#TIL that word processor WordPerfect 8 and spreadsheet tool Lotus 1-2-3 (yes, knowing about them might betray one's age) work fully functional inside the #terminal on modern #Linux OS, including graphics...
Mind blowing.

* https://github.com/taviso/wpunix
* https://github.com/taviso/123elf

I'm sure, it's only a matter of time before someone post container images of those #software on public container registries...

#retrocomputing

Is there equivalent of conventional commits[1] and conventional comments[2] for issues/tickets ?

#Standards or #Guidelines

* for a user to write a clear bug or request ticket
* for maintainers to quickly understand content of a ticket
* for maintainers and users to interact constructively
* for scripts to semantically parse a ticket (for triage, analytics)

[1] https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/
[2] https://conventionalcomments.org

#OpenSource #Bugs #Community #ProjectManagement

A few weeks ago, this project from Christchurch, NZ to map its fruit trees made it to HN front page

https://smartview.ccc.govt.nz/map/layers/trees

Immediately, It reminded me of the Falling Fruit project:

https://fallingfruit.org/

It's a global map of places where the public can freely harvest the edible produce from trees.
Anecdotally, two locations, in Hong Kong and in France, I was able to verify in person that the bounty was real.

#OpenData #GIS #Map #Permaculture #FoodJustice #Foraging

TIL Fastly offers DDOS protection to Mastodon. Would be cool if they go further and emulate their competitor (Cloudflare)’s cool projects like Galileo and Wildebeest, so there are more choices. Hopefully then Akamai would have to do something to not be left behind. And what about making it easy to cache on CDNs the media posted on the fediverse, so no more broken image in toots? And make federated activitypub-enabled CDNs?

https://dev.to/fastly/welcome-mastodon-to-fast-forward-11g4

#activitypub #fediverse #networksecurity #cdn

Oh that’s interesting, a #matrix <-> #activitypub bridge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3olH1aUCkQ

#fosdem2023