At the end of this month Microsoft will be ending its Bing map services https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/discontinued-services-bing-maps-rest-services/117308 This has been a key bit of infrastructure #OpenStreetMap has relied on for nearly the last 15 years and was a significant boost to contributions back then.

Unluckily, while the imagery will continue to be available for the web editor iD for a while, independent editor developers will not really have a choice other than to end access.

Sorry for the bad news.

Oh WhatsApp, you changed. Meta got the best out of you.

"No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.”

"Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought.“

~ WhatsApp Blog, June 18th 2012
https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads

Why does Zoom have an office building??

Lmao.

#ai

#postmarketOS now boots on Apple iPhone X (Global)!
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/tree/master/device/testing/device-apple-d22 #linux

Is it really FOSS?

https://isitreallyfoss.com

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5.0 will _probably_ have picture-in-picture support under Wayland, that you will be able to re-order your virtual desktops, and that Spectacle will clearly tell you how to stop a screen recording (among many other things).

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/14/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-pip-and-accessibility/

#Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

On June 10th, Google released Android 16 to AOSP - but without Pixel device-specific source code. This unexpected change impacts all custom Android ROM development, including CalyxOS or others. Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is coming to end. Sources:
* https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114661957699559672
* https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/
* https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/
* https://source.android.com/docs/setup/about/faqs#what-kind-of-open-source-project-is-android

* FYI AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/

#android #OpenSource #google

Every website in 2025.

Truth Social has crashed from the traffic surge and in so doing accidentally created a hauntingly poignant image.

CoMaps (Based on Organic Maps) has a stable release now (coming to google play soon). Co stands for Community!

You can download it from #FDroid store or from
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/2025.06.01-6-android (#Obtainium works with this location).

You can read more about the background for this fork at https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

You can read more about the project at https://comaps.app or follow @CoMaps

#comaps #osm #FreeSoftware #OpenStreetMap #OrganicMaps #OpenSource

Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos

Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban

This is really cool! A paper from Italy https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e005469
has found that people with Long COVID (C and D) can be distinguished from healthy controls (A) and people who had COVID-19 infections but not Long COVID (B) by sticking patients' hands under microscopes and looking at the capillaries in the fingernail! Fast, cheap, easy, and useful!

h/t @tomkindlon

Screen cover. Optimised for ✨⁠AI⁠✨

British surgeon Tom Potokar, after his day in Gaza’s hospitals:
"It’s hard to describe in words what’s happening here — Gaza today is a human slaughterhouse."

The blood still flows… but voices are reaching through.
There are still hearts in this world that ache, that move, that refuse to stay silent.

Don’t lose hope. Even the smallest voice makes a difference.

Raise your voice… for us.

#Gaza #CeasefireNow

Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories on #github

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

Here is how coding without a laptop looks - Two weeks with AR glasses and #Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/

Fantastic news! We've reached 1 million votes! But please keep sharing and voting in case some votes are invalid!

EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban so-called "conversion therapy" in the EU. It's a practice that's extremely harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.

The site is a little slow, but keep trying!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!

We now have eight countries past their thresholds, and we have at least 1,000,000 total votes.

So keep signing & voting!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#lgbtqia #europe

Just taking a moment in my laboratory this afternoon, staring at this investment of my time and love, and taxpayer dollars, and wondering what will become of the USian scientific enterprise as we cede our role in the world.

We are discontinuing sea ice monitoring.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2025/05/07/trump-administration-is-ending-noaa-data-service-used-to-monitor-sea-ice-off-alaska/

We are discontinuing the natural hazard cost database.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/climate/noaa-ends-disaster-database

We are burying our head in the sand at the behest of a little weak king of whom everyone is afraid. Meanwhile the world rushes to save valuable scientific datasets.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration

#science
#USPol
#NSF
#NationalScienceFoundation
#ScientificEnterprise
#setback
#NaturalDisaster
#ClimateCatastrophe