‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

Hey #gischat don't forget to register for FOSS4G 2025. The schedule is up at 2025.foss4g.org. Just a few highlights: - 4 amazing keynotes - 44 workshops, 140 presentations, 50 lightning talks, 2 community days - business 2 business, geochicas and gala dinner events - movie screening + much more

Shipped a cool demo showing map tiles served over IPFS! 🗺️ Why does this matter? Decentralized maps = no single point of failure, offline-first geographic data, and community-owned infrastructure Zoom around bafkreiclsdmwsgzkitv5g2akcdxugrotppn3mcg6lzukcjyj5cj5aferfy.ipfs.dweb.link

@hugomrdias.bsky.social @expede.wtf would it make sense to archive github.com/ipvm-wg/home... repo? I stumbled across it as I was looking for crates still using libipld instead of ipld-core.

@jodygarnett.bsky.social Can you please remind me of that spatial data initiative that might have funding for metadata things? I want to take a look.

Es gibt gerade einen @fossgisev.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy Förderantrag von @comaps.app www.fossgis.de/wiki/F%C3%B6.... Liebe Vereinsmitglieder, jetzt noch schnell abstimmen, morgen 6. September ist Schluss!

Dialing It In: A 3D-Printed Knob with Touchscreen Flair

I always thought the canonical CBOR ordering of RFC7049 and the deterministic CBOR ordering of RFC8949 would be totally incompatible and break things for DAG-CBOR. It turns out that as long as your keys are strings only, the order is the same. Thanks @makeworld.space for pointing this out!

I'm happy to announce that today is my first day at the #IPFS Foundation. I'll be working on tooling, #DASL, #IPLD and related tech like #ATProto. With a focus on geo. So I'm doing more #geospatial things again. Stay tuned #FOSS4G.

We're live on bluesky! bibliome.club is the platform for creating, collaborating on and sharing reading lists with your Bluesky network - open source and decentralised via ATProto.

Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun "Won't someone think of the poor children?" they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal…

Are there any good, free "app cloner" for Android? I want: to simply be able to open the same app "twice", and get different activities -- both staying open, with their own UI state, so I can toggle between them. (Happen to want this for Obsidian, but it seems general enough.) Or other solutions?

I'd love to follow more folks who are building open geo stuff in the web ecosystem - who am I missing? Appreciate maybe that is a small niche for BlueSky

We’re hiring a senior-level Frontend Engineer! This role is about building tools that help people use Earth data to tackle real-world problems — from climate and conservation to disaster response and open science. Remote, open-source, and meaningful. Details + apply: grnh.se/39qfi0m13us

Lesen! Als Klimaforscher kann ich dem, was Christian Stöcker schreibt, nur voll zustimmen. Es ist zum Haareraufen. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Oh wow, I just heard the @couchbase.bsky.social news about becoming a privately held company investors.couchbase.com/news-release...

Map of GitHub (software 1.0) anvaka.github.io/map-of-githu...

Verfassungsgerichtshof Berlin: Volksbegehren „Berlin autofrei“ ist zulässig! Damit ist der Versuch des Senats gescheitert, die direkte demokratische Entscheidung zur Verkehrswende zu verhindern. Glückwünsche an die Initiative & den Kollegen @klimagerecht.bsky.social! www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...

@couchdb.bsky.social You can add a DNS entry or a well-known file to make this handle `@couchdb.org`. I really like this way of indicating authenticity. Instructions are at bsky.social/about/blog/4...

We’re heartbroken by the loss of Mikeal Rogers, a key figure in the Node.js ecosystem and a force behind what makes this community what it is. To help preserve his legacy, we’ve opened a GitHub repo for stories, photos, and memories: github.com/nodejs/mikeal 💚 Thank you, Mikeal. hubs.la/Q03t0DVL0

I'm excited to be at Hashberg event in Berlin. #ipfs #ipld #dweb

It's a sad day. github.com/mikeal passed away. Discussing the newest shiniest things in tech was always such a joy.

Just discovered a relatively new digital map collection at the AG Regionalportale. Allmost 50.000 maps from multiple institutions. And all are available as IIF, so you can georeference them with Allmaps. 😀 👇 https://kartenspeicher.gbv.de/ https://editor.allmaps.org/

This is a 100% absolute must watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmlb...

Seit dem Dürrejahr 2018 ist der deutsche Wald eine CO2-Quelle, weil mehr abstirbt und verrottet als nachwächst.

