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user: edward
created: 2007-02-22
karma: 47048

Hello, I'm Edward.

I'm running the Geospatial devroom at FOSDEM.

I build web apps, web scrapers, databases, and search engines. I reverse engineer legacy systems and data formats.

Over the years, I've had the privilege to collaborate with internet luminaries like Aaron Swartz, Brewster Kahle, Ted Nelson, Jason Scott, and John Gilmore.

My contributions span a diverse array of projects, including Wikipedia, Open Library, Wikimedia Commons, Debian, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the Linux kernel, and BusyBox.

I'm on mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@edward

submissions:

Blogging with an LLM Assistant
5 points | 0 comments
China's delivery drivers are its most obvious underclass
6 points | 2 comments
Generic Geonyms: Exploring Wikidata for Crosslinguistic Prototypical Semantics
2 points | 0 comments
Brazil's high-tech voting system is losing voters' trust
3 points | 2 comments
Better WiFi for trains under government plans
3 points | 0 comments
Why did T. rex have tiny arms? Scientists now think they know why
2 points | 0 comments
Secure Boot and Microsoft CA Rollover – a heads-up for distributions
3 points | 0 comments
Photovoltaic
1 points | 0 comments
SilverBullet+ Release
2 points | 0 comments
Traffic meter per ASN without logs
1 points | 0 comments
The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse
60 points | 10 comments
Prepare for an AI Jobs Apocalypse
18 points | 9 comments
America is experiencing a productivity miracle
2 points | 0 comments
'The Economist' Turned This Off-Hand 'Simpsons' Joke into a 20-Year Running Gag
3 points | 0 comments
AI is confronting a supply-chain crunch
3 points | 0 comments
Why your AI assistant is suddenly selling to you
3 points | 0 comments
The stablecoin market has got too stable
2 points | 0 comments
Crypto-miners are quietly colonising computers
4 points | 0 comments
Artificial intelligence is creeping into American lawmaking
1 points | 0 comments
Tim Cook wrote a winning recipe for Apple
2 points | 0 comments
Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war
1 points | 0 comments
AI is the new Oracle of Delphi. That's bad news
1 points | 0 comments
Anthropic's New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms
9 points | 2 comments
Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports
124 points | 118 comments
Sweden Orders Talgo Nighttrains
5 points | 0 comments
Why was a plane too heavy for take-off at Southend Airport?
4 points | 0 comments