Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).

The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."

https://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

Wow, after 25 years of #Unix / #linux experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

Today I learned from the flock(1) man page (on Debian) that you can put this line at the top of a shell script to prevent more than one copy of it from ever running at a time:

[ "${FLOCKER}" != "$0" ] && exec env FLOCKER="$0" flock -en "$0" "$0" "$@" || :

This is an extremely clever hack and I don't know how I've never stumbled upon it in 38 years of writing shell scripts.
#unix #linux #scripting #shellScripting

Google Maps just dropped a new feature using AI to add crossings. It's an imperfect step in the right direction.

The #OpenStreetMap community knows mapping these features with AI is a challenge. We do a fantastic job with this working by hand! If you prefer the image on the right to the image on the left, consider helping us!

First time? Check out: https://openstreetmap.us/get-involved/

Do you love open data standards? Check out: https://openstreetmap.us/news/2024/02/pedestrian-working-group/

#GoogleMaps #Google #OSM #Mapping

Hello Fediverse!

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"I would estimate that writing the initial code for a feature is about 25% of the total work involved for that feature. The rest is maintenance..."

"... some developers seem perfectly capable of writing a large amount of complex code, but appear to have little appreciation for maintenance considerations."

Excellent blog post on the true cost of software maintenance.

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/reality-long-term-software-1892

#FOSS #opensource #maintenance