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I just saw the Snikket app appear in F-Droid. As a JMP subscriber, I have a Snikket instance that I currently use with Cheogram. I mostly use it as a person-to-person message app; I am attached to one other person's group on another server, and I don't use groups on my own server. My instance just hosts a handful of accounts.

Is there a use case that would push me toward the Snikket app?

I just ran across a changeset that removed addr:city from a bunch of POIs, on the grounds that it was "redundant with boundary data." Some of these POIs had a Canadian postcode that would indeed imply city, but others had no postcode. The city could of course be calculated by the POI's presence inside the city relation, but I hadn't seen this as a rationale to remove information before.

Would people consider this valid? By extension, should I stop documenting the city when I create a POI; is it considered noise?

I'm still on Pop!_OS 22.04, the last release version. My applications are getting very out of date from being tied to the jammy package repo.

It looks like Pop.next is still in alpha, which suggests it could be 2026 before it's RC. I don't actually like any other distro — I built a new laptop on Mint, which I only tolerate. But I'm getting nervous, and the UIs for enough apps have evolved sufficiently that it's creating some cognitive load to remember how to use both versions (LibreOffice and Evolution stand out).

What have people chosen to do?

the year is 2008. taylor effortlessly uses the singular they in a hook, at a time when probably none of us would have thought of it, in a song about hetero high-school heartbreak.

now they're lighting the world on fire over pronouns. this isn't hollywood. this is a hellmouth.

Sam on Mastodon (linked post) grumbles about the profanity filters on jmp.chat (presumably from upstream providers) and getting messages rejected. I've experienced the same, including having my account blocked if I mistakenly send it twice.

When I inquired, support said they were working on improved "routes" (upstream providers) and that I would be waitlisted for the beta of the new routes. That was months ago and I've heard nothing since.

Has anyone gotten into the beta program, and does it improve the situation? Because sometimes you just don't have two fucks to give.

I might need to switch my phone provider. As much as I've loved having all my messages delivered via #XMPP, jmp.chat's upstream providers decency filter is killing me. I constantly get text messages rejected for using swear words. If you ask they insist that all phone providers do this, but if I copy the same message over to my other provider it sends fine.

Are there any other good VoIP providers (not necessarily with XMPP compatibility, but that would be great) that aren't puritanical?

What is the default chat retention period in Snikket instances provided by JMP? Is it configurable in the admin panel for an instance?

F-Droid just pushed a Molly-UP update that appears to only add a deprecation warning, and that holds the version number below Molly-FOSS.

There are no instructions. The Install link points to the repo, which F-Droid just notes that I already have.

In the past I have completely lost Signal history twice, once from reinstalling Signal itself but it refusing to read the backup, and once from trying to upgrade from Signal to Molly but having a backup versioned in the wrong direction.

Is the safe process for replacing Molly-UP written down anywhere? I would strongly prefer keeping Unified Push, but I feel like I've been told to walk into a dark tunnel.

There's a lot of consternation about the number of services that refuse to register against a JMP number. At the core I suspect it's about information sharing — your carrier will happily give your details to third parties, where JMP doesn't have that information to begin with.

I dealt with this differently. I stopped thinking of my mobile as my 'real' number, but instead as my public one. All personal contacts have my personal JMP number, Signal is registered against my JMP number. Cellular SMS has notifications silenced. When an SMS is important, like when logging into a bank, I know it's coming. No unexpected SMS is welcome.

This works for me because my friends don't use voice, so JMP having metered talk time doesn't matter. But mainly, I don't think of either number as 'real'. I pay for both, and each has its use.

I've tried Magic Earth a handful of times, but each time I dumped it because it marked a street as closed or wrong-way, creating a circuitous detour. There's no such issue in OSM; it simply hallucinated something.

I was testing it so I knew where I was going, but I'm reluctant to rely on it when I really need nav. Have I been supremely unlucky?

I'm away from home and stumbled onto some kind of global net controlled today by a Scottish guy. It was probably 4pm Chicago time, so 2200 UTC. What is that, how is there a global net? I think they said something about EchoLink but I'm new and really only recognize the name but not how it works.

Organic Maps is available on Linux! It's on flatpak and several package repos (but not apt). I don't know how long it's been there — I just discovered it.

The splash screen cautions that this Linux beta doesn't have parity with the mobile apps yet, but it's still a huge leap over Gnome Maps. Vector rendering, so you can zoom in as far as you want, and free / open source / not shitty (notwithstanding the big scary EULA, which just contains all the OSS licenses for all the pieces).