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HD

You'd think Mapillary's coverage wouldn't be as patchy, but here we are

HD

This missequenced path (or set of paths) exists for almost 4 years now

HD

Ah, I see the 'Satellite companies proving yesterday's images and claiming it's helping fighting active fires' is back

VIS, NIR, SWIR, cool tech, but not really helping the firefighting effort when it's published with the watermark on social media, eh?

HD

To paraphrase: We gave partial data, a day later.

Does he think there's no other way for the city and emergency services to know what burned, where, and how many people were affected?

I really don't get this kind of mindset. And they're not the only ones doing it.

and WTH is "X% Damaged" How does that help anyone besides insurance claims after the fire - which as we know - is still ongoing.

"critical insights to aid recovery efforts" Fuck techbros

HD

Every couple of years some big for-profit corporation has the bright idea to crowdsource people to collect POIs. This usually fails, as they fail to realize that:
1) people will eventually catch on they're being exploited.
2) beyond the initial buzz, no one cares
3) When the money dries, or focus changes, it will all go to trash.

I mean, just look at Esri's Community Maps thing, even with a captive audience, it's a nothingburger.

FourSquare 'Placemaker' - making poisoned datasets more toxic.

Every couple of years some big for-profit corporation has the bright idea to crowdsource people to collect POIs. This usually fails, as they fail to realize that:
1) people will eventually catch on they're being exploited.
2) beyond the initial buzz, no one cares
3) When the money dries, or focus changes, it will all go to trash.

HD

It's my professional and personal opinion that you shouldn't donate your time and resources, instead, use those towards making OpenStreetMap better.

They even gamified it. Fuck corporations.

location.foursquare.com/resour

HD

CTO wanted to do something with LLMs, I told him, it won't work.

He was adamant, I said have it your way.

~30% accuracy, on a process that was 90-95% accurate until now.

When will the tech-bros learn?

HD

Fuck Microsoft and Fuck Nadella.

As expected, the 24H2 update installed 'Recall', it can't be uninstalled.

To disable the Microcoft spyware, run this as admin

C:\Windows\System32>Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

Can't vouch that all the people you share your screen, code, IP, private details, will disable theirs. consider NOT sharing anything ever again.

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Lyrenhex

@hareldan per a few weeks ago Recall is supposed to be limited to Copilot+ PCs and specifically opt-in, not out. Is this not the case...?

Alonely0 🦀

@hareldan recall would be awesome provided Microsoft could be trusted. I already have the habit on all my devices of taking screenshots of stuff I wanna save for later, something that organizes them (like the watered-down recall) would be fucking incredible.

tjsh‮

@hareldan it's in the name recall: rec-all

HD

FYI, Cheap electric cars from China won't solve anything.
More cars, won't solve anything.
Electric cars are still cars.
Autonomous cars are still cars.
Cars won't solve anything, no matter what some rich fuck told the other rich fuck.

Ilya Zverev

@hareldan I had almost the same wrt classic mapping. I made @everydoor to get my mind off mapping: now it's a background task when I'm outside (meaning fresh air keeps the head from diving into mapping 100%).

Doesn't always work (malls and old towns easily spin it into 2-hours dedicated mapping session), but better than spending days in JOSM.

HD

I love the fact that "geo" includes, on the one hand, super complex algorithms and technologies that have to be precise to the nth degree or stuff would go out of sync and our modern life will come to a standstill, yet also includes a guy with some twine and a compass staking out something in a field.

HD

y'all paying for Mapbox API? or just scraping public keys from github

a github search for access_tokan=pk, a substring of the most common mapbox api credentials call
Ilya Zverev

@hareldan Fun fact: openwhatevermap.xyz doesn't have Mapbox layers because somebody got the keys and ate up my quota. Of course no way to set up limits there.

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