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by rmc 9y ago
Pretty sure every cheesy hacker film doesn't have the root password being empty. They usually put in "password" or the favourite music band of the target.
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by rmc 9y ago
It's the goal of the OpenStreetMap project to basically have all o fhtat.
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by rmc 9y ago
> it also helps to shift the blame away from Hillary's party for losing the election because of a terribly run campaign. It also shifts the blame away from Americans who liked what Trump was saying . A similar thing is happening
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by rmc 9y ago
Sounds like all amazon workers across europe should join the same union.
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by rmc 9y ago
Sounds like the software devs should strike too. You're very underpaid in London, which is very expensive.
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by rmc 9y ago
> When a CTO says "let's collect geolocations", the CEO should should have legal and business reasons to say "no way, it's not worth the financial risk of losing them; it could destroy our company." Sounds
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by rmc 9y ago
> * Also, I’m not sure all contributors would be happy if they moved to a license analogous to the GPL (that would mean users combining openStreetMap data with their own data would have to release their data under a similar license)* Umm
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by rmc 9y ago
The OpenStreetMap project changed the licence of the data a few years ago (for Complicated Reasons™). People had to be contacted and ask to relicence their data, and eventually some data had to be deleted. There is now a Contributor Terms¹
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by rmc 9y ago
As has been mentioned OSC is not "part of OSM", it's part of the OSM ecosystem. There is also Mapillary, which is also part of the OSM ecosystem and is very similar to OSC.
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by rmc 9y ago
Bing has allowed OSMers to trace from their aerial imagery for years. Having proper aerial imagery is like night and day for mapping. It used to be Yahoo aerial in the early days.
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by rmc 9y ago
For starters, the OSM PBF file format is not a protobuf file! Instead it's a collection of protobuf files inside each other! You can read more in the fileformat: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PBF_Format Ther
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by rmc 9y ago
IANAL, but I think the legal definition of fraud would make that illegal. You're getting something by deception, since you know the person thinks it says Department of Defence.
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by rmc 9y ago
How else does it know what to predict without logging what keys you press?
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by rmc 9y ago
You fool! Never compete with Pinboard! Have you learned nothing!
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by rmc 9y ago
Yes you should do that. But it's easy to forget to do that.
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by rmc 9y ago
Sure, but you can configure a webserver to always redirect to the https version of a site.
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by rmc 9y ago
> Exactly. One has to trust Mozilla every time one visits the page This is where IPFS could be useful. It's content addressed, so the address guarantees that you're getting the same, unmodified, content
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by rmc 9y ago
Especially for older people. Back in the day they didn't have cameras as much and developing film was expensive. That wedding album might have the only photos you have of a relative that is now dead.
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by rmc 9y ago
But Mapbox couldn't exist without OSM... They are a mapping company (it's in the name), and where do they get their maps?
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by rmc 9y ago
If you don't want to host your own map tile server?
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by rmc 9y ago
The British National Party used to be called the British Union of Fascists. Nick Griffin was leader for 15 years, until 2014, and is a holocaust denier. Until 2010, they had an official "whites only" membership policy. It's i
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by rmc 9y ago
> If reading the daily mail offends you It doesn't offend me. It's just not a reliable source. And those links don't address my second point. There is no reference to neo-Nazism. I'm suggesting neo-Nazi website be t
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by rmc 9y ago
> That's like saying there is an increased trend among conservatives in general towards being Nazis. Someone compared the election manifesto from the British National Party (who are basically neo-Nazi) for the 2005 UK election,
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by rmc 9y ago
That's the Daily Mail, a newspaper that supported Hitler during the 1930s, and today is not accepted as a source in Wikipedia due to "the Daily Mail’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication&quo
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by rmc 9y ago
You can start off with the definition in German law: publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or downplays an act committed under the rule of National Socialism .. publicly or in a meeting disturbs the public peace in a manner that vi
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by rmc 9y ago
> The issue with such "free speech" instances not being the norm is that the instances which do allow "hate speech" are going to be clustered with unsavory individuals. Hang on, I don't follow. Are you saying t
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by rmc 9y ago
> but their "default" instance is just too restrictive on speech. It's basically a tumblrina safe space network To some people, that's a selling point! And if you don't like it, join another instance!
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by rmc 9y ago
There's a difference between Stormfront, a neo-nazi site, and "a conservative bent"
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by rmc 9y ago
> If they copy the data to a 3rd party in America (i.e. sell the data a marketing company, for "research" purposes), then the EU can't really go after the marketing company. No, but they can go after the original company
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by rmc 9y ago
Not only the money stream part, but if a big company pulls out of the EU, then they leave a big hole for someone else to fill. And you've just created a competitor who has a market base that you are choosing to not compete it. e.g. if

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