Du bist neu in der #FOSSGIS #Community? Du willst andere Menschen treffen, die ähnliche Themen haben, wie Du? Dann komm zum Vernetzungstreffen @FOSSGISeV am 04.06.2025, 18 Uhr. Dieses findet Online statt und hat das gegenseitige Kennenlernen und gemeinsame […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Berlin! Free(!) PouchDB Workshop next Monday as part of the local first community day. Hang out with us and learn all about CouchDB & PouchDB. Sign up here: lu.ma/v8ggp0u9?tk=... / Programme here: app-2025.localfirstconf.com/schedule/com... (description TBD) #OfflineFirst #LocalFirst

See how Rust compiler error messages have evolved over time :) kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2...

If you think of someone you haven't contacted for quite some time, but feel like you should: do it now, you never know when it's too late. I contacted two friends today, after being too late for the other.

My attempt at explaining some of the interesting aspects of #atproto in the most conceptually accessible way possible. weswalla.substack.com/p/shapeshift...

Mach mit und unterstützte unsere Petition, um illegale #CumCum Milliarden zurückzuholen: www.finanzwende.de/kampagnen/cu...

Ein Interview mit einem sympathischen Volker Wissing. So hätte die Ampelregierung also auch sein können. Ganzes interview unter meine-schwerste-entscheidung.blogs.audiorella.com/13-volker-wi...

Writing talk abstracts and outlines, newer speakers forget all the time that a talk is COMMUNICATION, and has an audience. You're speaking TO someone, and you should have an idea who that someone is before you write the talk, let alone deliver it ... #SpeakerTips

Am selben Tag, an dem die wohl nächste Regierung verkündet, in der Grundsicherung schärfere Sanktionen einzuführen, zeigt eine wissenschaftliche Langzeitstudie, das ein bedingungsloses (!) Grundeinkommen die Arbeitsmotivation stärkt, weil es die Menschen zufriedener und mutiger macht.

Graft is a really interesting new open source replication system designed for read-write multi-leader replication, with a SQLite extension as the first demonstration of what it can do simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/8/s...

Fireproof 0.20 dropped yesterday! 🥳 The 0.20 series unlocks attachable storage and remote cloud sync. Now you can connect to a greater variety of backends. 🔥

Some fine #FOSSGIS folks can now also be followed here: pLum0.troet.cafe.ap.brid.gy neteler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy cwillmes.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy oshistory.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy cartocalypse.norden.social.ap.brid.gy #osgeo #geo

Auf dem Weg zur #FOSSGIS2025 nach Münster. Ich freue mich schon so auf euch alle! #osgeo

Hallo! Wir sind dann auch hier. Senk u for following Deutsche Bahn.

Two blasts from the pasts today. One issue on the SD Contacts app I wrote my wife for her birthday github.com/vmx/sdcontacts four years ago. And an e-mail from someone wanting to get GeoCouch running github.com/vmx/geocouch, that I last touched >8 years ago.

How could I've possibly missed that Microsoft's DocumentDB is open source now! github.com/microsoft/do.... There full-text indexing seemed similar to Noise when I read about it at www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p... back then. #database #opensource #geo

I remember the times after 2015 when I was meeting friends internationally, at conferences or work related, where I was proud how Germany reacted to arriving of large numbers refugees. What am I supposed to tell those friends, after what happened in the German parliament today? #asylumpolicy

@stadtaugsburg.bsky.social Es wäre super wenn ihr euren Account verifizieren könntet. Dann hättet ihr den Handle "@augsburg.de". Wie das geht steht hier: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Recently I got two spam messages via DM. I reported them, both accounts are deleted now. Thanks Bluesky team, it's great to see that reporting things actually make a difference!

After 2.5+ years, Terra Draw v1 is finally released 😌 ✏️ Draw on web maps with the 10 built in modes (Point, Line, Polygon, Rectangle etc!) 🗺️ Supports Leaflet, @maplibre.org, @openlayers.org, Google Maps, Mapbox Check it out: github.com/JamesLMilner... #geojson #maplibre #leafletjs #openlayers

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welcome all you new followers, if you want to know what I am currently building, checkout @iroh.computer youtu.be/zyRFr9WjWEc

Releasing geo-index 0.2: Fast, memory-efficient, zero-copy spatial indexes (RTree & KDTree) for Python & Rust. - Range, nearest-neighbor queries - Persist indexes as bytes, reuse them later - Supports float32 for 2x less memory - Enables GeoParquet spatial partitioning github.com/kylebarron/g...