keverets @keverets@librem.one

Ocean temperatures are off the charts right now, and scientists are alarmed. So many species harmed, more energy in the weather system, and more glacial melting. I’m worried that everyone is underestimating the pace of sea level rise. 😱 https://apple.news/ArTsirfhPSMqmHFhSche-TA

We are analyzing #openstreetmap community communication behaviors and will present our findings at #sotmus. Want to help? Take this quick, anonymous survey to tell us if and how you use the #osm forum, mailing lists, social media and other channels. Thanks! https://forms.gle/Ez6xUkKcvmJNB6Rs5

"Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis .com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to"

Microsoft secretly tracks people across myriads of websites/apps via pixel. Now it was caught tracking them directly in the browser, by default. Wild.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy

We’re part of an open letter asking the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill to protect end-to-end encryption and respect privacy.

Read the letter here: https://element.io/blog/the-uks-online-safety-bill-undermines-everyones-safety

As a major lawsuit is threatening @internetarchive we want to highlight the valuable work they do to ensure universal and free access to information. From 'controlled digital lending' to preserving banned and rare books, learn more here:
📚 http://blog.archive.org/2021/02/11/mythbusting-controlled-digital-lending-community-rallies-to-fight-misinformation-about-the-library-practice/ Join us in solidarity to defend the internet archive. #DigitalRightsForLibraries

NPR quits Twitter: This feels like a milestone in the quick moving disaster of Musk's Twitter. Also, well written article.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label
#journalism #elonmusk #twitter #musk #npr #-

“Simulations suggest that the extensive Copenhagen bicycle lane network has caused the number of bicycle trips and the bicycle kilometers traveled to increase by 60% and 90%, respectively, compared with a counterfactual without the bicycle lane network.

This translates into an annual benefit of €0.4M per km of bicycle lane owing to changes in generalized travel cost, health, and accidents.”

-> Those bikelanes have a payback time of a few years!
#dktrp #dkgreen https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220515120

Pixelfed is a photo sharing social network, the Fediverse's alternative to Instagram.

You can find out more from the official website at:

➡️ https://pixelfed.org

The site has a server list and app list (click ☰ if you're on mobile).

The official @pixelfed apps are in public beta testing, and there are third party Pixelfed apps available such as @vernissage for iPhone and @PixelDroid for Android.

You can follow Pixelfed accounts from Mastodon, and Mastodon accounts from Pixelfed.

#WireGuard becomes the first VPN app on #FDroid to be built reproducibly! This means that WireGuard on F-Droid is now guaranteed to be 100% (bit-by-bit) equal to the WireGuard the developer builds.

If you're using WireGuard from F-Droid, please export your tunnels and re-install to switch to the developer's signature and continue receiving updates.

More details in the official WireGuard announcement: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2023-April/008045.html

New to reproducible builds? Check out https://f-droid.org/en/2023/01/15/towards-a-reproducible-fdroid.html

This 3d-printed bike is absolutely bonkers, but I think the core takeaway from this video is that everyone should have somebody in their life who says their name the way Ollie Bridgewood says "aero".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b467hK1cmU

We're looking for help to build a wireless, solar-powered chat network across the Philly area! Are you interested in learning about off-grid solar power? Do you have a sunny place on your roof, in your yard, or near an upstairs window where you can leave a small radio transceiver? This workshop may be for you!

Each participant will receive a free kit with all the parts needed to build a solar-powered LoRa radio node. You'll assemble the kit, mount it in a weatherproof enclosure (provided by you), and use the Meshtastic app to start sending encrypted text messages.

Registration opens Monday, April 3rd at 8:30 p.m. You can sign up on our site:
https://iffybooks.net/event/solar-chat-network

Supplies for this workshop are provided by a grant from the Engaged Humanities Studio at Swarthmore College. Many thanks to @pixouls for helping plan the event!

Pine64's $70 RISC-V Computer Goes on Sale April 4 https://www.omglinux.com/star64-is-a-risc-v-single-board-pc/ #opensource #hardware #riscv

"What on Earth!"

A 1966 animated short from the National Film Board of Canada which looks at car culture from the POV of Martians, who conclude that automobiles are Earth's true inhabitants.

Nominated for an Academy Award.

#TheWarOnCars #WhatOnEarth #animation #cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFaHArkYLsM

The thing that drives me nutso about climate change is that many of the necessary changes could be awesome. A society with more leisure time, cleaner air, closer connections to friends and family who live nearer to you, more exercise, more technological innovation, more jobs, more fairness, more nature… most people would benefit from these changes.

A few weeks ago I wrote about how viral Mastodon posts get hundreds of replies, but most people can see only a small fraction of those replies, and bad UX results. Here’s a solution for folks running smaller Mastodon servers. https://fedi.aeracode.org/@andrew/110029009466041431

@eighthave that sounds nicely put: Android used open source as a TOOL to get developers on board, and now that everyone is on board, is increasingly hostile to open source and has largely abandoned AOSP apps and functionality that they can replace with the Google Mobile Services "ecosystem". Additionally, SafetyNet (now Play Protect) lets developers "optionally" lock out people who exercise their right to modify free software (such as their OS)... and still actually run it.

An analysis of 100+ studies finds that social media is a major cause of mental illness in teen girls, not just a tiny correlate, especially after 2012 (Jon Haidt/After Babel)

https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-illness-epidemic
http://www.techmeme.com/230223/p14#a230223p14

The bundling video streaming services are rapidly becoming indistinguishable from the cable services' behaviors that inspired so-called "cord cutters" cancelling cable TV services in preference for Internet-only services.

Prices keep going up as they include more and more "niche" channels with small viewerships, that nobody would pay for if they weren't forced to as the price of receiving the channels that they actually want to see. This often includes forcing sports channels on people who loathe sports channels.

For a recent story, instead of Mapbox, The Post used OpenMapTiles, Maputnik, PMTiles, and MapLibre to produce interactive web maps.

https://www.kschaul.com/post/2023/02/16/how-the-post-is-replacing-mapbox-with-open-source-solutions/