schabernakk

I tried switching to OSM in an effort to get away from google maps. People always say 'OSM is consumer ready' but forget that OSM first and foremost is the dataset. And as far as i am concerned, there is no good maps app on the iOS appstore that even comes close to google maps. and i think i tried pretty much all relevant ones. skobbler (which i just found out is part of coast) seems to be the most polished. but as long as there is no unified search and you have to enter streetname/adress/city in seperate boxes which excludes searching for the names of buildings (for example university buildings) for which the names clearly exist in the database and are shown onthe map, i have no choice other than switch back to google.

i really hope this changes soon and the UI/apps catch up to the greatness that is OSM.

edit: i have an iphone and although i live in canada i still use the german appstore (CC requirement).

that's why i can't comment on the app the original post was about as it's only available in the US store. it was more of a general remark about my frustration with the state of apps using the osm dataset. I want to get rid of google maps and I feel the maps part of osm would be ready for that. I can tolerate if the commercial store data is not as up2date. But if the general usuability suffers, i rather opt for gmaps.

+1 for Canada.

I feel for larger countries like canada or the states some option to limit ads to certain regions/states/etc would be very benefitial.

2 questions:

1) cryptostorm would still have the ip the isp assigned a user. mapping this ip to a real name is trivial. right?

2) The cryptostorm team decided to remain 'pseudoanonymous' at this point. The points they outline (privacy activists get constantly hassled and threatened) make sense but don't help me verify the integrity of the service. You saying that you spoke to them and that they are trustful doesn't do much either. Why should i trust them? I know in the end i should trust no one, but your argument boils down to cryptostorm being outside of FRA jurisdiction?

You could argue that iPredator is not a real crypto/security vpn service in the first place. I think they are using 128bit encryption which can be cracked if enough effort is put into it. They are just making it more difficult, eliminating 'drive by snooping'.

Lastly: no offense, but that website is not very trust-inducing. i know it shouldnt matter but still....

I am really looking forward to TextSecure for iOS. I hope I am wrong on this one, but from the text on their Website Heml.is doesn't seem to be too eager to open source their code after release.

I don't know any details about whispersystems (except that moxie marlinspike is with them) but I sure do hope they can provide a well designed cross platform messaging app completely open source (which I don't think exists yet)

thanks for mentioning that. never knew that uTorrent is actually developed by Bittorrent Inc. That makes it indeed very hard to trust the BT Sync service

best of luck. i really hope you succeed with this. it seems that right now all opensource dropbox alternatives, while great, have a shortcoming somewhere (git annex, sparkleshare, btsync...)

Can anyone who is running this explain why and how he uses it? As far as I understand it, its not a media center solution but rater a self hosted social network focused on sharing media.

How would a typical use case look like: Set up a mediagoblin instance to share vacation photos and videos with your friends?

A problem I see is every car manufacturer building his own system, maybe with a standardized communication channel to speak to other cars but the control software in itself will be bound to a certain manufacturer. This means different bugs in each car, fixing a bug in one car doesnt mean the error doesnt exist in other cars and so on. New players entering the market are facing pretty much impossible hurdles to enter.

Some kind of Android for autonomous cars would be quite nice I guess.

especially when you think about the fact that a lot if not most traffic jams are ghost jams, where a slight overreaction ripples through the following cars causing them all to stop for no apparent reason.

You're right, but the software of an autonomous car will be held to much higher standard than just 'has be to better or equal to a human driver'.

The whole thing gets interesting when you look at the judicial side of it: Who is responsible in the case of an accident? The car manufacturer (if it was a software failure)? Then even one accident triggered by it is too much.

this looks awesome, lots of luck.

Am I understanding this correctly that this is basically a selfhosted imap/pop/smtp frontend?

I am curious how you guys would use it, i.e. where would you actually host your emails? Running your own mailserver on a vserver sounds fun and not to expensive but I don't know if I want to maintain something like that in the long run. If something breaks this just sounds like a lot of work.

You guys pay for mail hosting? Use the one that comes with your website domain?