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Flightaware: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation

https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/

#aviation #software

21 years since launching https://TheyWorkForYou.com! Congrats to @mysociety.org for doing the actual hard work of keeping it going and making it better. I can only apologise for my original code. https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/06/06/theyworkforyouco/

/e/OS 3.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1024190/ #LWN

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

Arrow study

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Pride! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🔎 🗺

There's a few ways to tag LGBTQ things in OpenStreetMap: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lgbtq

Visibility is power! 🙂
#OSM #geo #gis #queer #gay #lesbian #trans #LGBTQ #lgbtq+ #OpenStreetMap #Pride #PrideMonth

Do you like to go on nerdy day trips?
Great! This free website is for you!
If your favourite venue is missing, share it!
https://nerdydaytrips.org

This is the moment Rej's open source Z80 woke up and said hello!

After Zilog’s April 2024 announcement, ReJ quickly taped out a drop-in replacement to preserve retrocomputing and legacy systems.

Taped out on TT07, it's a landmark in democratizing chip design.

Good news! The UK Government has removed one of the restrictions on heat pumps!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e5plqke3no

Hopefully this will mean more people being able to install energy efficient heating and reduce their dependence on gas.

#green #ASHP #EngergyTransition

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

#Galileo, the EU's own sovereign GPS, is relied upon by industry, every modern phone and every modern car. Yet earlier this month Galileo gave us an obscurely worded 5 day warning of a *test* that might take down the whole service. They also refused to clarify. Here I write on how during the test the satellites broadcast outdated data, and also urge the EU and EUSPA to take their users seriously. And not do such disruptive tests anymore please: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileos-testing-communications/

Proof has been found that the actor Patrick Stewart canonically exists in the Star Trek universe
https://ironicsans.ghost.io/proof-that-patrick-stewart-exists-in-the-star-trek-universe/

I didn't realise the Swedish cement industry would be so interesting.

"Who owns your factory? Why?"

Blog All Dog-eared Pages: Dig Where You Stand by Sven Lindqvist

http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/books/blog_all_dogeared_pages_dig_where_you_stand_by_sven_lindqvist.html

#history #WorkingClass

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Parrot ftw!

Signal Messenger is warning that Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds, poses a risk to its users. Effective immediately, the Windows Desktop version will by default block the ability of Windows to screenshot the app. Of course, Microsoft provides no API to disable Recall from screenshotting specific apps, so Signal is getting creative. They are invoking a digital rights management API that blocks the screenshotting of copyrighted material.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

UK geeky data/politics folks, could you have a glance over the constituency dashboards at https://open-innovations.github.io/constituency-api-test/ ?

Each dashboard tries to pull together all the data from our constituency hex maps site with each visualisation becoming a panel. Some things are just a number. But some end up as simple little line graphs and some end up as bar charts.

We've added a "relative rating" which gives an idea of how a constituency compares to others.