Classic #Helsinki: I bump into a fellow cyclist in the neighbourhood, get invited to pay a quick visit, find out their flatmate is a #NixOS user. You can imagine what happened next.
@legoktm Nice! I would have needed something like this at the #Arabianranta library in #Helsinki. It's in a big former factory and there's a library sign on a corner of the block, but you have to walk all the way to the other corner of the block (about 300 m) to find the very small entrance door (which is unmarked). Finnish urban design is usually great but not always.
Threads is the most fun, most interesting new product of the year, and no one in the E.U. can use it, or will be able to use it anytime soon, because their own elected officials passed a law that effectively bans it.
Kristerssonin toive ei tule hyvään hetkeen toteutumaan, sillä sähköistys etenee pienten, yleisilmailuun sopivien lentokoneiden kautta, ja sellaisilta #Helsinki tuhosi lentokentän. Lähin kenttä on Vantaalla ja sen kapasiteetti menee reittilentojen suuremmille koneille, joiden jättövirtaukset tekevät lähestymiset ja kiitoradat liian turbulenteiksi pienemmälle kalustolle.
For #TravelThursday here's some lovely late Art Nouveau architecture in Helsinki, Finland. This is the stunningly beautiful Helsinki Central Station and it was opened in 1919. It carries a lot of influence from German expressionism in its design. The sculptures are called the #Lyhdynkantajat (or Lantern Bearers).
I was weally impressed by #Helsinki airport 🇫🇮 I don't think I ever saw that massive throughput of people going through security at no time at all. Also, not having to take out your laptop or liquids from your bags 👌 Can we please have that everywhere sometime soon?
Ciao amic* espert* di #OpenStreetMap, ma perché https://www.openstreetmap.org nella visualizzazione ("Livelli mappa") standard fa vedere le fermate dei mezzi pubblici ma non dice di che linee sono, e la visualizzazione "Mappa dei trasporti" fa vedere le linee ma non le fermate?
Anche sul cell, dove uso Organic Maps (https://f-droid.org/it/packages/app.organicmaps/) per vedere le mappe di OpenStreetMap, ci sono le fermate, ma quando ci pigio su dice solo "fermata autobus" o "fermata tram", ma non di che linea.
C'è modo di vedere la fermata e che linee ci passano?
@umpi Non è cosí ovunque. Qui a #Helsinki ci sono le linee "espresso" che fanno solo alcune fermate. Non puoi decidere di fermarti dove ti pare.
Quanto ai popup: sí, se ci fossero i dati si potrebbero anche fare cose del genere in applicazioni specializzate. Lo fanno per esempio le aziende dei trasporti finlandesi, con #DigiTransit che mescola dati #OSM e dati propri. OSM.org offre solo una visualizzazione semplificata, non puoi far tutto con un livello PNG/SVG.
In #Helsinki 🇫🇮 preparing for my talk on #OPA tomorrow. Good times with folks from solo.io. Also got to meet my Mastodon buddy @Jeremiah. Genuinely nice person! If you happen to be at #APIDays here tomorrow, my talk is at 11:35. Come by, it’ll be fun!
Speaking of #cycling, I had my first near miss with a #car today 😨
I came down a hill on a road where bikes don't have a dedicated cycling lane, ending up into a roundabout. Seeing the roundabout clear for me to enter I did so. I noticed a car coming up towards the next entry of the roundabout at some speed, but it was clear I would be the first to enter.
Unfortunately the car driver clearly either didn't think that was my right to do so or didn't care or was focused on something else than driving. Just as I was passing the point where they enter the roundabout I realized they were not slowing down, with very little possibilities. The car owner slammed on their breaks quite heavily, thus narrowly avoiding hitting me.
My reaction was to pull over to the side of the roundabout. The car happily just drove away without seemingly a second thought. I proceeded to thank them for not running me over with the international finger (yes, mature, I know, but just getting almost run over I wasn't thinking straight). I do hope the driver realized what had almost happened and it makes them pay more attention to the operation of their metal machine of death in the future.
I've cycled a lot, pretty much all of it in the city. Though in #Helsinki we generally have lots of cycling lanes, you still need to mix with the killing machines at times. I count myself lucky this is my first situation where I think it could have been bad.
Excited to be speaking at APIdays Helsinki June 5 & 6 about more secure, resilient, ecological IoT with Leaf Computing.
Apidays Helsinki is the Nordic edition of hugely popular global #APIdays events. The organizers are expecting 500+ participants and the speaker lineup is impressive with leaders from Nordea, OP Financial Group, VW, Deutsche Telekom, Fintraffic, AWS, and AT&T.
Next week I’m going on a tour! First off #Helsinki 🇫🇮 where I’ll #ChaChaCha myself into #APIDays and talk distributed #authorization and #OPA on Tuesday. Then off to #London 🇬🇧 where I will reveal my latest side project at the #CNCF meetup on Wednesday. If you’re anywhere near, let me know as I’d love to meet up 😃
Very happy to have a little growing box on the university campus this summer! I am somewhat cursing the person who decided to grow peppermint in this box last year - it took me about an hour to get rid of the peppermint, but it was a good way to relax.
Now I've planted a mix of seeds and pre-grown plants and I'm going to see what actually grows here. Photos of before and after my afternoon of gardening! :blobfoxbox: :blobfoxflower: #Helsinki#CityFarming
I harvested the first radishes from my growing box today! There's definitely room for some improvement, but I'm really happy with my little tasty radishes and I'm having fun figuring out how to grow things :ablobcathappypaws: #Helsinki#CityFarming
The old fort in #Helsinki harbor has been preserved to maintain the look of 19th century Russian occupation. It's a short ferry ride from old Helsinki and a popular destination for families to visit.
Somebody should talk me out of impulse-buying a Motorola #m86k CPU that I would have no use for, other than putting it in a tray to be used as paperweight around my desktop. Is this what midlife crisis is supposed to be?
Now, I have no idea how to try this thing. None of my computers are m68k, so I suppose the easiest option would ben to do an #askfedi in case there are any #retrocomputing folks in the #Helsinki region with some rig where this could be tested. Probably the most common would be an #Amiga with a suitable accelerator.
If anyone a round wants to meet and allow me to try this CPU in their computer, I would be cool to meet and invite to some drinks and/or snacks in exchange. DMs welcome.
Boosts okay!