pootriarch

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i'm no expert — consensus sounds like putting disused only on the main tag, and when i've encountered this, i haven't marked anything disused at all. i've only looked at the stop/platform to make sure they weren't in any relation (transit line relations may include the passing way but shouldn't include the disused stop/platform). and i make sure route_ref isn't set on the stop/platform. were the stop to be used again, i figure it would have the same ref/stop id and operator, so i don't remove them. listening for better ideas though

 

I've tried Magic Earth a handful of times, but each time I dumped it because it marked a street as closed or wrong-way, creating a circuitous detour. There's no such issue in OSM; it simply hallucinated something.

I was testing it so I knew where I was going, but I'm reluctant to rely on it when I really need nav. Have I been supremely unlucky?

since you have another jabber id, just pop into xmpp channel discuss@conference.soprani.ca

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

aye, sailors, i see. are the bonus tracks purchasable loose, or do they try to make you buy the whole album?

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

wth 'taylor's version'? like there was an o.g. eras tour that made money for scooter?

 

Organic Maps is available on Linux! It's on flatpak and several package repos (but not apt). I don't know how long it's been there — I just discovered it.

The splash screen cautions that this Linux beta doesn't have parity with the mobile apps yet, but it's still a huge leap over Gnome Maps. Vector rendering, so you can zoom in as far as you want, and free / open source / not shitty (notwithstanding the big scary EULA, which just contains all the OSS licenses for all the pieces).

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

OSM has a lot more data inside than the website shows - in dense shopping areas you can't zoom in far enough to see all the POIs, much less business names.

I've read before that using cached previews was done to stay accessible to less-powerful mobile devices, which would have smaller CPUs that would be taxed by rendering the native vector data. I view it as a branding disadvantage that OSM appears, from desktops, to have less info than alternatives. But that's a battle that's been had many times before, one might as well argue over paper vs plastic.

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i hadn't realized that the ist's were separate

 

stolen from @MikeElgan@mastodon.social, who asked: who made this?

https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/111875668342669529

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NO. HOW MANY OF HER ARE THERE TO BE DOING ALL THIS?!

 

As a Truly Casual Taylor Fan Honest™, I've been amused at just how many news categories she's dominating by not even quite being there. Every macho man in the U.S. is wound up about her either for politics (or rather, the fear that she'll say something about politics) or for football (or rather, the idea that she'll be a distraction from Real Football).

I wish I could find some way to twist all this attention and use it for good evil. I will spare you all the Macho Man GIF, which you know I was thinking about.

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The main URL points to this: san francisco map bit

 

In the web UI, OSM can't be zoomed in far enough to see the names of POIs in reasonably dense areas. I can get around this by going into edit mode, and mobile apps don't have this restriction. But the out-of-the-box experience, for non-insiders just using the web site, doesn't reveal all that OSM has to offer.

Does anyone know what the rationale for this is?

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

it's perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.

 

with the simple tools suite being sold to a purveyor of non-foss things, remind me of your favorite lists of recommended apps? i was using simple contacts and am not immediately sure of a good replacement. i would want one without internet permissions, which was why i disabled the google builtin.

[–] pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

i rather doubt a government would push people out of signal-protocol apps and into Some Other App if they didn't already have a backdoor into the designated substitute

 

(i own this in digital format, we are not the same)

 

I had reimaged my old Samsung on LineageOS as it seemed to be the only alternative that supported my model. It was fine until I installed OSMAnd, which couldn't get a location. Shame on me for not noticing that I would need microG for that. Not feeling comfortable with all the rooting and flashing needed to shoehorn microG into an existing image, I figured I'd try LineageOS for microG.

Having loaded a lot onto this phone already, I wanted to try a dirty flash first, knowing full well it might not work. The first prerequisite is to use an image of LOS/µG that is dated higher than the image in the phone. I had just updated, so I needed to wait for the next one.

The docs say that LineageOS for microG will be updated "a couple of times a month". But the latest LOS/µG image has remained at 11/2/23. This means I haven't had an opportunity to try the dirty flash, but it's also a security warning sign for me—LOS updates weekly like clockwork. Irregular and slower-than-promised updates make me a bit nervous for this aspect of device safety. It's not just my model either; most of the images are backdated more than two weeks.

https://download.lineage.microg.org/

(Yes, I know my boot loader is unlocked, and no, Calyx and Graphene don't support me, so I made my choice between physical insecurity and Google insecurity.)

strangest thing. i updated firefox and now i have no notifications. only a limited number of sites have notification perms; they still say they have that permission and my system settings still have firefox allowed. i have another machine running ubuntu (with firefox from the PPA for apt) and notifications are unchanged there.

Prerequisites

  • Internet-facing web server with reverse proxy and domain name (preferably SSL of course)
  • Server behind the reverse proxy with Rust environment

Installation

  • Don't bother downloading the source code to your server; installing it that way gives you a big debug executable
  • Instead just cargo install mollysocket
  • Move the mollysocket executable if desired
  • Run mollysocket once so that it will emit the default config

Configuration

  • Fish the config file out of .config/mollysocket/default-config.toml and copy it somewhere.

config.toml

  • In the new file, replace the allowed_endpoints line with allowed_endpoints = ['*']. The default 0.0.0.0 config appears to be a bug; this setting controls access to endpoints within the app, not IPs from outside. Leaving the original value causes mollysocket to reject everything.
  • Put a proper path in the db = './mollysocket.db' line rather than just having it land wherever you're sitting.
  • Delete the mollysocket.db that was created on first run (even if it's already where you're intending to put it). This is just to make sure the web server creates it and has the correct permissions.

Run script

  • The environment variable ROCKET_PORT must be set or the server will sit and do nothing. It's best to create all of the environment variables mentioned in the README, whether that is in a user profile script or in a shell script that wraps startup. You can change any of these values, but they must exist.
  • export ROCKET_PORT=8020
    export RUST_LOG=info
    export MOLLY_CONF=/path/to/your/config.toml
    

Proxy server

  • You'll need to proxy everything from / to your mollysocket server and ROCKET_PORT.
  • Exclude anything that you may need served from your web server, such as .well-known.

Things to know

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Mollysocket (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
 

The Molly fork of Signal now has a variant that supports UnifiedPush, but it requires a helper called Mollysocket to be installed on a server somewhere. I can't get my head around the (we'll call them 'lean') docs, and I've never encountered such a helper for other UP apps. They just ask what to attach to, and they attach.

Has anyone fought through this?

 

i hadn't fired up my python project in an age, probably two vscodium updates. when i did, i had no more syntax checking and the alert window showed errors reaching the 'jedi' server.

downgrading the vscode-python extension to 2023.16.0 was seen as the surefire way to clear this. it worked for me, too - got my syntax error highlighting back and no pesky errors in the alert pane.

they created a new issue against the extension, or the packaging system, or something, which was closed immediately though the problem still persisted. the chatter was about a cache, somewhere, with a lot of 'perhaps' and 'if'. one day i'll try bumping this back up, maybe after vscode-python passes the problematic 2023.18.0 version.

 

every so often someone posts a link and someone else asks, where can i get a link that's on a different service? songwhip is an aggregator that provides a page with links to multiple services. obviously if you want to post the exact video or the exact remix, a direct link is what you need. but it's quite useful for 'joe bob says check it out' scenarios.

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