Heading home today after an epic week and a half of aerial image capture - lots, and lots, and lots of photos (maybe 80TB delivered this week alone!); managing to access some very hard to reach airspace.
We've run the aircraft down to it's 100 hour service, so I have some time over the next N=? days for projects!
- cartography design
- open geospatial coaching / training with a QGIS/Python/bash focus
- field research ops planning and support
- drone mapping / photography
...and more...
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> More than 200 years ago, bison roamed freely across Illinois, but as the industrial revolution reshaped the landscape, the bison disappeared.
yeah they just decided to "leave" lol why can't they just admit we literally killed them all
RT: glammr.us/users/danielleganza/…
Bison return to Illinois prairies after nearly 200 years https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bison-return-to-illinois-prairies-after-nearly-200-years/Danielle Robichaud (glammr.us Mastodon)
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:
* GeoGas: monitor price data from Spanish gas stations 🛡️
Google Status: unchanged. We're still being blamed for an allegedly malicious file that doesn't even exist on the server. Reevaluation requests still failing (taking more than 24h each).
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
and turn off that allegedly Safe Browsing in your browsers, if you can. Seems to be fake.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Device Cleanup Tool is a portable tool that lists all non-present devices and then allows for easy removal.www.majorgeeks.com
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I have been cursed.
Almost every single programming project I touch, for work or otherwise, eventually either turns into an adventure in web scraping or an adventure in dealing with arbitrary and user-defined data schemas.
#XSF Announcement
Tomorrow the 28th #XMPP #Summit is taking place in #Brussels, #Belgium.
Start at 09:00 am (UTC+1).
If you come in person, reach out before (almost full). Else join remotely
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
Apparently in Italian there is a word for:
"Men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unrequested advice to the workers."
Elektroautos gelten als sauberste Alternative zum Verbrenner. Dabei wird ein noch klimafreundlicheres Fahrzeug oft vergessen: das E-Bike. Studien zeigen: E-Bikes sparen mehr Ressourcen, verursachen deutlich geringere CO2-Emissionen und beschleunigen die Verkehrswende stärker als die Elektrifizierung des Autoverkehrs.
E-Bikes ersetzen fast jede zweite Autofahrt.
Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...blog.neocities.org
This mean that if you use Duck Duck Bing it's blocked.
The cartel of search is alive and kicking.
#MilionChvilek svolává demošku. Kdybyste se náhodou v neděli v 15:00 nudili... pro mimopražský je to asi na prd a narychlo, ale třeba by někdo výletil...
Každým boostem zachráníte jednu micinku! :)
#Praha - #Staromák - #demonstrace na podporu prezidenta.
#Politika #Macinka #Turek #prezident #Babiš
Scott Bessent warns Carney not to 'pick a fight' with Trump
1:08:15 oh. If commenting on other people's habits is odd, then dude's just explained part of why people have reacted so weirdly to me over the years.
youtube.com/watch?v=rO9FL86_vT…
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eurobradyJoin the Community! https://discord.gg/GChs8TBnZw#ddlc #dokidokiliteratureclubplus #gaming #therapist #letsplay #r...YouTube
When someone treats you badly and refuses to change their behaviour, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to block them.
If you feel reasonably sure they may continue to act carelessly toward other people, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to report their messages.
You exist too. You're allowed to curate your environment to be more tolerable to you.
You are not their parent (probably) nor carer (probably), and NO ONE is getting paid enough to be mistreated.
today i'm back to reading this paper by @grimalkina about contest cultures and brilliance traps in software and I'm going to try to live tweet some notes because reading papers is hard
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2gej…
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Re last boost: This is really sad. The one maintainer of the Slint accessible distribution of Linux, is dead. This is a hard loss. May more popular distributions work even half as hard as him in listening to blind people and making their Linux distro accessible. Join the Orca mailing list. Contribute to the Orca screen reader. Now, more than ever, as more and more "tech" people move to Linux, we need to be accounted for. Also BRLTTY really needs Grade 2 Braille input support.
I mean, look at it this way. If sighted developers don't make their stuff accessible, we blind people will use AI to beat it into submission, send a PR, and you'll have *even more* AI stuff to deal with. And y'all don't want that, do you? :P So just avoid that by making it accessible. And no please we don't need another standard. Please. I beg of you.
