Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftover

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 11, 2024

• David Mead ☛ My music setup

  I've sat down a few times to capture this, to no avail. Sometimes long-winded, sometimes a bulleted list. But today's the day.

  So here goes.

• The Verge ☛ The fediverse, explained: Mastodon, Threads, and the open future of social networking

  The fediverse is a little like HTTP or the nitrogen to oxygen ratio in the air: very important, all around you, but probably not something you need to think about in your day to day. But if the fediverse is actually going to change the [Internet] — and I think it might — it’s worth understanding just a little better. So I’ve read the posts. I’ve talked to the oldheads. I have protocol-ed. I have platform-ed. And I think I can help. Let’s just dive in: [...]

• Lee Peterson ☛ Looking back at 6 years of WordPress and moving forward

  I’ve been thinking a lot about my creative projects and I realise I’ve been here on WordPress for just over six years. Here’s my first post and you’ll notice it’s about leaving Squarespace and moving to WordPress.

• Eshel Yaron ☛ Fixing a Twenty Six Years Old Emacs Bug

  The reason this is a great bug report is that it’s easy to reproduce right there in the buffer showing the bug report itself. Namely, since I was reading this inside Emacs, this was as simple as placing the cursor right before where it says (thing-at-point 'email), hitting C-M-k to “kill” (copy) the whole expression, then C-s name to place the cursor in the middle of [email protected], and lastly M-: C-y RET to evaluate the expression. That’s it. You see the return value [email protected], instead of the expected [email protected], and that makes the issue apparent on the spot.

• Events

  • Volker Krause ☛ FOSDEM 2024 and Open Public Transport Routing

    Last weekend I attended FOSDEM as part of KDE’s presence there, gave a talk about semantic data extraction of travel-related emails, met old long-time friends, had many interesting discussions and the occasional waffle. One topic however got slightly out of hand and ended up consuming most of my time.

    Open Public Transport Routing

    For road-based routing a few FOSS and Open Data services exist, OSM has some integrated on their website for example. We don’t have something like this for public transport though.

    There we are stuck with proprietary services, run mostly by transport operators themselves or by companies like Google. Those have a number of issues: [...]

• Web Browsers/Web Servers

  • Greg Morris ☛ Greg Morris - Some Thoughts On Slugs

    I understand the idea. Maximising the amount of information in the URL, but on the modern web I don’t think it matters. I mean hey, it matters to Adam and that’s really cool, but in general. When was the last time you paid attention to a URL?

    I link to loads of them, both on my blog and in my day job, and there are only two instances they matter. Both of which are every niche and only matter to me in my day job — SEO and direction.