cabbage

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As He died to make men holyLet us die to make things cheap

2d ago

Where can I contribute instead of Google Maps?
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cabbage @piefed.social 2d ago
If I had the skills and time to develop a whole new federated platform this is absolutely be what I would work towards. Sadly I have neither.
OsmAnd is a navigation app, it wouldn't be the right place to start.
My best idea for the easiest possible integration would be to allow for OSM IDs to serve as attachments to posts in the Fediverse (such as mastodon). The lowest effort would be to simply attach ID codes as hashtags. An example of a mastodon post could be:
Impressive, but a little tacky. Worth a visit. 9/10 #OSM #43768260
Here a bot would search for posts with the hashtag #OSM, and include posts with valid numerical OSM IDs as a separate hash tag. Scoring could be included in the text, and be flexible (2/5, 7/10, 87/100), with clients reading the reviews optionally converting them into any form of indicator.
The challenges of this approach (that I have thought of) would be:
Adding the tags would need to be automatized somehow. Mastodon's share functionality could be used to integrate the functionality directly into apps and maps, but this would not work across the Fediverse. OSM IDs are not generally easy to find, so users posting in the format manually is unrealistic. Ideally apps like CoMaps would allow for Fediverse sign-in directly in the app.
Content visibility is a challenge unless some centralized service is tagged. Adding a centralized service would add further problems. A solution would be to make the service dependant on tags.pub for guaranteed hashtag visibility.
Moderation is another challenge, especially if there is no centralized authority. Mastodon is doing work towards shared blocklists on the Fediverse which might help in this respect. Reviews from users blocked by major blocklists would be rendered invisible.
Reviews viewed from the Fediverse wouldn't automatically link back to the OSM location, leaving Fediverse users with lacking context. Using a form of attachment rather than hashtags could solve this issue, but it would require more development.
The benefits would be that the federated infrastructure doesn't really need to be developed much - we would just need people to agree on the standard and find ways to display reviews.
An app to post reviews making use of specialized content fields would probably be nice, but I fear anything that requires additional accounts or apps would deter people. Being able to sign in to existing Fediverse accounts inside of map apps and posting reviews directly seems like a better solution.
I'm sure there are many people with more knowledge than me on the matter though, and some of them are probably working on this already. As I said, I'm just daydreaming. :)

2d ago

Where can I contribute instead of Google Maps?

I dream of an integration between the Fediverse and OSM, where Mastodon or similar accounts can be used to leave comments on nodes in OSM. Of course it would present a lot of technical challenges, but I feel like it should be possible to get it right.

I have seen Mangrove before, but even with all the goodwill I have for finding an alternative platform for reviews it just does not make sense to me at all. The closest restaurant I could find on the platform is 800 km away from me. Without OSM integration it just seems futile, and without ActivityPub I just don't see myself contributing content.

I am probably wrong to be critical. It's seems to be an interesting project attempting to provide an open source solution for the biggest missing feature I identify in the open web at the moment. But right now I find it impossible to use.

1mo ago

TIL it's easy to create a National Day. Happy Pigs in a Blanket Day.

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

The whole world loves a good National Day and so do we. Our motto is simple, and we hope you adopt it too:
Seize the day by making it a National Day!™

Maybe they shouldn't have trademarked it if they wanted others to adopt it.

1mo ago

Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

"workers admitted to sabotaging their company’s AI by [...] intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it"

Lol. Sounds an awful lot like the company is sabotaging itself in this case.

1mo ago

German Chancellor Merz the Most Unpopular Head of Government in the World Survey Shows

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

It fails to capture the difference between a conservative German not approving of Merz because he's a bit of a dull bore and a marginalized American disapproving of Trump because his rule is literally threatening their life. You won't see no king protests against Merz. He is not so unpopular that he might realistically put an end to Germany as we know it.

