I hope to be there once I finish with work, probably a couple of hours after it starts.

• Date: Saturday 8th August 2026


• Time: 1pm onwards


• Location: The Metropolitan Bar (OpenStreetMap)


• RSVP: not required.

GLLUG post.

It's not a reserved venue, so look for a table with lots of stickers, and Polarian wearing the EuroBSDCon 2024 (Dublin) tshirt (with artwork like this).

#GLLUG #FreeSoftware #Meetup #London

New on the blog. Codeberg's members voted to stop hosting mostly AI-generated projects. The freedom worth defending is not the freedom to be taken from, it is the freedom to refuse.

https://tarakiyee.com/open-source-is-indefensible/

#OpenSource #OpenSourceGovernance #ReformvsTransformation

I dusted off an old idea to show duration for walking segments of public transit itineraries that I played with a year or so back.

Now that the list is using flowboxes, which can wrap contents to multiple lines when needed I think it will probably look better:

#gnomemaps #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #transitous #routing #Gnome

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GNOME Maps showing a list of public transit itineraries with indicated time estimations for walking legs

NEW: 20 civil society organisations have called for an investigation into the UK Information Commissioner's Office for failing to uphold data protection law in relation to eVisas.

This scheme has been plagued with breaches and accessibility issues.

And the ICO has done nothing to hold the UK Home Office to account.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/civil-society-organisations-call-for-ico-to-be-investigated-over-evisas/

#dataprotection #evisa #ico #gdpr #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

A drug is a chemical substance and object.

A social media platform is a complicated system of speech and communication.

Using anaology that conflate the two is at best lazy thinking, at worst prohibitionist propaganda from people with authoritarian personality types.

Okay bonny, I am gonna give you a scarf so that my friends in the office in Utrecht know where you are…. So like this!

Now you go find a place in 1st class until I get a phone call okay 💕🐰

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OV looking at a plushie bunny with ticket scanner

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OV Printing out a lost&found label

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Ov putting on sticker like a scarf

Utopia & Dystopia by Dylan Glynn

#Art #illustration

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A side-by-side crayon or oil pastel drawing split into two panels labeled "UTOPIA" and "DYSTOPIA." The left panel, titled "UTOPIA" in green text, shows a lush, green tree with a thick canopy standing on a patch of grass against a light, rain-streaked background. The right panel, titled "DYSTOPIA" in red text, shows a fiery red, orange, and yellow mushroom cloud erupting against a dark, black background, resembling a nuclear explosion.

Geocoding fun: There's a bunch of trees in Budapest named after major European cities (and of course correctly mapped as such in #OSM), what could possibly go wrong...

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Transitous showing a 1min/68m walk from Belgrade to Rome, in Budapest.

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Photo of the tree named "Belgrád" in Budapest (https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6032676306), taken by a Transitous contributor who debugged the problem on-site.

• Date: Saturday 16th May 2026


• Time: midday - 4pm (London time)


• Location: Canada Water Library Meeting Room 1 (OpenStreetMap)


• RSVP: Reply to this message, email me, or message me here on the fediverse, so we know rough numbers.

• LibreLocal wiki entry


• GLLUG post

#GLLUG #FreeSoftware #Meetup #London

[Fairbuds XL]> .quit
Invalid command in menu main: quit

beanquery> ,q
beanquery> 

scheme@(guile-user)> exit
$1 = #<procedure quit args>

matthew@matthew@fennell.dev-laptop:~$ quit
-bash: quit: command not found

I like that:

if [condition]:
	breakpoint()

In other languages, I slightly dread starting a debug session because I have to remember the flag to pass extra args, add all the breakpoints on startup etc. This leads to long sessions because I don't want to lose the investment I've put into my breakpoints.

But in Python, I have much shorter debug sessions and I can get right to a point of invocation really quickly, verify something, and close the debugger straight away.

I use the repl much more because I can end up in a repl right with the context and variables that I need.

Defining more breakpoints within the repl is really nice to unpack nested datastructures in the same way it would be done in the code:

>>> for key, some_list in some_dict.items():
... 	for value in some_list:
... 		breakpoint()

It's really thoughtfully designed - thank you to the people who made it so!

