 Alright folks on BitWarden, looks like they are speedrunning Enshitification and moving to proprietary clients and servers, so now is the time to backup/export your credentials and look around for alternatives. I personally use NextCloud Passwords and NextCloud OTP Manager, but that is not a security endorsement, just what I chose for my family. I wasn’t able to attend the #OpenStreetMap Foundation AGM last night because I had a whole-day affair and the AGM started at midnight my time, but I found the Chair’s less-than-positive report by @grischard, um, interesting: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Stereo/diary/405356 (I also know that an outgoing [unnamed, but it’s not hard to find if you know where to look] Board member has already posted their thoughts on Mastodon, LinkedIn, and Facebook hinting at the problem.) @zverik @simon Exactly! e.g. Vespucci for new buildings and paths and such, StreetComplete for random contributions on the go, etc. 99% of contributions I made with StreetComplete would have never existed without StreetComplete. I wouldn't bother e.g. opening Vespucci to check if stuff is properly tagged. But also: vast majority of stuff I added with Vespucci would have never been added if Vespucci hadn't existed, as I wouldn't bother sitting in front of a computer to add stuff from home. Congratulations to Craig Allan, Maurizio Napolitano, Laura Mugeha and Héctor Ochoa Ortiz on being elected to the OpenStreetMap Foundation Board of Directions at the 2024 AGM. 👏 more: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM2024/Election_to_Board @openstreetmap And the result is exactly the same as when you’d just elected the top 4 ;-) Headline: “Wow, Bluesky managed to get $8 million in funding” What you should be reading: “Bluesky took on an additional $8 million in debt, which they will need to be pay back with interest one way or another” How are they going to be doing that, you wonder? Well reader, certainly not just by selling domain names at a slight markup.
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 @everydoor I also hope Every Door starts supporting `addr:block`, `addr:suburb`, and custom `addr:place` values, so it becomes viable for collecting addresses in India. Currently, all our address mapping is restricted to Vespucci users.  Just got back from my dentist. Her boss has introduced #AI into the clinic. It claims to automatically detect many conditions and right away it found 4 issues affecting my teeth. The only downside was that its findings were 100% wrong, which my dentist of many years' experience spotted immediately.
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Your friend’s observation about men is a variation on Gresham’s Law, which originally said bad money drives out good but applies to everything. Bad roommates drive out good roommates, for example. Has anyone coined a law for the tendency for social systems to degenerate to their lowest common denominator? Other than the second law of thermodynamics, I mean.   If you are in a ‘movement’ or group or political party that is mainly composed of men…maybe think why. Libertarianism is an example: Almost entirely male. "I've been thinking a lot about what a friend pointed out - that mixed gendered spaces often quickly become male-exclusive because men tend to have much higher tolerance for arsehole behaviour than women, so it only takes one dodgy person to destroy a community as all the women basically leave."  @kgjenkins If I ever had ambitions to become a game dev, this chart would have disabused me of that silly idea. To be fair we not only have lon/lat (yes in that order and I will die on that hill) but also tile coordinate y axis flipping Ended up talking to some Fancy Finance Fellows at a bar tonight. When they found out what I do, one asked: “So is the dream Hollywood? Movie? Show?” I answered probably the truest thing I’ve said in a bar: “I’ve had many things optioned. The actual dream is being able to write whatever I want & pay for my life & my child’s with just that. That’s the REAL goal. Hollywood, if it happens, is just a means to that.”
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@Catvalente Some people just can't understand having motives beyond more money forever. I'm in open source and maps, but exactly this. Couple days ago we had a discussion with a guy in a restaurant who's set of earning all the money in the world, and that's what I replied — just to make little useful digital things and have my children's needs paid for. Alas :( The #30DayMapChallenge by @tjukanov is back on Nov 1! 🎉 "Over 50,000 maps have been created in this challenge so far, and I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with this year. Check out the prompts and more details at https://30DayMapChallenge.com" OpenPlacesMap - anybody can edit any place-name label in this map. this is some technology i can get excited about - a translator that works offline in real time that you can just put on a table between two people to have a conversation between languages: https://petewarden.com/2024/10/11/introducing-torre-a-new-way-to-translate/ FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware! https://github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty. https://www.futo.org/projects/ All I need now is a model that will translate all the Russians in #CounterStrike for me :D #Accessibility #HearingAid #Deaf #FUTO #FreeSoftware #FairSoftware #MachineLearning
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 @unfa This is awesome to see. FOSS and accessibility should have a lot more overlap than they currently do, so tools like this are fantastic!  @unfa I couldn't figure out if the training data for the model was ethically sourced or not. I hope so.  This is getting absurd, this evening I found 5 previously unmapped hairdressers / barbers / beauty salons in about 200m of street. This is my life now, walking very slowly with Everydoor open on my mobile, peering up at the shop signs for hairdressers. I'm struggling to remember why I ever thought "map every POI in my barrio" was a good idea. Some hard numbers to back up my growing impression that "there are a lot of hairdressers around here". There are now 180 shops mapped in my area of interest (defined simply as objects with a shop tag in OSM). Of those, 38 are hairdressers, barbers, or beauty salons - about 21%. To save you all rushing off to look at Taginfo: the worldwide equivalent is a little under 8%. (Green markers are hairdressers, grey markers are all other types of shop).  @seav There's a @qgis easter-egg that turns the map panel into a shuffle game if you type 'bored' in the coordinate bar. It renders whatever is visible on the map into 15 pieces. So placing the OSM slippy map gets something similar, though tiling is generated based on map bounds, not the slippy map tiles. yes, it's playable The wait is over. HTML for People is OUT NOW! I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This web book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way. And it’s free for all. 🚀
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@seav fun challenge : give the ability to zoom in the map and the tiles accordingly change, even if they are mixed. @seav There's a @qgis easter-egg that turns the map panel into a shuffle game if you type 'bored' in the coordinate bar. It renders whatever is visible on the map into 15 pieces. So placing the OSM slippy map gets something similar, though tiling is generated based on map bounds, not the slippy map tiles. yes, it's playable |
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@Brett_E_Carlock ah crap.
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Thanks for the heads up! It's a shame. It it's.going to be costly, they're probably going to lose the majority of its users.