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Flickr has had this from the beginning. I always appreciated their simple approach to it, similar to what you are suggesting: Private, Family, Friends, Family & Friends, Everyone. There's no guesswork, no 'Friends of Friends' where it becomes opaque who you are sharing with. Your idea having a Venn representation of it makes complete sense.

The Windy / Mapy apps recommended elsewhere in this thread don't seem to be doing that great of a job on attribution either. A recent draft[0] of OSM attribution guidelines states "attribution after one interaction" as suitable for a mobile app, but these apps require two, and some scrolling.

[0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Draft_Attribution_Guidel...

Second Gaia for outdoor activities. Map layers you won't find anywhere else; some that I use frequently are cell coverage, snow depth, many different aerial layers options, public / private land. They incorporate many region / country specific topo and aerial layers too. Their website is also great for trip planning, and the data you create there syncs with the app. Well worth the $40 annual subscription for me.

Flickr changed hands a couple times, almost went under and is still struggling to stay afloat. So you're right to be paranoid. I have been a paying Flickr Pro user since the beginning of time, but I don't feel that my photos are any 'safer' there than they would be on Google Photos.

Also, Flickr has done an arguably nastier bait and switch when they announced the end of their unlimited free storage. At least Google seems to be willing to keep the photos already uploaded around. For now.

That's what I like about a desktop PC as well. It gives computer-based activities a designated physical place, and therefore the time I spend at the computer is more deliberate.

I take this a step further and don't say anything for the first few seconds if I pick up a call from a number I don't recognize. I used to not pick up those calls at all, but now that spam callers are using local area code caller IDs more and more, that is getting more difficult.

Notably, the main OpenStreetMap database does not use PostGIS, and stores longitudes and latitudes as scaled integers.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails_port/Database_sche...

This post made me install the ICQ "uh oh!" new message sound as notification sound on my phone. It is higher pitched than I remember it.

I still remember my UIN, but I don't think 'new ICQ' uses those? I tried logging in on the web site, but I am unable to recover my password using my UIN.

Here's the interactive map: https://gps.aquila-it.pl/en/migration-maps/steppe-eagle-russ...

Really helpful guidance on the audio quality considerations, thank you!

> However, I was bombarded with ads for NordVPN and their crap made me so angry it pretty much sold me a paid YouTube membership.

For me it was those incessant Grammarly ads. A service, by the way, that has its own serious security and privacy concerns[0].

(I feel like YouTube Premium ($18/mo for up to 6 people) is a better deal than Spotify Premium ($15/mo for up to 6 people) for a household like mine where we listen to a lot of music and use YouTube a lot. I don't know how YouTube compares to Spotify when it comes to music selection however.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315684

Utah. UTA has a pretty poor reputation when it comes to its administration. Overpaid executives who like to spend lavishly on international travel, and a history of shady deals with real estate developers.

Some recent coverage: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2019/05/02/are-utahns-o...

2019 budget: https://www.rideuta.com/-/media/Files/About-UTA/Budget_Book_... page 57

Despite all that, we really have a pretty decent transit system for the metro size. I have reliable 15 minute service to downtown and it only takes me twice as long to take the bus to work than it takes me to drive.

Where I live, revenue from fares makes up ~11% of the total. (The largest chunk of revenue is from local sales tax.) Making transit cheaper would be relatively painless and highly effective: we have a 'free fare day' every year where 25-65% more people board a bus or train than on regular days. A new frequent bus service connecting train stations and major destinations sees as many boardings as existing light rail; it is free to ride.

A small sales tax hike is palatable to enough people that it is politically viable, whereas a $2.50 fare every time you board a bus or train makes more people not ride transit who otherwise might.

Not a transit routing API, but transit.land offers aggregated transit network data as a service. https://transit.land/

Oh man. I spent so many hours playing Maelstrom on my LC 475.. Through your wiki link I discovered that Ambrosia open sourced the game - there are even OSX binaries. https://www.libsdl.org/projects/Maelstrom/binary.html

Thanks for sharing, impressive what you've built already.

Some of my bills, such as my mortgage, show up twice a month. Do you plan to support recurring transactions that are something else than monthly or yearly?

I may have missed it in the pre-signup screens, but how much do you intend to charge?

To get users started with a budget, perhaps you could assume the average in each category once you have a couple months worth of spending.

Oh wow, I didn't know that the composer of that intro (Richard Joseph) also composed the in-game music for Chaos Engine, and the title music for Sensible Soccer and Speedball 2, all of which are in my top 5 favorite Amiga games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Joseph

I still hear the intro music of 'Defender of the Crown' in my dreams sometimes.

