Kennt ihr eigentlich schon das virtuelle #Kartenforum? Rund 9.000 georeferenzierte historische Karten können als Layer über die heutige #OpenStreetMap-Karte gelegt werden. Manche Karten stammen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Spannend! 🗺️
Kennt ihr eigentlich schon das virtuelle #Kartenforum? Rund 9.000 georeferenzierte historische Karten können als Layer über die heutige #OpenStreetMap-Karte gelegt werden. Manche Karten stammen aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Spannend! 🗺️
Over 100 billion people have lived on our planet.
Just 622 have been to space.
Just 12 have set foot on another celestial object, our barren moon.
Not a single human has been to another planet.
We know of no other planet that can sustain human life.
Why is it so damn hard to get people to care about protecting the only home we've ever had and the only place we can live?
“The #fediverse is like #email.”
Yes.
Now read this and understand it:
“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.
Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“
Via @cancel

Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne