I will never, ever purchase a book I can't remove the DRM from.
And there are people out there who are absolutely fanatical about book preservation. They will photograph every single page and run it through OCR and recreate an ebook just so it gets preserved. DRM is absolutely pointless and stupid.
Keep the donations coming. IA is worth a million times more to humanity than all of these publishers combined.
I'm not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I'll finally be able to do something else with my time.
This is how you know "pro-states rights" conservatives are lying to you.
They're working hard to make sure piracy provides the best experience.
As an American and long time OSM contributor, I also vote extremely no on Gulf of America.
Also no on renaming New Mexico.
We need a competitor badly.
If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I'll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.
I'm on the "OK but keep an eye on it" train, here.
Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.
I was coding in the IE6 era, so I'd really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.
Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.
I've been editing OSM for years. (896,339 edits in 3,427 changesets, apparently!) For me, it's all about the free data. I once got a thank you note from someone who worked for a city with a particularly large municipal park. I'd added almost all the trails to the park and other information, and they'd used it to produce a printed map for the general public. Exactly the kind of thing I'd hoped for!
Personally, I do a lot of dualsport motorcycling and most backcountry maps around here are subpar. I map tons of trails and 2track and put them on the Garmin so I know where I'm going.
OSM is also great in lots of Europe--tons of detail.
JOSM is great.
Someone just recommended Organic Maps for the phone--it's way snappier than Google Maps, but still not great with finding addresses.
One of our geology grants got hit for mentioning mineral inclusion. Total clown show.