Mastodawn

#PSA: posting photos and videos of your kids online ensures they'll never be able to meaningfully opt out of privacy invasion.

80% of children have an online presence by age two, with parents sharing an average of 1,500 images before their fifth birthday. —2017, Northumbria University

By the age of 13, children have had an average of 1,300 photos and videos of themselves posted to social media by their parents. —2018, UK Children's Commissioner

#Privacy #DataPrivacy

jimkats 1d ago

A cab ride video by lorirocks777, which shows on the up-left corner the train's route on a small map with OpenStreetMap attribution. Even though it's may not be completely clear to read and not mentioned in the video's description, the attribution is still there :d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2uFX5_oWYM

★ 4K 🇨🇭 Basel RB - 🇫🇷 St. Louis cab ride [11.2025] Switzerland - France (with signal information)

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jimkats 2d ago

CoMaps - Hike, Bike, Drive 2d ago

Release 2026.03.23 is now out in all channels. In addition to #OpenStreetMap data from March 21, it includes support for more sports types, four more Wikipedia languages and more. Full details here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/v2026.03.23-5

jimkats 2d ago

Few years ago, the trend was from github to gitlab. Nowadays it's from github to codeberg, and this specific seems to get more attention continuously than the other. That's awesome to see more people finally reaching to other github alternatives, after all those years (which occurs due to M$ of course, else I doubt we would have those migrations).

jimkats 2d ago

🛒 🇪🇺 Buy European 🇪🇺 (+🇨🇦). USA broke up with you. Get over it 🇪🇺💪2d ago

Still using Meta’s #Mapillary to upload #streetview images? 🤡 Then this is an excellent time to discover the European alternatives: 🇫🇷 @[email protected] panoramax.fr And 🇬🇧 mapilio.com #openstreetmap #osm #maps #DigitalSovereignty #BuyEuropean 🇪🇺💪

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Panoramax

Panoramax fédère les initiatives (des collectivités, des contributeurs OSM, de l’IGN...) pour favoriser l'émergence d'un géocommun de bases de vues immersives.

jimkats 2d ago

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nixCraft 🐧2d ago

there is some truth to the issues with bots or AI based spam, but then again, companies are firing competent software devs/IT staff & still expecting everything to work perfectly

the solution to these AI bots is regulation. they've 3/4 companies that all these bottom feeders use for spamming via API. It isn't that hard to fix the problem but governments are too busy with throwing dirt at each other these days & for profit social media want to tag everyone with ID so they can market you better

jimkats 3d ago

Stefan Bohacek 3d ago

RE: https://phpc.social/@supergarv/116291496556589191

Heads-up to anyone still using #github!

jimkats 3d ago

Martijn van Exel 3d ago

Hey all - I recently joined Livemap, a Swiss startup based in Zürich. I am the sole "map guy" here now, and in need of a routing algorithm / engine specialist (significantly beyond "I deployed Valhalla and got it to work). Drop me a line if you can recommend someone (including yourself)! CH / EU preferred but not required.

jimkats 5d ago

The legend is back :poggies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3lSKgz4q8

I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back.

▶️ See Episode 1 now: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-i-helped-break-a-142yearold-bell-and-thats-okay • or it's right here next week! ❓ LATERAL, free weekl...

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jimkats 5d ago