Unfortunately, google maps is much more than a map. Shops with ratings and business hours, traffic, public transports, sattelite and street views are typically missing from these alternatives (fair rating is likely impossible).
I like Organic Maps though in case if network issues. Hopes Kartaview succeeds too.
Re-implementation means reverse-engineering and building new binaries. What's the point of MicroG if it is just downloading google binaries?
An app with privileged access is different than a remote access trojan.
The whole point of a sandbox is not to have the same access as the original app.
This is very detailed 😆
I would have appreciated going for Codeberg too. This is not so bad as used just for hosting the repo, a future migration away from GH would be a breeze.
It seems to me that there will be much less relays than there are AP nodes. Users won't publish/subscribe to hundred of relays (if they did, relays would not scale). Hence more bad content to less moderators, and poor moderation.
Adding client filters would just shift the censorship power to those maintaining them.
I'm still using MPD+ncmpcpp. For remote access, I use Wireguard and stream via HTTP on VLC. It's amazingly fast and lightweight (26MB RAM for 30K+ songs).
MALP also works on Android, might be better with no physical keyboard (now supports streaming also).
A bunch of eDonkey servers were seized in 2006. This was before the implementation of Kademlia in emule. It highlighted the vulnerable centralized part of the protocol and pushed people to alternatives.
Also compared to bittorrent, the lack of moderation and low speed played a role.
How come those big hosters get away with such infringements? I guess they must be less popular than Megaupload and such