I've started a tiny project to replace all the giant landuse ways I placed when I first started mapping with something more manageable. It isn't taking as long as I imagined, but I sure wish I wouldn't have mapped this way in the first place.
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👀 Artists and creators of the Fediverse ! ⁂
I want to make a Bluesky starter pack of creators of all kinds from Fedi, who are visible on Bluesky. If you are bridged to Bluesky (= if you're following @bsky.brid.gy), do let me know so I can include you in it, so people on Bluesky can follow you !
Boosting/sharing this post :
→ helps it reaching its audience (= bridged creators of the fedi)
→ makes Elno upset as it helps to cut our reliance on the Twitanic
So your 🔁boosts🔁 are really appreciated ✨
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A while ago I thought it would be nice to have JOSM validator do the heavy lifting for US roadway name expansions (ex: Rd -> Road) [1]. It got cumbersome to manage by hand so I wrote a little C# program to generate the rules file [2].
If your country/region has good mappings between common abbreviations and expansions I would happily generate a rules file for you.
[1] github.com/watmildon/josm-vali…
[2] github.com/watmildon/JOSM-vali…
JOSM-validator-street-expander/Program.cs at main · watmildon/JOSM-validator-street-expander
Contribute to watmildon/JOSM-validator-street-expander development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Weekend posting was delayed by our trip to accept an honor from Caltech... but here it is! Almost entirely about space and science!! Stuff I promise you hadn't heard before.
davidbrin.blogspot.com/2024/10…
Supernovas, Mars, and solar sails!
A blog about science, technology, science fiction, books, and the future.davidbrin.blogspot.com
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Can I play Fortnite on a macbook? I'll need to check.
Kirk in his training harness might make a comeback as a Halloween costume this year.
#AllStarTrek @allstartrek #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS #TheGamestersOfTriskelion
Dad bod’s everywhere need a training harness for Halloween is what I’m hearing 😃
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If you're interested in trying the Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm, there is an official list of servers you can sign up on at:
If you've never heard of BookWyrm, it's an alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. You can find out more about it at:
➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…
Book information is provided by @wikidata and @inventaire and you can import your existing book data from LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary and Calibre.
BookWyrm: A social network for people who enjoy reading | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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> you can import your existing book data from ... Calibre
Can you link to a good HowTo on this? Asking for a new friend ...
Yup, hopefully this helps:
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Imagine tapping a link and seeing Every Door turned into a specialized tree collecting app, with taxonomy and rendering and presets.
Imagine scanning a QR code for a task in FMTM and your ED app shows the task boundaries, limits presets to features you need to collect, and shows a short manual on the process.
Imagine overlaying a mall plan before going in for indoor mapping.
Imagine surveying features to your own PostGIS server.
That is the future of Every Door.
github.com/Zverik/every_door/i…
Custom mapping modes for POIs · Issue #119 · Zverik/every_door
This editor can become the standard surveying tool for any applications if custom poi filters (like POIs and micromapping) will be implemented. You specify in street_lantern mapping? No problem, yo...GitHub
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The #FediBookFair is in three weeks!
Over the weekend of 2/3 November, #authors and #publishers will post about their books using the #FediBookFair hashtag. #Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. Plus, it's an excellent chance to find #Christmas gifts.
If this doesn't appeal, we suggest filtering the hashtag.
Full details at AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/
#author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity
@authorindiespeak @writingcommunity
Fediverse Book Fair (#FediBookFair) - Author Help
The Fediverse Book Fair will take place during November. Authors & publishers will post about their books, offer signed copies, etcAuthor Help
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i posted this on bsky a while back, and only just realized "hey maybe fedi wants to see some of the visual art i personally created in its entirety"
so, here's my art. please enjoy
EDIT: for everyone asking: the third image is a screenshot from MidBoss, a turn-based roguelike where you possess the bodies of the enemies you defeat and take their abilities for your own. It's available on itch (eniko.itch.io/midboss) and Steam (store.steampowered.com/app/561…)
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I have compiled a list of my top 20 #Horror themed #StarTrek episodes, which I will soon put into a run of polls. There are more than a few references to #Alien and #TheThing and some good old fashioned #BodyHorror 🎃
I have avoided using #TheBorg as frankly, those zombie space vampires are the show's most prominent horror creation, and the list could go on forever...
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STAR TREK HORROR Poll #7
(Head to Head #2)
#StarTrek #Horror #Poll #TVPoll
#StarTrekTheNextGeneration
#StarTrekDeepSpaceNine
- Frame of Mind (TNG) (28%, 4 votes)
- Empok Nor (DS9) (71%, 10 votes)
STAR TREK HORROR Poll #8
(Ultimate Final!!)
#StarTrek #Horror #Poll #TVPoll
#StarTrekEnterprise
#StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds
#StarTrekDeepSpaceNine
- Regeneration (ENT) (10%, 2 votes)
- All This Who Wander (SNW) (36%, 7 votes)
- Empok Nor (DS9) (52%, 10 votes)
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TIL about The Cave Without a Name near San Antonio, TX . In 1940 there was a state-wide contest to name the cave and the winner was a young boy who said that the cave "was too beautiful to have a name". He received the $50 cash prize award. The Cave Without A Name is a National Natural Landmark.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Withou…
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com…
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I've started looking over north Texas marking the band practice fields I can find with leisure=pitch, sport=marching_band. I am always open for suggestions! Here, you generally find them at high schools on a dedicated field, or part of a parking lot as seen below.
