The actual webview that is dead https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/maps

This fork is active and fixes stuff if something is broken, so at the very least it will be alive a little longer. Last release was 5.0, 2 months ago, with fixes for street view.

Gmaps wv is a dead project

Meh, not really. It is absolutely not dead for my usecase, for example. You still have streetview to some extend, still more full information about some places compared to OpenStreetMaps, photos, reviews of places, sometimes more correct pathways. So not exactly dead project.

It will become dead once google will entirely block anonymous access ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Google is actively breaking anonymous access to gmaps, so those things are also breaking

Yes, I am aware of that, but until google completely make not possible to use their maps anonymously — something akin to gmaps webview will have its use.

Contirbuting to open-source, open data and so on!

For example, why not contribute to OpenStreetMaps? You will help others and also will be going around your city more, possible discovering more interesting stuff :)

Or why not contribute to OpenFoodFacts? Adding prices, updating data, fixing wrong data - so much fun! And useful.

Or did you know that there is open review system, including places on openstreetmaps, companies, books? https://mangrove.reviews/ It is notably used in CoMaps. You can check plaes that you had been in and inform people about good/bad aspects of said place!

And more! Making world a slightly better place together.

• gmaps wv is out of development for 4 years now and doesn’t work very well anymore.

There is actually active fork of gmaps webview, which works fine (for now anyway): https://github.com/woheller69/maps

That is great, keep on on keeping on!

I don’t agree that german is a beautiful language

I recently got a chance to talk here, on Lemmy, with a German, who describe German language as, and I quote:

“But german itself sounds like two machine-guns having sex.”

for all its Artikel and grammatical complexity

For people who are already know languages that are gendered and quite complex (which is true for… Quite a lot of languages actually) this is not a hard part. Most of the stuff is already exist in other languages in one way or shape. You just need to wire concepts from your language to German, which surprisingly is working, for the most part.

The problem is, that most of this concept in German language does not rely on some logic to follow or consistency, but rather RULES, EXEMPTIONS TO RULES, and remembering everything, because it is the only way.

Example of this is gendered words aka Artikels. You have words Apfel. That’s it. How do you know it is “he”? You don’t, you need to remember. You don’t have anything to guess or using simple solution to deduct gender. There is one oh many rules like “alcoholic beverages are him” with exception of beer because it is “it”. And that is how it work in German language.

Recently we started learning such weird concept as “verbs of moving” which determine if it going to be “ich habe etwas gekauften” or “ich bin nach Hause gekommen”. How to I differentiate? I do not know, but apparently “tanzen” is not about moving, despite the idea of dance is to move, so it is “habe”, not “bin” ☹️

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I don’t know how they are known in English speaking world, sorry! Also I think majority of people not interested in any of that, so we probably did not lose much in this case.

Can confirm, too. I am not German, just learning it due to my living situation, but this language feels like getting beaten in a dark alley. I though my language is complex on all this grammatical, syntax and so crap, but nope.

Ahh, okay, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Seems like Ukrainian did changed slightly from this times, hehe. But this one is not that highly known or popular, I would say. You here can much often hear about УПА and Правий Сектор.

Can you perhaps send a picture it? I maybe remember seeing it somewhere.

Ukrainian anarchist flag?

While cellwriter is long dead, it is still fairly working.

It just requires you to use X11 session and programs. In some distribution (especially on distributions where maintainers patch cellwriter) it might eve somewhat work under Wayland sessions. Ad, also, it requires you to manually build your own database for each individual symbol. Program does not come with ready-to-be-used set of symbols.

As for recognition quality, especially for multi-language with different writing set (e.g. Cyrillic and Latin) scenarios, and general usability… Uh, not that great, even when program does work.

(I, as original poster, also was looking for a solution, but to this day never found one. This is one of things where Linux suck ass.)

I could chip in. (Even if 9 days later)

Anyone else have similar experiences?

Yes. I went with this experience, at the very least, twice, during 2014 and 2022. It is just how it is.

Yes, bombs are falling, people who you happened to know are dying (think like your classmates who you never talked to), your favourite places getting erased from a face of the Earth.

But what else there? Unless everyone going to wake up and do something with anything — things will stay like that for a long time. And since world still functioning, almost like it used to, you still need to learn, love, work, stuff like that. War does not stop that, for better or worse.

I can not say, if that how it should be, however. I can not recommend anyone being in wars.

Nope.

syncthing: Kommando nicht gefunden

As far I am aware - there is no other packages related to syncthing is avaliable in distro repositories and this one not included by distro by default.

