🚀 After 18 years on Ubuntu, we've upgraded the @openstreetmap servers to Debian 12 (Bookworm). 🌍 https://www.openstreetmap.org/ is now faster using Ruby 3.1. Onward to new mapping adventures! Thank you to the team for the smooth transition. #OpenStreetMap #Debian 🤓
And thank you for all your amazing, thoughtful feedback to my article from yesterday where I compared Big Tech to Big Food and described the Fediverse as a healthy home cooked meal.
I will reply to all your comments later, as soon as my little one is back in nursery school 😅
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/
Jag spoilar härmed hela min krönka som kommer på fredag i ETC Nyhetsmagasin.
TLDR;
Hej! Jag är ny här. Skriver nog mest om Rågsved och politik. Men också lite av varje som jag tycker är intressant, tankar för dagen helt enkelt. #introduktion #Spejset
"How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world"
Carole Cadwalladr
"12 Don’t buy the bullshit. A Securities and Exchange judgment found Facebook had lied to two journalists – one of them was me – and Facebook agreed to pay a $100m penalty. If you are a journalist, refuse off the record briefings. Don’t chat on the phone; email. Refuse access interviews. Bullshit exclusives from Goebbels 2.0 will be a stain on your publication for ever."
Accepted stands https://fosdem.org/2025/news/2024-11-16-stands-announced/
I've posted about this before but this is why I'm so FLOSS pilled these days. when all software is broken, it is simply practical and pragmatic to use software you can fix yourself
Newsletter: A message to those asking “what do I do now?” How to protect yourselves, and how to fight.
Mozilla has a "what should we focus on?" survey where you can encourage them to focus on privacy, the open web, disinformation or open source.
Just in case anyone feels like adding another "NOT THE FUCKING AI, YOU IDIOTS" voice to the mix.
Den brittiska tidningen The Guardian slutar att posta på X
"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x
Jag har inte jättemånga följare här (än), men ändå:
Om ni inte visste det så jobbar jag på en tidskrift aom heter Forskning & Framsteg. Den innehåller allt möjligt för den som är intresserad av världen omkring sig. (Bland annat fina biologireportage som jag är rädd att de inte blir så lästa som de förtjänar.) Själv är jag kosmosredaktör!
Det är smidigt att följa allt som publiceras på webbplatsen genom att rss-flödet importeras till @fof!
Finally declaring victory in my little pump repair project. Gårdspump Nr. 12 back in business -- water is flowing again! #ShotonLibrem5
still pressing on in my quest to dump big tech and turn my back on billionaires, no matter how miniscule a difference it makes, here is another great resource: a catalog of "ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software." it even includes a list of alternatives to itself. (thank you @x_tof) https://switching.software/
Come visit Arnavion, @anjan and I at the #postmarketos table today and tomorrow during #seagl2024 ! 🥳
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