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it's apple maps bad

I’m in a location where Apple Maps is significantly better than Google’s. So I’m unsure if you mean ”it’s Apple Maps meme bad” or if you just mean ”it’s rather meh, could be better, could be worse”.


> When I'm typing, there's a delay, then all the letters pop up at once. You took a good phone, and you made it all shitty. It pissed me off.

Apple Maps used to direct people off of bridges and into ditches and stuff.

It’s a swell experience, now, but, the “meme” comes directly from reality.


And Google Maps literally did something very similar to me once, just a few years ago. Told me straight ahead when there was a sharp hairpin obscured by overhead bridge (literal mapping issue in unusual motorway adjacent road). Caused a crash with minor injuries I got back up and walked away from (on two wheels, would have been fatal if I didn't brake so well, or didn't get off the road fast enough, a large truck came round the corner). Takeaway is "never make driving decisions based on what the screen shows." There is no platform worth trusting more than your eyes on the road ahead.

But you can change the commit date from cli when committing? Github just shows the commit metadata, right?

If you're referring to Google Safe Browsing lists, all major browsers check agains the same list. I've managed to get mine listed there and immediately banned on all major browsers.


Not only that but I think Google listens to "cyber security" companies lists and feed from them. My website got in some of these lists (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/a4c9f166d2468f5bbb503ec79...) and I had to go through like 6-7 of them to whitelist my domain again. Something about code and input triggered something in some of these list's filters that my website is hacking related.


Aren't most Show HN's plugs to whatever they're presenting?


I mean, sure but I think it would be helpful to explain a couple of things.

How it was decided which vendor is an alternative, what were the criteria etc

How can this be kept up to date?

Can I submit missing data, if so how?

This isn't unique at all, so what sets this one apart from the others?


If you turn on showdead, you'll see OP's explanatory post.


Hard link to [dead] comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624742

[vouch] for comment, if you have that option, it got caught in the noob green comment auto-flag filter (that is easily triggered).

EDIT: now undead.


Interesting, didn't know that existed...

I would've still put it in the submission itself but that makes sense


I didn't know you could SEND mail with Hide My Email feature, but apparently this is a feature directly in the Mail app. Tapping the From in the mail compose screen opens a dropdown of possible addresses to use or create a new one with Hide My Email.


> So perhaps a better solution was to teach them to setup their own git repo in a cheap or free uni server.

And then lose access after graduating. Great idea!


Tell the students that they will receive a one week notice during the middle of the semester that they need to migrate their git repo to a new server, then teach them the 2 or 3 commands they will need to enter to do this.

They will then understand that it is extremely easy to move a git repo.


It's just an educational exercise to teach students to setup and mantain their own git server.

Obviously students don't expect to use uni servers forever. They can setup their own with the lessons learned.


Probably but I never got why that is. It seems a school could be there in all kinds of ways for the entire duration of the career.


Any Git clone is also technically a Git server, so no, they don't lose access to their own filesystem after graduating.


IMO there isn't a cookie nightmare but rather a tracking nightmare. I'm not fully up-to-date on if there is a separate EU directive on cookies on the internet specifically, but the GDPR is the _General_ Data Protection Regulation. Meaning that if I go and collect your info on pen and paper, I must then ask your permission on how I process and share that data, especially if sharing that data is not necessary to complete the main transaction but is somehow done auxiliary to the main purpose. (e.g. I buy a pillow online, my info is used to target ads for me.)

GDPR itself doesn't require consent for functional cookies. For example, Apple.com does not have a cookie consent box _at all_.

On tracking specifically, I feel there are at least two levels. One that happens in-browser by third party companies. These are your classic advertisements. The other is more first-party backend-heavy. These would be your local grocery store using your purchase history linked to your membership card and using that data to create analytics and targeted ads etc.

So creating a browser setting would likely not toggle all tracking away, just the ones that are "annoying" while browsing.


There is no legislation on cookies. The legislation is on tracking, or more generally, personal data collection. It doesn’t matter if websites use cookies or other means for those purposes.


"According to Wikipedia..." aargh Wikipedia is not the source!


Maybe in 2005, but in 2025, Wikipedia is more reliably accurate than many more-official-sounding sources.


I mean Wikipedia is referenced and well sourced so it is a perfectly valid source in this day and age. I read papers weekly and they are full of more lies or dishonesty than Wikipedia nowadays where there is a desire to publish often.


If I wanted to achieve the same result, that is to serve assets of others from my own domain, I'd just create a custom endpoint like /api/user-avatar/:userId and an action proxies the actual image from google, maybe keep a cached copy for some time to not have to redownload the image on every request.


Especially since, if you were doing this on CloudFlare—which you can with OpenNext—it's incredibly simple to work with CloudFlare's caches in Workers. For example: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/examples/cache-usi...

Plus there's their Images service which could come in handy to transform them a bit, too, if you wanted.


This. Only needs a couple lines of nginx config.


Apple also built a custom video element for web they use for their events. See the Apple Events page[0] and click "Watch the event". It also seems to dim the video when mousing over. I kinda like the design, but the animations seem a tad bit slow.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/


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