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nelgaard
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- That is the problem with this kind of stuff. If it was only used by aging parents it might be OK. But it will be used by everyone. Even if OP manage to somehow prevent abuse, others will just build it themselves.
Because why would you want to make phone calls in the first place and not just send an email, or an SMS?
Because of spam filters and because people do not read their emails immediately because we get so many. But now we just get the same with phone calls.
It was already bad enough with fake Microsoft support.
- Or unless the capacity of you harddisk is limited, filling up with huge snap packages.
Or you need something that is broken by snap. I helped a user after thunderbird after an upgrade could no longer open PDF-s in okular. It turned out that the thunderbird dpkg had been replaced with a snap and I spent quite some time trying getting it to work, filed bug reports, etc, before giving up and installing from Mozilla until I replace it all with Debian.
- As someone noted, there is the issue of jurisdiction.
But Daigle probably did consider being liable and what would be morally justified.
It must have been tempting to try to use the Catwatchful app to notify the victims that they are being stalked. E.g., by getting phone numbers or social media handles and then SMS/DM the victims (if the app reveals the victims handles in the recorded conversations)
Or getting the IMEI numbers and handing them over to network operators or local authorities who could do the notification.
It would probably help many victims, but it could go wrong in some cases.
- And they manage to make it even more crazy by also comparing it to average external temperatures.
== The Victoria Line average temperature in August last year was 60% higher in temperature than the average external temperature that month, measured at 19.5 degrees. ==
Certainly for January it must have been hundreds of percent higher.
And what would the numbers be for e.g., the Moscow metro in winter months where the average outside temperature is negative?
- In my experience, OsmAnd is mostly slow for very long routes.
Maybe it is a matter of quality. Because of course you can find routes fast if they are not the fastest or best routes.
But there is room for improvement. brouter could be integrated even better. Or a router like that could be used directly in OsmAnd.
And long routes could be handled more flexible. E.g., when I go from Copenhagen to Barcelona, it is not super important at first to find the optimal way into Barcelona, or shortcuts in France using regional roads. It will take several days, but I would like to start with a reasonable route giving me an estimate of distance and time. At first I just need a good route to the Great Belt Bridge or the Rødby ferry -- Copenhagen is on an island.
When I drive long distances, I sometimes use several devices. The Xzent system is much faster for longer distances, but the map is not as good, especially it is missing may POI's.
Often they disagree, especially if one is optimizing for distance and other for fuel or time. Then if there is an obstacle or a bad road, I instantly have a good alternative at an intersection.
- It it not just because of underlying OSM data.
Navigation apps such as OrganicMaps and OsmAnd filter OSM data, and package it in way that takes up less space. I.e., it will omit individual trees, manholes, etc. It also omits tags from OSM objects that it does keep.
This is all to to make it possible to fit enough maps on a phone and also there have code that can use that data (for searching and displaying)
Take for example Motorhome stopovers (I have edited at lot of those). OsmAnd has name, opening, hours, power_supply, fees, dump_stations, toilets, showers, phone numbers, website, and a few more tags. But not water_point (although it has drinking_water which is not used much for stopovers).
OrganicMap has much fewer tags for motorhome stopovers.
- But even real translation is bad.
There has been some efforts to make computer languages with local (non-english) keywords. Most have fortunately already failed horribly.
But it still exists, e.g. in spreadsheet formulas.
In some cases even number formatting (decimal separators) are affected.
- Yes, and I use or have used them all.
The wikimedia app could be improved a lot to support OSM. It is a bit of a hassle to take a picture, upload it to commons, then add both categories and concepts, then open an OSM editor, find the object, and add the wikimedia_commons tag.
It would be much more helpful if you could search for an object in OsmAnd/organicmaps etc, take a picture, have it uploaded to wikimedia providing default categories based on OSM tags, and then have it added to OSM. It could also help create wikimedia categories if necessary.
- It seems to me that Mozilla is gambling with the privacy of their users. The gamble might be worth it, even though I do not think so.
But even if it somehow was a good gamble, that it not how Free Software projects should work. Free software should prioritize the wishes of users. If a lot of firefox users collectively decided to give up some privacy to avoid loosing more privacy, that is their choice, but that is not what have been happening.
Using this kind of defeatist arguments, there is no end to backdoors and compromises that can be defended.
I would prefer Mozilla to fight in the arms race.
I also wonder: what is the next step? I.e., why would advertizing trust firefox instances. It is tempting to create a fork of Firefox that use and manipulate this API in all kind of ways.
