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Hi! I've recently made a shade calculator specifically for climbs in North wales:

https://connies.club/shade/12083/holyhead-mountain

It's important for me to use accurate height-maps as (obviously) the terrain is very three dimensional.

Are you using the public LiDAR data as well?


Would just like to say thank you so much for this tool! Ended up finding a quieter park to watch the eclipse last night.


A while back I had the same feeling and hypothesised about a "nutriscore" for AI content in media:

https://disclosure.launchbowl.com/ https://launchbowl.com/ai_nutriscore

I think AI images can enhance a blog article as long as the reader is fully aware and trusting that it's just the auxiliary material to the blog has been generated, not the main body of value.


https://launchbowl.com/

It's the only domain I haven't let expire. It's been many things but now it's a digital garden! Lots of loose threads and random thoughts, all half baked haha.


I had a day-dream about nutrition labels for generative works, I made this site to feel it out:

https://disclosure.launchbowl.com/

A little cool tech detail, I didn't want a backend or to store the information of people's reports anywhere. To get around the requirement, I made the form deterministic and populated on load from a data stream of bits (form is made from booleans or bitfields) from a decoded base-64 query parameter. A cool side-effect of this approach is I can update the query parameter in the URL in real-time as you fill out the form so if you reload it remembers your form without any local storage or cookie use!


They're used quite frequently in the UK in bars/pubs where there are several people serving drinks and (I assume) there's some metric tracking by management on till use.


They're used in various hackerspaces around the world for membership administrivia .. Metalab in Vienna, for example, uses them as a door lock mechanism ..


Woah! The world really works in mysterious ways. I've found myself thinking in this space a lot recently. I've been working on a pager that takes the notifications from my phone and relays only the ones I want to see. I use LTE-M/NB-IOT to get connectivity anywhere and the device works and I'm looking to find a way to get a pcd/case made..

Landing page (doesn't link to anything): https://fob.launchbowl.com/

A little word dump of thoughts at the start of the journey: https://launchbowl.com/e_ink_pager

Your project seems really cool and allows you to bring your own hardware. Out of curiosity, have you blocked all notifications on your phone? Would this be run on your computer? Would you ever move in the direction of a physical device?


I'd love to get a real pager again too. But not LTE-M based because that's still a two way system so I can be traced.

I just have a pretty strong desire to get my anonymity back when I want it. Not because I need it but just to feel free again.


US: <http://www.pagersdirect.net>

I have and use one, partially for the reasons you list above.

[•] Not a representative of the company, just a very happy customer.


I'm in Spain, unfortunately there's apparently not s single pager network remaining :( Some other EU countries still have them but not here.

Thanks for the tip though!


Heh, that is exactly why I kept UDP-7777 passive. It listens on 0.0.0.0 but sends zero telemetry and requires no "online" status packet. Unless you hit ACK (which sends a packet back), you are a ghost.


Just took another look at your work, and your LTE-M project looks incredible. The e-ink aesthetic is exactly right for this. I've fantasized about building some apps for e-ink displays (wanted to drop BrowserBox in a remarkable tablet, etc), but haven't yet. Here I stuck to desktop/software for v1 to solve the immediate 'screen fatigue' issue, but I'd love to see a world where physical tokens like yours replace the smartphone notification center.

Yes, I block all the notifications on the phone. I leave badges for some apps and check when I want, or just periodically check when it's in my rhythm. (A few people have exceptions). It runs on computer now, but the next step is I want to test if mobile could be achieved without a server (I'm okay with a Tailscale/ZT requirement or such, for now). Aside from that I would love physical infra. If it could work such that it piggy-backed off existing infra, at first, might be good approach. Someone should do this. I don't know if it's us, but it should be created.

If anyone would like to discuss these possibilities, please reach out at pager@dosaygo.com


Yes! I really want a physical device for things like this. It's cool we are both thinking about it: independent invention. That is a sick website. Love the design!


I am also here for an LTE-M pager… I have no POCSAG coverage anywhere near me… that would be a very nice little design.


Feels very similar to Digital Gardens - something I've been doing to hit all the same points! (Shameless plug to mine as an example https://launchbowl.com)

This product does provide a bit more of a structured approach without any of the self-hosting/coding difficulty which I think would have a wider market appeal.


Ha! Very cool! I did not know about the community/idea of Digital Gardens! From my quick glance, it seems close to a lot of my thoughts. I like what you have done with Launchbowl! The part about linking multiple posts together is something I swear by for personal writing & note-taking on Anytype. Graph is a very efficient way to process a lot of connected information!

Thank you! Yes, Jottings was built for anyone, even with no tech experience, to set up and have a site where they may post their thoughts to the world.


This is the first time I've read this but have personal experience similar. A few of my single page, gone nowhere, projects are seeing ~2k views a month. They're seeing zero traffic through google in that same period so no idea where it's coming from?


How recently? Because a ton of my current day traffic is LLM scraper activity.


This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently! My friends group all seem burnt out by the direction social media is going, with what you're building seeming like a better return to the norm. Will follow along to see your progress!

One thing that kept tripping me up when thinking about this was pricing - everyone is so conditioned to think that social media is free that this will be a huge hill to overcome. Your pricing, although I think if done right feels very fair, instinctively makes me recoil a bit.


Yeah, even calling it anything close to "social media" turns some people off. And most people are totally fine using group chats or DMs — which are free, for now.

It felt weird paying for email after using Gmail for so long. Even now, most people do not care enough in order to justify paying for it. This feels similar.

We can't afford to offer free-forever accounts to everyone - not without compromising on principles. But we are thinking of ways to make it more accessible at least for some people. Open to ideas!

The "social media" baggage, and the pricing bit you pointed, those are definitely the two biggest challenges imo. If this was not something we needed and used ourselves, we probably wouldn't have built it.


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