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jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report saysEnglish
6·20 days agoIf they thought they were invincible, they wouldn’t be building bunkers and prepping.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.English
1·1 month agoIsn’t that just closed Apps in general?
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela ResponseEnglish
2·1 month agoI’d argue there is a network effect lockin going on with Google, and it needs fixing by governments. Google, and others, should have to share basic road speed data.
OS Maps are great. You know MapMen? They love OS Maps.
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=os+maps+mapmen
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela ResponseEnglish
4·1 month agoTo be honest, even a static DB of recorded road speed using time of day, day of week, time of year, averages, would be a lot better than nothing. It would mean it knows you can’t really go 60 down a bendy, narrow, stone wall lined, single lane, country road. Not and live anyway. So it would stop trying to use them all the time.
But hey, if there is internet, why not query it for the latest?
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela ResponseEnglish
4·1 month agoI only skimmed.
I’m not joking about the Ordnance Survey bit. When I’m on walks, I often am in area with bugger all phone reception (common in the UK) and the quality of the maps means it really is as good.
It’s why the lack of traffic upsets me so, because I’d love to use it in the car as my main maps for Android Auto, but without traffic, that’s just doesn’t work well enouhg.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela ResponseEnglish
153·1 month agoIt’s great in many ways, and maps are great. You can get Ordnance Survey style maps.
BUT it desperately needs traffic information in its route finding. It frequently makes terrible decisions in the absence of this data.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1bn to settle claims its platforms harm childrenEnglish
3·1 month agoCost of doing business. Legal for a fee. Etc etc.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle SchoolsEnglish
29·1 month agoBy there not being enough consequences for these boys, not only are you making more boys like this, but not doing those boys any favours either. No one mentally healthy is going to want to be with that kind of boy.
Weak parents. Weak schools. Weak government. Failing everyone.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Fediverse@lemmy.world•The Fediverse And How The Left Can Fight AI BetterEnglish
9·1 month agoThere is : https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz
Well that is retrograde of it.
Another cool thing from Plan9:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
Got to love UNIX’s everything is a file.
ProcFS is from Plan9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#/proc
Plan9 is worth a deep dive, but maybe not worth running. It is more UNIX than UNIX. (Also where UTF8 came from.)
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decadesEnglish
1·2 months agoWas really just talking about whole remote vs local gaming thing. Latency does depend on the type of game. Some it matters less than others.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decadesEnglish
1·2 months agoThere is always a latency issue.
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-how-stadias-input-lag-compares-to-native-pc-gaming/
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School.English
7·2 months agoIf it is (can’t look at the source can we), it is only is as long as they choose it to be. It’s removal is always just one update away.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed CodeEnglish
11·2 months agoIf they really wanted to be a team player, they wouldn’t be clearly avoiding the GPL. Valve are being better. When a company is going out their way to not have to contribute it is because there is stuff they don’t want to. Same with Apple and Sun before them, and endless others. If the BSD ideal worked, the BSDs would be the biggest Unix like distros community. The whole reason copyleft exists is because of the “tragedy of the commons” BSD keeps suffering from. Even if a few companies contribute some of it back, some times.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed CodeEnglish
2·2 months agoDoes happen though. Better to have the option and not often use it, than not have the option at all.
jabjoe@feddit.ukto
Technology@lemmy.world•FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed CodeEnglish
3·2 months agoYou can look it and go “yeah, it is shit, but I see what it is doing, it is better done like this” and push that upstream. Saves time reverse engineering.



First things first. Can it run OpenWRT?