Agree 100% and I adore comaps and frantically map in my area but... we need to be real that OSM is still functionally beta for many locations. 1000% use pure OSM if you can and contribute to make the map functional, but as far as setting expectitions know that even if the map isn't ready where you live today, it may not be that way for long.

And yes, I am jealous of people who can use comaps seamlessly. I often have to use google to find locations then drop them into comaps since our road network is reliable but POIs are not.

Unfortunately I really wouldn't trust the numbers on new cameras. In my area most are already mapped and there's a steady stream of misidentified cameras being added. Stuff like DOT and traffic light cameras.

But... my hair is on my scalp. I see what you're getting at but leaving conditioner in all my hair while I body wash and rinsing conditioner last has done wonders.

Holy shit, $4500?!? Also they're quiet enough about specific solar range I think they know it's not gonna be that useful on average.

"We can't tell you where the datacenters are." Meanwhile the NSA datacenter near me with the backup generators and cooling towers mapped on OSM:

I've come round to the idea that I will not use LLMs regardless of how "ethically" they can be sourced because their outputs are harmful in a way that builds up, like a very small dose of poison.

I'm not holding this as a hard stance, just a current analysis of the technology and how it might affect my life in my circumstances. I think we're well into a world where we need to be deciding if some technologies don't suit our lives, because there certainly are even more harmful technologies to come.

It might seem like a romantic or artist's approach, but with so much spiralling out of our control I'm trying to make the active choice to be more human.

In leav­ing progress to the machines, in letting technology go forward on its own terms and selecting from it, with what seems to us exces­sive caution, modesty, or restraint, the limited though completely ade­quate implements of their cul­tures, is it possible that in thus opting not to move “forward” or not only “forward,” these people did in fact succeed in living in hu­man history, with energy, liberty, and grace?

Always Coming Home - Stone Telling Part 3 by Ursula K. Le Guin

Am I being too hopeful or is this the beginning of the end for ALPRs if it stands on appeal?

I need a good way to respond when people imply that technology is all techbros. This meme might be it.

So how much more fearmongering by AI companies till they demonize open models as the greatest threat?

Yeah, all the current events making diesel more expensive suck, and will hurt everyone's budget regardless if they drive. But we all know we need to use less diesel, right? We've just found the worst possible way to reduce the world's reliance on diesel.