They also know that just a tiny tiny percentage of users will go into settings, and even less actually change something.

I used (g)Vim on windows back when I used that

An easy way to contribute is via a phone app called StreetComplete. It asks you questions about stuff near you when you are out. For example, names of places, if the crossing is handicap friendly, road surfaces, etc etc

Edit: I wrote another post about it a while back, https://lemmy.world/comment/18685150

Yes. Without knowing their infrastructure, they obviously cache and probably process the raw OSM data locally. If they chose to use their own overrides or the official-tag is impossible to tell.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico#Name

Basically they list all, with gulf of mexico as the default for the en locale and an entry for official name in en-US

Imagine if it did get that kind of funding

It highly depends on their contract and if they are a big name or not. There is a reason a lot of bands tour though as they make a lot of more money from it than CD sales.

Using Debian since around Ham/Slink… what are all these other icons?

You can access the file systems, both read and write.

In linux they are mounted under /mnt/c etc (at least in debian). And from Windows you can access the linux mounts via a smb share.

And it is basically a complete linux installation running in a virtualisation container except X11. You can install whatever you want and run it. For the most part it is seamlessly forwarded to your host system as well, so if you run a webserver in WSL you can access it through localhost.

Mine was convinced that cell phones and landlines were two different networks. Like you couldn’t call a landline from a cell and vice versa. This went on for decades, even after we infront of her proved it worked.

Having a single centralized source will always give those issues. It can go down either temporarily or permanently. It is all part of the conveniance/single-point-of-failure scale.

In the short run it going down will cause some issues, which can be mitigated by having local mirrors of critical repos. However, moving to another place should in theory be as easy as replacing github.com with gitlab, codeberg, your-local-git-server url, etc (and auth info of course)

Actually testing what will happen if github and/or other services are down and see how your product or build pipeline handles it, is a very good thing to do, but very rarely is it done. It can be easily accomplished by for example adding a drop rule in iptables. Testing for bad things never seems to happen though, and then when it really is a problem nothing works and everyone panics.

I dont like having 90%ish of all git repos all in one handbasket. Even if MS was benevolent, its not good to have all things in one place. A bad actor could take down all of GH and we would be screwed.

That is not how git works though. If github disappeared today it would be a lot of confusion, but the code exists everywhere it is checked out. The owner/maintainer (or anyone really) can just add a new remote and push it. If they use github specific features like issues, they would be lost though.

You can turn off crime in the options menu.

Baptism is such a weird thing.

I think Haskell is such a weird thing

…for now.

That is the standard playbook:

• Introduce unpopular feature
• Defend it by saying there is an option in preferences to disable it
• Later hide the option in some obscure config instead
• Finally, remove the option to disable it

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2275300/Folk_Emerging/

Steam link, playtest only

If you have physical access you have full access anyway

No, encrypt your drives.

It doesn’t really matter how you measure it, number of flights, duration, distance traveled, etc… No matter which, air travel is by far the safest option. The only other that comes anywhere near is trains. Going by car is bad (though motorcycle is even worse), but so many are afraid of flying that they instead takes the car. Which is among the worst things you could do from a safety point of view.

Humans are awful at accessing risk and chance, one of the reasons casinos and lotteries thrive.

Look at fear of flying for an example, all statistics say you are many many many times over more likely to get into a car accident on your way to the airport, than during the flight. Even when the ride to the airport is usually short and the flight very long. Yet people are afraid of flying, but not going by car. By percentage, there are of course those, rightly so, afraid of cars as well.

This is exactly what it was designed to solve before cryptobros turned it into a pump and dump scheme.

If you want to buy something from seller X that is between you and X and no one else. No goverment, payment processor or other third party can get a cut or stop it for any reason.