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poVoq, 7 hours ago

www.chuden.co.jp/english/…/1211037_5163.html

Has some technical details on the project in Bavaria. It seems to produce relatively low grade heat used mostly for district heating, with a relatively small ORC power generator.

poVoq, 1 day ago

RSS and ATOM are just a way to format an XML file that can be downloaded from a server. There is nothing special about it otherwise and it is strictly one way as its just downloading a file.

poVoq, 1 day ago

Better air quality, otherwise they are merely not as inconvenient as other types of electric stoves.

But you need to buy new induction capable pots for them and the pulsing heat they make takes some time to get used to.

poVoq, 1 day ago

Akkoma is actually the better choice as it is an improved Pleroma fork

Gotosocial also seems nice.

poVoq, 3 days ago

I was hoping for a RK3588S based one, but I guess the GPU drivers for that are not quite there yet.

poVoq, 4 days ago

Ghorkas keeping with the tradition to fight for imperialist empires…

poVoq, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

You mean “Stunts”, which is an unrelated game, but yes it was awesome back in the day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_(video_game)

poVoq, 5 days ago

I suspect that a community scale anaerobic bio-digester to produce biogas would be more useful in most cases.

poVoq, 5 days ago

The f-droid version should be ok for now, but if you installed this from the malware distribution channel aka the Playstore I would recommend to deinstall them before the next update hits.

poVoq, 6 days ago

Looks like they are playing Frets On Fire 🤣

poVoq, 6 days ago

There are some small co-location data centers like that, but consumer VPS provision at competitive prices needs a scale that is hard to reach for a coop.

poVoq, 6 days ago

SSDs often need firmware upgrades.

Sadly for consumer SSDs the upgrades are not so easy to do on Linux.

Other than that you are unlikely to really need anything other than higher quality consumer SSDs for homeserver needs.

poVoq, 6 days ago

I can see what you are trying to do in this text, but as a metaphor it doesn’t really work and the use of “open web” etc makes it too up front as well. Which leaves this text in a weird half metaphorical / half not situation that is rather confusing.

And it isn’t very Solarpunkish 😉

poVoq, 7 days ago

I realize that end2end encryption with XMPP doesn’t seem as strong as something like Matrix

Who told you this bit of misinformation? OMEMO e2ee on XMPP is significantly “stronger” than what Matrix does (which is a watered down version).

Snikket mentioned below is probably the easiest to get started with.

poVoq, 6 days ago

Why would they? They are not selling snakeoil 😏

On a more serious note: e2ee is a client feature, so it makes little sense for server software to highlight it.

poVoq, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

If you are using Snikket, use the Snikket app. It has OMEMO enabled by default. Otherwise I think Cheogram is good, see: joinjabber.org/docs/apps/#

poVoq, 7 days ago

That’s pretty much what Solarpunk (in its highly anarchistic roots) is about.

I collected some articles here that do a good job summarizing the idea: wiki.f-hub.org/…/learn-more-about-solarpunk

poVoq, 7 days ago

So the lander remains in moon orbit? I wonder if they have any plans for it later 🤔

poVoq, 7 days ago

I don’t see why it wouldn’t. SteamVR and Steam Link work just fine on Linux, so combining them should work as well.

But the plot thickens that the rumored Deckard standalone headset will be some wierd hybrid.

poVoq, 7 days ago

Will there be a way for communities to opt-out from being listed in a category?

I think there is a lot of abuse potential in this and even if well intended, a single word or so can’t really describe what communities are about, and as a result those categories (similar to the “all” feed) will bring a lot of off-topic comments and trolling from people not engaged with the communities at all otherwise.

On Mastodon with hashtags the original poster can at least make a conscious choice of being listed under it or not. But this seems fully third party driven and I fear it will increase moderation workload significantly.

poVoq, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Most trolling and brigading is fairly low effort, and having a sharable collection of communities to troll makes it much easier to organize lots of people to do just that. Edit: yes external tools for that exist but having it built in makes it much easier to abuse and rope in people to do the trolling that otherwise would not bother.

But my main concern is that this isn’t opt-in for communities. Having a sharable and subscribable link with for example “meme” communities means that all of them are seeing a constant barrage of random people commenting that are not members of that community and do not have any idea what the community is about other than that it is somewhat loosely related to “memes”. It basically hides everything that is vital about the communities and actively damages attempts at community building.

