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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>
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>
JA Westenberg<p>My favorite conservative pastime is when they accidentally describe utopia while trying to scare people about socialism</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>
Jeff Jarvis<p>The Nazis hid their concentration camps. These fascists hold photo ops in theirs.</p>
Council Estate Media<p>If you would rather have child labour than migrant workers you have a truly broken moral compass</p>
iFixit<p>Ever ordered a replacement part online, only to find it doesn’t fit your device?</p><p>We’re excited to introduce the Device Compatibility Checker, taking the guesswork out of finding the right part!</p><p>It&#39;s live on our store pages, and you can read more about it here: <a href="https://www.ifixit.com/News/108469/no-more-parts-guesswork-with-ifixits-device-compatibility-checker" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ifixit.com/News/108469/no-more</span><span class="invisible">-parts-guesswork-with-ifixits-device-compatibility-checker</span></a><br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iFixit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>iFixit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/repair" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>repair</span></a></p>
J. L. Westover<p>Secret Panel HERE 😌 <a href="https://tapas.io/episode/3483461" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tapas.io/episode/3483461</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></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>
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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>
Tim Chase<p>A = IPv4 DNS record<br>AA = battery size<br>AAA = automobile association<br>AAAA = IPv6 DNS record<br>AAAAA = me yelling about DNS issues</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>
Thomas Zimmer<p>The &quot;Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!&quot; discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn&#39;t meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/114234078752622532" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/11</span><span class="invisible">4234078752622532</span></a></p>
Henrik Schönemann<p>I'm looking for work opportunities for a good friend from (&amp; in) the USA, who got fired very recently because of the ongoing budget cuts.</p><p>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.<br>She has been working in those fields for &gt;4 years.<br> <br>Best would be remote work, starting this summer.<br>(I don't have more information right now)</p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GetFediHired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GetFediHired</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>&lt;- 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 &amp; run by an immoral &amp; unethical bigot.</p><p>DO NOT USE BRAVE.</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>
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:<p>Everyone who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying... </p><p><strong>:tinfoilcat:</strong></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>