ArianMar 26

Me : let's watch some YouTube my favorite creators

US AI LLM psychosis peptide addicted Google Soylent junkie: lemme translate your English video titles to German. Dub your German videos to English and your English videos to German.

How the fuck do I disable this AI slop hell

Show threadArianMar 26
Just let me fucking watch a video like the creator intended. I CAN SPEAK MULTIPLE LANGUAGES YOU DUCKING SILICON VALLEY PEANUT.
Show threadArianMar 26
I'm so done with tech. We all deserve to lose your jobs
Show threadArianMar 26
Google Maps also stopped showing connections that involve walks longer than 500 meters. It'll just be like "no its impossible to reach the other end of Berlin in half an hour by public transport. You need to change 6 times". Because it refuses to let me cross a bridge to another busstation because US brained people dont believe in legs.
Show threadMarianneMar 26
@arianvp oh is THAT what's up with it?! Ffs
Show threadArianMar 26
@noodlemaz yes. And apple maps is even *worse*
Show threadAlper Çuğun-Gscheidel
@arianvp @noodlemaz We’ve gone back to CityMapper because it became so bad.
Mar 26 at 10:22pmWeb
Show threadAmy Isard12h ago
@alper @arianvp @noodlemaz I check citymapper but also if possible a local app/website because I have now twice had citymapper suggest an impossible route because of a temporary closure - citymapper has links to descriptions of problems but they are not always integrated into the app, especially if they are short-term changes.
Show threadTech Tyrant ᴶᴶᴳᵃᵈᶢᵉᵗˢ 12h ago

@amyisard sometimes I wonder if it's possible to have a community crowdsourced open source Citymapper with public transport APIs hooked up, maybe built on CoMaps/OSM?

I love Citymapper and it's actually quite scarily accurate (if it says I'm late, I'm very much most likely late), but I always hesitate using maps apps in general due to privacy, but the problem is I'm a shut-in (by design of a tech nerd) and have been growing up so I never know how to go anywhere ever and have to resort to it anyway because CoMaps doesn't really do public transport in SG.

@alper @arianvp @noodlemaz

Show threadmonoxane ⁂12h ago

@jj Access to information makes this very very hard outside a big company, I've tried to get access to the realtime metro apis for Melbourne (to make a screen that told me when to leave lol) and never went through with it because of the shear amount of paperwork involved in getting a single JWT...

@amyisard @alper @arianvp @noodlemaz

Show threadAlper Çuğun-Gscheidel8h ago

@monoxane @jj @amyisard @arianvp @noodlemaz You don’t need real time. It’s not as if we have any real time data in Berlin for anything.

Also the algorithms by now are more than tractable and the volumes of data that you’re talking about quite modest.

Show threadTech Tyrant ᴶᴶᴳᵃᵈᶢᵉᵗˢ 7h ago

@alper  @monoxane https://datamall.lta.gov.sg/content/datamall/en/dynamic-data.html

We do in SG :)

Pretty sure that's what Citymapper uses anyway, either this or some other API (never dug around enough to check yet), but point is they are available here.

@amyisard @arianvp @noodlemaz

LTA | Dynamic Datasets

Dynamic Datasets

Show threadartemist5h ago
@monoxane @jj @amyisard @alper @arianvp @noodlemaz it depends on where, e.g. the us requires all agencies to publish static gtfs feeds, and many also publish free realtime feeds in gtfs-rt. for the nyc subway they're linked, no auth required, from https://api.mta.info/#/subwayRealTimeFeeds
MTA Datafeeds

Real-time data for NYC Subway, LIRR, Metro-North, and MTA service alerts in GTFS-RT format

Show threadartemist5h ago
@monoxane @jj @amyisard @alper @arianvp @noodlemaz it's occasionally possible to scrape data for gtfs-rt, e.g. it's been done for amtrak, but for most sites it would take too long to scrape their realtime data to be useful. non-real-time data is easier, i've done it for china and am currently working on doing it for russia.