OSCOM Day 3
I had to give a talk at 9.15, the first slot of the day. It went alright, but I had the feeling that some attendees decided to sleep in. I went to the "Legal Issues" talk by Rolf Auf Der Maur, who was talking about legal issues and risk for developing Open Source; it was kinda interesting, but he made me a bit sad by saying that "Anti-Patent Activists" have no chance of winning the war here in Europe. But the discussion that followed concluded that the "activists" will definitely have an impact on how Software Patents will be implemented here in Europe.
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Derick, I never understood the problem with software patents. Can you explain how a software patent will affect the open source community?
Simple: take a few large corporations who go out and file a million broadly-written patents on stuff like taxonomies, online editing, content repositories etc. They threaten to use these against each other in a brinkmanship style environment. Business as usual.
Enter Joe Open-Source Developer, who comes up with some cool ideas on his own about a CMS. His ideas "infringe" on said patents. This is irrelevant UNTIL the open source project becomes really popular and everyone's downloading it and no-longer buying FacelessCorps' product for a squillion dollars.
So they file a civil suit against Joe and sue him into oblivion, and make the ISP take down his project, and rape his pet hampster while they're at it.
Patents are all about CONTROL, same as laws.
Now here's where you go form a band and write some Rage Against the Machine Style lyrics!
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TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
I hiked 9.8km in 3h40m47s
Updated a restaurant
Updated a vacant business
I walked 7.1km in 1h16m56s
I walked 3.9km in 45m56s
I walked 1.1km in 10m47s
I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
#eclipse #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #London #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Photography
No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
#london #eclipse2026 #eclipse #photography
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Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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I walked 3.0km in 1h10m24s
Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
Updated a crossing
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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I walked 9.1km in 1h34m28s
Updated a gate
Updated a bakery shop
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