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Mappy Christmas #OpenStreetMap 🎄🗺️

If you fancy a Christmas or Boxing day walk, @everydoor streetcomplete.app @vespucci_editor or 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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It’s Christmas Eve, and time to post my favourite photo., one that still fills me with awe whenever I see it.
It was taken by William Anders on Dec. 24, 1968, on the Apollo 8 mission and is the first photo ever taken of the earth with the moon in the foreground. It’s a reminder that we only have one world and its people are all we have. Take care of both.
Regardless of your beliefs, may the holiday season bring you peace.

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Tesco, good, occasionally busy later. Sainsbury’s, moderate to good, rough in toilet roll aisle.
Asda, light to moderate, heavy crowds by evening.
M&S and Co-Op, fair.
Waitrose, fair to moderate.
Lidl, rough at first, easing later.
And that’s the end of the Shopping Forecast.

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We set up a new Mastodon instance focused on supporting nonprofit/charitable organizations. If you know of such an organization looking for a place in the Fediverse, please point them our way.

empathyforward.org/2025/12/cha…

charities.place/about

#nonprofit #mastodon #fediverse

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We should build a federated LinkedIn alternative. I think the purpose of LinkedIn is legitimate - there is a need for business-focused social networks. But LinkedIn is just a steaming hunk of garbage.

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my theory is that it doesn't exist because the people who could build it did not really care about such a service. Technically it is not very different (and probably easier than some of the existing server projects).

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A Reuters investigation reveals the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp made billions of dollars last year from Chinese ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content. reuters.com/investigations/met…

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Para quem se interessa em ter uma instância própria no Fediverso, recomendo ler o artigo da Elena Rossini sobre a experiência dela com o Yunohost, ferramenta que ela (e eu) usamos para autohospedar nossas próprias aplicações.

(Detalhe: somos 2 mulheres hospedando nossas próprias instâncias. Que isso sirva de encorajamento para outras mulheres "que não se sentem capazes" - e de provocação para os machões de plantão que acham que isso não é coisa de mulher. ;o) )

A Elena fez um super trabalho nesse artigo - para quem não tem perfil tech e não saberia escolher um servidor, ela dá as recomendações dos passos iniciais, sugere 3 empresas diferentes com preço em conta - e ainda vai publicar outros artigos com a continuação.

Eu sou muito fã do Yunohost e não teria instância própria se não fosse por ele. Na prática, uma das coisas que o Yunohost oferece é uma interface com centenas de softwares open source (como o Mastodon, Friendica, Nextcloud e muito mais, veja a lista completa aqui: apps.yunohost.org/catalog) que você pode instalar no seu servidor em apenas alguns cliques, como se você instalasse uma aplicação na app store. Ele mesmo faz as configurações iniciais e automatiza boa parte dos processos - inclusive a criação de certificados (Let's Encrypt).

Alguns softwares precisam que você acesse pelo terminal para fazer algumas operações - o Friendica é um exemplo (mas é porque tem um bug na versão atual), se me lembro bem o Pixelfed também precisava. Mas existe manual de instruções para tudo isso, e ainda que a pessoa não saiba programar, dá para fazer. Mas com outros softwares, basta clicar no botão "instalar" e tcham, você tem sua própria plataforma - a instância do Peertube foi extremamente fácil de instalar, não precisei entrar no servidor e tal, tudo foi feito via interface gráfica do Yunohost.

Outro ponto positivo: o Yunohost automatiza as atualizações. Então por exemplo, se o Mastodon lançar uma nova versão, em poucos dias o pessoal do Yunohost a disponibiliza e o processo de atualização, incluindo o backup, é automatizado. Você clica em um botão e atualiza sua plataforma.

Eu poderia criar instância "na raça", como uma "verdadeira dev" pois já programei e consigo me virar, em tese. MAS os projetos open source sofrem de um problema crônico que se chama: documentação desatualizada (ou ausente mesmo). Eu já sofri muito tentando instalar software open source eu mesma, com as parcas informações que encontrava. E óbvio, se não existe documentação publicada, não existe GenIA que saiba a resposta, então não, não dava para contar com a falsa inteligência das GenIAs. Ok, talvez eu tenha tentado instalar projetos marginais, mas o trauma ficou.

