jimkats

@jimkats@infosec.exchange
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Computer & Informatics Engineering graduate. I don't know what I'm doing.

Interests/hobbies: OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikipedia, Eurovision Song Contest, video games.

LocationGreece 🇬🇷
OpenStreetMaphttps://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jimkats

Συνάντηση της ελληνικής κοινότητας του #OpenStreetMap (Ιούλιος 2025)

Σας προσκαλούμε στην διαδικτυακή συνάντηση της ελληνικής κοινότητας του #OSM για μια γνωριμία, συζήτηση περί διαφόρων για OSM και προετοιμασία για συνάντηση στην Αθήνα.

🗓️ Πότε: Τετάρτη 16 Ιουλίου, 20:00

🔗Περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες στο φόρουμ: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/topic/132512

Σας περιμένουμε :)

"We didn't include a printed manual because everything you need to know about this device can be found at this dead link."
On Overture's Avoidance of the ODbL

Dear Overture Team and OpenStreetMap Community,

OpenStreetMap
Der Hitze aus dem Weg gehen - «Vampir Modus»: An dieser Navigation hätte Dracula viel Freude

Welcher Weg schützt mich vor Hitze? Eine neue Fussgänger-Navigation, der «Vampir-Modus», kennt die schattigsten Routen.

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
I worry not because Cloudflare is wrong to take this stance, but because for years they’ve done a mediocre job of differentiating RSS crawlers from AI scrapers, and the difference matters. (Just ask @johnbrayton what it can mean to a small business that tries very hard to support the open web.)

Do you know that with #OpenStreetMap data, #wheelchair navigation is possible in the #OsmAnd app?

Another tool that can help enrich wheelchair access data. is https://wheelmap.org, which is an easy-to-use thematic editor, though you can use always use your favorite editor.

Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale.
Meanwhile: Microsoft to cut about 4% of jobs (9000 engineering talents) amid hefty AI bets. This was announced hours ago https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-02/microsoft-to-cut-9-000-workers-in-second-wave-of-major-layoffs this job cut help offset rising spending on AI infrastructure/investments and reflect a greater push to use AI tools internally, according to an analyst with Bloomberg.
Microsoft to Cut 9,000 Employees in Second Layoff Wave (MSFT)

Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, a second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs.

Bloomberg
Update your Chrome, patch for CVE-2025-6554 (Type Confusion in V8):
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 138.0.7204.96/.97 for Windows, 138.0.7204.92/.93 for Mac and 138.0.7204.92 for Linux which will roll ...

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@malwaretech

For the thread, current ChatGPT Settings > Personalization options.