That data is already available. Including torrents.

https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

Perfect. Now all they need to do is set up the redirect.

Every bot is doing something on behalf of a human. Now that LLMs can churn out half-assed bot scripts every "look I installed Arch Linux and ohmyzsh" script kiddie has bots too.

Bots aren't going anywhere.

"Use the web the way it was over 10 years ago plox" isn't going to do it.

Their data is freely available to download. There are weekly dumps of the entire planet and several sources for partial data. There's no need for most legitimate use cases to scrape their API.

So problem is someone is stupid enough scraping without realizing they can just download 100gb at once?

And there are so many of such idiots that it's overwhelming their servers?

Something doesn't math here.

That's exactly the case. It's been an issue for a while.

It's a universal setting. You have to enable it per third-party app, though. You get to choose whether you want to see them listed with WhatsApp chats or in a separate folder

30% of households living in single family homes is not insignificant. In the villages outside the large cities there's plenty of space to charge your car at home and an increasing amount of solar on the roof.

Not being able to access the web interface where you have to manually upload a new certificate due to HSTS and the old certificate having expired a couple hours ago...

I've been told that since the privatization, the funding was split between DB paying for maintenance while the state provided funds for replacement and new lines. Allegedly this provided an incentive to let things deteriorate until they needed replacement.

Projects are planned, coordinated and funds allocated far in advance, so if the government can't agree on a budget and projects are shelved or canned, restarting the process causes a significant delay.

To clarify: Deutsche Bahn is still 100% government owned. It operates both its train service and the railroad infrastructure in fully owned subsidiaries.

And that's exactly what's not reflected in management success metrics. They are basically incentivized to steal from their owners through systematic neglect, what could possibly go wrong.

I think it's only possible to understand German politics in two ways: either nobody in politics understands incentives, or they understand incentives much better than the voters and are fully exploiting this fact.

No need to place it anywhere on the incompetence/malice spectrum when it can be perfectly occamed with design by committee.

Same situation in Sweden.

It's a running joke in Stockholm that tracks, trains, signals, and people are owned/employed by 4 different entities

They can, but the list of "if..." and "it depends..." is much longer and complicated, especially when getting to the part how the obtained information may be used

Last time I had enabled RCS I received a flood of "DHL needs your address" and "Mom I have a new phone number" scams from the UK and the Philippines. So far I'm not aware of anything useful I've missed out on by not having it enabled.

What do you gain from compiling it yourself and never updating versus picking the binary you consider done and never updating that?

For the curious, look up BSI TR-03124 eID-Client and BSI TR-03130 eID-Server for technical implementation, available in English.