Join us for a fireside chat with @flexlibris, ED of @LibraryFreedom, on January 7th as we discuss the growing risk of academic surveillance. https://www.eff.org/event/home-and-campus-eff
As 2021's crackdowns on monopoly proceed, lawmakers, courts, and regulators will be looking for solutions. We think competitive compatibility should be in their toolkits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/competitive-compatibility-year-review
Do you play #MapRoulette?
MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving #OpenStreetMap in one very specific way. Do you want to add pedestrian crossings? Fix bridges? Add opening times for shops? There’s a challenge for it.
Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does. Here's a handy primer. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/section-230-good-actually
I finally used a screwdriver and un- and replugged a few cables:
https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/70e4e4bb-291e-42eb-aca7-804763e839ff
Wow, that's a very impressive DIY skills making a tripod for a cycle with a good angle to take street level photos
When my grandkids ask me one day why i stopped being friends with @popey all those years ago, i'm going tho show them this tweet and they're gonna cry.
2020 may have felt like a long year, but it was nothing for Neptune. A year on the ice giant lasts the equivalent of 165 Earth years.
#planetarysociety
With #MapComplete, you can create your own contribution theme to easily add data to #OpenStreetMap. It’s a crossover of #StreetComplete and #MapContrib: as easy to use as StreetComplete, but focused on a single subject (e.g. nature, bicycle infrastructure, ...).
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVbFrNVPxPw
- Project: https://github.com/pietervdvn/MapComplete
- Wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/MapComplete
I hope the move to more #GreenEnergy energy will seriously hurt oil companies.
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/22/946716058/big-oil-evaded-regulation-and-plastic-pellets-kept-spilling
Hashtags can be difficult for blind people's screen readers, because the reading software may have trouble telling the words apart in the tag.
✅ You can make hashtags screen reader friendly by using "CamelCase", where each word in the tag begins with a capital letter.
For example, #DogsOfMastodon is fine but #dogsofmastodon may cause problems.
#FediTips #MastoTips #Accessibility #A11y #Hashtags #ScreenReaders
This person being born Vietnamese in Ohio, discovering a love of maps, surviving racism, and becoming a major contributor to #openstreetmap is a worthwhile read:
The CASE Act, Hidden in the Coronavirus Relief Bill, Is Just the Beginning of the Next #Copyright Battle https://www.activistpost.com/2020/12/the-case-act-hidden-in-the-coronavirus-relief-bill-is-just-the-beginning-of-the-next-copyright-battle.html
Join me in celebrating 30 years of defending privacy and free expression online! If you donate to #EFF before 2021, you'll help them receive additional challenge grants, too. There has never been a more crucial time to support an open and accessible Internet, fight censorship, end mass surveillance, defend the use of strong encryption, and oppose nonsense: https://eff.org/year-end
From the new FSF Bulletin (https://u.fsf.org/37z): Professor Christian Grothoff introduces the first free software payment system, GNU Taler! https://u.fsf.org/386
Holy moly, Owncast is really taking off with the 0.0.3 release!
Almost 1000 stars in a single day for https://github.com/owncast/owncast 🙊
Hackernews front page, #1 on several sub-reddits: r/selfhosted, r/golang, ... awesome stuff!
Someone even started streaming public domain movies 24/7 on their Owncast instance: https://movies.shiftpop.com/
Check out the Owncast directory to find more instances: https://directory.owncast.online/
What are the Holidays without Hot Boozy Drinks? And this is SO EASY! https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/392e427d-b4c2-4577-a128-a7c35f121751
ICE SSBs on the PinePhone! https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/f860ffc4-769c-4506-8ee6-45a21f1c67ce
Linux and Openstreetmap enthusiast