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"Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium"
screenshotted by @ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social, which is quite a clever handle
it's perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.
i rather doubt a government would push people out of signal-protocol apps and into Some Other App if they didn't already have a backdoor into the designated substitute
Our map data is often downloaded and used offline on various devices for several weeks or months. For offline data to be useful, it should at least be expected to remain unchanged in the next few weeks when you map it.
yes, by this blurb, concession for offline users does supersede safety.
i'm an editor active enough to have been granted foundation membership but hadn't known this rule; it indicates a view of osm as analogous to a paper map rather than for real-time navigation. if a change of less than weeks' length is discouraged, i can't in good conscience steer my friends away from google maps, as navigation is not a primary use case.
it is common practice in the u.s., at least, to use two nodes for big chain drugstores, where the shop, marked chemist, often has wildly different hours from the pharmacy. they have the same name and much of the same info
inside the addons page: eBay is port scanning visitors to their website - and they aren't the only ones
that one is very interesting if one has any coding background
that tripped me up too - but it's just the web demo. if you install it, your browser doesn't matter
i'd never heard of this concept! i have a disorganized stack of markdown files - notes, to-do and packing lists - that this looks ideal to tame
on android, i have three.
on desktop (all platforms), i use brave with a lot of stuff turned off, homed normally and pointed to the same search instance. i have cookie autodelete to burn cookies as i browse. i spend a lot of time manually deleting local storage.
i don't love this flow. what i really would like is one browser that would:
i haven't found an answer for that yet, would love ideas.
i have previously used and discarded, for various reasons: vivaldi, firefox, firefox focus, chromium, librewolf. i carry some of these for occasional use, either for 'let it through' or 'fuzz all the things' threat models.
long ago i shifted to vscodium, a packaged version of only the open-source base of vscode that provides most but not all of the available extensions. for two reasons: so that i didn't leak telemetry to m$, and so that i wouldn't get used to features that aren't open source. it's available in a lot of package managers, mac/windows as well as linux
to a techie, i'd say, it's open source and if they ever overpushed politics, they'd find they'd become the fork as the community would fork away.
to a non-techie, i'd say, everyone's an asshole a different way, but they don't own the whole place like spez and musk do.
and i wouldn't argue. let them walk away haters. this platform isn't ready for everyone to come right now anyway.
i'm new here. i never used reddit except if it was a search result for a specific, usually technical, question.
every thread i've looked at here has been like this one, intelligent, reasoned, no dunking except to look like a donut for effect.
the reddit experience described here… wow. that's many years of boiling frog.
OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can't zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.
I've read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that's a battle that's been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.