lattrommi @ lattrommi @lemmy.ml

I am Lattrommi. Yes, that one. You've never heard of me? I'm not surprised.

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This was my first thought, played endlessly in the vacinity of the idiots banning music.

I have an OSM account and even resolved a note or two. I've cleared every SC quest within a mile+ from my apartment and for the most part things look accurate. There are a couple fixes that need done but I also have severe ADHD. I absolutely WILL mess things up in OSM. That's why Street Complete is perfect for me, it removes all possibility of me making catastrophic changes erroneously.

For example, a library near me was torn down and a new one was built across the street from where it was. The old ones location is the new ones parking lot and the new one is where a business used to be. The road and sidewalks around them were also redone in a slightly different layout. I looked into correcting this and quickly learned I'm not capable of fixing it in OSM. I could try. However if it can't be done in about 45 seconds, I wont finish what I start. I left a note instead, so hopefully someone with that capability does and I can verify it with SC if that ever happens.

It isn't FLOSS and I think it uses and adds to the aggregated anonymized tracking data from Google. I could be wrong. The developers I feel try too hard to push a mystical connection with the app. Still, it certainly has taken me to amazing places I never knew existed, that are right by where I live. It doesn't show third party ads but can be annoying with the system it uses to try and sell tokens for the app to be profitable for the devs. That might just be me being cheap though. I can't afford to spend money on an app at this time so having a full page ad appear every third journey gets old real quick. I really can't complain though, for as much as I have used it, for free, it has provided a lot of entertainment and adventure.

My car died and I'm not currently employed due to disability so I've got nothing better to do than to walk around. I combine Street Complete with Randonautica to find new places to go. I'm running out of places with quests near where I live (Dayton, Ohio), it is causing me to exercise more. https://i.imgur.com/w3F0wtw.png

This was first published in 2021. There are some interesting points made.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

It has had a few updates since, then but I cannot vouch for its accuracy.

It doesn't cover audits per sé, but I feel there is important information that is tangentially related, since security audits become kind of moot if some of the items mentioned are true (i.e. CIA funding and US govt. tactics).

Full disclosure, I still use Signal for a family group chat. I have very little economic value, thus my threat model is minimal. It mentions cats several times. I neither have cats, nor interact with them frequently enough to warrant their inclusion in a threat model.

I use Proton mail for a mailing list that's hosted and managed by a local linux users group. The messages from the mailing list arrive as .eml files, with each message as an attachment. the native web browser cannot read the attachments. I have to download each message, either individually or all of them as a single zipped file. It might be the fault of the admin of the mailing list and not Proton's fault. I'm not sure. It's not very active so I never bothered to look into the issue. it's a hassle but not a problem. I thought .eml was a standard email format so it seemed odd that the web client could not read it.

i also occasionally use proton drive to back up my plaintext journal every 3-6 months. i backup to mega as well. proton drive has 2 gb of storage on the free plan. mega has 20gb. my journal is 6.9 MiB across 166 files. i have plenty of storage for my use case. i do not store anything sensitive. so that's not a concern.

My dad calls himself a BuJew Cath, which is Buddhist, Jewish and Catholic. "How does Jewish and Catholic work together?" you might ask. The answer is, it doesn't. My dad is insane. He does it to prevent people from accusing him of being close-minded and so he can claim he's a minority. It's pretty sad.

Me personally, I follow my own even stranger belief system, which I haven't defined fully and hopefully never will, because definitions turn into rules and rules are too binary and create impossibilities. I like to believe that anything and everything has already happened, is currently occuring and will do so constantly for all time. There's a pseudo-solipsist angle as well, where my reality is created by me but others do the same, so as to allow for all believe systems independently. If two individuals have conflicting views, their own truths are true for each of them but not the other. Those with similar beliefs are then drawn to each other and those with dissimilar beliefs are repelled, like a type of magnetism. That's the simple version.

"How to Invent Everything" by Ryan North.

I'm hesitant to suggest it because it is not exactly a 'history' book per se. It might not have the specifics, depth, breadth or even content you are looking for but I found it to be very, very engaging.

