Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social), page 2

🆕 blog! “FOSDEM - The Good Parts and the Not-So-Good Parts”

I'm just back from my first ever FOSDEM - a megaconference dedicated to Free and Open Source technology and culture. It was epic. I'm still ruminating on the experience, but here are my first impressions of what did and didn't work.

The Good Bits

Really, it is a dozen conferences squeezed into one. Over …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/fosdem-the-good-parts-and-the-not-so-good-parts/
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#conference #fosdem

@evan cheers!
Were the BOF talks recorded? I'd love to know if what I said made any kind of sense 😄

Exhausted from my first #FOSDEM.
Huge thanks to everyone who said "hi" - and special thanks to those folk who let me fanboi at them 🤭
Right, time for a cheeky beer - once I figure out the Metro.

Which idiot decided doing two #FOSDEM talks in a day was a good idea?

*This* idiot 🫠

Come along to AW 1.121 at 1200 to hear my talk about ActivityBot.

And 1400 in Janson to hear how we open sourced the UK's Covid tracing app.

See you there!

Celebrity spotting at #FOSDEM!
Can't believe I got to meet the #Plushtodon 😍
(And some other bearded guy who photo-bombed us.)

@Gargron ah, that makes sense. Ta.

Is there a way to stop search engines crawling a site but still let rich previews work?

My robots.txt was:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

But when I shared a link on Facebook & other sites, it often wouldn't show the OGP image & description even though the metatags are in there.

I want a site which is hidden from search engines, but still shareable on social networks.

Any tips?

@stefan @_elena @nacly @nclm
Done! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse#Further_reading

Hey gang. In one week's time, I'll be taking to the Janson stage at #FOSDEM to talk about how #OpenSource helped the UK's Covid tracing app.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4411-lessons-learned-open-sourcing-the-uk-s-covid-tracing-app/

I'd love to see you all there. It's a big room, so please bring a friend!

HTML has the concept of "elements".
For example <a>, <h1>, <audio>, etc.

They're called elements because, like hydrogen, helium, uranium, etc they are fundamental units which cannot be broken down anything further.

Except, of course, elements like gold are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons.

What are the "subatomic" components of an HTML element?

Lunchtime Q&A Session with Ofcom for people who run low-risk community websites and want to find out more about their responsibilities once the Online Safety Act comes into force in March https://lu.ma/qijpvfnl - please share!

#OnlineSafetyAct

Boost if you remember, regret, or resent using "hashbang" URls!

Sadly Vicky Teinaki (@vickytnz) died recently.

You can add photos and memories of her at https://vickyteinaki.muchloved.com/

The website also contains details of her funeral (in person or online).

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Rules for Radicals- A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky”
★★★★☆

My good friend Suw alerted me to this venerable book by repeatedly ranting "What is your theory of change???" online.

If ever there was a moment to yell "WHAT IS YOUR THEORY OF CHANGE???" that moment is now and we…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/book-review-rules-for-radicals-a-pragmatic-primer-for-realistic-radicals-by-saul-alinsky/
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#BookReview #politics

@glyph you pay money.

It really is that simple. The tech you hear about (mostly) buys positive press by using professional PR teams. They put out press releases, they invite journalists to launches, they put people forward for interviews.

We on the left seem to expect this to happen naturally. It doesn't.

It utterly astounds me how many Americans are getting totally overwrought about the UK's #OnlineSafetyAct.

Meanwhile, here in the Rest of World, we've endured decades of having the USA's laws like DMCA, Sarbanes-Oxley, COPPA being imposed on us.

It is hilarious how out of touch they are.

@webmink I applied yesterday, but haven't heard back yet.

Took a holiday to Morocco. Spent some of the time on @streetcomplete and accidentally became the number one mapper in the country 🤯

A quick test of using MapLibre GL to draw a globe with clustered GeoJSON points on it.

Would you like to see this on the front page of @openbenches ?

Now live on https://OpenBenches.org - feedback very welcome.