Father, jack of many trades, open data cynic. Somewhat involved with OpenStreetMap. Allergic to monopolies and have a knack of making myself unpopular with them.
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Last Notes npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole Enough gloom and doom for now. I just updated the #OpenStreetMap contributor stats at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats#Contributor_statistics_reports for Q2 2026. And yes, we have an all time high in monthly contributors, surpassing the likely pandemic driven peak in early 2021. And next month might be even better. https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/116/928/954/533/564/140/original/6fe1f5cfa2debfe7.png npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/engineering-microgrants-2025-program-announcement/130177/27 npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole wasn't it always? npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole google in general doesn’t support multi-lingual people in YouTube at all. Once your UI language doesn't match the language of the video, you are going to have to manually turn subtitles etc off - every single time. npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole I suppose I should have mentioned @npub1z7x…q5jf (just re-watched the video on cycle infrastructure in Swiss cities a couple of days back). The Stadttunnel https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/de/mobilitaet/velo/velomassnahmen/stadttunnel.html at least moves things in the right direction. npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole BTW (open since yesterday) ... https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/549/788/583/291/633/original/cf1ada4c64949eae.png npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole I would note that I'm coming from a slightly different position on that. The point that is important to me is that interactions with the #OpenStreetMap ecosystem as a rule shouldn't require creating additional accounts and exposing PI to third parties for "regular" contributors. That includes not only interacting with software developers/projects but most other community interactions too (chat, forum etc). That's why using codeberg doesn't really help. npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole you literally just have to look up SWIFT and Russia in Wikipedia, and there is no "already" about it that was three years ago. npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole for example https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/sanctions-against-russia/ PS: in practical terms though companies will not circumvent US sanctions even if they are not locally legally required to follow them. For example codeberg needs a payment processor that will deal with them, zero chance of that if you are violating US sanctions. npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole isn't the shutdown due to sanctions against RU / individuals that are connected with sanctioned RU entities? Self hosting or going somewhere else doesn't really fix that because you are always going to be dependent on somebody that is required to follow them (not touching on the subject if you should even want to circumvent sanctions in this case). npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole isn't the issue in this case orthogonal to 'big US corp exploiting you' and aren't they likely to have exactly the same issue on codeberg? npub1x7enuadeaks62u788q5cmpns8h8q6dm7npl56cfsshu6qayn9eqqhu39vw Simon Poole not for the first time: @npub1mtr…trt0 is a, very, opinionated build service for users that are ideologically aligned with them (think RMS). If they want to run that and there's a user base that wants to use it, more power to them. BUT assuming that it is a general purpose app store is just going to lead to endless conflict on both sides. Unluckily F-Droid is not clear about that -they- are publishing the apps and are responsible for the content and operations, not the app devs. ...