Here's a very important petition to formally recognise open source work as civic service in Germany: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-von-open-source-arbeit-als-ehrenamt-in-deutschland#petition-main
@Federation_Bot
The “Computational Relativistic Astrophysics” department at the @mpi_grav in Potsdam announces the opening of several postdoctoral appointments.
Each postdoctoral position will be fully‑funded for a duration of 2 to 3 years and will offer benefits such as on‑site childcare and further family‑support services.
ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1320962/cra-postdoc-2026
* Work in a world‑class team alongside two group leaders, a senior scientist, and a vibrant community of postdocs and PhD students.
* Do cutting‑edge science in relativistic astrophysics including neutron star mergers, nucleosynthesis, stellar core collapse and explosion, the formation and evolution of very massive and supermassive black holes, and multi-messenger astrophysics.
* You will have access to high-performance computers at Max Planck Computing and Data Facility
🗓️ Application deadline (full consideration): 21 December 2025
🗓️ Start date: from 1 September 2026
#FediHire #Postdoc #PostdocCareers #GravitationalWaves #Physics #Potsdam #Berlin
Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they).
It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.
Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.
• https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/
I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.
I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.
#FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified
Should children be using beauty face masks? Dermatologists say no, but a growing number of companies are targeting a new generation of kids who have grown up with TikTok skin care and make-up routines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/29/tech/tiktok-trends-beauty-brands-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tech #tiktok #children #socialmedia #mentalhealth #health
i have no clue how to build it but my vision of the future is a trans pacific railway
@hipsterelectron really big zip line
@grant_h i work on python a lot too i contributed many changes to pip. i am hoping to advance the idea of linking dependency graphs across packaging ecosystems so languages can work together instead of against each other
@grant_h this is a ridiculously kind thing to say thank you
Oi #Fediverse..
Check out this 2min walkthrough of #Emissary's upcoming data migration tool. It's the last big feature I'm delivering in 2025.
It uses the "LOLA" data portability spec to transfer account data from one server (like Bandwagon.fm) to a new one (like bandwagon.your-band-here.biz)
No CSV files required. Just authenticate and approve, and everything just moves.
There's tons more to do, but I'm confident this will be live by Christmas. 🤘🏻
@Ben Pate 🤘🏻 Is this limited to moving to Bandwagon? Or from and to Bandwagon?
Or is the plan to ultimately support moving from anywhere in the Fediverse to anywhere in the Fediverse, including e.g. from ActivityPub-based Mastodon to Nomad-based but ActivityPub-enabled (streams) that works drastically different from Mastodon?
#FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Bandwagon #Mastodon #Streams #(streams) #Emissary
@debby thanks. I've looked at various image based systems but I need to be able to search for names/emails etc in a large document and then redact in one go. So far I've only found Adobe able to do this, image based sytem require manual placing of blacks. I'd love to hear of any other programmes (not web based) which offer text search and the ability to apply the same search terms to subsequent documents. I won't be taking out an Adobe subscription however!
The Occupied Palestinian Territory is facing its deepest economic crisis ever recorded, with Gaza hit hardest by years of military operations, restrictions, and destruction. This has erased decades of progress, crushing the Palestinian economy.
In this regard, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has published a new report.
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Question:
If you drive, and you enter a car park and there’s just one single other car there, is your first instinct to:
- park right next to the other car, literally in one of the spots either side of it or
- park in any of the other spots *not* right next to the other car?
A missile struck just meters from a car in Kyiv this morning, caught on video. Russia continues its campaign of terror against civilians, targeting homes, infrastructure, and everyday life.
@soviut @sil That said, I agree that when things come in under specific budgets, this can be a better way to build certain classes of UI. I'm using elk.zone to post this, and it's wonderful. The YT PWA is pretty great. But these are exceptions that prove the rule: the set of teams that can be trusted to do a good job with an SPA stack could deliver a great experience without it.
@slightlyoff @sil I've worked several times with those teams who picked the wrong tech. They did so because they're cargo culting and would fare even worse with vanilla JS or an MPA.
The issue is many of them don't have deep web fundamentals. Not because of frameworks, but because the web is notoriously vast and constantly churning. I happen to like the churn but many find it exhausting and I don't blame them for that.
At the very least, Frameworks are well documented mostly static targets that let developers focus more on solving problems rather than fighting their browsers. Frameworks are solving a people problem more than a technical one.
"Op goede dagen mogen zijn katten even naar binnen."
"Er zijn zoveel mensen uit de maatschappij verdwenen. En dat is kennelijk acceptabel."
‘We weten niet hoeveel het er zijn, maar wel dat ze met veel zijn en dat ze verstoken zijn van zorg’, zegt de Rotterdamse longarts Merel Hellemons over de allerziekste groep. "En dat vind ik heel erg."
#PAISProtest #LongCovid #ME #PAIS #MillionsMissing #Solidarity
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/postcovid-covid-corona-patienten~v2184703/
Like preteens making a list of children they think are "dumb", Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is now in charge of updating Trump's list of "stupid" reporters.
Would you believe, they held a meeting and agreed that this was a mature idea?
Trump may only have destroyed The East Wing, but he has demolished all international respect for the entire White House.
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@randahl Trump is like the Peter Sellers version of a 3rd world dictator.
Wow, if you search for signal messenger on DuckDuckGo using Chrome, the actual @signalapp web site is the *third* entry following ads for “Signal Private Messenger – Free Download” that leads to the site appmaus.com and “Get Signal Messenger | Install Signal App” that leads to the site filelocations.com.
DuckDuckGo should be held criminally liable for anyone who ends up downloading malware because of this.
CC @Mer__edith
#DuckDuckGo #Signal #adtech #teachingPeopleHowToGetPhished #malware #security #privacy #BigTech
@aral @signalapp @Mer__edith i would avoid using duckduckgo, it's one of those "privacy services" that are all fake and no make
The fact that Pelosi and AOC don't get along just makes me love both more.
#NoScript 13.5 is out, with many user experience improvements!
The most visible:
- new "cascade permissions" mode
- the onboarding / site classification behavior panel (in the picture)
- many #usability and #security enhancements regarding blocked content and click-to-play
The greatest thanks(giving) to the Open Technology Fund #otf for strenuously supporting NoScript during the past 2 years, especially through the Manifest V3 compatibility ordeal.
@bleuje wow. that's rad.
