Coach in a restaurant (hummus & friends) in Berlin

#MapsintheWild

Another low effort creation using @gdal

2025 #NLCD data and conus.

#gis

More than 200k users said NO!

More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!

#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!

We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.

We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.

If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.

If you use a search engine, you found it.

If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.

But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google

For your saftety? https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html

NEW BLOG FOR YOU

Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too.

A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI:

ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

@geographika enjoying #foss4ge2026

geo-tattoo

#tattoos

my love language is removing the tracking parameters in the URL before sending it to you 😘

Cómo cortar la sandia para cogerla con dos dedos.

How to cut the watermelon to take the pieces with two fingers.

@IvanSanchez and @EvenRouault sharing information the old way, using pen and paper. Having fun at #foss4ge2026

Caitlin Colgrove (CTO, Hex) on management, from The Test Set:
"It's basically telling them — giving them permission not to be miserable."

Senior engineer and engineering manager are the same level at Hex — same pay, different role. Tried it, didn't like it? Go back. That's not failure, it’s information.

Listen now on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/75UlWhiPCTGIRUpjYwyp2k?si=ad0ad7522100411b) and Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-test-set-by-posit/id1823736938?i=1000774726490).

So Fediverse, last week I was laid off by my employer, Elastic, as part of a wider reorg that made my position redundant. 7% of the global workforce was impacted, so I'm not alone in this 😢

I would appreciate boosts as I'm now looking for my next job. Preferably in community open source, but with the crazy market, a mortage and a baby I appreciate any lead.
I'm a backend engineer with strong #cloudinfrastructure , #devops and #observability skills. I spent the last 5 years working with Golang, but have previous experience with Ruby, Python, PHP and JavaScript (that shows how old I am I guess).
I'm searching remotely from Italy.

Thank you!

#FediHire #fedihire_europe #fedihire_it

Do you want to know what a stack overflow is?
Here is the song:

https://youtu.be/3bzcyZ5yO-4

(Thank you @IvanSanchez ... now I cannot stop singing it 🤦)

#programming

https://github.com/mnapoli/vibephp

“VibePHP is a next-generation PHP runtime and web server that runs PHP faster* and better*.
“There is no interpreter. There is no compiler. When a request comes in, your PHP source is handed to an AI that reads it, runs it in its head, makes up whatever it needs to (the database, the clock, the network, the truth), and hands back the HTTP response it reckons the code would have produced.
“It is not deterministic. It is not cheap. It is not correct. It is, however, very vibe.”

It only gets better from there!

#PHP #AI #VibeCoding

Apropos of everything: it amazes me how much faith non-techies put in technology

@EvenRouault in the first " #GDAL new command line interface: introduction and advanced topics" workshop
#foss4ge2026 #foss4g

People think the #Matrix was about robots. It wasn't. It was about operating systems.

#Windows is the blue pill.

You take it, and everything stays comfortable. Pretty icons. Friendly sounds. A setup wizard asking if you want to save your soul to the #cloud. Updates appear at the worst possible moment like a Marvel post-credit scene nobody asked for. Your #PC reboots. You cry. #Microsoft thanks you for improving your experience.

#Linux is the red pill.

You wake up. You see how deep the #RabbitHole goes.

At first, it is terrifying. The #terminal stares at you like Darth Vader asking if you know the power of the #CommandLine. You type one wrong character and feel like you accidentally launched nuclear missiles.

But then something changes. You realize your #computer actually belongs to you.

No ads in the Start Menu. No #AI assistant spying harder than a reality TV producer.

No mysterious background process eating half your #RAM like Pac-Man after three energy drinks.

You choose what gets installed. You choose when #updates happen. You choose what your #desktop looks like.

You are Neo.

Windows #users are still sitting in their pods, downloading the latest mandatory #update called KB-Whatever-Again, wondering why their printer suddenly speaks ancient Sumerian.

Linux is not perfect. Sometimes Wi-Fi drivers behave like a side quest in Dark Souls.

Sometimes you spend two hours fixing a problem just to feel smarter than everyone else.

But that is the point. The red pill was never about comfort. It was about #freedom.

And freedom means occasionally reading a forum post written by a Finnish guy in 2007 who solved your #problem and vanished forever like a #Jedi master.

Welcome to Linux. There is no spoon. Only #sudo.

#meme #choice #os #software #foss #floss #opensource #gnu #gpl #computer #user #nerd #just4fun #system

“Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300

If there are people still subscribed at discuss@lists.osgeo.org, I've opened a discussion thread about AI/LLM: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2026-June/040365.html. Please participate. CC @osgeo

Recently I talked about this post from @ploum with several people

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

"Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots". Very interesting.

More #GDAL t-shirts, with @wrenoud
#foss4ge20206