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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I will add as a narrowboater.

    I found towpaths also have this issue with definition of surface.

    I am legally blind. (Some vision but bad)

    I have a few times tried to add more ditail to areas of towpath that will help the others like me know what to expect before mooring.

    Seems anything that improves this will help in your issues as well.




  • Ill add. My now passed grandfather raised me.

    He was a pacifist durimg the second world war. He and many were forced to mine resorces. As they refused to fight. As he was an engineer he was eventually reasigned to other work. Aircraft instrament manufacture at smiths.

    But at no point did he think the UK should just allow germany to take over.

    He just knew he was not able to fight himself. This was a commonf feeling among those conscripted during the second world war. And will always be a risk whe. A mation needs to defend itself from agressors.

    Not all of a nations people are best suited to fight.







  • 6even when recycled the whole process increases the amount of plastics in the air.

    And plastic in general is always going to eventually end up in the enviroment. There is only so many times you can heat and melt plastic before its bonds start to collasps.

    Right from day one recycling was a plastics industries attempt to green wash and delay shut down/ replacement.

    Many better options exist. The only issue is production cost. And that will not improve while corperations continue to use plastic as the cheap solution.

    The industry knew what they were doing when they claimed plastic could be recycled. And need to suffer for the lie that it was a solution to the harm their product dose.





  • Agreed. But unlike one use bottles that can be recycled with limitations.

    The fine plastic coating on these to make them waterproof cannot be recovered. It is like the plastic coating on modern drinks cans. They are almost impossible to prevent the microscopic particles from wear or burning from entering the environment.

    Shops like you’re using are way better. (although having considered opening one,(lacked the cash) avoiding throw away plastic in the shipping is a nightmare. But they tend to do better over all then any other solution.







  • Yeah any reverse engineering of closed source code takes time. It’s a huge job on its own. Adding the need to avoid actions that may lead to legal issues.

    Well yep, It’s very likely this may never round to a perfect replacement product.

    But it still has value. For starters, it will encourage new open source projects to use it rather than the propria try version, long before it’s a direct replacement capable product.

    So the effort is worth some excitement. At least a pat on the back and free beer for some of the guys trying.