Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
Supply chain impacts, again, with carriers routing around cape rather than using Red Sea-Suez Canal.
There is something contradictory about a government that presides over a situation where regulation of cellcos failed to spot the gaping whole in security of personal communications (access to voicemail), that permits official communications to be conducted over a network (encrypted) operated by a foreign power, yet seeks to deny its citizens access to secure encrypted communications.
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🚀 Elevate your mapping experience! 💻 Integrate the analytical power of QGIS with the collaborative features of Felt with our Add to Felt plugin. Web mapping, simplified and social! 🗺️😎
https://youtu.be/HcSa63CYLN4
#gis #qgis
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Meet the woman working to stop the far-right creator money machine.
#GiftLink
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I don’t understand email. How do I know which email service to choose? Won’t I be stuck only communicating with people on the same server? How will people find me? What if I don’t like my service and have to change my email address? Or if my service goes out of business? Why do some email providers charge money and others are free? Will I get ads in my email? It’s all so confusing. Why don’t we all agree on one giant email server that we all use that is secure and benevolent and free?
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i so badly want other fediverse platforms to do better feed sorting like @bonfire does
screenshot from bonfire alpha (https://campground.bonfire.cafe/)
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Who makes #LibreOffice? Hundreds of people around the world – volunteers, developers in the ecosystem, and more. Robert Cabane here is part of our Quality Assurance (QA) project – and you can join it too: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/12/05/libreoffice-community-interview-robert-cabane-qa-project/ #foss #OpenSource
Anyone got a number for Noah at Arks-r-Us?
I think we must be past 40 days & 40 nights.
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Big Tech has, in general, rapidly eroded investigative journalism.
You know what industry needs a massive amount of investigative journalism? Big Tech.
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Okay. Fess up. Who did this?
Post-Brexit and under Conservative rule though, it is fair comment.
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Let's answer the question: "Why should I blog?"
Well, we're looking to hire someone and asked to see examples of some of their projects, and all they had to do was provide a link to their blog which has *years* of write-ups showing their work along with photos and screenshots and videos.
Their blog tells the story of their work differently/better than their resume does.
A blog can serve as a public journal of your work and your process and your growth in a way a resume never can.
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Awesome work by Hemed using #Blender and #QGIS
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@freemo Don't trust the reviews on Amazon. Recently had a seller sue me to take down a bad review. Amazon didn't give a shit.
So, they're openly allowing their reviews to be gamed by litigious scammers now.
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Some great #news and #journalism-related accounts to follow on the #fediverse (no bots!) :
@arstechnica
@AnnualReviews
@BBC_News_Labs
@coloradosun
@damemagazine
@dw_innovation
@energynewsnetwork @flatwaterfreepress
@gbhnews
@ScienceDesk
@HorizonMass
@insideclimatenews
@longreads
@mnreformer
@mongabay @NewsDesk
@ProPublica
@TexasObserver
@THECITY
@TheConversationUS
@thetyee
@TucsonSentinel
@unicornriot @wausaupilot
@Windspeaker
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Raspberry Pi releases two new specs for add-ons, one for the FFC connector for the PCIe interface, and another for HAT+ boards like the upcoming M.2 HAT+ that lets you add an SSD to a Raspberry Pi 5. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/double-standards/ #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi5 #HATPlus
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@neil The Roboto Light looked rather jarring, but TIL Roboto is actually now recommended across government websites when licensing prevents use of GDS Transport (aka New Transport, the updated version of the font used on road signs).
e.g. guidance from the Home Office - https://design.homeoffice.gov.uk/styles/typography
Long career in telecoms, aerospace & IT. Adept at troubleshooting & problem resolution.
Fascinated by the milieu.
Pic: JFK 22L over the captain's shoulder.
Joined Nov 2022
