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by rmc 6y ago
AGPL still allows compeditors, it just means you, and all users, get access to their improvements.
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by rmc 6y ago
If it's not profitable, then that means the market can't solve it, ergo we need regulation
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by rmc 6y ago
The GDPR, the EU Privacy law, allows processing personal data if the person consents to it. Consent can be withdrawn, and, as the law says, “It must be as easy to withdraw consent as to give it”. That simple formulation is easier. “It must
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by rmc 6y ago
That would mean DigitalOcean has to do work. It's probably easier for them if the open source maintainers have to do the work.
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by rmc 6y ago
Because you're providing material aid to that group, and you're saying there's nothing wrong with doing that .
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by rmc 6y ago
I think the issue is “How do you decide what is political and what isn't?” e.g. if you're a communist, then the existence is shareholders is political support for capitalism. So how do you remain “apolitical” then?
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by rmc 6y ago
OSM Notes are still useful. But the goal of OSM is a common owned geodatabase, ie a map. I hope eventually every person feels empowered and able to make simple map changes like this.
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by rmc 6y ago
That data has not been imported into OSM. That's just a wiki page detailing the external data.
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by rmc 6y ago
There's a few MapCompare instances for showing many different maps: https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/
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by rmc 6y ago
“The company might have to release the source for everything!” isn't a downside for some people. The FSF's philosphy is that all source code should be opened. What you're describing as a bug (for a company), is (I think) a fe
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by rmc 6y ago
> The main equation for general-use household robots is: can it beat human fares? This is where raising the minimum wage can spur innovation. If we gradually increase the cost of human labour (with higher wages, and other conditions), th
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by rmc 6y ago
Regardless of what Facebook or ESRI says, in order to import data into OSM, you must follow the Import Guidelines ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines ). Which includes wider OSM community consu
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by rmc 6y ago
If people _cannot_ opt out, then the opt in is legally meaningless. i.e. people cannot legally opt in.
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by rmc 6y ago
The GDPR says that you only have consent if it is as easy to opt out as to opt in. So if it's one click to opt in and 140+ to opt out, then the opt ins don't count. So you're processing personal data without consent. That&#x2
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by rmc 6y ago
they should have developed it from day 1 thinking it would be open sources, i.e. never adding any non-open source dependencies
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by rmc 6y ago
The data itself is free. Current map tiles on tile.osm.org is hosted on donated hardware, and run by volunteer sysadmins. That's not free. they reserve the right to block you for any reason at zero notice. Don't run your business
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by rmc 6y ago
sometimes people use “authoratative” to mean “what [government] thinks” (e.g. “authorative borders”)
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by rmc 6y ago
Surely there's a difference between ”Buy this PNG file for €200” and “Buy it for €10,000,000”
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by rmc 6y ago
The OSMF is currently working on an Attribution Guidelines which should help with FB's attribution
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by rmc 6y ago
> does that mean that web requests to OSM shovel data to Facebook now? Absolutely not. Mapillary was an independent company. They were very friendly & helpful to the OSM community, and popular amoung OSM contributors, but they were
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by rmc 6y ago
Ish. If Facebook violate the OSM licence, then that's illegal and something could be done about that. Though the OSMF would never be able to seriously legally sue Facebook. One side has considerably more money than the other. But if Fa
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by rmc 6y ago
> I can't see how this [denying ICE access to Github service] helps improve immigration … great fear from all paying customers that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time You've proven your point. Pay
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by rmc 6y ago
Isn't that the point of the `DNT` header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track ? If I set it on my web browser, I'm telling web server that I do not consent to being tracked. So they shouldn't ask?
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by rmc 6y ago
Pornography is protected speech under the first amendment. Facebook ban it. Should they be forced to host it and not filter it at all?
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by rmc 6y ago
Facebook employees should talk to their union about this.
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by rmc 6y ago
> That 600GB must surely include the full history? Nope! IME a regular `osm2pgsql` database for displaying maps which can be updated with changes needs about ~1TB of diskspace. There are many indexes needed.
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by rmc 6y ago
“introduce an X-Allow-Tracking header in the http spec” The DNT HTTP header is about 10 years old. It is widely ignore by many data collectors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
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by rmc 6y ago
There already is a DNT (Do not track) HTTP Header, but advertisers ignore it.
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by rmc 7y ago
Would Uber be happy to be classified as a taxi company?
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by rmc 7y ago
Assange attempted to appeal his extradition from the UK. One way to challenge that is to show that what you are being accused of isn't a crime in the UK. The UK High Court judgement is informative. What Assange is accused of (the 4 cou

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