tshrinivasan @tshrinivasan@mastodon.social

@tshrinivasan
#OSM needs a preset based contribution tool and map. Too many things are common and we end up entering the same details over & over.

Eg. ATMs are split into SBI, HDFC etc. We should have a preset for SBI ATM and another for HDFC ATM. We could keep different icons, contact numbers, operators etc.

This can be applied for banks, chain stores, aavin/ponlait, govt offices, BSNL etc.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqLAJUBAU8M/

@tshrinivasan
The 'vision' back then was to create realtime editing for OCR'd texts and convert them into ebooks on the fly. Thus I decided to use pgsql.

😓 I can't promise any code any time soon.

The command for tess4 is
`tesseract {path} stdout --oem 1 -l tam`

https://github.com/demonshreder/tamil-reader/blob/master/scripts/script.go#L61

I use #Archlinux, thus I have tess4 on the #AUR. I download their LSTM models from https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata and replace them at /usr/share/tessdata/

Integrated Development Environment KDevelop 5.3 is released today with support for the Qt analyzer Clazy plus improved C++, Python and PHP support.

https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-530-released

@haitch @kritafoundation why Gimp and not Krita though? A lot of artists I've spoken with strongly prefer Krita to Gimp, sometimes even to PS.

Do you know that in Krita you can make a vanishing point guidelines to help you with the perspective? You cannot do that in pure PS.

Krita is much better for drawing, Gimp for editing.

Beyond commons, map making has become part of my daily activity. I enjoy marking places to OpenStreetMap, primarily because it gives me a purpose to go out instead of spending hours in front of my laptop screen and also it helps me learn more about my locality which was invisible to me even though I use the same tracks often.

Cycling + Map Making is a good combo.

It's time to push #Peertube even further!

Write mails, tell #youtube people that google dominance should and could end today! #nogoogle

There are some scripts and tools to ease YouTube clip exports:

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/doc/tools.md#installation

http://www.artificialworlds.net/blog/2018/08/15/migrating-videos-from-youtube-to-peertube-inside-a-docker-container/

Make watching internet videos great again!

https://joinpeertube.org/en/

We still have a tech position open at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (a nonprofit): a Sr. Software Engineer position to work on SecureDrop, the open source whistleblower platform used by 65+ media organizations, originally developed by the late Aaron Swartz.

You get paid to work
✅ from anywhere in the world
✅ on a world-changing project
✅ that's open source,
✅ stewarded by a small team
✅ that's led by a woman.

Help spreading the word is much appreciated:

https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-senior-software-engineer-securedrop/

In the spirit of the alternatives listed, https://switching.social's text is now available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

As long as you credit switching.social and use the same licence, you can use the site's text on your own site, incorporate it into your own projects or translate it into your own language.

A number of people have asked over the last few months if they can do a version in their own language. The CC licence makes this possible.

Licence details:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

All of these federate through ActivityPub:

https://writefreely.org/ - Write Freely: Just-released but mature open source software, sign up at https://write.as, more instances should appear soon

https://plume-org.github.io/Plume/ - Plume: Still alpha testing but very functional, sign up at https://fediverse.blog/, https://baptiste.gelez.xyz etc.

Two different ActivityPub plugins for WordPress blogs:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/pterotype/

#Blogging #ActivityPub

Free S/W, H/W communities have contributed more to generative art and computation aided design tools - and such tools are completely being developed. This makes free software hardware ecosystem more scientific.

#generative-art #creativecoding #processing #openframeworks #puredata #antimony #openscad #kicad #freecad

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The @GetTogetherComm project is making an open source federated alternative to MeetUp.com.

You can already use their first instance (https://gettogether.community) but they need help with building the federation side of things, so that instances can link together and with the rest of the Fediverse.

If you're a coder and interested in helping, you may want to take a look at this post:

https://fosstodon.org/@GetTogetherComm/101059017163892510

#OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS

If you're into #panorama #photogtaphy and #FreeSoftware, the panotools wiki could use some love!

https://discuss.pixls.us/t/call-for-help-wiki-panotools-org/9707?u=paperdigits

#ArtWithOpenSource #photo #edit #PostProcessing

Write Freely is free and open source software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community. https://writefreely.org