Consequentemente, o processo de instalação de alguns projetos open source, pelo menos no meu nível de conhecimento devops baby, é uma batalha. O Yunohost facilita essa etapa, e ainda me permite não somente criar uma instância no Fediverso como instalar centenas de aplicações úteis no meu dia a dia, como leitor de RSS, arquivagem de sites, blog, cloud própria, ferramenta de vídeoconferência privativa etc - vejam a lista no link acima, as possibilidades são infinitas, lembrando que um dos maiores interesses de fazer isso é poder usar ferramentas que TE RESPEITAM, que não te vigiam, saber que seus dados não são vendidos nem compartilhados com ninguém. E para mim, é caminho sem volta - bem que diziam que autohospedar as próprias aplicações era viciante. No meu caso não sei se é vicio, mas a sensação de empoderamento é quase física - eu fico impressionada cada vez que instalo algo que funciona super bem e que, se fosse usar um aplicativo equivalente feito por alguma empresa, ia me custar um bom dinheiro.

#AutoHospedagem #yunohost


New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements"

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…

I can't believe my #selfhosting one year anniversary is coming up next week. @yunohost truly changed my digital life - for the better.

This is a 1st post in a 4 part miniseries intended for real newbies.

And now excuse me while I go hide in a cave expecting irate replies from sysadmins about certain things I wrote 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting


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Video games come to mind. You could probably figure out how to host a game server of their choice (think something like Minecraft) so him and his friends can play. Docker is a nice shortcut for that, and you also get to sprinkle in some networking knowledge too for opening ports and such.

If games are off the table, could try to figure out some hardware to interact with. Having some sort of robot that you can control with an API could be fun.

On the line with hardware, you can get a raspberry pi, and try to work with him to blink an LED via Scratch or Python. Then work to something even bigger.

If typing is a struggle you could do typeracer or something like that to figure out who can type faster.

You could build a basic website together with some CSS and HTML. Make like, a fan site for his favorite band (or whatever hes into). Maybe he wants to make something for his friends to see.

Or, ask them if there is something theyve wanted to know how it works...then build some sort of project using it.

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Minecraft server + mods + introducing scripting his own mods/customizations? Suggested simply because gaming is a great way to introduce computing concepts that kids can visually see the output from.

Otherwise, I'd suggest showing him how to create his own web pages, creating visual programming games, etc. Find his favorite hobbies (music, art, animals) and start creating something around that hobby so that the computing piece is just as interesting.


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What Are Coordinate Systems and Why Do They Matter in #Mapping

geoawesome.com/what-are-coordi…

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Does Bonfire have any public instances?


I noticed Bonfire is getting a lot of positive attention lately, and I wanted to try it out. They don't have a directory of instances yet. Do you have any instances that you recommend.
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campground.bonfire.cafe/login

is for testing Bonfire Social, the microblogging part. (This one not federated)


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Australian ban on under16s social media


!Fediverse - Ive been spending alot of time driving lately and I heard again about the impending ban on social media for under 16yo children in Australia.

It made me wonder whether there is as opportunity/ use case for #ActivityPub based solutions that allow schools / community groups to offer accounts to their parents - that could be then used by those parents to offer moderated/ controlled child accounts (for their children).

Parent accounts would have vistability and potentially control over who child accounts can follow/conmunicate with. Schools could use it for communication with parents and/or pupils.

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Seems like a good solution! I don't know of anything yet, but doesn't seem too far fetched
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I was thinking the child account could be a function/ feature added to #mastodon or #freindica
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How would that work? There’s a severely limited amount of safety tools especially for children
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My thought was that child accounts would have contet visable to their parent(s) accounts and would optionally have follows ) / follow requests approved by parents. No posts would be public but limited to followers only
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I don't understand why the new social media laws aren't causing people suffering under free-speech-hating governments to flee to darkweb social media sites where the laws can't be enforced. I know there aren't many social media sites there for non-criminals, but why aren't individuals with the minimal skills required to make hidden-service sites doing so?

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So yes, Firefly III will move to php 8.5 in the near future. The features are cool, the upgrades better, and I like to tinker with new stuff. Be warned!

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As a software developer myself I can see why you'd adopt the latest greatest ASAP. Developing a tool used by many is fun in itself, but incorporating new possibilities keeps it fun for yourself as well. At least, that's how I experience these things.

I just hope FreeBSD packages will be at 8.5 as soon as firefly adopts it 😄

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@jn If I move over, it will be at the end of Feb. php 8.5 will have been available for 3 months, and I bet 8.5.1 is out already by then ;).
@jn


Ikea Corner Couch / Sofa needs a new home


Well its time to say goodbye to our corner #sofa - its from #IKEA and you can buy new covers if you don't like the colour - and it free to a good home - If you are in the #London area we might even be able to deliver it

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Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm.

We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates.

support.signal.org/hc/en-us/ar…

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I was wondering about how reporting spam works on Signal.
Is it like WhatsApp, where if you report someone, the content of the last few messages from the chat get sent to Meta for moderation?
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