KelsonV

joined 6 years ago
[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 2 points 1 year ago

@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.

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 5 points 2 years ago

@V4uban @anji Hubzilla has had nomadic identity for ages

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@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.

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

@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.)

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

@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.

https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/gps-remove/

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic I ran into this a while back.

  1. It's not new
  2. 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.

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 1 points 2 years ago

@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.

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@science Oh cool, at least one of the paper's authors is on the fediverse and has posted an infographic on the analysis:

https://sauropods.win/@markwitton/110113855551327781

 

Paleontologists investigate whether T. rex and other predatory #dinosaurs had lips like lizards, or protruding teeth like crocodiles (though as the article notes, pop culture has latched onto the latter).

https://wapo.st/3zlDnNK
(gifted article link)

@science

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@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.

[–] KelsonV@wandering.shop 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

@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)

 

Improving Urban Tree Cover to Counteract Heat Islands

We know trees can reduce the urban heat island effect. A Nature Conservancy project is combining data on current tree coverage, heat, health, income, energy sources and more to determine where planting new trees would most help the communities currently most affected by the problem.

(The article's in the context of Google's role in the data analysis & visualization.)

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/improving-urban-tree-cover-with-google-earth-engine

#nature #UrbanForest #UrbanHeatIsland @green

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