Barend Köbben

I am a cartographer and geographer with a keen interest in webmapping and online GIS.
I am also interested in train-travel and -modelling.

2025-08-10

@jurishon
Yes, but you can do that with disk based software. Combined with a document on a shared service, keeping local copies while network is unavailable and syncing when possible again. Seperating application and data seems a lost skil 🥺
@maartje

2025-08-10

@maartje
Why "web based"? What's wrong with disk based software (open office) and use the web just for file/data exchange....?

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Randahl Finkrandahl
2025-08-09

If Trump arrests Putin in Alaska and flies him to The Hague, THEN he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

Please spread the word.

2025-08-09

@lewd
How about: st pölten-linz-praha, then @maartje 's european sleeper to Bruxelles, then alsace (maybe via Luxemburg if you have time)..
#tourD'Europe 🤪

2025-08-04

@larstransportworld
I assume you did read why it's so small (and circular)?
It started as a cable-pulled system....!

2025-07-19

Lang leve #nederland: allemaal #PVV stemmen, maar zeiken als je door controles in de file staat....

Grenscontroles veroorzaken vertraging bij vakantiegangers: 'Dit is niet normaal, toch?'

nos.nl/l/2575648
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Barend Köbben boosted:
Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:mwl@io.mwl.io
2025-07-15

WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

wetransfer.com/explore/legal/t

Barend Köbben boosted:
Jurjen Heeck 🍋jurjen_heeck@mastodon.nl
2025-07-13

Another gem..... (via LinkedIn, source unknown)

An eight image meme/cartoon, two columns, four rows.
On each row the left image depicts a presenter asking a question, on the right we see the audience (three similar figures) answering.

Row by row:
"Who are we? - "CEO's!"
"What do we want?" - "AI!"
"AI that does what?" - "We don't know!!!"
"When do we want it?" - "NOW!!!"
Barend Köbben boosted:
camwilsoncamwilson
2025-07-13

everyone talks about ai “assistants” like it’s some whipsmart loyal sidekick, but they’re actually this guy: a scheming, sycophant vizier who whispers delusions in your ear and is actually working for another master

2025-07-03

@jon
Hmmm, strictly speaking also fs does not think it only runs to Brennero - because they stat a departure time! 😁

2025-07-01

@larstransportworld
Uhm... Eupen is in the Ostkantons (german speaking), Gent in Vlaanderen (Vlaams speaking)....

Barend Köbben boosted:
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇straphanger@urbanists.social
2025-06-17

"The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created. Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon."

— Bill Strickland

(Chart: Scientific American)

2025-06-12

@jon
Yes, i stand corrected! Went to work today in the green version of the #CrossBorderRail shirt, lots of positive comments 😁

2025-06-12

@jon
Hurah, a "wadloper"....! Commuted to my first job in one of these....

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2025-06-10

The genius behind MacPaint, HyperCard, and so many other groundbreaking creations has left us. I like to think that Bill Atkinson is now in a better place—one where HyperCard was never discontinued, and its legacy lives on, evolving as it always should have.

#billatkinson #macintosh #hypercard #macpaint #retrocomputing

2025-05-07

@jon
@gravitystorm
Well, so that basically *is* a tram...?

2025-05-04

@Steeph
Vast interessant, maar zit achter paywall....😞💶

2025-05-03

The E11 (former 1099.11) looks like it was built yesterday, instead of 133 years ago.

nostalgiezug at the Mariazellerbahnen pulled by E11 from 1912...!
2025-05-03

#KurvenToot and FensterAuf in the nostalgiezug of the Mariazellerbahnen pulled by E11 from 1912...!

nostalgiezug at the Mariazellerbahnen pulled by E11 from 1912...!
2025-05-03

@lewd
The cut red trains were once NS yellow 'wadlopers' running in the North of the Netherlands....

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