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maelito··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Just switch to Bsky.app or mu.social (european version, same global network).
maelito··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
Note that the OpenStreetMap international conference is taking place this weekend in Paris.

Most of the project cited here will be presented.

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/

maelito··on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
Note that there are lots of OSM editors, but sadly not a single one as simple as Google Maps for end-users.

I'm working on cartes.app, we've designed a very simple opening hours editor, but we're missing lots of other edition features.

We should also mention Everydoor or of course osm.org, the main one.

In the end, you can modify way more things yourself on OSM than Google Maps, but through a complexe ecosystem that you have to understand first, and most are missing place reviews and simple image uploading.

Both cartes.app and mapcomplete enable these, through two different databases. Mapcomplete enable Mangrove reviews and Panoramax image uploads.

Cartes enables ATProto place reviews, with pictures, and soon Panoramax upload too.

maelito··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Once upon a time I used Twitter's API to scan for tweets that were talking about a particular Wikipedia page. Doing semantic analysis, I did insert the tweets in the right place of the page. I did it as a student, using the free API. Twitter was the open, technically respected network with a great engineering blog. Now it's a political project to elect the extreme-right in Europe.
maelito··on Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
Thanks !
maelito··on Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
Well of course they can. Elon Musk should have been banned for hate speed and racism, for instance.
maelito··on Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
> ATproto is defacto not decentralized

OK so Nostr is for people that look for pure decentralisation ? This decentralisation so complicated that no general public person will ever connect ?

Where owning lemonde.fr doesn't distinguish you from a user pretending to be the biggest national French newspaper ?

maelito··on Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
The homepage could be a description of ATProto. Except lots of people around me already use ATproto, and a successful European instance has just been launched, Eurosky, focusing on expanding the protocol with apps doing other things than micro-messages (Bluesky).

Why should I care ? Honest question.

maelito··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Don't know where they went, but here they are :

https://cartes.app/?cat=toilettes&perspective=non#14.58/48.8...

maelito··on OpenRouter Is Joining Stripe
Well given the commissions of Stripe's, is mostly about its own GDP.
maelito··on Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
What I hope is that a compact and high-end device will have Graphene support.
maelito··on Bluesky Protocol Services
PR here : https://codeberg.org/cartes/web/pulls/2645
maelito··on Bluesky Protocol Services
Yes thanks, never noticed this, I also find it annoying when websites capture my choice to leave clicking the back button.

https://codeberg.org/cartes/web/issues/2661#issuecomment-210...

maelito··on Bluesky Protocol Services
Thanks ! It's the densest place in the world for restaurants. We're working on a v2 of place search by category, soon to come.

Google's task is much easier on this one : they only show those who've paid ads at high zoom (well at least, that's what we can guess). We're trying to be exaustive, but it's too much in this case.

maelito··on Bluesky Protocol Services
Great. My map application* has a place review system that was built on Atproto, we don't hold user's reviews, they're public, reusable by others.

In case of data loss, replaying the jetstream was not possible. This v2 with history is perfect.

* https://cartes.app

maelito··on AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions
Well, extremely large US models trained all-year will way too much money, yes. Not models like Mistral, they consume way less resources.
maelito··on Mistral OCR 4.1
Given the latest vibe release's new "follow default" model option, we should see a new coding / general Mistral model, mistral 4, soon.
maelito··on Mistral OCR 4.1
No it's the other way round : the Chinese do better thanks to regulations : massive amounts of money from Big tech and public money.
maelito··on Grok 4.6
Yes. Won't touch xAI things because of this.
maelito··on Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
What ? I have no bugs on bluesky for years.
maelito··on Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
How are the X figures computed ? Bluesky is a public network, anyone can analyse and count. What about X, held by Musk ?
maelito··on Dutch Train Map Simulator
Cool view ! For France, I've built the first interactive map of all* public transports.

You just zoom on a zone and see the network (the bluish polygons) pop-up, clickable.

Representing trains, that all share a common way but with very different schedules and destinations, is hard. No map is good, all do compromises. Hence I've delayed representing trains, it's too hard.

https://cartes.app/?style=transports&gamme=urbain&filtre=lig...

* well most, those that are published in GTFS.

maelito··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
Actually, people that installed the open-source Saracroche app don't really have this problem anymore.

Credits for this incredible independent app, available on third-party stores. Even better, the dev has added OpenStreetMap information about legit enterprises calling you.

https://saracroche.org

(of course its better to forbid them)

maelito··on Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
Visa fees.
maelito··on Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
Indexers should pay for each request.

Maybe Taler could help ?

maelito··on Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
In case someone wants NASA firms wildfire 7 day vector tiles : http://serveur.cartes.app/pmtiles/MODIS_C6_1_Global_7d.pmtil...
maelito··on Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Do you have a reference explaining these costs ? Part by part.
maelito··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
What's so strange with Tailwind users is how insistent they are to impose it to codebases they don't know. I've never seen this even with vue vs react.

People that didn't write lines of code on this project, or so.

A few months later, your codebase has very long lines of HTML with classes that encode a whole programming language as strings separated by spaces, and barely no component anymore, nor semantic CSS tags.

maelito··on A week in Matrix
ElementX works for non-tech people around me. No problem.
maelito··on Google has abandoned Google News?
Ecosia has a news tab. Don't know how good it is.
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