vatlark

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[–] vatlark 1 points 1 month ago

I recently started donating to Mozilla. They have been delivering a good product for a very long time, the least I can do is pay for it.

[–] vatlark 2 points 1 month ago

That's some really cool data you have access to.

[–] vatlark 3 points 1 month ago
[–] vatlark 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I drove it! I saw a person! It's an odd feeling

[–] vatlark 2 points 1 month ago
[–] vatlark 1 points 1 month ago

I have been curious about this. I do hope they add it.

[–] vatlark 1 points 1 month ago

The side panels held up surprisingly well. I thought they would discolored at the very least.

[–] vatlark 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any suggestions for Sublime Text?

[–] vatlark 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Great point. We have some new tools since the original optical telegraph.

The original did have error correction codes to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks but the wiki page has a story about how that was defeated

[–] vatlark 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just learned about this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

Your idea worked for a long time and in France where they had a well established system it took awhile for electric telegraph to win over it.

Many of the problems they had lasers would also face, including atmosphere, and I'm curious if people could intercept the signal without being detected, which was certainly a big issue for them.

[–] vatlark 1 points 1 month ago

That's a good point. I don't know of a location history available in OM that tracks you all the time. Yeah I haven't totally moved away from GM myself.

If you want to track yourself you can open the hamburger menu and turn on "Record Track". This will keep sampling your gps in the background and showing breadcrumbs of where you have been. Then if you save it, the breadcrumbs will turn into a solid line that will remain on your map. Other than seeing where you were, you can't see what time you were at each place within OM. If I care to see time history I export the track as a .gpx file and read it with other software. For hiking I use camptocamp.org.

I assume OM's tracking will waste more battery than GM's location history which isn't as accurate but serves different purposes.

[–] vatlark 7 points 1 month ago
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