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Join us for a fireside chat with @flexlibris, ED of @LibraryFreedom, on January 7th as we discuss the growing risk of academic surveillance. eff.org/event/home-and-campus-

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. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/comp

Do you play #MapRoulette?

maproulette.org/

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. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/sect

Wow, that's a very impressive DIY skills making a tripod for a cycle with a good angle to take street level photos

openstreetmap.org/user/tordans

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.

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: youtube.com/watch?v=nVbFrNVPxP
- Project: github.com/pietervdvn/MapCompl
- Wiki: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ma

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

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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:

notes.1ec5.org/archives/2020/0

Join me in celebrating 30 years of defending privacy and free expression online! If you donate to 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: eff.org/year-end

From the new FSF Bulletin (u.fsf.org/37z): Professor Christian Grothoff introduces the first free software payment system, GNU Taler! 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 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: movies.shiftpop.com/

Check out the Owncast directory to find more instances: directory.owncast.online/

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