From the website for the book: It’s a (fictional) time machine repair guide that (non-fictionally) explains how to reinvent civilization from scratch.

https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/

A tattoo that works like a sign on the forehead that says "warning: grumpy" that lights up accordingly, would be useful for all of society in my opinion.

a pair of working wings like a bat, a prehensile tail like a monkey that is strong enough to pick stuff up equally as my arms can, skin like a chameleon that can transition to the color and texture (visually) of my surroundings and regenerative cells like those immortal octopuses.

that's just for regular life, my ultimate fantasy version would have all that but also an improved ass, that sits in an office chair more comfortably so i can write TPS reports more efficiently and with better clarity.

a HUD would be cool with a bionic eyes I think, so i could 'see' a list of stats. temperature, barometric pressure, direction of sound origin, my to do list, personal vitals like BP and heart rate, I could go on.

that would unfortunately have the same inherent trust issues as any company that made them would surely try to phone home with that data and probably try to insert ads and shit too.

In 1900 on March 14th the Gold Standard Act was ratified in America, forcing the dollar to be redeemable by the Treasury on demand for a fixed value in gold. It was abondoned in 1933 during the Great Depression (which really was not all that great from what I've read).

In 1943 Kraków Ghetto ceased to have prisoners. Less great than that depression.

1964 Jack Ruby was convicted of assassinating JFK.

1879 Einstein's birthday.

1883 Karl Marx's death.

I believe the first part is already occuring, it's the last half that I hope is wrong.

Something my grandpa said, sometime around 2006-2007 I think.

"The next world war, will be between the rich and and the poor, and the rich will win before the poor knows there's a war."

Threat plan.

Ask yourself the following:

What do you have that you want to protect?

        Can be a person, place, thing, animal, mineral or vegetable.

    A hierarchy of importance is good to develop.

        Is your wife more important than your cat? 

        Is your fireproof safe full of legal documents more important than your computer?


  

Who do you want to protect it from?

        Threats 

        Consider:

            Actions taken by humans

            Acts of nature (acts of your god?)

            The passage of time


  

How likely is it that you will need to protect it?

        Remember:

        Privacy is important

        Everything breaks down eventually, both man and machine, society and civilization

            Will a hurricane demolish your mountaintop resort? 

            Will a landslide destroy your yatch? 

            Will looters ransack your home during an insurrection?

        Historical weather and earthquake data is useful to know


  

How bad are the consequences if you fail?

        What do you have to lose beyond possessions and people?

        Reputation, freedoms, integrity, etc.


  

How much trouble am you willing to go through to prevent these consequences?

        Will you go through worse if you don't prepare?

    Will you have the courage to act when the time comes?

    How many security cameras are needed to track a single cat? What about a married cat?


  

After you feel you have answered these sufficiently, you can begin to prepare to protect yourself!

The black lines used for borders could be that. I'm not saying it is, just that it might be close to the amount used by roads other than rural highways.

If you are technically inclined, there's QGIS. It's a steep learning curve but it is capable of doing ANYTHING as far as maps are concerned. Okay, maybe not anything, I admit it's above my skill level to use effectively. You can import data sets with it, effectively it's more of a map aggregation and editing tool. It's far more capable than OSM and you can work offline once the data sets are imported.

There's also Marble, not the same thing as the other suggestion I see commented. It's got a version for QT and GTK and some appimages out there. It's not as polished. In fact, it's kind of like MS Encarta Atlas, just not really modern. It has a bit of the 'old internet' feel to it, if that makes sense.

Ah, makes sense. Mine does more of a Salvador Dali thing, like the stache is trying to join forces with my eyebrows.

This is likely a regional thing but the one I went to, which was billed as LGBTQ friendly, had 20 participants, 1 bi woman, 1 bi man, 2 straight women and the rest was straight men.

It was not well organized, cost $20, used prompts that weren't relevant since the early 90's and overall was awkward and depressing. I hope yours fares better.

Pretty sure I was the only one on speed too. (Joking!)

Yes.

What I have difficulty with, is when some wayward knotted cluster I've inadvertently consumed, tries to jump ship the next day in the restroom, while having managed to braid itself on one end into my derrière hair, while the other side of it is still chilling somewhere up in my small intestine.