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GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

Wow – didn’t think I’d be in tears today, but this message sent home from Gaia as it was shut down forever today hits hard

What you’re seeing is a map of the 106 CCD detectors that Gaia used to measure the positions of billions of stars in the Milky Way for the past 11 years

They were turned off in a special sequence …

The Nazis hid their concentration camps. These fascists hold photo ops in theirs.

If you would rather have child labour than migrant workers you have a truly broken moral compass

I have been playing with a new term: "slop huckster"

A slop huckster is more than someone who likes to play with generative AI, or has some arguments for why they've been able to use it productively

Slop hucksters argue that generative AI means you should stop doing creative and productive things, kind of likes to rub it in your face that they can make creative persuits useless

The attitudes of slop hucksters resemble incels, a kind destructive bitterness stemming from jealousy

Miyazaki is right. The latest version of OpenAI‘s image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images on social media that have been transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli, the legendary Japanese animation studio.

16 Googly-Eyed Street Art Gems That I Love: https://streetartutopia.com/googly-eye-street-art-bulgaria/

Crisis Alert

Trump Administration in Secretive Nationwide Roundup of Students

Bypassing the courts and the police, without charging any crimes, ICE agents are snatching students—legal US residents—from their homes and from the street, based on suspicions or accusation about their political beliefs. Arrests are made secretively, with no warning or public record. Detainees are sent to prisons or camps unknown, without access to attorneys.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/us/rumeysa-ozturk-detained-what-we-know/index.html

https://thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/ua-student-reportedly-detained-by-ice/

My favorite conservative pastime is when they accidentally describe utopia while trying to scare people about socialism

Using AI image generators to create Ghibli style images just shows that you neither respect those pieces of art and their creators as well as not understanding their message of the importance of humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

I have resigned as a reviewer for the Royal Society. I encourage others to do the same.

Dear editors,

Today I saw some news about the Royal Society which made me very uncomfortable. As a result, I am afraid I will withdraw my voluntary reviewing work for Royal Society. I will not after all be completing this review for Royal Society Open Science.

[The rest of the letter: http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2025/letter-to-royal-society-about-reviewing-and-code-of-conduct.html]

Ihr wollt endlich souveräne Zahlungsmethoden wie die Echtzeitüberweisung statt Paypal?

Ich habe euch einmal aufgeschrieben, warum es nicht hilfreich ist, die Funktionen von guten (nicht europäischen) Produkten zu kopieren und dabei die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu ignorieren.

Außer natürlich, zu diesen europäischen Werte zählt, dass wir die Risiken, welche u.a. von hoch professionellen Betrügern ausgehen, individualisieren.

https://paymentandbanking.com/warum-die-echtzeitueberweisung-eine-steilvorlage-fuer-betruegerinnen-ist/

27 March 1937 | An Italian Jewish girl, Sara Gesess, was born in Padua.

She was deported to #Auschwitz in August 1944, where she was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Why I recommend against Brave

https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/

<- this is serious. Said it before, I will say it again. Do not use the Brave browser. It is a corrupt product which is insecure, repeatedly steals from others, founded & run by an immoral & unethical bigot.

DO NOT USE BRAVE.

Vanity Fair - “When VOA’s millions of viewers and listeners from around the world tuned in, they either got dead air or music on a loop. It reminded VOA veteran Steve Herman of covering coups abroad.” https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism

I'm looking for work opportunities for a good friend from (& in) the USA, who got fired very recently because of the ongoing budget cuts.

She is majoring in computer engineering, though also has a variety of experience in software dev, cybersecurity, hardware security, embedded reverse engineering, and a couple other things.
She has been working in those fields for >4 years.

Best would be remote work, starting this summer.
(I don't have more information right now)

We usually crosspost to Twitter and Bluesky. Today's thread is less relevant here, which is non-algorithmic. Nevertheless, we're gonna crosspost here to remind you of how good we have it here...
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