AtanasE

AtanasE, 20 days ago to random

"Volunteer maintainers of the widely used OpenStreetMap are battling Pokémon Go players who are vandalizing the map with fake data in order to cheat in the game."

https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-invent-fake-beaches-on-real-maps-to-catch-rare-wigletts/

AtanasE, 28 days ago to random

What did you do during the pandemic? Did you pretend to work from home? Did you gain weight? Did you start minting NFTs?

@geomenke did none of that. Instead, he and his wife moved to Denmark and settled there -- new job, new language, new house, the works.

Read @rjhale1971 's #GeoHipster interview with Kurt, 7 years after the first one:

https://www.geohipster.com/2024/04/25/where-are-they-now-kurt-menke/

lauren, 1 month ago to random

Betamax actually was better than VHS.

AtanasE, 2 months ago to random

Amazing #GeoHipster interview with @adamsteer . @rjhale1971 is on a roll.

“This story is a hard one to write … and may be hard to read.” Adam shares his insight into the politics of academia (“fit the mold or you’re out. Don’t speak up or you’re out”), working as a migrant (“we found barriers to everything everywhere”), and other bumps on his road as a geospatial professional with a PhD.

Read the interview, then share it. Especially if you are securely employed.

https://www.geohipster.com/2024/03/21/where-are-they-now-adam-steer/

nixCraft, 3 months ago to random

I'm not sure what Bluesky Social is for. It seems like Jack wants to create another version of Twitter, which feels like old wine in a new bottle. Maybe he should just retire and let people enjoy #Mastodon without further dividing the community. The same goes to Threads net (another clone from Facebook). Ugh.

AtanasE, 3 months ago to random

In keeping with my 2024 New Year’s resolutions, I started an inverse bucket list – a Marie-Kondo-style list of things to get rid of. Not material things. Mostly mental and intangible things like maintaining presence on a social network, or a long-standing vague intention to do something.

https://mostlysubjective.com/2024/02/17/inverse-bucket-list/

AtanasE, 3 months ago to random

A Möbius strip walks into a bar, crying.
The bartender asks, "What's the matter?"
The Möbius strip replies, "Oh, where do I even begin?"

lauren, 3 months ago to random

My new policy is to immediately block users who reply to my posts with what I consider to be hyperbolic comments. They are of course free to take their carefully considered missives to other places where I'm sure they'll be welcome, but not on my threads. Thanks for your understanding of this policy.

briankrebs, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Google is too big to fail, and yet they seem to be failing at basic things they used to do well (like search) while removing useful features (like cache) and adding a bunch of crap nobody needs or wants.

Want to know if a given domain name shows up anywhere in search? Well screw you, we're not going to tell you that anymore, but here's 1,400 completely useless and irrelevant results that could possibly have some info (but don't). When the search engine could have done what it's done for years, and admit that it doesn't know WTF you're talking about and say "no results found." Now it just makes shit up if it doesn't know the answer.

Hey cool! My search result shows the term I was looking for is present on 7 websites. Shoot! None of them are online anymore. How about showing us your cached version of the site, you know the one that was used to create this search result? Oh wait, no, you can't see that anymore. Why? Here's Danny Sullivan's dismissive and mystifying explanation: "“It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”

Want software? Great, Google will serve a malicious ad on top that looks a lot like an organic search result but which is paid for by scammers and installs malware.

nf3xn, 3 months ago to random

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nixCraft, 3 months ago to random

I will transfer my domains from Google Domains to Cloudflare or Namecheap tonight. What a disaster. I don't trust Squarespace. They are shady. Ugh. Google ruined another product.

nf3xn, 3 months ago to random

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nixCraft, 3 months ago to random

Me: can i work from home?

employer: no.

Me: why? why not?

employer: we own too much real estate.

simon, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Account security software design question: if a user has created an account with an email and password, and verified that email address (via clicking a link/entering a code in an email they sent you)... and then later they SSO "sign in with Google" from a Google account for that same email address, is it OK to grant them access to their previously created account without first requiring their password as an extra verification step?

nf3xn, 3 months ago to random

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AtanasE, 4 months ago to random

My response to @geobabbler ArcMap blog post:

https://mostlysubjective.com/2024/01/18/arcmap-is-dead-long-live-arcmap/

matt_travis, 4 months ago to random

Loving my #geohipster camping mug. Thanks for sorting this out @rjhale1971

lauren, 5 months ago to random

Whenever I can reasonably use wired Ethernet rather than Wi-Fi, I use wired Ethernet rather than Wi-Fi.

AtanasE, 5 months ago to random

The 2024 #GeoHipster calendar has arrived, and is amazing! All maps are wonderful. Several managed to surprise this old-timer.

Order yours today!

Featuring Maps from:

Amanda Robinson
Euan Mitchell
Abigail Rabinovitch
Laura A. Bautista Montejano
Ursula Kalin
Tracy Homer
Katherine Rudzki
Andreia Alves da Silva
Phoebe Ly
Antonia Blankenberg
Terence Teo
Alison DeGraff Ollivierre
Kirsten Reilly
Catherine Schroder

https://www.geohipster.com/2023/11/21/2024-geohipster-calendar-2/

2024 GeoHipster calendar map authors

AtanasE, 5 months ago to random

This is brilliant! We should all do it.

Found at https://alsweigart.com

AtanasE, 5 months ago to random

Similarly to the 1983 Doubled Die Reverse penny, which lacks a mint mark and because of that is worth about $5,000 today, the 2023 #GeoHipster calendar, in a glaring error, did not mark #Shapefile Day (12/3), and will thus be worth millions in the not-so-distant future.

Will the 2024 calendar repeat the error? Hedge your bets and order multiple copies before it's too late:

https://www.geohipster.com/2023/11/21/2024-geohipster-calendar-2/

lauren, 6 months ago to random

Anyone seeing odd behavior from #Gmail filters starting in the last couple of days? I have examples of messages that should have gotten labels from long standing filters, but didn't and aren't, and I can't find any obvious explanations. Thanks.

timbray, 6 months ago to HashtagGames

I shot the sheriff.

#FalseConfessions
#HashTagGames