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jhilden

@jhilden@vis.social

Information designer from Helsinki. Co-founder of Koponen+Hildén
Co-author of the Data visualization handbook / Tieto näkyväksi (Finnish edition)
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jhilden, to Typography
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I don’t really know what this looks like but the type sure doesn’t look 1956. Pretty cool.
https://mastodon.social/

Saint_loup, to random
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"Here’s where it gets interesting — GCJ-02 is based on WGS-84, but with a deliberate obfuscation algorithm applied to it. The effect of this is that there are random offsets added to both latitude and longitude, ranging from as little as 50m to as much as 500m
(...)
it’s against the law in China to convert GCJ-02 (obfuscated coordinates) into WGS-84"

https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2

jhilden,
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@Saint_loup @MoritzBrouhaha This is very interesting. Wonder what the situation with #OpenStreetMaps is? Seems like it would depend – some coordinates that are accurate, because they are based on satellite images, but others that are offset, if the person placing an amenity happens to have obfuscated position information.

jhilden,
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@Saint_loup @MoritzBrouhaha Someone did a visualization of the GCJ-02 distortion

https://github.com/leifgehrmann/gcj02-distortion-map

jhilden,
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@Saint_loup @MoritzBrouhaha According to Wikipedia OSM is mostly accurate?
”Satellite imagery and user-contributed street map data sets, such as those from OpenStreetMap also display correctly because they have been collected using GPS devices (albeit technically illegally – see Legislation).”

jhilden, to ebikes
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Right, wrong or ”it depends”?

From the perspective of a non-technical user, an e-bike that is built and designed to use a motor will generally be superior to a regular bike turned into an e-bike with a conversion set.

At least in Finland conversion sets are fairly rare. Arguably there are obvious issues with the vendor lock-in that major brands like Bosch push on their users, but the reliability is okay and there are certified maintenance shops. #ebikes

jhilden,
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By ”non-technical” I’m here thinking of someone who rather leaves anything more advanced than fixing a flat or changing brake pads to the bike shop.

jhilden, to cycling
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We got a cool new bike tunnel in , just did a test ride! A huge improvement, replaces a very fraught and annoying route in front of the railway station.

Article in Finnish, but includes video.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20087082

jhilden,
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We really should build some more bike tunnels like this :D

husku, to random Finnish
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Jotenkin en itse ole innostunut tuosta bsky-bridge-hommasta.

Lähinnä siksi, että se ei ole aitoa federointia vaan perustuu yhteen instanssiin jota on kustomoitu kopioimaan viestejä verkkojen välillä.

Ja ... sitten siellä putken toisessa päässä nimimerkkikään ei oo sama.

Omat viestini eivät tulisi huskulta eliitin-somesta, vaan joltain huskulta jossain bsky.brid.gy instanssilla.

Tuomitsen tyhmäksi koko roskan.

jhilden,
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@husku minullapa ei ole edes löydettävissä koko brid.gy, olisikohan instanssini blokannut sen…

jhilden,
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@husku nope, koitin liimata hakukenttään myös "@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy", zilch

jhilden, to internet
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Nicely made Howto (if anyone here even uses any of the Big Social Media platforms, 😏)
https://www.sitra.fi/en/articles/how-to-turn-off-recommendation-algorithms-on-the-main-social-media-platforms/

jhilden, to random
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Wondering if people might become accustomed to uncanny valley characters if exposed to enough shitty cgi animated films as kids?

Thought provoked by 6yo happily watching Alvin and the Chipmunks or whatever the hell it is called, where all humans look like undead Sims characters.

But maybe not, 10yo readily recognizes the creepiness of said show. Maybe the effect stems from something fundamental to developmental psychology.

jhilden,
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Ok the ones responsible for this garbage are definitely doing it on purpose:
Today the kids watched an episode of said show, where they made dolls of the characters that already look like creepy dolls…

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jhilden,
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@ilkkajii We are the knights who say
Ne
Nä
Ni

jussi_og, to random Finnish
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Pitäisi tehdä työtä, mutta brainstormailen tässä Vornasen uuden eduskuntaryhmän nimeä, ja kyllä se Ryhmä Pau olisi paras.

(Anteeksi.)

jhilden,
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@KatjaMerituuli @jussi_og 🎶 … ihmisessä kiinni 🎶 (pieni ja hento ote -melodialla)

jussi_og, to random Finnish
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saisinko jonkin hyvän uutisen

jhilden,
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@jussi_og Vähän tommoista tekno-optimisimia iltaan
https://scholar.social/@animalculum/112359355920136618

jhilden, to random
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NP
Simaa, vappu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd0PV82e1jE

jhilden,
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@kowry Tää on muuten kans aika loistava laittaa aloituskohdaksi streaming-palveluissa. Olen pari päivää kunnellut ”Obaa Simaa” album radiota…

jhilden,
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@kowry On silleen yleistasolla tuttu, mutta pitääpä ottaa systemaattisemmin kuunteluun!

jhilden,
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@kowry Saatat muuten ehkä kiinnostua tästä leftfield soca -soittolistasta jonka väsäsin joskus kun olin yrittänyt perehtyä genreeseen. Spotify, mutta luultavasti kappaleet löytyy myös muualla

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/525fDAAe8ofKJBgBIEE8tD?si=mPLLCjbFRmS_3JTUdDMuYQ&pi=e-3_ZAiR-tR_iW

kupfers, to random
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Nichts geht über ein guten Morgen Ihr ICE fällt aus 🤪 So schlecht habe ich noch nie gepackt um überstürzt eine Stunde früher mit Regio aufzubrechen. nach Budapest!

jhilden,
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@kupfers @triple @eWalthert Tend to agree – had to fork out like two hundred euros on interrail first class reservations from Girona to Paris, when our normal reservations that Also cost over a hundred were void because of strikes two years ago. Lucky weren’t stuck in Madrid then, where people had to queue for hours. Also the wifi was broken the whole trip, only difference from regular class apparently wider seats.

jhilden, to cycling
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Helsinki mall bike parking at capacity today at late shopping rush, 19:00. Time to consider expanding?

This mall in Pasila, Tripla, has a fair amount of bike parking, but some of it is at less than ideal locations. This one on Firdonkatu is unbeatable for access to the ground floor supermarkets.

And yes, those are all bikes in active use, because I saw these stands empty not many days ago.
#cycling #mobility

jhilden, to random
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Verne’s ”Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas” has some surprisingly modern themes of social justice and environmentalism for an 1870s book.

Except right after Captain Nemo upbraids harpooner Ned Land for wanting to kill some innocent whales just for fun, he then proceeds to slaughter a pod of sperm whales with his ship, referring to them as vermin of the oceans. The sperm whales are described as monstrous predators of other whales. A common misconception or Verne just making shit up? 😅

jhilden,
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Also fairly wild when you think of it that back when Verne wrote the book it was apparently unclear whether Antarctica even was a continent. He has Nautilus sail under ice right up to the Pole.

Verne did live to read about the 1902 expedition by Robert Falcon Scott ja Ernest Shackleton, that made it to 600 kilometers from the South Pole.

jhilden, to random
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New e-library opened in Finland today on the 29th of April, but the release is very buggy. Tried giving some feedback, the feedback form vanishes.

https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/e-library

video/mp4

jhilden,
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I understand there are some very good reasons to give up Overdrive and Libby, but moving to this barely functioning piece of demo software is literally painful from an user perspective.

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