muppeth

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[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm personally against clonning communities as i think it's largely defragmenting already small communities into seperate little islands. The idea of federation is to create spaces where people can participate together no matter the instance they are from. Creating copies just goes against this idea IMO. One does not need to be on the isntance to participate in communities. That's the beauty of federation. I understand there might be reasons sometimes to do it, but if your idea is to just copy bunch of them so that you're the mod, I find it a waste.

As for disroot's branding of such communities. I think it would require admins to be part of the moderation of such community as it gives others the impression its related or at least supported endorsed by the team. Our idea for the instance was to make it more of a free for all approach then curated set of communities (eg. Beehav). So it makes sense that disroot branded communities are somewhat rated to disroot team or a project. At the same time other communities hosted on the server can use whatever branding they want.

So to sum up my position. I am rather against this idea. Using branding creates association for others. Even if you use disclaimers that it isn't. Since your communities are independent, I would rather see you create a unique branding to your comms so that people seeing them could straight away know who are they moderated and run by.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 15 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Pity indeed. Also think the stylus is coming soon (TM). Still I wouldn't mind one.

 

It is time to move to the next phase of Lacre testing. Our end-to-end solution to incoming E-mail encryption is ready to be tested on a broader scale. For the past weeks we have been running Lacre on the Disroot email server to check some nasty bugs and edge cases before more people start using it. With just a handful of uploaded keys from brave early birds we managed to find some little annoying issues and to take care of those.

 

Happy solstice everyone!

We wish you a warm, bright, and happy solstice. Whether it is the longest or the shortest night of the year for you, we hope you make the best out of it and enjoy this astronomical event and celebration of seasonal change.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is great. I have couple of those HP machines which are awesome but was just stacking them on my desk. 10 inch rack will be great for them. Need to do some hunting.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 7 months ago

You dont need to explain email so federation does not seem to be the issue here IMO. The problem is money which FLOSS projects usually don't have. The successful ones have perhaps enough so that the devs can put food on their table, but not much else. Most of the apps are after Dayjob hobby projects. It's hard to compete with those who have teams of paid staff.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 7 months ago

Disroot founder here 👋 if you have any questions I would be glad to answer. Been doogfooding all services myself as primary communication means. We are small team of ethusiasts and we mainly reuse code writtem by awesome FLOSS contributors in form of services. Not reinventing wheel here. Next year we will celebrate 10 years of existance \o/

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 8 months ago

Will GPG be baked into the app or still relay on third party like open key chain?

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 8 months ago

Yes. been following his work for over a year now. I am in the process of building my house but hopefully next year I will have more time to work on energy side of things. I plan to build solar collectors similar to the one from videos where you concentrate sunlight using mirrors and heatup oil. If I manage to get good results and warmup the oil to over 100C (400C should be possible), I plan to build sand-battery in the ground.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 11 months ago

Not everyone, but is majority is covered its fine (probably half of it would do the job). Usually parking places or places where you are allowed to park a car are marked so actually shouldn't be an issue.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's undoubtedly perk of having a house, parking or dedicated spot. But even without those at least here in NL infrastructure as is is pretty good even for those without didcated charging spot. I thin what should be easily done is slow charging spot on every parting spot. Cost wise it's not much and pulling max 2.5kw should not be much of an issue for the grid. In that way every car would have a dedicated charging to fill up over night if needed. Cost of such implementation wouldn't be to big either.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah infra is the issue. Which is stupid as providing simple (16A) socket per car would be sufficient solution for most cars. You come back from work or your commute and just plug the car to slow charger. Over night you are charged enough for next day.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Nah. Anxiety is something you have for first month owning your first EV. Once you adjust to the different way of using the car you realize you drive the same way as petroleum car. One important thing is being able to charge at home IMO. Even from just a socket (16A) is sufficient for most daily cases.

[–] muppeth@scribe.disroot.org 34 points 11 months ago

Finally a great action from those folks!made my day.

 

Just testing image upload.

 

I'm starting to think about diversifying my energy prodution. I have a solar panel array (5kWp) on the roof for a year now. I see that adding more panels does not make much sense as the production in summer as is is already hard to consume it all, and in winter the production is rather symbolic while consumption is through the roof.

So I thought of looking into wind turbines. There is plenty of wind the whole year where I live. But, rather then buying a big 5kW turbine which is quite expensive on its own (plus a pole and all the other stuff) I thought, how about using multiple small turbines (up to 1kW) connected together, similar to how solar panels are. Either into one inverter or using microinverters. Does anyone have any interesting links to follow or some experience in similar setups?

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