I will try and reach out to Torbay Community Builders to see if anyone else can help or recruit volunteers to help with the project, as local knowledge is really essential for accuracy on where places are etc.
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Open Street Map
Online collaborative project creating a world geographic database
There are lots of ways to help with this project. Local knowledge is key to accuracy, if you sign up, find your local area you can add notes to the map or resolve others. I have been doing this for the Torbay Area.
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SES participates in replacement for Ukraine’s Starlink network
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Another Trudeau speech
Great speech from the Canadian PM on the “DUMB” tariffs impost by Trump. This was a few days ago, due to my post scheduling.
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USA Votes against a UN resolution for a day of hope.
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The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s
I am sharing this as it appears the main media outlets are NOT reporting this.
The US is ending support for Ukrainian F-16s, but there is a way out The USA is meant to be our Friend and Ally, clearly given recent activity it is anything BUT this.
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TeX Live 2025
Tex Live is due for release today, 8th March 2025. Please see their website for updates.
This will no longer fit on a standard size DVD (4.7gb) you can create a USB stick from the image. If possible please try and use a torrent client as this reduces the pressure on the HTTP servers.
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Tinkerers Meeting – March 2025
The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on Saturday 22nd March 2025. Please see their website for more details and a write-up of the May Meeting.
We meet at:-
STEAM Cafe, 13 Torbay Road
11am to 13:00
Possible topics
Dragster Race Car update
Fixing IR robot car – This should now be fixed
To give you an idea of what we have been up to, please see the write-up from Feb 2025
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