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Hi, thank you for your feedback on accessibility and open source technologies. I always read your posts with great interest in order to improve the accessibility of FreeBSD, a UNIX and open source operating system.
At the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Dublin 2024, I showed other developers (using simulators) the challenges faced by color-blind, low-vision, and blind users. The @FreeBSDFoundation is currently sponsoring the "Vision Accessibility" project to improve accessibility for users with visual impairments.
At the Developer Summit in Zagreb 2025, I presented the new accessibility handbook docs.freebsd.org/en/books/acce… focused on the assistive technologies currently available in the system, including practical examples to help developers better understand these challenges.
I am in contact with organizations supporting people with low vision, blindness, and deafblindness to implement Braille display subsystem for FreeBSD and to develop interfaces specifically designed to be used with screen readers.
Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome.
America's unofficial poet laureate and "guy filling in until Woody Guthrie is reincarnated" does it again.
au.rollingstone.com/music/musi…
Just days after the death of Alex Pretti, Bruce Springsteen wrote the protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis,' which denounces ICE and Donald Trump.Conor Lochrie (Rolling Stone Australia)
I don't know who needs to hear this but open source maintainers leaving X11 behind and focusing solely on Wayland isn't some conspiracy. It's a case of focusing limited resources on what makes sense to them. Supporting old code and maintaining backwards compatibility can be great, but often hard choices have to be made when it comes to what individuals and companies have the time and energy to work on.
It sucks if you get left behind but open source owes you nothing unless you're paying for it
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somebody finally did it. open source native video compression on Android which uses the hardware and isn't just another ffmpeg wrapper. MIT licensed.
github.com/JoshAtticus/Compres…
"Compressor." now available on @IzzyOnDroid
dude needs beta testers to get it on Google Play ... see the latest release notes on Github if you want to help.
#Android #VideoCompression #FLOSS #MITlicense #IzzyOnDroid
Lightning fast, ad free, super lightweight native video compressor for Android - JoshAtticus/CompressorGitHub
RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen…
It's truly the most mindless thing and symptomatic for the "AI" bullshitters: OSM allows you to just download all the data in nice and simple snapshots. Instead, scrapers use thousands of residential IP addresses to query the service at zero benefit over the data dumps.
The people creating these systems understand as little as the "AI" they create.
OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data Bots are said to be harvesting OpenStreetMap data on a large scale. This costs money and endangers the project. https://www.heise.heise online English (Heise Medien on Mastodon)
HEADLINE: "Tim Cook Says He Is ‘Heartbroken by the Events in Minnesota,’ Calls for De-Escalation"
ALT HEADLINE: "Tim Cook, who donated $1 million to Trump, claims to be "heartbroken" by what was obviously going to happen if people like him didn't oppose Trump"
Bruce Springsteen hat einen Protest- und Support-Song für die Menschen in Minneapolis veröffentlicht. Darin findet er ziemlich deutliche Worte.
Bislang war von prominenten US-Musikern eher weniger Politisches zu hören zur aktuellen Situation. Deshalb ist diese Veröffentlichung durchaus bemerkenswert.
Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...YouTube
"come to our centralized platform, we are good guys and we will stay good forever, we absolutely will not prioritize monetization over your privacy at any point in the future even after several changes of ownership"
#decentralization #enshittification
Reaper Made Easy - First stream of the year happens on Saturday, January31st, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK.
Here we go again,; another year; more questions, more answers.
I'm perplexed, what's next?
Join Scott and Jenny K for a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
Details are at reaperteacher.com.
That's also where you can send us something that you're working on to listen to during the session. Constructive feedback from objective, experienced ears can be super useful.
If you're able to help cover the time we put in to running these meet-ups, here is where to top up the kitty.
paypal.me/TGVTraining
See ya there,
Jen
Přejděte na adresu paypal.me/TGVTraining a zadejte částku. Protože jde o PayPal, je to jednoduché a bezpečné. Nemáte účet PayPal? Nevadí.PayPal.Me
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Breaking: Bruce Stringsteen has just released what may become an historic protest ballad.
Streets Of Minneapolis is a beautiful brave soulful anthem destined to take a place among the great songs of the struggles for freedom.
🔥New Music: Bruce Stringsteen | Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)🔥 And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this…Mastodon Migration (Mastodon)
News: Daily Beast | Springsteen Releases Scathing New Song About Trump and ICE
Bruce Springsteen just put out a new song called “Streets of Minneapolis” that both memorializes the protesters killed by ICE in that city and lambastes the Trump administration’s “lies.”
