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z3z, 17 days ago to UKpolitics

It's hard to get disengaged young people to vote, so well done to the #Tories for giving every 18 year old an incentive.

#ukpol #ukpolitics

z3z, 1 month ago to Plants

Ferns are amazing plants

#ferns #plants #nature #spring

Three fern leaves in the process of unfurling. The green fronds are visible as the leaf unrolls from a tight curl to a regular fern leaf.

Sherifazuhur, 2 months ago to morocco

Cats in Chefchaouen, Morocco via Bayt al-Fann #Caturday @morocco

z3z, 4 months ago to Dragonlance

Made a little #map of #Edinburgh city centre. Data came from #openstreetmap via #QGIS and the rest was done in #inkscape

Honestly didn't realise there was quite so much greenery within the city centre!

#maps #mapmaking #cartography #scotland

malwaretech, 5 months ago to random

A while back I wrote a couple of blog posts about how I think LLMs will be a net negative (at least in the near term), due to the extreme overhyping giving people unrealistic expectations of their ability. The direct result will be an overall degrade in internet usability as people begin flooding platforms with low quality spam that they erroneously believe to be high quality. Previously it was fairly easy to spot someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, but now LLMs enable them to word things convincingly enough to waste the time of even domain experts.

Even now I'm still often surprised by all the creative ways that people are finding to waste other's time. I just saw this post from one of the curl maintainers reporting that they've been receiving nonsense bug bounty reports based on LLM hallucinations, which I imagine is likely due to people trying to automate bug hunting despite lacking the understanding to confirm their finding. They reported that in one case the submission was convincing enough that they went over the code 3 times before coming to the conclusion that no bug existed and the report was likely AI generate.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

RickiTarr, 6 months ago to random

What is a word that you had read, but after hearing it spoken aloud, you realized you were pronouncing completely wrong in your head?

Mine is pretty Embarrassing, and is just one of many!

MISLED! I'm not even sure how to type this out for it to make sense, but it was something like:

Myz-ulled

z3z, 6 months ago to Perth

A map of Perth, Scotland (one of my favourite places).

Gathered the street & building data from #openstreetmap in #QGIS then exported everything into #inkscape and did all the styling there. All vector apart from the parchment texture.

#perth #perthshire #scotland #maps #cartography #mapstodon

dgar, 6 months ago to random

Me: I’ve been bitten by a wolf!

Doctor: Where?

Me: No. Just a normal wolf.

cstross, 6 months ago to random

ARISE, BARON DAVID OF LESSER PIGFUCKING, AND PREPARE TO RETURN TO GOVERNMENT lolsob

z3z, 6 months ago to Scotland

Listed buildings in Scotland by council area.

Made in #inkscape for the #30DayMapChallenge Today's challenge is a choropleth map.

#scotland #maps #history

Edent, 7 months ago to random

Hey friends!

Can you see the symbols between the arrows?

→ 𓇳𓏤𓁛 ←

If not, could you please let me know what device, OS, browser, etc you're using?

THANKS!

z3z, 7 months ago to maps

Had the idea of making a portolan chart for the #30DayMapChallenge Day 7 Navigation.

It turned out... kinda OK... but it was a bit of a last minute scramble and it shows. I want to have another go at properly making one of these at some point down the line. They're such fun maps.

Made in #inkscape with a parchment paper for texture.

#maps #mapmaking #cartography

golgaloth, 7 months ago to design

Ten million dollars to whomsoever made this layout choice. Not from me, of course. I'm broke as fuck.

#design #layout #astronomy #Uranus

z3z, 7 months ago to random

My favourite software @inkscape is 20 years old this month!

They're running a challenge in the Inkscape forum to make something to celebrate this milestone. I did a little research and put together this infographic about the development history of the project.

Lots of fun to make and quite educational too!

#inkscape #infographic

z3z, 8 months ago to photography

Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire, Scotland

#photography #ScotlandPhotography #scotland #dunkeld #perthshire #cathedral #monochrome #blackandwhitephotography

z3z, 8 months ago to Dragonlance

A wee #map of Islay and Jura, made for fun.

My illustration of the Kildalton Cross uses a fairly large amount of "artistic license"...! 🙃

The underlying data came mostly from #openstreetmap via #qgis and everything else was done in #inkscape

#maps #cartography #mapmaking #scotland #hebrides #islay #jura

z3z, 8 months ago to UKpolitics

This is magnificent, though the bit with Liz Truss has mentally scarred me 🫣

Credit to @PoliticsJoe_uk in the other place.

#ChooseLife #ukpol #ukpolitics #trainspotting #toriesout

video/mp4

z3z, 8 months ago to random

Loving yesterday's #xkcd
https://xkcd.com/2832/

#PeopleNotCars

z3z, 9 months ago to Dragonlance

Another wee #map, this time showing the Outer Hebrides, the Western Isles of #Scotland.

Made with #QGIS and #Inkscape with a helping hand from #OpenStreetMap

I had a lot of fun with this one. Hope you like!

#mapmaking #Hebrides #WesternIsles #cartography #maps

z3z, 9 months ago to Dragonlance

Made a little fantasy #map mostly because I liked the font! Made in #inkscape as usual with a little grunge added in #gimp at the end.

#fantasymap #cartography #ArtWithOpenSource #mapmaking

z3z, 9 months ago to maps

Made a little map / infographic thingy about Scotland's forest parks.

Made with a little #QGIS and a whole lot of #Inkscape

#maps #infographic #scotland #forests #cartography #mapmaking

z3z, 10 months ago to Scotland

Made another wee map. Here's the Isle of Arran, off the west coast of Scotland. Made with #QGIS and #inkscape

#scotland #arran #mapmaking #cartography

z3z, 10 months ago to Scotland

Been working some more on my Scottish castles map site.

After receiving some helpful feedback, I've added clustering for the markers so it's less cluttered now. I've also categorised the castles (somewhat). I included sites where there are no/few remains, but they're hidden by default with the option to show via the legend.

Added a few other bits & bobs & am done for now.

https://ScottishCastles.xyz

#scotland #castles #map #gis #python

z3z, 10 months ago to Scotland

I made a thing! Every Scottish castle that's on Wikipedia mapped.

https://ScottishCastles.xyz

I'm neither a coder nor a web developer so this was quite a challenging project for me, but I learned a lot and it was fun.

Just a warning, the map's not great on a mobile because some of the pop-ups are quite large.

#scotland #castle #python #cartography #gis #webdev

z3z, 1 year ago to random

Made a little map today. Haven't done one for a while and it was a lot of fun. Made almost entirely in #Inkscape though I did take it into #Gimp at the end to add a texture layer.

There's no story behind the map, it was just for the fun of it. Drawing is not my forte, ahem, but I love making maps in Inkscape where I can tweak to my heart's content.

Just realised that I forgot to add a compass. And a scale. Oh well, bit late now. 🤷‍♀️

#Map #Maps #Cartography #FantasyMaps #MadeWithInkscape