There's a lower end motherboard in the works, "Tabor" (which will be released as the A1222). It's still a PC form factor, but much smaller (mini ITX afair) so it could potentially be put in an box not unlike the A1200.
I'd expect it won't be available until next year, but they've said that the cost of the motherboard will be around 450€ which is pretty nice.
The problem with Tabor, as I understand it, is that its instruction set is not compatible with the existing PowerPC Amiga code and hardware because for some reason they used a chip which doesn't support the standard PowerPC floating point instruction set at all.
> I'm not saying it is secure, only it works really really well and isn't owned by a known evil entity who for some reason found it worth to pay 19B just to destroy the best messenger app I knew :-)
> We need to teach children how to cope with all aspects of social media – good and bad – to prepare them for an increasingly digitised world. There is real danger in blaming the medium for the message.”
Or perhaps it is the medium that we should blame. I'm kind of getting tired of this cluelessness when it comes to understanding why we get so stuck just scrolling our lives away.
Instagram is owned by one of the largest advertising companies in the world (Facebook) and their goal is to make us, and our kids, to spend as much time in their application as they possibly can. I would argue they're doing very well and I don't find it hard at all to understand why spending that much time in real-time slavery doesn't make us happy people.
Let us find other mediums through which we can express ourselves. They might not be centralized and they're certainly not owned by a multi billion dollar corporation.
It's 2017 and I'm so surprised that BT is still the dominant way to share copyrighted works illegally. Why hasn't a fully decentralized and E2E encrypted alternative replaced it? Who wants to actually run trackers these days?
People flock to huge public trackers and reputable private ones for the accuracy of finding what you are looking for. On fully distributed systems, anyone can call anything whatever they want, and you need an authorship or rating system for users to give support to reputable sources.
I don't believe any decentralized network, including ipfs, has come up with a way for consensus accreditation of a source as being legitimate. If you look for a movie on piratebay, you have the ratings users give the torrents, the comments they write on it, and the number of active swarmers on that torrent all as credence to the legitimacy of it. If you lose any of that information you lose accuracy in finding what you actually want.
Bittorrent doesn't need trackers anymore. Use DHT to find a node with part of the file you want, and peer exchange to query that node for the other nodes that have the rest of the file.
Because it has the lowest friction ? There are dozens of software speaking bittorrent already (instead of only retroshare speaking retroshare), there is a lot of resource on the web explaining how to start download, there is no need to gather friends as a F2F desires.
If I work for Fox (or whomever), I share a file called Logan.2017.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AC3.mkv but it's actually random bytes. In fact, I have a bunch of virtual hosts all around the globe sharing the same random bytes under that filename. How do you tell the difference between what I'm sharing and the file you probably want that isn't garbage?
The easiest way to date as been to have a website that indexes torrent files. As that grows increasingly unfeasible, how does a fully decentralized system fulfill the same function?
I learned about IPFS the other day and it seems like an interesting alternative. Although I don't believe that bandwidth can be shared among nodes (seeding).
I believe you can still get caught with such systems, because if somebody can download from your machine, that somebody could just as well be a government agent.
Unless it uses something like Tor, but in that case it could become illegal to run exit nodes. The person running the exit node could legally be considered an accomplice.
I was running on some unmapped forest roads this weekend. When I used OsmAnd (which is my goto map app) I realized the roads where missing. I took a look at Google Maps via my mobile browser and realized the roads were there.
What is the easiest way to contribute and map out these roads on OpenStreetMap? Before I've edited OpenStreetMap by hand by using a satellite imagery overlay.
Could I use a mapper app like this to automate the process, or will I be manually editing GPX uploads in the end anyways?
EDIT: Had to try it now. Simple and polished. I don't see a way to map out new roads, which is understandable (I don't think it's in the scope of this super simple app). I had some trouble understanding why the inner city of my town had no "quests". It turns out you have to go to the application menu and manually "Scan for Quests here". Some places might seem to have few quests. However, zooming in a lot revealed plenty of quests for most any urban area. Kudos for making it available via F-droid!
For adding streets it would be best to use iD (web editor from osm.org) or JOSM desktop app.
If the satellite imagery is not available (iD one or in JOSM - those are approved satellite sources, that we can use - you can't use googles). In iD you just click on 3D hamburger on the right and select the source.
Other option is to make a gps trace you can use any application and upload GPX it later on on the osm.org webpage or you can use OSMTracker for Android and make a trace and upload it directly from the phone.
The issue with satellite imagery is that usually forest road/path are missing because they are covered with foliage. So I concur in this case, the easiest way is to create a gps trace you can upload and then edit with iD on openstreetmap.org
I'm using Locus Pro ( http://www.locusmap.eu/ ) for hiking, and Vespucci ( http://vespucci.io/ ) for map editing. Tried various Android editors; in the end, they're all clumsy compared to the powerful but computer-oriented mouse+keyboard interface of JOSM.
