[-] george@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

I was on vacation recently and Apple Maps gave a weirdly circuitous route from our hotel to a restaurant. I checked Google Maps and it showed the direct route I expected, so I went with that.

Google Maps routed me on to a street that was closed due to construction, Apple Maps was smart enough to route around the construction.

I expect general parity between Apple and Google Maps, I had not expected Apple to have better data.

[-] george@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

What is RTX in this context?

[-] george@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

!shoooms@lemmy.world

[-] george@midwest.social 41 points 1 year ago

Naming a compression scheme “XL” seems like a bad choice.

[-] george@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Here's a Masto post from an ex-employee:

Thinking about making a "I was part of the Tumblr activityPub federation project ask me how it ended" t-shirt and wear it on my PFP here.

The CEO posted this reply to Twitter, acknowledging that Meta had beaten Tumblr to the Fediverse.

Here's a screenshot of a post suggesting it's not a high priority.

[-] george@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I tried that but the app froze

[-] george@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I saw your post on Mastodon, that’s where I found out about it!

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[-] george@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Google’s promotion-pack culture strikes again. You don’t get promoted at Google for “maintaining a successful product and keeping people happy.” You do get promoted for launching a new product, even if it competes with another well-liked Google product.

So if you want to be successful at Google, you launch a new chat service.

george

joined 1 year ago