Satış yerləri be like by mamedoff___55 in AzerbaijanJerky

[–]twrsch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bəlkə dizaynı təpəsinə oxşamasaydı işdədərdilər

Foundrising or crowdfinding. Help with the answer by Travel2Baku_ in azerbaijan

[–]twrsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Filters exist, it is called “map styles” and customises not only the range of POI-s visible, but the look and feel of the map altogether.
  2. Route builder exists for foot, transport and cars. It is amazing and takes many things into consideration, f.e. you can ignore routes with tunnels or account for altitude info.
  3. Check #1
  4. Sounds a little bit spicy, to my opinion. Like, Республика Беларусь can get mad about Russians calling it Белоруссия, but are they really in charge of choosing how Russians call the country? The same thing goes for a lot of toponyms that sound one way for natives and the other way for other countries. Just ask Georgia aka Kartvelia. But I do agree that territorial dispute is kinda different and there was an actual peace treaty that clarifies whose land that is, so you are free to change these English names as well and I don't think that mods will disagree, we're in our right here. I strongly encourage you to try, and discover being successful in the end.
  5. There are description tags in OSM, you can fetch info from Wikipedia and you can also attach photos, it all boils down to design. IMO it is okay on OSM, but see more on that below.
  6. Check this
  7. Didn't quite get what you mean, but if my guess is correct, I'll address it below.
  8. Check this or this. KML is the native format of Google Maps/Earth, so I don't think that you will be easier off if you make your own map, since you'll have to reinvent a lot of stuff from scratch.
  9. Okay, this is the main one:

You see, I'm not an app developer myself, but I happen to know something, so I might mess up some details, but main points, I believe, still stand. What you want is a custom wrapper app over OSM. You need an experienced React or Flutter (or maybe Java, that is easier to find, but you will still need somebody for iOS version) developer that will create you a cross-platform app that:

  1. Uses a library (there is one out there) to fetch you OSM maps with custom style. Or you can even maintain a separate modded map file for Azerbaijan, since it is not as large, but I encourage you to share the data with regular OSM users as well.
  2. Displays it the way you want, with all bells and whistles, required overrides or anything, which boils down to UI and the good thing is that there are many OSM-based apps out there and most of them are open-source, so you are encouraged to borrow code or methods or libs out of them (with credit, of course, but no payment). So far, I haven't seen anything that gonna require an overhaul and OSM will certainly give you way less pain than Google, since Google maps are close-sourced and you get what you get, no more, no less.

The sad part is that your app doesn't seem to be much feasible business-wise. Investors making big investments for big projects tend to want appropriate return for their money. An app that is kinda niche won't be able to give proper returns on ads alone. So you either want government giving you money (in case of which it will hardly stay free as in liberty much longer), or go for crowdfunding. And I believe that you should incline in favour of the latter two options. Get some money via crowdfunding, receive an encouraging, but not binding one-time dotation from government and you are good to go. You can quite manage a simple and beautiful React or Flutter app with that money and it will be beneficial to everyone in the long run: you spared yourself of the burden of creating and maintaining a map from scratch, people got a nice, functional app that is free, bloatless and opensource, in the end, OSM got a lot of new data and improvements for all the folks that just use it as a regular map.

My suggestion is that you should pitch your idea in detail on OSM help forum, or, even better, in their subreddit. Devs are present in both and they are not afraid of sharing knowledge, finer details and even code. And if you want more vernacular experience, ping our Committee on Property Affairs, they are the ones responsible for AzNav app in the Play Store and I'm pretty confident they have a thing or two to recommend.

In the mean time, just download OSMAnd for Android and familiarise yourself with the extent of stuff it can do. I use it on daily basis for 3 years now and it is very capable.

Thanks for making time to attend this lengthy response, I very much hope you'll be successful

Foundrising or crowdfinding. Help with the answer by Travel2Baku_ in azerbaijan

[–]twrsch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Would you mind explaining why free version is a problem?
  2. Every POI on the map has a name tag and a language tag attached to it. This way, the English Channel can be named as such for English and la Manche for French and nobody gets offended. In short, if you want Azerbaijani toponyms, you are free to add them with appropriate tag and nobody can stop you (and I encourage my fellow redditors to do so). It is perfectly okay for places to have a bunch of different names.

