Greg Vernon

Ex-US Web Dude, one of the last of the classical manual cartographers. Plays and listens to music.

Country: Switzerland🇨🇭
Blog: http://cascades2alps.blogspot.com
friendica: [email protected]

Last Notes

2025-03-17 20:01:29 GMT

- reply

My last two Swiss employers ran on-premises cloud infrastructures. It takes a bit of work, but it's not impossible. One employer was the Swiss NREN, and other NRENs were also running their own 'clouds' to my knowledge, mostly because of European privacy regulations.

2025-03-07 20:16:28 GMT

Being one of the last of the manual cartographers, I recently acquired a K&E LeRoy lettering set off of an auction site. I already have some nice jewel tipped Rapidographs I bought some 40 years ago. Now I have to find some decent drafting film here in Switzerland #geography #gis #fountainpen #drafting

2025-03-05 17:16:22 GMT

I had been trying to remember what #fountainpen I started out with. A bit of searching, and it turned out it was a Shaeffer No Nonsense pen. The nib was both quite flexible and quite scratchy. But it was cheap, and it was a fountain pen. I eventually picked up a Shaeffer Targa slim and didn't use it for over 20 years. Now that I'm retired, I'm back to using my Targa, and have acquired a few more.
Great info on my old university pen:
https://rupertarzeian.com/2020/04/29/a-look-back-at-the-sheaffer-no-nonsense-fountain-pen/

2025-01-20 19:36:19 GMT

- reply

So, I think a successful FB successor needs to be something independent and federated. Mastodon does Twitter reasonably well.
I guess #FreeBook, as I would call it should run on federated servers. Users could publish their own feeds, kind of like ATOM (should have said RSS) worked for with blogs. You put your feed on your server and people that know you subscribe. You should be able to unsubscribe people as well. Should handle various media well.

2025-01-20 14:32:03 GMT

- reply

We need our own alternative to #facebook. Kind of like #owncloud or #nextcloud, if you will, but for our social media.

2025-01-20 07:01:03 GMT

Some great thoughts by @npub1fdr…lvhs
A number of us are stuck on #facebook due to lockin by friends and family. Especially those of us that have migrated to other corners of the globe from those friends and family.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#everybody-samba