https://github.com/flarum/flarum/pull/81

I fixed some spelling mistakes: https://github.com/taviso/123elf/pull/1