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OpenStreetMap is a 2D map with limited 3D features, not a streetview alternative. For crowdsourced street view there are services like Mapillary (now owned by Meta) and Panoramax, …

> South Korea has some notorious law around data residency if you're talking about the export restrictions of map data, that only applies to official, government-managed geodata. O…

> I am saying that the sound at the intersection of “s” column and “i” row is “shi”. That is exactly the problem. Japanese doesn't distinguish between 'shi' and 'si', so all you're…

ATProto is good at what it was originally designed for: decentralizing Twitter. It allows a gradual introduction to the network and ensuring you have control over it at the same ti…

As a non-American they've lost me already at the first sentence. United States, even before Trump, has always been about projecting power rather than spreading democracy. There are…

Fluoxetine is one of two medicines listed in WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for the treatment of depression since 2007 (use of other SSRIs are also allowed)[1]. The listing …

GrapheneOS lost me on PR. For every updates they post on their social media there's guaranteed to be a rant about how other projects are doing things Wrong. They talk down on any a…

The image indeed gives me a strong AI vibe, in particular the "Ghibli update." It's getting really hard to uncloak it by the day but those drab colours instantly throw me off. (For…

It assumes that you have a DE running and depends on features like D-Bus. So it's not designed to run headless except for building flatpak packages.

My bad - I forgot that Free Software need not be copyleft. The point on Android still stands tho, and the freedoms on AOSP are decresing by the day as well.

> it's already free software I'd just like to interject here for a moment. The word Free Software has a specific meaning that AOSP does not meet. The only component of AOSF that is…

You can either use: separate user accounts (needs context switching) or a new private space feature. Private space was introduced with Android 15 and can hide its existence (from t…

There's somehow this belief that "newer models will disprove " despite the "newer" models being... just a scaled-up version of a previous model, or some anciliary features tacked o…

> The source is open. It can be seen, edited, run yourself. I can also take and eat food from the supermarket without paying. I just have to pay later in multiples, get jailed, or …

Unfortunately I have just cancelled my subscription, which has terminated my membership immediately. I don't want to reread the atrocious waste (or expose them to others) anyway.

> you seem overly invested in this argument if you are having it so frequently that you have to preëmptively admonish it. i dont engage in this discussion frequently myself, but ha…

i am still able to see it; perhaps you're not a paying subscriber, which i (regrettably) am. edit: yes you do need a phoronix premium or have been a forum member for 3+ years to vi…

it's unique, and it's not even that bad. you shouldn't compare this to the apple watches of the world when the screen itself could display 64 colours at best (monochrome at worst).…

> So they have a half-baked solution written in a random menu instead of just having it work properly by default? i fail to see how an option for moving (visible by default), in a …

https://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-move.html in 4.3.2. Options: > Move the active layer > Only the current layer will be moved. This may be useful if you want to move a layer w…

There already has been an option to move the selected layer regardless of where you click on.

From the release note: > Copying and pasting now creates a new layer by default rather than a “floating selection”, which many users found confusing. Floating layers can still be c…

> Ex, this update introducing editing text after you place it in is pretty ridiculous. idk what you're referring to but gimp has also supported editing text after it's been placed.…