Fair warning that Carto seemingly tends to update about twice a year and that this was merged maybe a couple weeks after an update. So you’ll be waiting for it to show up…

… but it will show up.

You of all people talking about other people enjoying their echo chamber is goddamn hilarious given the one you moderate.

As though somone blaming Ukraine for “refusing to negotiate peace” has any room to speak on “inconvenient truths”.

Implying nobody sleeps with a shirt, pants, and socks.

Boy, have I got pleasant news for you.

Edit: I completely misread this. I get now you meant the street lighting, which can be a lot of fun to survey! If a little creepy sometimes.

https://getindie.wiki/

(It’s 30 minutes.)

Truly.

Not to be confused with Xanthoidea, the superfamily of crabs. (Genuinely did think for a minute that the comic strip was talking about some superfamily, given the “oidea” suffix.)

Hint: Check the clock in the background in panels 2 and 3.

Yup! Those corner pieces are surprisingly good.

Mardering a child? A Bradley, even?

I made a write-up earlier on YPTB showing how the mods on LSC are overreaching even within the repressive rules they write to stifle criticism – and totally ignoring them themselves.

Active functioning search engine website “OFFICIAL LAUNCHES” - Google: August 1998 Yandex: 23 September 1997

What on Earth is this link supposed to show? Did you just expect that nobody would check it?

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights.

This once again establishes that Google Inc. came about in August 1998, not that Google Search did. Google Search existed in 1997; it was a registered, functioning website with a web search engine.

Edit: Huh, I see it’s a bit more complicated. Google Search was available at google.stanford.edu during 1997. Which is still a functioning domain that uses Google Search to index the web.

Edit 2: Unrelated to this, the fact the first version of the Google logo was created in GIMP is so quaint. TIL

I’m not really sure why this would be happening either. Sometimes federation can be a problem with mod tools, so maybe the fact a lemmy.ml account removed your lemmy.world comment made something go awry. Mod tools in Lemmy are kind of cursed, and I prefer to only use them for basic functionality.

Double nope.

Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, [emphasis mine] which has become the most used web-based search engine.

Google Search had already existed since the domain was registered. (EDIT: See comments below. I don’t know that this is true. It seems google.stanford.edu was up as a functioning web search engine in 1997, but this is getting murky.) You’re talking about Google Inc. the company which was created in 1998. Google Search was launched in 1997.

However, by that comparison, it’s vastly less close, as Yandex LLC was first legally registered 14 September 2000.

TL;DR: You were comparing apples to oranges.

Search website:

• Google: 15 September 1997
• Yandex: 23 September 1997

Legally registered company:

• Google Inc.: 1998
• Yandex LLC: 14 September 2000

Edit: And to clarify, I think the sensible metric here, that works in Yandex’s favor by bringing the two within eight days of each other instead of approximately two years, is to use the date their search engine websites launched and were functioning, not when they filed paperwork that said “We’re legally a company now 🥳”.

That’s not true.

• google.com launched 15 September 1997.
• yandex.ru was announced 23 September 1997.

Which makes them hilariously close, but Google still precedes Yandex, as their search engine websites were their first products.

This kind of even basic information is being deliberately obscured from us; we’re just supposed to shut up and treat our occupation by a surveillance corporation as a fact of life. Misunderstandings about it should be treated as an opportunity to build solidarity; I feel happy to have taught you something about it.

FYI, “Falcon” is a Flock model, not a separate brand. This website is specifically Flock-branded cameras, but non-Flocks, as stated, are more than welcome on an open knowledgebase like OpenStreetMap.