ChaoticNeutralCzech
@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
- Comment on A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane 1 day ago:
Sure but there is a huge step between not being able to drive the way one wants and where one wants. The cost is also vastly different: human drivers in cars are inherently dangerous and kill 40k people every year in the US. Of course this can be reduced with current technology by incentivizing alternatives to driving.
- Comment on A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane 3 days ago:
I didn’t like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it’s as if driving one’s own car is the main tenet of freedom.
- Comment on Anyone know the name of this famous rabbit? 4 days ago:
I was making a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? joke.
- Comment on Anyone know the name of this famous rabbit? 4 days ago:
How is this not framed?
- Comment on Is there a federated Strava alternative? 6 days ago:
Try integrating with OpenStreetMap Traces and Tapiriik for ease-of-use. Not necessarily for the minimum viable product but consider this into the future.
- Comment on Is there a federated Strava alternative? 6 days ago:
Good bike computers like Garmin allow GPX export so HW compatibility is there. It’s a few manual steps but you can make the process automatic for example by syncing your HW tracker to Tapiriik, which then can auto-download GPX files to your computer via Dropbox, and then you can auto-upload those to OSM with one of these scripts running on your machine.
- Comment on Is there a federated Strava alternative? 6 days ago:
Yes, seeing the trace geometry only with no map is a letdown. That’s why I suggested the visualizer in another comment.
OSM doesn’t produce any hardware. They are a wiki-based world mapping effort. In addition, they run a PNG tile provider (so you can embed their map on a website), an article wiki for how to edit the map etc. and the trace repository.
You can use OSM and record traces using various apps mentioned on their wiki.
- Comment on Is there a federated Strava alternative? 6 days ago:
Come to think of it, OSM traces include timestamps and elevation for each recorded point, plus maybe other data from the uploaded GPX file. Maybe someone will create a Strava-style visualizer that serves HTML, SVGs or PNGs from trace IDs with a map, speed and elevation profile for easy sharing. Imagine your trace is
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/hagu/traces/11959920and you changeopenstreetmap.orgwith perhapsopenstreetmap-traceview.organd get a nice sharable overview that also has a PNG for preview on socials. Maybe even a page with a list of activities by user including kilometer stats by month, mode of transport etc. - Comment on Is there a federated Strava alternative? 6 days ago:
That’s the neat part, there isn’t
People have given consent for you to improve OSM with that data though. For example, one GPS trace can be pretty inaccurate (especially under a canopy where aerial imagery also doesn’t work) but you can compile a dozen and get a very good average. You can message people about those edits, and add notes.
Also, StreetComplete gives you achievements for completing quests and uploading traces. They are automated but it makes it look like actual people are grateful. Of course most people who use OSM will never actually thank the contributors but you’re still doing a great service by improving the map around you.
- Comment on Is there a federated Strava alternative? 6 days ago:
There is a great community at www.openstreetmap.org/traces
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
I think this is going to hurt the White House in the long run. By smearing these people individually, they are highlighting the fact that they are actual humans with life stories, rather than a swarm invading the country.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 week ago:
Imgur stands for image URL: they would let you upload images and provide you with a direct URL. The enshittification with all that JS and push for on-site social networking came after New Reddit and i.redd.it.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 week ago:
I think New Reddit provides the Imgur URL and RES uses it to generate a preview in Old Reddit.
Anyway, should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?
- Comment on Same as it ever was 1 week ago:
StreetComplete quests be like:
- Image What kind of building is this?
- Image How does this path cross the barrier here?
- Image Is this path completed?
- Image Is it lit here?
- Image Do you need to pay to enter here?
- Image What’s being grown here?
- Image Are there showers here?
- Image What religion is practiced at this place?
- Image How many steps are here?
- Image Which direction leads upwards for these steps?
- Image Any vegetarian items on the menu here?
- Image What’s the name of this place?
- Image On which level number is this place located?
- Image Is this a one-way street?
- Image Does this road have a shoulder or breakdown lane?
- Image Do these traffic lights have a tactile indication for blind people for when it’s safe to cross?
- Image How bumpy is the road here?
- Image Which destination is signed for this highway?
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 week ago:
I explained it in another comment. This was a simplification that’s true for i.redd.it and v.redd.it (which block embeds with CORS), the native web UI doesn’t do iframe embeds for privacy reasons.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 week ago:
What frontend are you using? Surely not the default web interface or Voyager!
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 week ago:
I simplified it a bit. Imgur and Reddit block embeds with CORS or something so you do need a deal.
