it's perhaps interesting to see what existing apps ZipoApps has on the Android Play Store.
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
Our map data is often downloaded and used offline on various devices for several weeks or months. For offline data to be useful, it should at least be expected to remain unchanged in the next few weeks when you map it.
yes, by this blurb, concession for offline users does supersede safety.
i'm an editor active enough to have been granted foundation membership but hadn't known this rule; it indicates a view of osm as analogous to a paper map rather than for real-time navigation. if a change of less than weeks' length is discouraged, i can't in good conscience steer my friends away from google maps, as navigation is not a primary use case.
it is common practice in the u.s., at least, to use two nodes for big chain drugstores, where the shop, marked chemist, often has wildly different hours from the pharmacy. they have the same name and much of the same info
inside the addons page: eBay is port scanning visitors to their website - and they aren't the only ones
that one is very interesting if one has any coding background
that tripped me up too - but it's just the web demo. if you install it, your browser doesn't matter
i'd never heard of this concept! i have a disorganized stack of markdown files - notes, to-do and packing lists - that this looks ideal to tame
on android, i have three.
- the default browser is an f-droid rarity called 'privacy browser'. it is configured to allow scripting but reject practically everything else (storage, cookies). this will break lots of things, but i feel safer with this as the initial offer. it's wired to a searxng instance for search. i have a personal hosted homepage that it uses for home.
- if i am opening something myself, i use an app shortcut that opens my home page on mull. mull itself doesn't believe in home pages, so i have to use a shortcut. it uses a searxng instance for search. it's configured to discard all data on quit. if something breaks on privacy browser, i share it into mull.
- for sites in which i need a persistent login, i use duckduckgo browser, again with an app shortcut since it doesn't believe in home pages. i don't open links in ddg, instead sharing them to one of the other two. i don't search here since you can only use ddg.
on desktop (all platforms), i use brave with a lot of stuff turned off, homed normally and pointed to the same search instance. i have cookie autodelete to burn cookies as i browse. i spend a lot of time manually deleting local storage.
i don't love this flow. what i really would like is one browser that would:
- load my home page when i click its icon
- burn all cookies and local storage on exit, except from domains i designate
i haven't found an answer for that yet, would love ideas.
i have previously used and discarded, for various reasons: vivaldi, firefox, firefox focus, chromium, librewolf. i carry some of these for occasional use, either for 'let it through' or 'fuzz all the things' threat models.
long ago i shifted to vscodium, a packaged version of only the open-source base of vscode that provides most but not all of the available extensions. for two reasons: so that i didn't leak telemetry to m$, and so that i wouldn't get used to features that aren't open source. it's available in a lot of package managers, mac/windows as well as linux
to a techie, i'd say, it's open source and if they ever overpushed politics, they'd find they'd become the fork as the community would fork away.
to a non-techie, i'd say, everyone's an asshole a different way, but they don't own the whole place like spez and musk do.
and i wouldn't argue. let them walk away haters. this platform isn't ready for everyone to come right now anyway.
mastodon struggled with scaling in the beginning, everytime elon strung more than four syllables together. a lot of admins there didn't know what the spikes would do - this is not a criticism, i would have had no idea either - and most new users piled into one or two big instances, as is happening here.
the more tech-savvy of the initial waves migrated to smaller instances, the instance admins figured out where the pain points were, and i think there were changes to mastodon itself. i expect all of these are coming for lemmy, and it's going to be lumpy here for a while just as it was in masto.
having lived through that, i came into a smaller instance here immediately. federation issues here are a bit gnarlier than on masto, but i trust that also will be sorted.
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.