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  • Street­Complete: An app for those who want to contribute to OpenStreetMap

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  • Yeah, it's made more for refining and confirming details than for adding entirely new objects.

    When I want to add something that's not on the map yet, I either add a note in StreetComplete and come back to it later on my computer, or I add it using Vespucci. (I've been known to add items using Vespucci, then reload the data on StreetComplete so I can fill in details that aren't in the presets and that I can't remember how to tag manually!)

  • Is lemmy crawler friendly?

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  • What OS do you use on your pc and why?

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  • @lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it?

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  • By that logic, there's no point in ever deleting anything online, so why even bother with hiding them? Just leave everything up there forever, whether the person who wrote it still wants it to be there or not.

    Also, not everyone has the time, programming skills and resources to just fork a project, never mind run their own server. That's not a constructive approach to a "this feature ought to work better" discussion.

  • do you think the fediverse could replace popular social media

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  • Mastodon has the same fatal flaw. They want to keep your history and relationships hostage so you can’t leave.

    You can migrate your relationships to a new Mastodon server.

    And while you can't directly transfer the history (the debate over how/whether to do this has gone on for literally years), you can export an archive you can keep locally, and there are tools out there to parse it and convert it to some other form (static website, whatever). Someone's probably written an importer by now, though I'd have to look.

  • @lemmy Hi I am planning on joining Lemmy however I was reading about some privacy issues with the platform. I am going to share some of them and what do you think about it?

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  • The fact that other copies might be out there (assuming a crawler archived the particular page while a post was up) isn't a reason not to remove the copies you can control.

  • Other use cases for the fediverse

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  • #Bookwyrm is a book review site like Goodreads

    #WriteFreely is a blogging service, and Medium is actually working on Fediverse integration.

  • Fox News host Jeanine Pirro calls it “insanity” to wear a mask to protect yourself from wildfire smoke

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  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    What it’s like to wear the Dyson Zone around an NYC covered in wildfire smoke

    www.theverge.com /23753850/dyson-zone-wildfire-nyc-experience

  • New Fractureiser malware used CurseForge Minecraft mods to infect Windows, Linux

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  • Minecraft Discussion / News @lemmy.ml
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    New Fractureiser malware used CurseForge Minecraft mods to infect Windows, Linux

    www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/security/new-fractureiser-malware-used-curseforge-minecraft-mods-to-infect-windows-linux/

  • What niche reddit community do you want to see find a place on the fediverse?

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  • Pinetab2, first impressions

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  • What Are Some Great Android Open Source Alternative Apps?

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  • If you use a Nextcloud server, there's a good collection of apps (some official, some third-party) that work with it. The ones I use:

    Nextcloud - main app, does authentication, file access, optional auto-upload photos Nextcloud Notes - kind of like Google Keep, but simpler. (IIRC Carnet is more like Keep, and also open) Nextcloud Talk - instant messaging, supposedly can do voice but I've never used it for that Nextcloud News - RSS reader that syncs your feeds and read/unread through your Nextcloud server

    Plus these apps that aren't Nextcloud-specific, but work with it and other sync methods:

    OpenTasks - ToDo list (needs Dav5x to sync) DAVx5 - Syncs contacts, calendars and to-do items between any CalDav, CardDav or WebDav servers and your Android system, so you can access them with any local contacts or calendar app. (For instance: K-9 Mail can use contacts from my Google account and my Nextcloud account, and Simple Calendar can do the same with my calendars.) Floccus - Bookmarks manager that can sync across multiple desktop browsers and the mobile app, using any of several sync options including Nextcloud

  • How the web became unreadable

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  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Downsides of Flatpak

    blog.brixit.nl /developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak/

  • what videogame do you have the most hours in?

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  • Temecula Valley school board votes 3-2 to reject new curriculum over Harvey Milk inclusion

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  • How the web became unreadable

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  • Sure, servers are cheaper now. Domains are cheap now. TLS certs are free now. But that happened after the advertising business model became dominant.

    For a while, server power was barely keeping up with the rise in demand, and you couldn't just add another cloud server or bump up the RAM allocation on the one you have, you had to physically install new hardware. That took a larger chunk of money than adding $5 to your hosting plan, and time to set up the hardware.

    By the time the tech stack got significantly cheaper (between faster hardware and virtualization, not to mention Let's Encrypt), advertising was already entrenched and starting to coalesce around a handful of big networks.

  • lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead

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  • Even just caching the not-logged-in views can be a big help, as I've found with self-hosted WordPress.

  • Welcome Reddit refugees!

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  • This post alone now has as many upvotes as I saw someone on Reddit claim Lemmy had total users.

  • What the hell are Digital Humanities?

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  • I would assume it involves computer-related writings, history, etc. How people communicate online, hypertext fiction, wikis, the differences in how people write and present media online compared to on paper. How people have used memes, emoji, etc. Hacker lore. Some overlap with digital arts and social sciences - ethics, media creation

  • Reddit: Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is.

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  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
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    Long Beach releases plan for largest offshore wind turbine facility at any U.S. port

    www.latimes.com /california/story/2023-05-09/long-beach-releases-plan-for-largest-offshore-wind-turbine-facility-at-any-u-s-port
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Is there already a Fediverse compatibility matrix?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Can ActivityPub save the internet?

    www.theverge.com /2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    The Free Software Foundation is Dying

    drewdevault.com /2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    This is what it looks like to be colorblind

    www.theverge.com /23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    The listed authors of Stochastic Parrots reply to the "AI pause" letter

    www.dair-institute.org /blog/letter-statement-March2023
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow

    www.theverge.com /2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI

    blog.mozilla.org /en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-investing-in-trustworthy-ai/
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science

    arstechnica.com /science/2023/03/national-academies-we-cant-define-race-so-stop-using-it-in-science/
  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
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    Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

    spectrum.ieee.org /polar-night-energy-sand-battery
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face

    arstechnica.com /science/2023/01/researchers-look-a-dinosaur-in-its-remarkably-preserved-face/
  • Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml
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    Going off-grid...in Manhattan

    arstechnica.com /science/2023/01/i-disconnected-from-the-electric-grid-for-8-months-in-manhattan/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    WaPo: Various ways you can replace Twitter, depending on how you use it now

    wapo.st /3fkMsjo
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    The Last Person in the Floppy Disk Business

    eyeondesign.aiga.org /we-spoke-with-the-last-person-standing-in-the-floppy-disk-business/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    Google Toolbar is still around in 2021! Oh wait, no it isn't.

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2021/12/happy-21st-birthday-to-google-toolbar-which-inexplicably-still-exists/
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    Opera Unite tried decentralizing the web ten years ago

    www.ctrl.blog /entry/opera-unite.html
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
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    GoDaddy Managed Wordpress Service Breached - 1.2M plaintext passwords

    www.wordfence.com /blog/2021/11/godaddy-breach-plaintext-passwords/