blackboxlogic

"application cannot be opened" is a false statement. It can be opened, and the user can open it, but they won't tell you how because they didn't get their bribe.

We depend on some open source tools. When my project is blocked by a bug in one of them, it absolutely is my job to fix it.

A slider at the top of the page gradually adding detail and vocabulary?

Good idea or bad idea: browser profiles where User enters their level of understanding for a variety of subjects. browser sends the level specific to each web request. Server customizes content, returning the same article, styles ranging from explain-it-like-I'm-five to just-show-the-research-paper.

Checking https://status.inreach.garmin.com/ (oh the memories) Looks like the meat and potatoes held together! I'd credit segregated infrastructure and redundancy.

Also should note: the life-critical infrastructure was somewhat insolated from the rest of it.

Ex Garmin employee here. Some of their infrastructure supports emergency response. Hard to know how much of what went offline, but if /that/ goes down, people die. On-call was not fun.

When you get things polished, please display attribution for the map. See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

And conveniently forgetting that I set my default browser to anything other than whatever-microsoft-vomited-up-most-recently.

Well, browse to a FB page on mobile, and play "find the data source". When you lose that game, I'd say they did not "make the user aware".

it would take a lot of convincing for me to welcome Facebook into any project I'm part of. I've pointed out to one of their POs that they are violating OSMs copyright by not showing any attribution when browsing on mobile. I'm not confident it will ever be fixed. When they ask to be integrated into a project they're already abusing, the answer should be hard no. I'll reply to this comment if they start respecting OSMs copyright (unless comments get locked?). Just musing... but where do I file a DMCA?

Maybe I want clear, if maybe you're joking. I was thinking of his victims.

Sometimes there are victims. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/12/facebook-paid-fo...

There is plenty of profit in Wikipedia editing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-of-interest_editing_o...

This might be the right time to suggest OpenStreetMaps. I turned to it after not being able to fix things in Google and endless advertising. OSM data is flaky... but you can fix it!

Wow... that was fast: https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/gorbw9/featurer...

Sounds like the driver is the loose end. I wonder if the author considered becoming a Doordash driver just for the arbitrage transactions.

There's been plenty of computer-throwing and crying, but all worth it. Now I can get directions without my phone highlighting every Mc Donalds and saying things like "turn left at the People's United Bank". I started to wonder if google chose routes which specifically sent me passed advertisers' stores.

Yeah, I tried to switch off google maps and could only get directions to street intersections or towns. Instead of getting mad about it, I decided to fix it.

I've been importing all Maine addresses into Open Street Map. I wrote the tools I'm using and open source published parts that I thought could be reused.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Maine_E911_Addres...

The game spawned creatures anywhere there were parks or water features. Players figured this out and suddenly parks appear everywhere. Parks coming out our ears.

Sometimes, I would spent time trying to understand if someone was "asshole" or "idiot", the distinction being whether or not they understood the negative effects of their actions. I've recently decided that it didn't matter because I deploy the same polite mitigation strategy for both.

Same at my doctor. I asked to see what I was signing and the receptionist said no one had ever asked before. She had to get the manager to figure out how to print it.

Or even "Barr Tells Facebook it Can't Open up Encrypted Messages"?

I believe international telecom industries are working[1][2] on it. I don't know an ETA. I signed up on their mailing list without knowing what to expect. The content of each email is beyond me but looking at the clout on the email signatures convinced me this was a serious and viable movement.

TLDR; this is a technical approach to preventing number spoofing except where authorized. Presumably to be implemented by the international telecom industry.

[1] https://transnexus.com/whitepapers/understanding-stir-shaken... [2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/stir/about/

They didn't use good, standard practices for handling the exception. It's an example of them not taking their own advice. Advice I'm sure you could find on the website, if it wasn't down.