Oh look after an #Android software update Gemini is mysteriously turned on again after being disabled via every control I've ever been able to find.
Guess it's time to go hunting in the settings for more creepy shit to turn off.
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If you're in the UK and contribute to #OpenStreetMap you might be interested in voting for the next UK Quarterly project.
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/uk-quarterly-project-2026-q4-proposals-and-voting/147501/2
Voting runs till the 28th.
#UKQP
I'm so glad I didn't just give Academia.edu my real email address. I think I just had to click buttons to avoid paying a surprise fee five screens in a row?
@osmwikiproposals@en.osm.town I don't think this is a real proposal.
"They're not really food, just tasty snacks."
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@pietervdvn Because that would involve a human using their brains or having a shred of conscience and those both go against the basic principles of the companies doing this.
@osm_tech
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@osm_tech The proxy SDK providers need to be treated like the DDOS providers they are and prosecuted.
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@agowa338@chaos.social
It isn't, it's what you get when you mix R+Y+B paints. You usually don't get black or dark grey because they aren't actually a set of primary colours.
We've known that the eyes actually distinguish RGB and so they're the primary colours for light and the best starting point for a trio of subtractive colours is CMY since the nineteenth century, but the myth of RYB primaries remains strong.
@stephaniewalter@front-end.social
@TechConnectify
A "No Effort November" video in which you have been involved with the development of a new product and ran your own tests.
I don't think we agree on the definition of "no effort".
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@webmink nah, the'll just do their usual nonsense along the lines of:
You can absolutely read them for free, for up to two hours at a time, having booked in in advance to travel to our reading room in the most expensive city to get to in the county.
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@sldrant
I swap back and forth between US and UK more frequently than is sane. It's always a @fun@ experience.
@hazelweakly
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@harry_wood@en.osm.town At this point I would happily sign a petition to cut all direct and indirect government funding of Ordnance Survey and prohibit councils from giving them any data without getting a hefty payment for it.
Well that would have been a nice picture of the landscape if the phone hadn't somehow slipped into the stupid 🤬 "portrait mode" that arbitrarily blurred half of it when it couldn't find a person.
What is the point of this mode? All it doesn't is put a fake blur on the supposed background just do that in post.
Also if you can't figure out what's meant to be the person don't blur anything!
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@niko@graz.social @tg@indieweb.social @publicvoit@graz.social I dunno, my housework doesn't quite pester me in the same way. I know it needs to be done, but it needs to be done over there, rather than it appearing in a way that I have to acknowledge *right now*.
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@governorkeagan@en.osm.town apparently I'm a "Legendary Mapper (Very Active)".
The groupings are a little odd, it looks like I might cross over into "Fantastic" at some point which feels like a downgrade.
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@sldrant The UK layout commits the crime of splitting up the " and ' for no apparent reason.
@hazelweakly
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@squeakyears@meow.social There has been a post about it on here, but I think I saw it on reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/openstreetmap/comments/1rvjfk8/3d_world_explorer_built_on_osm_data_i_added_live/
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@cstross@wandering.shop I wonder if my hope for how things panned out actually happened.
From the part of New Management that I've read it seems bleak, but I had ideas for damage control that seemed feasible in universe.
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@Edent
I tend to open posts with links I want to read in a new tab until I've read the link ... and then get the web interface complain that I've exceeded a rate limit.
I guess they must be harassing the server for updates even though they're in the background.
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@benjamin
i do not see the point of the video that's just a slideshow.
The GIF further down the page is much more useful.
@kajer @mikesiegel
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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz
The TARDIS would either let him in immediately for the fun of it or continually change the pins on the fly just to mess with him.
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@Edent I'm a little surprised to find out that they have open source repositories given how opaque the organisation generally is to the public.
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@publicvoit@graz.social
On a related note: do you remember how good it was when websites just ... scrolled like you asked them to?
Like, it didn't wait until the bottom paragraph was halfway up the screen and fade the new block of text or graphic in in a weird unintuitive way that's strangely difficult to read. You just scrolled down and more stuff appeared at the bottom in a nice predictable manner until you got to a point where no more appeared and that was the end of the page.
@tg@indieweb.social
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@TechConnectify This makes me wonder if someone makes a version with a temperature sensor that sticks directly to the window pane.
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@jimkats@infosec.exchange If a bit of landuse is going to be attached to existing features I'd rather it was done using a multi-polygon so that there are no overlapping ways that are a pain to select.
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@neil
Next year's headline: Jacques Ze Whipper to be blocked in the UK for "promoting a method to evade age assurance"
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@jimkats@infosec.exchange
If inly our lane and turn retriction tagging were that simple.
@pietervdvn@en.osm.town
The BBC is doing a piece on Passkeys. It says they're relying on a shared secret between your phone and the website.
And there I was thinking that the whole point of something using public key crypto to is that the secret you use to authenticate isn't shared with the service you're trying to log in to.
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@paddyduke@mastodon.social No I don't want to pay for a while month's worth of papers just to read something that would cost $3 at my local newsstand.
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@angusm@mastodon.social I fully disabled Google's Discover on Android for this reason.
It was a shame too because it would also do useful things like tell me about exchange rates and appointments and stuff but I don't need additional distraction and clickbait wedged into my homescreen experience.
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@AshleyMarineP@mastodon.social Wasn't there a line in Red Dwarf about them going back to VHS because the later formats proved too easy to lose?
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Is there an setting somewhere to force #SCEE to go back to the old fashioned analogue time picker for opening hours etc.?
It was much better than the new version that takes an age to scroll through.
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@frivoal@w3c.social I think Microsoft is going to try to push all Skype users onto their non-corporate version of teams? Does it do all those things?
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@stux@mstdn.social I get that, but other than them maybe being accustomed to a person there doesn't seem to be much to say that they aren't just outside whatever hidey-hole they were born in.
Could be dumped of course but seems a bit of a leap without finding the container they were in?
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@harry_wood @Firefishy @osm_tech can you just offer no response to a query like that? Silently drop the connection like they are in fact offline?
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@misty@digipres.club why would you use an ai generated one when there are cheap human written ones you can just buy?
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@TechConnectify my local supermarket doesn't even sell powder or gel dishwasher detergent anymore :-(
I have occasionally stabbed a pod and let it dribble into the door on the way to the dispenser but I don't know if I'd recommend it.
We need dishwasher to have a really sharp blade between the two compartments so they divide the pod when you close the door. I'm sure no one would be afraid of lawsuits if they implemented this on a bit of kit sometimes used by untrained children. 🙄