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Lesson learned and relearned across all social and communication software... Moderation cannot be grafted on later: it is core, it makes or breaks the social experience.
HN, Bluesky and Reddit, for example, got it right, each in their own way for their own use case, and I believe it one of the main reasons of their success.
Also, European defense firms are getting more competitive, by the simple virtue of larger orders enabling more investment.
Anyway, yes... Think America is the land of infinite suburban sprawl ? Meh - Africa is where it's at, with the obvious severe negative impact on urban development, mass transportation etc. Similar challenges as the USA, but a tenth of the resources.
Yes, that is the basic tip if you expect to come back to that restaurant and get an upgraded welcome.
But even with no tip, being a regular counts - tip or no tip, you are good business and worth cultivating.
The Openstreetmap.org tiles are a demo and a contributor quality assurance tool - they are not meant for end-user applications, hence the rather over-the-top selection of map objects.
How is it bad ? How does it force you to do anything ? It doesn't even interfere with your thing, which will keep scratching the itch your built it to scratch.
That is the whole beauty of free software: no one has any leverage on your project - any cooperation is voluntary !
I've heard so much "you should do this", "you should conform to this standard", "why don't you help me make this thing the way I want it ?", "your thing keeps me from making money with it" etc. Well buddy, I'm grateful for your opinion, and now I'll go do the thing with the people with whom I found shared goals.
Others who want you to scratch their personal itch ? Offer professional services or maybe ignore them if you have anything better to do !
You may like your itch scratching device as it is - that it has a pile of CVE to its name doesn't bother you while you sip your tea, scratch your back and listen to the wind in the leaves...
If that game remains afoot for too long, the buck stops at the distributor - who can't hide from the EU behind ever-shifting randomly generated brands.
The consequences of the European Union realizing the were the USA's protectorate are not going to please the USA though... Buy ITAR-free, buy European !
Raaaah - I refuse to believe this scene exists. It doesn't exist in my own cut of The Matrix. And captive humans are biological computers, not silly batteries !
After ending high school exams in 1993, we jumped into the Seine from Pont de Neuilly. I suppose this sort of antics have been going on since times immemorial and without counting bacteria beforehand... But I'm glad the river has cleaned up !
My first impression upon hitting the water: 1 - it is actually water (I expected mud !), 2 - wow, there is actually current and the shore goes by rather fast... No problems of any sort.
Anyway, it is fun - do it, and have a spotter to check for ships !
Lol - you don't have enough hobbies.
As someone who twenty years ago published his XMPP presence to his web page (http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2006/02/27/jabber...) among other oversharing excesses, I have now swung opposite: online presence indicator is the first functionality I disable when I join any sort of forum and my tablet is almost always silent... Asynchronous interrupts least and unbroken concentration is most valuable, so asynchronous mostly - with exceptions for eligible professional contacts and sentimentally close people.
Real time chat: wild unsecure simplicity proven to run anywhere (IRC), bells & whistles with contemporary security (Matrix), some mesh native that almost no one knows ? What about post-disaster onboarding of actual users ?
Store & forward messaging: SMTP & friends may work nicely, but with actually distributed servers - in each local disaster POP. Also needs timeout and retry parameters to keeping stuff in queues practically forever.
Forums: anything better than ol' NNTP ? Other protocols merely adopted intermittent indirect connectivity - NNTP was born in it !
Is anything more sophisticated or more interactive realistic for actual disaster ?
An onboarding kit with clients for each major OS (à la AOL CDROM !) might be handy too, for snearkernet distribution over USB dongles.
Pardon my naïve imagination but, would stackable joints work - with same connector as the extremity tooling ? The joint would be a standard piece and more degrees of freedom would just mean stacking additional joints. I suppose this has already thought about...