#OpenData picks of the day:
➡️ @openstreetmap - OpenStreetMap official account
➡️ @wikidata - Free open source collaborative knowledge base
➡️ @ORCID_Org - Free open identifier system for academic authors/contributors
➡️ @openmeteo - Open source weather data API free for non-commercial use
➡️ @plazi_species - Openly accessible digital taxonomic data on plants, animals, fungi
➡️ @OpenDataSociety - Open data supporters org in Canada
➡️ @opendata - German government portal for open data
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⚠️ Notice: Someone is reaching out by email to creators pretending to be from the Inkscape project to solicit partnerships.
They have used the name “Inkscape PhotoEditor,” which does not exist. This is not us.
Any official invitations to collaborate from the project will be listed prominently on our website.
1D Pac-Man is the best game I’ve played in 2024 (so far)
An appreciation of "small games" and the people who make them.
Interesting paper about #adblocking that I just found out 
Internet-related electricity consumption is rising rapidly as global Internet users spend more than 6.5 h per day online. Open source ad blockers have the potential to reduce the time and thus electricity spent using computers by eliminating ads during Internet browsing and video streaming. In this study, three open source ad blockers are tested against a no-ad blocker control. Page load time is recorded for browsing a representative selection of the globally most-accessed websites, and the time spent watching ads on videos is quantified for both trending and non-trending content. The results show that page load time dropped 11% with AdBlock+, 22.2% with Privacy Badger, and 28.5% with uBlock Origin. Thus, uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution. In the United States, if all Internet users enabled Privacy Badger on their computers, Americans would save more than $91 million annually. Globally, uBlock Origin could save consumers more than $1.8 billion/year. Open source ad blockers are a potentially effective technology for energy conservation.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Planned For Release In Early February
As part of a monthly status update concerning Plasma 6 development, KDE developer Nate Graham confirmed that the team is planning to release Plasma 6.0 in February of 2024...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.0-February
The Software Longevity Team at Fairphone (which I'm part of 😀) is excited to announce that today, following the Fairphone 5 launch, we are also releasing the source code for its Android 13 operating system.
You can find instructions for browsing, viewing and downloading the source code on https://code.fairphone.com. The source tree contains all Android and Linux kernel sources that we can publish, excluding some proprietary components.
For more details see: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-5-source-code-release/99616
I had to orphan a very simple extension I wrote for gnome 3.2-3.10 It was a bugfix that for some reason upstream didn’t even want to acknowledge it existed, and never accepted the patch. So I made the extension, but after about a year of constant breakages I gave up.
That ordeal really made me feel unappreciated as a contributor.
FediFollows
Inkscape
/r/freemediaheckyeah
Ars Technica
garfieldairlines.net
Phoronix
Luca Weiss
Ddhuud
It's FOSS