@contrapunctus @sahil When we did pirate cycling, we always went to events organized by contacts (we cycled across Kerala for a month) - which won't be possible for mapping, but trying to involve locals or getting a letter from Police could help. About mask also, the question is about trade offs - how much are we willing to put at stake. To solve complicated social problem - a direct personal approach is not the only available option. Personal courage, not the single solution to every situation.
You know what? Fuck you
*Makes own PIS on your train*
Debian Developers Pursuing A General Resolution Around AI Models
The Debian developer community is pursuing a General Resolution for voting on their policy around AI models...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Free-AI-Models-GR
Do you want to send an SMS? If you're from #India, chances are you get 100 of those every day bundled with whatever phone plan you subscribed to.
But if you're a company looking to send messages to people, the story is quite different. Prav currently uses the Twilio SMS gateway, which costs us about โน7 per message. Since we need to send our one-time passwords (OTPs) via SMS, that makes seven rupees spent every time someone signs up (or logs in again) to Prav!
Help us cover our SMS costs by sending a donation.
For non-Indians (credit card) ๐ opencollective.com/pravapp/proโฆ
For Indians (UPI, cards, net banking) ๐ pages.razorpay.com/pl_NseNHjx2โฆ
Popular Pakistani Cricketer Shahid Afridi's YouTube channel (@ShahidAfridiChannel) has been blocked in India by a government order to maintain national security and public order.
According to news reports, this move comes after Shahid Afridi allegedly made controversial remarks against the Indian Army and lapses in security in relation to the Pahalgam attack that occurred on 22nd April in Kashmir.
If you encounter any free speech violations, report them on freespeech.sflc.in.
Fedi via Teletext has to be one of the best ideas I've had in a while
The Oregon State University's Open Source Lab needs your help ๐ค !
We at #Inkscape rely on them for hosting our website ๐ , mailing lists ๐จ , mail servers ๐ฎ and DNS โน๏ธ .
They are also a host for many other open source projects - e.g. #Drupal, #Gentoo Linux, #Debian, #Fedora, #phpBB, #OpenID, #Buildroot/#Busybox, #Cinc, โฆ
Please consider donating ๐ to them so they can keep their services running for all of us!
Anyone here into #bowling ? There's a #Jabber / #XMPP channel for people who enjoy bowling (10 pin, candle pin, duck pin, etc) at all skill levels!
https://xmpp.link/#bowling@muc.xmpp.earth?join
As before, if you're new to XMPP, this guide has everything you need to get started.
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html
#WhatsApp is launching #AI features with a new "Private Processing" system designed to maintain #privacy while enabling #cloud access for message summarization and #composition #tools.
Users can opt in and control AI usage in #chats, including blocking others from using AI features.
The integration of AI raises potential privacy risks, and I suggest staying away from AI on WhatsApp and #Meta AI in general.
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-private-processing-generative-ai-security-risks/
fosstodon, far-right radicalisation, the alt-right playbook
apparently fosstodon has some kind of a "no politics" policy in place? that's a very big warning sign!
to see why, i suggest watching "How to Radicalize a Normie" from The Alt-Right Playbook.
if you're super pressed for time, begin watching at 8:35 and stay until 12:30.
that part of the video explains very clearly how having a "contained" fascist on the mod team is still part of an effective recruitment strategy, and why the way mike (the instance owner) is acting now is a sign that the strategy is working.
but i REALLY think you should watch the whole video, because it explains not just what communities with "no politics"-style policies does for the alt-right (the "no controversy" kind that gets you a warning for saying trans lives matters), but also the rest of the alt-right radicalisation pipeline that those communities are part of.
Just as "web log" became the even more awkward "blog", I suggest we change "newsletter" into "slet"
Then we can talk about the sletosphere, have startups like sletspot and sletlines, etc. It'll be terrible, as nature intended
Thinking of documenting my near-daily #OpenStreetMap edits in the Mandawali area.
If you like my contributions, perhaps you'd like to help me pay my bills too? ๐๐ ๐
https://liberapay.com/contrapunctus/
I began editing in this area in 2023. I wasn't nearly as active an editor in this region back then.
19th of May, 2023
> Mandawali - add 5 POIs, 3 addresses
https://osmlab.github.io/changeset-map/#136301765
2nd of June, 2023
> Mandawali - add 2 shops, 4 cameras, 2 addresses, 2 buildings, street name
https://osmlab.github.io/changeset-map/#136864694
