![]() There is a learning curve, but the "simulated reflectivity" is a prediction of where it's going to rain. ![]() Great piece of software, and lots of shapefiles available on the Internet to extend it.įor forecasting, I use the College of DuPage forecast tools. I add shapefiles for mPING, lightning, NWS watches, NWS convective outlooks / mesoscale discussions, etc. This page also pulls in official National Weather Service forecasts.)įor radar, I just use GR Level 3. For current conditions, I use my state's mesonet: (Specifically, I bookmark a nearby location. However, the engineers at Google aren't in charge.įor weather stuff, there are a lot of good resources. So our messaging around this is enough to confuse a privacy focused (Google software engineer). "More specifically I *thought* I had location tracking turned off on my phone. "Speaking as a user, WTF?" another employee said, in additional documentation obtained by the Arizona Mirror. Location off should mean location off, not except for this case or that case." Add me to the list of Googlers who didn’t understand how this worked and was surprised when I read the article. "Indeed we aren’t very good at explaining this to users. "Some people (including even Googlers) don’t know that there is a global switch and a per-device switch." >"The current UI feels like it is designed to make things possible, yet difficult enough that people won’t figure it out." Some of them were kind enough to speak out internally about Google's terrible privacy settings, after Google was caught still tracking user location for users who had followed Google's advice on how to turn off location tracking. People suggest that Google is a boogeyman because they have repeatedly broken their promises. >Google’s privacy policies as of Maestablished that no combination between DoubleClick’s advertising data and Google’s personally-identifiable information would take place without the prior consent of its users, but an updated version of those policies subtly allowed the integration of both databases regardless of prior consent of its users Founder Sergey Brin had told Congress it would not combine the personal information, but the company quietly did so in 2016 anyway. Specifically, the way Google combined data from the advertising company - bought in 2007 - with Google's own data. >In today's Big Tech antitrust hearing in front of a Congressional subcommittee, representative Val Demings questioned Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the company's merger with DoubleClick. Sorry, but I still remember Google pinky swearing before Congress that it would never combine the data it had on it's users with the advertising profiles it acquired with DoubleClick. And because Carrot has a fully editable UI builder, it transmogrifies into whatever weather app you like best. ![]() ![]() The live background is fun, and the iPad layout is as much detail instrumentation as most people can handle.īut in my book, DarkSky started it all - the race for precise accurate practical usable micro cell weather, and happy for them they are now getting into so many more hands through the new iOS 16 app. For instance, try to use apps to look at UV graph for next Saturday - few can. It’s now easily third on my list, and would likely be first for most people especially since no subscription fee. I’m a weather geek with ~4 folder panes of 9 apps each, and WeatherNerd is in the “must have” front pane.ĭark Sky used to be my #1, but was superseded by Carrot (which has a Dark Sky feed) for everyday use and Windy.app at storm-prone water front with microclimates and wind/wave/tide patterns, thanks to meteogram-style overlay of competing weather models for precipitation and wind. Used to be best out there for considering travel three months from now. ![]() Has a calendar icon, tap it to see any actual day historically or, if more tham 2 weeks ahead, based on almanac type prediction. ![]()
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