On one hand i love to see people fleeing Twitter, on another i think it foolish to move to another corporate site that eventually WILL enshittify. Here’s Cory Doctorow on why he won’t join Bsky or Threads

Enshittification Stage 1 is ALWAYS sweet, but eventually ends

Like OpenAI?

Tha’s been my beef with GOG for years now, their utterly stubborn stance of ignoring anything besides Windows even when it’s common sense to do so

Two words: Steam Deck.

I have reliably upgraded Mint in place the last, dunno, 5-6 major releases or so, works exactly as well as Ubuntu’s

Person uninformed about these things here with an uninformed question: What are the chances that the Mozilla Foundation itself can be forked like the code can be?

Right the fuck now Europe needs to eliminate or at least HIGHLY reduce dependency on America in all fields

The only correction i’d do to this message is to stop calling this person “Zuck”, Mark Zuckerberg IS NOT YOUR FRIEND, stop calling these fucking bastards cutesy friend names or on a first name basis (like “Elon”, Zuck" and others like this) , they DO NOT deserve them and they WANT to be called that

And that’s one of the many reasons why we want private communications, we want no creepy megacorp listening in

It’s not gone, it has gone underground, i like this model to describe the current internet

It’s Firefox, with the Firefox branding and some questionable decisions like the AI chatbot sidebar and a few others removed

Ah damn, now i have that song stuck in my head!

MANY of the old places of the internet are still active, heavily overshadowed by the current centralized feudal web of 5 websites all with screenshots of each other but STILL alive. Hell, even IRC is still running, and i understand so does Usenet!

Okay, I’m going to start using “the panda colored ball” to refer to football balls just to annoy my football fan friends

So, appealing to actual fucking nazis isn’t actually profitable? Oh noes!

There should be a crowdfunding to project a giant looping video of this mod in front of their offices for a year

I understood it was Google-only, great to be mistaken about it. Still, the app should also support that geojson importation format too, there shouldn’t be a need for external tools, SPECIALLY since it’s what Google Takeout gives you, this very much should be a feature of the app.

Heh, hadn’t seen KDE like this in ages, it’s been a while

Good and all, but as somebody mentioned on the Masto comments this shouldn’t be needed, this is taking an open JSON file and turning it into a proprietary Google-only format so that Organic Maps can import it, that feature should be on the app itself already.

Also as you’re uploading that data to a random website you’re effectively doxxing yourself as your important addresses likely will be there, your home, your workplace, etc.

Edit: Was mistaken and corrected below, the format IS a standard, not proprietary, in addition the author answered in Masto clarifying that all the conversion happens in the browser without uploading anything. That said, i do insist that the app should support uploading in this geojson format, specially since it’s what Google Takeout gives you