I don’t use iOS, but have read that there are apps for it too. On Android there is something called StreetComplete that is specifically aimed at beginners.

Probably the easiest thing to do on mobile is to add or update nodes describing POIs. For example if a store or restaurant or post box or trash can is missing on the map, you can add that. You can use OsmAnd or, I think, also CoMaps for that.

OSM mapping can be very fun, I started doing it more than half my life ago. :D Not just defibrillators, but lots of other things too!

And here is me thinking I (being a railway enthusiast and an OSM contributor) would have already known this existed. :D Thanks for the link, I was previously only aware of the raster version.

We do a similar thing in the European Parliament, where it is called degressive proportionality. Your country, Germany, has more representation overall than mine, Austria — but less representation per capita, so my vote has more impact on the Parliament’s composition than yours.

Also, German states are represented in a similar way in the Federal Council (Bundesrat).

What about that?

You see, I grew up in the era of “You” being Time Person of the Year: https://time.com/6258607/you-time-person-of-the-year-2006/

I don’t see why, 20 years later, I should now think that the same phenomenon is a bad thing, but maybe you can explain that to me.

Your post contains zero examples of anyone telling anyone not to read newspapers. The Mélenchon example (according to your own words!) is him pointing out that voters already don’t read newspapers, not that they shouldn’t. The Musk examples are about one specific newspaper, and even there he isn’t telling us not to read it. (FWIW, I would never have known or cared about any of these examples before reading this post.)

So what exactly are you trying to tell us with this post?

I don’t know a lot about French politics and have no opinions about Mélenchon, but if he said something to the effect of “we are now in the great era of social media”, then I agree with him on that. It is, in my mind, enormous societal progress that lots of people now get their news from other ordinary people on websites/apps (“social media”) in addition, or even instead of, legacy media which sees it as its job to enforce an “Overton window”. It’s democratization of knowledge and information sharing, why should I think that is a bad thing?

It’s kind of ironic that you’re posting this to a social media site, TBH.

I don’t see how it’s a generational thing.

People who grew up when smartphones were already a thing might never have needed to learn how the Internet and URLs actually work. To a lot of everyday users nowadays, the Internet is just a series of smartphone or tablet apps you switch between. I used to think that the spread of the Internet into more segments of society would create a society of computer nerds, ha ha ha ha ha nope.

The problem is that there is an almost infinite way to design these kinds of URLs, so maintaining a database of what should be stripped out isn’t trivial.

I mainly ask because during the pandemic I remember seeing graphs where this looked quite different.

Did the COVID years really not stand out more than that?!

That’s not a great acronym in a language where many different numerals start with the letter T. Could be a two letter acronym, ten letter acronym, twelve letter acronym, thirteen letter acronym, thirty letter acronym, thousand letter acronym, …

That’s not how laws typically work. Everything not expressly declared illegal is legal by default. So that’s a legitimate question.

ok, “Kurzsichtigkeit” in German definitely has both meanings without this causing confusion in practice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopia says that both terms exist in English? Not a native speaker; I think I have seen “nearsightedness” more often in English but my first language’s term for it translates to “shortsightedness”. 🤷‍♂️

I am unfamiliar with Fallout but can definitely say Filet-o-Fish tastes way better than Big Mac.

not even we Esperantists have topic-specific communities here yet AFAICT, and !esperanto@sopuli.xyz and !esperanto@lemmy.world are not exactly very active either…

AFAIK this has to do with US tax law and how it applies to income earned by US citizens abroad.

I have never answered yes to this, but would be surprised if it were impossible or even considerably harder for US persons to open bank accounts. I always thought this just triggered slightly different rules for the bank?

It always looks funny tho. :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)

One could say the map simply counted transcontinental countries as where the majority of the population lives, but French Guiana isn’t colored like Europe.

Also interesting that the southern border of Mexico is apparently the border between North and South America.