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djh, 6 days ago to berlin

The #Geomob meetup today showed me that the #Geo scene is live and vibrant in #Berlin ✨

I haven't been to many geo events in the past four years, Geo Berlin and Maptime Berlin were my go-to choices back then 🗺️

Exciting to see some old faces and many many new ones at #GeomobBER today ☺️

Lot's of cool little projects, anecdotes, and good vibes all around! 🍻

#Mapstodon #OpenStreetMap @geomob

djh, 7 days ago to berlin

What I take away from the #What3Words presentation at #GeomobBER is that they're genius at marketing. You can't deny that.

As a techie I see so much wrong with their system and it's unthinkable to me that anyone would use it. But they're getting big brands on board. Wild.

#Mapstodon #OpenStreetMap #Berlin

stefan, 8 days ago to fediverse

Hey fediverse, I made a fediverse sharing button you can add to your website or a blog!

https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/

#fediverse #FediverseSharingButton #webdev #WebDesign #websites #SocialMedia

A short recording of me using the fediverse sharing button, filling out various fediverse domain names, showing how the icon changes to match the software running on each server. The interface itself consists of an input field for the domain name and a share button preceded by an icon. An "https" placeholder text is before the input field to signal that this part of the URL is not needed.

matuzo, 14 days ago to random

Netlify wanted to charge me $55 again (they didn't) for HTMHell. They told me that I'm using up more than 100GB of bandwidth, mostly because of the RSS feed (70GB). The file is 2.7MB uncompressed.
Is that possible? Am I doing something wrong or incredibly right? :D

https://www.htmhell.dev/feed.xml

hynek, 16 days ago to random

i beg, once again, tiny js libraries to stop assuming i want to npm-install everything or expose all my visitors to some free cdn service. just give me a directory i can put on a web server, ty

joelanman, 26 days ago to random

would be nice if Slack didn't like, break the law. Seems a low bar

djh, 27 days ago to Flooring

Hey #Mapstodon help me understand #GeoParquet? 🦧💡

Do I get this right

1. It's #Parquet with a blob geometry column

2. The binary blob stores geometries in #WKB

The end.

WKB is 25ish years old by now and very inefficient in storing geometries. Even MVT encodes geometries way more efficiently as zigzag delta encoded varints. WKB simply stores full 8-byte doubles per coordinate. What?

How come #GeoParquet is becoming such a popular #Geo standard?

Spec: https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.0.0/

djh, 27 days ago to Germany

#Electricity generation in #Germany this week 💡✨ 80% #Renewables and 20% #Fossil 😍

I had no idea! But May also seems like the perfect month for 🌞🔌

Source: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE

#Climate #Energy

ronanmcd, 1 month ago to random

If you pay me $1bn I'll let you burn the planet

djh, 1 month ago to random

Everything You Wanted to Know About Vector Tiles (But Were Afraid to Ask) 🗾✨

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/daniel-j-h/diary/404061

I collected my thoughts on vector maps and vector tiles after having spent some time reading the mvt spec for the first time 🦧💡

Happy year of #OpenStreetMap vector maps! 🎉

#Mapstodon #Maplibre #Protomaps

Daojoan, 1 month ago to random

Since 2018, Netflix has raised prices on its most popular plans by around 50%, with the Standard plan increasing from $10.99 to $15.49 per month, and the Premium plan going from $13.99 to $22.99 per month.

At what point does Netflix stop gouging its customers?

How high does the price have to rise for consumers to stop taking it?

And finally - what the ever living f**k has Netflix done to justify raising its prices?

simon, 1 month ago to random

There's a mysterious new, undocumented model in the https://chat.lmsys.org/ arena chat tool called "gpt2-chatbot" - you can access it by selecting "Direct Chat" and then picking it from the big select menu there

It's providing responses that feel significantly more impressive than GPT-4, for both factual-knowledge lookup and logic puzzles. It's possible this is a stealth preview launch of something like GPT-4.5

javi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

davidbisset, 1 month ago to javascript

"tinyworldmap" is a tiny world map for offline-first and low-bandwidth web apps. Neat!

Tested with "decade old phones" and displays the 10,000 most populous cities added to #OpenStreetMap.

#JavaScript

https://github.com/tinyworldmap/tiny-world-map

Demo: https://tinyworldmap.com/

scy, 1 month ago to linux

If you're building a CLI tool that can churn on large amounts of data for hours and you don't implement any kind of progress output, we won't become friends.

(And no, it refuses to work with stdin, else I would've just used pv and be done.)

#Linux #CLI

samwho, 1 month ago to random

Made a dumb website so I wouldn't ever have to Google "tm symbol" again.

https://symbol.wtf

scy, 1 month ago to random

Okay, if you have 250 GB of disk space available, and a few gigs of RAM, #KomootPhoton is impressive. A query like localhost:2322/api?q=rathausstr+17, with no further qualifiers, bounding box, or whatever, returned after 1048 ms.

That's on my laptop. Searching over all of the addresses on the globe.

https://photon.komoot.io/

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #Photon

jwildeboer, 1 month ago to random

Dear #DeutschePost #DHL — now that you are switching from Google Maps to #OpenStreetMap for your deliveries and parcel tracking, maybe add a few features like "report road blocks", "report construction" and a few other single button actions to your terminals in the vehicles so that you also give back to the vibrant #OSM community? Need help with that? Happy to coordinate! Article in German: https://www.golem.de/news/paketverfolgung-und-mehr-post-und-dhl-wechseln-von-google-maps-zu-openstreetmap-2404-184140.html

bagder, 2 months ago to random

In about thirty minutes I start the getting started with #libcurl #webinar

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/18/getting-started-with-libcurl/