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  • Wrong title, it should be:

    A Map of the world showing where the local time zone is wrong more than half hours

    An hour is a human concept, we just divided the day to 24 parts, we could use whatever else division. Local time is correct only on the center longitude, which is a line with zero thickness.

    Also it’s clearly visible that France and Spain are in the wrong time zone, and it was changed by the Nazis. Before WW2 France and Spain was in the same zone as Britain. France changed because of the German occupation, and they forgot to change back after the war.



  • They have an example service on the website:

    (define sshd
      (service
        '(sshd ssh-daemon)                ;the secure shell daemon
        #:start (make-inetd-constructor   ;start on demand
                 '("/usr/sbin/sshd" "-D" "-i")
                 (list (endpoint
                        (make-socket-address AF_INET INADDR_ANY 22))
                       (endpoint
                        (make-socket-address AF_INET6 IN6ADDR_ANY 22)))
                 #:max-connections 10)
        #:stop (make-inetd-destructor)
        #:respawn? #t))
    
    (register-services (list sshd))
    (start-in-the-background '(sshd))
    

    Let’s see how the same service looks like with systemd:

    [Unit]
    Description=OpenSSH Daemon
    Wants=sshdgenkeys.service
    After=sshdgenkeys.service
    After=network.target
    
    [Service]
    Type=notify-reload
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/sshd -D
    KillMode=process
    Restart=always
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
    

    I have some lisp knowledge, so the scheme version doesn’t look frightening to me, but I guess for sysadmins, who should write these kind of files frequently systemd’s TOML like language is much more easier to understand.

    Some differences I see: Shepherd does some firewall management with ports, and I don’t see the services it depends on.

    Why this kind of files should be written in a programming language at all? I guess it’s a remnant from the old times, but I like when tools abstract away the programming parts, and users shouldn’t have to deal with that. I like the same thing in docker-compose: I can configure a program whatever language it’s written, I don’t have to deal with what’s happening under the hood.

    I guess there is some usefulness with defining services as code, if you need more complex situations, but it should the more rare case nowadays.




  • Tldr:

    • Captions in videos. They write here it runs on device and available only if your phone has a tensor chip: https://blog.google/technology/ai/on-device-processing/
    • image transcription with gemini 1.5, I don’t find more info on it but it sounds like it doesn’t run on device, similar to what already available in browsers.
    • stickers in gboard. Wow.
    • quickshare images with qr code and bluetooth. I remember we sent images via bluetooth in 2004. I don’t see why is it an interesting feature in 2024
    • some scanning app for googe drive, there are countless alternatives…
    • gemini extension with spotifiy, so now gemini can recommend you music from spotify. Like if there was a problem here to solve.

    So AI things and rewrapped features. I love that on device things starting to work, but at one point goog will see it’s not good for them. If it runs on device, you don’t have to feed them data







  • All of these graphs don’t make a lot of sense. Apple maps is preinstalled on apple devices, so I guess that’s why they don’t review it. Last time I used gapps on android gmaps was included in all packages except the smallest one, it’s also preinstalled on most android devices so I don’t understand why some people would review it, but not apple maps on the other platform? On the play store chart, gmaps is only those who doesn’t have it preinstalled but downloaded it manually, or it includes everyone?

    And comparing 2 lemmy communities by number of subscribers not by active contributors?

    It was a good exercise about how to create pie charts in excel, and grats for that OP, but doesn’t give a lot of info. I don’t want to sound harsh, it’s a constructive criticism, keep creating charts! But don’ use pie charts for these kind of data. I would be interested in an updated version with more options included, fixed spelling of osm, a bit more explanation and more fitting type of charts.


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    It’s in a lot of program, not just ff. You can also see some letters are underlined in that menu, if you press that letter after alt, it would invoke that command or open that drop down without using the mouse. This is a convention at least from DOS, but I suspect it may be even older.

    So actually alt doesn’t unhide the menu, it waits for a letter input to what command you want to start. It just happened that this old type of menu is hidden by default in a lot of programs and alt could be reused for this as well.


  • It’s OpenStreetMap, not maps, the last character is “p”.

    There are other related lemmy communities:

    OSM has it’s own mastodon instance en.osm.town, a lot of users comments from there.

    I don’t know how you selected these apps for comparison. There are some other well known osm based apps: Magic Earth and Mapy.cz are proprietary, but very good quality, Osmand is partially foss. It would be interesting to compare om to those as well.

    I’m not really sure pie charts are the best way to visualise this data. What about people who has multiple apps downloaded?

    Where does the contributor number of gmaps come from? Is everyone who added a shop or joke becomes a contributor or is this the google employees only?


  • It’s for chinese internal market primarily. Afaik play store is already blocked in china, so they won’t notice the lack of apps, as app selection is already limited for them. I read somewhere, that chinese have some “everything app” where they can do every online payment and services, etc, and they just had to port that few apps to this new os to become a viable alternative there.

    I guess on the few international markets where you can still buy huawei phones, they may have an android based version.




  • You can use another service to navigate there. And than do your own survey, and add the addresses to osm. You are not allowed to copy from Google, but it’s not because of us, but it’s in Google’s terms of service.

    After your initial survey you won’t need to use Gmaps again. And if you survey the neighbors, not just your original destination, maybe you can help others in the future.

    Also mapping is fun! Try it, you will know better your area.