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@mappingsupport@m.ai6yr.org There's the trillium. We inherited from the prevuous owners of the house. I'd never seen one before.
Spring is here.
#bloomscrolling
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@johncarlosbaez I went to the Eastgate Centre in Harare, #Zimbabwe, in October. It's great.
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Adding `--uploaded-prior-to=P4D` to your `pip install` commands is a trivially easy way to reduce your exposure to malware in compromised PyPI packages.
The updated flag tells `pip` to only install packages of at least the given age, e.g. 4 days. Malicious packages are often detected and removed from PyPI in less time than this.
https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04/whats-new-in-pip-26.1/#dependency-cooldowns
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@Daojoan At the risk of sounding like a bot, I wanted to say that was a great article and I really enjoyed reading it. Thank you for writing it.
I particularly liked the beach bit and the blender bit. I found the article because @mia boosted it. I'm sad that my view of the Internet has declined to the level that I'm worried about looking like a bot for sending unsolicited enthusiasm.
I've been setting up an #OpenWrt router as a WiFi access point (via powerline LAN).
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/wifiextenders/bridgedap
It needed 3 changes beyond the tutorial to make it stable:
+ Disable the firewall on the AP (tutorial said this wasn't necessary)
+ Use WPA2 encryption only (my laptop kept dropping with mixed mode)
+ Choose 5GHz channel outside 100-144 range (which is affected by radar detection checks in UK)
The #WiFi speed at the far side of the house has doubled. Hooray for reusing my old router!
I just noticed that the backround of fixed stars on the tracker at http://artemistracker.mapki.com/ isn't made up - it's a true representation.
Here's spaceship Orion in front of constellation Orion.
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@FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot @merginmaps@fosstodon.org
We've got the all-clear to publish the plugin and source code on the BGS GitHub repo. The exact timing depends on fitting it in among other tasks, but the aim is that we can do that by the end of the financial year e.g. end March.
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@mappingsupport@m.ai6yr.org Our trillium is out, too, in Edinburgh. It's such a cool flower.
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@FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot @merginmaps@fosstodon.org
The aim of publishing to GitHub first is to let "power users", e.g. the kind of people who can install from a zip on a GitHub release, try it out and give feedback from the perspective of non-BGS users in the issue tracker.
In the longer term, we will add it to the official QGIS repositories.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@JorisMeys/116118700194345006
People in the #ResearchSoftwareEngineer and world may be able to suggest real-world data sources that could be analysed for student projects.
#RSE
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@d1 I'm not sure why it helped, either. It was a clean OpenWrt install and I hadn't touched the firewall settings, so the tutorial should have worked. but once I turned it off the connection went from slow with timeouts to lightning fast.
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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net Nice list. http.server is handy to get files off Windows machines.
I like python -m pdb -c continue my-script.py to let me drop into a debugger if my script crashes.
pip wasn't on the list, but subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install', 'geopandas']) is how I install extra dependencies into the bundled Python environment of the QGIS mapping software.