Yeah search is definitely lacking I noticed as well. You need to give a specific address then it finds it. I would guess at least partly it’s because they don’t track you. Also some apps built on OSM are better than others for this.

I’m also annoyed that countries’ borders are not obvious in OSM as the name of the country is not emphasized well enough and the outlines sort of blend together, there’s also too many cities displayed. I have found this also to be the case in Cartes and Facilmap

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https://www.404media.co/google-maps-lake-america-lake-ontario-name-change/ more about this for those that live under a rock

It was unclear in the days immediately following the order whether Google would respect the name change. MapQuest, the 1996 navigation service that still exists but most people stopped using in the early 2000s as Google Maps took over, went viral last week after posting a screenshot of Lake Ontario on X, saying “We’re not changing it.” MapQuest also launched a “Rename Lake Ontario” web toy.

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Google follows the U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which formally changed the name for ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ in the United States, according to Google’s announcement about the change, posted Saturday: “Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Lake America,’ those in Canada will continue to see ‘Lake Ontario,’ and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out now.”

I’d feel safer with Chinese electronics in all honesty.

Don’t let recency bias cloud over your judgement.

Yep and that’s not a good thing. Makes idiots such as Doug look good and people are more likely to overlook his past actions because we have a new idiot in town.

What /s ?

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I even have an account and have access to the article.

If you sign up they let you read it for free. But yes archive link is good to provide as most will not bother to sign up

Actually forgot to link it 🤦

It’s a site where you ask questions and people (hopefully experts) answer. That was the main idea behind it. But it was filled with garbage, unhelpful answers and it just went downhill.

Also yeah the fact that Reddit is more popular than Youtube is really weird to me and I don’t quite believe it.

How the hell is Quora more popular than youtube … huh ? Who in their right mind still uses Pinterest and Quora???

If you hear ai generated convos they sound pretty brain dead (unresponsive, no idiosyncrasies) so far.

Idk… I think they’re getting pretty good. A year or so back I tried notebooklm’s podcast feature with 2 people I was shocked how realistic the generated sample was. But maybe you’re right this does seem a level up.

at least it won’t require passport for signing up anymore lol

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/china-s-popular-youtube-alternative-bilibili-relaunches-app-with-english-support-globally/

The popular Chinese alternative to YouTube, Bilibili, with around 376 million monthly active users, has confirmed plans to expand more aggressively outside China. The company has relaunched its international app for Android and iOS, and removed the previous requirement for overseas users to provide identity documents such as a passport.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/china-s-popular-youtube-alternative-bilibili-relaunches-app-with-english-support-globally/

Bilibili is also expanding its international presence with hiring in markets including Japan, the United States, and Europe. A new X account aimed at global creators has said that Bilibili is “going global” and that the US and Chinese versions will offer the same content

Is it a lot? I know it’s relative and does add up but that’s like 2 coffees.

Yeah I tried MetaGer some time ago but didn’t hook me in, can’t remember why

Reverse image search? no

Regular search for images ? yeah they have a couple of providers for that https://uruky.com/docs/search-engine-providers

EUSP is the joint venture company (a business partnership between Ecosia and Qwant). Staan is the product (the actual search index/database) developed by EUSP to provide the data.

I just refer to EUSP index 🤷

It’s not just for AI.

Ecosia / Qwant have been integrating it but afaik now only for Germany / France (for now) https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/ so other people shouldn’t have access to it through them

Yeah it took some time getting used to but now I really don’t mind it. Just had to turn on favicons in settings.

Depends on the search index you use. I think EUSP is better than bing (which is what DDG and Qwant uses or used) or at least it’s close. The good thing I like about Uruky, that was mentioned in article, is you can cycle through the available indexes rather easily and on top of that use 3 web fallback engines so if you can’t find something you can always go to ecosia / qwant with 1 button click and your search query will be auto-inserted there.

Wait … EndeavourOS? That’s arch linux, a PC operating system. Did you confuse something?

Samsung hardware Fairphone sustainability / repairability Pixel / GrapheneOS privacy Chinese prices

Dream phone of mine.

Would love to see them offer a flagship phone. I usually prefer to buy the best thing available at the time and then forget about phones for the next 5 or so years. Ideally also would be great if they were to focus harder on privacy and eventually I could install GrapheneOS on them, but that’s not happening either :(