GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo).

Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us:

- 54k commits
- 9.5k issues
- 4.3k pull requests
- 100k comments

Everything moved. Nothing left behind.

https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps

Great talk by @tante at #rp24 about "Empty Innovation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9ksU67EW6I

Reminds me a lot of the "What's your favorite tech innovation? Illegal cab company, Illegal hotel chain, fake money for criminals or plagiarism machine" thing.

The point on how we've removed the "chaos" about thinking about our future and replaced it by "order" also strikes me as relevant to the deathcult of metrics we see everywhere. Lots to think about!

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!

@davidbauer The link in your post was broken (at least for me). Here it is for other, who are searching for it: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/two-years-400-journalists-and-50-climate-experts-heres-what-we-learnt-about-how-report-climate

made a ceramic charm of my name stamp and stored my website in it so I can "give" people my website by tapping their phones with my stamp.

Nach drei Jahren Pause richtet der Chaos Computer Club vom 27. bis zum 30. Dezember seinen 37. Chaos Communication Congress (#37C3) aus.

Wir im BSI freuen uns auf die traditionsreichste deutsche IT-Sicherheits- und Technikkompetenzkonferenz! Klare Botschaft unserer BSI-Präsidentin Claudia Plattner: Gemeldete Schwachstellen geben wir weiter, damit sie geschlossen werden.

Wir wünschen eine starke Party! 💻 🛡 ✌ 😎

In case you or someone you know is interested in moving your newsletter: we can migrate _everything_ for you. Subscribers, posts, paid subscriptions, images, the whole nine yards. It takes minutes, not hours.

Neal.fun's Internet Artifacts is an online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation. https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

"Reclaim the Internet" aktuelle Ausstellung von #Mozilla.

Fühlt sich an wie das Ende von moz://a und die Beerdigung von privacy... :toot: #Wiederstehenswert

#berlin #privacy #exibition #reclaimTheInternet

CCC invites to the 37th Chaos Communication Congress #37C3 in Hamburg from 27 December to 30 December 2023. We are delighted to return to #Hamburg – More topics, more workshops and more party! https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2023/37C3

@algowatching Exit Racism von Tupoka Ogette ist sehr gut und erklärt genau diese Probleme.

#ParisWeb If you are curious about ARIA and accessibility, here are @hdv’s great slides on "ARIA, the good parts" and what you can use ARIA for https://talks.hiddedevries.nl/hDiDOG/aria-the-good-parts

Opinion: Let’s free ourselves from the story of economic growth.

A relentless focus on economic growth has ushered in the climate crisis. We need a better definition of well-being.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/09/opinion-lets-free-ourselves-from-the-story-of-economic-growth/

New: this is crazy. The top Google image search result for "tank man" right now is an AI-generated "selfie" of the man. Shows that as AI content becomes more and more widespread, the platforms we use to surface content don’t have a good way to identify it https://www.404media.co/first-google-search-result-for-tiananmen-square-tank-man-is-ai-generated-selfie/

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

You will not be surprised to know that Elon Musk's deadbird site is deliberately slowing down connections to other social media sites. Fine reporting from @themarkup -- https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-still-throttling-competitors-links-check-for-yourself

Needless to say, Big Journalism remains resolute in offering direct support to Musk's business, by continuing to pour content and advertising dollars into the site.

Airbus open sourced their new cockpit font. Make it the default for all your embedded projects, because it's REALLY good and has real testing in difficult environments!

https://b612-font.com/

💥 And here you have it:

The new official "Planetary Boundaries" graphic!

👉 For the first time, all boundaries have been quantified
👉 The colour gradients are the same as in the IPCC's "Reasons for Concern", showing increasing risk, not just for climate heating but also other Earth system dimensions
👉 Scaling is logarithmic beyond each boundary

This is the update by the original authors: Johan Rockström, Will Steffen, Katherine Richardson - a group I was privileged to join with my team.

Open Call https://blog.betterimagesofai.org/open-call-for-artists-apply-by-25th-september/

The main aim is to create a set of imagery that avoids perpetuating unhelpful myths about artificial intelligence (AI) by inviting artists from different backgrounds to develop better images while tackling questions such as:

- Is the image representing a particular part of the technology or is it trying to tell a wider story?
- Does it help people understand the technology and is it an accurate representation?

€1,500 stipend

Also: I am far from the only person looking for vis students for next year! Many other wonderful people in the community are also recruiting!!

Check out this page we recently made collecting lots of other great positions https://vis-phd-positions.netlify.app/