ORBITAL RADAR ALERT
#Ukraine
On 2026-10-19 16:07 UTC,
RU COSMOS 2612 and
US ICEYE-X36 reached a closest approach (TCA) of 26 m, with a relative velocity of 0.00 km/s. This is a cross-border encounter between objects of different nations, the kind of event closely watched for space-security implications.
[[ ICEEYE is providing high-res images for Ukraine ]]
#ActivityPub #WebVTT #a11y #meta
#popcorn
Do you know any existing software using WebVTT for "time based content"?
WebVTT is used for subtitles by e.g. peertube but we can use it to show ActivityPub Content (e.g. a "Card") at any position to add context and background to an audio (in a <video>) or a video …
We intend to ship this in menschys @clemensg as well …
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116675938948881868
@pluralistic said in the recent SPIEGEL story by @publictorsten that it will make it worse.
Well, it's now nucular-worsest !!! (!)
https://digitalcourage.social/@josephcox@infosec.exchange/116675938999134879
Anthony Kazmierczak: Ilhan Omar attacker's alleged social media profiles surface; ‘extensive right wing posts’
Gestapo Gregs töten
Afghan pilots who fought in 20-year war against Taliban in limbo after Trump blocks US resettlement plans
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/asia/afghanistan-war-pilots-limbo-us-resettlement-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
;_(
#uspol
^ [all photos by me]
/ addendum:
Today we are merely building #ActivityPub software (see pinned talk [EN] or Berlin Fediday Talk [DE]).
This includes patterns which can be helpful for disasters too – like federated geocoding, wikidata, wikibase and OSM integration.
If it feels like you can help or are interested, let me know.
#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka
We looked at the community to ask for Chitravadivel and I was thankful for my agency, stern and some editorial colleagues in that moment…
Chitravadivel was not at the left foundations of her house and it took us a while until we saw her nearby.
It was just moments after she had found her bike.
The bike to go to the hospital.
To help and then to rebuild.
Again.
[end of the thread]
#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka
On the way back, we pass some areas where we can only walk by the help of the army cause the locations of mines from the civil war period can only be predicted now.
We look into the eyes of very hungry wild dogs while the elephants stood reportedly on higher ground in a group close together.
Especially at the East Coast, large areas like around this collapsed Hindu temple were completely destroyed.
The only lesson I learned:
Whenever solid structures are destroyed – be it by a disaster, by fascists, by Elmo (or any) –
we need to rebuild.
Continuously rebuild.
The next day in Batticaloa we wanted to visit Chitravadivel again …
🧵
#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka
I do not want to share the „heavy“ pictures again but some signs and moments of hope.
We looked at how the schools dealed with the catastrophy and saw the power of communities.
The survivors collected all of the wet learning materials and used the upper floor to dry these materials to reuse them.
While there was lots of room for children to speak about the experienced, the lessons continued in the free space to give habit back.
Volunteers of UNICEF spoke with the children but – much more important:
They brought material for kids to express creativity and let the bad feelings go to paper.
To beat the devil out of the brush …
It felt as if that helped.
🧵
#tsunami #stern #geo
#SriLanka
20 years of trauma …
We met Chitravadivel Rajeswari in the General Hospital of Batticaloa.
The Tidal waves in Sri Lanka were up to 12 metres high and Chitravadivel survived them by climbing up a tree and clutching it for hours.
After the waves flooded the area she had just one goal: Helping in the hospital where she works as an assisting nurse.
Normally she would go by bike but now there was no bike, there was just water.
After 3 days we visited her again, she was totally exhausted. 💖 Chitravadivel did not spent a second to think about herself or her own property.
It was a very strange feeling but the only feeling I had at this minute was that anyone now needs a bit of time to care for themselves.
We tried to find her home which was a nice house. It was made out of stones and built by the best intentions of what a community can build.
This was the moment when we found the house.
🧵 …
BBC is doing extraordinary coverage of the #outtage
The ticker is followed by special live reporting worldwide https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et#player
Esteemed #Fediverse 💖
all the nice videos from #PubConf24 popped up in the peertube channel.
Our Talk on the Why and How of #ActivityPub is https://video.publicspaces.net/w/9USsJ37cHVy4tY9Pn7DX2X
An hour is incredible short, we should maybe demo the protocol on a large table rather in an expo space next year (?)
You can view all videos at the channell page
:digitalcourage: https://video.publicspaces.net/c/pubconf/videos
Esteemed #Fediverse
did you know that the https://conference.publicspaces.net/en will bring #ActivityPub in a row for you ?
Intending to watch „Global Responses to Big Tech“ –
and then our „Escape the Social Media Trap“
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/escape-the-social-media-trap will come with an an ActivityPub workshop included.
But wait. "what's next, you asked?"
Just after a coffee you could visit
„What's neXt?“
by @Eelcom @laurenshof and others …
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/what-s-ne-xt
#publicspaces
Erst gestern hatte ein Übersetzungsfehler eine falsche Festnahme und den Stop eines Zuges zur Folge.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/zug-uebersetzungsfehler-gast-kuendigt-aus-versehen-explosion-an-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-240514-99-25115
Nun erklärt google translate einen angeschossenen Ministerpräsidenten einfach für tot.
Mir macht es Angst, wenn Maschinen Menschen totschreiben!
[EN: about 2 books in german language …]
Hallo #Fediverse
es war ein netter Tag mit Teilen von Euch in Köln :)
Habe 2 neue Bücher zu meinem inventaire zugefügt.
Sie sind ganz frisch und sehr sehr gut.
“In der Social Media Falle –
Wie wir unsere digitale Freiheit retten” @bjoernsta
https://inventaire.io/items/56f8b4f4c6199b30e41195e8404dc8c9
dort findet Ihr auch was über Dezentralisierung, Föderation, #ActivityPub und ein Interview mit mir, in dem ich natürlich und wie gewohnt maßlos übertreibe ;)
Und dann hat mir Fedifreund @clemensg zum Geburtstag geschenkt
“Big Tech muss weg!”
https://inventaire.io/items/66f02830b8fae81d60638b1f25d9a544
und heute ist in Köln https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230712-01.de.html
Yuhu!
