Alcohol talk
Bring back actual personal blogs where people write about what they did at the weekend for an audience of three people
A friend stated that most people on the #Fediverse disable boosts, and I was rather astonished to hear that.
Do you disable boosts? Please comment with why or why not.
On the 9th of August, we are having a #Debian #Trixie release party along with #OpenStreetMap birthday celebration. Both in the same event, same venue, same timeπ
ποΈ Date - Saturday, 9th of August
π Time - 4 PM to 6 PM
π Venue -Β Essentia.dev office, C-56/A-28, Sector 62, Noida, Uttar Pradesh - 201301.
URL: https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyTrixie#ReleasePartyTrixie.2FIndia.2FNoida.India:_Noida
Poster credits: @kishy
Thanks to @fossunited for the collaboration.
You can find a release party near to you or organize one. Check https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyTrixie
https://scroll.in/article/1085059/why-the-number-of-bus-users-in-mumbai-and-delhi-has-plummeted
Ah yes, I love when "hey this isn't a profitable enterprise" is only included at the *end* of an article, but somehow this ends up being a better article covering what was already known!
The DTC has been pushed to figure out how to share the road with private buses,<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0019556120010204> is a great read **FROM 2001** Covering how more buses good, but private operators really ruin the experience of the entire system.
Apparently the DTC has stopped serving a small but significant part of the city, with buses now rerouted through tighter turns ... AND NO DAMN INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ANYWHERE? If only they had GTFS RT to convey this, if only they had a GTFS feed they kept updated, if only they had social media, if only they had a website, if only they were able to publicise it on bus stops they owned, huh, they could have and didnt? Woah! They dont give a shit? Surprising.
SCAM ALERT
An elderly adult may go up to you and pinch your nose without your consent then claim to have stolen your nose
Do not attempt to pay them to reacquire your nose
They do not have your nose
Their supposed proof is just their thumb in between two of their fingers
Do not engage them
You still have possession of your nose
ββ "please insert disk"
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ββ "cromch!"
ββ "so how does it display the data?"
ββ "data?"
Huge congratulations to @alice! She has been formally recognized as an outstanding @gnome contributor by being awarded this yearβs βPants of Thanks,β a long-standing GUADEC tradition.
Thank you to everyone who sent in nominations; there were so many great people it was hard to choose just one, but Alice definitely deserves recognition for her tireless work on libadwaita and the GNOME platform.
Congratulations! π
I am looking for work! Please boost.
Freelance Project Manager/Technical Writer with strong visual + UX sensibility, looking for 10β20h/week contracts in dev tooling, docs, or open source. I also do Sensitivity Reading and Graphic Design. Comfortable with async work, cross-team collaboration, and docs-as-code workflows. Preferably long term contracts, based in the European Union - but open to negotiate other options, too. Fluent in English & German.
This Saturday, @contrapunctus hosted a short workshop introducing #OpenStreetMap at IIIT Lucknow, as part of the #FOSSMeetup #Lucknow.
This workshop was made possible by a travel grant from @fossunited - thank you!
https://osmcal.org/event/3944/
https://fossunited.org/c/lucknow/2025/august
While the short allotted time of 30 minutes did not allow the participants to make too many edits, we would like to showcase the enthusiastic contributions of @niyabits - keep up the good work!

