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I would say that rising a kid is going to teach you many things you would never learn at school, and those social skills can make a difference in job interviews. If you're able to take care of a family then you certainly are a good team player.

Well this is not what is happening in practice, Wikipedia / Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, OpenFoodFacts... All provide APIs and even a full dump of their database available to download for free, but no, the stupid bots still DDoS them 24h/24.

5 minutes of wikipedia search would give you plenty examples of complicated software engineering problems that would have a big impact on everyone's life.

Zed IDE is allowing me to use Fable with Max x5 or any OpenAI model.

I have waydroid installed to run APKs on my Ubuntu Touch phone.

I am using EveryDoor to contribute to OpenStreetMap. I find the information it allows to add much more useful than the one in streetcomplete quests.

Comaps is great. Works offline. https://cartes.app from France Murena maps have just been released: https://community.e.foundation/t/murena-maps-is-here-in-beta...

Murena (the company behind the /e/ mobile OS) is developing a FOSS app, maybe it will suit your needs : https://murena.com/en/murena-maps-your-questions-and-answers...

Here is the open letter to Organic Maps owners written by people who then forked it to Comaps, if you are interested: https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-04-16/1/

/e/ OS with Fairphone is the good choice for that. Don't listen to cromka, /e/ OS is now fully open as the only proprietary app was the map one and they just replaced it. So, 100% free software. It is less secure than Graphene but also leaks less data to advertising companies.

Do you have precise suggestion of what to improve? I'm genuinely interested.

As a (kinda former, as the project is mostly inactive now) diaspora contributor who followed closely the creation of the first decentralized social network (with GNUStatus and Friendica), I'm really interested about this explanation, but it asks more question than it explains. First of all, why did we move away from blog with RSS with app readers? (We did not fully abandoned that by the way, there are still some excellent RSS aggregators out there such as https://flus.io) Because Facebook not only it allowed us to react / comment on what we were reading, it also allowed us to follow the reactions of others. The principle behind social network is that you don't follow a website author and so you know when they post, like RSS does, but you follow an account, and so you know every reactions they do. Imagine being informed when someone that you find interesting is commenting on a blog you did not even know it existed? And who themselves are following, so probably you should follow those people too, and discover even more blogs with interesting content! There were technics to try to do that with blogs back in the days. Planets (public blog aggregators) to read linked content, pingback to know when your blog post is quoted somewhere, etc. But none of this was easy, efficient and complete as Facebook was. So everyone migrated there, because it made content discoverable, which means visibility, which exactly why we are publishing on the web. But Facebook is centralized. This is a big flaw, we don't want to depend on a corporation to publish online. And so, here come decentralized social networks. I am not going to describe the Federation (the diaspora protocol) here as the comment is already way too long, but it does allow what I described above, at the cost of having an identity tight to an instance (fla@diaspora-fr.org), but from which I can easily migrate. Now, after reading this article on ATProto, it is not clear at all to me how all those interactions described above are implemented. Could you elaborate?

I could go on for a while

Well I am genuinely interested so I am all for continuing that discussions in details. I am happy to finally meet someone who had a real look and isn't just repeating things read online. So if you have time to share the result of your investigation I'm super interested. But here is not the good place I imagine, where can we continue that discussion?

I know a friend is using Strava on his Pixel 10 running graphene so there should be a way

Pixel 7 is definitely good enough if you don't have special needs. I'm writing this from a 6a right now.

What are the reasons to avoid /e/, according to you? (And not according to the GrapheneOS maintainer).

Don't forget to update the business hours in OSM when you see they are missing / wrong

Organic Maps has been forked to CoMaps as a community managed project btw

I can only applause this decision. Maintainers of FOSS project are constantly overwhelmed with close to 0 reward and with LLMs now the management of merge requests exploded even further. The fact that they actually keep providing support to paying users is enough.

A way to access social media content read only without an account, with HTML, RSS/Atom and at some point ActivityPub probably. I will probably post here in a few weeks when PoC will up.

His point, exactly.

Email received:

Anthropic's newest model, Claude Fable 5, is available in Zed. You can try this model via your own API keys, and it's also available to Pro and Business users.

Fable 5 requires 30-day data retention. This is a break from our standard arrangement with Anthropic, where every other model in Zed today runs under zero data retention: no training on your prompts or code, no retention of inference requests.

Anthropic's reasoning: Fable 5's capabilities introduce risks that real-time filters can't catch on their own.

If you want to maintain ZDR, don't use Fable 5. Every other model in Zed, including the rest of the Claude family, still operates under our standard ZDR commitments.

— The Zed Team

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You mean a swagger?

That's actually where AI differs: there is no network effect. So no reason for me to stay with a tool if suddenly another one is better or cheaper. Changing the model I use is literally two clicks in Zed. No retention possible for providers.

I think it actually is even more relevant today than 10 years ago, as the only real production use case I can imagine for it is specialized industrial software written only for XP that no one wants to update to w10 because of the risk of breaking production but which are running on a not supported anymore OS full of vulnerabilities. If really ReactOS achieves parity then that's a possible niche.

What we need is gitlab to finally integrate ActiviyPub so we can fork, comment, open merge request on all gitlab instances from our personal instance. Git is already decentralized, this isn't that hard to do.

I feel you mate. When people were scrolling Facebook, I was scrolling github, being so excited to see so many people building things together. Commits popping up in my stream were making me feel we were improving the world, bit by bit. It was an happy stream, compared to the depressing stream of Facebook. And then Microsoft bought github. And I knew it would only be a matter of time before it would fell down. It also made little sense to build all our beloved open source projects in the living room of the entity who was so harmful to our community for years. So I left github and joined several gitlabs. But I never found back this central steam of "look at open source being made in real time". We need a decentralized gitlab with ActivityPub.

It still is risky, as who knows what tools NSA & cie really have. Even if it feels safe now, it can be stored by them, and what will (quantum?) computers be able to do in a decade? And how will the US gov look like at that time?

I am using duckduckgo for a decade. But especially, I am using Firefox Saved searches a lot. I type mdn in the bar, and it searches in the Mozilla developer network. osm is openstreetmap, so is stackoverflow, w is Wikipedia, yt is YouTube... I often know on which website I will find the info anyway, so I use less a generic search