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• Post #4381121

  I have quite few accounts on various platforms for contact, such as Telegram, and generally I'm open to messaging with anyone, but if it's a person I don't know, or doesn't specify from where they got my contact info (or specify a person/website I don't know), I may possibly block them (especially if their profile info don't provide any confidence that they are genuine and not a spammer/scammer). We live in an era of the Internet where socializing online, even in private...

• Post #4380576

  Hearing a Greek kid saying the 6-7 meme, and in English, oh my gosh...one of the worst brain rot trends of the last decade, after the sus and sussy baka...

• Post #4361607

  RE: https://respublicae.eu/@CopernicusEU/117032950058143511 This is what happens when forest firefighting is handed over to civic firefighting (since mid 90's). It's not just the climate change and the arsons that create many big wildfires every summer, it's also how the firefighting management changes over the years, somehow being worse than in the past.

• Post #4208478

  Average Greeks are used mostly in Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Sorta less in X. Mastodon isn't yet known or used by many. I wonder if it's gonna be ever be used enough, so that public services can start posting here aswell. Ok, I wrote this post cuz I saw a tweet (D: forbidden word) from the Hellenic 112 account about a wildfire in Lesbos, and I thought how useful it could be to easily share the 112 announcements in Mastodon instances aswell, without having to copy-paste the text/lin...

• Post #4161031

  How I hate troubleshooting computer crashes issue without any evidence of what it may cause it or finding the exact pattern that leads to it... It could the graphics card, it could connectors' issue, it could be dust into the case, it could be anything, but even when fixing those issues you can't be sure as the crashes occur randomly. They may not occur for days, they may occur at least twice within few hours... It's not Windows crash, cuz the computer just freezes. Not even a BSOD....

• Post #4145082

  cringissimo

• Post #4118035

  I heard there's a trend on Mastodon about #silentsunday and it's usually dark photos. I happened to capture this few hours ago, I liked how the pigeons silhouettes are clear. 😁 #Corinth #Peloponnese #Greece

• Post #4039069

  I have a personal website (of some sort) nearly a decade now, but I haven't utilized it properly (which is why there's no public link yet), because I wanted to find a better host where I would config it entirely. I was thinking for years about the GitHub pages, but considering the shitfuckery of the recent years (thanks Microsoft, you acquiring GitHub certainly helped it...), I have to look for other places. I just heard about Codeberg pages, and since Codeberg is a rising alternative t...

• Post #4028888

  allotments

• Post #4017958

  It seems I will start posting on Mastodon more frequently, so sorry beforehand for any randomness 😛. I will try not to spam though. It will be mostly in English, but there will be some in Greek aswell. Random topics, not just informatics or OpesStreetMap. In other words, typical social media D:

• Post #4017879

  Isn't it funny when there a mappers who declare themselves as "pro" or "expert", and yet they do some wild changes in #OSM that either don't make sense or touch the area of vandalism. And usually this occurs through organized mapping events. The sad thing is that this is quite common, and the "organized mapping events", even by well-known orgs, don't feel quite organized when you end up with such cases. And the mapped who does the mistake, can be either...

• Post #4017877

  Isn't it funny when there are mappers who declare themselves as "pro" or "expert", and yet they do some wild changes in #OSM that either don't make sense or touch the area of vandalism. And usually this occurs through organized mapping events. The sad thing is that this is quite common, and the "organized mapping events", even by well-known orgs, don't feel quite organized when you end up with such cases. And the mapped who does the mistake, can be eith...

• Post #4002246

  Apparently "oomf" is a new slang that's trendy nowadays

• Post #3997762

  If an alien came and asked you where's the capital of Europe, what would you tell them? 🤔🛸

• Post #3991497

  I want to mumbling yapping about various irrelevant stuff, but it will just get spammy, with all the bs stuff I see cuz of problem's and problematic support.. I hate anything related to computers

• Post #3934886

  Εδώ και μερικά χρόνια χρησιμοποιώ για πρόγνωση καιρού το okairos.gr, αλλά δεν το χρησιμοποιώ συχνά, κι έτσι στις τελευταίες αναζητήσεις περιοχών μου εμφανίζει μέχρι και του Παπάγου που είχα πάει πέρσι τέτοια εποχή για τη συνάντηση του OSM :d

• Post #3862218

  I wonder if there's any navigator for on foot which besides the quickest route, there's also the option for the most comfortable route, in terms of either fewest turns or smallest incline. Many times when I walk in some areas I know, I'm thinking of where should I walk from in order to avoid steep paths and even stairs (sometimes you don't want to tire your legs a lot). Sometimes I will compromise with a bit of steep incline if the less-incline route would take me further away....

