My area has been plagued with forest fires over the past few months. I was looking at tools to contribute air quality reading.

One service I found was called Purple. But here's the kicker - You contribute data for free. But they CHARGE you for API calls.

After all this setup, I was furious that some company was going to profit. I immediately returned their kit and got a open source one that contributed to OpenAQ.

 

Not to be confused with the University of Oregon, OSU set up its Open Source Lab in 2003. Since then, it's done a great deal to help multiple FOSS projects. As Linux.com reported in 2006, it gave critical help to Gentoo and Drupal, along with providing one of the first hosting sites for the fledgling Mozilla Foundation.

As the Drupal team reported, the OSU OSL was serving 10 TB of data per month for them – in 2012. Seven years later, LWN reported on a talk by Albertson at SCALE 17x, saying that "role of the lab is to be a neutral hosting facility and to foster relationships between FOSS projects and companies."

[–] 4 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of the PowerPoint my company had.

It was this graph showing how many tech people they have since 1960, and the numbers kept multiplying.

How they rated tech people was someone who works behind the computer. So yeah, as we gain more employees, we tend to put them behind computers to do work?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Joplin. I have it as a sync server. But have it tucked away in a cloud server for the times when I'm traveling so j always have a way to access data in case my phone gets stolen/confiscated.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Lots of comments here saying it feels like work. And yet all the simulator games exist? People literally build rigs on their living room to play Truck Simulator games.

    I don't work with rest apis enough and looks great. My only concern is that like everything I do, I end up building a UI and automation. Which might be the point!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I went back to school in my early 30s.

    I have a coworker who went back in his 40s and is changing careers (from tech lead to management). And another who is nearing 50s who just wanted that piece of paper. (IT guy who wanted a fine arts degree)

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago

    Ah not to discount devops, I mean that in a good way.

    Devops made me lazy in that for the past decade, I focus on just everything inside the code base.

    I literally push code into a magic black box that then triggers a rube goldberg of events. Servers get instanced. Configs just get magically set up. It's beautiful. Just years of smart people who make it so easy that I never have to think about it.

    Since I can't pay my devops team to come to my house, I get to figure it all out!

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I shared it because, out there, there is a junior engineer experiencing severe imposter syndrome. And here I am, someone who has successfully delivered applications with millions of users and advanced to leadership roles within the tech industry, who overlook basic security principles.

    We all make mistakes!

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