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szszrk commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower

gizmo385 · 2 days ago

Is there a source for this that isn’t just a random Reddit comment?

szszrk · 2 days ago

I have no such thing, but a few comments later another redditor gives a bit different perspective:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1pfdkfs/...

szszrk commented on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants laurenleek.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/justincormack

DanOpcode · 2 days ago

I have recently tried to navigate with OsmAnd a few times where I live. Once I ended up in the wrong location, and a few times I have had to look up the business in Google Maps to find their address.

I would love to use OsmAnd more. StreetComplete sounds great and looks like a nice way to be able to contribute fixes to OSM. Thanks for the recommendation!

szszrk · 2 days ago

It is smooth and kind of "I'm doing my part!" but with low friction.

> a few times I have had to look up the business in Google Maps to find their address

Exactly my point - Gmaps taught us to expect *businesses" on maps. Not addresses. Pins and stars, instead of streets and numbers. Arrival time and traffic, instead of distance, elevation and road type (size).

I use gmaps still, mostly for businesses, but to actually know where I am I have better options. Gmaps hides most of typical map features - you see less of trees, water, buildings, height elevation. On Comaps/Osmand you suddenly can correlate map with things you see (without street view! :P).

szszrk commented on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants laurenleek.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/justincormack

nicoburns · 3 days ago

OpenStreetMap-based maps tend to be much better in this regard. Although this is counterbalanced by the fact that they tend to have less data on businesses in general.

szszrk · 3 days ago

Which is not surprising, as those two have very different priorities.

- OSM want's a detailed and reliable map.

- Google maps tries to either sell your data to clients, or make you buy from them.

Their business data is their priority for maps. You can see that clearly when you look at location history changes over past decade or so. It used to be actual user location history and it was glorious. Now it's "near what businesses you were more or less, help us rate them".

It's a great moment to again remind about existence of low-friction tools that you can use to add business data (among others) to OSM, like StreetComplete app, available on F-droid and Google Play :)

https://streetcomplete.app/?lang=en

In my region OSM business data starts to be on par with google, better (more up to date) sometimes.

szszrk commented on Twelve Days of Shell 12days.cmdchallenge.com... · Posted by u/zoidb

blenderob · 6 days ago

Still doesn't work for me in a new session separate browser. I get the output but I also get this message

  Output does not match expected lines - try again

Does it give you the clue for the next level? Can you or someone else share a screenshot or something so I can compare to find out what I'm missing?

szszrk · 6 days ago

For clean session it goes to the next level.

There is some mess if you already finished the thing, and then use url to particular level on a clean session. For me it looked like I am on level 2, but site expected answers to 1.

When I start from scratch with proper link (main page) simple:

grep laugh *

works

szszrk commented on Twelve Days of Shell 12days.cmdchallenge.com... · Posted by u/zoidb

blenderob · 6 days ago

I tried again to see if they fixed it. No it still doesn't work. You'll get the output but look closer.

  Output does not match expected lines - try again

So you can't move on to the next level.

szszrk · 6 days ago

they must have fixed it. Works for me, including new sessions on separate browser.

szszrk commented on Damn Small Linux damnsmalllinux.org/... · Posted by u/grubbs

pharos92 · 6 days ago

Every time I looked at DSL, I never understood the need to include 4 Web Browsers in a distro that supposedly prides itself on size.

szszrk · 6 days ago

When you look at the actual list of those 4, it's not as hard to understand any more.

It's Firefox, Dillo, Links2 and Netsurf GTK :)

Dillo is something I'd love to daily drive like I did 20 years ago, but it would just fail on most modern websites. But it's what, 2MB in total (binary+libraries)?

Links2 is text terminal oriented. No modern browser can do that natively at all. All competition is even smaller (w3m, lynx). Plus links2 can run in graphics mode, even on a framebuffer, so you can run it without X server at all.

So Fx is the only "general purpose" browser on that list, but is just too big for old hardware.

szszrk commented on UniFi 5G blog.ui.com/article/intro... · Posted by u/janandonly

walterbell · 9 days ago

Does it support eSIM? For backup internet, eSIM is good for avoiding monthly subscription, by paying per GB when needed.

szszrk · 9 days ago

I have a mobile 4g router from them and it supports physical esim. I even managed to get their suggested card for cheap. They have some support in their firmware to set it up, so you can do that fully on the router.

szszrk commented on UniFi 5G blog.ui.com/article/intro... · Posted by u/janandonly

jonplackett · 9 days ago

I wish website designers would remember that not everyone can see great. This text is so fine and light and they’ve also disabled screen reader

szszrk · 9 days ago

oh, I didn't noticed that at first, but you are right.

What I did noticed is so many fast videos right next to text. I didn't even bother to read it (without firefox read mode) because it makes me a bit dizzy.

szszrk commented on AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Ps3AI... · Posted by u/wolfgangbabad

baxtr · 18 days ago

Good example.

I also like the "why does a bottle of water cost $5 after security at airports" example.

You have no choice. You’re locked in and can’t get out.

Maybe that’s the better analogy?

szszrk · 18 days ago

On point.

We don't pay million $ bills on AWS to "hang out" in a cozy place. I mean, you can, but that's insanity.

szszrk commented on CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork lwn.net/Articles/1024387/... · Posted by u/altilunium

renewiltord · 24 days ago

It's pretty funny that the first order of business for the fork was to debate a "design lead" role. They decided against and it looks like the app is totally functional https://www.comaps.app/

It is pretty interesting because it is true that design is better solo'd than committee'd. I wonder how open source communities usually solve these issues.

szszrk · 24 days ago

They work in the open from the beginning, so it's easy to track:

What's up: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/projects/16883

and an example of major UI discussion that you are interested in: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/348

I use it since the fork and love their energy and tempo. It's amazing when you take into account it's history, that it was closed source at some point (maps.me), opensourced, forked...