David Gómez

@davegomez
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Software Engineer | Photographer
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See the real problem?

(Cartoon via #SchoenScheisse)

The history of the world according to #cats - Eva-Maria Geigl

Video by #TEDed

Look, if a core Bitcoin developer can get their whole wallet emptied out unrecoverably on them, and that developer's immediate reflex is to start calling a centralized authority for help, it's time to stop pretending this entire cryptocurrency exercise is ever going to work. We're done here.

Long to be (Iceland)

A late summer evening in the Icelandic highlands. It was cold and windy. The light was somewhat promising but from my angle it was hard to get a good photograph. So I started my drone to get a different perspective. And oh boy did that work.

#highlands #mountains #iceland #sunset #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #drone #dronephotography #aerialphotography #glacier #river #photography #naturephotography

Credit to @lukeymcgarry, who does not appear to be on Mastodon yet. www.twitter.com/lukeymcgarry
After only one year of Taliban rule, girls and women have almost disappeared from Afghan society. They are not allowed to travel, to work alone, to go to public parks, to talk or laugh in public, and they are not allowed to study and to go to school... Photo: Boushra Almutawakel

I drew a plant robot?

#art #mastoart #TraditionalArt

Debuting work on Mastodon & not the other place for the first time:

My probe of drone strikes that have killed 100s in #Ethiopia 's Oromia region since October, is published in New Lines Magazine. Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize winning leader implicated once again.

Geolocated footage, accumulated interviews. Cheap #drones from Iran, Turkey & UAE continue to kill & maim.

Co-authored with Bileh Jelan.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/evidence-of-drone-strikes-against-civilian-areas-in-ethiopia/

Evidence of Drone Strikes Inside Civilian Areas in Ethiopia

As Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s army unleashes drones in troubled Oromia, civilians pay a heavy price

New Lines Magazine

the sad reality of open source software development

In short: folks love the amazing decentralised encrypted comms utopia of Matrix. But organisations also love that they can use it without having to pay anyone to develop or maintain it. This is completely unsustainable, and Element is now literally unable to fund the entirety of the Matrix Foundation on behalf of everyone else - and has had to lay off some of the folks working on the core team as a result.

https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022

The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 | Matrix.org

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