Discussion

Are there open alternatives to #komoot for finding and publishing curated #hiking and #cycling trails?
After the buyout of this great community, it would be great to find a resilient solution where the data and ratings are owned by the public.

Ideally, it should be decentralised and federating, but that's just additional thoughts from a discussion at #FediDay.

There seem to be some trouble with audio for the first ~1min or so? Where you were opening and introducing bsd.cafe apparently?

@black @rvkennedy @raft2551 @M0PWX @LeslieBurns Understand that I've been dealing with privacy issues publicly for a very, very long time (since the 70s). So I've seen a lot and have a lot to compare with. One thing I learned along the way is to keep your eye on the ball. There are so many egregious privacy violations out there that spending time on the lower tier stuff is actually moving the ball in the wrong direction. That's one of the reasons I've never been able to get worked up much about targeted advertising, so long as it's in the disassociated model such a Google has always used. There are hundreds of similar examples that get a lot of publicity but actually divert attention from the really serious stuff. These days, concentrating on (most, there are exceptions) commercial abuses in general is a bad use of time -- it's the government, especially now, that is the real problem in this vein (though obviously, they are linked to the commercial space more and more so there is a partnership effect, especially with Big Tech under Trump eroding trust in Big Tech generally). All that said, despite the waves of privacy issues related to smart TVs over the years, I know of not a single serious case and the concerns have virtually always been speculative "what they could do" in nature. This is the same kind of reasoning the government is using to ban important and hard to replace Chinese-made products in the U.S. (drones, routers, etc.) and I consider it to be nonoptimal reasoning and bad policy.

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@lightspeed Agreed. This is why I decided to be more vocal on social media about it. The most common response from the left has not been encouragement, but strong suggests to “stop engaging in culture war and focus on specific policies”. I think there is value in poking the Svensk hypersensitivity to awkward social situations by making center-right parties’ association with SD extremely awkward.

https://www.reddit.com/r/svenskpolitik/comments/1wci3iz/comment/p90mx1t/

@urlyman grammar thing but IoW surely. Same as MoT, DfT etc.

Wondering what IOW means ignoring the Isle?