May I recommend : https://www.dreamingagainstthemachine.com/

If they thought they were invincible, they wouldn’t be building bunkers and prepping.

Isn’t that just closed Apps in general?

I’d argue there is a network effect lockin going on with Google, and it needs fixing by governments. Google, and others, should have to share basic road speed data.

OS Maps are great. You know MapMen? They love OS Maps.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=os+maps+mapmen

To be honest, even a static DB of recorded road speed using time of day, day of week, time of year, averages, would be a lot better than nothing. It would mean it knows you can’t really go 60 down a bendy, narrow, stone wall lined, single lane, country road. Not and live anyway. So it would stop trying to use them all the time.

But hey, if there is internet, why not query it for the latest?

I only skimmed.

I’m not joking about the Ordnance Survey bit. When I’m on walks, I often am in area with bugger all phone reception (common in the UK) and the quality of the maps means it really is as good.

It’s why the lack of traffic upsets me so, because I’d love to use it in the car as my main maps for Android Auto, but without traffic, that’s just doesn’t work well enouhg.

It’s great in many ways, and maps are great. You can get Ordnance Survey style maps.

BUT it desperately needs traffic information in its route finding. It frequently makes terrible decisions in the absence of this data.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4242868/

Cost of doing business. Legal for a fee. Etc etc.

By there not being enough consequences for these boys, not only are you making more boys like this, but not doing those boys any favours either. No one mentally healthy is going to want to be with that kind of boy.

Weak parents. Weak schools. Weak government. Failing everyone.

Well that is retrograde of it.

Another cool thing from Plan9:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst

Got to love UNIX’s everything is a file.

ProcFS is from Plan9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs#/proc

Plan9 is worth a deep dive, but maybe not worth running. It is more UNIX than UNIX. (Also where UTF8 came from.)

There are, but the market is rigged by monopolists. And things like banks increasingly require apps that won’t even run on customer Android ROMs easily.

The regulators are needed here.

Sounds like an argument for wallets. Digital or with cash.

Only a matter of time. We don’t need to worry about Terminator and Skynet. We need worry about everything going from engineered to automated cargo cult slop. All run on massive datacenters controlled by a few mega corporation that everyone is hopelessly dependent on and can’t imagine working without. The trillionaire owners of these mega corporations are hiding in bunkers waiting on one of coming calamities to happen, or just from us unwashed masses. While they buy governments and media to keep and increases their riches.

This future sucks. Can I try another one?

Edit: slopocalypse is the term

That’s pretty much the UK really. Only you are very rarely able to get close to the 60mph limit at all, let alone safely.

The are more dangerous by statistics. Some random links:

• https://www.nfumutual.co.uk/globalassets/campaigns/rural-road-safety/rural-road-safety-report-2024.pdf
• https://roadsafetygb.org.uk/news/rural-roads-are-becoming-more-deadly-again/
• https://www.simplyquote.co.uk/insights/where-do-most-car-accidents-happen-in-the-uk/

I love these roads and the British countryside, but it is definitely an eyes wide open environment. Certainly can be a shortcut, but often SatNavs without traffic info, use them when they really shouldn’t. You used to often see signs telling people to ignore their SatNavs and not take this road, but it’s less of a thing now as everyone just uses Google Maps. Basically, I want that traffic info as public access for all SatNavs. Not locked away.

I’ve very sympathetic to the developers. It’s a stupidly hard problem to know what speed is likely, at what time of day, on these roads. Far far easier to just have the data of what people are actually doing on these roads. That’s what Google do.

Though if you can detect country road, you could safely assume half the speed advertised.

Oh it’s not traffic. They are often quite empty. British country roads are narrow and often stone wall lined, or tree lined, or embankment lined, or all three. They are winding and can be quite steep. Corners can be almost back on themselves. Often there are bits down to a single lane for both directions, with passing points for someone to wait for the other direction to pass. If you encounter someone who can’t reverse, you might have to reverse quite a way.

I really want CoMaps to be a valid choice. Its maps look are absolutely great, like Ordnance Survey Maps. But I don’t normally use it for the reason I experienced again just today. I use Android Auto in the car with my GrapheneOS phone, but my phone SIM reader failed the other day, so this phone has no internet. Google Maps refused to work without internet. So I just used CoMaps again today. This is in the UK, and lack of traffic info matters. It does routes down the little country roads that are technically 60mph, but you literally can not drive that fast down them. Even with a death wish. But it plans them in assuming that speed. This results in bad routes and inaccurate times. (Though I do enjoy country roads, when used well.)

Or a life of fixing AI slop the AI sloppers generate but can’t fix.