To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping.

If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115962701645642008

Want to replace TikTok? Great. Join @loops. Otherwise, the problem will just follow you to the next platform and keep resurfacing every time that next platform reaches critical mass. Unfortunately, this problem will never get solved, because […]

I've been asked to share this by @ElaineActivism

https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/take-x-icons-off-websites-and-emails-and-replace-with-mastodon-icons

Please sign this petition for Irish institutions to take X icons off their websites and emails !

During the Cold War the United States military had 15,000 soldiers stationed in Greenland. That presence has been reduced by 99% to just 150 soldiers today.

Denmark has given the US exclusive and full military access to Greenland but the US does not use it. This has nothing to do with security.

Today is Digital Independence Day, a German initiative to move more and more away from Big Tech in 2026. Let's reclaim our independence!

https://di.day/

Never forget that billionaires in the United States think the ideal society should be modeled on the kingdom of Saudi Arabia

700,000 slaves work to build everything and cook and clean everything in this country.

This is the world the super rich are deliberately moving everyone into.

If you […]

You might be committing a genocide if you find yourself banning Doctors Without Borders and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93248e502

New Year’s Eve Concerts at #kennedycenter Are Canceled

A veteran jazz ensemble & a New York dance company have canceled events at the John F. Kennedy Center for the #performingarts, intensifying the fallout at one of the nation’s pre-eminent #arts centers after #trump’s name was illegally added […]

Ring Cameras failed to restrict employee access to customer videos. One Amazon Ring employee accessed thousands of video recordings from over 80 women's bedrooms.

https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/ring-cameras-peep-shows

#technology #humanrights #hacking

In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts.

Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.

The only U.N building this man should be in is the Hague.

#netenyahuisawarcriminal #israel

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

#onpremisesinfrastructure is vastly underrated. What are you going to do when #googleworkspace or #microsoft365 shut your account down because their AI decides to and you have no recourse. You can’t sue them because you’ve agreed to their terms of service. Oops? 🤷‍♂️

Also, what many don’t know […]

Clear words from an Taoiseach, the head of the Irish government on the Israeli government's policy in Gaza:

"To inflict this level of suffering on a civilian population with nowhere else to go is just wrong.
Wrong morally, wrong legally.
It is an affront to human decency.
It is without mercy […]