solrize

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[–] solrize 1 points 3 months ago

About the update stuff, I just meant I calculated a possible size of differential updates. I think it would be enough to just have a setting saying which map segments I want to bother updating at all, or anyway to keep the POI's updated. POI's in my local area, sure, I'd keep those updated. But I'd like to have large scale maps (all of California, or the whole US) for the purpose of routing long trips, and don't care much about the POI's.

I figure my phone is being tracked merely by being on the carrier network. In principle I could leave it in airplane mode but that stops incoming messages and stuff. So I try to use Google Maps sparingly but I so far don't claim to 100% avoid it.

[–] solrize 2 points 3 months ago

Oh you mean the discontinuation rather than the accessory itself. Meh, there is always ebay. Someone will always have an extra one left from their old phone before they upgraded to a usb-c phone.

[–] solrize 2 points 3 months ago

You have to post X events for the keystrokes. I may have some code around that does something similar, lemme look.

[–] solrize 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This was close to the plot of the 1973 science fiction story "By Any Other Name" by Spider Robinson, later expanded to the novel "Telempath". The story won a Hugo award but the virus scheme didn't work out so great.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/apocalypse.php#smelly2

[–] solrize 68 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Vance becomes president. Whether you party is up to you.

[–] solrize 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Controversial? Unpopular I can understand, but that's not the same.

I still prefer wired buds and chose a phone with a 3.5mm jack, but I wasn't into Apple phones to begin with.

Now that Apple is going USB C, the lightning adapter will stop mattering, I guess.

[–] solrize 7 points 3 months ago

Nordstream redux? I wonder if Hetzner is affected.

[–] solrize 3 points 3 months ago

It works fine for me, everything else is worse.

[–] solrize 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

No matter which sort you use (except for new),

Yes, sorting by new is best. The rest of the post seems irrelevant.

I wish the web ui (and apps) could work like an old fashioned usenet reader, where it would list your subscribed communities and say how many unread posts each one had. I don't like having all the communities jumbled together. That seems fixable.

[–] solrize 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Useful I guess but seems too focused on vaccinations instead of aerosol mitigation. Talks about the pandemic in the past tense when it is still going on. Seems to not say much about long COVID. Meh.

[–] solrize 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

You can pay a lot less than 10x for completed panels. https://store.santansolar.com/ amazed me.

[–] solrize 25 points 3 months ago

Embrace RFC 8890 ("The Internet is for End Users") as a guiding principle for all Mozilla client app design and for the organization as a whole:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890.html

Specifically, delete item 9 from the Mozilla manifesto and replace it with "follow RFC 8890". That's not supposed to be an anti-business stance, but rather, a recognition that the commercial side of the internet has the resources to look after its own interests, and Mozilla should be on the user side, rather than trying to straddle both sides.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

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