@bdon 😂😂😂

@ewen Something very similar happened to me on YouTube. Someone decided to record readings of my short stories - without my permission or credit - and put them on YouTube. I reported this to YouTube (including providing publication dates and ISBNs) and they shut down my account for accusing someone falsely of copyright infringement.

@ewen I think I try to remember that as much as it feels personal, it isn't. And I don't mean that as a way of deflecting blame but as we cultivate poorer and poorer ways of community care, we can't really expect folks to look out after anyone but themselves - because we've created whole environments that forced people to.
Churches have divided themselves over who people can love since their inception, government has divided who can count as 'people', capitalism has divided -

@ewen Ugh. Sorry this happened to you. Clearly someone from the future is using Douglas Adams's Aorist Rods to steal energy from our timeline.

I was angry enough when someone reposted all my Flickr pictures as public domain and Wikipedia started to use them with photo credit to the thief. That was a long time ago, and no lawyers were involved, but it's draining.

This piece is part of the second issue of the Developer Science Review, an overlay journal that my lab is putting out as a side project labor of love to try to share more science that we think helps software teams, and give you both the original source *and* helpful (we hope) commentary on it.

Whole issue here: https://dsl.pubpub.org/volume-1-issue-2-november-2024

@dragonminded I am kind of sad I had to watch the video because it quite literally would not have fit on my screen :neocat_melt_sob:

https://map.atownsend.org.uk/vector/index.html#20/53.7308631/-1.9827009
Here's a pub which serves food and real ale, has a stone floor so you don't have to take your boots off, and is accessible by wheelchair. The bus stop outside has both a pole and a real-time display.

@SomeoneElse I both agree and not agree. These new vector tiles are great for promoting Maplibre GL: before one had to set up their own vector tiles, or pay some company. And most uses of OSM are for the background layer, roads and buildings, which the new tiles provide.

But. The ShortBread schema, being created by german Geofabrik, has so many issues stemming from its origins. The first being labels — only in German and English, come on. It's the biggest problem with the new VT.

@andypiper had no idea they were still around

@andypiper Ooh, this is very cool news! Hope someone builds something with it. 👀

@andypiper that's awesome. It'll definitely be extremely helpful for Smithereen — I do need a geographical database for several features that a social network of this style "must" have. That's at least the education section in profiles (schools, universities, etc), and venues in events.

I was contemplating how I'm going to try to pull something out of OSM and/or have a community of my users maintain it, now I don't have to. The only problem is that this dataset must be terabytes in size.

@luis_in_brief my sarcasm meter blew out reading this. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@luis_in_brief Is that a support program for <s>ants</s> retired GSoC students? Very funny (sad funny) comparing 5k$ from Google for students to 10k$ from MS for open source developers. And where the f would they find 5-10 hours a week for the mandatory training?!

That's a program written by a team that hasn't written any OS or talked to any OS developer (outside a corporation).

@zverik Ye're a wizard Ilya.

Update: had the same trouble with a built-in microphone, patched the kernel AGAIN, and sent the patch to a maintainer.

@stroughtonsmith Well, looking at the current political environment in the US it's hard to not feel Here's for the stupid ones is 💯 on target and a dream come true for Apple shareholders.

@stroughtonsmith Man, that's quite harsh!

@stroughtonsmith Ugh that sounds awful.

The dishwasher analogy struck me: while we do save time washing dishes thanks to the machine, we also easily become more wasteful in our usage of clean dishes. Same with clothes -- since they can be cleaned so easily, why not wear a fresh shirt for work everyday instead of the same one for a whole week?

Now what's the AI rewriting going to do but create more messages, which need to be summarized badly by AI to keep on top of it so we can message more 🥲

@losttourist
Glad to read that you made it along to the exhibition. And thanks for posting some of your favourite worst covers. There are some absolute classics in that selection.

@losttourist This thread is epic! You are doing us all a service. Many of these album covers have aged like fine milk.

@losttourist @mrgawrjuhs these are spectacular, thank you for a great laugh (and a nice charity prompt).

Most would fit comfortably among the fake albums advertised in Half Man Half Biscuit's Cammel Laird Social Club sleeve.

@isocat This is the best thing on the internet.

@isocat super nice. I just wish they had a source repo link so I could send a PR to make the volume range a bit wider; at 1/5 it's still very loud.

@isocat this totally needs to be a VST

@zverik @maplibre @fosdem as a follow up you could package it all up, including a basemap, in a small .pmtiles file and have it self-contained and hosted from a GitHub page! 🚀🌔

@zverik 🤩

@maplibre

@zverik @maplibre @fosdem i tinkered with openrouteservice isochrones to make something similar a while ago.

@osm_tech I like dark mode sometimes, but I don't want it on OSM maps. Please give me an easy way in the web site to choose whether it's on or off.

#OpenStreetMap

@osm_tech I thought I was on the wrong site and was confused for a while lol

@osm_tech dark ui is absolutely stunning! i didn't know i needed it on the osm website, but it was a very pleasant surprise

@pietervdvn Exactly! I've worked in startups with millions of users, and thousands feel more real — maybe because we as authors connect with them more directly, without layers of marketing and shifted values of needing payment instead of eyes.

@Catvalente most startups only have a one in ten chance of surviving the first year so making money was the only thing on their mind

@Catvalente maybe not the dipshits who started it, but definitely its financiers for sure.

@Catvalente @ArpComics “The system is working as designed, gentlemen.”

@zverik unluckily 'plastic eating' is similar to 'curing cancer': there are so many types that solving one does not fix them all, but it's a step forward. Also, calling plastic 'cancer' would not be so far fetched.

@zverik
2 is why we have fossil fuels.