medium_adult_son [he/him]

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Cake day: October 31st, 2020

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  • AllTrails and other apps like it put publically accessible trail/hiking maps into app form and have user reviews and trails rated for their difficulty. And they use GPS for trail navigation to help out inexperienced hikers or mitigate poorly maintained trail markers.

    They also charge a subscription fee for features like the ability to download a map and use it while not connected to the internet. “Pay us or you’ll get lost in the woods” is profitable, apparently.

    Apple might be embedding trail maps into Apple Maps, but this article doesn’t explain that.







  • Quora is Yahoo Answers, except the majority of posters there have contracted terminal LinkedIn brain and the site has the SEO of Pinterest.

    I don’t think your theory about it being a CIA op is too far off - Jorban Peterman first got famous on Quora, and the power users’ politics range from libertarian hustle grindet to fascist.

    But, the site would be no different whether it was ran by libertarian tech bros or the US state department.


  • This might be known already, but I bet that Microsoft decided to switch Edge to Chromium instead of forking Gecko/Firefox because Google either bribed them or threatened to lower Microsoft sites’ ranks in search results.

    Otherwise why would MS use a web browser controlled by one of their very few competitors?

    Edit: maybe they were enthralled by the promise of using Proton/Chromium based “desktop applications” (which just contain an entire Chromium browser in their install directory) to cheaply create apps that people are forced to use in their jobs, like Teams. Which is still awful even after they made it a full UWP desktop app. Like Skype already was.











  • One of the biggest cities in the USA, where the weather is perfect year round. That was designed and built up within the last 80 years around cars - it wasn’t designed for horses or walking and there should be plenty of room for bike lanes.

    Why wouldn’t people want to ride bikes or commute via streetcar or bus? Hell, they could build one of those flat escalators that they have in airports and it would be usable 95% of the time.

    Imagine if in the 40s the city planners of LA weren’t racist, there could be a sweet network of bike paths going under, over, and alongside roads linking every part of the city. Instead these losers want to cater a major metropolitan area to the operators of mechanical deathboxes.

    Plenty of Angelinos want good urban transport, but they’re not backed by commercial real estate interests and aren’t whining loudly online about it every day.