- IC5 is not the fifth generation of intercity trains. It just has 5 carriages in a train set.
IC3 was the first generation of this kind of trains, having 3 carriages in a train set: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSB_Class_MF
Both IC4 and IC2 came after IC3.
- Interesting. I have an old nook in the drawer.
I made a picture frame project a long time ago (> 15 years according to file timestamps) https://agol.dk/elgaard/picframe.html
I think it is overkill to use a browser just to show images. feh still works great if you are running linux/unix
I also still would prefer to sync pictures using ssh and maybe rsync on top.
- The two HDMI ports are worth it for me. I have a project with Raspberry PI 400 in multiseat kiosk mode.
It has two monitors, and an extra keyboard and mouse. The microHmdi->HDMI cables you can get for 2 dollars each.
It paid for itself in saved electricity bills in about a month (it replaced older computers and I set it up just when electricity went through the roof here in Europe).
On the other hand I did not need wifi or bluetooth. But wireless, and the extra HDMI probably does not add much to the price. I think Raspberry made reasonable choices regarding ports, etc.
- No, that is the problem. They worked with less and less websites until there were none left. I needed to install some packages, which I could just put on my own server.
And I have an old Blackberry Bold that now show current electricity prices, so I know when to starte my washing machine. That can also run on own webserver.
- It used to be common everywhere.
From my point of view, free WiFi became normal when it became less important because of affordable mobile internet.
From the point of view of the hotels it was about recovering their missing income after customers got mobile phones and stopped paying half a dollar per minute for using the hotel phones. There was a period when both mobile roaming and hotel WiFi was expensive, so I often went out from my hotel room and bough a local SIM-card to get internet access.
What annoys me most, is that only when I finally could get a laptop that would work a full transatlantic flight on one charge, then suddenly airplanes all got power outlets.
- But those are completely different uses of a storage format.
Library of congress considers if someone a 100 years from now could write a new importer in whatever langauge/AI they might use by then.
Office documents are something you send in email attachments to people you often barely know, and expect them to read it in whatever office system they have. And if the recipient uses e.g., Microsoft Word, OFD/Sqlite might not work.
- Not a few bucks, but for 10 percent of the valuation/retail price:
https://www.konkurser.dk/search/?s=diamant
It is in Danish, but it is bankruptcy auctions, the high price is the valuation (typically the retail price before bankruptcy), the low price is the final highest bid, all in DKK.
- Of course the citations should be lost (not counted).
But the paragraph is about collaboraters being angry and frustrated. And they seem to be angry at those who faked the data. Which is understandable.
You would hope that this would also mean that collaborators getting their name on a paper would put a little more effort into scutinizing the data provided by co-authors.
Maybe it is just a little to easy to work on paper and just accept the underlying data without asking any questions.
- I normally use en_US but I want dates formatted as DD-MM-YYYY (or using dots, slashes etc ) and I want a 24-hour clock.
LC_TIME does not work very well with most apps.
And there is a big difference between just throwing an error if a date-time cannot be parsed because of a nonextent date, and communicating it to the user in a nice way, especially without using JS.
- But is it the most efficient way to ensure that level of quality?
PR-s influence the same code, so it is not enough to review PR-s individually anyway. Maybe a weekly or monthly release would be a better unit for evaluation.
We have all kind of ways of producing diffs between branches, releases, tags, timestamps, etc? Why would PR diffs be the most efficient unit to review?
Often PR-s are just a silly way to communicate between team members instead of just talking to each other. I.e., you sit in the same office and create and reject PR-s, when you could just say to you colleague: "if you do not like the name of that variable, feel free to change the name".
The main problem with the PR system is that changes to the code is not immediately committed to the branches that developers work on, so it limits cooperation between developers. You can still review commits to dev branches and if problems are found, you can fix them or in most cases undo them.
- The same in Denmark from next year. What is missing in GnuCash is mainly some support for e-invoicing in
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPPOL Peppol]
Is anyone working on something like that?
But it is not a goldmine. Dogs, cats etc have better teeth and like to eat a lot of meat, that humans generally does not eat: rabbit ears, tendons, throats, noses, etc.
Insect food is not that cheap. A lot of pet stores give out free treat samples. My dog normally loves all treats, but refuses to eat the the insect treats (before I realize they are made from insects).
I am sure there are companies making a good living making insect pet food. But it is probably not that obvious a choice.