Behind a metered paywall, which means you should be able to see it if you’re not a regular to the site.

As I said, it’s a metered paywall and everyone gets one free article (I just double-checked).

So it looks like The Atlantic has seen you before! Consider subscribing, IMO it’s an excellent deal.

Some interesting thoughts - and questions - here. Seems you posted them in the wrong place, given the paltry response. Or possibly at the wrong time (i.e. 6 hours after the herd had moved on, a perennial problem with social media).

It isn’t based in XML, and modern devs don’t want to use XML. As I’m not a coder, I cant say how big an influence this has, but from what I have seen it seems to be a substantial factor. Can anyone explain why?

XML is space-inefficient with lots of redundancy, and therefore considered to be ugly. Coders tend to have tidy minds so these things take on an importance that they don’t really merit. It’s also just fashion: markup, like XML and HTML, is a thing of the 90s, so using them is the coder equivalent of wearing MC Hammer pants.

Les travaux devraient intervenir entre 2032 et 2034

De la prévoyance suisse.

Interesting perspective. You’re so right about Osmand, I’ve been using it every day for over a decade and I regularly get lost in the arcane functionality. IMO the best way to improve this is to zero in on problems and get involved on the issue tracker, because the people running Osmand are quite serious and responsive (even tho their business model remains a bit opaque to me). Alas I get the impression FOSS map users are flocking to Organic Maps because Osmand is too complex. Seems like reinventing the wheel to me. Osmand is far better than Organic Maps, its problem is UX.

About gravel, I’m doing exactly the opposite - avoiding it at all costs! I hate punctures that much. Recently made the unhappy discovery that the Eurovelo bike routes, i.e. Europe’s supposed flagship intercity bike lanes, are mostly unsurfaced. My ultimate priority when cycling is to get away from cars. And personally I don’t see why car-roads get asphalt but bike-roads have to put up with gravel.

In my experience, the latest of which dates to today, Brouter is rubbish. What I usually want is pretty obvious: take me by the most direct route which has the least cars. If I choose “Balanced” or “Prefer byways” in Osmand, the results are (usually) acceptable. The closest I can get in Brouter is “Consider traffic” - at which it will pick a route that takes winding scenic detours off the main road every few kilometers, which is an absolutely dumb way to solve the problem. Whatever. Perhaps there’s a better way to do it.

Two-finger scroll won me over to the trackpad and I never looked back. A mouse is an annoying complication IMO - and on the way out along with desktop computers, despite what the out-of-touch geeks in this forum wishfully think. Might as well get ahead of the game.

Mouse? What is this thing you talk of?

Crucial detail:

The backup archives are “stored without a direct link to a specific backup payment or Signal user account,” O’Leary says. You’ll use a recovery key to unlock your backups, but if you lose that key, the company “cannot help you recover it.”

And this reader comment was clarifying IMO:

This solves a user issue of changing a phone and their Signal message history is just gone, which to normal users, is not acceptable.

Keeping them definitely seems to increase possible risks, but for most people this is a requirement, so good move on their part (guessing it’s optional) - when it’s rolled out.

Simultaneously hilarious and informative.

white as snow

It would be better if people commented on the articles rather than the headlines IMO.

Osmand can do this. And basically anything else. I’m always mystified to find how many people haven’t even heard of it, or use weak imitations like MapsMe or Organic Maps.

Completely agree! I was being euphemistic so as not to offend any sensitive socialists, of whom there are a few around here.

It’s unacceptable, I agree. Well done for sticking to your principles.

Assuming your offline requirement is not absolute, it seems that Wero is the future fix for the American payments cartel.

This kind of purity policing is deeply offputting IMO. And certainly won’t help build federated social media.

on the website of a law firm specializing in bicycle injuries

Fair enough, I didn’t notice this and it does change things.

But it’s neither good nor better, it’s worse.

It has taken New Zealand decades of struggle to rid a few tiny islands of rats. Apparently they just needed to ask Alberta how to do it. Absurd.

In fairness, you (or I) are not paying for this “AI slop”. IMO it’s unrealistic in 2025 to expect a professional journalist to materialize and somehow produce, for peanuts of online ad revenue, an article of better quality than this. Especially given that it’s based on legal smallprint, which is an ideal use case for AI.

Perhaps next time the AI will incorporate your useful caveats and return something less sloppy.

It’s an open-ended trip! So stand by for more if the places are photogenic enough. The bike is an electric fat-tyre Engwe. Which is obviously going to offend some cycling purists here, but in my defense I’ve done a ton of analog cycle tourism (including two trips on recumbents) and at this point I’m just looking for an easier life. Ironically, it’s not actually that much easier. This model respects the EU regulations, so there’s no throttle, you need to pedal. The motor is capped at 25 kmh and in practice doesn’t help much except on inclines. Yesterday I did 80 km in about 5 hours and was still pretty tired.