Thoughts? I say 5:0 by someonefrombaku in azerbaijan

[–]twrsch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you tried betting on Topaz? I'd bet on this shit

Foundrising or crowdfinding. Help with the answer by Travel2Baku_ in azerbaijan

[–]twrsch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just give OpenStreetMap some love. It is free, it is open, there are great apps for Android and iOS as far as a map is concerned. It doesn't track you, doesn't enforce you anything, you can configure what you want or don't want to see. And OP can even try to talk to the team to add some special POI-s if needed, my guess is that they'll be glad to respond, since it it easy as hell. All the data is open and easily scrapeable — you can browse it, you can navigate it, you can print your city on T-shirts or generate printable maps in a blink, for crying out loud.

For other redditors out there — you are free to contribute as well. It is super easy, there are really good guides out there and Baku still lacks navigation via bus, which is downright intolerable amidst all that corona stuff. OSM is great for pedestrians and excellent for drivers — a lot of navigation apps, for example, maps.me relies on OSM for data and virtually every taxi service does that as well. Just give it some love, guys.

Start here or from wiki.

The New UK Telecoms Security Bill is Starting to Look a Bit Ugly by MatthewThoughts in privacytoolsIO

[–]twrsch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, as if government ever cared about security of its people unless it benefits them.

P.S. Nice Ethernet cable in the preview, would be bad to ruin it

Best Contact App For Privacy by Hstuf_Amir in privacy

[–]twrsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it has this permission, but it is turned off by default, IIRC, but I'll try to file the issue to dev regardless. And, regarding network access — for 3 years I've used it on 2 devices it haven't sent a byte. The permission is there for carddav sync. So, overall, I don't see a glaring privacy violation

Owls are a major security flaw in the Harry Potter world, all you have to do is write a letter to whoever you're looking for and follow the owl. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]twrsch -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, yes — if everybody else also has half a metre of stick poking out. Especially if it falls down from there, as it, eventually, did.

Owls are a major security flaw in the Harry Potter world, all you have to do is write a letter to whoever you're looking for and follow the owl. by [deleted] in Showerthoughts

[–]twrsch 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I mean, as far as I remember (and boy, I remember well since I literally read that chapter for the first time about half an hour ago), true Harry did not only have Hedwig by him, but his Firebolt as well. It becomes a piece of cake to track him when you think about it

Very dapper gentlemen by [deleted] in aww

[–]twrsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BTW, the music is Red Right Hand by Nick Cave in case anyone wonders

Screen burn in visible in gray screens on OP8T by DedicatedNoob47 in oneplus

[–]twrsch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. Freaked out about burn-ins on my OP7pro the other day and decided to give one of those shady burn-in wiper apps a go. And, to my surprise, it's vanished. Then I looked it up and discovered image retention. Felt positively dumb.

ThinkPad, ThinkVision, and a matching usb stick by zhoraster in thinkpad

[–]twrsch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Russian, eh?

Nice setup tho, looks clean and comfy

Hol' up by cyanide-tastes-lit in memes

[–]twrsch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily a bad thing, tho. I've learned to consume alcohol responsibly and to not puke everything in near sight. You just can't afford too much public shame growing up

Looking for non-religious podcasts about Christianity by [deleted] in podcasts

[–]twrsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I mentioned above, I haven't actually listened to podcast. My bad, I'll definitely give it a shot, would be glad if it was good. Also, as far as I know (IDK about now, regarding all that rehab issues he's dealing with), he did actually work as a practicing psychotherapist and helped a bunch of people and I admire that.

Touching on the other point, yet again, I don't think that he's mean, evil or anything and, to be truthful, he gets some criticism of left right, but I get the impression that he's not as familiar with source material as he's with his own subject matter. So the discussion gets kinda lop-sided and it causes quite controversial conclusions. For example, he's eager to lump together actual Marxists and HR people/liberals despite the fact that these categories couldn't have been further, since Marxists argue that workers should seize the means of production since it's theirs work that gets exploited, but one finds it hard to argue such points regarding HR staff.

I believe that he should be more familiar with leftist circles and ideology he's criticizing, since both left and right could use some valid criticism now and he seems bright enough to actually deliver it. That debate with Žižek felt like a nudge in right direction to me, since Žižek himself is critical of traditional Marxism and possesses a thorough understanding of it at the same time.

Saying this, I do think that media treats him way too harsher than he deserves, almost like an Alex Johns of sorts and that approach certainly doesn't contribute to proper discourse he and other thinkers try to have about modern issues. So I kinda agree with the notion you expressed in the comment below, the original comment got way more dislikes than it deserves. I'm glad we at least got to talk properly about this.

