 So after I rehearsed my talk start to finish for the first time, and sat to finish the slides, I understood one thing. Speaking without slides = a standup. Full of passion and can go in unexpected ways. Having slides direct your talk can (and most likely, will) shoot you off your thought and emotion, and will turn this into a reading. I guess that's why my Antwerp talk wasn't as great as its rehearsals. #sotm2024 @zverik showcasing the @everydoor four #mapping modes to catch in #openstreetmap everything you see, adding new objects or updating and detailing new ones Folks let's make this big! Please boost and subscribe! We're making a team account for everybody in @openstreetmap : Big thanks to @erin who agreed to take over for the first week! So hellooo people! We're starting off this channel, which is a semi-official team group posting thing of everyone in @openstreetmap! Every week somebody new will post... stuff... I guess, so you know who are OSMers and how diverse we are, and how your precious data gets made. Welcoming the first curator, @erin! She's amazing and brave, I saw her interviewing Steve Coast at the Antwerp conference. And now she's come to Kenya! Give it up for Erin! People who are attending @sotm! This is your annual reminder than by installing Giggity (or downloading the ical file) you can have a full schedule of the conference on your phone! https://sotm.osmz.ru/sotm2024.html With Giggity, no extra work is required, the schedule is already in there. Found out recently that Mapillary broke the navigation in their web explorer. Couple years ago it showed a trace as a series of points: you click on one and see the photo. Now it displays a line. You cannot click anywhere on the line, but have to trace your mouse cursor along it, searching for a photo. And only then you can click and see it. I think they don't use Mapillary anymore at Meta, that's why all its parts are getting worse with time.   @zverik Yeah, for me, the map doesn't zoom to the picture anymore which makes it harder to browse nearby pictures... really annoying  no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models.
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  @selfsame we are willing to invest billions of dollars to educate a handful of LLMs but don't want to spend anything to educate humans. The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. Thereโs no point trying to do it the nice way - youโll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heartโs content. Itโs the only way weโre keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
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 @hailey In situations like these, I always think about how many people like to talk of the "social contract", and how that mysteriously only ever gets invoked to place obligations on individuals, and never on states or corporations (as evidenced here once again). Like, people aren't outright pirating because cultural interests are supposed to be balanced by legal exceptions. And leaving aside whether that has ever actually been balanced, if publishers now decide to object to that balance... well. @hailey@hails.org Book publishers are the scum of the earth. I wish all authors just let me send them money directly for their work. Their hostility towards actual preservation via DRM and "purchasing" (actually lending) ebooks online is fucking ridiculous. I haven't bought a book in years now because of shit like this, this is just icing on the cake. By now people who get excited about AI on social media look the same as people who were excited with NFTs couple years ago. @zverik I learned that this is called grift shift: https://tante.cc/2023/09/21/the-age-of-the-grift-shift/ Hey! I was interviewed by the Once A Maintainer blog, where we talked about Open Source, @openstreetmap , HOTOSM , and Rapid. Check it out! ๐ https://onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-maintainer-bryan-housel For those who are travelling to Kenya for #sotm, note that they use type G (british) power sockets! INCREDIBLE story from @eieio, the person who made the One Million Checkboxes website, about teens hiding data in its shared state https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
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Make sure to get your electronic travel authorization (eTA) or e-visa in advance before your arrival to Kenya ๐ฐ๐ช ! โ https://www.etakenya.go.ke/en Check Raviโs blog about the Kenya e-visa process https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/kenya-visa-process/ Iโm no fan of AI, but AI David Attenborough narrating a Cybertruckโs symbiotic lifestyle is pretty damn funny. @zverik If you want a place to start: when viewing a changeset (e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/100000000 ) it's a perfect opportunity to link to various other websites that offer much more useful diff viewing. I somehow knew about OSMCha, but just discovered achavi https://overpass-api.de/achavi/?changeset=100000000 a few minutes ago pretty randomly. Adding links to these external viewers in osm.org would eliminate the frustration of having to seek out a proper diff for a newbie. Had another "and I pay for this" moment today. Sorry there will be too much of me at #sotm (as usual). Wrote some words in Russian on the OSM data visualization breakthrough made yesterday by @ian and @watmildon : (it's basically this: https://social.modest.com/@ian/113042782952594861) I really should spend a week to make a proper translatable static pages export from my channel... @glitchypixel thank you! the recommendation means a lot. iโm glad you liked it. |
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@zverik Hmm, why would it be reading?