«The Wikimedia Foundation has lost institutional legitimacy. When the foundation that we expect to maintain the encyclopedia for everyone is the very same entity that is selling out the people writing the encyclopedia, volunteers need to ask themselves what makes the Wikimedia Foundation the […]

«I don’t need a stair-climbing wheelchair that costs $30,000 and requires a maintenance crew. I need better doorknobs and or a ramp. But a ramp is boring. You can't make investors have a hard on for a ramp that doesn't connect to the cloud. You can’t give a TED Talk about a ramp. You can’t get […]

RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/117042878948506701 I'm slowly getting the hang of the process! 💪

It's great that a class of tool that by its very design is an unfixable security issue is forced into everything: «This works often enough that Måløy reported this to Microsoft as a security hole in March. He gave them a 90-day reporting window, Microsoft extended that twice to a total of 144 […]

Love this interactive exploration of how people approach pathfinding: «Why some people mow a lawn better than others» https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/

Why some people mow a lawn better than others

We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.

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i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to […]

Just added information on around 200 POI in Córdoba by using just a small slice of last weeks #panoramax image recordings. Added missing places and information like phone numbers/websites/email addresses, confirmed older still existing ones and of course also […] [Original post on scholar.social]

Just added information on around 200 POI in Córdoba by using just a small slice of last weeks #panoramax image recordings. Added missing places and information like phone numbers/websites/email addresses, confirmed older still existing ones and of course also […] [Original post on scholar.social]

Since December 2023, Argentina's public research system has bleed an average of around 8 jobs per day. Más de 2.600 científicos, entre ellos 25 premios Nobel, le reclamaron a Milei que frene el ajuste a la ciencia […]

Mi lectura por la noche estos días. 📚

My short wiki article about climber Stuart Vines, second to ascent Aconcagua and first co-ascent of Tupungato, made it out of draft into the main namespace. 🎉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Vines #wikipedia #climbing #andes

«In other words, they're no different from a burglar who robs you one day then comes round to sell you your stuff back the next morning. Back in the 18th century we used to hang people like that and Sam Altman makes me question the wisdom of having stopped.» […]

Hey Leute, schöne Grüße aus Schweden. Eigentlich bin ich schon im Urlaub, aber hier noch ein Hinweis: Für den @ct_Magazin Newsletter #OpenSourceSpotlight habe ich @CoMaps vorgestellt und dazu @gedankenstuecke interviewt. Ihr bekommt die aktuelle Ausgabe zu CoMaps zugeschick, wenn ihr den […]

Glad this is coming out because this stank to high heavens for years. I had Buck blocked on twitter for ages. @davidgerard https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117020005450810386

«Man, you can just do things. For sure people can try to stop you, and even succeed in stopping you, but they cannot stop you from trying to do things. […] Pettiness might just be the thing that gets your ass off the couch. People have written books, songs, albums, and paintings just to prove […]

«Man, you can just do things. For sure people can try to stop you, and even succeed in stopping you, but they cannot stop you from trying to do things. […] Pettiness might just be the thing that gets your ass off the couch. People have written books, songs, albums, and paintings just to prove […]

“It’s bullshit. Those things don’t work” “It’s the future, Afterlife Intelligence is going to revolutionize coding. You need to get an ouija board or you’ll be left behind!” “Even if it did work the concept that a dead spirit can help with coding is daft. Would you ask your ninety year old […]

RE: https://todon.eu/@RadicalEcologist/117015376277662759 "AI killed my dog" sounds like a good reason to start the Butlerian Jihad 🫠

@osm_tech happy sysadmin appreciation day, thanks for all the work and effort to make sure we all can map!

For folks who read German (or don't mind doing machine translations): I talked about @CoMaps and #OpenStreetMap with the "Open Source Spotlight" newsletter of @ct_Magazin. An online version is here: https://infoservice.heise.de/ct-opensource_vorschau.jsp

After teaching about #wikipedia data access last week, I virtually attended the closing of the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in Uyo, Nigeria today. Tunde Ope-Davies had some lovely closing remarks: «The knowledge graph of the future will either include us as full participants […]

«Sin embargo, aclara que "en ningún caso" estos castigos pueden aplicarse a "aquellas expresiones de disenso ideológico o crítica política, académica o ciudadana, que constituyan un legítimo ejercicio de los derechos consagrados constitucionalmente".» Si si, por supuesto, nunca dudé eso 🙈🫠 […]

Your #Wikipedia donations at work. The #WikimediaFoundation asks for your money to keep the lights on, & then spends it on notorious union-busting law firm Jones Day so its board members can recite generic anti-union rhetoric to justify ignoring supermajority […] [Original post on wikis.world]

RE: https://floss.social/@CoMaps/117006087560216052 I've heard through the grapevine that the reason why mobile app reviews take substantially longer these days is that the submission systems for the closed gardens of Google, Apple et al. are being flooded by vibecoded slop just like any other […]

«For the time being, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) policy is to decline any legally significant contributions which include LLM-generated content or are derived from LLM-generated content.» https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-wwwdocs-archive/commit/d0b21fbfb627036e6c73d5273825ce6e36f4dcdf

Add ai-policy.html · d0b21fbfb6

gcc-wwwdocs-archive - Full archive of the gcc-wwwdocs repository on sourceware. DO NOT FORK THIS REPO! You want to fork https://forge.sourceware.org/gcc/gcc-wwwdocs instead. ... Read https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/UsingForge first.

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RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403 "Gigafactory" is a term coined and popularized by known fascist and racist Elon Musk. "AI Factory" was coined by NVIDIA to make investments into their graphics cards look like a reasonable way to use one's resources […]

Another round of Silent Hill: Agua de Oro edition tonight while walking the dogs.

Another round of Silent Hill: Agua de Oro edition tonight while walking the dogs.

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/117004799485070562 «Q: Would you read a newsletter where the copy was 100% AI-generated? A: Absolutely, I love several newsletters that are AI-generated» 🤡