Steve Foerster 🇩🇲 @stevefoerster@mastodon.oeru.org

BeyondProxima.com is a pretty neat interactive star map! And gives a clue as to what happened to our understanding of local space after Hipparcos.

We found a whole bunch of dim red dwarfs that lie between the brighter white/yellow/blue stars sort of like shrubbery between the tall trees in the forest.

I wonder what other dimmer, smaller objects there might be?

http://beyondproxima.com/

When Disease Comes, Rulers Grab More Power
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/when-disease-comes-leaders-grab-more-power/608560/

Some links that touch (some more directly than others) on the future I want for The Web:

* https://invidio.us/watch?v=fPFdV-Z69Lo
* https://anewdigitalmanifesto.com/
* http://john.ankarstrom.se/replacing-javascript/
* https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html
* https://brutalist-web.design/
* https://mastodon.social/@tbernard/103889150137765427
* https://mstdn.io/@wolf480pl/103772675972092365

It'd be interesting to turn my thoughts into a comic, akin to Google Chrome's!

Jitsi is getting a lot of mentions here.

I wonder if people are aware of GNU Jami, a P2P solution.
https://jami.net/

Jami has end-to-end encryption while Jitsi is only encrypted during transit. The Jitsi server has your packets available in unencrypted form. If you can't trust a Jitsi server and need end-to-end encryption, Jami can be a good alternative.

#Jitsi #Jami #e2ee

Calling all teachers! LibreOffice is a great choice for schools and education – it's free and open source, compatible with Microsoft Office, and you don't have to worry about license fees, subscriptions or software audits. Learn more: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/24/libreoffice-a-great-choice-for-schools-and-education/

COVID-19 in 2020: several scenarios Bryan Alexander https://bryanalexander.org/scenarios/covid-19-in-2020-several-scenarios/

Hi all! This is a call to action for those who would like to help with their accessibility skills, or learn them while working on a not too complex web front-end. The quite popular Jitsi Meet web frontend has some accessibility issues which are preventing people with disabilities like me to participate in many meetings. These issues are low-hanging fruit. So if you would like to to do something good that really helps a lot of people and has big impact, here‘s the issue: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4541

A nondescript blue police box pulses into view, accompanied by a thrumbing noise.

The doors opens, out steps David Tennant, some sort of sonic device in hand, wearing a mask and nitrile gloves.

"I'm a doctor from WHO," he says. "Wash your hands." He aims the sonic device at the camera, and it activates. The screen fades to a WHO handwashing demonstration.

Holy moly what an amazing website.

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

I'm gunna go out and watch 40+ satellites cruising overhead tonight

thanks @mhjb@twitter.com

⚠️ PSA to all Germans ⚠️

Starting tomorrow, Telekom and Telefonica will hand over your phone's movement data to the government and other authorities.

It is opt-out, not opt-in!

Deactivate ASAP.

Telekom: https://www.optout-service.telekom-dienste.de/public/anmeldung.jsp

O2: https://www.telefonica.de/dap/selbst-entscheiden.html

"Okay, here's the scenario. You are a crew member on a starship."
"Cool."
"Space travel is slow, you'll be stuck with your crewmates a long time."
"So we must get along."
"Yes. Communicate, listen, share limited resources."
"I can do that. What's the starship called?"
"Earth."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Did you know that Mozilla is collecting a public domain dataset of annotated speech? This will help develop open source voice-controlled programs. The Common Voice project still needs volunteers both to donate their voice, and to validate other people's recordings.

#CommonVoice

I just validated a bunch of recordings (English and German) and am happy to report that there are now quite a few female speakers donating.

I just made a 1000€ #donation to #Framasoft.

They offer #FreeSoftware solutions without #SurveillanceCapitalism for just about everything.

Since the #SocialDistancing started I made two videocalls with their #Jitsi instance and that saved me from feeling completely isolated. Unfortunately free telecommunication services are completely overloaded atm, but that's why it's so important to #DonateToFreeSoftware projects, especially right now.

Thanks @Framasoft ❤️