Kelson's Sorta Old Account
Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him.
Main account: @kelson at my personal GoToSocial server.
You can also find me reviewing books on Bookwyrm at @KelsonReads, posting photos on Pixelfed at @KelsonV and sharing/discussing links on Lemmy at @KelsonV.
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1·2 years ago@sohkamyung @ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic I should give that a try! I use Vespucci for OSM, and it’s similar in that it saves photos to its own folder, but it uses the default camera app, so again I have to turn GPS on before a mapping session and off again afterward.
@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic (I take a lot of photos for iNaturalist and reference photos for OpenStreetMap editing, so I’m constantly turning GPS on for those, and then back off for personal photos, and sometimes I forget.)
@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic A few months ago I dug into ways to work around this with photos that had already been taken with the GPS coordinates. Annoyingly, you mostly have to save the photo, remove the tag, and re-upload it.
@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic I ran into this a while back.
- It’s not new
- It’s not specific to Pixel photos.
The app and cloud service just don’t have support for modifying the EXIF tags, so if *any* camera has added GPS data, you can’t use Google Photos to change or remove it.
The estimated location is stored in the Google Photos database and can be modified within the app.
You *can* turn GPS off in the camera app.
@lemming_7765 Similar points to Cory Doctorow’s well-known article on the topic, but written in a way you can forward to someone while maintaining a professional image.
18·2 years ago@science Oh cool, at least one of the paper’s authors is on the fediverse and has posted an infographic on the analysis:
2·2 years ago@petrescatraian @nutomic That still requires your server to send the message to the buggy or malicious server, so Meta or whoever couldn’t just set up a random server and ask for the posts, they’d have to have a user following you first, or you’d have to mention someone on that server in your post.
@petrescatraian @nutomic To some extent.
When you mark a message as followers only, your server only sends it to your followers, and only shows it to your followers who are logged in
But if one of your followers is on a malicious (or buggy) server, there’s nothing stopping *that* server from doing something it’s not supposed to with the data.
IIRC it was CloudFlare’s implementation that recently had to fix a bug where followers-only posts were being shown publicly.
@petrescatraian @nutomic I think followers-only posts on Mastodon are closest. Make that your default posting mode and require approval for followers and it’s effectively a private profile. (Again, barring malicious ActivityPub servers)
@petrescatraian @nutomic I believe “unlisted” on Mastodon is somewhere in between - it’s expected to be publicly visible, but not publicized, i.e. it doesn’t show up in a server’s local or federated timeline. I’m not sure if it shows up when viewing someone’s profile when not logged in.
Not that this would slow down an AP server that wanted to store it, of course!
1·2 years ago@green I looked at the data from my local area, and it not only prioritized the areas I know are lower-income with fewer trees, it prioritized where people actually live, too.
There are some areas that have very low tree coverage but are also rated very low priority…because they’re mall parking lots, light industry, heavy industry, office parks, etc.
2·2 years ago@Ferk On the other hand, Firefox runs just fine on the same machine. It makes me wonder if Firefox got several rounds of optimization after the code bases were split.
@yogthos Honestly, that’s probably a good idea. I tried firing it up recently for testing RSS feeds, and it was so clunky and slow. I know my box isn’t exactly cutting edge, but it’s happy enough running Gnome, which I figure is a good test of its ability to handle UI.
@OptimusPrime Wandering.shop and Photog.social for Mastodon, one for general talk and the other for photography. Photog.social is the kind of place where people both post their photos and talk about their gear and/or process.
Also Pixelfed.social (I was an early adopter) and Bookwyrm.social (the other instances around when I joined looked too specific), and a self-hosted WordPress blog with the ActivityPub plugin.
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@dynge @ray This piece is weird. It’s like the author did whole lot of digging based on the assumption that the organization is supposed to be all about making Firefox, turns up a whole bunch of things that don’t fit that assumption, concludes that it’s wrong, then criticizes and asks questions from the perspective that it’s right and something doesn’t add up…
…but didn’t look around on Mozilla’s website?
@gzrrt @pineapple Yeah - ideally, any voice control processing or recordings should never leave the device it’s used on. At worst, the local network.
It’s so annoying that the tech for voice recognition became usable before mobile processing power caught up but after mobile bandwidth was enough to offload the processing to someone else’s computer.