OsmAnd can record tracks, which you can upload to openstreetmap.org (in GPX format, which OsmAnd uses as well). Then using the iD editor (the built-in, online one) you can overlay that track.
Automated edits are discouraged in OSM, and if they are going to be done one has to send a notice to the appropriate mailing list and create the edits using additional username (so it will be easier to revert the changes).
I wouldn't say discouraged, just they have to be registered. See the list of all the imports, planned or finished:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue. In a lot of places pretty much all of the data came from automated imports. People checking the map is good, but manual data entry is a pain and there aren't many doing that.
That's why it's only possible to use whitelisted data sources: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_imagery . Given the scope of this task, "find a license-compatible imagery" is a non-issue.
run some machine learning algorithms to identify roads
If it was that easy we'd already be doing that. 30cm imagery is still very low resolution for tasks like spotting dirt tracks under foliage, plus even the current state of the art in image recognition gives far too many false positives and negatives to be really useful without having someone manually double checking everything.
The actual issue for tracing paths is that they're hard to distinguish, even from hi-res aerial imagery; a bit of ground knowledge of the area helps a lot, so that you don't map nonexistent paths which are actually fences or such.
> However, zooming in a lot revealed plenty of quests for most any urban area.
Yeah, I think they could improve the UI by putting a single marker with a digit to indicate there's multiple quests to complete bundled together instead of displaying nothing at all.
Imo this app is a really good idea but the one of an automated difference check between google maps and osm road paths, at least for specific areas and using this app, would be really great and usefull to commit people mantaining osm even more!
No. Sorry, but it's not allowed to use Google's maps for anything OSM-related, manually or automatically. Google has its own ToS and it explicitly forbids reuse in other maps; it would be unwise to start pirating its map.
When the UK government released cut down versions of their OS mapping, then several diff tools that allowed you to see where roads differed between the two systems appeared shortly after. I'd guess it's only copyright issues stopping this happening with Google.
You could, I guess, compare maps for your own use (that's their purpose, after all); but what you must not do is transfer knowledge from Google's map into OSM (or vice versa).
Would "I looked at GMap/OSM comparison and then reused what I saw in OSM" be wrong in the context of law? Would that be considered copying from Google? IANAL, but it seems to me that Google's position would be stronger than yours - they do have a "no derivatives without written permission" clause in the ToS, and an automated check looks as a completely different intent than normal map use.
I'm not clear what you mean by "reused what I saw in OSM". You probably can get by with comparing google maps to OSM, but if there is any difference you need to physically go to the error location yourself and see what is really there.
It is common for map makers to intentionally put a few errors on their maps, if those errors appear in someone else's map that is proof of a copyright violation. The location and names of roads is a fact that cannot by copyrighted, but errors are a creative work that is subject to copyright. I first heard about this in the 1980's when map meant paper, I suspect google is doing the same thing in some form.
When contributing to OSM, it's best to not use any other maps while you work. Consider it a form of clean-room mapping, if you will. Editors like iD and JOSM already provide powerful access to approved imagery sources and GPS traces. There's no need to 'steal' information from commercial maps like Google.
I wasn't suggesting to automatically copy infos from gmap to osm but to provide something like a notification that the two maps differ in a place/road.
So, i understand that i can't create an automated list that lists what are the differences between gmaps and osm.
I would advise against comparing, too. A good lawyer could prove that diffs between the maps are made from Google's content. In short: unless it's explicitly whitelisted (e.g. Bing Aerial is on the whitelist, Bing Maps is not), avoid.
The question was asked if you can use your API endpoint URL (https://[pinboardusername]:[pinboardpassword]@api.pinboard.i...) straight into ifttt. Maciej confirmed that it should work, the problem is that you’re essentially storing your login credentials in a 3rd party service, and you don’t know if they’re storing and transmitting it securely.
Pasting imaging from clipboard is released, but is only implemented on the new (experimental) RTE editor, which has to be optionally enabled in Settings.
Oh man, all of those things are so convenient once you start using them. If you've never used them, great, irc is probably fine. For me, I could never ever go back to irc, having gotten accustomed to all that stuff on slack.
For example, want to share a screenshot? Hit print screen to capture it, click to the browser, click to the tab, hit ctrl-v to paste, done. Instead of, what, uploading an image to an image-sharing site? I wouldn't even know how to do that at this point.
For future reference in case you need to share a screenshot elsewhere... It's literally the same process to post a screenshot to imgur. No account needed.
I am a big fan of greenshot. It takes over the print screen button. You then draw a box around the area you want to capture and then you can select to copy to clip board or open it in the sketching portion or even upload direct to imgur where it then puts the URL of the file in your clipboard.
It's in a mature state, already at version 8. Given that it's a minimalist framework this isn't as much of an issue as it would be for Bootstrap or something similar.