It doesn't show that threatening the entire working class will make you lose elections. It doesn't have a class dimension at all, it just says how many people actively like their leaders in a handful of countries. Neither Macron nor Merz were particularly popular when they were last elected, they are just strategically positioned within their political systems.

It measures what it measures. We have seen again and again that leaders can be democratically elected and re-elected while fucking over the working class.

1mo ago

German Chancellor Merz the Most Unpopular Head of Government in the World Survey Shows

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

US President Donald Trump ranked just ahead of Erdoğan in 10th place from the bottom, despite launching military operations in Iran. Some 38% of Americans said they were satisfied with his work, while 57% were dissatisfied.

If the survey was to indicate anything, it'd be that Germans, unlike Americans, are not absolute tools.

1mo ago

German Chancellor Merz the Most Unpopular Head of Government in the World Survey Shows

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

Nobody approves of Merz, but few people disapprove of him as much as reasonable people disapprove of figures like Modi and Trump.

This is measured as the percentage of the population in the country who disapproves of the leader. So Trump comes out alright because a bunch of Americans still approve of him. That doesn't really reflect badly on Merz. It reflects badly on America.

That said, if Merz started saying he would deport non-ethnic Germans or some shit like that his approval might grow by this standard because he would at least have some sort of base. Right now he appeals to nobody.

So in short, it's a bit of a shit indicator.

The survey is conducted by Morning Consult, who received $31 million in funding from James Murdoch in 2020 and another $60 million from some group named Advance Venture Partners in 2021. I don't think they do bullshit research by accident.

1mo ago

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

The term antifa is pretty common among anti-fascists in Germany at least. Maybe it hasn't catched on much in the US because the country has been busy sleepwalking into totalitarianism.

1mo ago

Y'all ever have intrusive thoughts about accidentally dropping stuff in storm drains? (particulary when you have your phone out) And like if that happens, wtf is someone supposed to do?

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

My intrusive thoughts usually revolve around yeeting my phone off a bridge or a boat. I've managed to contain myself so far.

As for storm drains, I lost my keys down a deep one a few months back. Went to the hardware store and bought strong magnets and a wire and got them out after a lengthy fishing expedition.

1mo ago

different kinds of cheesecakes

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cabbage @piefed.social 1mo ago

Italian and Basque are the two best ones, followed by New York. Scandinavian is nice enough and also not listed.

2mo ago

Let's say hypothetically I wanted to leave the US permanently;

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

To find jobs in Norway, try searching for the word "jobbportal". At least some of these sites allow you to sort for English language jobs.

2mo ago

Waterfox to integrate Brave adblock engine, with search ads enabled by default

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

Just started using it a week ago or so. Guess it was good while it lasted.

2mo ago

Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another.

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

If we can have fewer nazis at the price of a slight inconvenience for users who were born in 1988 and for some reason want to have their birth year in their user name....

Yeah, I'll take fewer nazis, please.

I'm fine others may disagree, but let's at least be honest what we talk about when we talk about "controversial moderation".

2mo ago

Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another.

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

It seems Ernest recovered, and just decided to step away after his health got better!

Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances, I had to step away from actively working on Kbin and leave its further development to the community. Nevertheless, I am happy to see the project thriving, with a dedicated group of users and contributors who continue to push its vision forward.
Open-source has always been important to me, and while I am no longer involved with Kbin, I still believe in the power of community and the potential of open technologies to shape the future of the internet.

2mo ago

Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another.

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

Again, what exactly are you talking about?

Which computer software is ever not implemented on a "code level"?

The lead developer recently started a thread in the Piefed meta community specifically to open for people to ask questions about these things. In full:

I have received word that there are people combing through the PieFed code looking for anything that might be harmful. This is excellent and can only make PieFed better and less harmful. We appreciate their interest in PieFed and look forward to answering any questions and showing people around the code. Please join us at https://chat.piefed.social/ or https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-developers:matrix.org.
There’s no need to listen to rumors and amateur speculation when we’re right here and happy to help. Come on in, the water’s fine!

