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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 07/04/2026

So it turns out, users are sending all their authorised session data to Chinese companies, who offer Free endpoints but read/train on our data.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 07/04/2026

Many of the free / cheap Chinese endpoints explicitly say that "model collects prompt and completion data that can be used to improve the model". Now, users use OpenClaw to manage their most private data, like Gmail and give explicit permissions to OpenClaw after they've authorised 2FA.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 07/04/2026

And this is how people happily gave all their 2FA authenticated email sessions to Chinese companies.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 02/03/2026

It can happen that an update is skipped. If you make an automated script, don't hard-code to last weeks' days, simply use the last version available.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 02/03/2026

The Wikidata SPARQL endpoint was timing out and not available on that day. It'll be picked up with this week's run.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 02/03/2026

The current headers say 20260218, I'll have to look into what happened with the 0225 one. Thanks for the report.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 12/12/2025

It's only providing source data for your app/website. You implement whatever you want in your app, using MapLibre libraries for example. But yes, you can absolutely make this app you describe using OpenFreeMap data.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 06/12/2025

This is the state of the art on ChatGPT when asked to create a map (topic was hot springs in Cyprus). I guess interactive maps are safe for now.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/09/2025

I don't know the source code, but OpenFreeMap is probably always the underlying basemap. Some styles add symbols, some do not. You can always copy-paste the symbol layers and make your own JSONs. Have a look at the Custom Styles section here: openfreemap.org/quick_start/

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 11/08/2025

Yes, I posted this as a reply to a comment here. Also, received a lot of bad comments on my blog post, I removed some of them.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 11/08/2025

This is amazing, a beautiful, global terrain layer in PMTiles format! Thank you for making this Oliver @oliverwipfli.ch!

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 11/08/2025

Look, this is the 1st Google result for wplace live, just below the main website. Maybe the majority of users didn't use scripts, but the ones who did are definitely responsible for the load:

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 10/08/2025

Just by donations. Currently they are at $500 per month, which is just enough to cover the infrastructure costs, and a tiny bit more.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 10/08/2025

OpenFreeMap uses OpenStreetMap data, to allow you to add an interactive map to a website or mobile app. OpenStreetMap doesn't allow unconditional usage of their rendered map tiles.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 10/08/2025

Good to know this exists. I wonder what will be the solution in our case.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 09/08/2025

I log into Cloudflare and I see THIS for the last 24 hours. What? 3 billion requests in 24 hours? What on Earth is that? Also, 215 TB of traffic from tiny, 70 kB files? The article continues on my blog: blog.hyperknot.com/p/openfreemap-survived-100000-requests

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 09/08/2025

2025/08/08 23:08:16 [crit] 1084275#1084275: *161914910 open() "/mnt/ofm/planet-20250730_001001_pt/tiles/8/138/83.pbf" failed (24: Too many open files) ... This is weird. I've never seen anything like this. I check nload, and it shows huge traffic.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 09/08/2025

serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this:

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 09/08/2025

OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always,

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 12/07/2025

Is CSS scrollbar-gutter support like totally broken in almost all browsers? This is Chrome. Safari is broken in a different way. I don't want to add JS based scrollbars, but it's really hard to fix this in a cross-platform way.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 19/06/2025

Ultimate marketing flex by Midjourney: 1. Make every user connect with the "Midjourney Bot." 2. Notify 21 million users of a new launch, for free! (Even if they left ages ago.)

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 18/06/2025

Told them about the situation, now waiting for their reply. There is no other option but to cancel it and have it wired.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 03/06/2025

From what I found out, now EU bank is doing this either electronically or in person anymore.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 03/06/2025

What else can I do? Can I send it back to them (by mail) and ask them to send the money by wire transfer / ACH instead?

