Its a rack mounted rack without the server.

This is what i never understand about attempts at P2P hosting of copyright content. It only works BECAUSE its obscure and irrelevant. As soon as it gets popular, all of these people and their VPN providers would get crushed by lawsuits.

Dont get me wrong i love P2P tech, but it will never solve these issues unless the laws are fixed.

Which in turn means discord must be able to harvest all the data otherwise it wouldnt be able to connect.

Yeah but it demonstrates googles unwillingness to cooperate and give fair warnings.

And its still better :)

Gotta make space for dat AI stuff ya know. Cuz thats the future n shit.

Well it depends on the resolution and compression, but storing a city worth of satellite images would probably be in the many GB range.

Nope, its desgined for offline use, which is just not compatible with huge image files. I dont know what source they would use for sat images, but that would probably complicate things a lot either way. Also if you load sat image tiles from a webserver, then that server/provider will also always know your location.

Is the current generation of street view still just snapshots from different positions with a 360° camera? I thought it was proper 3D scans with images mapped onto it by now. I admit i havent actually used it in years.

But yeah if its just isolated 2D images then its probably not as much as i thought. The processing would still be tough i think but i dont know enough to even guess that properly.

I think doing small scale demonstrations would be cool. The community would probably be able to learn and improve from it a lot and eventually it could be scaled up.

Even the internet archive is nothing in comparison to the image data used for street view.

Its of course totally “technically” possible, but it would require some veeery generous donations from some pretty rich people.

Even if you get people to use their phones to just record everything around them, geo-tag it and upload it. All that data would still have to be stitched together by some big ass GPU cluster that does things that currently only big tech companies can do properly at scale.

Gathering street view like data, processing it, running the service and keeping it up to date would require millions if not billions of dollars/euros in capturing equipment, server farms, wages, electricity, lawfirms.

If you want something thats compareable to the google service, its entirely impossible to do it with a project structure like osm has.

Even if someone had the funding to get started, they would most likely get bought out by google or apple or microsoft very quickly once they got comparable results.

Idk if that would hold up in court. This law is completely dependant on the technical competence of the judges that will use it. It can be worthless, it can be strong.

Afaik it was the client implementation, the encryption logic is the same just redone in a different language.

The issue i had was that when using unstable network connections(mostly mobile) it would miss one message or something like that and all following messages wouldnt be decryptable.

This seems to be the version where the switch happened https://github.com/element-hq/element-android/releases/tag/v1.6.0

This was fixed for me since the rust crypto implementation for matrix last year.

thats understandable but at least use something searchable that has tagging capabilities and is archivable so that you can come back to it years later