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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • Those are two different sentences. One is that attack makes him sad, the other one is that Germany needs to protect itself against terrorism. The idea that this implies this was a islamist attack is highly speculative.

    The certainty of which is currently unsupported by the fact that the very next sentence in the article is

    Nancy Faeser, the interior minister, on Friday called for a thorough investigation into the attack. “If the investigations reveal an Islamist motive, this would be a further confirmation of the great danger posed by Islamist acts of violence,” she said.

    The german interior minister being a mixture of Homeland security and the DOJ. So shouldn’t we rather take her comment at value than the two sentences from the finance minister?



  • I have been running Linux for some time now, still had a Windows partition for gaming. Then I switched the motherboard and windows decided I no longer had a key for it… I stopped playing most of the windows exclusive games. Since last week I can’t even boot anymore, something about missing drivers. Spent a day trying to fix it. Today I decided fuck it and I’m just leaving it behind! It makes no sense wasting so much energy on a vastly inferior OS that actively tries to fight me.






  • AFAIK someone is working on it. But the problem is the high dynamics of public transport. Routes and schedules get changed quite often, schedules might be quite irregular (think only Sunday at 3:14). And all that data has to be stored offline. Stops might be changed do to construction work for a week. And that is in the optimal case: In some countries the bus comes when it comes, and stops if it wants to stop.

    Currently you can see where the lines of a bus or the metro go, but that’s about it, I think.


  • They will never do, because they are not trying to. AFAIK no one is trying to build FOSS reviews of restaurants/stores, no one is building street view and no one is saving where you live to make the one click from work to home route planning. For me, those are not functions that I need (or want). I need a map that works offline, does route planning (offline) and allows me to display multiple GPX files at the same time.

    Does OSMAnd have all that? It does, so for me it’s an alternative. What use case do you have?


  • The thing is, OSM is not comparable with GoogleMaps. OSM is just a (gigantic) database and is in many cases way more complete than GoogleMaps. What people usually associate with OSM is a rendered version of the database focused on what ever the renderer decided: bike lanes, waterways, hiking trails, etc. Many other apps actually use their database: OrganicMaps, Komoot, etc. And even more their rendered tiles. Now there are so many functionalities that this database doesn’t do like geocoding (searching for adresses), reverse geocoding (getting the adress of a point) or route planning, but there are tools for it build on OSM data. e.g. Nominatim does geocoding and graphhopper does routing.

    And to be honest, if you’re travelling by bike graphhopper does a way better job at routing than google. An other plus, you can download the complete data for offline usage. All of Europe is only around 60GB.





  • I don’t really care about US politics, but I find data quite interesting. Now I would not say this is outright false, but highly misleading. A quick search led me to this csv of to whom minors were released: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nytimes/hhs-child-migrant-data/main/data.csv Running a quick script on my phone, 41.7% of the 553321 children were released to a parent, and further 46.7% to a blood relative (brother/sister, aunt/uncle, grandma/pa). So only 64340 were in the other category, which includes family friends, other distant relatives and unrelated sponsors.

    Now I will not go into if 64 thousand children is “good enough”, or doubt that many of them work. But it is not a problem exclusive to unacompanied minors. I would think that if parents force their children to work, that is regardless of if they came alone or with their parents.

    I would say the tweet is highly missleading, because it makes it seem as if there are 400 thousand abandoned migrant children working in the US.

    An other fact to consider, is that in 1860 the US population was 34 millions while it currently sits at 335 million. So comparassions of absolute numbers in a historical context are usually not a good idea.