A. Lee Bennett Jr.
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Paul Ramsey 🗳️
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Loving open source software, practicing the piano, moving things around, working @crunchydata
Waldo JaquithWe're being told that the way to build trust with the community for broadband projects is to speak to the Rotary Club.
It is not! The way you build trust is you *install some damn broadband*. People shouldn't have to take it on faith that the project is going to work out. They should see that their friends and neighbors are getting gigabit fiber on schedule, for a fair price, without a lot of hassle.
Kapitän Clownfeuer"So many eyes, all the bugs are found" is only one side of the equation
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Ben Ramsey (@ramsey@phpc.social)
libxslt project maintainer steps down, citing the amount of time it takes to triage embargoed security issues. “I’ve been doing this long enough to know that most of the secrecy around security issues is just theater. All the ‘best practices’ like OpenSSF Scorecards are just an attempt by big tech companies to guilt trip OSS maintainers and make them work for free.” https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913
PGConf.dev 🐘We've published a video of David J. DeWitt's keynote From RAP to Snowflake - A Look at 50 Years of SQL DB Scalability https://youtu.be/7HKrtciXU0k #postgresql #PGConfdev
Even Rouault@gdal We've had up to 265 attendees following the webinar about the GDAL CLI Modernization. You'll find the slide deck at https://download.osgeo.org/gdal/presentations/GDAL%20CLI%20Modernization.pdf , including a best-of of the Q/A session, and the video recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdrYm3TiBU
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Information Is BeautifulAnother reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map
Jon Udell"You don't briefly interrupt a system like this one. Once professors and PhD students disappear, they can't be conjured again out of thin air. The pipeline of new faculty members is gone – altogether, or overseas, but certainly gone in America. We won't be able to rebuild the R1/R2 system in less than a generation. And the Trump administration has proposed no alternative to it."
Not invented here
Two posts ago, I said I was worried about the Trump administration's attack on universities, but had more urgent things to write about. I want to return to that topic today. It's really important. Fundamental research in science pays enormous dividends to society. We're surrounded by examples – your mobile phone,