Notices by Rihards Olups (richlv@mastodon.social), page 2

@Mastodon Really great news - does this cover trademarks etc?

This downspout in Helsinki is a work of art.

#Helsinki #downspout

@nemobis But "worse" in that context was _less_ data, not "more crappy data". That is an extremely important difference.

@nemobis @zverik @hareldan
That seems to support "OSM is not a data dumping ground" position, right?

@zverik @hareldan
That reminds me about the arguments against bad mass imports in OSM - "OSM is not a data dumping ground".

It does make the dataset seem impressive at first, but then ends up being bad, unmaintainable or both.

@nullagent @jberg @NeonPurpleStar @elCelio “russia” and “invited” seems like either extreme naivety or whitewashing.
And no, being «invited» by some murderous authocrat is shit for an excuse.

It's heartwarming to know that somebody went to great lengths to achieve this.

#Linux #CLI #commandline

@rysiek @midgephoto Oh, I recognise that account - a ru troll, all the questions were in bad faith.

There's an interesting study on allowing cyclists to cross at red light.

"A new French study confirms that conditionally allowing cyclists to cross red lights improves the fluidity of cycling traffic without compromising road safety."

https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/traffic-light-exemption-cyclists-new-study-lyon

#cycling #traffic

Talking about jokes that involve Latvians, this might be the best one.

It also demonstrates a data visualisation mistake for an added bonus.

#Latvia

@kariboka @antifarben @dbattistella @chris
But... Ukraine is Europe.

@kariboka @antifarben @dbattistella @chris
Who is "the west"?

Still this so much.

#COVID19 #COVID

Ping @lastguru :)

Got asked today about navigating someplace with Google Maps.

First image - OpenStreetMap.
Second - GMaps of the same region.

First, there's a massive difference in the amount of available information.
Second is one housename... in two different locations.

Thank you to all the OSM contributors for creating such a wonderful, worldwide map.

#OpenStreetMap #GoogleMaps

Mapped some shops and other entities in a marketplace on #OpenStreetMap.
Some sellers might be still missing, which is a bit of a concern for the pedantic me.
Wondering whether #GoogleMaps has them all...

HAHA, no :D
It's hilariously bad. Barely any entities present. The ones that are, have incorrect positioning.

OpenStreetMap is a wonderful dataset, and one that we all can make better every day.

Hehe, frančiem arī apnika Google Maps :)

Interesanti, kas ir pārtulkots kā "is taking on water on all sides"

https://mastodon.social/@Teratogenese@mamot.fr/112265185702008711

@ariadne @annaymone @virtulis
Also pushed for transferring control of Avahi in https://github.com/avahi/avahi/issues/388 .

As posted there, "Neustradamus. If you are not a bad actor, you need to chill."

@AndresFreundTec @dgilman
From the same thread:

"Fascinating. Just yesterday the author added a `SECURITY.md` file to the `xz-java` project.

> If you discover a security vulnerability in this project please report it privately. *Do not disclose it as a public issue.* This gives us time to work with you to fix the issue before public exposure, reducing the chance that the exploit will be used before a patch is released."

@AndresFreundTec @dgilman
This is insane. I expect full-fledged articles out soon, but another interesting bit in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866275 :

"the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of it's "great new features""

This is CVE-2024-3094 for easier tracking.

#JiaT75 #CVE20243094