He also calls out “King Trump” in the brutal lyrics, slamming his “private army from the DHS”
“A city aflame fought fire and ice / ‘Neath an occupier’s boots.”
thedailybeast.com/obsessed/bru…
The lyrics specifically call out “Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.”Eboni Boykin-Patterson (The Daily Beast)
News: Hollywood Reporter | Bruce Springsteen Releases ICE Protest Song About “State Terror” in Minneapolis
Bruce Springsteen released a protest song Wednesday about what he called the “state terror” ICE committed in Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
“I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” Springsteen said Wednesday.
hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu…
Springsteen said "Streets of Minneapolis" is "dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good."Ethan Millman (The Hollywood Reporter)
Mourning Didier Spaier
lwn.net/Articles/1056384/ #LWN
We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the blind-friendly Slackware-ba [...]LWN.net
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For anyone using Termux, here's a script for getting Emacs, Emacspeak, and Elmud up and going. Hopefully.
dropbox.com/scl/fi/nn0bwdfegnj…
#Termux #linux #foss #emacs #emacspeak #accessibility #blind
as someone who is a bona fide expert in the underlying technology of LLMs, the amount these genai CEOs executives managers and boosters simply fail is mindblowing. I cannot explain the details but these fucks have only have one idea: prompting chatbot. If they have a second idea it's prompting chatbot more.
these fucks are intellectually vacant. they have all the innovation of a 3 day constipated turd. but you can't really expect more from the type of guy who allegedly raped his own kid sister
the fundamental ideas behind LLMs can in fact do things, but you have to dig below all the layers of coprolite fossilized anti wisdom like "buy more nVidia processors" (which btw has been the received wisdom ever since nVidia gave out a bunch of free GPUs 15 years ago)
I have to reiterate that my dog has more interesting and novel ideas than sam, dario, or whoever is at Google.
these Thought Leaders have only one thought. its "more chatbots more prompts"
so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒
also yes all the people building the infrastructure are just cryptocurrency grifters trying for a better grift. including Musk and Altman. watch @davidgerard episode on gas town
"so now we have chatbots that require illegal powerplants that poison your neighborhood to get enough electricity to help someone convince themselves to kill their own mother! 🆒 "
You could make a T-shirt with this sentence.
Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I've got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the "helpful" forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn't do is false.
I'm convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can't possibly be bugs; it must be the user.
Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can't handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.
Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.
If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.
@libreoffice Thanks. I'll try to find the discussions.
I can't find some of them (and don't have time right now; the whole issue is that I am extremely busy trying to get things done and don't have a lot of time to search forums when I run into problems, right now). Here's one.
ask.libreoffice.org/t/update-s…
I'm aware that the volunteers answering questions can't implement changes. My frustration is with those who keep telling users some verison of "you are wrong to want that."
I wrote my book in LibreOffice Writer for a few reasons. I really really don’t want to move to Word. But in this final editing phase where I’m trying to format over 400 pages using styles, it’s frustrating when I update a style and yet it doesn’t con…Ask LibreOffice
Amazon is laying off 16,000 employees to prioritize AI, which will bring innovative changes such as:
-Automatically purchase item if user looks at screen for more than 5 seconds.
-Make device loudly screech if user closes the app.
-Delivery drones will stalk user if they cancel Prime membership.
Dr. Adam Steer
in reply to Dr. Adam Steer • • •...with a little nudge from and in collaboration with @rowlandm I'd like to add:
- outdoor coaching and mentoring (not guiding, a different kind of support. Ask me)
...and with growing experience at the sharp end of aviation operations, working in small collaborative teams with pilots:
- help with operational forecasting; working with pilots and ATC
Websites in my bio show a good range of capabilities ;)
#fedihireme #openforConsulting
Dr. Adam Steer
in reply to Dr. Adam Steer • • •Very important PS:
If you are an organisation looking for a way out of US / other vendor capture dependency for your mapping needs (hi local governments, land managers, indigenous corporations) - and don't have a clear path for how...
Reach out. I'm very very happy to help.
I'm focused on Australia/ Oceania, I can point you to others if you're in Europe / Scandinavia / east Asia / Americas
...although dang I'd love an excuse to come visit and go skiing :D
#openGeospatialConsulting #GISchat