caffeine @caffeine@chaos.social
Yet another queer, vegan, over-thinking, outdoor loving geek.
Dazed and confused but trying to continue. [cit.]
Reclaiming RSS
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
"When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than your ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create."
- Why The Lucky Stiff
he doesn't like me, so he closed a swath of issues so that i dont have any say in his software anymore.
stop supporting him. just stop.
A new mastodon instance for the (english speaking) #OpenStreetMap community! It's under construction, but might be a nice place for #OSM people!
A mirror of the OSM twitter account: @openstreetmap
This is the sort of problem that capitalism is terrible at solving. We need regulation!
#greatpacificgarbagepatch #environment #recycling
Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-27/plastic-recycling-is-a-problem-consumers-can-t-solv
A really good example of that was the Personal Democracy Forum earlier in the year, sponsored by those companies and promanently fearuring Google and Facebook speakers. It's hard to discuss what democracy means, or should become, in the internet era if Facebook is dominating the narrative.
'Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces' - #slack
Great! Not because they made an issue, but because they are running and marketizing proprietary silo software, creating a loss for those that care about free software and federation.
Time to remind alternative protocols:
irc, xmpp, matrix
(they also great clients working from)
opensource, but doesn't (yet) federate:
mattermost, rocketchat...
Beginning June 11, no more free API key for Google Maps (now Google Maps Platform) if you don't provide a credit card.
A lot of custom Google maps that have been created over the years will likely no longer work.
Time to use #leaflet and #openstreetmap
https://leafletjs.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
Kriminologisches Forschungsinstitut #Niedersachsen und #Polizei NRW: Polizeiliche #Videoüberwachung kann Kriminalität nicht reduzieren!
Gemeinsam mit der Polizei Nordrhein-Westfalens hat das Kriminologische Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen (KFN) die polizeiliche Videoüberwachung in sieben großen Städten des Bundeslandes untersucht und zu ermitteln versucht, inwiefern diese tatsächlich Straftaten verhindern können. […]
https://freiheitsfoo.de/2018/06/25/kfn-studie-polizei-vue-sinnlos/
"What do feel you get out of your minor in electrical engineering?"
Me: "A constant sense of wonder at the fact everything is not currently on fire."
I need to rave about #Python.
One of my colleagues has deep knowledge about #GreenhouseGas calculations but doesn't write code, in any language. She was giving me instructions on how to perform a calculation, which I kept getting wrong. Frustrated, I just show her my Python code. She instantly recognises the error and tells me how to fix the code. This is the first time I show her Python.
Can *your* programming language do this?
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while closing broswer tabs:
"Basic relationship patterns". Oh what was this, seems interesting‽
It was just SqlAlchemy documentation, whatever…
