@Firefishy@en.osm.town

· 5mo ago

Running a large Open Source project is tough and expensive, good to see GDAL v3.13.0+ calling out Cloud Providers who profit off gdal, but no longer support the project: https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/14313 #OpenSource #GDAL #AWS #Azure

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Make users aware of commercial cloud provider that don't sponsor the project by rouault · Pull Request #14313 · OSGeo/gdal

when accessing a non-public object (i.e. requiring authentication) from their cloud premises. Once a day we ping home (https://gdal.org/en/latest/sponsors/did_XXXX_sponsor.html) and write the resul...

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Grant Slater @Firefishy@en.osm.town

· 9mo ago

Upgraded a Cisco Meraki MR52 to #OpenWrt 🤓📡 Awesome WiFi radios & antenna design - performance is great. Highly recommended, and cheap on eBay thanks to forced vendor obsolescence. Very satisfying breathing new life into useful hardware. https://openwrt.org/toh/meraki/mr52

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Grant Slater @Firefishy@en.osm.town

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@InsertUser @harry_wood @osm_tech We ended up hard coding a "cheap" error response to the query.

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Grant Slater @Firefishy@en.osm.town

· 10mo ago

Are you tech support for parents? Pro Tip: Install a RIPE Atlas Probe to monitor their internet connection, you'll know about the outage before the phone call.

Software probe is an easy install on Raspberry Pi or similar: https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/ripe-atlas/host-a-probe/ 🧑‍💻 📞 🛜

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Grant Slater @Firefishy@en.osm.town

· 7mo ago

What do you mean the data centre doesn't have a Patriot missile system on the roof?!? 🚀

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Grant Slater @Firefishy@en.osm.town

· 8mo ago

Size comparison between Xerxes Pi (top) and the Compute Blade. Both awesome products.

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Grant Slater @Firefishy@en.osm.town

· 11mo ago

UGREEN's 12V DC UPS is ideal for Linux SBCs/routers, with USB support for Network UPS Tools (NUT). Yet it's marketed only for their Pro NAS range. Sell it as a general-purpose DC UPS with NUT support and it'll fly off the shelves. 🔋🐧🚀 #UGREEN #UPS #NUT

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