Gil-galad was an elven-king;
Of him the harpers badly sing
For none can rightly say his name—
Jill misappropriates his fame

Yeah, but it’s OpEx, so it’s just imaginary expenditure.

Literally never heard of it. Are you talking about Microsoft 365 Copilot, formerly known as Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365?

Use whatever software you want, more power to you, but I’m not totally convinced that “chaired by a fascist transphobic multibillionaire oligarch who actively subverts democracy at every opportunity” and “introduced a feature I don’t want to use into my free secure messaging app” are even close to equivocal?

Huh, I thought NYCDOC on Rikers Island finished Epstein’s sentence.

OnlyOffice is Russian-owned, via a holding company in Singapore. When Russia invaded Ukraine and sanctions threatened the business, they obfuscated this, but it’s still Lev Bannov’s product.

The importance you attach to this is up to you, but they try quite hard to hide it.

There’s an optional “tabbed interface” in View > User Interface that’s a lot like the Office ribbon. Like the Office ribbon, it has context-sensitive additional tabs, and you can enable a compact version that shows less but takes up less vertical space.

I’ve not had a need for LibreOffice for a while, but it certainly looks a lot less cluttered than the default old-school toolbars.

A society predominantly attended by hobbits.

• https://floss.social/@CoMaps
• https://sopuli.xyz/c/CoMaps
• https://matrix.to/#/#comaps:matrix.org

Here’s the open letter sent to the Organic Maps shareholders from many of the community of contributors, prior to the CoMaps fork.

Here’s a follow-up post with some details about the response.

The CoMaps announcement blog post says that they made no headway in resolving these issues, hence the split.

Organic Maps has faced some recent controversy, circling around use of donations to fund personal vacations, development of some functionality in private repositories, commercials partners (e.g. Kayak), and hints that they’re building the company to sell for profit.

I can’t speak to the truth of all this, but CoMaps is a stable community fork with active development and FOSS-embracing principles.

Relevant bits, without corny jokes, from the original Ashcroft Fire Rescue post on Facebook:

A quick investigation revealed the cause of this fire. It was determined to be a fish. The fish had an incredible journey, considering the river is 3km east from the point of origin. The fish had been dropped by a local osprey onto the hydro line causing embers to drop, along with the fish, to the dry grasses below. We do suspect by the size of the fish and the heat of the day probably caused the rather tired bird to drop its catch. It has been verified that our prime suspect sustained no injuries in the incident.

• Cursor https://cursor.com/en
• Claude Code https://claude.ai/
• Lovable https://lovable.dev/

That will work for now - although in my experience the performance of newer OSs on older hardware is not great. Soon, however, new releases of macOS won’t support Intel processors. Tahoe, later this year, will supposedly be the last.

In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand’s north and south islands would be split.

But I’m not a geologist.

If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand, Iceland, and the Caribbean.

Brego bourguignon.

A few bay leaves, some thyme and sage. Turnips and carrots, and taters too, if it was the time o’ the year.

No worries - I just popped it open in GIMP and painted over the letters, the work of a moment.

Here you go, but it’s been clipped from a bigger crossword (New York Times, February 6th 2022) and some of the squares across don’t make sense in isolation.

The full crossword answer sheet is here on NYT.com but I doubt you’ll be able to find a full blank grid and the clues online.

What’s the distinction you’re drawing here? I don’t know the implementation details, but my understanding is that it’s fundamentally exactly the same thing: the map is rendered by the browser/client using lines and polygons, rather than loading pre-rendered tiled images.