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How to split a recorded track in #osmand ?
My track from the hike on the weekend has about 3k points. Sadly I forgot to turn off track recording after getting in the car, so the average speed is a bit high ;=)
Splitting is possible, but I need to scroll through all 3000 waypoints to make a cut. Is there a better way to do this?
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@williampietri "benevolent sexsism" That's the first time I've seen it explained like that.
Also, I guess, this is mainly because english isn't my first language.
How secure is RealVNC?
Lots of marketing speak in the article, but seems solid.
Anyhow, where is the source code?
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Completely Useless Legislation, Exhibit A:
Hungary has a new law that students have to surrender their phones at school. The phones have to be locked up, hauled around in safety boxes by teachers etc. Students get them back at the end of the day.
A friend of mine teaches high school. He noticed that when students get their phones back, they don't even turn them on, just toss them in their bag.
Decoy phones.
Seriously, no one thought about this?...
Dead Internet theory - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The Map of Notable People
"Using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. "
Quite interesting, but I found an errata: "Jorg Haider" is not from Salzburg. However, he is and was not really important.
openvpn client certificate set expiry
>> Commit: Set client and server certificates validity to 10 years (#1235)
https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install/commit/a189535563f1b48605115643585e036cd5631ac1
10 years is a bit long from #security perspective, isnt it? Especially for user certificates.
M2M I0T certificates need to be longer valid.
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Hard to believe the tech companies weren’t being completely honest with us.
Ya know, VSCode is a successor of Atom?
And the development of Atom was suspended in 2022.
"This is a tough goodbye. It’s worth reflecting that Atom has served as the foundation for the Electron framework, which paved the way for the creation of thousands of apps, including Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, and our very own GitHub Desktop. "
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.
A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence. The security guards on the door are cautiously indifferent to anyone walking in. The air is filled with tense conversations between partners - drowned out by the noise of screaming kids.
In the middle, a young woman sits on a hard plastic chair. She is surrounded by canvas-bags containing her worldly possessions. She doesn't look like she is in a great emotional place right now. Clutched in her hands is a games console - a PlayStation Portable. She stares at it intensely; blocking out the world with Candy Crush.
Or, at least, that's what I thought.
Walking behind her, I glance at her console and recognise the screen she's on. She's connected to the complementary WiFi and is browsing the GOV.UK pages on Housing Benefit. She's not slicing fruit; she's arming herself with knowledge.
The PSP's web browser is - charitably - pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.
But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.
Not everyone has a big monitor, or a multi-core CPU burning through the teraflops, or a broadband connection.
The photographer Chase Jarvis coined the phrase "the best camera is the one that’s with you". He meant that having a crappy instamatic with you at an important moment is better than having the best camera in the world locked up in your car.
The same is true of web browsers. If you have a smart TV, it probably has a crappy browser.
My old car had a built-in crappy web browser.
Both are painful to use - but they work!
If your laptop and phone both got stolen - how easily could you conduct online life through the worst browser you have? If you have to file an insurance claim online - will you get sent a simple HTML form to fill in, or a DOCX which won't render?
What vital information or services are forbidden to you due to being trapped in PDFs or horrendously complicated web sites?
Are you developing public services? Or a system that people might access when they're in desperate need of help? Plain HTML works. A small bit of simple CSS will make look decent. JavaScript is probably unnecessary - but can be used to progressively enhance stuff. Add alt text to images so people paying per MB can understand what the images are for (and, you know, accessibility).
Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you've created?
I chatted briefly to the young woman afterwards. She'd been kicked out by her parents and her friends had given her the bus fare to the housing benefits office. She had nothing but praise for how helpful the staff had been. I asked about the PSP - a hand-me-down from an older brother - and the web browser. Her reply was "It's shit. But it worked."
I think that's all we can strive for.
Here are some stats on games consoles visiting GOV.UK
Interestingly we have 3,574 users visiting https://t.co/CcU3PLPTpj on games consoles:
• Xbox - 2,062
• Playstation 4 - 1,457
• Playstation Vita - 25
• Nintendo WiiU - 14
• Nintendo 3DS - 16
20/22
— Matt Hobbs (@TheRealNooshu) February 1, 2021
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
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2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML
https://meiert.com/en/blog/html-conformance-2024/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://meiert.com/en/blog/html-conformance-2024/
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@dbread lots of times I don't like the pre-installed tools and to software that better fits my usage. Although #GrapheneOS is more secure out of the box as other flavors, still opted for the #8pen + #OpenBoard combo, since the prior I can swipe to type and the latter just holds the emojis.
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@OmasgR
Wir unterzeichnen keine Petition auf #changeorg wie gut auch immer sie gemeint sei.
change.org erhielt 2016 den #BigBrotherAward für ihr Geschäftsmodell, personenbezogene Daten von Unterzeichner*innen zusammen mit deren politischen Meinungsäußerungen zu vermarkten.
Change.org ist eine gewinnorientierte US-Firma. Dabei gibt es #datenschutz|rechtliche Mängel, z. B. werden die Daten der Nutzer*innen auch weiterhin in den #USA gespeichert.
Näheres dazu hier:
https://bigbrotherawards.de/2016/changeorg
