"The annual Ig Nobel Prizes, renowned for celebrating scientific achievements that first make people laugh and then think, are relocating their ceremony from the United States to Europe for the first time"

Concerns over US travel visas sees huge event moved to Europe for first time in 35 years | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-visas-ig-nobel-prizes-europe-trump-b2935119.html

ConfConf 2026 has been announced!

Website: https://confconf.org/

What: A free conference for organisers of conferences around free and open source software and hardware, and the surrounding ecosphere

Dates: June 6&7 2026

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Cost: free, supported by FOSDEM and Grafana Labs

If you are a conference organiser of a conference in FOSS ecosphere and would like to attend, reach out to request a voucher.

#confconf #conference

Every month the United States provides even more reason to boycott its products and companies — the strikes on Iran being just the latest.

In light of that, it’s a great time to ditch the products and services of US tech companies. I made a comprehensive guide to help you that I’ve been regularly updating for months.

https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/

#tech #digitalsovereignty #iran #politics #geopolitics

Coming to you from just north of the sea, at the bottom of Portsmouth South, a preview of a thing I have made.

It’s a resizeable interactive hexmap of UK constituencies:

- It builds upon the hexmap layout developed by Open Innovations: https://open-innovations.org/blog/2023-08-03-hexes-for-the-next-general-election
- But instead of SVG, it’s rendered from JSON using CSS grid, and each cell is a `<button>` that can open an info panel.

It’s a work in progress for something I’m collaborating on. Hopefully, more on the interface later this month.

This is a really cool little module that makes module readme files visible to admins.

https://www.drupal.org/project/readmeviewer

Now I can write README.md files inside my modules explaining how things are put together and admins can read them from within the drupal ui. Cool!