beejjorgensen

beejjorgensen, 17 days ago

I’m on the “OK but keep an eye on it” train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I’d really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

beejjorgensen, 1 month ago

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

beejjorgensen, 2 months ago

My simple home page is 10 KB now. And you might not think that’s such a big deal, but it has more content than Google’s search page and that rings in at a couple MB IIRC. 😁

beejjorgensen, 6 months ago

The real problem with the internet isn’t Facebook or Twitter or Reddit, it’s the fact the entire experience is pretty much controlled by Microsoft and Google. As they shape your content, lock you out of areas and generally dictate what’s “legal” or even what gets found during your searches.

I agree the Google and MS are a problem, but Facebook, Twitter, Reddit are also a problem, albeit a different one.

beejjorgensen, 6 months ago

the coveted green bubble messaging

I guess some people just have different priorities than I do. :)

beejjorgensen, 6 months ago

Firefox does something else very important: provide another rendering engine for the web. When that landscape homogenizes, you get IE6 all over again. And we never want to go back there.

beejjorgensen, 7 months ago

I love that this project is still going. I rarely use it, but it’s going to be instrumental in preserving tons of Windows abandonware.

beejjorgensen, 7 months ago

“Unless you give us all your money to put in our new bank, we might be facing insolvency issues.”

beejjorgensen, 7 months ago

I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I’ve already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.

Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.

beejjorgensen, 7 months ago

Turns out if you get rid of ads and the algorithm, you end up back in the land of sanity.

beejjorgensen, 7 months ago

Louis Rossmann: “when the pirate experience is better than the paid experience, you have a problem.”

beejjorgensen, 7 months ago

Definitely. And your best self wants to buy these fantastic products.

beejjorgensen, 8 months ago

The rectangle is the bounding box for all the edits in that changeset. What I’m guessing happens here is that wheelmap.org bundles a bunch of random edits from global users into a single changeset and then submits it. Since its users are from random places around the globe, it’s likely the bounding boxes are going to be large.

But just because the bounding box is physically large doesn’t mean the edits are large. For example, a single edit near Los Angeles coupled with a single edit near Copenhagen would produce the bounding box in your screenshot.

beejjorgensen, 9 months ago

That’s not illegal, though. (All of us save copies of copyrighted media.) It’s the distribution that’s in question.

The law is contrary to the interests of The People and needs to change.

beejjorgensen, 9 months ago

Yes, for storage, if we coordinated enough. Such technologies already exist. But IA also does tons of archival work that isn’t so easily distributed. And their lending system isn’t easily legally federated.

beejjorgensen, 9 months ago

I genuinely wonder if Facebook notices a $100k/day fine.

beejjorgensen, 9 months ago

It’s difficult to compute the additional world domestic product that was created due to vim, to compute the impact one person had on… everything.

A very sad day.

beejjorgensen, 10 months ago

I had the same experience moving from GIMP to Photoshop. 😂

beejjorgensen, 10 months ago

I’ve been editing OSM for years. (896,339 edits in 3,427 changesets, apparently!) For me, it’s all about the free data. I once got a thank you note from someone who worked for a city with a particularly large municipal park. I’d added almost all the trails to the park and other information, and they’d used it to produce a printed map for the general public. Exactly the kind of thing I’d hoped for!

Personally, I do a lot of dualsport motorcycling and most backcountry maps around here are subpar. I map tons of trails and 2track and put them on the Garmin so I know where I’m going.

OSM is also great in lots of Europe–tons of detail.

JOSM is great.

Someone just recommended Organic Maps for the phone–it’s way snappier than Google Maps, but still not great with finding addresses.

beejjorgensen, 11 months ago

I think most billionaires have a bit of their brain set to believe in themselves rather more than is warranted. It's great for making money, but maybe not something you want to put your life on the line over.

beejjorgensen, 11 months ago

Agree--keep off. Meta can just build their own Twitter.

beejjorgensen, 11 months ago

Amen. When people talk about how Reddit or Twitter will always be bigger, I say, "Let them be bigger." What we have out here is fantastic just the way it is. In a global world, "small" is still millions of people.