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With 'only one country', I assume you refer to South Africa. Are you aware that the ANC itself approved of nuclear disarmament? If you look at the Budapest Memorandum, Belarus, Kaz…

I found the open source Valetudo ( https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo ) project quite interesting, as it sits between the vendor firmware and (cloud) connectivity. The project is m…

How did you do your research and which one did you eventually buy?

That's a much requested feature. With imho two main challenges: 1. Much traffic data is private / requires licensing, however some countries have reasonable public data. For exampl…

Cool projects! I actually had a look at you gtfs-server, to use Rust for processing GTFS files. Processing GTFS (basically large zipped text files) is quite resource intensive inde…

Thanks for bringing this up to hackernews! The challenge for OrganicMaps is to make it privacy preserving and offline usable, which means on device routing and getting as much info…

Have a look at https://travic.app It visualizes GTFS data for many countries, also outside of Europe. Next to trains, it shows buses, metro's, trams, etc. For interesting technical…

I agree with you on the issue with trust. The Atlantic compares the US developments from the last 10 years with what happened to the tower of Babel: "Look, they are one people, and…

Obligatory shrubbery Monty Python: https://youtu.be/watch?v=2UbtcmjfKa8

Perhaps a better source in English, the EU policy advisory report from the European Academies Science Advisory Council from 2015 on Ecosystem services, agriculture and neonicotinoi…

One of the driving forces behind the neonicotinoids theory is a toxicologist called Henk Tennekes, who used to work as a consultant for Solvay, Roche, Monsanto en Sandoz (now known…

The problem is not so much whether it's the government's job to regulate it, but that it is primarily treated as a criminal issue, and thus is 'solved' through police enforcement. …

Nice to mention the link to Objectivism and Ayn Rand. I can highly recommend Adam Curtis's 'All Watched over Machines of Loving Grace' docu [1], which goes into that relationship a…

What I find interesting is that it supports access to an external wallet on your phone. This reduces the attack surface. Another browser that has a wallet built in is Brave [1]. Bu…

Thank you, I appreciate that! Actually, thinking a bit longer about the problem, the issue in my mind is that vendors/producers do not have an incentive to update software if you o…

I agree, you have a good point with respect to a large amount of older hardware and I do not have a solution for that problem. What I can say is that I try to buy hardware which ha…

If you're using something like OpenWRT, you most likely don't need to buy new hardware. The WPA3 functionality is already added to hostapd and wpa_supplicant [1]. Look for the term…

I truly believe that if you can't do the job of the people below you: you're not qualified to lead them. If you can't motivate people to work harder to solve the issues that they'r…

To differentiate between needs and (economic) wants, I found the "fundamental human needs" framework quite useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_human_needs (as develop…

If you're interested in how that works, I can recommend psychologist Marshall Rosenberg (a student of Carl Rogers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkQlAL8mVPs Another student of C…

The mentioned 1991 issues with the Patriot Missile were due to an issue converting integers to floats. The [system's] prediction of where the Scud will next appear is a function of…