Dave Lane @lightweight@mastodon.social

🎶 #nowplaying #np #tootlabradio #fediplay #bot 🎶

Citizen King - "Better Days (And the Bottom Drops Out)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxXHEx-XnU

🎵 https://libre.fm/artist/Citizen+King/album/Mobile+Estates/track/Better+Days+%28And+the+Bottom+Drops+Out%29 🎵

Shame that gov't agency Kainga Ora isn't making use of open source tools like those created by Whare Hauora, and not respecting tenant privacy and giving *them* control of their data. Good to hear the charity's kaiwhakahaere, Hiria Te Rangi, on RNZ helping gov't lift its ill-informed game... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018727259/concerns-over-plans-to-put-sensors-in-state-housing

Very cool... a ~$50 #FOSS water turbine that can be assembled from commonly available parts... https://invidio.us/watch?v=1KyL1-0A0Gw

Now I can paste a #Funkwhale link in Mastodon and be able to play it here. Nice!

https://open.audio/library/tracks/17559/

#activitypub

This is rather interesting, somewhat unexpected (apparent) consequence of global warming... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0622-6

The thought occurs to me: what if we had a "no Xmas tree strike" this year... by my back of the envelop calculation, that'd be a few hundred million carbon sequestering, oxygen belching trees... towards our climate-change-arresting global tree planting goals. Not an inconsequential amount.

So - it turns out @microsoft@twitter.com is using outdated security protocols on this volume licensing page - and that’s why it needs IE5 “or above” to work properly. https://twitter.com/donkey/status/1149144568048132096

PSA: You should get all your music on Bandcamp if possible. High-quality, DRM-free downloads, where a purchase is actually a purchase, and in unless something is truly off (actual scam), your money is going to reach the artist more or less directly.

Caught again. '#Google has confessed that it gives workers access to some audio recordings from its Google Home smart speakers.' https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/11/google-admits-workers-listen-recordings-home-smart-speakers-10182073/

Dear whoever invented the 'scroll down from the bottom of a news story and suddenly you are reading a completely unrelated one' thing on websites:

Please invent a time machine so you can go back and tell your younger self that this was a terrible idea.

Gov't IT decision makers desperately need to learn about the stuff described in Chapter 3 of this rather interesting document from the UK's NHS... https://openuk.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/An-Open-Digital-Approach-for-the-NHS-Part-one-Policies-Principles-Practices-1.0-PUBLISHED.pdf

Yowsers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vljy3lKIN-0

If you're not one of the 0.001% of the population who truly get Git (I'm not), you should watch this if you want your mind gently bent in (not always) pleasant ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4 If nothing else, this offers an amazing metaphor for how the universe can achieve such amazing complexity, beauty, and depravity from a few simple, remarkably elegant rules (and nothing else) :)

Oops - should be OStatus, not OSocial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OStatus And other references: fediverse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse, ActivityPub - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub, and Matrix - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(communication_protocol), and, of course Mastodon (on which I'm publishing this post, regardless of where you see it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) - if you're curious, join this Mastodon instance: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz - I maintain it here in NZ & https://catalystcloud.nz generously provides sponsored #FOSS cloud hosting.

Did you know #openstreetmaps allows you to download volunteer GPS activity anywhere in the world? This means architects, urban planners, and you can analyse urban behaviour to make better decisions for the built environment! Read more in my latest article here:

https://thinkmoult.com/worldwide-gps-tracks-openstreetmaps-urban-design-analysis/

#opensource #map #gps #gis