UPD: there also appears to be syncthing-tools package in repos, but it is also not included in mine system by default and I never installed it myself.

The only trace of Syncthing on my system is… well, from that flatpak. And unless I missunderstund how any of that works, syncthing is included in flatpak and you can look for it in its manifest file: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy/blob/a786450f1305474e71c1f33c468ff3dc5758e238/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy.yml#L42 It takes syncting release from https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases and adds it to build process.

Maybe this is true for SteamOS, but I am mostly was replying about “great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks”. I use immutable Distro, there is maintained syncthing available as Flatpak, and i did not experienced any problems related to using immutable distribution with syncthing specifically, so eh.

without relying on unmaintained flatpaks

https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy, this one has separate support for Steamos

Well, that actually is kinda simple. Ein Auto means “a car” (any car, not yet specified) Das Auto means “the car” (a particular car that’s known or already mentioned) Makes sense?

No, because I did not really learned this in English, for reasons of not understanding articles as a whole. My languages does not really makes such difference, I think. Maybe technically somewhere else, but not practically. If I am talking about “Apple”, I talk about “Apple”, not “a” or “the”, just Apple.

Makes sense?

No… Even our books have this examples, where sentences are with “the” article.

Honestly, if I’d be Zelensky, I would want to stop my people pissing off to other countries and would require passport-updates every year or they get void forever. That might make people consider twice :-(

You are not that far away from reality.

Yikes. And 2000 (after tax) is not achievable with McDonalds & Co. And the usually best chance like Ukranian-speaking support is probably REALLY saturated here right now :(

Yeah, and I am not even sure what my options are, so eh. Nicht so gut.

I thought this mostly applies to our far-east-immigrants, they segregate and want their own culture but with german privileges not in their own repressive state. I actually know more russians online than i’ve ever met here, so i have no educated opinion on their desire to segregate :-)

People who were born in USSR, quite often have this odd desire to return it back. I even had some experience to talk with 2 of such people when I come to Germany this year. I would say, that if they raised their kids with such mindset — then it continue to going on for longer.

But it is, probably, might be just the strong feeling of being alone or alien? Even if you learn language on very good level and be able to navigate new world — it still might feel alien. Of course, this new world might be better, but nostalgia is addictive sometimes, to the point of not being able to accept it fully.

Btw, you hate russians per se now? All russians i am in contact with have absolutely no problem with ukranians and despise the stupid war.

It might get long and ranty reply, so feel free to skip it, but it might get complicated.

In general, I do not hate them, but I am cautious. Even “despise the stupid war” might not mean the same thing for you versus Russian person.

In cases like that, I would like to ask WHEN RUSSIA started war against Ukraine. And the answer is, at the very least, is 2014 (although there were some “ringing balls” as early as 2003 year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Tuzla_Island_conflict or even earlier), when they annexed Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Should I, also, mention, that in one of this regions was my hometown-birthtown? I had not seen it in 12 years, and never will again. And as bonus — Russia turned everything into shit that was good about this place.

If answer is not 2014, then it is very likely that person that you talking to — either supports it, or not considering it to be bad thing. And their against full-scale invasion only because they got their shit kicked by some subhuman “hohols”, their “little brothers”.

Or you could ask “To whom Crimea belongs to?”. Answers to that question can reveal many things about this person, sometimes, you would wish not knowing the answers.

As for my experience talking and being friends with them… It is also mixed bag. I remember being called “hohol” or having heard that Ukrainian is “Funny language” (without further explanation what does that even means) or “It is just dialect of Russian” too many times even before 2014 year.

Before 2022, I had been in active contact with 3 Russians, that I was friend with for some years.

One told me, that Ukraine is Nazis and that Russians are doing right thing. Also they told me that my home should be hit with “Kindzal” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-47M2_Kinzhal

Another one told me, that we (Ukrainians) are bombing ourselves, and as proof tried to bring videos from “Russia Today” channel, that was already banned from YouTube for Ukraine. Several years later, that friend tried to contact me, saying similar stupid things and trying “let’s not talk about this”. But I almost immediately cut that shit and sent them to fuck off.

Last one was just “I am apolitical” type of person.

I had more friends from there, but I lost contact with them way before, and I am not really want to find out that they either “zetnik” or “apolitical” or whatever. I am already not in the best state of my life.

So… Yeah… I do not really hate them (despite the fact that they are responsible for murdering my sibling and ruining my life; attempting to murder me. Seriously, it is so scare when something fall and explodes, even 20 kilometers away), but I am not exactly feeling very safe around them.

