Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue

Our new paper on holistic sustainability of community supported agriculture is available! It is really impressing what community supported production and consumption systems can contribute to sustainability already today.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398653875_Holistic_and_Integrated_Life_Cycle_Sustainability_Assessment_of_Community_Supported_Agriculture_A_Case_Study_of_School_Catering_in_Leipzig_Germany

🎄 📕 Looking for a last-minute gift for the AI-curious or AI-worried person in your life? 📕🎄

Consider "The means of prediction"!

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo255887145.html

Free software is about free speech, not about free beer.

(Es geht um die Nutzung von @LibreOfficeDE im österreichischen Justizministerium: https://www.profil.at/morgenpost/wie-der-staat-mit-gratissoftware-das-budgetloch-stopfen-will/403100547)

Large organizations and corporations moving to open source is a great thing.

If they have budget, they should still contribute and "pay" for the open source software they use.

Edit: Adding in this key quote as a positive example:

"Austria isn't just replacing Microsoft software. Unlike typical public-sector and corporate migrations, Austria's military has heavily invested in LibreOffice development itself. The armed forces have been funding the creation of new features and improvements that are now included in public releases. These additions, ranging from improved slideshow editing to better handling of pivot tables, have been rolled into the latest version of LibreOffice."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-european-military-just-ditched-microsoft-for-open-source-libreoffice-heres-why/

February 1st 2025: “Global Switch Day” / “International Switch Day”

#x ➡️ #Mastodon 🐘

#instagram ➡️ #Pixelfed
@PixelFed

#whatsapp ➡️ #SignalApp
@signalapp

#internationalSwitchDay #GlobalSwitchDay #eXit #twitter #xitter #Signal #insta #socialmedia #socialemedia

Great News: In einer konzertierten Aktion verabschieden sich über 60 Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitute aus Deutschland und Österreich von ihrer Präsenz auf X, ehemals Twitter. Unklar bleibt jedoch, wohin die Reise geht.

Mehr dazu bei @netzpolitik_feed https://netzpolitik.org/2025/konzertierte-aktion-mehr-als-60-hochschulen-und-forschungsinstitute-verlassen-x-twitter/