The Software Freedom Conservancy has yesterday published recommendations for using large language models / generative AI for free and open source contributions. It's better than I thought it was, based on initial reactions from my peers, but I am disappointed. They make 14 recommendations. I have…
read more ➔Week 22 This week's icon is for Krafting's project: Hex Colordle: "Find the color" Check out all weekly app icons created so far over here and follow my icon creation adventures as they happen (including sketches) on …
read more ➔This is the most overwritten book I've ever read. Unfortunately, Alan Moore knows exactly how much polysyllabic pressure it takes to transmogrify base coal into precious gems. With lines like "his shaved suede skull made him look like a wilted thistle" and "There was a rumour of pink lipstick…
read more ➔This month I’m mostly listening to music by Nu Genea, Danalogue and Noon Garden. I’m going to tell you about a big change I’m proposing for folks using Freedesktop SDK to build operating systems. And I’m also going to talk a bit about the GNOME Foundation elections. Maybe I’ll do that first. GNOME…
read more ➔Over the years, QField has gained a number of ways through which authors can share their mapping projects. This post looks at the multiple ways this can be achieved and what scenarios fit each method best. Leveraging QFieldCloud Sharing maps to the public QFieldCloud users all have the ability to…
read more ➔The latest version of PerfCompare is now live! Check out the change-log below to see the updates: [andra - esanuandra ] PCF-391 The keyboard handling for the revision dropdown should be done differently (#926) [david - davidmiculit ] Bug 2040649 - Remove Raptor framework from PerfCompare…
read more ➔This month in Radicle CI, June 2026 This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and Lars runs a public one for open source Rust projects…
read more ➔Back in the late 1990s, I did a brief stint of work experience at the BBC. One of the most memorable moments was sitting in on a meeting about early forms of Interactive TV. I saw a demo of "Two Way TV". A flimsy grey box which (somehow) integrated with your OnDigital TV Box and connected to a…
read more ➔Master M3C2 in QGIS 4.0 for direct point cloud comparison. Learn how to detect erosion and landslides with surface normals and 95% statistical confidence intervals.
read more ➔SRFI 275 is now in draft status.This SRFI proposes a programming interface for working with RFC 3986 universal resource identifiers (URIs), as well as RFC 3987's generalisation to internationalised resource identifiers (IRIs). This document defines record types, normalisation procedures, and…
read more ➔Welcome to RSS Club! These posts are only available to RSS and Atom subscribers. You can read more about the idea at Dave Rupert's site. I recently received an email from a distraught reader: I was going through my recent bookmarks and I found…
read more ➔Thanks to an incredible €550,000 community-funded campaign, the extensive modernization work required to secure GeoServer's future is finished, shipping, and ready for deployment. What This Community ...
read more ➔O recente artigo publicado no blog da gvSIG levanta uma reflexão fundamental para o século XXI: a verdadeira soberania de uma nação já não se faz apenas com fronteiras físicas, mas com o controle absoluto sobre as suas infraestruturas digitais e de dados. A adoção, por parte da Comissão…
read more ➔We have a new EOxCloudless release with more precise ecoregions and advanced ocean mosaicking. Check out the preview! Over the past few years, our engineering focus for EOxCloudless has been, among others, on optimizing the BRDF corrections to eliminate equatorial striping and optimizing performance…
read more ➔Read enough articles about The Beatles and you'll repeatedly hit the claim that Frank Sinatra frequently introduced his cover of George Harrison's "Something" as his "favourite Lennon & McCartney number." Much like the misquote about Ringo not being the best drummer in The Beatles, I think this…
read more ➔There is a recent blog post about Nix Flakes vs Guix: https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/nix-flakes-vs-guix
read more ➔Apple FINALLY lets you turn on your Mac remotely, without having to press the power button. In the media, articles suggest it's a reaction to Mac mini power button complaints. While I agree the M4 mini's power button is in a really dumb spot, that's not why I care about this feature. The two…
read more ➔When I ran Ethernet around our house, I thought I was being clever. A CAT6 cable for every room - lush! Some of my rooms have lots of devices, so they get a nice big Ethernet switch with lots of ports and blinking lights. But most of my rooms don't have that many devices. Our gym had only an…
read more ➔Ooooh! This is a lovely treat of a book. Every time Lauren sends her husband into the loft, a different man comes down. Her past is rewritten and she has now been married to Dave/Gary/Bob/Whoever for a year, a month, a decade, a minute. This isn't like how Groundhog Day became On The Calculation of…
read more ➔Introducing GeoLibre 1.0, a free and open-source, lightweight, cloud-native GIS platform that runs in your browser, as a desktop app, on your phone, and inside Jupyter notebooks.
read more ➔By: Priya Sharma As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) organization admin representing the Apache Software Foundation, I had the privilege of attending the GSoC Mentor Summit 2025, and it was an incredible experience! The Mentor Summit is a unique opportunity to connect with amazing mentors and discuss…
read more ➔A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD…
read more ➔Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me…
read more ➔Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have a private VPN, you could use RealVNC,…
read more ➔Apache® Livy, a REST service for Apache Spark™, becomes a Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE –  June 4, 2026 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the global home of open source software the world relies on, today announced that Apachy Livy has become a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Livy is…
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