TheTechnician27 comments on Vela Maps - offline private mobile navigation that will ROUTE AROUND FLOCK CAMERAS

Vela Maps - offline private mobile navigation that will ROUTE AROUND FLOCK CAMERAS (velamaps.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by BrownSugarBits@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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This looks like a promising app!

There is an option to have it NEVER talk to google, it uses open street maps, it downloads flock camera locations, will alert you when they're close, and - it will route around flock cameras !

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Vibe-coded as all hell.

The honest part

Vela is in beta. Things break. If you need a maps app you can bet a road trip on, keep a second one installed.

It's always this "the honest part: things can break" without the real honest part that things break because they shitted this up with Claude and have zero QA.

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[–] itsoveranakin_@piefed.zip 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

"I build it with heavy use of AI assistants [...]"

I despise LLMs but saying the dev doesn't admit the use of them is just wrong.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Shit, fair catch. I will say in my defense that this should be in the "The honest part" section.

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