Because they take things, literally.

I can think of a few apps that do this. It is certainly possible. I think it is ethical; if someone is not participating in the open source community, they miss out on the benefits. I think most people involved do contribute in some way. If someone just wants to use Google for the benefit of ease and discoverability, then they can pay for it. You’re still offering an ad-free app (presumably) and adding use value. It’s perfectly reasonable to suppliment the cost of development in is way.

Of course! The answer all along was to just use magic!

That seems to be the case.

Rent: 22¢ (couch split w/ 44 friends)

Breakfast: 11¢ (2 eggs)
.......... 1¢ (electricity borrowed from neighbor)
.......... Free (skillet found in street)

Gym membership: Free (lifting rocks)

Commute: 4¢ (walking in two used Kleenex boxes for shoes)

Lunch: 30¢ (cup filled with ketchup from Wendy's pump)

Commute home: 20¢ (walk on hands, use bandaid for blisters)

Clothes: 16¢ (Scotch tape for holding together discarded pizza boxes)

Yeah, that checks out.

If you live in a big liberal city with a lot of tech people, then you probably have a really well organized team creating detailed maps. In that case, there’s no reason to think that Google is any better than osm. In a lot of cases it’s worse, especially for walking and cycling.

If you’re in a smaller, poorer city or a rural area, there’s a good chance that 80% or 90% of the addresses are just not there yet. Compare this random park in Berkeley, CA with labels for individual trees to this neighborhood in nearby Stockton, CA, which is assuredly more than 3-4 houses.

OSM usability really depends on where you live.

Image tool box doesn’t seem to be able to arbitrarily rotate or add text. Some nice features, though.

Open Video Editor doesn’t seem to be able to combine videos. I’m thinking something like CapCut, which allows combining photos, videos, and audio. It would be an ambitious project to be sure, but it seems like it should be doable.

Great to hear! Can you name one for me?

If you live in an area that’s missing the data, it doesn’t matter how good the app is. I regularly upload in my area, but it will be years before it is reliable as a primary app. I usually search in Organic Maps first, then in Google Maps. OSM gets me where I need about 10-20% of the time at most. Google Maps is about 99%.

There are multiple front-ends for YT Music. Song Tube is good, Libre Tube is good, Inner Tune, Musify, Vibe You, etc. I haven’t used them all so I can’t testify to them, but it is a deep bench.

Some apps that I don’t understand why no OSS exists:

• Teleprompter app that allows you to read a scrolling script while recording video

• basic photo editor to crop, rotate, color correct, add text

• basic video editor to crop, clip, and combine video

• visual voicemail

And just for fun, here are some OSS apps that are better than any non-free alternative: SD Maid, Firefox/Fennec, Aurora Store (OSS front-end for a very proprietary Google store), RTranslator, Syncthing, OSS Document Scanner.

Generative AI has allowed us to do some things that we could not do before. A lot of people very foolishly took that to mean it would let us do everything we couldn’t do before.

I happen to agree with the position on diet. But that’s not really the point here.

Any community interested in truth and safety must have a consistent measure for truth. Human civilization relies on scientific consensus. That concensus can change, and it can be flawed, but it’s really the best system we have. Admins/ have stated that they are relying on that for their decisions.

In this case, there is not a strong enough consensus to make a determination. I haven’t reviewed the research personally, but I’m confident that the admins have. They made the right call based on the information presented.

Absolutely agree. This is an issue where it could have easily been covered up, but the leadership opted for total transparency.

They admitted the mistake, showed how it happened, and worked out an agreement with the community to avoid the problem in the future.

Forget comparison to corporate media (it’s not even close), I’ve seen issues in the Fediverse handled 100x worse than this.

In reality, even admins don’t hold the ultimate power. This is a federated platform and there are lots of other instances. It’s an extension of the sentiment you express - if people don’t like how things are done on one instance, they can move the community, or even start a new instance.

If you start following hashtags, then you find interesting people. There are also curated lists that you can sign up for. That will introduce you to a lot of new content.

Have we tried turning the universe off and on again?

Its rare enough to be trivial, and when it happens, it’s usually someone who doesn’t realize that they are not eligible. For example, if someone came to the country at a young age and mistakenly thought that they could vote.

But as it turn out, policies that require people to verify their citizenship are also very good at disenfranchising eligible voters who are poor, young, immigrants, disabled, or non-native English speakers. Neat, huh?

Edit: I forgot LGBT folks who may have changed their name or lack access to their childhood documents.

Really good stuff. I think they’re still around, making indie rock

Just getting started but yeah, I have basically no technology background. Mostly I’m too stubborn to know when to quit something so here I am lol.