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 fdroid and google play soon).

You can download it from
https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/2025.06.01-6-android

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

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢

We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects! :boostRequest:

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

#osuosl

Ad blocker in a real life 🫣

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

The EU initiative Going Dark has now been launched by the EU Commission. They call it ProtectEU.

It’s a rebranding of Chat Control. New name. Same old propaganda.

The EU Commission’s goal is to “access encrypted data in a lawful manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights.”

Read the full release from the Commission here:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A52025PC0148

Anyone working with printers in their #activism should know about tracking dots. This project helps deal with them.

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397

phosh 0.46.0 is out 🚀📱 :

There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

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@myexpenses great update, love it!

Though I would've gone with "Simple Search" and "Advanced Search" instead. It's more in line with the terminology used in search engines, plus "complex search" might have negative connotations (as in being complicated to use).