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Una de las tareas que realiza el Departamento de Topografía y Geomática del Ayuntamiento de Albacete es la de imprimir las fichas de las nuevas vías urbanas que se van creando en el municipio, tras la aprobación de su nombre por Pleno. Este trabajo se realiza directamente con las herramientas…

I have been helping co-maintain the Debian curl package for a few years now, and even though Samuel and Charles do most of the work, I'm happy to jump in and help when needed. This is one of those cases. Nowadays the package is maintained by 3 people (with help from others occasionally), but it…

I have been helping co-maintain the Debian curl package for a few years now, and even though Samuel and Charles do most of the work, I'm happy to jump in and help when needed. This is one of those cases. Nowadays the package is maintained by 3 people (with help from others occasionally), but it…

In December 2016 I left Canonical with one sad and one happy eye, with lots of good memories. Now it’s time to revisit some more! Starting at Red Hat back then was quite a cultural shock, of course. I got used to the new headwear fashion quickly: But never really to the rest of the formal dress…

Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to…

We are extremely pleased to announce the nine funded proposals for our 2026 QGIS.ORG grant programme. Funding for the programme was sourced by you, our project donors and sponsors! Note: For more context surrounding our grant programme, please see: QGIS Grants #11: Call for Grant…

https://www.osgeo.org/foundation-news/sol-katz-award-for-geospatial-free-and-open-source-software-call-for-nominations-2026/ The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations for the 2026 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Sol Katz Award for Free and…

Review: Unwinding Anxiety, by Judson Brewer Publisher: Avery Copyright: 2021 ISBN: 0-593-33045-5 Format: Kindle Pages: 268 Unwinding Anxiety is a non-fiction self-help book about how to reduce anxiety. The author is a…

Being persistent, sticking to a plan and showing up to work every day is generally valued highly across all cultures as virtuous behavior. It is obvious that anything of value and worth achieving is also not easy, but requires significant and recurring effort. Learning a new language, winning a…

Last year I went through a self-hosting spree during which I deployed some services (e.g. Nextcloud, Mattermost, and Prosody) to a bunch of VPSes, while documenting the process on this blog. This post is a follow-up on that series, detailing the deployment of GoToSocial, a lightweight ActivityPub…

Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories.sootA couple years ago, my house was heated by a condensing gas boiler. It was awful from both an environmental and a geopolitical perspective: environmental, as I would emit somewhere around 2.5 tons of CO2 equivalent per year to…

The GRASS GIS 8.5.0 release provides more than 2750 improvements and fixes with respect to the release 8.4.2. Enjoy! The post GRASS 8.5.0 released appeared first on Markus Neteler Consulting.

I have been battling Large Language Models (LLM1) for the past couple of weeks and have struggled to think about what it means and how to deal with its fallout. Because the fight has come from many fronts, I've come to articulate this in terms of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Sound track:…

Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from May 8 to May 15. GNOME Circle Apps and Libraries Graphs ↗ Plot and manipulate data Sjoerd Stendahl says This week we released Graphs 2.0. It’s been about two years since the last major feature-update, and this is by far our biggest…

After two years of development, Graphs 2.0 is finally out! This will be a shorter blog, as the changelist of the new features have been discussed in the previous post in more detail, you can check this out here in more detail if you’re interested:…

Discover the new LiDAR point cloud processing tools in QGIS 4.0. Learn how to filter noise, classify ground points, and calculate height above ground with Lutra Consulting's latest open-source GIS developments.

Welcome to another GNOME Foundation update post! Today’s installment covers highlights from what’s happened over the past two weeks. LAS 2026 Linux Apps Summit 2026 starts tomorrow! The organizing team, which includes members from both GNOME and KDE, has been hard at work and is on the ground in…

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Filip Strömbäck (fstromback) Arthur Diniz (arthurbd) Manuel Traut (manut) Xiyue Deng (manphiz) kpcyrd (kpcyrd) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Chris…

There is one specific way in which the non-corporate open source projects typically document how their infrastructure work: not at all, and Flathub is no different. The full picture likely lives only in my brain, and while it could be sorted out by anyone (especially in this LLM age, yay or nay),…

I just tested out the ssh-keysign-pwn exploit [1] on Debian kernel 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 which was released before these exploits. When sshkeysign_pwn is run as user_t the following is logged in the audit log and it fails to exploit anything: type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1778831599.951:22353257):…

The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been award "Top Secret" deals. Right now you can go to https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk and search for whichever…

After the Linux local root privilege escalations of the last two weeks, the bug of today is ssh-keysign-pwn [CVE-2026-46333] which allows to read root-owned files as an unprivileged user. Exploiting the vulnerability doesn’t require to load any specific modules like the bugs from the last weeks,…

Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind. It helped me make a lot of tiny sites! I spent the last week or…

A little while ago, my colleague Sebastian started complaining about OOMs caused by Evolution taking up tens of gigabytes of memory. We discussed using sysprof to debug it, but it was too busy a time for Sebastian to set aside a few hours to do that.Funnily enough, the most efficient fix at the time…

Desde QGIS España os invitamos a participar en un nuevo workshop técnico sobre Qtiler, un innovador servidor WebGIS basado en Node.js y PyQGIS orientado a la publicación rápida y eficiente de servicios OGC directamente desde proyectos QGIS. Durante la sesión, impartida por Abel Gonzalez…