But that does make it harder to find things, especially small businesses.

with StreetComplete it takes 30 seconds to add a business to osm ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/

i added ±5 today. Next time somebody searches, they will be on osm.

x.com ?

no, thanks.

you’re posting about your blog here. This is the 2nd link to your blog. There are no sources, links, referrals on your blog. Why should we trust you? Where do you get your information from?

I’m an introverted individual who prefers solitude. Reading and writing are my favorite habits. I read about tech, online privacy, digital minimalism, philosophy, etc. This blog is my personal corner where I express my thoughts and reflections.

“i read and i write about what i read” isn’t enough for me.

I wrote a blog post about encryption.

who are you?

most of my apps have automated backups. That backup folder is synced to my laptop by syncthing. This way i always have an up to date backup of my mobile. Might indeed be what you’re asking for.

just to remind that, even before photo-manipulation software and digital photography became the default, photographers regularly edited photographs in the darkroom during exposure. It’s not difficult to prevent scars & blemishes from appearing on the final print.

one question though, lets say my phone did get lost and I got a new one. Would I just put syncthing on the new phone to send it all back?

you will need to import those exported backups to your newly installed apps. You can’t sync android’s protected directories.

what makes them “failures”?

i hate windows and i don’t use Ubuntu but it’s difficult to consider Microsoft or Canonical as failures.

No it’s not. He can rush it through before the election. No political benefit for him, he can’t get reelected.

He is not alone there. Others around him would have prior preoccupations. I agree with quadrature on this:

Pas content, Macron a déjà annoncé qu’il demandait au gouvernement de revenir avec une nouvelle loi interdisant les réseaux sociaux aux jeunes. Une annonce qui ne sera sans doute pas suivie d’effet, tant le calendrier parlementaire français est bouché d’ici aux élections présidentielles de 2027. Mais c’est par l’Union européenne que cette mesure pourrait revenir. La Commission européenne planche toujours sur une loi européenne pour instaurer une interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux jeunes.

from https://www.laquadrature.net/2026/07/22/le-parlement-vote-linterdiction-des-reseaux-sociaux-aux-jeunes-de-moins-de-15-ans/#censure

Macron responded to the ruling by instructing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to rework the legislation to address the court’s concerns, with the government now targeting spring 2027 for a revised law.

spring 2027? it’s the end of his presidency. His ban is practically dead.

Moka pot coffee is weak, just fill a quarter to a third of your mug with ground coffee, pour hot water, stir after a bit so it settles down at the bottom of your mug

i do that a couple of times a week. I love both, differently.

moka pot feels more “alchemical” than making coffee with a cezve.

Moka makes elixir of life, cezve makes… dark matter!

there was a recent 99% invisible episode about this: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/677-the-borrowed-nature-of-biomimicry/

that boxfish car looks good

best elixir and not expensive:

a moka pot + coffee & water+ heat

i know that some cultures used the same word for blue and green. They didn’t perceive 2 different colours but hues of, for example, glaz.

orange is linked to the fruit in many languages. that’s why i posted those 2 photographs together.

Orangutans too are orange and i’m sorry for writing this sentence :) At least they’re not striped.

The Wikipedia article where you appear to have gotten that image of a tiger from even describes them as such in the first paragraph.

you must have edited that page after i have read :)

same as zebras, which are black with white stripes

same here 🤷

look at just the burnt umber and papaya whip(?)

Funnily enough this is actually why tigers are orange.

tigers are orange?

fuck ICE, fuck tasers but then why did tasers become insufficient and they had to invent electroshock gloves?

fuck compliance too

I mean take a look at smartphones, it is what most “normal users” prefer using nowadays.

prefer? Do you know how difficult (or often impossible) it is to modify your phone’s OS?

That’s not a ‘preference’, that’s an imposition!

beep.

for my OS i want complete mutability. I’ve spent the last 2 days learning NixOS because it’s bringing something completely different to the table. It made me like Arch more :)
Most of the “fork of a fork of a fork” distributions of today will probably disappear in a couple of years. At least you’ll learn from this endeavour.