pleroma.debian.social

pleroma.debian.social

disaster2life | @disaster2life@pleroma.debian.social

Internet weirdo, F/OSS enjoyer, Debian Culter, pursuing a degree by day, spending my nights sleepless :p; feel free to reach out, and have a great day!

(Profile Picture and Banner are from Doki Doki Universe)

@brainblasted I usually end up in the side of a local hill I dug into

Today we are very proud to announce that the United Nations has switched from Google Forms to CryptPad Form for collecting endorsements on the UN Open Source Principles: https://unite.un.org/news/sixteen-organizations-endorse-un-open-source-principles

CryptPad Form is a full-fledged application allowing you to build privacy-preserving questionnaires for your respondents.

Try it for free, without even registering an account, on our CryptPad.fr flagship instance!

FOSS

OSM India contributor NLBRT (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NLBRT) was recently featured in a news article https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/students-of-siliguri-government-polytechnic-college-to-digitally-map-whole-city-prnt/cid/2088079 that highlights their effort to map amenities in Siliguri through field surveys with their college.

Tonight, I am sitting in my home in Scotland watching a film.

No one is outside with a JCB trying to demolish my home, my neighbours' homes, the school.

A foreign army is not throwing stun grenades at my neighbours, adults and children alike.

No one is firing live rounds at my friends and family.

And yet, I am afraid; not for me, but for humanity.

some of you mfs on here

A screencap of a Gizmodo article titled "struck by lightning? This tree kinda likes it." It goes on to say: "New research suggests that Dipteryx oleifera trees, after being struck by lightning, are 14 times more likely to produce offspring."

@obsoletesony I LOVED the idea and the story behind it, most certainly not just me loving Cathode Ray Dude's way of telling stories :))

@sophie144p danke! i'll hopefully get around to it, have monday on so I should be able to work on all of it

My lovely friend sent me a box full of safety eyes so I immediately made something that used twenty of them - baby Medusa needs to grow into her snakes a little 😂

An amigurumi Medusa with light green skin and nine dark green snakes for hair, held in front of a book

Announcement

Today the Standards Foundation publishes an Open Letter to urge to adopt XMPP for .

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

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


The XMPP Logo

neocat_heart

Photo of USPS sticker on garbage bin. The drawing on the sticker is of a fem presenting puppy or cat girl with a shirt that says "I ❤️ Seattle"

Sitting in a class discussing democracy gets infuriating when the prof starts talking about direct democracy as "a system where everyone directly elects a REPRESENTATIVE" :-/

Brain at 4 am: hey what about whipping out the crappy soldering iron after 2 years of having it stuffed in the cupboard to fix my stove top's push button thats acting up

0400: stove top fixed! Only lost one screw :)))

India ditches its 'Google Tax', perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs

Binned an e-commerce tax last year so this may not be complete capitulation India again ditches a tech tax, perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs Already binned an e-commerce tax last year The lower house of India’s parliament on Tuesday passed the nation’s budget for 2025, after making a last-minute change th…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/03/26/india_drops_digital_ads_tax/

this is why I only discuss my war crimes in xbox live parties. journalists are notoriously all playstation cucks

Online Gender-Based Violence disproportionately affects women, + individuals, and marginalized communities.

@sflcin’s OGBV Guide breaks down the complexities of and offers practical solutions.

Get your free copy here: https://sflc.in/online-gender-based-violence-multilingual-guide/

The guide is available in Hindi, English, Malayalam and Marathi.

Share this guide with your friends and family to spread awareness!

@sophie144p I mean sounds good enough lol, always looked at it from a far and been thinking of finally setting up a local network again

@sophie144p Is immich good enough to self host now?

Kashish wrapping up BiharFOSS by talking about OpenStreetMap and how to contribute to it!

Kashish wrapping up BiharFOSS talking about OpenStreetMap and how to contribute to it!

Meet Nicole...

The Fediverse Emotional Support Chick

(I told you this was a stupid joke.)

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A small knitted chick, in a variety of colours.
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A small knitted chick, nestled up by the side of a larger knitted chicken.

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