 The next time someone tells you some tech is "inevitable" please laugh directly in their face. And then tell them that's been used as an excuse for exploitation forever, it's a red flag, and if they were smart, they'd avoid it, well, like the plague. But we know how well that's going. Just got my Hepatitis A vaccine shot for travelling to Kenya for @sotm. Note that you most likely need a visa to go there — see https://2024.stateofthemap.org/venue/#visa And for visa, you would need a hotel booking (I'm staying at "Hotel Embassy") and an invitation letter from the organizers. Don't postpone all this! Absolutely disgusting. Conda is 99.99% free software! Tell your friends to *never* use the anaconda distribution, but instead the FLOSS conda system with conda-forge. They're not the same thing! To avoid proprietary lock-in, use miniforge. https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squeeze_on/ Omg. I always treated LAMP as a baseline for web development, and have just now realized this has not been true for like ten years. I must say I am utterly shocked _beyond words_ to learn this. Just. Utterly. Shocked. I will not be taking questions. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
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 The thing I talked about at @sotmeu is technically done: https://geoscribble.osmz.ru/ now presents a list of walks, grouped by user, date, and region. Sign in to filter by yourself, and click the "Done" button when traced the scribbles into OSM. First thing I found out is that of 7 places I used the scribbles, 5 I forgot about! Next thing would be to style it a bit, and describe how it works somewhere.  "Should we privatize this thing?" And "Should we give control over this thing to an unelected rich person who has no reason to act in the public good?" Are exactly the same question
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 @researchfairy Something we often do in land use regulation is assume bad faith, the worst actor. What is the worst case? For privatization this strikes me as a fantastic approach given the track record. Ah, yes. This and also throwing public services under the bus by not funding them nearly enough is usually the case. @researchfairy you can privatise ownership but regulate how the service is operated, set rules for pricing etc. not saying this is necessarily a good idea, but it is a thing that is done in practice. requires a government that is willing and able to, of course.
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Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text
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  ...and disable basic browser navigation with half-assed javascript intercepting the user's clicks, then blame the end user for being backwards when the end user complains about this. @urlyman @jwildeboer while in the mean time consuming an inordinate amount of resources on your local computer…  Thanks for the pointers everyone! I ended up putting together a thing that uses OpenAI's API with gpt-4o-mini to suggest OSM tags for a picture: https://github.com/iandees/image-to-osm I'll try putting it up on the web somewhere if there's interest. I spent about 15¢ testing it a few dozen times: @ian Wow! I just thought, adding a button to Every Door to use this would be sooo easy. But the multitude of edge cases makes me wary. Give it a shot: https://image-to-osm.vercel.app/ Take a picture, get OSM tags. Put tags in mobile editor. I'm still thinking about how to make the output useful. I don't want this data to go straight to OSM, but it sure makes some of the tedious part of OSM mapping while walking easier. Please give feedback or ideas! @trailstash @stamen @maplibre I assume this is also referencing the negative space Nolli Map of Rome?! Looks awesome in Sydney. Thanks very much, going to have a lot of fun with this.  @trailstash @stamen @maplibre that’s wonderful / here it is again in the first volume of the nacis atlas of design Exciting news!🤩 🗣️All the streamed talks are now on the FOSS4G YouTube channel! Check them out at👉https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7BifRbPqQ&list=PLqa06jy1NEM0QkCSb94zkEFvzRAMgaFY5   In honor of #OpenStreetMap’s 20th birthday today here’s our thread with all the OSM community interviews we’ve done on our blog over the years: I miss the old Mapblast Linedrive directions from the early 2000s. To the point that I still draw my own sometimes. When your pilot's license has been revoked so you have to taxi your aircraft to the destination. @pinakographos I want to say the Kalamazoo Metro Transit maps from the aughts looked like that. Appropriate, since I think 530 North Rose is the bus garage. The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant wouldn't be possible without all of our fantastic sponsors. This year's grant is sponsored by:   every now and then i feel like im taking crazy pills because i remember when aaron swartz killed himself because he was going to go to jail forever because he scraped JSTOR, and eleven years later your manager tells you “sshhhh it’s fine just scrape all of it don’t worry the CEO said it’s fine” |
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@susankayequinn @davidthewid @histoftech Is the GenAI bubble deflating, though? I would love it if that was the case, but all I see is more and more push for it from big tech, and all the hobbyists lapping it up.
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Of course they know it's an excuse for exploitation. They were planning on doing the exploiting.
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