Nobody in the thread managed to come up with an even remotely critical question. I'm not in the chat so I'm not sure if there were any interesting discussions there, but it's safe to say it's hard to find the weird conspiracies floating around reflected in the actual development.

If you have an issue, ask in !piefed_meta@piefed.social. If the community agrees your concern is valid I can guarantee you it'll be addressed.

There's also the question of what exactly would constitute controversial moderation. If we could hard code out fascists, stalinists, and misogynists, I would be entirely in favour. There's no need to supply these people with tools for their nonsense. My only issue with it is that it's not realistic without generating false positives. I don't speak for Piefed here though, just my personal opinion.

2mo ago

Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another.

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

Also multi-communities is a pretty central feature. A list of differences with Lemmy is maintained here.

2mo ago

Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another.

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

Piefed is Lemmy with cross-posts collapsed to one thread, and controversial developers (moderation defaults)

Would love to hear which moderation defaults of PieFed are so controversial. Your phrasing seems to indicate that Lemmy developers' support for Putin and Xi Jinping is no more controversial than Piefed developers' preference to silence trolls and fascists.

The rules for Piefed.social are available here. The software Piefed ships with some default moderation options enabled, which can be disabled should the server admin choose to do so. I think having stricter moderation enabled by default when people set up a new server that they may or may not know how to manage effectively is obviously a better choice than to set the default to "anything goes".

2mo ago

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

Yes, absolutely. They are digging their grave with their transition to being an AI company and it will absolutely catch up with them eventually.

2mo ago

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

This is not being ignored my Microsoft

My impression is that Microsoft won't care all that much. They are primarily a cloud service provider at this point, and while they will try to squeeze Windows users for as much money and information as possible before it goes down for good they have no real interest in keeping on developing Windows. It's just not where the real money is at.

It doesn't make sense outside the world of capitalism, but we see again and again that big tech companies are happy to kill even profitable services if they are not their most profitable services. Microsoft's revenue these days comes from selling cloud office solutions to (seemingly) every company on the planet. Even their own cloud runs on Linux, meaning that Microsoft themselves makes more money off Linux than Windows these days.

Windows is now in the extraction phase of enshittification, and Microsoft will profit as much as they can from it while they still have market power while spending minimal resources developing the product. Windows has effectively been declared dead already, and remains as a sofware zombie just like Facebook. Windows 12 is not going to be an improvement upon 11; it'll be another fuck you to the customers, and the beatings will continue until customers leave for good and Microsoft are finally relieved of their side gig of making an operative system.

2mo ago

Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch

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cabbage @piefed.social 2mo ago

Because I thought you were obviously wrong about the 7000 years thing, here's a history of trademarks by some guy named Olivier Pierre:

Since ancient times, merchants have been using signs or marks in trade to distinguish their products. Registrations came much later, in the 18th century with the establishment of Intellectual Property Offices.
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The use of trademarks dates back thousands of years, however we can’t date their origins with precision. Some of the earliest forms of identification of marks date from Prehistory. For instance, the Lascaux cave paintings in France show bulls drawings with marks on them. Experts believe that people were using personal marks to claim ownership of livestock, long before literate societies. That was about 15.000 years ago.
The Egyptian masonry from some 6,000 years ago shows distinguishable quarry marks and stonecutters signs, to identify the source of the stone and the laborer who carried out the work to claim their wages. There were creative entrepreneurs who marketed their goods beyond their localities and sometimes over long distances. Wine amphorae marked with seals were found inside the Tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun who reigned between 1336 a.c. to 1327 a.c. over ancient Egypt.

I've gotten so used to think of trademarks as registered trademarks, but it makes sense that it has existed much longer in the literal sense. The earliest known law however dates back little more than 4000 years, and there's nothing about trademarks there, so I think it's fair to say trademark law is a lot more modern. :)

Sorry for being entirely off-topic.