Edit: my concern is mainly about public, sharable collections, if people want to make their own private collections that seems like a nice feature to have.

poVoq, 7 days ago

It is already illegal to use someone’s likeliness without their permission (with a few exceptions for news worthy events).

poVoq, 8 days ago

Fail2ban is useful to set up.

poVoq, 9 days ago

Also WhatsApp requests access to the phone book and is very hard to use if you deny access. This is very likely done because Facebook wants access to the stored numbers to build a social graph. Even if you personally don’t mind, it is a gross privacy violation to share the phone number of other people with Facebook.

poVoq, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

By typing in the numbers, or selectively sharing them from the address book. This works fine on Signal, Telegram and Threema. Only Whatsapp makes it so that you have to share your entire address book with the app.

With some workarounds you can actually use whatsapp also without giving it access to your address book, which shows that it is clearly an intentional dark pattern by Facebook to make people share their entire address book with them to avoid the hassle.

poVoq, 8 days ago

Whatsapp is under the hood still a lightly modified XMPP system, and given Zucks recent comments about federated protocols (albright in a Threads i.e. ActivityPub context), they might just get their XMPP federation working again.

poVoq, 9 days ago

New Vector was always like that and the foundation was always “community washing” by them. The only difference is that they are running out of easy venture capital cash and thus can’t afford spending much money on community goodwill any longer.

poVoq, 9 days ago

Sorry, but this one I am going to wait a bit with upgrading.

Lots of under the hood changes that are potentially problematic to deal with and x.0 versions have been historically a mess with Lemmy. Also I don’t have a lot of time currently for trouble shooting.

Once a significant number of instances have upgraded without issues and/or a bux fixing point release is made, I will consider upgrading as well.

poVoq, 10 days ago

No, some of the core Gitea developers decided to incorporate a Hongkong based for profit company to better monitize services offered to companies.

This by itself is not such a bad idea, but it was communicated incredibly poorly with the community left in the dark for at least half a year and the subsequent fallout was also dealt with poorly.

I think the best way forward for self-hosters is Forgejo because of that, but that doesn’t mean Gitea is currently a bad choice.

poVoq, 8 days ago

That’s a very selective truth way of telling the story. While what you wrote is technically correct, the “temporary president” in question is one of the founders and has been reelected for the position every time. He also did it together with some other core contributors, so while I agree that this was communicated incredibly poorly with the wider community, this wasn’t a hostile takeover at all.

poVoq, 8 days ago

Its mostly the default settings of Gitlab being complete overkill for self-hosters. You can cut the requirements down to 25% of the default if you don’t use the installer or the default docker compose.

However Gitlab is written in Ruby, while Gitea is written in Golang, so there is definitely some advantage there for Gitea.

poVoq, 8 days ago

I think you first need to define “community”. The majority of the code contributors seems to have been actually fine with this change and continue to contribute to Gitea. Only a minority moved to Forgejo.

Personally, I also prefer Forgejo because I share their concerns about the future of Gitea owned by a for profit entity, but let’s not invent a false history here.

poVoq, 10 days ago

You could set up NodeRed and make your own notification flow with a caldav/iCal input and a email or chat service output.

poVoq, 10 days ago

It uses “visual programming” so it is actually quite easy to do (as long as you use the pre-made modules) even without any prior knowledge. And once you set that up you will likely find many other neat ways to use it 😊

poVoq, 10 days ago

Slightly off tangent, but if you are thinking you might need LVM features (other than disk encryption) then it is worth looking into filesystems that have most of the functionality built in, like btrfs or OpenZFS.

poVoq, 10 days ago

Wasn’t that something they already identified as an issue with the upper stage? Seems odd that this happened again with the lower one now.

poVoq, 10 days ago

I think the telemetry is only for the Flutter developer tools, not the apps themselves that you create with them.

poVoq, 7 days ago

I’ll work on fixing some current issues with Movim today. Maybe try again tomorrow. If it still doesn’t work, please contact me by DM to troubleshoot it.

poVoq, 8 days ago

Currently there are some issues with the Movim instance as a result of the recent server trouble. I’ll fix it this weekend.

The main solarpunk@chat.slrpnk.net channel is public and you can join it with any federated xmpp account. If you share your JID there we can invite you to one of the moderator channels.

But try your already existing “steveklord@slrpnk.net” xmpp account with another xmpp client. It should work fine.

poVoq, 8 days ago

Odd, the channel link I shared above works fine with Cheogram here. I never tried Monal, so not sure what might be going wrong there.

Edit: no need to activate anything, the xmpp server queries the Lemmy database directly.