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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JA Westenberg<p>My favorite conservative pastime is when they accidentally describe utopia while trying to scare people about socialism</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>
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>
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>
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'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>
Council Estate Media<p>If you would rather have child labour than migrant workers you have a truly broken moral compass</p>
George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽<p>We’re in an era of unbelievable headlines.</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>
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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>
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>
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>
Thomas Zimmer<p>The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn'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>
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>
Randahl Fink<p>A UK reporter asks about Signal gate, and I sense Marjorie Taylor Green is feeling pressured by the scandal.</p><p>See if you can spot it. 😀</p>
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:<p>Everyone who confuses correlation and causation ends up dying... </p><p><strong>:tinfoilcat:</strong></p>
Chu 朱<p>Mastodon is my online echo chamber of people who give a crap about what happens to other people. </p><p>My long inaccessible FB account was my glimpse closer to reality of a world where people DGAF about other people. Endless posts about beach vacations, lunch, new purchases. </p><p>I had to leave FB because it got too much. I preferred to believe that more people were like me. But this is also an illusion.</p><p>I finally understand how concentration camps came to be and how life carried on despite it. My own sibling in the US has told me that things are "pretty normal" where he is. </p><p>I don't see how people around you getting arrested, your government literally building a concentration camp and flying people to foreign lands can be classified as "normal". But he just goes about his business. </p><p>All he cared about was paying less taxes and making money. He will soon discover the cost of 'normal' was having scientists keep track of diseases and prevent their outbreaks, educators toiling to maintain an educated workforce, air traffic controllers keeping planes from falling out of the sky.</p><p>All he ever saw were the dollars that things cost him, not the benefits, direct or indirect. </p><p>As things falls apart, he won't care until it affects him personally. It will be too late. As long as he can keep doing his work, running his business, selling his stuff... it's all "normal"</p><p>But he is a better reflection of "normal" than I am. The army of people who care here are outside the norms. </p><p>And it's the inertia of not caring that allows horrors to go on. The gatekeepers of media will make sure the population continues to care as little as possible. They will keep showing us beach photos and handbag purchases. </p><p>Distributed information sharing like Mastodon will be important in any kind of resistance efforts as the information will still be visible. </p><p>Then the next challenge is getting people who don't think any of this is important to care. You don't need everyone, but enough people. You need people who just want to get to work and do their thing to think that the lives of other people are worthy of caring about.</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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