https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2023-03-23T11:37:03+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/11yw4z4/from_20172022_the_vatican_flag_svg_on_wikimedia/ jmIn 2017 a Wikimedia Commons user changed the inside of the tiara to red because that's how it appears on the Vatican Coat of Arms. But this assumption turned out to be faulty, because the official flag spec sheet uses different colors than the Coat of Arms. The mistake was quickly noticed by an anonymous IP who wrote an extensive and well-researched explanation of the error on the file's talk page. Unfortunately, nobody read it, and the mistake lived on for 5 years before another user noticed it and reverted the file. ]]> wikipedia wikimedia commons vatican flags oops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:224c18ce802e/ 2022-01-01T13:22:00+00:00 https://www.kiwix.org/en/about/ jmAn offline reader for [...] Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks. It makes knowledge available to people with no or limited internet access. The software as well as the content is free to use for anyone. Will run on an Android phone, and is used by 'more than 4 million users in 200 countries', which is pretty impressive.]]> kiwix developing-world wikipedia project-gutenberg compression apps mobile tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ff6dbe8f5b8d/ 2020-02-11T11:10:14+00:00 https://twitter.com/kentbye/status/1227038117682532352 jm polyfill because video codec patents are a pain for folks committed to fully open source stacks. ogv.js implements Ogg Vorbis/Opus/Theora audio & WebM VP8/VP9/AV1 video. https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/']]> ogv.js ogv webassembly wasm wikipedia polyfills standards video patents https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f391dbbdacb3/ 2019-04-25T08:32:29+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/bgyfet/til_theres_a_wikipedia_editor_called/ jm This comment over on /r/dataisbeautiful and this one both by /u/shy-talk is where I first heard of him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Britishfinance He seems to have started last year and of course peppers in plenty of non-controversial contributions too but he's definitely determined to paint Ireland as negatively as possible with regards to our financial and tax regulations. Some articles he's created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun_economics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_on_the_green_jersey There's actually so many articles where he goes out of his way to make Ireland look bad there's no point trying to list them ]]> ireland politics taxation britishfinance abuse wikipedia finance propaganda uk-politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bd641aa4e0d6/ 2017-03-06T10:06:06+00:00 http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/ jmOne more interesting way to visualize the codespace is to look at the distribution of usage—in other words, how often each code point is actually used in real-world texts. Below is a heat map of planes 0–2 based on a large sample of text from Wikipedia and Twitter (all languages). Frequency increases from black (never seen) through red and yellow to white. You can see that the vast majority of this text sample lies in the BMP, with only scattered usage of code points from planes 1–2. The biggest exception is emoji, which show up here as the several bright squares in the bottom row of plane 1. ]]> unicode coding character-sets wikipedia bmp emoji twitter languages characters heat-maps dataviz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b1e8c56fedbf/ 2016-05-03T09:45:47+00:00 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-being-surveilled-by-piracy-police jmThe Wikimedia Foundation told me last month that it has been aware of people using Wikipedia Zero for file sharing for about a year, and says that there are no plans to pull out of any countries because of piracy. But that hasn’t stopped rogue Wiki users from suggesting it anyway, and members of the task force have gotten Wikimedia Bangladesh to plead with the pirates to stop contributing to an “increasingly negative perception of Bangladesh in many different sectors.” ]]> wikipedia wikimedia bangladesh filesharing piracy wikipedia-zero copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:05a36f7e8369/ 2016-03-23T22:10:30+00:00 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angola-pirates-zero-rating jmWikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So, naturally, Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network in a country where mobile internet data is extremely expensive. ]]> facebook piracy africa hacks wikipedia angola internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87d4a1efc942/ 2015-04-13T13:49:13+00:00 http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/04/13/sirius-an-open-end-to-end-voice-and-vision-personal-assistant-and-its-implications-for-future-warehouse-scale-computers/ jm sirius siri cortana google-now echo ok-google ipa assistants search video audio speech papers clarity nlp wikipedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:75d010665eec/ 2014-08-27T21:27:37+00:00 http://www.wikilovesmonuments.ie/ jm Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo contest, organised by Wikimedia [...]. This year, the Wikimedia Ireland Community are running the competition for the very first time in Ireland. The contest is inspired by the successful 2010 pilot in the Netherlands which resulted in 12,500 freely licensed images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. It has grown substantially since its inception; in 2013 369,589 photographs were submitted by 11,943 participants from over 50 countries. Cultural heritage is an important part of the knowledge that Wikipedia collects and disseminates. An image is worth a thousand words, in any language and local enthusiasts can (re)discover the cultural, historical, or scientific significance of their neighbourhood. The Irish contest, focussing on Ireland’s national monuments, runs from August 23 - September 30. Follow our step-by-step guide to find out how you can take part.]]> wikipedia wikimedia images monuments history ireland contests creative-commons licensing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1d8afc9cf274/ 2014-05-29T13:12:57+00:00 http://www.robscanlon.com/encom-boardroom/ jm demo github wikipedia dataviz visualisation mapping globes rob-scanlan graphics html5 animation tron-legacy tron movies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:69cfc4c41174/ 2012-06-21T09:25:18+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram jm scram nuclear reactor history etymology words shutdown emergency wikipedia 1942 science acronyms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:393b19925761/ 2012-05-25T14:54:33+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud jm copyright rights ip fraud copyfraud wikipedia words terminology neologisms dmca infringement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4fa0d3e0b23e/ 2012-01-07T09:36:53+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph jm words language history objects ornament design wikipedia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c22d6375369e/ 2011-03-15T13:45:55+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor) jm corium nuclear-power disasters nuclear radioactive wikipedia meltdown https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:37db1310615f/ 2011-03-03T13:46:25+00:00 http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/02/old-man-murray-deleted-from-wikipedia/ jm wikipedia deletionpedia deletion gaming history old-man-murray web community asshats https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5c150993766a/ 2011-02-15T21:33:33+00:00 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fkt7t/nemerle_factor_alice_ml_and_other_programming/ jm wiki bitdecay wikipedia deletion deletionpedia reddit comments thread discussion moderation community neologisms https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d103de10a9f3/ 2011-01-13T17:17:46+00:00 http://jimblackler.net/blog/?p=209 jm games puzzles quiz movies wikipedia https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:486b5247dfe5/ 2010-09-13T09:04:05+00:00 http://dashes.com/anil/2010/09/forking-is-a-feature.html jm community development forking github git opensource tumblr dribbble forrst wikipedia https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d85c71d2a5e9/