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geomatico: Los mapas que se ignoran

OSGeo PlanetApril 29, 2026

El espacio no es contexto, es estructura. Los Sistemas de Información Geográfica (GIS) parecen hoy inseparables de disciplinas como urbanismo, planificación territorial o gestión ambiental. Sin embargo, su presencia en la enseñanza académica es sorprendentemente desigual: omnipresente en…

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Jonathan Blandford: Remembering Seth

Gnome PlanetApril 29, 2026

I heard the news about Seth Nickell’s passing last week, and have been in a bit of a funk ever since. Seth was brilliant, iconoclastic, fearless. It’s been a long while since Seth was an active part of the GNOME Community, but his influence on the project can still be seen in its DNA if you know…

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SourcePole: Multi-User Editing in QGIS Cloud

OSGeo PlanetApril 29, 2026

QGIS Cloud makes it possible to edit geospatial data collaboratively directly from the web browser. This is especially useful when several users need to update the same dataset without installing or configuring a local QGIS project.

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GIScussions: Brain Freeze – What to map next?

OSGeo PlanetApril 28, 2026

I am struggling to come up with an idea for what to map next. A bit of a brain freeze. Have you got an idea? Leave a suggestion in the comments.

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Thibault Martin: TIL that Yubikeys are convenient for Linux login

Gnome PlanetApril 28, 2026

I got myself a Yubikey recently, and I wanted to use it as a nice convenience to: Grant me sudo privileges Unlock my session Decrypt my LUKS-encrypted disk I've only managed to do the first two, since they both rely on Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM). Luckily for me, one of PAM's…

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Patience could've saved me time.

Debian PlanetApril 28, 2026

If I had been patient, it would have saved me time. One such instance is following. From my early blogs, you might know I am using mutt to do email. Just after I get along with mutt, I started using notmuch. Because limit search in mutt is always a pain when you have multiple folders. And what…

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GRASS GIS: GRASS Community Meeting 2026 Announcement

OSGeo PlanetApril 28, 2026

Join us for the GRASS Community Meeting 2026 in San Michele all’Adige! 🚆 Arrival: Saturday, July 11, 2026 🚆 Departure: Sunday, July 19, 2026 📍 Location: Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all’Adige, Trentino, Italy We’re excited to announce the GRASS Community Meeting 2026, the main annual…

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Introducing Qt Agentic Development Skills

KDE PlanetApril 28, 2026

Today, we are releasing the first set of skills for agentic Qt development, designed to multiply your productivity when writing, documenting, and reviewing Qt code. If you want to know more about Qt's vision for agentic development and what agentic development for Qt is, then do check out the…

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Sean Gillies: Quad Rock training week 15

OSGeo PlanetApril 28, 2026

Week 15 was my peak week before Quad Rock on May 9. I didn't run a lot, but it was all high quality running. 14 hours, 23 minutes all training 24.8 miles running 6,020 feet D+ running Tuesday I hiked and ran up and down Green Mountain in Boulder, my first time on that mountain. I went up the…

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A day in Vienna

Debian PlanetApril 28, 2026

On the 7th of September 2025, my friend Dione and I had a day trip to Vienna—the capital of Austria. We were attending a conference in Budapest, Hungary, which is 250 km from Vienna. So, it was a good opportunity to visit Vienna.<We took a morning train from Budapest to Vienna and got back to…

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Sealed Fedora Atomic Desktop bootable container images

KDE PlanetApril 27, 2026

I’m happy to announce that we have sealed bootable container images ready for testing for the Fedora Atomic Desktops! Note: You can also read this post on the Fedora Magazine. What are sealed bootable container images? Sealed bootable container images include all the components needed to create…

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What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 44

KDE PlanetApril 27, 2026

Fedora 44 has been released! 🎉 So let’s see what is included in this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic). Note: You can also read this post on the Fedora Magazine. Changes for all Atomic Desktops Issue tracker…

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Heads we win, tails you lose — AI detectors in education

