Notices by 🚲 (dx@social.ridetrans.it), page 2

you can have density without it resembling an unending business trip

What made Dan so steely and is it contagious?

I am very, very excited about vector tiles coming to OSM.

Given how absolutely deranged MAGA is, is it safe to assume that there have been multiple attempts on Biden’s life and we just haven’t heard about any of them because the secret service knows to keep that shit out of the news to avoid copycat crimes?

Got served an ad for something, doesn’t matter what, and got strong premonitions of how quickly all this could be forgotten in the event of a genuine collapse.

I sent that Technology Connections video about the dishwasher to several people in my life and not one of them went “wtf why are you sending me a 30 minute dishwasher video” instead every single one went “oh, interesting! we’ve been having loads of problems with our dishwasher, how did you know?!”

Work supposedly has meeting free Fridays, which of course means that everyone manager level or higher schedule all our meetings for Friday because it’s the only day they have empty

A speed limit of 30 km/h for cars. Not just in cities, but across the board. High speeds are important for long distances, and personal cars never should have been our society’s solution to long distance travel.

I think some people are just predisposed to conspiracy theories. The details of the conspiracy don’t matter as much as that it’s a conspiracy. So here’s my idea, replace the current harmful conspiracies with ones that may result in positive action. “Climate change is a hoax” ➡️ “Canadians and Nordic countries started deliberating warming the globe to create more farmland, and we must stop them.”

It’s the ants’ world, we just live in it.

The library’s online card catalogue is down and the fact that this isn’t front page local news suggests to me that I maybe use the online card catalogue more than the average bear

There was a 2021 film adaptation of The Door Into Summer. It’s serviceable, but unfortunately they kept the weird age gap romance plot and didn’t treat it in any way critically or with any introspection.

Does anybody use Matrix for anything? If so, what? I like the idea, but I’ve never encountered it in the wild.

@lienrag @futurebird @zjp I think reading them in order would be a bad idea actually. I like them all, but Consider Phlebas (the first book by publication and ?maybe? the first chronologically in-universe) is not very representative of the series.

Apparently, Chess apps routinely get users complaining of bugs and/or cheating when they encounter en passant in a game

“What is your plan to reduce the number of cars on our streets?” is the question we should all ask every candidate and elected official any chance we can.

If they don’t have an answer, they are not serious about climate change.

45% of our local GHG emissions are from transportation *within* the region. Bike paths and decent transit can make a huge dent in that.

@forteller @jomo @pnorman Interesting point. I’ve dived into maps some for a project and the way the current OSM works is basically square images saved at every discrete magnification level. I have to imagine vector is an improvement on that, since you can have a single data source used by all magnification levels (and just change the rendering rules)

@forteller @jomo @pnorman I also wonder if this opens up custom styles while hitting the OSM server. Currently you need to generate and host your own raster tiles if you want to change the style of OSM. I don’t know how vector maps are served, but if it’s geographic data with client side rendering, maybe this would facilitate easy style changes

OK, this is a cool move actually. they’re releasing a green energy transition version of Settlers of Catan. https://www.catan.com/catan-new-energies