time for some kind of anonymizing location data sharing service, peer to peer or federated protocol? that might be interesting, or sketchy, not sure which.

Pretty sure you can download the maps ahead of time, GPS doesn’t require data, then upload the fixes when you get home.

Go map keeps crashing for me, does it for you?

I’ve been using Go Map! but it keeps crashing… Maybe I’ll try Streetcomplete if it’s on apple.

I decided to translate the worksheet into GLSL code on shadertoy. It was really cool to see the gradients and sub-coordinate systems represented by the intermediate variables in the calculation. Smoke and mirrors. Maybe you might have some insight into some of the calculations. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/cllBzM

Any ideas?

I was thinking of doing three separate GOL simulations, one on each RGB channel, and letting the colors mix that way into like 6 colors. right now, I clamp the pixel brightness values to 0 or 1, so that’s why it’s black/white, or rather black/green.

2nd on the keep notes suggestion. I work on lots of unrelated projects, and each time I end up learning a bunch of new command line utilities, so I try to leave behind a text file describing some of the most useful commands I’d discovered that day. Usually helps me come back to a project and not be back at square one every time.

I thought there was something slightly peculiar about the narration.

The internet is a series of tubes.

Thanks, I fixed it

You’re getting it.

I decided to give it a try over the weekend on a road trip, through the apps Organic Maps and Go Map!! I really liked Go Map!! except that it crashes occasionally, and won’t restart until your reinstall it :( loosing all the GPS tracks and unsubmitted data :(( If it was more stable, I’d recommend it to everyone.

For me, it usually only takes a few seconds. Do a search, wait, and then try refreshing the page. It’s usually populated within 10 seconds or so.

I’ve never tried Usenet, but I’ve heard little bits about it here and there. What’s a good way to give it a try?

I’d also been receiving 502 when connecting without VPN, but now it seems to be up.

I’m glad people are talking about this. There definitely needs to be a ‘back-fill’ protocol to capture unfederated content across instances with different ages, or to make up for dropped requests due to server load

Also check out lemmyverse.net for a comprehensive collection of instances and communities. After you find one you like, copy the link into your home instance search, wait a second or two for the result to appear (or refresh after a sec) and then you can subscribe to new communities.

Discoverability is something youtube’s alogrithm really gets right, and something lemmy, or the fediverse in general, just sucks at right now.

looks like https://lemmyverse.net/ is doing a decent job with indexing at the moment. I do honestly feel that indexing should take place on every instance, since each instance has a unique position in the network, and the indexing parameters/ranking algorithms could be under per-instance control rather than an outside third party.