Marc Tobias
@mtmthemovie.bsky.social
Map search (geocoding) and data crunching. Cofounder @opencagedata. Love cycling in remote areas of the world. 🌎🌍🌏 (alt @[email protected])
Shop's main product was 54.99 Euro and free shipping above 55 Euro. Now they increased prices to 58.99 Euro and guess what? Free shipping above 59 Euro.
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Shop's main product was 54.99 Euro and free shipping above 55 Euro. Now they increased prices to 58.99 Euro and guess what? Free shipping above 59 Euro.
"Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand" "We'd sit there silently, take detailed notes, and send them 10 minutes later."
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Founder Admits His "AI Transcription" Startup Was Just Him Joining People's Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand
Fireflies CTO and co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted that his AI transcription startup charged $100 an hour for notes taken by a human.
futurism.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand" "We'd sit there silently, take detailed notes, and send them 10 minutes later."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Time to activate the "Black Friday" email filter
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Time to activate the "Black Friday" email filter
When you test your code improvements and it's immediately twice as fast in production environment. 😀
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
When you test your code improvements and it's immediately twice as fast in production environment. 😀
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
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YouTube Halloween homepage on October 31, 2007
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
YouTube Halloween homepage on October 31, 2007
Electricity&gas call center workers must deal with a lot of shitty people. (German website, auto-translated)
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Electricity&gas call center workers must deal with a lot of shitty people. (German website, auto-translated)
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I've lately been obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in by giving you you quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your environment and to do a good thing!
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
October 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I've lately been obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in by giving you you quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your environment and to do a good thing!
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Be careful out there
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Be careful out there
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Reposted by Marc Tobias
DST (Daylight savings time) is a regular reminder that time is one of the weirder aspects of geography, and so we thought for this week's #geoweirdness thread we'd consider one of the oddest cases.
Join us for a look at the strangeness of time in India 🇮🇳
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Join us for a look at the strangeness of time in India 🇮🇳
1/
October 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
DST (Daylight savings time) is a regular reminder that time is one of the weirder aspects of geography, and so we thought for this week's #geoweirdness thread we'd consider one of the oddest cases.
Join us for a look at the strangeness of time in India 🇮🇳
1/
Join us for a look at the strangeness of time in India 🇮🇳
1/
Are there any stickers available for Ruby on Rails?
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Are there any stickers available for Ruby on Rails?
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Consultants/aspirational employees often tell business owners:
"Hire me! I've got lots of great ideas for your company."
Business owners (generally) don't need more ideas.
We're domain experts who speak with customers and leads daily. We have plenty of ideas!
What we need help with is executing.
"Hire me! I've got lots of great ideas for your company."
Business owners (generally) don't need more ideas.
We're domain experts who speak with customers and leads daily. We have plenty of ideas!
What we need help with is executing.
September 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Consultants/aspirational employees often tell business owners:
"Hire me! I've got lots of great ideas for your company."
Business owners (generally) don't need more ideas.
We're domain experts who speak with customers and leads daily. We have plenty of ideas!
What we need help with is executing.
"Hire me! I've got lots of great ideas for your company."
Business owners (generally) don't need more ideas.
We're domain experts who speak with customers and leads daily. We have plenty of ideas!
What we need help with is executing.
ROFL, calling a vape "fancy pacifier for adults". bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
bogdanthegeek.github.io
September 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ROFL, calling a vape "fancy pacifier for adults". bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...
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We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
September 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
"Navigating a City Without Street Addresses" (San Jose, Costa Rica) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWf...
September 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"Navigating a City Without Street Addresses" (San Jose, Costa Rica) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWf...
"AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula—No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun" www.wsj.com/business/ent... (archive.ph/7G8C9) "said he hires only people willing to work seven days a week. Of his 40-plus employees, around 30 are ex-founders. His welcome gift to new hires is a mattress to keep at work."
AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula—No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun
To reach the dream of creating a trillion-dollar company, the 20-somethings flocking to San Francisco give up everything but their laptops.
www.wsj.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula—No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun" www.wsj.com/business/ent... (archive.ph/7G8C9) "said he hires only people willing to work seven days a week. Of his 40-plus employees, around 30 are ex-founders. His welcome gift to new hires is a mattress to keep at work."
iphone air: 165g, iphone in my pocket: 167g
September 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
iphone air: 165g, iphone in my pocket: 167g
Title was "My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired" No wonder it took 450.
September 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Title was "My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired" No wonder it took 450.
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Here's the summary thread from that evening https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/113164743858962914
We hope your OSM 21st birthday celebrations are as much fun
#geomobLON
Here's the summary thread from that evening https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/113164743858962914
We hope your OSM 21st birthday celebrations are as much fun
#geomobLON
Geomob (@[email protected])
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1/ Many thanks to everyone who joined us last night for Geomob London.
It was a wonderful evening, a fitting celebration of 20 years of #OpenStreetMap
Here's our summary thread for those who couldn't make it.
#geomobLON
mapstodon.space
August 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Here's the summary thread from that evening https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/113164743858962914
We hope your OSM 21st birthday celebrations are as much fun
#geomobLON
Here's the summary thread from that evening https://mapstodon.space/@geomob/113164743858962914
We hope your OSM 21st birthday celebrations are as much fun
#geomobLON
I like this layout. What I really like is that (in Europe) all toggles are set to disabled by default.
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I like this layout. What I really like is that (in Europe) all toggles are set to disabled by default.
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Still one of our favourite GDR images: East Germany showing off its computers in a Berlin state parade (1987)...
[Image: Thomas Uhlemann, c/o Bundesarchiv]
[Image: Thomas Uhlemann, c/o Bundesarchiv]
August 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Still one of our favourite GDR images: East Germany showing off its computers in a Berlin state parade (1987)...
[Image: Thomas Uhlemann, c/o Bundesarchiv]
[Image: Thomas Uhlemann, c/o Bundesarchiv]
"break things", "google everything", "ride-or-die". Made possible by the camp partners Volkswagen, SAP, Capgemini, Microsoft, T-Systems.
August 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"break things", "google everything", "ride-or-die". Made possible by the camp partners Volkswagen, SAP, Capgemini, Microsoft, T-Systems.
We've seen "please call me asap" and "text me on whatsapp" but "just login to my website" is new.
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We've seen "please call me asap" and "text me on whatsapp" but "just login to my website" is new.