Nyall Dawson

@nyalld
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QGIS developer, cartographer, and proprietor of North Road Consulting (https://north-road.com)
3d GIS is now my happy place. What features would you love to see here that aren't currently realised? Crazy ideas welcome!
Inspired by @rjhale1971 resurrecting the dead corpse of geo chatter, here's some random shit that I've been playing with (just because I want to train my own biological ai model 🤪)
I've been frustrated all weekend about a co-worker who had the insensitivity of asking me for advise for his vibe coded project. But this morning I remembered that a) this same guy withdrew all his superannuation to set up a self managed fund in which he invested it all on a meme gamer crypto coin (buying just at the peak of its price) and b) financially backed Star Citizen. 😂 .... I sense a common trend here!
I think the saddest part of the LLM infection of open-source software development is the loss of trust in each other. Beforehand, if somebody submitted some bad code, it could be assumed it was either a mistake or they weren't well-versed enough with the codebase. Nowadays, any code submitted by an unknown party brings immediate scrutiny and a "guilty until proven innocent" mentality. Its a valid defense mechanism, but I will never forgive the corpos for this.
How did I miss that dungeon crawler Carl book 8 is out?!!! 🤯🤯
I feel for the JTS maintainers 🤮🤮https://github.com/locationtech/jts/issues/1195
EPIC: SFA / ISO 19125-2 Curve Awareness in JTS · Issue #1195 · locationtech/jts

Epic: SFA / ISO 19125-2 Curve Awareness in JTS AI Disclosure (per the Eclipse Foundation Generative AI Usage Guidelines for Committers) This document and the companion red-test class modules/curve/...

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The worst thing possible has happened to opensource development, and you're all just blindly thinking it's still business as usual.

RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116356907252704136

My thoughts exactly ... This industry is cooked.

What git hosting solutions currently offer free, private hosting that doesn't go into training LLM models? ... I'm looking for somewhere to push private forks of some open source projects so that I'm not actively making myself redundant 😭
This person https://github.com/abinayasiva29-web just earned the dubious honor of being the first user completely banned from the qgis repo for repeatedly wasting our time with ai slop. 👍
abinayasiva29-web - Overview

Beginner learning open source. abinayasiva29-web has 13 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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