I've been meaning to fully remove myself from Substack - I tried a few months ago but more people I know started publishing there and I stayed... I think this is the push I needed to follow through.

Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Foursquare are releasing Foursquare Open Source Places as an open data set, to be updated monthly under the Apache 2.0 license. Pretty big news for the geospatial and location data folks.

Foursquare

Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial community

Stay up to date with the latest from Foursquare! Learn more about Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset for the geospatial comm...

I have a feeling that the USB hub the Raspberry Pi folks unexpectedly dropped this week may be useful for the Pi 500? We know of Pi 500 and CM5 still to come, to add to their recent release train. Maybe Pico 2 W as well before EOY. What else could they surprise us with...

Thinking that, if Melon Husk ends up in some govt level role, I'm now more concerned than ever about sovereignty of online information and data. I'll just leave this here.

Fediverse for government organisations, a follow-up – The lost outpost

If you still have an account on X/“Twitter” - even if it’s locked or private and abandoned - the new TOS over there apparently says they’re going to train AI on your posts from November, *and*, if you still do use it sometimes, they are breaking the block functionality… so why not rip off that sticking plaster and finally delete it? I did. I deleted a *lot* of them (one of which I used for over 15 years). You can do it!

Goodbye to my life on Twitter, 2007-2023 – The lost outpost

Meetup.com is so over Meetup's gone from community king to overpriced ghost town, thanks to Bending Spoons. Enshittification strikes again! Now what?

Meetup.com is so over – The lost outpost

This is a great guide on how to join Mastodon by @npub1kqca...7wgd 👏🏻 it's a nice companion piece for anyone who has thought about trying it after seeing me on [@FLOSS_Weekly](

hackaday.social

FLOSS Weekly (@FLOSS_Weekly@hackaday.social)

87 Posts, 9 Following, 329 Followers · It's the FLOSS Weekly podcast! Started at TWiT, now homed at Hackaday, it's the oldest Open Source Podcast ...

) this week (although, if so, then you probably need to have seen this link elsewhere... so I will go share it elsewhere as well!)

How to join Mastodon (and the fediverse) | Stefan Bohacek

A guide for newcomers.

We posted our monthly @npub1u84d...s78a team update, for a look at what changes went into the final 4.3 release - thanks @renchap (and the whole team for their work here!)

Mastodon Blog

Trunk & Tidbits, September 2024

Engineering updates from the Mastodon team for September 2024. Behind-the-scenes of the 4.3 release.

If you have any need to interrogate / explore USB devices, this CLI tool is *amazing*. Using it on both macOS and Linux here. Super impressive compared to lsusb etc (and compatible with the same output format if needed)

GitHub

GitHub - tuna-f1sh/cyme: List system USB buses and devices. A modern cross-platform lsusb that attempts to maintain compatibility with, but also add new features

List system USB buses and devices. A modern cross-platform lsusb that attempts to maintain compatibility with, but also add new features - tuna-f1s...

Mastodon 4.3 was shipped today 🎉 I am working on a Trunk & Tidbits post covering last month’s engineering efforts (to post later in the week), and also a post about key changes for developers in 4.3 (likely to be published next week).