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 03/06/2025

One US client sent us a USD paper check in the mail, instead of the wire transfer / ACH we'd asked them to use. Now I have this piece of paper for $1100. What can I do with it? I'm in the EU and I have no idea where I can possibly cash or deposit this check.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 30/05/2025

I think the other two scenes might be real, though, recorded with a 360 camera on a selfie stick - a common setup for paragliding videos. There are definitely some questions though... For the full investigation, read the full article here.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 30/05/2025

In this scene, the otherwise black helmet is white, and the perspective falls apart in a strange, distorted way, typical of lower-quality AI-generated videos. Also, here, he is using a sitting harness (legs visible) whereas in the real ones, he is in a pod-style harness.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 30/05/2025

I've been paragliding for 18 years and follow the progress of AI very closely, but even I couldn't say with 100% certainty if this video is real or fake. One scene is definitely fake: the one where the camera makes a move that would only be possible from a drone.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 30/05/2025

It's literally on every news website: CNN, BBC, The Guardian. Now, what makes this story really interesting is the accompanying video. There is one version from The Guardian, which had 300k views in 17 hours.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 30/05/2025

Right now, you might have read the news that a Chinese paraglider pilot, Peng Yujiang, got sucked into a cloud and ended up at 8,598 meters / 28,000 feet.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/05/2025

Perplexity – which I thought would give the best answer as it can research online – gave a totally useless but super-long answer.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/05/2025

o3 also gave a nice answer, explaining that it's a change introduced in iOS 16:

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/05/2025

Claude was absolutely wrong, recommending I use an Apple Watch and even saying that "Your 'apologize and call back' approach is probably the most reliable solution" :-)

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/05/2025

OK, I asked Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3, Claude Sonnet 4, and Perplexity. Gemini gave a perfect answer! It explained why it happens: an accessibility setting was inverted on iOS 16, and many users got caught by this. I personally never touched this, so I'm surprised by its default value.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/05/2025

It always terminates the call for me. These days, I apologize in advance, explaining that I have to pay and will call back in a few seconds. Apple Pay came out in 2014. Why isn't this a solved problem?

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 29/05/2025

Honest question: How do you pay using your iPhone while on a call? I mean the one where I double-click the side button and pay at a cashier?

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 23/05/2025

so the preview image is displayed correctly. This is good for a start, but this will probably need some kind of config value in the future. Adding scheduling and Frontmatter support is the next step. But most importantly, I think I'm happy with it so far. It's working! It's usable from CLI now!

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 23/05/2025

Different handling for X Premium and X Free accounts. X Premium has 25000 max char limit; X Free has 280. Moving the link on X from the first post to the first reply. If there are multiple links, I currently move everything into the first reply, but it might make sense to have one link per reply,

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 23/05/2025

Crossposter final touches Multi-day threads. I can now continue a post after it has been posted. First, I create post1.md, then later as I progress post2.md, etc. After each post, the status is saved into a JSON, and when the next part is posted, it continues the original thread.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 22/05/2025

Adapting to Elon's version of free speech. Interesting to observe this progress as someone from Eastern Europe.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 22/05/2025

Crossposter progress update: I just remembered that I cannot write "Bluesky" on X, the land of free speech. Asked Gemini how to make similar-looking Unicode characters, which look the same but are actually not the same string.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/05/2025

I totally recommend doing it! Once you get back in control of your own content it feels so effortless to write. I never got to write content before as by the time I customized to each platform, I lost all the creative energy.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/05/2025

This AST-based rewrite turned out to be the biggest task so far. Every single part of the app had to be rewritten, but now I have Python TypedDicts for LinkTokens and ImageTokens. It was worth the time - the codebase is really nice to read now.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/05/2025

It supports full Markdown-style links, so the link text doesn’t have to be the URL itself (e.g., https://...), but can be proper HTML-style links with actual text. It's funny, because there's no way to do this using the official web client - but it’s definitely possible via the API.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/05/2025

The biggest issue was that LLMs kept hallucinating it as markdown-it, so I had to double-check and write everything by hand. BTW, Bluesky API is amazing!

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/05/2025

I decided to go all-in and rewrote everything using a proper Markdown AST parser. I had to make a plugin for @handle support, but the mistune library was actually quite nice to work with.

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Zsolt Ero @hyperknot.com · 20/05/2025

Crossposter progress update: I was using regex-based parsing for links, images, @handles, etc. It started out simple but became increasingly confusing as I tried to synchronize this regex-based parsing for Bluesky posts with the optimal splitting code.

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