Brutkey

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115973849112167027

It's truly the most mindless thing and symptomatic for the "AI" bullshitters: OSM allows you to just download all the data in nice and simple snapshots. Instead, scrapers use thousands of residential IP addresses to query the service at zero benefit over the data dumps.

The people creating these systems understand as little as the "AI" they create.

heise online English
@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

OpenStreetMap is concerned: thousands of AI bots are collecting data

Bots are said to be harvesting OpenStreetMap data on a large scale. This costs money and endangers the project.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/OpenStreetMap-is-concerned-thousands-of-AI-bots-are-collecting-data-11157359.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #OpenSource #Openstreetmap #news

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

Since the last Android release @CoMaps@floss.social allows using a custom server from which to download map files.

This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.

To make it easier, I wrote a small CLI tool over the weekend that downloads maps of interest & then serves them locally. A first alpha release for testing is on Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/comaps-map-distributor

#OpenStreetMap

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

I partially made this for myself: At home, our internet isn't the fastest, so downloading the identical map files from the internet multiple times, to different devices, is slow and pointless. With this I can download them once and my computer and distribute them from there.

Works for other uses too: if you're on a metered internet connection. Or for folks living in rural communities with no connectivity at all. Being able to distribute the APK and the map files locally can be really great!

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

Since the last Android release @CoMaps@floss.social allows using a custom server from which to download map files.

This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.

To make it easier, I wrote a small CLI tool over the weekend that downloads maps of interest & then serves them locally. A first alpha release for testing is on Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/comaps-map-distributor

#OpenStreetMap

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social

«A lot of management exists in a world where they don't understand exactly what their subordinates are doing. They've relied on listening to people and judging how accurate it sounds. AI is like catnip to these people - it outputs sounds like what a skilled person would say.»

This is too accurate and tells you how useless large parts of the managerial class are.

https://mastodon.social/@panther_modern/115009706024343289