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  • There is no open source car navigation app which is bad. Magic earth is great but not open source. Tomtom is good but not open source.

    Osmand is awesome for power users. Comaps is good for causal users.

    We need more wikipedia images and content, there is still a lot to improve on maps just by contributing to wikipedia. Osmand added custom buttons and now you can enable wikipedia connections with one click which is great.

    There are no menus for restaurants, no pictures, no other stuff. The situation is not really improving for years. Osm is great for a base map but it lacks so much information that it could replace google maps.

    Here maps is trash and apple maps is apple, i.e. not better than google

    I tried relying solely on osm and I failed simply because you can’t just have a look where cool restaurants or bars are. I use osmand for everything except exploring such random stuff in random cities. Osmand is better for toilets, benches and nieche info.


    • IBAN: in Europe, we can simply transfer money between bank accounts just by knowing a number called IBAN. We do not have to pay 3% to paypal, stripe or whomever for the transaction. This is especially important for smaller (recurring) donations. Also, having an IBAN signals being a European service/product.

    Feedback

    I’ve got the default production compose configuration with podman.

    • Oftentimes, I can’t select text within boxes in the browser. Everything is a button and I can’t select text with the mouse. This is annoying.

    Random

    • The documentation is awesome! It looks like a high quality product!
    • pwa on android works great with firefox and vanadium
    • If I am using my instance, I can write freely because noone else has access to it. I wouldn’t want to use someone else’s instance as long as the text is not encrypted. It can have sensitive information and you should be able to write freely.

    Editor

    • I’d love having auto save always
    • today’s prompt:
      • at first I thought it depends on the date but after restarting the container, I think it is randomly selected whenever the container starts and then changes per day. This is just a guess.
      • Daily Prompts
        • I like having a random question per day. I’d love having an influence on the questions.
        • being able to up- and down-vote questions such that the likelihood increases/decreases slightly
        • being able to alter the question
        • add / remove (enable / disable) questions
        • just an idea: thematic question lists. e.g. 10 questions about life, questions about your past, questions about a potential life, silly questions / jokes, zen-koans: questions with no logical answer. probably that’s too much for the app (at this stage) but why not dreaming.

    Immich

    Link Mode: Journiv will store references to Immich assets and also add them in an album called Journiv in you immich profile so you can easily see all the assets used in your journal.

    My immich user did not receive a new album called “Journiv”. I had to go to the journiv settings and “update connection” such that the folder appears. Yet, there are no entries.

    In the website settings, it states “store reference to immich assets. Files are fetched on-demand” (unfortunately I couldn’t copy and paste the original text as described above).

    • To me, the best setting for photos would be to store a local preview and link to the original. A jpeg/jxl/avif would be increadibly small but display everything properly. If you want to zoom in, go to the original photo.

    • Videos can be very big referencing them when using “copy to journiv” unnecessarily increases storage consumption. Having a local preview image and the reference to the original video would be great - for me.

    • link to immich album

    • suggest using the geo location of the immich photo

    • suggestion for immich: add link to journiv in the photo (description)

    Login

    • Proton pass does not recognize the login fields, email and password.
    • I expected to be able to use my username and password, but I can only provide email and password to login. Having both would be great.

    Thank you!



  • It does not promote freedom as much as gpl.

    You can always publish your code under gpl now and add a note that you are open to relicense your work. You can then later add the L to gpl or switch to MIT if you want to.

    You can not switch from MIT to GPL.

    My first packages were gpl. Then I got to know MIT and thought, wow, that is real freedom! Following that, I published my code under MIT until someone told me that gpl promotes freedom. If a project uses MIT, i may contribute but I won’t be the main author.

    MIT is much better than proprietary. sometimes MIT is much more favorable than gpl. E.g. If you are a company and want to collaborate with others, you release your base code under MIT and anyone can just not release their additional contribution but everyone contributes to the base code.


  • Gpl ensures freedom.

    You can always sell your code to someone with a different license if he wants to use it. If you just give it to him for free, he uses your code, time, effort, money and makes real money. You don’t see a cent. If you sell your code to him for a small fee under a differene licence than gpl, he can make real money and compensate you for your time. With MIT you just give it away for free, valuing your time at zero.

    Gpl just ensures that someone else is working with you and not abusing you.

    If you start a project with MIT, someone can fork it, create a billion dollar company with it and you are stuck with nothing.

    In the real world, people copy your code anyway even if it is licensed under gpl and since they don’t have to publish it, it’s difficult to detect and sue them.

    Gpl was, is and will be free.

    As a professional researcher, you are already compensated by someone, e.g. the gov, and you could argue that it is the goal to publish your code for free such that anyone can use it to make a billion dollar company. Ultimately, you are free to choose the license.

    With gpl, everyone profits and with MIT someone profits and probably not the author.