I can’t imagine at all. But I, personally, am really bad at language-learning, and especially bad with forced school-learning. I need my own place and pace.

Sadly, pace here is really fast.

I do not exactly understand when and how one should use “specific” and “whatever” Artikel. Like “das Auto” versus “ein Auto”. I asked teacher after lesson, so she could explain it better next time, and she told me, that she will prepare examples and stuff to learn the difference. But on a next day, she gave me sheet of paper, where she wrote rules and examples, and told me to learn by myself because we have no time to learn this in class. Every day is a new theme.

The funny part is, also, that is mostly my mistake, but I picked the school that does not even have holidays, lol. Expect like 7 days during new year, so I do not even have time to properly rest after all of this der-die-das-Partizip 2-ich-bin-nochmal madness, lol.

Totally. Like me suddenly living in Russia. The only thing I’d understand would be <insert the one slur everyone knows here>. Horrible. Already knowing english helps a ton! That’s the only things where latin helps me sometimes. Understanding other european language’s words sometimes.

Yeah, that is the only reason why I know enough words to say at least something.

Oh yes. They CAN give you anything, but they have to see a reason, like you, AND be in a good mood. Of course you have rights and could fight for it, but…not being native, that’s a lol. And even if, it might take years, and when the decision is made you might be already long gone or already german :)

I even had to witness this. So, you probably aware about the Tegel Berlin airport, that was reworked in… Maybe 2022 or earlier into refugee camp or temporary center before sending people to different states or haim.

This place, for a lack of better words, are shithole. I was living there for a good half a year, and I managed to lost health and my mental state.

But the funny thing is — some people were writing complains to that place, after which “mysteriously” got moved to different place much faster then expected, and, after they were already moved, they started getting mails like:

“Guten Tag We read your complaining, but after that we made check and found out that you do not live in Tegel anymore, so we can not do anything Thank you and good luck.”

already long

All things considering — it is sounds very grim, since being long gone is not yet out of picture :(

So you already did, lucky you. But that’s a mean thing to require. Being drafted means certain death :-(

Yep, this is essentially trap. I managed to move 2 week before it would had been too late for me, so decisions were made very quickly.

Fuck yes, never thought of that. Risk loosing one while not getting the other might end you stateless :-(

The worst part is that I, as refugee, or just in general, very much fucked here without passport. Even getting phone number here is tied to passport and mine visa (in my case, 24 paragraph). Or providing proof that I can legally stay in Germany. Proof which are glued into passport.

How often would you require to get a new one in UA? here it’s 10yrs or so.

I think my passport and ID should be okay up to 203x, but losing it seems to be more likely to happen, however. Or they could add a new law that will do something that will fuck up my life ¯_(ツ)_/¯

They already tried this with passport in ~2024 when they introduced that law, and 1 month before that law was supposed to get started — services refused to give out passports and other documents due to “error in the system”, which mysteriously had been fixed once law gain power. Cute :3

I doubt you’d want that…currently at least, guess the UA isn’t a shithole per se. And probably you don’t want to return to the rest of your home either :-(

If Russia never invaded — I doubt that there would had been that many reasons to move. European Union was very close, Euro integrations, changes here and there. But after 2014 it went into shit (especially for me). It started getting better again (better as in, it it quite good, considering you had ~13% of country just taken from you), but got fucked up in 2022.

I do not have much of my home left. Not much of my family left. No friends from there. No future (it was not like I had bright future even before 2014).

It is either become part of Europe (become German citizen, or other country) or fail miserably and return back, where I will, most likely, slowly fade away, but there would not be anyone to witness that.

How do you get a work-visa? when a company says “WE WANT THIS DUDE! LET HIM WORK HERE!”?

I can not say with 100%, but it is kind of close to this. As far I understand, you need to have certain level of official payment to apply work visa. So, for example, making 2000 or more Euro per month.

But, as far I understand, you can not simple start working in any MacDonalds and earn Visa. And if you will lose your job, you have 2 weeks to find a new one, or visa will be canceled.

And it is also important to not get yourself into job, where they can take advantage of you, knowing very well that you will lose job — you will lose visa. And as you said earlier — while you might be legally right — most likely you would not be able to do anything with that.

And there is already cases when Ukrainians are getting abused here in there, especially in payment amount and workplace safety.

When you are not citizen of a country and you want to achieve something — it is really hard.

I also want to chime in to say, that we love your presence here :>