choutos @choutos@qoto.org

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

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 😭

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 🛰️✨

They were turned off in a special sequence … 😕

#SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science

#XSF Announcement

Today the #XMPP Standards Foundation publishes an Open Letter to urge #Meta to adopt XMPP for messaging #interoperability.

It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen.

https://xmpp.org/announcements/open-letter-meta-dma/

#jabber #chat #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #standard #dma

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open source project called Rayhunter. It is designed to run on an inexpensive (~$20) mobile hotspot and look for signs of mobile spying devices called cell-site simulators. Also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, they masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones w/in a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

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Got insights? DM me to arrange a video call or boost / forward to people who might help us.

We are more than 20 experienced professionals from EU and Canada. We can help. Tell us how?

#softwaredevelopment #freesoftware #sysops #cybersecurity #compliance #data #advocacy #ITeducation #digitalsovereignity

Would you be interested in starting a cooperative business helping 🇪🇺 European companies and organizations migrate away from ⛓️‍💥 cloud platforms from USA? Let's talk 💬 If you think someone in your network might, please boost 🙏

#Europe #EU #Cooperative #DigitalSovereignty

@pluralistic Concentration of power is the disease and "consumer welfare" style anti-trust is the infection point. But now it's metastasised to include no meaningful privacy, regulatory capture, Citizens United etc.

The US needs meaningful anti-trust but how can that be achieved when politicians and agencies are bought and paid for. Even Biden didn't prioritize this meta policy except for the very meaningful appointment of Linda Khan.

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/

#Pluralistic

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In case you missed the great piece on turning the tables on the parasites who are using #disruption to run this whole shooting match, from @pluralistic

“The US companies that could be disrupted thanks to the Trump tariffs are directly implicated in the rise of Trumpism...”

[A SUPER list of #counterdisruption tactics linked out, there]

"That's how you hurt Musk – not by being performatively aghast at his Nazi salutes. You kick that guy right in the dongle...”

#teslaTakedown #overthrowMusk

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play

Don’t know the author, but it’s great. #us #usa #trump

Did you know that instead of using the Windows Linux Subsystem you can actually just install Linux on it's own and then you don't have to use Windows at all?

#Windows #Linux #wsl

With 1 #transistor, I can make an inverter, a switch, or a not-very-good amplifier.

With 2 transistors, I can make a differential amplifier, a cascode, or a latch.

With 3 transistors, I can make a fairly good (Wilson) current mirror, or a Lorenz chaotic system.

20,000 transistors made a #computer that navigated spacecraft to the Moon and back.

But 10,000,000,000 transistors make a computer that's brought to its knees if it tries to interpret the Javascript used to load one #ad on a web page.

I think I am going to have all my pants convrted to support button-based suspenders!

My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Indie bookstores can change your life. In 2007, I wandered into NYC's St Marks' Bookstore (RIP) and picked up a book from the recommended table: "How to Cheat at Everything," by Simon Lovell (RIP), and I learned how to spot a scam. It's a skill I use every day, especially when analyzing how corporate America works the US government:

https://memex.craphound.com/2007/02/02/how-to-cheat-at-everything/

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Are you a software maintainer? Please upload your releases with source code to https://archive.org/details/software and make this a part of your release process. This will ensure that anyone wanting to use your software in the future will be able to find it. Please boost.

Remember, if you've used a technology since 2009, you can now claim your experience "spans three decades" (00's, 10's, 20's) even if you're just in your 20's now.

So some scammer on FB just tried to tell me if I invest 1500$ in their system I'll have 15000$ in 4 days. a 10x profit in 4 days investing in their trading platform...

Of course I told them they were an idiot and not just lying but dont know basic math. With those returns if someone invested a single dollar it would take only 45 days for them to be the richest person on the entire planet... Jesus christ how did people get so stupid.