Debian PlanetApril 27, 2026

This post is an unpublished review for Heads we win, tails you lose — AI detectors in education</em> Educators throughout the world are tasked with the difficult requirement of evaluating students’ works, making sure the grades…

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GeoSolutions: GeoSolutions Exhibiting and Presenting at GEOINT 2026 Symposium

OSGeo PlanetApril 27, 2026

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Announcing Sigrún (Run a command)

KDE PlanetApril 27, 2026

Some time ago I used a feature in KDE called “Run a command” when an event triggered. It triggered for me when a calendar event fired and used Piper TTS to read the event to me out loud. A small popup and a pling don’t work for me. I tried to get the feature back into KDE, but since the merge…

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Kdenlive 26.04.0 released

KDE PlanetApril 27, 2026

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the first major release of 2026. This cycle focuses on stability, interface polish and usability improvements. For the first time in Kdenlive's history, this version includes features implemented by so many different contributors. Our developer community is…

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Jordan Petridis: Goblins in your toolchain

Gnome PlanetApril 27, 2026

At the start of the month, Bilal gave us all a giant gift with Goblint. On the first week it was already impressive. Now it’s an invaluable tool for anyone that ever interfaced with GObject, glib or GTK. It will catch leaks, bugs, or even offer to auto fix and modernize your code to the modern…

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KVM Support inside LXC Containers [updated]

Debian PlanetApril 27, 2026

Yesterday, I had to add support for running KVM virtual machines inside an LXC container. More as a reminder to myself, in case I ever have to do this again, here the simple recipe: LXC Container Config Adjustment Enable lxc.autodev and execute hook script to be executed after initial /dev…

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Weekly Notes

Debian PlanetApril 27, 2026

Weekly notes is a genre where people chronicle their week on their blogs. Weekly notes are like a window. I love going through these, as they’re a steady stream of week on week happenings and progress in people’s lives. It shows people making efforts to improve: from basic things like learning to…

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Review: What We Are Seeking

Debian PlanetApril 27, 2026

Review: What We Are Seeking, by Cameron Reed Publisher: Tor Copyright: 2026 ISBN: 1-250-36474-4 Format: Kindle Pages: 339 What We Are Seeking is a bit hard to classify beyond science fiction. I think I would call it…

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QGIS España: Madrid acogerá la QGISCamp España 2026

OSGeo PlanetApril 26, 2026

Hace unos días lanzamos una encuesta para decidir si se celebraba y en caso afirmativo, cómo y dónde celebrar la próxima QGISesCamp 2026. Queríamos escuchar a la comunidad, contrastar opciones y tomar la decisión con criterio compartido. Y eso es exactamente lo que ha pasado. Tras analizar los…

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RProtoBuf 0.4.27 on CRAN: Upstream Adjustment

Debian PlanetApril 26, 2026

A new maintenance release 0.4.27 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data encoding and serialization library used and released by Google, and deployed very widely in numerous projects as a language and operating-system…

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Running upstream OpenSBI on SpacemiT K1

Debian PlanetApril 26, 2026

The SpacemiT K1 is a rather interesting RISC-V SoC, found for instance on boards like the Banana Pi BPI-F3 board. It's one of those platforms that looked promising on paper, but took a bit of time before things really started to move upstream. Things have clearly accelerated over the last few…

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Programming for the web with Guile Knots resource pools

Guix PlanetApril 26, 2026

On the internet, anyone can make a request to your web service. Especially in this time of abusive web crawling linked to AI/LLM companies, it's essential to program in a defensive style and stay in control, even when faced with a volume of requests that can't be handled.

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Review: The Genocidal Healer

Debian PlanetApril 25, 2026

Review: The Genocidal Healer, by James White Series: Sector General #8 Publisher: Orb Copyright: 1991 Printing: May 2003 ISBN: 0-7653-0663-8 Format: Trade paperback Pages: 255 The Genocidal Healer…

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