ARCH!
The fixes for Meltdown and Spectre are drastically slowing the kernel down. The patches are meant to be deployed in the 4.20 release, but according to Linus the patches might not be completely enabled by default. But hey, it’s the 4.20 release so, let’s chill.
Ubuntu 18.04 is going to get 10 year support, and why not since RHEL already have it - or is it IBM/Red Hat now? If you wanna know what a 10 year old Ubuntu release feels like, try Hardy Heron.
If you want to give back to the open source community, check out 10 ways to give thanks to open source and free software maintainers. The list fails to mention mapping though.
Intel based single board computer Hardkernel Odroid-H2 sold out within 24 hours. It’s like a Raspberry Pi on ~~steroids~~ Celeron.
Some Amazon EC2 servers are running on Arm
You can now control your dildo from Emacs. Does it make it an RMS-approved GNU/dildo? There is a presentation video (not that kind of a video!). It’s, well, eye opening. Serious Mycroft opportunity here.
Plasma Mobile might soon be available on a Necuno mobile device. If this, the Gnome-based Pure OS running Librem 5 and the Pine64 all come through, 2019 is going to be full of open mobile awesomeness. The Necuno is probably going to be using the older i.MX 6 board versus the Librem’s i.MX 8.

Tad is one of the 4 directors of OpenStreetMap Ireland.
OSMI aims to become a part of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, a freedom respecting competitor to services like Google Maps
With freedom sometimes comes vandalism
Applications and websites:
- JOSM: OSM editing on the Desktop and the Terracer plugin
- OsmAnd: an Android app with navigation and editing
- Maps.me: an Android app with simpler UI than OsmAnd
- StreetComplete: mapping on Android phones
- uMap: create your own OSM-based maps
- Magic Earth: navigation
- Overpass Turbo: map queries
- Editors page on OpenStreetMap web
O’Connell Street
Ordnance Survey Ireland
Free Satellite Images
Irish Townlands
Irish Open Data
Portmarnock Community School’s mapping of Lesotho
Eircode
Dublin Postal Codes
Optical character recognition
The IE-UK maritime border
Lake Constanze between Switzerland, Germany and Austria
The OpenStreetMap Foundation’s position on disputed territories (PDF) and the minutes from the Data Working Group’s special meeting on Crimea
The Derry/Londonderry dispute
OSM Contact details:
- web
- Twitter: @osm_ie
- Facebook: OpenStreetMap Ireland
- Mailing list: talk-ie at openstreetmap dot org
- IRC is embeded on the OSMI website Contact page
Tad is @tadcan on Twitter and on our Telegram

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