Stefano Costa @steko@octodon.social

Survey for GitHub evacuees:

1. are you avoiding GitHub hosted repos, and
2. if so, why?

I haven't heard any chatter about this, but I'd like to ask. I have not decided to migrate, but it is a possibility. I think it would be difficult to shun repos that remain.

Spider.
Patreon.Com/chrishallbeck
#comics #webcomics #spider

Even when working along on a project, it's a good idea to integrate frequently, instead of having long-lived branches. Merge early, merge often.

It's been about a week since we hung up a wooden birdhouse in the branch of the Japanese cherry tree. I had forgotten about it until my wife invited me to take a look. It's hard to see inside the small hole, but there is now a split along the side of the wood frame of the small house. You get an interesting horizontal view of sticks, dirt, weeds, and assorted material brought inside. We all make our home, our home, in different ways. I hope these creatures find comfort in there. #smallstories

Next time you're outside, take a look at the clouds.

so true
[source http://falseknees.com/291.html]

Sommet du #G7, La Malbaie, Québec (Canada), 9 juin 2018• Crédits : Jesco Denzel/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP - Maxppp

A cool article about how exacting Fred Rogers was about the language used on his show so that it wouldn't confuse or accidentally mislead kids: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/mr-rogers-neighborhood-talking-to-kids/562352/?single_page=true

I especially love the examples given.

Hey, have anyone here heard about Discrete Global Grids?

They're a really cool alternative to coordinate systems that better models geographic information whilst making computations much cheaper (true distance computation, union, intersection, simplification, etc)!

They work by splitting the earth into hexagons (or other polygons), splitting those up into further hexagons, and giving them all a consistent numbering scheme.

P.S. My father does GIS standards.

#Webmasters,

Do you use #GoogleForms, #SurveyMonkey or similar services?

Are you happy with your data, and your users' data, being exploited by third parties for commercial purposes such as shadow profiling?

There are #Free #OpenSource alternatives which let you control your data and offer your users privacy, which you can self-host or use online as a service:

#Webform
http://webform.com/

#LimeSurvey
https://www.limesurvey.org/

#Privacy #DeleteGoogle #Google

Missed this episode of Doctor Who
#Caturday

Benzene is so friendly. Look at him ⏣ what a friendly circlehexaboy. Benzene is a lovely

Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking."