Technology

Well, now I know what will be my daily driver. Thanks!

Anything to reduce the advertising revenue of these jackasses

Organic Maps is not at feature parity with paid options but it is pretty damn good for FOSS. I use it almost daily for driving around city/suburban Australia and it very rarely gives me bad directions - certainly no more than the paid option i previously used (Sygic).

It works well, and I'm a huge fan and contributor to Open Street Maps (which it's bassed on). But it doesn't do traffic, which is unfortunately wha I need from my navigation apps 99% of the time.

If they had a paid option to cover the costs of using TomTom's traffic API, I'd make the switch.

Yep I got one too. Works great and self hosted. I swear its actually faster than GH is nowadays.

And I like that it doesn't try to advertise and recommend a ton of repos to do you like GH does now.

Going by their Mastodon account, seems they were erroneously detected as "from a US-sanctioned region" and it took too long for said error to be resolved, so they just made the switch.

Has been since 2018, and acquisition news caused quite an upset at the time.

Yeah they bought them almost 10 years now?

VS Code has a fully open source base which excludes proprietary extensions and default telemetry ( kind of how AOSP is for Android)

Check here for more info:

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Differences-between-the-repository-and-Visual-Studio-Code

Codeberg is a non-profit that has no fees, but accepts donations. They only allow FOSS projects.

Why would I move away from git if I could just move away from github/lab and keep git?

you can say shit on here. also fuck and cock and ass. it's the internet

Forgejo is in fact working on being decentralized, just like the underlying git structure is. There are some first federation things in there, but the full implementation is still pretty far out.

Git is already decentralized, nothing is stopping you from adding multiple remotes to your repo.

Federation is on their roadmap

https://forgejo.org/faq/#is-there-a-roadmap-for-forgejo

Some contributer got flagged by US sanctions based on their IP, I think

Seemingly one of the contributors has visited a disputed region and logged into GitHub from there. By law (export controls) Microsoft must not provide service to that place. So some automatism flagged the account and also the organic maps repo. So far so normal. But either Microsoft dragged it's feet in communicating and resolving the issue or the organic maps team was not doing their part in the process. Doesn't matter, the outcome is still worth it.

Apparently, one of the contributors did a push while visiting Cuba and since Cuba in sanctioned by US they just blocked the entire repo. Insane.

Two reasons:

• interface rocks
• maps are downloaded for offline use

Foregejo : codeberg = lemmy : blahaj.zone

Forgejo being a fork of gitea