Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

When we do it: ‘shaping the narrative.’ When they do it: ‘disinformation.’

I woke up at 1am and the auroras were amaaaazing!! It was a bit smoky, but the auroras were so bright it didn't matter. I just stood there, soaking it up, while a barn cat purred and rubbed on my legs, and Starlink satellites drifted through the storm. Eat protons, Musk!

I also recently got a used old phone that can actually take decent night photos (unlike my phone, and yeah, I should get a real camera, I know).

So! Enjoy my totally unprofessional aurora photos!

Book Launch in Berlin at 19:00 on 31.05
at the Freifunk Wireless Community Weekend held at c-base.

Further details at https://www.networkcommons.org

Armin Medosch began documenting self-managed local networking initiatives with his book Freie Netze, published in 2004 (German only). He iteratively developed The Rise of the Network Commons in draft chapters published on his website The Next Layer before his untimely death in 2017.

'The Rise of the Network Commons' is a cultural history of wireless community network projects that spread from their origins in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Copenhagen to Spain, Greece, North and South America, and Africa. The movement drew together a panoply of technical, social, and artistic hackers in the development of new computational and social technologies. Medosch develops a twofold thesis: that involving non-experts in building a network commons has a profound emancipatory effect on the participants, while also contributing to a radical democratisation of technology. In community, we begin to shape future technologies to serve local needs rather than commercial interests. Only growing in relevance since it was written, The Rise of the Network Commons reminds us how we build the data/information/knowledge commons – by becoming sovereign neighbours of practice and expertise.

El mapa d'allotjaments AirBnB a Barcelona és el mapa d'una plaga que no para d'estendre's.

19.422 habitatges
El 32.0% (6.222) operen sense llicència
El 75.2% (14.601) dels anuncis son de gent que gestiona més d'una propietat.

PARÀSITS

FONT: https://insideairbnb.com/barcelona/

Soziale Probleme mit Technik zu lösen hat schon immer gut funktioniert. Und wenn nicht, dann brauchen wir nur noch etwas mehr Technik.

Congratulations to @jamiem and the @mayfirst community for this beautiful report on getting out of the Google ecosystem! https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2025/cutting-the-cord/

@signalapp As a supporter of #Signal, it is important to point out a key detail: Signal's own code is #OpenSource, but Signal uses multiple #proprietary libraries from #Google. Those cannot be scrutinized since the source code is not open. We believe Signal should offer an actual open source version, and are ready to help. This exists already in the fork https://fosstodon.org/@MollyIM Also, apps like #Element #Threema #Wire are #FOSS, and have #ReproducibleBuilds on @fdroidorg #FDroid

We're happy to announce that on Wed, Apr 23rd, 2025 we'll have an #OsmoDevCall without a formal presentation part. Details at https://osmocom.org/news/304 - anyone interested is welcome to join us #osmocom #gsm #3gpp

🚀 Introducing Gitea MCP Server 🚀

We’re excited to announce the release of the Gitea MCP Server. A New Paradigm for AI-Driven Code Collaboration. https://about.gitea.com/resources/tutorials/gitea-mcp-server

Raquel Dezidério Souto wrote a tutorial on mapping #Trees in #OpenStreetMap using #MapComplete, for the "green open data day" tomorrow: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Raquel%20Dezid%C3%A9rio%20Souto/diary/406430

Schlafen gehen...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open source project called Rayhunter. It is designed to run on an inexpensive (~$20) mobile hotspot and look for signs of mobile spying devices called cell-site simulators. Also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, they masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones w/in a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

Make VoWiFi calls from an open source client using asterisk: https://osmocom.org/news/297 - osmocom main contributor @sysmocom has recently released a forked version of asterisk that can be used to make VoWiFi calls using nothing but FOSS, a smart card reader and a SIM card. #foss #opensource #telecom #3gpp