@seav@en.osm.town2026-08-17 10:43:40
Finally got a final client approval for this commissioned map of the Pampanga River basin / watershed. š„³
(Rivers, coastline, and borders are from #OpenStreetMap, licensed under the ODbL 1..0)
#maps #Mapstodon
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-08-17 11:31:12
Some people are desperately trying to salvage their reputation after cravenly following orders from the #TangerineToddler. #Cassidy is a prime example:
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-08-17 11:31:12
Some people are desperately trying to salvage their reputation after cravenly following orders from the #TangerineToddler. #Cassidy is a prime example:
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-01 18:17:39
Does journalism face its gravest danger yet?
Christiane Amanpour speaks to reporter Amy Goodman and filmmaker TiaĀ Lessin, about their new documentary exploring the fight for an independent press.
Then: A powerful new exhibition imagines theĀ lifeĀ Emmett Till was denied. Historian Sarah Lewis and the Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr.Ā join the show to discuss.
And:Ā Long beforeĀ SiliconĀ ValleyĀ dominated our lives,Ā PaulinaĀ BorsookĀ warned of its growing power. MichelĀ Martin speaks to the ā¦
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-09-06 23:08:26
I want to throw companies who force login via emailed timed codes over a bridge. If they only have a username/e-mail field without a password field ready right away, I want to light them on fire. If they offer the option to add TOTP 2FA but still do the previous two, I want to crush them in one of those things for compacting trash. Kickstarter would be a little burning cube falling from a bridge, incidentally.
@hynek@mastodon.social2026-09-17 15:47:59
between all the dunking on DHH/Omarchy I canāt shake the gnawing thought of why it took HIM to make a desktop Linux that is perceived ācoolā by normies & is doing the numbers 1Password used as an excuse?
It doesnāt matter whether it sucks if everybody is using itāthere has to be a lesson to be learned here!?
The $$$ only came once it had momentum, & while he had a following, he has far from the biggest audiences in FOSS. Heās a dude who spent most of his career building websites on a Mac FFS.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-07-26 17:31:24
Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide
@floheinstein@chaos.social2026-10-09 12:30:05
ā ļø SMG Swiss Marketplace Gruppe hatte Leck - Userdaten von 890'000 von Ricardo lagen offen
"The exposed data was limited to names, postal addresses and telephone numbers and, for business users, company names"
https://swissmarketplace.group/media-r
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-09-18 20:33:32
De Lijn, the Flemish public transport operator, as part of a broader coalition of public sector organisations, is entering into a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for Belgian onshore wind energy, which provides price certainty for its operations.
https://delijn.prezly.com/de-lijn-kiest-voor-belgische-windenergie-als-onderdeel-van-haar-energiestrategie
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-23 22:24:18
A congressional candidate from Louisiana who was the subject of a police report accusing him of rape says he is hoping to again āearnā Donald Trumpās endorsement
as he considers precisely where to run amid redistricting.
The candidate, Blake Miguez, is weighing running in one of two districts,
neither of which he lives in
but in which he is allowed to run.
He has been mulling that choice after the supreme courtās landmark decision in Callais v Louisiana prompteā¦
