Notices by Puffinux (puffinux@fosstodon.org)

Exclusive: Win a trip to Germany by mapping undermapped #OSM regions with #Mapillary

Did you know there are more than 400,000 places which are yet to be mapped in the popular open-source data tool #OpenStreetMap ? This means there are more than 400,000 places on the planet which are …

https://geoawesomeness.com/humanitarian-osm-team-and-mapillary-launch-map2020-campaign/amp/?__twitter_impression=true - 2/2

#MineTest is a free open source game similar to MineCraft. It features both offline and online gameplay, multiplayer servers, many gameplay styles and a large amount of user created content/mods.

You can download it for Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Android from the official site:

https://www.minetest.net

You can follow the official MineTest fediverse account here:

@Minetest

You can follow the MineTest developer here:

@rubenwardy

#AlternativesAtoZ #MineCraft #OpenSourceGames #FLOSS

As of 2018, the ULB campus Solbosch is within the Brussels Low Emissions Zone (LEZ). Drivers of cars registered abroad are required to register before entering the LEZ, or risk being fined. Registering is free of charge. More information can be found here https://www.lez.brussels/en

Just joined the #openstreetmap community and downloaded OsmAnd~ from @fdroidorg ...

Why did I not know about this before? #nevertoolate #communitymaps #map #contribute

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India. And lied about it.
– by Jason Hickel
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html
'...Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. It's a staggering sum. For perspective, $45 trillion is 17 times more than the total annual gross domestic product of the United Kingdom today...'

oh my god this is the cutest username/password UI I have ever seen

Source: https://dribbble.com/shots/4249163-Animated-login-form-avatar

Didn't think it was possible for the situation to become more chaotic, but well done everyone. Well done...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/12/brexit-chaos-conservative-mps-trigger-vote-of-no-confidence-theresa-may

I think "saving the web" is going to come down to not using a chrome-based browser #PaleMoon #Firefox #Basilisk #Waterfox

MS Edge is moving to #Chromium engine. Microsoft is finally going to develop an open source browser - or at least as open source as Google does.

This is essentially a bet that the browser engine wars are over. If that's right, the only way to influence web and de facto standards is to have a seat at the chromium table.

#installfirefox

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/

Microsoft has just announced that they "intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop".

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/

Pro: No more Windows-exclusive, proprietary browser engines.

Con: Firefox is now the only actively-developed browser that doesn't use the Blink engine or its relative, WebKit. Not much competition anymore.

http://nikola.mit.edu/experiment

This is a test to see if you can tell neural network faces from real ones. Because yep, we can now generate faces with computers that look so realistic people can get it wrong. This has implications for trials (false evidence indistinguishable from real images) and I find, overall, pretty worrying.