@matthew and if you really must know:

1. Cache invalidation.

"Want transactions for the whole of Jan, without any transactions from 1 Feb?"

Bank 1: Export 1 Jan to 1 Feb 😎
Bank 2: Export 1 Jan to 31 Jan 🙂
Bank 3: Export 1 Jan to 30 Jan!! 🤦

How does that happen?! It must be inclusive on both ends, plus the 1 Feb transaction happens at midnight? All I know is, if you go to 31 Jan, it will pull 1 Feb into Jan's export!

Thank goodness for -maxdepth 1!

Baroness Kiddon has tabled an amendment that would require client-side scanning on every device. That would include all film cameras. https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/65150/documents/7938 #MassSurveilance #scanning

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Screen shot of amendment 239A to Crime and Policing bill

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Screen shot of amendment 239A to Crime and Policing bill

How spicy do I like my food? Well...

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Photo of a Pad Thai food order with 15 lines of Spicy food modifiers with *Spec Prep* notes: MAKE HIM REGRET BEING BORN

@BBCNews This is about basic order and decency in government: which was the #Starmer prospectus. Boring but safe. Rather than corrosion of basic democratic norms.

@NoRestfortheWicked

As a person who is running Matrix from 2018 until now, it seems I made my choice to switch to xmpp.
Currently in a process of migrating people to the new platform.

As someone here stated about Matrix:
"wait another 2 years and see if it's gotten any better. Well, this hasn't expired yet".

I'm tired of waiting too.

Also, xmpp is far from being perfect, but

- it works stable
- lite weight (both clients and server),
- works pretty well on poor network conditions.
- better for 1:1 chats
- AV calls are flawless.

ICYMI: Finally blogged about an old paper (led by @groceryheist) that explains why people often engage in multiple groups with overlapping topic and membership, and which helps explain why competition between online groups seems to be rare. https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/why-do-people-participate-in-similar-online-communities

Thank you, #OnlineSafetyAct for failing to regulate #AgeVerification in any way at all. Now Discord users must hand their data to a Peter-Thiel-of-Palantir-linked system.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,”

Wow!

We welcome today's UK High Court ruling on Palestine Action.

The proscription not only criminalised political #protest but had far-reaching consequences for free speech online and counter terrorism programmes like #Prevent.

The government must change the Terrorism Act so future ones don't make similar proscriptions with worse consequences.

With the ban still in place, we need to hear how Ofcom expects platforms to remove #PalestineAction content.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/human-rights-defenders-raise-concerns-that-online-safety-act-will-lead-to-censorship-of-palestine-protest/

#ukpolitics #ukpol

@bert_hubert And out the door before CI has finished!

@bureaucrhaj my friend the professor solved that problem a while ago! Even @rosahaj in her younger days liked bikes!

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Shak in back basket in backpack on bike

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Blahaj lying on bike

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Rosahaj in bag on bike sneaking our

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/116056808593765766

If you're a FOSS maintainer working on standards or following them, we would love to hear from you! Please share and boost in your circles.

Yeah! Feeling cuddly great!
Can you see I've new stuffing???
But now finally NOMPF!

#Blahaj #surgery #stuffingReplenishment

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A Blåhaj cuddly shark sitting on a table with a plate with two Dutch cheese sandwiches in front of them. A Smolhaj cuddly shark and a small black crotched octopus with colourful bead tentacles are watching. Glad everything went well! And the scar is neat. And it seems you are already recovered! Amazing!

@EUCommission @bendirgo I for one look forward to some of that EU harmonization towards ISO 8601

Another FOSDEM and hackathon are in the rear-view mirror, and it is hard to find words to describe how amazingly productive and fun the experience was! We met so many people at the postmarketOS stand, in the FOSS on Mobile devroom and at dinners in the evening. As always it is fun to put faces to nicknames and to talk about the Linux Mobile ecosystem, and figure out how to improve it in person.

Find photos and what we got done in the blog post:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/10/fosdem-and-hackathon/

Thanks to all who came by or contributed towards making this possible!

#fosdem #linuxmobile #postmarketos