#OpenStreetMap #Texas #MarchingBand
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I have been a medieval flag waver in a team for quite a few years, and we'd always perform with our own marching band of musicians and dancers.
More often than not you need a lot of space and reference points, like in theatre and movies. Points to turn around yes, but also to align the figure with the dancers. May that be the case here?
That's a big difference between Italy and the US, having the director on a tower. That'd be impossible here and the drummers would go out of sync haha
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I might have been overselling it when I said tower, but thats what they're labeled in OSM. Haha.
They're usually a 10x10 foot platform, one to two stories high, nothing too extravagant. My school was smaller though and had a rollable platform that they would bring out on to the field for shows.
I think you're correct, but I was in choir in school, not band!
Only the schools that have larger parking lots have a full "field" painted. I've seen many that only go from something like the 10 to the 50 yard line, or some that are even shorter without numbering at all.
Yeah, after all why would you have a parking lot that huge? Might as well cut a section off for use in these occasions or as a general-purpose playground or field, right?
Makes sense!
We have something similar in some neighborhoods of Naples, Milan and Genoa, where sections of a few residential streets became soccer fields overnight
(without all the bells and whistles of painting lines and installing nets of course)
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Unfortunately, giant parking lots are normal in my state (country?). REALLY big parking lots without trees. It is super awful.
Soccer fields after dark sounds pretty cool!
Oh. I thought that was only an issue of bigger cities.
Without trees? Must be quite the oven when the sky is clear...! :(
Yeah it's pretty cool that people are still repurposing spaces without going through the infinite hoops of burocracy. People need livable, shared spaces, not a spaghetti bowl of roads leading to roads leading to roads. Parks. Plazas. Fields.
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‘New York Times’ To Cease Publication
NEW YORK—With the struggling newspaper admitting this was the final nail in its coffin, The New York Times announced this week that it would permanently cease publication, saying there was no way it could compete with The Onion’s newly relaunched pri…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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If people want their children to go to a private school, they should pay for it themselves. If they want their kids to go to a religious school, they should pay for it themselves.
It is interesting that the plan enacted in Arizona has ballooned out of control. I have no doubt the same would happen here in Texas.
"The Texas Legislative Budget Board projected that the cost of Abbott’s voucher program would have ballooned to more than $2 billion annually by 2028."
I really hope this group fails. I'm tired of a minority of people trying to shape the world for their own gain, leaving the rest of us behind.
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A Texas county has reclassified a public library book on the abuse of Native Americans as "fiction"
The move comes after the county government instituted a controversial new policy excluding librarians from reviewing challenges to children's books
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Texas county sidelines librarians, reclassifies book on abuse of Native Americans as "fiction"
A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children's book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in New England — Colonization and the Wampanoag Story — from the "non-fiction" section to "fiction.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
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🎉 #Panoramax sélectionné par @nlnet qui finance ainsi une partie du développement de l'application mobile de capture !
On en parlera aussi ce soir à partir de 17h pendant notre temps d'échange mensuel forum.geocommuns.fr/t/temps-de…
Temps d'échange Panoramax du 14 octobre 2024
Notre prochain temps d’échange aura lieu le lundi 14 octobre à 17h sur Jitsi Meet Jitsi Meet.Forum GéoCommuns
It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.
#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev
blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…
Introducing Our New Name
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!Minetest
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I told the kids Minetest changed name to Luanti.
Kids: Oh, not good. We don't like it.
Me: No worries! Then we will not play this game again...
Kids: Of course we will play.
:)
v1.7.2 Mbin release
We are excited to announce the release of Mbin v1.7.2! This version is packed with important bug fixes and performance improvements, focused on bug fixes rather than new features.
The main improvements are:
- Fixing many PHP undefined, null or other errors that admins might see in their production logs.
- Resolving several templating null issues.
- Removing CSRF tokens from public forms (when user isn't logged-in), reduce unnecessary large amount of sessions.
- Migrating Symfony sessions from Redis to PostgreSQL to avoid race conditions.
- Increase session & cookies duration to 4 months (so people stay logged-in).
- Adding a down-vote mode in
.env. - Add stricter requirements on the routes configuration (reducing invalid requests are making it to the controller).
- Introducing a scheduler for removing deleted user messages & pruning the dead letter queue in RabbitMQ.
- Various other bug fixes and updating package dependencies and translation improvements.
Read the full release note at: github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releas…
We are still searching for PHP developers, feel free to join our Mbin project! Join our matrix space or pick-up a 'good-first-issue'.
