Organic Maps<p>GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@forgejo" class="u-url mention">@<span>forgejo</span></a></span>). </p><p>Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:</p><p>- 54k commits<br />- 9.5k issues<br />- 4.3k pull requests<br />- 100k comments</p><p>Everything moved. Nothing left behind.</p><p><a href="https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/orga</span><span class="invisible">nicmaps</span></a></p>
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CryptPad<p>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: <a href="https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unite.un.org/news/sixteen-orga</span><span class="invisible">nizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles</span></a></p><p>CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.</p><p>Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Forms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forms</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Studies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Studies</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>
Mark McCaughrean<p>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 😭</p><p>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 🛰️✨</p><p>They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpaceScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Council Estate Media<p>If you would rather have child labour than migrant workers you have a truly broken moral compass</p>
Jeff Jarvis<p>The Nazis hid their concentration camps. These fascists hold photo ops in theirs.</p>
Christine Lemmer-Webber<p>I have been playing with a new term: "slop huckster"</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>The attitudes of slop hucksters resemble incels, a kind destructive bitterness stemming from jealousy</p>
nixCraft 🐧<p>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.</p>
Street Art Utopia<p>16 Googly-Eyed Street Art Gems That I Love: <a href="https://streetartutopia.com/googly-eye-street-art-bulgaria/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">streetartutopia.com/googly-eye</span><span class="invisible">-street-art-bulgaria/</span></a></p>
James Gleick 🇺🇦<p>Crisis Alert</p><p>Trump Administration in Secretive Nationwide Roundup of Students</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/us/rumeysa-ozturk-detained-what-we-know/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/us/</span><span class="invisible">rumeysa-ozturk-detained-what-we-know/index.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/ua-student-reportedly-detained-by-ice/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/new</span><span class="invisible">s/ua-student-reportedly-detained-by-ice/</span></a></p>
tante<p>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.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKR</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a></p>
Dan Stowell<p>I have resigned as a reviewer for the Royal Society. I encourage others to do the same.</p><p>Dear editors,</p><p>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.</p><p>[The rest of the letter: <a href="http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2025/letter-to-royal-society-about-reviewing-and-code-of-conduct.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">mcld.co.uk/blog/2025/letter-to</span><span class="invisible">-royal-society-about-reviewing-and-code-of-conduct.html</span></a>]</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/royalsociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>royalsociety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elonmusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>elonmusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reviewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reviewing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>academicchatter</span></a></p>
Lilith Wittmann<p>Ihr wollt endlich souveräne Zahlungsmethoden wie die Echtzeitüberweisung statt Paypal?</p><p>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. </p><p>Außer natürlich, zu diesen europäischen Werte zählt, dass wir die Risiken, welche u.a. von hoch professionellen Betrügern ausgehen, individualisieren.</p><p><a href="https://paymentandbanking.com/warum-die-echtzeitueberweisung-eine-steilvorlage-fuer-betruegerinnen-ist/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paymentandbanking.com/warum-di</span><span class="invisible">e-echtzeitueberweisung-eine-steilvorlage-fuer-betruegerinnen-ist/</span></a></p>
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Vagina Museum<p>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...<br>__<br>If you can read this, you probably have your timeline set to chronological posts from accounts you follow. Basic anatomical information is subjected to online censorship. Our posts are frequently shadowbanned or slapped with content filters. Help us break through the silence <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">gofundme.com/f/btscc2</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Vivaldi<p>Official announcement: We’ve partnered with Proton VPN to help you break free from Big Tech!</p><p><a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/privacy-without-compromise-proton-vpn-is-now-built-into-vivaldi/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vivaldi.com/blog/privacy-witho</span><span class="invisible">ut-compromise-proton-vpn-is-now-built-into-vivaldi/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Proton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Proton</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vivaldi</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ProtonVPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtonVPN</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a></p>
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Steve Herman<p>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.” <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vanityfair.com/news/story/trum</span><span class="invisible">p-press-freedom-authoritarianism</span></a></p>
Rules-based Genocide 😷
jonny (good kind)<p>Fascism is an alliance between the state and capital, and it is the role of the state to arrange a managerial role for capital over the planet. LetsEncrypt costs less than a million dollars to make the web as we know it possible to exist on for anyone that isn't a gigantic corporation. the only reason one would attack systems like LetsEncrypt, F-Droid, etc. is to consolidate an oligopoly. LetsEncrypt is used by some unbelievable share of the internet, <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/stats/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">600 million websites</a> which is in the neighborhood of <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/ssl_certificate" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">~60% of websites with an SSL certificate</a>. Using the state to intervene with some flimsy pretext to recapture the profit of forcing 600 million people and organizations to fork it over to the Most Favored Capitalist is the driver behind the wheel of fascism. same as private prisons, same as tariff-driven price shocks, same as private postal service, and so on.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114224434946164202" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114224434</span><span class="invisible">946164202</span></a></p>
lproven<p>Why I recommend against Brave </p><p><a href="https://thelibre.news/no-really-dont-use-brave/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thelibre.news/no-really-dont-u</span><span class="invisible">se-brave/</span></a> </p><p><- 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.</p><p>DO NOT USE BRAVE.</p>
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