For YouTube, you need to get a special embed URL, like
https://youtube.com/embed/videoIDhere. That’s easy to generate but if your site includes embedded YouTube videos it also means visitors agree to their ToS, and Lemmy devs don’t want that. Believing in net neutrality, they would need to enable ALL iframe embeds from ALL websites, which could easily get messy with vulnerabilities, phishing and whatnot. - Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 1 week ago:
Video posts totally work on Lemmy. However, the video must be on the “free and open internet”. Allow me to explain.
Lemmy, like Reddit, only allows for text posts and link posts. You can make “media posts” because most instances will allow media upload via a pict-rs server running on a subdomain, seamlessly creating a link post when you do.
However, this only applies to media you can obtain a direct link to. Other than instance-specific* pict-rs, the only major public sites that allow direct URL hosting are Catbox and GitHub. We don’t have deals with major video hosting sites like YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. to embed videos when someone posts a link to the website the video is hosted on. Therefore, any link posts will have to be opened as an external website, which is very annoying indeed, especially for the aforementioned JS-heavy sites (unless the other user has an alternative frontend app such as Piped or NewPipe set up).
* Instance shenanigans: Some instances impose a very small size limit to uploads or only allow a certain time after account creation (both for lemm.ee for instance). You won’t usually see admins sharing what restrictions they put in place, but we can get a good guess from the defaults (error 502 currently, see archive). These defaults remain unchanged by many instance admins and the TL;DR is:
Applies to any media
- 10 MiB limit
Static pictures
- 10000x10000 or 40 MP
- all major formats (
webp,jpg,png,jxl)
Animated pictures (colloquially known as gifs)
- 1920x1920 or 2.08 MP
- all major formats (
webp(recommended),apng,gif,avif)
Videos
- 3840x3840
- 900 frames (that’s like 30-40 seconds but you can get longer with something like a VFR slideshow)
- no sound, I think
- all major formats supported but unless it’s VP9 in a WebM container, it will be transcoded by the server and the timeout of the ffmpeg operation is like 15 seconds! This means that it’s practically impossible to upload any but the shortest videos unless they’re VP9 in WebM already!
You can see that video upload is very limiting! If you’re tech-savvy you can get a lot out of the 10 MiB and 900 frames but you need some ffmpeg skills. Therefore, your best bet is uploading to catbox.moe or GitHub, obtaining a direct link to the file and pasting it as a link post URL. Or just paste the YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. URL and deal with the fact people will have to open the heavy website (or their alt-frontend app like NewPipe).
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
Last time I saw this post, an old Czech song had just played on the radio…
“Bráním se dojetí” translates to “I resist being touched”, apparently
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
Yes. If it’s empty. But in cases where you need to check, it might as well not be.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
The list is not necessarily empty. If you were sure it was, why check?
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 week ago:
That woulb be 0.5x. −2x implies negative duration, which makes no sense. Neither does the layout of anything else in the image.
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 1 week ago:
Unlike on R*ddit, you need to add
>to empty lines too to make a single multi-paragraph quote - Comment on New Survey that will determine your age. You are really old if you score a perfect 11 out of 11 3 weeks ago:
Yes but you have to scan an ID so they know whose insurance premium to bump.
- Comment on Surprisingly enough, shady USB-C multiport adapters can be dangerous 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see why a hub shouldn’t be able to supply power… it will disable PD modes and limit everything to 5V though
- Comment on Surprisingly enough, shady USB-C multiport adapters can be dangerous 3 weeks ago:
Just make sure to use it on 5V-only chargers. You can glue it to one of them.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Seriously, if you’re working with analog electronics, 𝛑=√1̅0̅ is close enough. If you need more precision, use active error correction, and in the 21st century that’s easiest to do digitally anyway.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
They are keeping around so many deprecated features for internal use and whatnot, I would be surprised if they did remove this registry check.
Until Windows 12 is released, you can always use an old ISO and then update to the newest version.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
The command
OOBE\bypassnro(.cmd) one types into the command prompt (after opening it with Shift+F10) for the bypass is the location of a batch file they will be removing. You can still do whatever it’s doing (adding a registry key and restarting) by typing the command manually or providing a copy of the file on a USB drive. After a restart, the OS will check for the registry key AND lack of internet connection to provide the local account option.For the record, the contents of the file are
@echo off reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG\_DWORD /d 1 /f shutdown /r /t 0
- Comment on ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically 4 weeks ago:
Welcome!
