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by ponorin 2mo ago
OpenStreetMap is a 2D map with limited 3D features, not a streetview alternative. For crowdsourced street view there are services like Mapillary (now owned by Meta) and Panoramax, both of which are cleared for use in mapping in OSM (and in
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by ponorin 2mo ago
> South Korea has some notorious law around data residency if you're talking about the export restrictions of map data, that only applies to official, government-managed geodata. OSM explicitly doesn't rely on any other maps, s
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by ponorin 3mo ago
> I am saying that the sound at the intersection of “s” column and “i” row is “shi”. That is exactly the problem. Japanese doesn't distinguish between 'shi' and 'si', so all you're really gaining by pointing
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by ponorin 3mo ago
ATProto is good at what it was originally designed for: decentralizing Twitter. It allows a gradual introduction to the network and ensuring you have control over it at the same time. When a user decides to jump ship from mastodon.social ru
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by ponorin 7mo ago
As a non-American they've lost me already at the first sentence. United States, even before Trump, has always been about projecting power rather than spreading democracy. There are several non-Western, former colonies who does democrac
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by ponorin 10mo ago
Fluoxetine is one of two medicines listed in WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for the treatment of depression since 2007 (use of other SSRIs are also allowed)[1]. The listing means it has proven to be safe and effective enough that WHO
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by ponorin 1y ago
GrapheneOS lost me on PR. For every updates they post on their social media there's guaranteed to be a rant about how other projects are doing things Wrong. They talk down on any and every security- and privacy-related projects (or ope
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by ponorin 1y ago
The image indeed gives me a strong AI vibe, in particular the "Ghibli update." It's getting really hard to uncloak it by the day but those drab colours instantly throw me off. (For the "real artists also can draw like th
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Loss of Featrues Is Progressive(vtrlx.ca)
3 points by ponorin 1y ago|2 comments
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by ponorin 1y ago
It assumes that you have a DE running and depends on features like D-Bus. So it's not designed to run headless except for building flatpak packages.
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by ponorin 1y ago
My bad - I forgot that Free Software need not be copyleft. The point on Android still stands tho, and the freedoms on AOSP are decresing by the day as well.
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by ponorin 1y ago
> it's already free software I'd just like to interject here for a moment. The word Free Software has a specific meaning that AOSP does not meet. The only component of AOSF that is Free Software is the Kernel, due to GPL, and a
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by ponorin 1y ago
You can either use: separate user accounts (needs context switching) or a new private space feature. Private space was introduced with Android 15 and can hide its existence (from the launcher).
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by ponorin 1y ago
There's somehow this belief that "newer models will disprove <insert LLM criticism here>" despite the "newer" models being... just a scaled-up version of a previous model, or some anciliary features tacked on.
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by ponorin 1y ago
> The source is open. It can be seen, edited, run yourself. I can also take and eat food from the supermarket without paying. I just have to pay later in multiples, get jailed, or both. Or not.
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by ponorin 1y ago
Unfortunately I have just cancelled my subscription, which has terminated my membership immediately. I don't want to reread the atrocious waste (or expose them to others) anyway.
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by ponorin 1y ago
> you seem overly invested in this argument if you are having it so frequently that you have to preëmptively admonish it. i dont engage in this discussion frequently myself, but have a look at the comments and you will see around half me
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by ponorin 2y ago
i am still able to see it; perhaps you're not a paying subscriber, which i (regrettably) am. edit: yes you do need a phoronix premium or have been a forum member for 3+ years to view the thread.
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by ponorin 2y ago
it's unique, and it's not even that bad. you shouldn't compare this to the apple watches of the world when the screen itself could display 64 colours at best (monochrome at worst). the design language should line in perfectly
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by ponorin 2y ago
> So they have a half-baked solution written in a random menu instead of just having it work properly by default? i fail to see how an option for moving (visible by default), in a move tool, is "a half-baked solution (..) in a rando
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by ponorin 2y ago
https://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-move.html in 4.3.2. Options: > Move the active layer > Only the current layer will be moved. This may be useful if you want to move a layer with transparent areas, wher
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by ponorin 2y ago
There already has been an option to move the selected layer regardless of where you click on.
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by ponorin 2y ago
From the release note: > Copying and pasting now creates a new layer by default rather than a “floating selection”, which many users found confusing. Floating layers can still be created with the “Paste as Floating Data” option for those
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by ponorin 2y ago
> Ex, this update introducing editing text after you place it in is pretty ridiculous. idk what you're referring to but gimp has also supported editing text after it's been placed. what's new is non-destructive filters and
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by ponorin 2y ago
CC SA(ShareAlike) clause is basically the equivalent of GPL: any derivations must be licensed the same as the original (either CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA, latter only permitting noncommercial use).
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by ponorin 2y ago
GL.inet makes routers with a fork of OpenWRT. The actual OpenWRT is only a flash away (you can flash the upgrade directly from the stock firmware). Their products are very solid and I will probably buy routers exclusively from them going fo
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by ponorin 2y ago
related: if you have a side-by-side 3d image/video you can do the crosseye to see it in 3D without any special display/glasses. it's just that your eyes are gonna be tired after a movie session.
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by ponorin 2y ago
Lack of focus on EV which leads to lower production volume (Chinese carmakers focused on EVs long before Tesla got popular), trend of over-sizing which means it's big and heavy, dogged obsession in road tripping rather than playing to
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by ponorin 2y ago
Exit node applies only to traffic that goes into a clearnet. You could to illegal stuff, but only tor users have protection and website owners are liable to raids should they allow illegal stuff to happen on their platforms. With Tor Hidden
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by ponorin 2y ago
I think there's a huge missed opportunity of learning keyboard layouts with a smartphone. You get labels for free, and it's much easier to learn how to manage 2 fingers than to manage 10 at once. But once you get proficient enough

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