#Degoogled Maps? Yes, it's possible. 📍🗺️
The Big Tech does not need to track your every step 👉use a Google Maps alternative instead.
Find out which open source maps we'd recommend: https://tuta.com/blog/google-maps-alternatives-foss
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I like trees and have too many interests
Thinking about slow living, digital wellbeing, file over app, open source alternatives, right to repair and technology made by humans for humans
The map is not the territory
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We recently wrote an article sharing our personal experience with CoMaps and a couple of other alternatives. Check it out here! https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/leaving-google-maps-and-waze-behind-my-journey-to-find-my-way-around-the-world/
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A community-led, completely free and open-source alternative to Google Maps based on OpenStreetMap data, with offline navigation and zero ads, tracking, or data collection https://alternativeto.net/software/comaps/about/
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Obsidian plugins reached 100 million total downloads!
2026 will be a big year for #Obsidian plugins. The plan is to make plugins easier to discover, safer to use, simpler to build, and faster to approve.
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Die #tagesschau berichtet über den #39c3 und nimmt den von @marcuwekling und @linuzifer verkündeten #diday als Aufhänger. Geschickt eingefädelt 👍
Im Beitrag explizit zu sehen: Die offene Sprechstunde des @c3d2 in #Dresden
I haven't really had a lot of time for my website/blog lately, but today I decided to at least "finish" this half-written draft I had lying around for months :)
I wish you all a nice holiday-season!
https://flummic.com/good-software-matters-tools-shape-us-lets-shape-them-too/
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Mappy Christmas #OpenStreetMap 🎄🗺️
If you fancy a Christmas or Boxing day walk, @everydoor https://streetcomplete.app @vespucci_editor or https://osm.wiki/Go_Map!! make great company for a little mapping adventure. 🚶♂️📍📱
Thank you for all the awesome mapping, fixing, and improvements this year 🎁🥳
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Mappy Christmas fellow OpenStreetMapers!
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Since the last Android release @CoMaps allows using a custom server from which to download map files.
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make it easier, I wrote a small CLI tool over the weekend that downloads maps of interest & then serves them locally. A first alpha release for testing is on Codeberg:
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It's been just a bit over 6 months since we made our first release. And since then CoMaps has already improved a lot.
Read on our blog about how all of our achievements are thanks to our community that has made it happen, and how you can help us improve even more in 2026.
https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-12-16/comaps-and-its-community-end-of-2025/
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Here's my (probably not complete) list of #FLOSS projects I've donated to or financially supported over the year - and especially now in the holiday season.
If you've recently started moving away from big tech and replaced their tools with FLOSS alternatives, maybe consider sharing a bit of your savings with the people that make the tools you now rely on 🙏
Which tools would that be for you?
@jeremy Always!
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«Imagine a carpenter who couldn’t figure out how to adjust their table saw, or a surgeon who shrugged and said something like, “I’m just not a scalpel person.” We would never accept that. But in the field of knowledge work, “I’m just not a tech person” has become a permanent identity instead of a temporary gap to be filled»
Tech is partially to blame, but totally agree on the "permanent identity" bit of where people refuse to learn the tools of their trade
/HT @aesthr
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/please-learn-how-to-use-your-computer/
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@lagedernation Danke für dieses engagierte Plädoyer für's Fediverse!
Da die Lage im politischen Berlin (und in anderen Orten übersteigerten Selbstwertgefühls) wahrgenommen wird, hat das vielleicht mehr Erfolg, als wenn ein Haufen Nerds in ihre Echokammern rufen :)
Die Alternativen für Insta und TikTok heißen Pixelfed und Loops. Alles nicht 1:1 und noch sehr rudimentär, aber da tut sich was.
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When Your Avian Intelligence Agrees a Little Too Much
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It’s interesting how many people think wanting privacy means you’re doing something nefarious. The fact is, privacy is about sharing what you want with whom you choose.
(I don’t recall who wrote these words or where I originally saw them. I only made the graphic.)
@kepano here are my wishes:
1. Additional view-types for bases (Kanban, Calendar)
2. Better attachment management (pictures) maybe with external storage support
3. More love for Canvas - maybe with pen/drawing-support
4. Native (sherlocked) Calendar Feature (instead of the community plugin)
Keep up the great work!
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