• Post #3816508

  text/html

• Post #3812394

  Adobe cares about my privacy and wants me to update my password. Maybe they shouldn't have forced me to create an account in the first place to use their products (I don't even remember why I created it, it was many years ago).

• Post #3812186

  Το Άργος και το Ναύπλιο έχουν μια αιώνια έχθρα μεταξύ τους (τύπου Αθήνα Πειραιάς), αλλά δεν είναι ιδιαίτερα φανερή και δεν το αισθάνεται ο επισκέπτης. Είναι γνωστή μόνο στους ντόπιους, παρόλο που εν τέλει όλοι στο Ναύπλιο καταλήγουμε γιατί δυστυχώς έχει τα πάντα λόγω πρωτεύουσας Αργολίδας, κι ας είμαστε μεγαλύτεροι σε πληθυσμό 😁. Το Άργος θα μπορούσε να έχει καλύτερη τύχη με ανάπτυξη και τουρισμό εάν είχε καλύτερη ρυμοτομία. Από εποχής Καποδίστρια υπήρχε ένα τέτοιο σχέδιο προτεινόμενο, αλλά δυσ...

• Post #3800258

  I've never really understood the usage of the term "designation"/"designated". It looks like a confusing way of saying "signed"/"marked"/"named".

• Post #3729589

  (one of those nights 😛) Copied a URL to a YouTube video, and wondered why it showed it was deleted (not 404 error), while searching for it showed it actually exists. Turned out the link I copied somehow contained a ZWSP character (zero-width space) at the start of the video's ID, which the Chrome's address bar converted to an actual character, even though it's not visible, and that broke the link to the actual video and redirected to another. And while searching for that, I wanted...

• Post #3701237

  So, a mapper who mapped several landuses in my area ("Digitising" as they wrote in the changesets), they attached every single landuse not only to every highway, but also to administrative boundaries. This causes a hella more work for me trying to fix their mistakes, because now I have to check if they accidentally changed the geometry of the boundaries. I don't want to revert their changesets, because they did a good job by adding several missing landuses, even though they did it...

• Post #3698914

  #TIL Bostwick gates, foldable gates typically found in wide entrances and elevators. (image by London Transport Museum)

• Post #3694125

  Finally visited the renewed archaeological museum of Argos (free admission ends tomorrow, after that it's 10€ for normal fee). Two and half hours of looking at the exhibits, we could go for more 😛. Many photos, but I will upload few specific (and apparently Mastodon has limit of 4 per post, so a reply with more will follow) #Argos #Argolis #Greece #archaeology

• Post #3658227

  The needs make the person, not the trends of the society. You control what you become, not the society, not the people with power. You may be influenced by all that, but you don't have to follow them just because they terrorise you of getting left behind.

• Post #3537157

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116851049059459341 Wannabe tech bros will do everything to push the usage of LLM and generative AI onto everything, regardless the toll it takes to both humans and the environment. They want to keep feeding the greed of the few, in the name of "convenience" and "easy money".

• Post #3450176

  RE: https://en.osm.town/@weeklyOSM/116827170509299182 So, Anubis is being used a lot lately by many websites to protect against the awful AI scrappers. I wonder if in the future there will be any bad change in that service, since it becomes so popular.

• Post #3430133

  So, even though air_conditioning tag has been existed for a while, it started got promoted now, due to the heatwave currently hitting western Europe. "yes", "no" and possibly "limited" are the current mainly used values, and I guess further wiki improvements will come to make the documentation clear now that the key is being used a lot. Reminder that even if a store has a sign of air conditioning outside, maybe try and verify it by entering to see how strong it is...

• Post #2844142

  That was a pretty nice troll opening of the 2nd semi by the hosts :d https://youtu.be/nVpByMgDgaA