pootriarch

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I've tried Magic Earth a handful of times, but each time I dumped it because it marked a street as closed or wrong-way, creating a circuitous detour. There's no such issue in OSM; it simply hallucinated something.

I was testing it so I knew where I was going, but I'm reluctant to rely on it when I really need nav. Have I been supremely unlucky?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm torn, because on the one hand, yes! — the hour I spent figuring out which PGP XEP was the right one is an hour I won't get back. But, "only the XEPs you need to implement for a modern messaging application, ignoring historical cruft and excessive backwards-compatibility" sounds so much like the beginning of an extend-and-extinguish cycle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

thank you… more of a thought experiment now than a true need, but it seems like if it became a need, i'd be better off building a matrix account. i suspected this but had hoped for more :/

 

My primary home is in XMPP for Reasons, but it would occasionally be useful to DM someone in Matrix.

I know there are bridges, through aria-net if I remember correctly, and I know encryption is impossible through a bridge. Aside from encryption, is connection seamless or is it glitchy, and if the latter, are we talking occasional nuisance or Cone of Silence?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

got my tech within the last year, was stunned at how not old-white-guy the class was. all age groups, balanced genders, mixed races. many seemed there for neighborhood emergency teams. the airwaves are dead most of the time i've turned the rig on, except during the net hour. i feared exactly what you've heard but thankfully haven't run into it. yet.

 

i sent out a plea for spanish pop music and this came back. it's exactly what i wanted

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Dino and GNOME 44 EOL (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
 

I have Dino 0.4 on Ubuntu. Whenever I upgrade anything in flatpak, it tells me that Dino is using a GNOME 44 runtime and that it’s out of support.

Is Dino under active development, and I should just hold tight? Or should I be looking for a different XMPP client?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

i had drifted away from sabrina over the years but she just cut me off and slid back into my lane

i am the only person you know who's seen her live. any 'you' 😛

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

aye, sailors, i see. are the bonus tracks purchasable loose, or do they try to make you buy the whole album?

 

whole lotta history 4k remaster just came out. i don't know how soon i'll be able to watch it again, since it ends with sarah walking wistfully along the seine. i hope the girls are able to remember her somehow on the tour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it seems to me that flying drones into trees would be a massively expensive hobby

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

wth 'taylor's version'? like there was an o.g. eras tour that made money for scooter?

 

je suis d'une génération désenchantée…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The last show of hers that I saw was on the Dedicated tour in 2018. She played in San Francisco during Pride Week and worked it perfectly. My +1 was out of town and that was likely for the best. It ended up being the gayest show I've seen, and I've seen Kylie six times.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

2m fm, 146.820 (in new orleans)

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Global net? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
 

I'm away from home and stumbled onto some kind of global net controlled today by a Scottish guy. It was probably 4pm Chicago time, so 2200 UTC. What is that, how is there a global net? I think they said something about EchoLink but I'm new and really only recognize the name but not how it works.

 

Organic Maps is available on Linux! It's on flatpak and several package repos (but not apt). I don't know how long it's been there — I just discovered it.

The splash screen cautions that this Linux beta doesn't have parity with the mobile apps yet, but it's still a huge leap over Gnome Maps. Vector rendering, so you can zoom in as far as you want, and free / open source / not shitty (notwithstanding the big scary EULA, which just contains all the OSS licenses for all the pieces).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can't zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.

I've read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that's a battle that's been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i hadn't realized that the ist's were separate

 

"Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium"

screenshotted by @[email protected], which is quite a clever handle

https://aus.social/@ThermiteBeGiants/111956562036638352

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

NO. HOW MANY OF HER ARE THERE TO BE DOING ALL THIS?!

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