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What did you think about the second half of the post?

Handy travel phrases for all occasions!

🆕 blog! “A big list of things I disable in WordPress”

There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that its way is the best and there shall be no deviance. That means a lot of forced cruft being injected into my site. Headers that bloat my page size,…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/
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@_elena we've found several veg only restaurants and, with a bit of planning, eaten at places with decent choices for me.
Not as easy as, say, London or even Berlin - but better than I was expecting.
You can see my reviews at https://www.happycow.net/members/profile/Edent

Actually found vegan street food in Kyoto!
Flame grilled bamboo on a skewer. Lovely.
Just had a lovely onsen, so off to find some sake now 😄

Android friends! A question for you:

I currently use Termux to run shell scripts, SSH, and a few other tools on my phone.

Is it worth switching to the new Terminal app in Android 16?

(Running GrapheneOS if that makes a difference to your answer.)

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Handy travel phrases for all occasions!
#Kyoto #NintendoMuseum

@dan nice one, thanks 😄

@denny that and snow!

@evan What did you think about the blog post, Evan 😆

@evan indeed! But people rarely visit their own country's museum having had all of that forced into them at school.

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🆕 blog! “The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects”

Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.

If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I…

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#BDFL #mastodon #OpenSource #oss

@aburka you're right. Terrible idea to have a firm financial footing and an understanding of now to effective use money.

@bortzmeyer

These resources suggest otherwise.

https://6sense.com/tech/relational-databases/mysql-vs-mariadb
https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Humans organise. Like ants, it is our super-power. I'm arguing that *better* organisations are beneficial.

I've yet to see anarchy flourish in reality.

@bortzmeyer that is demonstrably untrue.

Your free software can shatter into a thousand forks - but we all know that just leads to confusion.

If only one person controls the website / signing keys / trademark / whatever, then the project is brittle. And far too many F/OSS projects have a single point of failure.

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/
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#OpenBenches #OpenStreetMap

@jezhiggins put that river to work!

@ben awesome! We're heading to NZ this Xmas - such a lovely part of the world.

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