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johnsea
·6 gün önce·discuss
Organic Maps was founded by two of the Maps.Me authors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Maps#History).

With CoMaps I don't think, there are any original authors involved (?). In any case I prefer organic, the original. Donated and very grateful that this app works so well (except for search where I sometimes use another app).
johnsea
·geçen ay·discuss
While my common sense may be a collection of old prejudices, some have surely changed over time. I suspect that my opinions are informed and received. Reading newspapers, discussing things with friends, HN, books. A lot of influences. And then I muse on what makes sense, who is compassionate and what is important atm. Perhaps common sense a bit like Treebeard: deeply rooted but able to walk.

> I don't see an a priori answer either way

Fair enough. But my common, naive sense would say, cis/trans bodies are objectively different (and this settles it in my favour ;-)). -- I'll stop here, public hn for this subjects is too demanding for me, I might fall over Queers for Palestine or Druids for Israel and become unwell...

Nice talking to you!
johnsea
·geçen ay·discuss
For me it's not about morality, anything goes afaic.

My arguments were that biological men can enter women spaces, even though some women are not ok with that. Or compete in women's sports, violating fairness as male/female bodies are different. Or cases like the female gym-owner who was fined.

I don't think such laws existed or were being pushed for with homosexuality previously? That debate was more about what adults do in their private live.

Drag queens, yes, but no legal system which allowed a man to almost instantly become a lawful women (Germany had a "famous" such case..). I like simple, friendly programming languages. The same goes for law and common sense (~trans violates this somewaht).
johnsea
·geçen ay·discuss
I disagree with the neutral language, this is what some people (including me) would call "woke agenda".

Not all LGB people support the expansion to include TQ+ issues. Nor some of the side-effects e.g. women athletes forced to compete against men. Or a women-owned gym in Germany that was fined because the owner didn't want to allow males in the women-only space.

There is no disdain for "these people" (or groups, as a poster above suggested) and some of this people exist in my own live too, but disagreement about what is appropriate and neutral in a job ad, particularly of a charity which receives?/received public funding.
johnsea
·geçen ay·discuss
Maybe I could have left out the final remark. But I was quite astonished by the large amount of identity-focused language. The English Heritage Stonehenge job description (and the website) should use more neutral language.
johnsea
·geçen ay·discuss
What do you mean?
johnsea
·geçen ay·discuss
DEI, "woke ideology". It is not ideology in a strict sense.
johnsea
·geçen ay·discuss
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johnsea
·2 ay önce·discuss
This article fails to mention GrapheneOS.

The article starts with Murena, Punkt, Volla which are all based on Android. If you do this, then imho you must mention GrapheneOS, the by far better option (updates, privacy, security, organisation).

Google Pixel with GrapheneOS is the best non-Google phone... ;-)
johnsea
·2 ay önce·discuss
Thanks for your reply. Only used PLA so far. But later I'll need "engineering parts", Nylon/PA12 or something like this. Strong, water and UV resistant, outdoor.

It shouldn't be too complicated and not too expensive. E.g. while the Prusa Core One+ seemed nice (from a superficial look) it costs more than I wanted to spend. P1S came out as the best (barely) adequate printer for what I thought I would need when I looked at it. But it's difficult to say if you are a beginner and basically have no idea...
johnsea
·2 ay önce·discuss
As long as Onshape let THEIR servers work for MY public projects for free I don't see how your "make YOU pay more" statement applies.
johnsea
·2 ay önce·discuss
Nice post. May I ask what you would buy instead (e.g. for the P1S)?
johnsea
·2 ay önce·discuss
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johnsea
·2 ay önce·discuss
"They Built"... I wonder how a quite (formerly) formidable magazine like Wired can choose such a wrong title? Only one built.. Only one attacked...
johnsea
·3 ay önce·discuss
I'll also pay and support their work to provide a really good browser (which needed a bit debloating).
johnsea
·3 ay önce·discuss
The leadership is great. Persistent, patient and friendly.

They were able to improve. I don't think many of the often negative and ad-hominem critics would be able to endure such a pressure as they had in the past.
johnsea
·3 ay önce·discuss
GrapheneOS phones are not rooted.
johnsea
·4 ay önce·discuss
I "fell" for Comaps but switched back to Organic Maps (where the original real good devs are). Comaps felt a bit too much like fork, "fabricate" nice media and beg for donations. Both are imho inferior to (non-foss) Magic Earth but consume much less power.
johnsea
·7 ay önce·discuss
Also Julia, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia

And https://github.com/ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig or e.g. https://github.com/haydenridd/silvia-pid-board
johnsea
·8 ay önce·discuss
I was happy from the sideline seeing the recent big Zig donations. But this sudden decision is a shock. Technical issues can be worked around (I wish/think), but leaving such a dominant platform? I don't know. For my small small needs Forgejo works great, but for Zig, a project which I hope has a lot of mainstream success, I'm not convinced, that Forgejo/Codeberg is the best fit (atm). Even Graphene OS which has very high standards is (still) on Github, maybe Zig could brood (brüten) a bit longer to decide if it is really time to leave?