Anything that keeps maps in local storage so you can use GPS while offline is somewhere between very helpful and lifesaving. Sounds like Osmand is in there.

Organic Maps lets you download also. I got it specifically for backpacking because it enabled that. It certainly has been worth the $0. I should probably donate something each trip.

That kind of contribution seems like a lower level of effort than making changes to source code.

If they aren’t cooperating with recovering access to your accounts, report them to the CFPB. They are legally required to give a real response instead of a form letter. I assume it costs them time and money, which is a side benefit.

If the federal government requires 7 years, they probably will not budge on that at all. They should have a strong incentive to not leak that data, but they don’t. That is a failing of the US government. We need a HIPAA but covering any personal data instead of only health.

That’s it?

The USB-C power is huge. I don’t know why it is so hard to find. I do not want another massive power brick and barrel connector.

I am interested in solving them. Here’s how: if you get any phone call that makes you even the slightest bit irritated, you hit a button and receive a quarter paid by the caller. This is traced through carriers. If the trace cannot continue for any reason or exits US jurisdiction, the most recent carrier foots the bill. I guarantee that spam calls will suddenly cease to exist overnight.

Both phone calls and emails are so full of ad-ridden garbage that they are useless for communication.

Texts are better signal-to-noise ratio, for me it is more like only 1% con artist identity thieves compared to the 99% coming via phone call.

You’ll be saving lives, yeah, but between dealing with entitled assholes that won’t follow directions and then yell at you because they didn’t.

It’s maybe easy to burn out in any career. Society has deprioritized individual fulfillment for most of us because it harms the nesting levels of billionaires’ yachts.

I wish they would apply that standard universally.

LibreWolf is great as long as they’re able to pull out malicious advertising.

I hope some of the completely independent projects start taking off. Chrome is cancer. Manifest V3 is metastasized cancer. Mozilla is basically taking up smoking.

I miss the days when we had functioning software without telemetry whenever we wiggle a mouse and ads in every corner.

I would use Gitlab only in an airgapped network. Password resets sent to attacker-supplied emails is such a complete failure of a security model it seems like it is only a matter of time until the next critical vulnerability.

Can a scorpion be trusted to behave himself on a ride across the pond?

If such a thing existed, the price would have to be completely insane to keep me away.

It needs to be opt-in to be acceptable. Opt-out is not acceptable.

“You dimwitted plebs are too stupid to meaningfully opt-in, so we made it opt-out.”

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It has not been the alternative for a while now IMO. I have been using LibreWolf.

What would you get nowadays looking at that 5 year mark?

Oops, nope, I was thinking of the wrong country.

This sounds like it could be a combination FCC and FAA felony.

Yes, it is. If people are relying on files to be encrypted they may dispose of their disks differently. Or the NAS might be stolen.