Alan Zimmerman @alanz@social.coop

#OpenStreetMap changeset 100,000,000 !

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/100000000
#xp #OSM @OpenStreetMap

*sadly goes to reset the counter to 0 on the "days since I saw someone shit on the existence of light themes" sign*

I think on average I see this like once a week.

I cannot see dark themes at all. And it's a hell of a thing to see this hostility not just to a software option but to my own existence and qualities as a person who uses this option. Like I've seen people say you have to be a psychopath to use light theme, which is an awesome way to double up on the ableism!

"Why don’t we pay as much attention to the benefits of resilience as to the benefits of efficiency? We tend to get good at what we can measure, and it’s easy to produce numbers that support efficiency, such as crop yields per acre. Resilience cannot be easily measured, though. Its benefits are most evident during the catastrophes that can’t be predicted and the trends that haven’t been foreseen."

I spent parts of January working on a new kind of search engine. Instead of indexing the unfathomable internet, it focuses on enabling search for neighbourhoods of related websites—webrings, or other kinds of topically similar sites.

The search engine is called Lieu.
Try it out: https://lieu.cblgh.org
See the code: https://github.com/cblgh/lieu

I am now messing with Common Lisp it is like Perl for Scheme

Sad to see how duolingo collects more and more ads and gets premium in your face.
I get it, they need money to stay alive but it's more than 6€ a month for yearly which is way more than it should be IMO. I should probably deduce 30% for Google/Apple tho.
Language learning is always expensive, I get it but with community-prepared courses and not super high quality lessons (for the most part) I can't justify it in any way.

If you crosspost from twitter to mastodon I would really appreciate it if you marked your account as a bot (see https://superuser.com/a/1439495 for explanation of the effect).

If it's a dual purpose account (i.e. crossposting AND direct posting), then I would appreciate it if you created a separate account for the twitter crossposting and marked that as a bot account.

Crossposted tweets appear as a mess of broken links, missing threads, and the account is often unresponsive to replies.

Thanks!

I've created a project blog for Obnam, the backup program. It has no interesting content yet, but do subscriber, if you want to hear about Obnam news.

https://obnam.org/blog/index.atom

Authors whose works enter the public domain in European nations (excluding Spain and Belarus) at midnight include:

George Orwell (Animal Farm, Nineteen-Eighty-Four

Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, Barsoom (aka Princess of Mars/John Carter))

George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion, Man and Superman)

Pavel Bazhov (The Malachite Box)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_public_domain#Entering_the_public_domain_in_countries_with_life_+_70_years

@rafial Both accurate and also misses the fact that Excel is REGULARLY misused for scientific calculations and near-programming level things since its GUI is so intuitive for doing math on things.

Like, GUI programming is HERE, we just don't want to admit it due to how embarrassing it is.

@jgoerzen This is a big piece of what makes Debian special. No for-profit scheme, no features held back for licencing, no fear that the things you depend on will be ripped away for business reasons. Just a bunch of people who love making Debian what it is.

Over the past week or so I described, in part, how Haddock (typically run via Cabal) converts the APIs described by GHC's abstract syntax tree into a more machine readable format without the implementation details, to be aggregated by Hackage for harvesting handy API search engines like Hoogle & Hayoo. Anyone noticing a naming convention here?

Today I'll describe Hoogle, which I'd heavily recommend to anyone picking up Haskell! It takes great advantage of Haskell's design!

1/?

I want the opposite of issues for GitHub. Maybe they're called kudos?
I want to create a short write up describing how a GitHub repo has saved me time and effort.

Distributed secure programming with Spritely Goblins https://share.tube/videos/watch/c08afc11-16eb-4d56-8aef-bd19089db65e

Just in case you weren't convinced that Racket people like recursion

As observed by @alanz participating in RacketCon is the experience of watching a pre-recorded video played on Jay McCarthy's computer over Zoom over YouTube on gather.town

Friends are coming over for (distant) bday fun but I've pushed a bunch of updates to the #Spritely site: https://spritelyproject.org/

Only two subsystems left to describe...!

In August, @peertube entered a new stage in the development of #PeerTube v3. The objective is to raise €60k so they can implement, (1) global search, (2) moderation, (3) plugins & playlists, and (4) live streaming, here's the roadmap: https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap/.

They already raised €37k which covers steps (1) and (2) and we're almost there for step (3) which is €40k.

Let's help build a decentralized alternative to #YouTube. Please boost and, if possible, donate.

#Fediverse #FOSS #OpenSource

Thinking out loud ...

People are saying the mortality rate of COVID-19 is ~ 1%. Roughly the number of cases trebles every 5 days, or roughly by 10 every 10 days.

Time from infection to death is ~3 weeks, say 20 days.

So ...

In the UK there've been 10 deaths. At 1%, that means 1000 people had the virus 20 days ago. It's multiplied by 10 twice since then. On that basis ...

The current number of infected people in the UK right now, detected & undetected, is ~ 100K.

WASH YOUR HANDS !!!