Readit Newshutch120 commented on Show HN: ChatGPT summary of HN frontpage streamed on Twitch twitch.tv/teachertellme... · Posted by u/hutch120
Is it possible to add dark mode to this? Not sure if it'd need a new channel or there can be toggle to current stream itself.
Oh yeah, great idea. Done!
hutch120 commented on Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid hexapipes.vercel.app/hexa... · Posted by u/gereleth
Fun game! Can I suggest adding a licence file to Github so people know what they can do with the repo.
hutch120 commented on On leaving Mapbox after 12 years trashmoon.com/blog/2022/r... · Posted by u/gregoire
Out of interest, is there a reason you can’t switch to Maplibre, the open source fork?
I remember looking at that fork when the whole licencing thing went down a couple of years ago, but it was unclear how much, if any support it would have. Looks like the project is doing ok.
hutch120 commented on On leaving Mapbox after 12 years trashmoon.com/blog/2022/r... · Posted by u/gregoire
Like many others no doubt, I invested heavily into the mapbox-gl-js library (pre 2.0). I was able to build amazing value on top of that library including a routing voice navigation app for an aged care facility that is used to this day 24/7/365. It was a very sad day when they changed their licencing model to lock in vendors and I had to walk away from that investment of my time and effort. Luckily I had also worked and contributed to OpenLayers and Leaflet, so with significant effort was able to move my clients to those platforms.
I guess we now have some more insight into why this occurred.
> "In order to use most Services, you must register for or authenticate into a Mapbox account. When you use our application program interfaces (APIs), including our SDK Registry/Downloads API, each request to an API must include one of your account's unique API keys."
hutch120 commented on CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City gisgeography.com/cityengi... · Posted by u/rntn
I have worked with a few people with GIS degrees and 99% of them know ArcGIS and ArcGIS only. This situation reminds of how dominant SAS and Stata used to be before R and Python exploded.
Is there a FLOSS GIS solution that could rival ArcGIS?
We should ask the long term question, what if QGIS and other FLOSS products had broad support and significant resources flowing into them that ESRI has?
The way I think about it, often the same people, certainly people with the similar skillsets are working on all these products, most of them just follow the money.
I think one big missing piece of the puzzle for governments to assess these products is a governance and risk model associated with these products. But software engineers generally don't give a crap about governance, so we need more people who do care about that to invest in OSS. I'm seeing some movement on this like the Github Sponsors initiative.
hutch120 commented on CityEngine: Build a Digital Twin of Your City gisgeography.com/cityengi... · Posted by u/rntn
Stay away from ESRI (ess-ray) - I should get that printed on a t-shirt.
ESRI centralise power, lock you into their technology, and IMHO a digital twin should be doing the opposite. Don't believe the sales BS about ESRI having "free" software, read the fine print, ArcGIS AINT FREE.
IMHO a Digital Twin should be something for the people, by the people! So please stop paying proprietary systems like ESRI and incentivising them to stifle innovation and increases barriers to entry.
If you want to see local jobs, growth and innovation then invest in OpenSource software like OSM (Open Street Map) and QGIS and other Open GIS products.
hutch120 commented on Adapting to Endure – Sequoia Capital [pdf] s3.documentcloud.org/docu... · Posted by u/dclaysmith
> "Who doesn't just survive but win?"
A finite mindset?
> "I want to take you back to early 2000 ..."
Does the world still look like the early 2000s?
hutch120 commented on Who's Attacking My Server? bastian.rieck.me/blog/pos... · Posted by u/Pseudomanifold
I see these articles a lot, and always wonder why people go it alone. Can anyone link to a discussion about a distributed community run firewall? Does such a thing exist? If so, please comment.