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Yeah, it’s dangerous for a community to tolerate and adopt closed-source software. We should have done a better job pressuring them to license it openly.
The OSM wiki pointed me to Maperitive first, but I wish it pointed me to qgis first. We should probably edit the wiki with a huge warning banner that the code is closed, the app is full of bugs, and that it is not (and can not be) updated.
Edit: I took my own advice and added a big red box to the top of the article warning the user and pointing them to QGIS instead.
Edit 2: Do we have any way to know when the latest version of Maperitive (v2.4.3) was released? Usually I’d check the git repo, but…
Edit 3:
staton theMaperitive-latest.zipfile says that it’s last modified2018-02-27 17:25:07, so it’s at least 6 years old.
The Wordpress Activity Pub plugin is on my TODO list. I opened some bug reports with them recently.
what happens if I die? what happens if my site goes down? what happens if a site is “protected” by cloudflare (and therefore makes the content inaccessible to at-risk folks)? what happens if a site has an authwall (and therefore is inaccessible to less-privileged folks)?
I think it’s important for us to federate content, not just links.
it’s a lot of work, but basically I copy the html from wordpress into pandoc, convert it to markdown, and then do a lot of cleanup
I didn’t copy the whole post here because it’s so much work, but I usually do when there’s less images and my articles aren’t likely to exceed the max char limit :)
Well, the title was mostly a take from this post:
But I guess I should have said a “PV system”? Or do you have a better name?
We’re not looking to be tied to a grid outside the community. Do you have any links to recommended resources to learn more about microgrids and/or community grids?
If it were me and I understand correctly I would probably not tie the systems together.
Well, the loads of the buildings are different, so tieing them together would be very beneficial. For example, one building is a workshop with lots of power tools and heavy machinery and some other buildings (with equal sq meter rooftops) are residential (with less energy requirements)
Hi, Michael Altfield here. I was the sysadmin for OSE from 2017-2020.
Everything OSE does is transparent, so you can just check the OSE websites to see what everyone is currently working-on. OSE contributors log their hours in a worklog called “OSE Dev”. There you can quickly see who is working on what.
The above graphs show 4 contributors in the past ~10 weeks (one is me; we had some issues with the apache config recently). There’s no direct link, but you can then check the wiki to see people’s work logs (just search for the person’s name and
Log):- https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Marcin_Log
- https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Catarina_Log
- https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Alexa_Log
- https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Maltfield_Log
I also like to look at the MediaWiki “Recent Changes” page to peak at what people are up-to as well:
I told Marcin about Lemmy back in June 2023. Another OSE contributor even created an OSE community on the slrpnk.net instance, but it appears to have been abandoned. I’ll email him about this thread to see if he’ll bite and publish updates in this community since there’s clearly interest :)
Also, shameless plug: I started an org that’s very similar in spirit to OSE called Eco-Libre, with a focus on projects to sustainably enfranchise human rights in smaller communities. We’re currently accepting volunteers ;)
1·1 year agoGot it. But I just wouldn’t say it’s futile. The case of a KYC Selfie is especially bad, but the case of a nude is a better example of the usefulness of implementing a federated delete request.
There’s so much porn on the fediverse. Yes, It’s conceivable that some admins will patch their instance to ignore (or specifically give special attention-to) images that have received federated delete requests from other instances – but I don’t think there’s much incentive in them doing that for nudes when there’s already a firehose of other nudes incoming.
Even in the case where the image already federated, I think that implementing better data privacy functionality for images (including federated delete requests) would significantly reduce the harm of users and instance admins in 99% of cases. It’s not futile. Reducing harm is important and worthwhile.
In the case of the article I wrote, the image never federated.
o hai. Curious that you expected a bunch of people to support you within a couple days. I never saw your proposal (buried in a comment thread in one post on lemmy). I’m only first hearing of this 6 hours after you specifically tagged me. I think you could do more to publish & advocate your proposals if you’re serious about them…
Before the incident described in the article you’re referencing, I had never spoken to any instance admins. Since I published it, I have spoken to several instance admins (many reached out to me), and they all expressed similar frustrations with the lemmy devs and fatigue in contributing to this project.
No matter how much people will tell you that something is important to them, the true test is seeing how many are willing to pay the asking price.
I think it’s important to consider that there’s many ways that people contribute to Lemmy. Equally as important as the work that the devs are doing is the work that the instance admins are doing. Collectively the community of instance admins are contributing much more money and time into lemmy than the developers are. That shouldn’t be discounted. Both should be appreciated.
There are other ways that people take time out of their lives to support Lemmy, such as finding and filing bug reports, writing documentation, answering questions about the fediverse to new users, raising awareness about lemmy on other centralized platforms, etc. These are also all contributions that benefits the project. Don’t discount them.
But when our contributions are met with disrespect, it pushes us away. Based on my conversations with countless Lemmy contributors in the past few days, that’s where a lot of people are. They don’t want to invest any more time or money into Lemmy because of their previous interactions with the Lemmy devs.
This can be repaired, but the Lemmy devs do need to work on fixing their Image Problem.
Can you mention this in your article?
1·1 year agoThis is false.
In the case of the article, the image was never sent to other servers. In fact, that is the last thing it does.
How? I want to block my app from being able to upload images.
They already knew I don’t know rust, which is why they said that I need to learn rust before they assigned it to me.
Link for the curious:
Disclosure: That “poor lad” was me. They also threatened to ban me in ^ that ticket.
Author here. A “KYC Selfie” is a selfie photo where you hold-up a State-issued identity document with your photo next to your face. This is not a US-specific thing; it’s also used in the EU.
I used to work for a bank in Europe where we used KYC seflies for authentication of customers opening new accounts (or recovering accounts from lost credentials), including European customers. Most KYC Selfies are taken with a passport (where all the information is on one-side), but if your ID has data on both sides then the entity asking you for the KYC seflie may require you to take two photos: showing both sides.
Some countries in the EU have cryptographic authentication with eIDs. The example I linked-to in the article is Estonia, who has made auth-by-State-issued-private-key mandatory for over a decade. Currently MEPs are deciding on an eID standard, which is targeting making eIDs a requirement for all EU Member States by 2016.
I recommend the Please Identify Yourself! talk at 37c3 about the state of eID legislation as of Dec 2023 (and how to learn from India, who did eID horribly wrong):
They definitely should remove it, at least until moderation tools are available.
That’s a great idea :) Maybe you can submit a feature request for this on GitHub?
QGIS does have many native OSM plugins
I’m not sure if any get you vector-based contour lines.