Valerie Ashborne

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Cake day: August 26th, 2026
  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgtoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Google bussness hours and reviews are finally getting SOME sort of competition
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    3 hours ago

    Eh, even in context of tech-savvy users it is still questionable. It is not like tech-savvy users do not need to get from place to place in time with public transport or an car, they are just a regular people, just like non savvy folks.

    I, for example, could consider myself one (tech savvy), but even I can not deny that this projects and services kind of… stink, and not usable as big corpo solutions.

    Do not get me wrong, I am in love with OpenStreetMaps, with Open Food Facts (and related projects like open prices facts), with Mangrove Reviews, and so on, and I contribute when I feel like it, but damn me if there would had been usable programs and UIs for using Transitious service (and especially with fully offline functionality), or program that use Open Food Facts data for anything even remotely useful (I once made feature request to CoMaps about adding open food facts data, so it can be used for searching food and non-food items on map or opening place and scrolling through list of items it has with prices, but this PR was quickly closed as too niche ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , and then couple months later we have mangrove reviews, which is even more niche and has even less data but hey, what do I know), and for other related projects.

  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgtoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Google bussness hours and reviews are finally getting SOME sort of competition
    5·
    13 hours ago

    A new project, called “Mangrove Reviews”, has been quietly

    Calling it a new project is a bit of an stretch, I would say, considering this project was around for maybe 6 or so years.

    Also, for anyone unaware, mangrove is not only for reviews of places, but also websites, books, companies. Found a bad site which scams people? Write an review. Found bad company? Review it.

    I wish there were more options, such as videogames, software, food and non food (Open Food Facts can be used for identification, in similar vein that OpenStreetMaps is used for places), and more (and more then 1000 symbols per review in general), but currently we have only that.

    Why people don’t wanna switch from Gmaps

    I do not want to be that person but I think the main reason is people do not give a fuck about any of that. Or just in general not giving enough fucks for anything.

    They have working shit on their devices (in this case — Google Maps), which do what they want and have many features, which varies from “nice to have” to “this is very important to me to the point of not being able to live without this feature”. Traffic data, reviews, and so on.

    And when you try to introduce something else to them (especially something as fragmented as open source real life data “stack”, OpenStreetMaps + mangrove reviews + transitious + more) — you would not be meet with enthusiasm, especially if this other service is just worse for one or other reason.

    What is the point if they want to input some address in, for example, CoMaps, and they get nothing in return because nobody had added that place and address for 10 years and doing address search is hard? (Both of which Google happened to master to a much higher degree then OpenStreetMaps).

    However, navigation services like MapComplete and CoMaps

    Calling MapComplete an navigation service is definitely a choice. Or CoMaps for that matter, conspidering that they currently are not providing much of an navigational services for public transport, and that their routing engine sometimes can lead with the most weird paths (but this one is more of an issue with OpenStreetMaps data, which only highlights my previous point).

    is this real competition yet?

    Right now it is definitely not. Many-many-many places lack even single review which says “good place”, so for the most of time you do not even notice that service.

    Godot has succeeded on rivaling other game engines like Unreal or Unity

    Eh… Maybe in indie, sure, it might shaked Unity somewhat, but many games still made with Unity and other proprietary engines. Big studios still on Unreal and some even switching from their in-house engines to Unreal, so eh.

  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgtoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Degoogle setup
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    12 days ago

    The actual webview that is dead https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/maps

    This fork is active and fixes stuff if something is broken, so at the very least it will be alive a little longer. Last release was 5.0, 2 months ago, with fixes for street view.

    Gmaps wv is a dead project

    Meh, not really. It is absolutely not dead for my usecase, for example. You still have streetview to some extend, still more full information about some places compared to OpenStreetMaps, photos, reviews of places, sometimes more correct pathways. So not exactly dead project.

    It will become dead once google will entirely block anonymous access ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    Google is actively breaking anonymous access to gmaps, so those things are also breaking

    Yes, I am aware of that, but until google completely make not possible to use their maps anonymously — something akin to gmaps webview will have its use.

  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgtoCasual Conversation@piefed.social•What's a hobby you think more people should try?English
    9·
    12 days ago

    Contirbuting to open-source, open data and so on!

    For example, why not contribute to OpenStreetMaps? You will help others and also will be going around your city more, possible discovering more interesting stuff :)

    Or why not contribute to OpenFoodFacts? Adding prices, updating data, fixing wrong data - so much fun! And useful.

    Or did you know that there is open review system, including places on openstreetmaps, companies, books? https://mangrove.reviews/ It is notably used in CoMaps. You can check plaes that you had been in and inform people about good/bad aspects of said place!

    And more! Making world a slightly better place together.

  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgtoLinux@lemmy.world•handwritten to textEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    While cellwriter is long dead, it is still fairly working.

    It just requires you to use X11 session and programs. In some distribution (especially on distributions where maintainers patch cellwriter) it might eve somewhat work under Wayland sessions. Ad, also, it requires you to manually build your own database for each individual symbol. Program does not come with ready-to-be-used set of symbols.

    As for recognition quality, especially for multi-language with different writing set (e.g. Cyrillic and Latin) scenarios, and general usability… Uh, not that great, even when program does work.

    (I, as original poster, also was looking for a solution, but to this day never found one. This is one of things where Linux suck ass.)

  • Valerie Ashborne@feddit.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•100K Penguins! Bazzite hits 100,000 weekly active devices, growing 14k devices in the past 3 months.
    11·
    17 days ago

    Nope.

    syncthing: Kommando nicht gefunden

    As far I am aware - there is no other packages related to syncthing is avaliable in distro repositories and this one not included by distro by default.

    UPD: there also appears to be syncthing-tools package in repos, but it is also not included in mine system by default and I never installed it myself.

    The only trace of Syncthing on my system is… well, from that flatpak. And unless I missunderstund how any of that works, syncthing is included in flatpak and you can look for it in its manifest file: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy/blob/a786450f1305474e71c1f33c468ff3dc5758e238/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy.yml#L42 It takes syncting release from https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases and adds it to build process.