It’s like free advertising for Nintendo.
eh, a lot of people have been Pokémon fans since childhood before they gave very much thought to such things as “advertising” or “copyright” or “corporations”, and we find things like this entertaining. I think I may even have watched some of that channel’s videos at some point, though am not sure whether I may be confusing it with another one.
If we’re going to wildly speculate, hey, isn’t this what we have AI for nowadays?
I asked ChatGPT: “give me ideas what the abbreviation WLBR might stand for if that is the name of a piece of image editing software”. Here’s the result:
Most image tools (like Photoshop, GIMP, etc.) don’t strictly spell out acronyms anymore—they use:
So something like:
WLBR = “WaveLight Brush & Render”
feels believable without being overly literal.
(end of ChatGPT response)
Out of these, I think “Workflow Layer-Based Retoucher” works best. But interesting that ChatGPT thinks “GIMP” doesn’t “strictly spell out” an acronym anymore, or that “Photoshop” ever did?!
Is WLBR supposed to be an abbreviation for something? I realize it is a reference to the mascot Wilber, but apart from that?
OSM is just a geographical database. It by itself doesn’t have any user-facing features at all. If there are such features somewhere, they are features of a specific frontend to that database.
I don’t think there’s a way to do what you want directly on openstreetmap.org but you can achieve your goal with https://overpass-turbo.eu/ for example.
not what the article says, the article specifically says:
The age-verification process will be implemented globally,
Why would you expect routing software to route somewhere that no path is mapped?
As for public transport routing, I explained this here https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/50719308/22594280 a while ago.
Absurd that we need YouTube for that. In an ideal world, YouTube would be a backend service with an open API which there would be dozens of different apps for, with different features, including maybe this one… but I suppose you can’t make money with an ideal world…
As long as Google is doing a better job maintaining AOSP than a nonprofit would, what’s the point?
If they ever stop doing so, then this might be an option.
Wdym “suddenly”? Checking my user profile on hexbear it appears that my posts to lemmy.zip communities have been federating there for a long time. Your instance doesn’t seem to defederate them, don’t know if it ever did; mine certainly doesn’t and I don’t remember a time when it ever did.
Thanks for the tip, currently I usually get what I want from DDG and Google (almost never use any others), but if I ever become dissatisfied I might try it.
Why is this anti-feature there on first place?
I thought it was there because otherwise, single page applications (e.g. Angular) wouldn’t have a functioning back button? Am I misunderstanding this?
The least tech-savvy people don’t use Windows, but Android or iOS, where Bing isn’t the default search engine. (Slightly more tech-savvy ones may also use Chrome on Windows.)
As a tech-savvy person I still use Google a lot because DDG just doesn’t give equally good results much of the time. There are many web pages that are indexed by Google, but not DDG.
It’s a fairly widespread Internet meme, I think in order to make fun of France, though I’m not sure exactly where it originated.
Oh come on. I dislike copyright law as much as anyone, but this just makes the case against it look stupid.
See also: Windows Live, Surface, 365
I still wonder why video is about the only thing for which a restricted format is still the “industry standard”?
We nowadays take photos in JPEG or WebP format, draw raster images in PNG or WebP format, vector graphics in SVG format, our documents are PDF or OOXML or ODF or HTML, all of which are (at least technically) open standards. Video is the only thing that still mostly runs on formats with restrictive patents.
Ok, books might not be what you want for children who can’t read yet though. 😉
Are there no mobile apps available with human-curated collections of children’s videos?
YouTube is not going to be a place where you’re going to have any reliable quality control. It’s literally (by design) videos uploaded by anyone on the Internet. That’s not by itself a problem, but the idea that it’s a good way to keep very small children entertained is definitely not one I would agree with.
Plenty of countries are constitutional monarchies (e.g. the Scandinavian countries, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain), that nowadays has relatively little to do with what any of their government policies are… plenty of republics do plenty of primitively stupid things too…
Steam says, out of those I have in my library there, Rocket League. But it’s relatively closely followed by GTA 5, which I’ve also played on a console (those hours wouldn’t be counted there), so I suspect that that’s the real answer overall. GTA 5 is just a wonderfully deep game with an entertaining story where you can almost never run out of things to explore.
It’s possible that Pokémon FireRed or Emerald has even more, that was too long ago for me to know for sure.