GoldenFigApple

u/GoldenFigApple@feddit.uk
0 posts · 33 comments

Recent posts

No posts.

Recent comments

on How many of you use cash? · c/askuk · 2 pts · 90d

I still use it for the same reasons you mentioned. Also small businesses since they don't have to deal with card processing fees then (generally ask what they prefer) plus "other accounting measures".

It's actually quite a hard problem for OSM community to solve since you need quite detailed data (stuff like road surface, width etc) and possibly traffic data. Even then, that doesn't tell you everything like whether it's a "nice place" to cycle or is dangerous. There are people trying to work on it but it is a hard problem. One can hope it gets solved.

Not quite sure what a "new VPN architecture" means. As long as it's not new protocols, security is not something you should usually re-invent yourself. Hopefully these new aspects are open source too.

There was a "the Onion" headline for this kind of criticism: https://theonion.com/protesters-urged-not-to-give-trump-administration-pretext-for-what-it-already-doing/

LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the damage they have been inflicting carte blanche for months on end,” said Bass, adding that Trump and his team are just looking for a reason to respond with violence, as they would have done whether or not any of this happened

I get shocked when I'm on a pavement and a cyclist rings a bell at me, so if I'm cycling on a pavement I either stop and wait till the person is past me or dismount and walk past the pavement. Pedestrian priority.