GitHub - MbinOrg/mbin: Mbin: a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform (By the community, for the community)
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#PPOD: This photograph, taken by astronaut Matthew Dominick while peering out a Dragon Endeavor window, shows red and green aurorae streaming by Dragon Freedom which was docked to the front of the International Space Station. The Sun is still at solar maximum, with numerous flares and coronal mass ejections causing gorgeous aurorae even at lower latitudes. The different colors indicate different altitudes above the Earth's surface. Credit: Matthew Dominick/NASA
#aurora #space #science #scicomm
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Halloween and its many sequels are classics, but they’re not the only Halloween movies out there.
Check out some of these other horror films set on or around the spooky holiday. HorrorThreads 🎃👻
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Halloween Movies That Aren’t ‘Halloween’ | Black Girl Nerds
Halloween and its many sequels are classics, but they're not the only Halloween movies out there. Check out some of these other horror films set on or around the spooky holiday.Cassondra Feltus (Black Girl Nerds)
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Software engineer @bw created a free interactive book, HTML for People, which teaches people who have never used HTML how to create an entire website from scratch.
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I found the best guide for anyone who wants to learn how to build a website
Software engineer Blake Watson created a free interactive book, HTML for People, which teaches people who have never used HTML how to create an entire website from scratch.Jon Henshaw (Coywolf News)
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Residents in the north of the Gaza Strip are trapped
It’s not just the intense bombing campaign, but the systematic destruction of infrastructure and public facilities, but also the fact that the Israeli military is cutting food and water supplies to the local residents inside these areas.
They are trapped; they don’t have a safe route to leave their homes; the moment they step out of their homes, they are being shot at by snipers or attack drones.
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Something looks suspicious about the IA attack, and I suspect the goal is to change sentiment about *something*, probably the Internet Archive, but it's not clear what, and it may be more than one thing. It seems like someone probably paid a hacking agency to do this, very possibly a publishing house upset about copyright claims, and I say that especially because:
- "See you on Have I Been Pwned", but really, this is one of the least dramatic things to end up on HIBP of all time: it's names and email addresses sure, but all the passwords are properly hashed and there isn't much else. So why gloat about it?
- There seems to be an attempt to lower public impression of IA in terms of talking about its tech "held up with sticks". It is old tech, so maybe, but why the focus on that?
- If you analyze the HN thread about it for comments in terms of when posted, there were a bunch of sockpuppet accounts created almost immediately after the post was made, seemingly to add comments: news.ycombinator.com/user?id=N… news.ycombinator.com/user?id=h… news.ycombinator.com/user?id=1… news.ycombinator.com/user?id=M…
- An allegedly pro-palestinean militant hacking group is claiming responsibility, but their rationale doesn't make sense: they say it's because the IA is an American company, and the US is helping Israel. But why the IA *specifically*? This seems like a false flag operation either to draw attention away from the real perpetrators, or possibly to try to turn technically inclined people against pro-palestinean activists x.com/sn_darkmeta/status/18441…
The IA *is* engaged with several fights with publishers and people who have beef on copyright grounds. It's entirely possible one of them hired a nation-state affiliated hacking group (of which there are quite a few) that had a side beef, or that group is trying to throw the public off its tracks, but regardless, sock puppets like this typically appear after a hacking attack when there's a paid organization.
Regardless, nobody else is keeping the internet's history alive, and yes, the IA has made some mistakes sometimes, but I stand behind them and wish their staff strength in dealing with this time.
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For the second day in a row, President Biden was asked if he has spoken to Donald Trump re FEMA misinformation and he gives a sarcastic answer.
Biden: “Are you kidding me? *sarcastically speaks directly to Trump*... Get a life, man. Help these people."
As @POTUS walked off, he was asked if he will hold Trump accountable for his comments. “The press should hold him accountable. You know the truth,” he answered.
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I'm not sure why I am remembering this game after so many years, but has anyone else ever played the educational game "Museum Madness"? You are a kid stuck in a museum, and while you fix the exhibits, it also teaches you about history. I always loved playing it at the computer lab at my elementary school.
It is apparently playable on a website called Classic Reload:
classicreload.com/museum-madne…
#VideoGames #Games #MuseumMadness
Museum Madness
The game starts in the bedroom of an American high school teenage boy who is sat at his computer as he tries to access the National Museum Interactive Service System and sees that it is offline for repair and then an interactive robot named MICK (Mus…ClassicReload.com
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Lower Decks Season 5 trailer released!
youtube.com/watch?v=G8WRgPfjB4…
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
I put in my first Open Information Request with the city today to see what I can get out of them regarding GIS/map data. What is weird is that they have an open data portal, but removed a bunch of the useful stuff from it.
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Volunteers for Palestine website is live!!!
Join us now!
volunteersforpalestine.org
@palestine
#palestine #volunteersforpalestine #volunteers4palestine
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We’re excited to announce Volunteers for Palestine, a platform that connects volunteers worldwide with projects, groups, and organizations working towards a free and independent Palestine.Join us now!
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#palestine #volunteersforpalestine #volunteers4palestineVolunteers For Palestine | Empowering Global Solidarity
Join a global movement of individuals committed to supporting Palestinian communities through humanitarian aid, education, healthcare, and advocacy. Become a part of the change with Volunteers For Palestine.volunteersforpalestine.org
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