#Samsung devices from today can no longer install custom ROMs.

Odin is gone and the Download Mode is also gone, which makes life hard also for repair services that want to restore a device.

This is your daily reminder that #Android is a liability, and major hardware manufacturers who ship Google’s version of Android are a liability too.

We need to get Linux phones to work, and we need manufacturers who are aligned with our principles.

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-disables-odin-removes-download-mode-3648469/

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.

Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.

Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about

Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a crow it came up that she has never been sat on by a cat. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never been sat on by a cat.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on by a cat.

🐈🐈‍⬛🐱

Have you ever been sat on by a cat?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

#PawFed is a project close to my heart. It's a collaborative map for animal welfare that bridges the #Fediverse and #OpenStreetMap.

The idea: mention @PawFed from your Mastodon account with hashtags and a location, and your report appears on the map. No signup, no app, just your existing Fediverse account.
It's not perfect yet, but the foundation is there. I will publish the source code soon under AGPL.

More: https://pawfed.org/how-it-works

RE: https://scholar.social/@olivia/116239484584758335

This was such a wonderful conversation! 💛

Thank you so much @mel_hogan for inviting us on The Data Fix podcast.

And thank you @olivia Guest and Andrea Reyes Elizondo for sharing your amazing insights and important angles.

🎶 You can all listen here:
https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/hollowed-with-olivia-guest-iris-van-rooij-and-andrea-reyes-e 🎶

💖💚🌳💚💖
Amsterdam koopt als eerste Nederlandse stad vanaf 2026 uitsluitend biologische bloemen en planten voor plantsoenen in.

Met dit besluit gaat Amsterdam verder dan tientallen Nederlandse gemeenten die slechts aangeven ‘een voorkeur’ te hebben voor biologische planten (zonder bestrijdingsmiddelen én zonder kunstmest).

https://archive.ph/Mvq6b

Saturday, 28 March, there are many hackerspaces that participate to the "International Open Day".

Boost = ❤️

Visit one of the NL participating spaces :

AwesomeSpace, Hilversum
@bitlair Amersfoort
@hack42 Arnhem
@hackalot Eindhoven
@hermithive Nieuwegein
@hsdrenthe Coevorden
@HSN Nijmegen (nieuwe locatie!)
@maakplek Groningen
@nurdspace Wageningen
@pixelbar Rotterdam
@randomdata Utrecht
@revspace Leidschendam
Space Leiden, Leiden
@TDvenlo Venlo
@TechInc Amsterdam
@tkkrlab Enschede

See also https://hackerspaces.nl/open-dag/
https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Open_Hackspace_Day_2026

#hackerspaces #makerspaces #DIY #linux #opensource #electronics #arduino