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0lon Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

I would honestly not recommend beginners use JOSM - the web based iD editor [1] is much easier to learn and will hold your hand a lot more.

[1]: https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/id-editor/

0lon GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225561294973728

0lon Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Deeply unserious company so not surprising

0lon deSEC – Free Secure DNS

Completely different thing

0lon Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

To be fair it's possible the situation has changed since I last checked. But at least it used to be this way (https://flatkill.org/2020/). I'm glad the situation has improved in terms of security, but I'm still not a big fan of the flatpak design as a whole.

0lon Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

Indeed, and most flatpaks have access to the home directory so are also able to do this even though they're """sandboxed"""

0lon Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D

OpenStreetMap - seems to be done with concentric circles, e.g. https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1365317072 and a dome on top

There is a good wiki page on this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Simple_3D_Buildings

0lon StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time

FYI someone else has probably already traced this through Strava, which is allowed to be used for tracing: <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strava#Data_Permission_-...>

0lon 24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

Obligatory mention of https://xiph.org/video/ which clears up a lot of misconceptions.

0lon Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)

Ah, fair enough. Well Firefox should support Brotli by default, so it's probably something going on on my machine.

0lon Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)

FYI your server returns Brotli encoded content, even if the request has only Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, zstd - making it unreadable in for me (Firefox on Fedora).

0lon Tata Electronics cyber breach claiming to expose Apple, Tesla trade secrets

Par for the course for the Tata group. Reminds me of the JLR hack last year, who outsourced their computer systems to Tata.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/20/jaguar-land...

0lon I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware

Microsoft bought Vercel???

0lon The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

> remember GPT 2 is too dangerous to release

FYI, this was when Dario was still at OpenAI.

0lon TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP

I remember a while back neverssl.com would happily serve HTTPS requests! Another good alternative is http://httpforever.com/

0lon Open source AI must win

Sure, but it doesn't lower the cost or increase the efficiency of the system