That series of articles is amazing and I am happy to see it re-appear here. They have a Patreon and some e-books but I'd buy an illustrated hard copy of the 68000 articles.

After reading some of the comments here I decided to give the Google Backup & Sync client another go on my MacBook Pro. The CPU fan has been blowing at full speed for the last 15 minutes. It's still terrible, extremely resource-hungry and slow.

The single reason why I prefer Dropbox over the other file storage / sync products is that their sync client works so much better on Mac. It eats fewer resources, is quicker to start and sync once started, doesn't need to 'restart its sync engine', and has the most flexible selective sync. The addition of 'smart sync' to personal accounts is a nice recent addition.

I don't care for all this new functionality targeted at collaboration / corporate use, and I hope Dropbox will start offering a barebones 'I only need to sync files between devices' plan. I've been happily paying $120/y for that for years and hope they let me continue to do just that, or at least stay out of my way they way they have in the past.

That reminds me of the early days of Flickr, which was very visibly in beta for years (it was on the logo). That gave me an appropriate level of anxiety about the longevity of the service. (Well, that and the fact that all the page urls still had a .gne extension, suggesting that Flickr was perhaps not their end game.) Then they went into 'gamma'!? for another couple of years before it finally became just Flickr.

It's surprising how little you actually need, and as you point out, how little more you need for a 3 week trip than you do for an overnight trip. I don't backpack much but my bikepacking checklist is pretty much the same regardless of the length of the trip. The main (and heavy) variable is the amount of water to bring, and that's more dependent on weather and available water sources than on length of the trip.

Okay, there goes my morning... Fascinating. This would have been a fantastic podcast!

I had a chance to visit David Rumsey and his map collection (which this map is a part of) at his home in 2013. The breadth of that collection and this man's dedication to maps is fantastic.

This is a picture of his 2013 digitizing setup: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhodes/9066129105 which he built in what was basically his garage. I don't remember much technical detail about it.

I believe (part of?) the collection has since moved to Stanford.

The collection's web site is a great resource and fun to explore for anyone interested in maps. There's even a link to view part of the collection in Second Life.

Perhaps an example would have helped. With numeric coordinates relative orientation is fairly intuitive. It's simple arithmetic. How does your proposed system replicate that?

> Would beat a 6AM flight (so up at 4:30)

Agreed. When the option exists, it's so much nicer than flying.

At one point in my career I traveled from Amsterdam to various other European cities for 3-5 day work trips fairly frequently. Where direct overnight train connections existed, I would try and use those rather than get up for a 6am flight. For example Amsterdam - Copenhagen used to exist as an direct overnight connection. The cost for a private sleeper cabin with shower and breakfast was, I think, about €500 -- less than a flight + an extra hotel night. The trouble was getting my company to reimburse it, because it didn't fit neatly in their travel reimbursement policy's categories and rules.

I just read that the Austrian national railway is planning to re-introduce them and was surprised.

Europe had a pretty decent overnight train network in the 90s and even into the 2000s.

Then flying got cheap and people basically didn't want to take those trains any longer. Most disappeared.

What, short of making flying much more expensive, would make a new attempt at introducing them successful, you think?

I'm confused about the return policy, on the glossy ordering web site it say 7 days / 1000 miles, but on the T&C page it says 3 days / 500 miles.

It's an interesting policy regardless. In sounds like it's pretty much 'no questions asked'. Any experiences with this?

I quite like the design philosophy behind the Punkt phones. It looks like the MP01 is 2G only which would disqualify it for U.S. use. For the MP02 they say

> "Please note that some mobile phone service providers in the USA have not yet finished registering the MP02 for their networks.Because of this, some carriers currently require users to temporarily disable VoLTE on the MP02 (use 4G or 3G calling instead), and Verizon's network is currently unable to accept the MP02 at all. (This is an admin issue, not a technology issue.)"

Anyone who has actually used this device in the U.S. who can share experience? It sounds like you would still be able to use it as an LTE hotspot, but for voice you'd fall back to 4/3G.

Same. I love it. The things I replaced in the 8 years I've had this machine: Stock HDD -> Samsung 840 SSD, Keyboard (failed within 3yr warranty, they shipped me a new one overnight), and the trackpoint cover. Oh, and the OS, from Windows 7 Pro to XUbuntu. I would love a higher density display but that's about it.

I am thinking of finally upgrading to an X280 or an X1 but I am afraid the keyboard will be too much of a downgrade.