I'm very happy with the v4 release of Geo, the Elixir library for representing geographic data like points, lines, & polygons.
We added better handling of data that's technically malformed but unambiguous, as well as better conformance to the GeoJSON spec.
All of this came from community contributions, either of code directly or by reporting issues that we could then easily implement. 💜
If true, Apple demanding rent from Patreon subscriptions is particularly offensive. The people who Apple will be stealing money from, online creators, don't have any relationship with Apple here. They didn't ask to be here.
Apple made a billion dollars in profit last quarter *every four days*. This is wholly unnecessary. It is pure evil greed. They really weren't screwing around when they made an ad destroying all of those creative instruments and art tools. https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon
Nothing says winning business strategy like suing advertisers for not advertising on your platform.
Almost as brilliant as firing all the sales people and unbanning the Nazis then wondering why advertisers have abandoned your platform.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/x-files-suit-against-advertising-groups-over-systematic-illegal-boycott/
I am two months in to switching from Google to Kagi and I don’t see myself going back. I use it t for 99% of my search and it’s subjectively better (like google tends to years ago)
I fall back to google for restaurant reviews. So google is basically Yelp now
I feel like I just witnessed a moment in tech. Tried to find the difference between two models of label printer (Nimbot D11 and D110)
Google was just a wall of sponsored links and links to label purchase sites. Tried chat ChatGPT which used Bing which linked me straight to the answer. Bing!
Realised Bing has huge competitive advantage of not having monetised 80% of its results. Google will have to drop revenue to compete. They won’t.
I was wondering why I can’t follow people from Threads on Mastodon and found out it’s because the server I’m on has blocked interoperability with Threads.
Wow, so what are my options here? Nag the admins? Switch my account to a different server? What do I lose if I do that? Which one do I switch to? 🤔
https://www.threads.net/@thatadamguy/post/C02Bv7LPmET/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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