kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

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А посоветуйте движков для поиска альтернативных ElasticSearch и прочим монстрам на Java?
Интересуют скорее относительно лёгкие компилируемые штуки типа Sphinx, нежели Ambar/Algolia на Javascript.

Great alternatives to Google Maps that use #OpenStreetMap data:

- Qwant Maps: website, has directions. Highlights the fact that data is from #OSM, providing links to view and edit the data.
https://www.qwant.com/maps
- F4map: website, 3D views of cities.
https://demo.f4map.com/
- MAPS.ME: mobile apps with a neat vector renderer. Minimalist. Works offline. More obviously profit-oriented.
- OsmAnd: mobile apps with lots of features. Offline too. (Too?) many customisations and options available.

CleanBrowsing is now in South Korea / Seoul.

We are now on 55 different datacenters all over the world - one of the fastest DNS anycast networks available.

Status page for details:

https://cleanbrowsing.org/status

@esvrld

Rarely I've seen such amount of #bullshit about #history.

We have a long common history that dates back at least to the Roman empire. It's a convoluted history, full of wars and deaths, cultural exchanges and deep genetic mixing between all of the peoples that came and lived here during a few thousands years.

Europe has not been a single nation for long, this is true. But we have a common culture. A culture that learnt to welcome our differences.

A culture that, actually, has been corrupted by the Marshall Plan, but somehow resists in most people here.

Come and see!

You are welcome too! 😉

Did you know that #GDPR allows sites not to announce the use of "essential" cookies? Meaning those your site uses for itself, to keep the user logged in for example.

So when Internet commerce started to slap those stupid "we use cookies" banners on every site they used the more generic word "cookies" to avoid saying outright that their sites use *ad trackers*.

Long story short, if you don't sell your user data, you don't have to present stupid disclaimers.

Just trying out #element ( formerly known as Riot) and it looks pretty good, the UI has come a LONG way from the original riot application. Kudos @matthew !

quick shoutout to https://jortage.com/

"Jortage is a communal project providing object storage and hosting, with more on the way. Our model is to pool together hosting expenses of our members to allow pay-what-you-can usage and to reduce everyone's costs overall."

*whispers*

More Fedi communities for scientists about #science:

• https://lugnasad.eu - for French speaking science lovers
• https://realscience.social - for naturalists and those who appreciate evidence based science
• https://scicomm.xyz - for scientists and science enthusiasts
• https://scholar.social - for researchers, journal editors, librarians, anyone involved in academia

Why is #X11 on #Linux so complicated? Because it lets you do this https://lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rust-mynewt/articles/wayland

• remember Netscape Navigator

• ever used any modem with a bandwidth of 28,8 or lower

• had an Early Adopter account on Livejournal

• witnessed the rise and fall of PhPBB

• witnessed the rise and fall of Napster

• used the web before Google existed

• ever used a dialup BBS site

• remember Gopher

• ever downloaded music as .mod files

• remember when about 90% of the web was made up of personal sites which were "under construction" and had pictures of people's cats on them

• remember when Yahoo was literally just a big list of websites

• know IRC commands

• have heard anyone unironically use the phrase "information superhighway"

• can recognise different bandwidth modems by what bleepy handshake sound they make

• have ever received one of those chain e-mails where you have to scroll through about a kilometre of forwarded headers only to find a "hilarious" vaguely lewd image and/or a banal list like this one