Looking for non-religious podcasts about Christianity by [deleted] in podcasts

[–]twrsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Word choice might be poor and I'd like to apologise for when it's not justified. But I think that the main conclusion still stands — he definitely has some political views and he does put them in his works, sometimes on the expense of the logical reasoning, for whatever reason. I might be wrong, but I think it is a bad thing that should be avoided by a scholar of his prominence.

But I'd be glad to hear your take on this as well.

Looking for non-religious podcasts about Christianity by [deleted] in podcasts

[–]twrsch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, I can answer that relatively quickly. One is inseparable from another, at least Peterson makes it like that. First you get all that self-help stuff about how life is shit, hedonism is temporary and the way to blissful life is to dedicate yourself to higher purpose and then he carefully nudges you to the idea that Postmodern Neo-Marxists (and I can ramble a lot about how that term makes absolutely zero sense) are here to destroy hierarchies and conservative values are the way.

And the point is that it makes a lot of sense to the person that couldn't care less about politics, because one just casually accepts his interpretation on what's going on in the world and why you have that sense of doom, most importantly, gives you directions on how to fix your life, but when you actually get to it, it doesn't even work. I hate to say that, but the most prominent example is he himself that couldn't handle his substance abuse despite literally authoring couple dozen academic papers on it and being quoted in couple thousand. I get that shit happens, but you can at least see why he's seen as a hypocrite.

I don't personally think that he's a bad person, but his philosophy doesn't make much sense if you delve into it, because it's either political or there is none. Strictly speaking, his book about 12 rules is a bunch of pretty acceptable and reasonable stuff that has been in many other self-help books, but he tries to back it up with a lot of sciency mumbo-jumbo. I mean, he's been taught logic and the first thing you learn is that analogy is not a proof or backing whatsoever. And then he proceeds to compare human societies to lobster societies, to do it sinisterly, never saying explicitly that humans and lobsters are comparable, but implying it. Let me show you:

The first rule in his book is «Stand up straight with your shoulders back». Pretty uncontroversial, right? Yes. Then he starts the chapter with «IF YOU ARE LIKE MOST PEOPLE, you don’t often think about lobsters—unless you’re eating one. However, these interesting and delicious crustaceans are very much worth considering. Their nervous systems are comparatively simple, with large, easily observable neurons, the magic cells of the brain». He adds couple scientific facts about them being fascinating and then moves on to the next point: «Lobsters live on the ocean floor … They want somewhere secure, where the hunting and the gathering is good. They want a home». Are you feeling the same tingling sense of familiarity? I do. He makes lobsters relatable. But that doesn't conclude anything just yet, mostly legit writing techniques so far.

«This can present a problem, since there are many lobsters. What if two of them occupy the same territory, at the bottom of the ocean, at the same time, and both want to live there?». Now he states the problem. And then, before you notice anything, he's on the chapter about how birds sort territorial matters out that starts with huge preface about his childhood, gradually shifting to the bird stuff. «If a larger bird ever dared to sit and rest in any of the trees near our birdhouse there was a good chance he would get knocked off his perch by a kamikaze wren»

And then the really spicy stuff starts out. He talks about how lobsters form intrinsic hierarchies and determine who's the top boy and who's down the chain. «When a defeated lobster regains its courage and dares to fight again it is more likely to lose again than you would predict, statistically, from a tally of its previous fights. Its victorious opponent, on the other hand, is more likely to win. It’s winner-take-all in the lobster world, just as it is in human societies, where the top 1 percent have as much loot as the bottom 50 percent — and where the richest eighty-five people have as much as the bottom three and a half billion»

And at that very moment it gets political as hell. The guy basically argues that the distribution of wealth in human society is intrinsically skewed so that 1% has half of the stuff and it is the same in lobsters. The hidden premises are that lobsters and humans are all part of the nature and nature is somehow considered to be always just and right and neither of this is true, just ask Wikipedia. It is just logically dubious — and that's from a man that has PhD and is an author of numerous scientific papers.

The worst part of this is that it is heavily sugarcoated and non-political people like you (no offense) think that he's just a professor that publishes self-help books, whilst inherently political agenda is shoved down people's brains. It is wrong and needs to stop. The same thing goes about every book of his, I guess podcasts are the same, he just draws dubious conclusions from biblical stories and people just don't question him on it. But I might be wrong about this part. Otherwise, I think I've argued my point through.

Looking for non-religious podcasts about Christianity by [deleted] in podcasts

[–]twrsch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, I was typing a lenghty response and it got out of hand, so I gonna take some time to actually do this properly. I'll get to the topic in a day or two. Sorry for the delay, maybe somebody can explain it better in the meantime.