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Enby climate justice activist & software developer. Pronouns they/them (dey/deren in German).

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Isn’t anyone gonna comment that in the picture there’s a flying end of a bed on the wall??

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This is quite centered around hetero dudes, which I find sad.

What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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Can’t relate. It’s not harder to get your hands on a matrix account in comparison to a mail account. And for those that want it even easier, just download Element and you are guided through the default registration at matrix.org

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Lol

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FlorisBoard (at least the beta) is getting there (swiped on FlorisBoard), though it’s not quite there yet

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I mean, you could also just self-host 🤷

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Well it seems they don’t publish a signing key, so that’s a good reason against it.

Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....

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I’ve been using metager for some while and really like it. They’re also part of an initiative pushing for a free as in freedom search index, so that’s nice

StromAmpel: An application using an AZ-Delivery ESP8266MOD 12-F to display the current electricity mix for Germany in a traffic light kind of way (codeberg.org)

Inspired by this Mastodon account, I programmed an ESP8266 microcontroller to act as a traffic light, indicating the current electricity mix. Check it out on Codeberg! It uses an API from the Fraunhofer Institute and the parts cost around 5€. In my shared flat we use it as an indicator on when to run demanding devices, like...

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By saying that it cost around 5€ I meant that the material to build this cost me around 5€. I would happily set them up for free if one gave me the material for free, but the microcontroller and so on do cost some money.

The API and (of course) the source code are free (as in freedom, being AGPL licensed). And since I did my best to document it well and provide easy to follow instructions in the README, I do think I managed to make it free as in freedom.

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In my understanding a problem often is that electricity isn’t used when renewable electricity sources can provide it. One solution to this is storing it, another (complementary) one is to adjust the usage to times when there is a lot of renewable energy available. This especially makes sense for big consumers (like factories), but a lot of washing machines also sum up to a lot of electricity demand. So we have to adjust to mainly use electricity when it’s available via renewable sources, and this thing can hopefully help with that.

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Just use librewolf or any other installation method

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries (www.science.org)

This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity. Ocean acidification is close to being breached, while aerosol loading regionally exceeds the boundary. Stratospheric ozone levels have slightly...

Why should sustainable investments make sense?

So let’s assume that there was an easy way to make a sustainable investment by investing into a great fond. So in this hypothetical fond only shares from truly great companies exist. Why should this make sense from a sustainability perspective? Unless the companies in that fond are selling their shares for the first time, the...

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That isn’t it (wanted to change to Timber 🏳️‍⚧️⚫🟣⚪🟡

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Ok so apparently it didn’t like my emojis. I was able to change it to Timber, but not Timber 🏳️‍⚧️

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Ah I should have added I’m looking for an android app

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That looks perfect, thanks!

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