This is not great news for the matrix ecosystem

Just vote on Brexit again, it will most likely turn out in favor of joining the EU and even if not then nothing changes. Then they cant say their vote was ignored.

Well if he knows, he is not showing it. Starmer has been cozying up to US tech giants and lawmakers a lot lately. He needs to do a complete 180 and start nationalizing more of UK infrastructure instead of less.

However, the article also says that the UK government thinks it would be a mistake to get too close to the EU, because this could serve the narrative of right-wing populists:

Serving the interests of right wingers is worse than serving their narrative. Stop giving in to nazis or you will get what the US has.

You cant remove that double negative without making it incorrect. Its specifically about laws that prevent you from mitigating or bypassing enshittified parts of already enshittified platforms.

These laws happen to also cause enshittification, but thats not what the article is about.

yelling and finger-pointing at the CEO before a live audience of thousands of attendees

oh nooo not finger pointing, thats so outrageous, unlike killing thousands of children

and making hostile, unprovoked, and highly inappropriate accusations against the CEO, the Company and Microsoft generally

the truth cant be hostile or inappropriate and the accusations were certainly not unprovoked

I understand that their motivation is to suppress opposition. What im saying is that banning tiktok wont have that effect, but the opposite. Im saying the opposition will actually benefit from moving to a different, more neutral platform in response to this ban.

Trying to fight for attention on a biased platform like tiktok is a waste of energy. Its like swimming upstream.

Thats exactly when you should do it tho…

Opposition politicians in Albania, civil society members, and journalists who spoke to iMEdD argue that Prime Minister Edi Rama’s real objective is to silence government critics and manipulate the upcoming elections in May.

We know that TikTok is being used to manipulate elections in favor of right wing parties on a global scale. Why the fuck would you not ban it is the question? It doesnt matter if some left wing stuff gets taken down by that as a side effect, because right wing stuff will always have more viewership on it. The net outcome of banning tiktok is always in favor of left wing voices.

Yeah that makes sense that those would break. Its quite aggressive, but most standard smd components dont care. Its even kind of a good QC test in my experience, because if anything wasnt attached properly it will get detached in there.

I can attest that they are great. I use them daily for cleaning stuff at work. Much bigger ones than these tho.

Ironically he says cleaning electronics will damage them, but thats exactly what im doing. The frequency and strength is the important part here. He generally has no understanding of electronics and makes some stupid nonsense claims about the circuit of the real one, but thats not the focus of the video so idc.

Maybe force the incoming german government to uphold and respect the ICC orders. That would do a lot.

Hopefully only fired.

Exactly. I wrote this comment a few days ago. I recommend the freely available documentary “Israelism” if you want to see where this thinking comes from.

Its not just “right wingers”, its specifically antisemites that Israel needs.

Israels existence relies on the myth, that everyone is secretly super antisemitic. The main tactic for getting Jewish people (especially kids / young adults) to move to Israel and serve in the IDF is to convince them, that Israel is the only place on earth where Jews can peacefully exist without worrying for their safety.

This is not a secret really, at least not the last sentence. AIPAC is actually pretty transparent in their weird indoctrination of US american jewish kids.

Its not just “right wingers”, its specifically antisemites that Israel needs.

Israels existence relies on the myth, that everyone is secretly super antisemitic. The main tactic for getting Jewish people (especially kids / young adults) to move to Israel and serve in the IDF is to convince them, that Israel is the only place on earth where Jews can peacefully exist without worrying for their safety.

This is not a secret really, at least not the last sentence. AIPAC is actually pretty transparent in their weird indoctrination of US american jewish kids.

As long as it only pulls data and doesnt share any its not as bad. But each of these local services most likely use different APIs and formats, so implementing it wont be so easy. For just large highways its realistic imo, but if you want data for inside cities it becomes impossible.

If the database of traffic info become so large that it’s impossible to download it all at once it means you have to selectively download data for your location/route which makes it possible to infer user location again.

Has anyone actually created a traffic plugin yet?

The organic team doesnt wanna deal with collecting user data so they wont do it. Getting live location data from millions of people basically requires using and feeding into google services and thats a no go.

Ofcourse someone else could do it, but thats just a waste of time, if google can cut you off from their API at any point.

Even if you start your own project, no matter what you do, there will always have to be some company that collects all the data. That company no matter how cool and FOSS will eventually be forced to cooperate with law enforcement and then you are back to what we have now with google.

Location data is just too sensitive and impossible to anonymize properly.

I dont think that will work out very well for them in the long run.

Not really nice of you to edit the message after it was replied to.

I didnt…

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Changing your github profile location does not mean neither factual relocation, nor changing citizenship.

Then where are you getting 6-7 from? Those people could be Polish or Ukrainian or born somewhere completely different. They could have moved, changed citizenship, whatever. I dont know. You dont know.

The only person on this list that lives in Russia is Alexey Naumenko. So what are you yappin about? So far i also cant see that name on the new member list https://git.omaps.dev/org/organicmaps/members

mapsme: founded by Yury Melnichek, later joined by Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako

organicmaps: founded by Roman Tsisyk (completely unrelated to mapsme) and later joined by Alexander Borsuk and Viktor Govako

So the founders are not the same, but some devs from the old project joined organic maps.

The developer team fully consist of russian citizens

I dont think thats correct. Do you have a source? The predecessor that it was forked from maps.me maybe, but the current dev team has nothing to do with that project anymore.

Nice! It even supports the same RSS feed format. For anyone who also wants FOSS releases injected straight into their veins https://git.omaps.dev/organicmaps/organicmaps/releases.atom